New-York tribune., 1906-07-08

Mr.. Marion Crawford is fortunate in receiving
permission TO use some lately discovered mate
history. 1t has lain almost unknown IN the
COlOnna archives in Rome
Mr.. II. G. Wells. it is said, is preparing an i'm
pOrtant book on the American Commonwealth
book taking "the shape of an independent
study OF the civilization in the United States"
1t is TO be hoped that he is not depending only
on the observations made during the few weeks
which he recently spent in this country. Our
civilization may be defective, but an "indepen-
dent study" of it should be thorough if it is to
be valuable.
Sir Wyke Bayliss, the president of the Royal
Society of British Artists, gave TO his publisher
only week before his death the MS. of a vol
u1ne of "reminiscences 1t will probably be pub
lished in the autumn. Sir Wyke was a man of
considerable humOr, and it is supposed that his
book will be full Of anecdOte An acquaintance,
by the way remembers him saying, aprOpOs
of Whistler, that the author of 'The Gentle Art
chalance on one occasion the r. B. A. as con-
sisting of whistler, the friends of Whistler.
and people of no Importance" Sir Wyke smiled
as he acknowledged the inference that he was
himself in the last category.
What many readers of that beguiling period
ical Notes and Queries regard a new
spelling is to be seen in the word "rime" which
does not appear therein as rhyme" A
subscriber who calls the editor to account is
thus answered:
sor ke9t points out in his .Dictionary' qSSy that
lit is l believe, utterly impossible to find an in
Serhaps 81 not T SO The First Folio Of Shake
speaTe has the spelling ''rtme" in several places.
Rhine of the Ancient Mariner"
Various unpublished and little known docu-
ments giving contemporary accounts Of William
Blake are TO be reproduced in the book on Blake
which Mr.. Arthur Symons is now preparing;
A cheap edition of Gilchrist's Life of William
Blake is announced by Mr.. John Lane THE
Athen&um' says of this volume:
Mr.. w. Graham Robertson, who has the finest
known collection of Blake pictures. has edited the
text and written an Introduction; but what is OF
GiIchrists work with large number of the most
perfect of Blake's drawings and pictures In addi-
inaly selected by Gilchrst for the Life" will be
included.
Many books about the late Sir Henry Irving
are on the stocks. The longest One-and an ex-
haustive One-is to be that of Mr.. Bran Stoker.
Mr.. Winston Spencer Churchill has been pub
fishing a review of popular nOvel-which leads
Mr. Shorter to hope that he is mot going TO
emulate Mr.. Gladstone and other eminent
statesmen of the past by helping in book
booms." Mr.. Shorter adds: Whatever rev.
erence one may feel for the memory of Mr..
Gladstone, there cannot be any question among
people of literary taste but that he did meal
culabe mischief by assisting in the circulation
of books which were not really literature"
Another edition of Anthony TrOllope's novels is
coming out in London This edition includes
the Barsetshire books. 1.-The Warden "Barches-
ter Towers" DR. ThOrne." ''Framley ParSOn-
| age" 1.-The Small House of Arlington" and Tho
Last Chronicle of Earset." Some of the charaC-
ters of these books, it must not be forgotten are
taken into later novels by TrollOpe and the
reader cannot afford 10 leave unread, for eX-
ample "'The Dukes Children" in which the
elderly man who once PLAINLY Pall' be-
| comes so pathetic a figure
The biography of Sir Leslie stephen. upon
! which Professor Maitland is engaged, Will be
published some time this year 1t is said that
! Stephens letters certain to prove an in
telIectual treat