New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-30


daunted and Northumberland will be brought
out soon. One of these diaries was kept by Ad-
miral Usher and the other by Admiral Cock
burns secretary. DR.. Holland Rose has written
an introduction and critical notes for the vol
ume. Another forthcoming NapOleonic book is
translation of NJ. Paul Gruyer's Napoleon
at Elba''
France in the Napoleoric period is peren-
nialy interesting to the \1vers of memoirs and
letters and they will accordingly be glad to an
ticipate a collection of letters written in 1903
ny an Engishman then living in France. The
En Eng 9I a lively and picturesque writer.
his correspondence is Lady Sykes.
Americans will be rather surprised to read
statement, made by correspondent of The
Book Monthly that Scotland remains the best
book buying country in the world in
proportion to its population"
Does anybody read Ossian nowadays? Those,
who may do will perhaps care to know that
Macpherson was much beloved by his old neigh
borS In the BadenOch Observation-Disclosures who
always spoke of him "SeunaS Ban" QFair-
haired James,. 1t is said of him that he
always constant TO his country his kinsfoIk his
chief and his clan, and never lost an opportu-
nifty of advancing the interests of the friends
of his youth A Gaelic eIegy on him. composed
by one of these friends, ends thus quantity:
The blessing of the poor and of tenantry had
this lamb that wrung And in Paradise
there is a Physician, and He hath given health
to James"
1t is said that in Great Britain the demand for
the novels of George Eliot is still almost IS
great as At the time of their first publication.
Apropos of this fact, The London Tribune
says:
The truth is that below and above the public
Is 4 great body of readers who nothing for
taa fasSng success Of the season and 90 con
Pile are not To be found much among the So
are elf-cducated in the truest sense of the word
1t is the mill hand OF Lancashire and the Poly
those who may be expected to appreciate her
All English author Mr. A ST. John Adcock.
declares that he is certain that Browning would
sooner have gone to the stake than have written
the first line of that lovely lyric of his:
o lirik Iuv, hat angf and hat burd.
Mr. Andrew Lang wrote the other day: The
heat OF the weather prevents me from consid-
ering the subject more minutely, but I ASK is
banks simpler than 'b0x'?"
1t is said of the late Lord Luvclace Byron's
grandson that he inherited the talents both Of
his father and his mother who herself an
able mathematician He vas deeply versed in
philosophy and classical lore au0 in modern lit
erature both English and foreign Iucretius
was his favorite poet, Hazlitt and r l. Steven
son were his constant companions. Goethe and
Heine familiar him as Ibsen and
Bj0rns0n. He admired TuTSenicrs novels and
was profoundly impressed by all that TOlStOy
wrote or said But FRENCH authors appealed to
him still more forcibly. and few living English
men had a more compI extensive grasp or
eighteenth and nineteenth century French ftera-
ture- The Wit and hcuuOr of Esc,lzac filed him
with delight and he could repeat whole pages OF
George Sands letters and rOrnance5 by heart
And of all books there was none which he stud
led more attentively quoted more frequently
than PascaIs Thoughts" Lord LOyelace also
took keen interest in pathological studies and
was recognized authority on Swiss and Tyro-
leSe dialects.
An essay the labor question written by
Balzac IN the spring of 1913 has just been
printed for the first time IL was apparently
inspired by the wish ito impress upon the PIo-
Ietariat the unwisdom of frightening away cap
itaL"