The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-24
LITERARY NOTES.

Thomas Okey, whose book on Venice
has given great pleasure to lovers Of
that fascinating city, has made new
translation of Dante's Vita Nuov0."
1t is to be included among the Temple
classics.
The work on the "lnqulsition in
Spain" which Henry G.. Lea has just
completed will be brought out in four
volumes; the first will be published
soon, and the others will follow at In
tervals of six months.
A new series of reprints of the early
English dramatists is to be brought
out by the Early English Dramatic
Society," The books are to be issued
in two forms-in a handy pocket edt-
ton, and in library edition.
Mr.. Robert Smythe Kitchens, the au-
thor of "The Garden of Allah" and
other clever novels, originally intend
for some years before taking up lit
erature. He has written much poetry,
and has done more or less journalistic
work. He is now forty-two years old.
He is the son of Canon Kitchens, rector
of st. Stephens, near Canterbury.
A woman who has won distinction
in England as a writer on electricity
is Hertha Ayrton, wife of Professor w.
E. Ayrton, F. r. S. Mrs. Ayrton is the
only woman member of the British In
stitution of Electrical Engineers. She
has made various notable experiments
and inventions in electricity, acting
often as a valuable assistant to her
husband. She is the mother-in-law OF
Israel Zangwill, the novelist.
There are some curious and anus
ing details in M. Paul Guyer's first
published book, entitled Napoleon, roi
de File d'Elbe," not the least interest
ing being the account of the exile's
landing. at Porto Ferrajo. The whole
town was in ebullition, hearts thump-
ing, eyes bullying, all the poets drop
ping into verse. The walls were COW
cred with proclamations, hastily print
ed: "Elbois! Human vicissitudes
among us. Your future felicity is as
sured. Give free course to the joy
which should overflow your souls.
enthusiasm with which we receive our
satisfaction to his paternal heart"
A book of personal "reminiscences of
Nelson published in 1912, and little
known to the general reader, has just
been reprinted Written by a young
lieutenant to whom the great admiral
was kind, it shows Nelson in an agree
able light. Here is glimpse of din
ner with the hero:
This was the first time dined with
the heroic Nelson whose manners to
his interiors were most conciliatory
and kind. his smile inimitable, and
when he asked me to take wine from
grape grown in his dukedom of Bronte,
l thought he looked very handsome,
though at times his face was melan-
choly, betraying "a mind ill at ease"
Nelson, they say, never ate much,
and he limited his wine drinking to
five glasses 1t is remembered that
Tom Allen, his faithful Norfolk valet,
"who ruled the admiral with rod of
+ iron," was accustomed to interpose
when he thought it wise:
Allen pushed in his bullet head, with
an eager gaze atshis master, and after
little consideration approached the
Admiral.
you will be ill if you takes any
more wine"
you are perfectly right, Tom, and
thank you for the hint. Hardly, do
the honors.> And, gentlemen, excuse
me for retiring, for my battered old
hulk is very crazy-indeed, not sea-
worthy"