New-York tribune., 1906-11-02
MISCELLANY.

ready long list. 1t VIII be published in Atlanta,
under the title of Uncle Remuss Magazine"
the first number appearing in March. Mr.. Joel
Chandler Harris will be the editor and besides
moulding the general character of the masa-
zine, will contribute every month some pages of
comment Ventures of this sort have not been
conspicuously successful in the South, but this
time 1t is believed that something permanent
may be accomplished. A corporation has been
formed. with abundant financial resources. and
1t is now engaged in erecting and fitting out a
building to be devoted to the making Of the new
magazine. Mr.. Harris will aim to exclude all
suggestions of provinciaty from it, seeking his
material among writers and illustrators all over
the country The prospectus states that though
the managers will be alert in obtaining articles
of a sem-news character, there will be no
muck raking' We look forward with interest
TO the first number.
Mr. D. B. Updke, of the Merrymount Press,
IN Boston, announces a notable series of vol
umes to be brought out under the general title
of "The Humanists Library" The series will
illustrate different aspects of Renaissance cult
ure. The first volume, which is on the eve OF
publication, will be collection of Leonardo da
Vinci's Thoughts on Art and Life" translated
by Maurice Barring. It will be edited by Mr.
Lewis Einstein. who is to exercise broad edi-
mus with his Against War" will occupy the
second volume, to be edited by Mr.. ]. W. Mac
kali and then will come 'Petrarch and the An
cient World" by NJ. Pierre de Nolhac. A fourth
volume will be given to Sidney's Defence of
Poesie" These contributions already in
hand and conclusively announced. Later vol
umes will be selected from a list given in the
publishers prospectus. We are to have. for
example. Durers Journeys to Venice and to
the Low Countries" edited by Claude Phillips:
Sebastiano del Piombos Letters to Michael
Angelo" edited by E. H. and E. w Blashheld;
Carducho's Dialogues on Painting; Ariosto's
"Satires"; Sacchettis Tales" and Tassos
Dialogues Art and Beauty
Obviously this is to be a library Of choice
reading, of things which in most cases are not
readily accessible. Each book in it will present
a text edited by q scholar particularly inter-
ested in the subject and he will also provide an
introduction. There will be no illustrations.
The beauty Of the volumes will be based simply
sound paper and presswork. The font of
type used will be one specially designed for the
Merrymount Press by Mr. Herbert P. Horne,
who has also drawn the title page and series
of initials. Issued in a limited edition, this
library will make a strong appeal to lovers of
literature and to collectors
new piece of writing by the author OF the
Imaginary Conversations is no slight boon.
We find in the London Times" an announce
ment on the subject so interesting that we must
quote it intact:
Walter Savage. Landors La,ndor suppressed "c2mmen3.
Charles James Fox" written in 1911. is at length
ship of stephen Wheeler Ostensibly written as
criticism Of "Trotters silly book Landor called
2m he a51 p9Gy icy he f rt with fr
q
men of the day, and on topics of literature. art
studies and anusements cf Mr.. Fox serve to il
Thef9 1 9 Life d w5 yhl5
several CHARACTERISTIC letters on the subject be-
M s o
night" because the publishers had taken fright at
declared Southev that he meant borrow f5. 900
In order to establish printing press Of his own f
copies Of the Commentary" got into subsequent
% Mrag as only
copy preserved by Southey and Lord Houghton
who has aowed it to be used for the present r cdf
tion Extracts from the "Commentary have been
given by Lord 11oughton and Sidney Colvn, but 1t
is printed in full
There is an amusing story about Victor Hugo
related in of the late Lord Lytton's letters.
The Frenchman is described as saying to an ac-
quaintance that THE only thing Goethe ever
wrote of the least value is his 'Wallenstein.' A"
His interlocutor ventured to observe that it was
Schiller who wrot. ''Wallenstein," whereupon
he sublimely replied Schiller Goethe it's
the same thing; 1 have never read word of the
one the other; it is not worth the trouble"
The Christmas numbers of Charles Dickens's
old periodical, Household Words to ap-
pear in a collected reprint of nine volumes, each
with colored frontispece. IT is only Of late. it
is said that the authorship of the many stories
contained in these famous numbers has been de-
termned.
1t is complained that no effort is visible look
ing toward the completion of the Dictionary of
the Drama" the first volume Of which was COM
piled by the late Mr.. Davenport Adams and pub
lished in 1904 The preface of that volume
tanned a statement that 'the second and
cludng volume is passing through the press and
will be issued in the early autumn"-but that is
the last heard of Ii.
N-poleon was an exile at EIba only ten
months but in that time he benefited the island
enormously. N. Gruyer, in his new book briefly
sets forth the things accomplished there by the
exile:
For several months under his own supervision.
he pursued on a small scale and apparently trivial
lines the labor of systematic organization and
ma teria progress that lie had carried for years
with more complicated machinery within his vast
empire r.. ecouestbed network of roads to country
where only PGssbR R to raye on donkey back
according 10 the laws of modern political economy.
He taught peasants to clear the deserted terri
g oy ana and Ie left Of olive and n
esI to ay an on enorceS s th sd soil Of He
giene upon a people who wallowed IN NTH. He
and fever, err and forbade them to defile the Wells
a 2ss Of lie s1Hsd s Ind Sas