New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-14
LITERARY NOTES.

MI M Andrew Lang dedicates his new book Of
verse TO Mr. Austin Dobson in this pleasant
fashion:
G Like hin r. who reigned II 'Ea6yion5.
Ad anr s., and md t Re R01 gd Of Trade
AS in the summers that are gone
And half sad. half merry. the Scotchman coca
on to sing:
WI" Woni though ugh we wish the cats a, play
qrh And an oar ,w9EshiPped Worcss5sr spill:
N cod i a9d June eu be r fS ShF
wed rather be alive than
And sometimes on Il summers day
To self and every mortal i'll
TO E1 Walk {hs ss sP: y we steal s. away r
1Ie n3TIke iIi yS:rs The cares that KILL
We" We9a dep PIN IN broom upon the hin
There is encouraging answer in France Ia
the question Does the peasant read 1t APP
| pears that when the agricultural worker can get
hold Of literature that IS not costly he reads
with gus;o.
Mr. Rudyard KplnC has just returned to
south Africa with his family. presumably seek
/ ing there better winter climate than he finds
/ 1t is understood that M KipIinr has left be-
! hind, ready for publication. q number Of char
acJer.stic short stories.
! An Interesting venture in Rome is "Biblio-
graphical Eur,au' whose staff proposes to give
students exact information archaeology and
kinarc. subjects with tho least possible expense
and delay Tn,y VIII even draw up Z; synopsis
~ documents IN thc important libraries OF Tho
ancient city.
+ Tho novelist Eden PhiIrotts has just dropped
into poetry. th~ result being poor Ills elabo-
rut,ly illustrated volume Iu'',d"i. il IS To no
supposed. for holiday sle. contains eEht
''pou,s" three in Dialect the others in the
rnauu"r - Tho most ordinary minor verse. a
. Devon Counting runs thus.
Birds stved rwv.r gin,
Ftttcrulee Nos ~.uEia'.
Ma p a54 on s. .Ig ' To .Se
novrlous in tho dims~y, The dinapsy, the dim?sy-
p.HcIuug. tn" ttimpSy
The vet f., male! VI M
Nj Van word a.. tIikIu'
Then ! aNet question.
,n., in H the Py a s'' The 10 owl light the owl,
I-oloag in tho twilight
Thecr coined M maid Wi me
THE Whirlwind' Is new novel which Mr..
Eden PhIllpouS is preparing to publish seri1lly.
1t is another story of life on Dartn"ur and il
is said To be full of extraordinarily grim power
Mr. Sidney Leo has lately made a Shake
spearian discovery which, slight as It IS has an
Interest for all reading people To- whom the very
name OF the poet is dear In an account says
The London Spectator" "of the household eX-
peuscs of the sixth Earl Of Rutland, preserved at
Belvoir there is entry under the dat" OF
March 81. 1913. of sum Paid T. Mr. Shake
spcare and Richard EurhaGe FOR preparing my
Lorde's impresu':
An imprcsa was an "Italianate" Toy, very pop
ular Wi society Of time, consisting or
some kind cnblcmatical design illustrating some
quality deed OF the with an appropriate
motto. Such men rs Drake and Sidney had i'm
prese prepared for them which are sun eNtInt:
Hurbage. noted equally painter ana
actor. hav" made the design. while II
be task Shakespeare To ma the motto
The shows that Shtk, Sp"Jrt, after retiring
from his great lifc's work ready TO lend =
hand to his friends in the fashionable craze OF tina
The Rutland family Wer" connected hoth
with Lord Southampton and Sidney. Hen JonSon
was q frequent guest t{clvor. and Mr Lee
thinks that il may yet hr discovered that snake
ter there The prefix Mr." attached his name.
the then accepted mark Ecutity, shows that tho
dramatistS social position recognized as SUI
perior that OF Iiurbdge-
The fourth volume in the National" edition
OF Victor HugoS works is just coming out in
Paris IL has taken three years To bring out
these four volumes. Al that rate. when VIII the
whole edition of forty volumes he published?
Perhaps for the delcctation of that travelling
New Zcalander he sits about ruined
bridges. M Gustave Simon has succeeded the
late Paul Meurce literary executor of the
poet Georges Hugo assisting. MeCrce in tho
last months of his life aided i'll his lnbors
bv NJ. Simon The latter is, by the way. tho
eldest of Jules Simon.
The approaching Comnemoratlon or the death.
In 1S56 OF the sculptor David dangers has
brought the surface interesting souvenir
of Victor Hugo. Ii is photograph. herewith
reproduced. showing Hugo seated beside the
medallion of himself which WIS modelled by
T11yi