New-York tribune., 1906-04-22

room-while he was, of course arranging the scene:
f1re m hdt could utter word he rushed up, seized
6ar6aric life for civilization; ali your friends are 50
struggled to say Not a word not Word Here
fid-,i Lady Pairnerston Ny dear. welcome your old
with US to-day-won't you? We must keep You
Lady Palmerson get our friend to tel YOU so@e
or or IL those & anecdotes which used delight US:
O'clock and so he rushed OUT
| Mr. Harry Furniss is exceedingly industrious
perhaps unreasonably so. for he confesses to
having three novels on the stocks at the present
moment
novel and the average modern production. .nThe
London Athenaum'' says that the novel of to-
day is so fornless and unrestricted an affair az
| almost to defy analysis:
Scott, it may be noted, always pictures the stat.
OF society on which his figures are based; nowhere
snd you nd better desGrip9ns Of the whole
tinct background of human activity and motive
Doing @ or pe Fey to to o m tRd
and heroine tall that he a so o 9y hn khf at baT hT ssTo
rWoundIngs W h or the general features of their times
but evident patches. If history is TO be gathered
from the twentieth century best sellers there
the future New zealander to swallow.
| ShelleV
! IN the Eton "reminiscences of the sixth Lord
monson which the present lord has Just pub
hshed. SheIleywas "a fair lad" Monson says:
I remember many, odd freaks recorded Of him
windsor and harnessed many lower boys TO draw
1t down into college; 1t was captured think by
ters also remember that Shelley wrote small
h0fors be III 6R 6 o %d o
Of what in those days we called pamphlets little
want Of reading ga 1hg used to purchase quite forget
| met with it in after life
| The novelist Charles Lever extrava-
CANT person and was therefore as a rule irnpe-
cunious. But It cannot be said of him that he
found story telling failure in the matter of the
honest penny. When his books at their
| height Of popularity they brought him in
come of something like $4,000 year, and in
his least prosperous years they provided for him
| about $4,000 Greater writers Of his time made
| less than this.
A Frenchman, M. Ernest Charles has lately
set forth his convictions as to the seamy side of
American civilization He thinks that seamy
side is not much political corruption the
absorbing pursuit OF the dollar but brutality TO
| the weak, as shown in packed rapid transit
cars. in drunkenness and in the absence of any
real intellectual culture. AS to the third count
OF his indictment '"The Pail Mall Gazette" says:
In spite Of their magnihcent endowments and
| in many American universities seems sometimes
considers the money spent on education, how little
really original intellectual work they have turned
| out Every nation, of course, thinks like the cob
bier who said that there was nothing like leather.
and perhaps in the course of few years the return
| OF the Rhodes scholars may make difference
The beautiful Villa Palnieri, Florence,
the scene of Boccaccio's tales. is to be offered
| for sale within q few days. This was the Schi-
| fanoja of medieval days-a palace set in grounds
| of rare loveIiness- 1t has changed hands several
times its latest purchaser being the Earl of
| Crawford Queen Victoria stayed there twice
| Lady Crawford having lent the villa to her.
The instalments thus far published Of Mr..
| Noyes's Drake: An English Epic" cause the
| astonished reader to wonder if indeed poetry
| be dead Anything less like poetry than the
blank verse therein exhibited it would be hard
TO find Even the lyrics interspersed are COM
rnonplace-witness this verse of one of them:
| The is up; the stars are bright;
| The wind is fresh and free!
| We're seek for gold tonight
| Across the silver seal
| The world was growing gray and Old;
| Break out the sails againi
! Were out TO seek Realm OF Gold