New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-04

is pen and ink sketch of the poet dated 1S3q
by some artist whose signature is too involved
to be deciphered. The ingenious admrer has
bestowed divers pOndero'-s Iaurels upon the
bard.
Mr.. Maurice Hewletts new novel will prob
ably appear in the late spring II is quite I'M
like anything he has done before. There is moth
ing archaic about it. the period selected being
less than seventy years ago. The author is
ported to believe that it will be one of the best
| books he has yet produced.
Herman Charles Merivale, who has just been
lald in his grave in England, was known to most
people as the author and adapter of various
succeSsful plays, including Forget Me ot''
and Fedora" AS poet this scion of a family
OF authors is not often remembered, though he
wrote some verses that deserve to live Wit
ness TINS haunting strain:
THAISA'S DIRGE
TG Sadsas fair. under the cold sea lying.
W. 9leepS tne long sleep denied to her by Earth;
w, Win al our mourning, under-mourn her worth:
Inc h Mmte waves toss their crested plumes above
All Ro sre 6eT "ve2 6sfs with salt
shela 6r her m P6w tG
ana SAD nymphs of the dank weed weave her
% %:oH horn e5 9 as ss ossP ha aas
ana; while the tides rock to and fro her bier
what was Thaisa lies entombed here.
On the Liberal side in the new British Par
lament are several literary men, The number
includes Winston Churchill. A. E. w. Mason
H1laire Belloc and Herbert Paul.
In collection of autographs to be sold in
ber1ln next week there is a letter from Burns
to j. McMurdO, sending a ballad: "Kings give
coronets; alas 1 can only bestow q baTa5NStiu
however. L proudly claim one superiority even
over Monarchs: my presents, as far as / am
Byron to Hoppner saws: Il should probably
have gone to England for the coronation but
for my wife-1 don't wish to walk in such COM
pany under present circumstances"
MT Joseph Conrad is writing new novel a
large part of which is finished. He is at work
upon II in the South of France.
The Far Horizon is the not particularly ex-
planatory title of the new novel which I,ucas
Maiet CMrs. HARRISON intends to bring out in
the spring Another feminine novelist Miss
Corelli, to wit, promises a new book for next
autumn, but has not communicated its title
even TO her publishers. 1t is described as
thoroughly original love story. Two other
novels by women which have just been an
nounced are Lady Henry Somersets Under the
Arch of Life" and 1.-The Great Reprfsal," by
Maxwell Gray.
1t is said that Mr. II. E. Wells is not pleased
with the title of his new novel (now running in
THE Cosmopolitan'D and will probably change
II for the publication in book form I'm the
Days Of the Comet" is certainly not as effective
a title as might have been chosen Tho story
in its dealing with Industrial matters reminds
the reader Of that earlier and truly powerfuI
novel by Mr. Wells, when the Sleeper Wakes"
There is a characteristic glimpse Of Carried,
In }. T. Smiths Book for a Rainy Dav.'' 2 new
! edition OF which has lately been brought out:
On night when Mr.. Garriclx was acting tho nort
OF Lear one OF the SOLDIERS who stood the stare
bluhoered like a child Mr.. Garrick who was a.
1ond or compliment as most men, when the nI9v
was over sent for the his room and e,aI-a
MN nall crown. 1t was the custom formerly for
oWo soldiers TO stand on the stage during the time
or performance, one at either end of the pro-
OF Doctor Samuel Johnson in a state of high
Indignation, Smith offers this picture:
once saw him follow n sturdy thief who had
MN by the collar with both hands and shake him
VIOLENTLY; after which he quickly let him loose ana
then with his open hand gave him so powerful a
smack on the face that sent him off the pavement
staggering. $50 F4'I