The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-24

claims q peculiar interest for his pooh
Sir Henry Irving because he enjoyed for
many years tbs personal friendship Of
Irving. The volume covers a great deal Of
ground and the anecdotes and Incidents
which compose It have the personal avor
which will cause the public to read it with
interest.
Out OF the addresses with which DR..
Emil Reich has been delivering to crowded
fashionable audiences at Claridge's In
London he has formed his new book The
Criticism Of Life, to be published In England
and no doubt imported TO America. The
idea Of Plato coming in again like crino
lines or bridge, and that the old philoso-
pher has furnished the most acceptable
form Of entertainment to the ultra fashiona-
BILE at the most modish and altogether
~-swagger" restaurant In London is a humor-
GUS thing indeed.
Mr.. Barrett Browning (the boy Brown
ing") has acquired Casa Guidi in Florence,
the home Of his childhood, and will restore
it as he first remembers it. The furniture
which his father had brought to England
from Casa Guidi after Mrs. Browning's death
has been sent to Florence, and with the
pictures, books and other mementos Of
both the Brownings will be put back in
their original places. The house will be-
come a sacred memorial to the English
poetess and wife Of the greater poet, who
wrote of her as his "Lyrio Love. half angel
and half bird"
Otto Weininger's Sex and Character
ought to provide topics for discussion In
woman's olubland for the next twelve
month. According to the ungallant scientist
woman Is neither good nor bad, neither
angel nor devil. She is purely passive;
in moral and intellectual life merely the
reflection of the male. Her one desire
Is to be taken possession Of by the male
and to be formed by him. DR.. Weininger
asserts that in these views of the nature
Of woman he is at one with Plato, Kant and
the conceptions Of Christianity, but the
learned authors arguments have a Bernard
Shaw flavor.
The publication Of Warren Hastings's
| letters to his wife ~revives the regret that
the art Of letter writing is lost forever.
We send picture post cards, newspaper
clippings, amateur photographs, cables,
kilograms and telephones; but who Is there
to-day who sits dow and writes out the
long letters which will give deep insight
into the characters, tastes and environ
ment Of our day or hand down intimate
knowledge Of US to generations to come.
And why is it? who killed Cock Robinp'
Some say it is the cheap post, others the
pressure Of modern life. Certainly, even
in England where the courtesy of letter
writing Ia most exacting in its demands,
the long letter has been replaced by the
hurried note, although the note is perfect
in form and substance and the art OF the
composition Is thoroughly taught in the
schools. Warren Hastings's love for his
wife, as may be Cleaned from his letters,
was not calm" nor patient OF delay
When she had left for England he wrote:
Il miss you in every instant and incident
of my life, and everything seems to wear
a dead stiffness around me. / come home
as to a solitude
The memoir Of Henry Sldgwick, recently
published, calls attention to the fact OF
his great interest In the furtherance Of
university education. Newman College re-
mains as a perpetual memorial Of the indie
fatigable energy with which he championed
the claims Of women to a share in the bene-
fits of university teaching. To throw those
benefits open as widely as possible was his
constant endeavor. He was a pioneer Of
higher local examinations and a valuable
aid to the scheme of university extension.
His private generosity came often to the
assistance Of studies in danger Of missing
a desirable teacher for laok of funds or in
need Of material equipment.
H. Rider Haggard's new novel, about to
b. published, 'The Way OF the Spirit, is
founded upon the theme Of sin and rehunci-
~ation-another she" with moral rather
than physical adventures. A man who in
his youth has been led into a fragrant offence
by a beautiful woman wins success and
marries a woman Of the world. By treachery
he is shipped way to Egypt on his we'd
ding day and returns MANNED and blinded,
to be discarded by his nominal wife. He
sets up in the wilderness a platonic house,
hole with an Egyptian Princess. The
question ~propounded by the author is,
would the man be justified in breaking
Western conventions in his life with the
Princessp The best answer yet recorded
is that he would probably have broken
them whether he was justified or not.
Lcoo riding to Pierre Lofts LES De-
senohanters," in the Paris Figaro, a ro-
nance Of the life Of to-day in a Turkish
harem, Western culture has made such
strides that the younger generations of
Turkish ladies among the upper classes not
only are accomplished musicians and lin
gusts, but read and discuss the latest
philosophic works n correspond with
French novelists.
life in the Law by the late George
Witt, X. c., whose sudden death in a London
omnibus was recently reported, Is being
published in England. The author was a
general favorite and his volume of reminis-
oences during the last forty years should be
interesting.
ARMS and the Man" was recently per-
formed al Stockholm and will be acted at
the Theater Royal in Copenhagen. The
Danish translation entitled Heroes" Is by
the we'll known author and actor DR.. Karl
Mantzius.
a. uronoan ~ WIT and WisGom. iS a good