New-York tribune., 1906-06-24
LITERARY NOTES.

Iii ANOA
In "Corydon: an Elegy.' Mr.. Reginald Fan
shave, an Oxford man, commentaries Matthew
Arnold. who has been called in special and
unique the poet of Oxford. Here is one
stanza of the poem:
Sleep now at Ialeham. shepherd. by thy Thames'
That flows true-tuned to melodious death,
LovefeSt, last of natures requenS,
Deep, placid. full. one that foIloweth
or cowslip Sleep! a peace divinely clear.
Better serenity is none beneath ...
BY chattering Rotha's rush. or RydaIs narrowing
mere.
There are various quaint passages in the lat
est volume of the Collections of Thomas
Hearne (once keeper of the Bodleian), issued by
the Oxford Historical Society. Here is an entry
under date of 172O, which deals with literary
effort displeasing to the university authorities
Mr. Traps Translation of Virgil into blanck Verse
being secuted and Justly iookd upon as poor Per Per
came out Dr. Evans of St Johns College was as
tits saidD pleas'd to express himself thus
the 4Rsp sha aD pot 90 2
In April, 1721 rood Master Hearne set down
this curious statement:
the Marques OF Carharvon was created DR.. Of
The Marques hath been in Oxford little
more than Year and perhaps may be II Years
the East. and sat with his Scarlet among the
Doctors He is just leaving the University, being
to travel and DR.. Steward is to travel with him.
The private collections as we'll the public
archives of Frankfort have lately been drawn
upon for the purposes of exhibition of old
newspapers mostly German. The Oldest German
newspaper in existence is dated March l. To-
but the first daily German newspaper Ihe
AthenRum" notes, was started at StrasspurS
in 1909.
A reprint in modern type of the Shakespeare
rSt Folio is in preparation in London. Ino
edition. which is TO be in thirteen good sized vol
umes is of course intended for Shakespeare
scholars.
brilliant critic in THE Saturday Review
puts his finger serious flaw in Mrs. Hum
phry Wards imagina tion-a flaw which he is
not the first to perceive. "A constant element
in her stories,'' he says, lis something which il
may seem harsh. but is, nevertheless, exact to
call snobbery-snObbery of all degrees from the
most elementary to the most exalted and rare
fled. 1t appears in various shapes. Sometimes
it is the intellectual SuObbery of pedantry. That
appears in the present tale IFenWlcks career
in what concerns the painters life and Ideas
With all her knowledge and Intelligence, Mrs
Ward betrays that she remains outside OF her
knowledge here . . The social snobbery is
more poisonous the assumption appearing not
for the first time in her stories that the solution
of problems not only of manners but of life and
speculation is to be found in the cOmpanionship
Of the socially exalted. with the coroary that
those who are wrong about social conventions
cannot be right about anything else. The il;tW
here, which would require considerable space
to illustrate is the more annoying because Mrs
Ward has a keen indeed cruel eye for small
social difficulties, and if the comic vein were
possible to her might do great things in the
manner of the Man from Blankley's.' Worst OF
all is the moral snObbery that makes an idol OF
Nine. de Pastourelles' This novel the critic
pronounccs 'inartistic' and ''unedifyins."
copy Of the first edition of the earliest hook
on Calandro's ATithmeticS, 149l-is
now available fOr collectors at 500 This was
the only edition printed in the fifteenth century.
the second edition bearing the date 1918
Mr.. Baring-Gouds forthcoming book on the
Rhine ought TO be pleasant reading for those
who do not in sightseeing ignore historical in
terest The history of the three great .ecto-
rates the rivers banks and of the oWncss OF
the castles that still tower in ruins above il, this
author has down in his own picturesque
way. And while the reader is about it ict him
turn a book which he has not seen, Da-haps
for many year, and peruse that most delight
full legend of Princess Helena OF Cleves and the
noble Otto of Godesberg.