The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-27
LITERARY NOTES.

t7t2S LII GhAh15 NO1LSs ~ q1i s,
In "Corydon: an Elegy," Mr.. Regi-
maid Fanshawe. an Oxford man, COM
memorates Matthew Arnold, who has
been called in a special and unique
sense the poet Of Oxford. Here is
one stanza of the poem:
Sleep now ~ at Laleham. shepherd. by
That flows true-tuned to melodious
Deep. placed fuii. as one that nsafS ofioweth
Mornings own music, brimming to the
OF cowslip. sleep! A peace divlne1y
Better serenity Is none beneath
Thy mountains high, conventual calm
BY chattering Rotha's rush, or Rydars
narrowing mere. IS
There are various quaint passages
in the latest volume of the "Collec-
tons" OF Thomas Hearne (once keep
er of the Bodleian), issued by the Ok
ford Historical socity. Here is an
entry under date of 1920, which deals
with literary effort displeasing to
the university authorities:
Mr.. Traps Translation Of Virgil into
blank verse being secuted and justly
looked upon as a poor performance,
when the first volume (for tbs In two)
came out. DR.. Evans Of st. Johns
College was as tits said, pleased to ex-
press himself thus:
Keep the Commandments, Trap; go
For i Is written, Thou shall not
On Saturday last, in a Convocation
at two Clock, the Marques of Carnar-
Won was created DR.. of Law, being
presented by Dr. Harrison of All Souls
$50. The Marques hath been in Ok.
ford little more than year, and per-
haps may be IL years of age. Yester-
day he was at st. Peters Oh. in the
East, and sat with his Scarlet among
the Doctors. He Is just leaving the
university, being to travel, and DR..
Steward is to travel with him.
The private collections as well as
the public achfves of Frankfort have
lately been drawn upon for the pur-
poses Of an exhibition of old news
papers,. mostly German. The Oldest
German newspaper In existence Is
dated March IL; 1922, but the first
daily German newspaper, The Athen-
aeum" notes, was started at Strass-
burg in 1909.
"A reprint in modern type Of the
Shakespeare First Folio is in prepara-
ton in London. The edition, which
is to be in thirteen good sized vol
umes, Is Of course intended for
Shakespeare scholars.
A brilliant critic in THE Saturday
Review" puts his finger on serious
flaw in Mrs. Humphrey Wards Inn
agination=a flaw which he is not the
\ first to perceive "a constant element
In her stories" he says, sis something
which 1t may seem harsh, but is,
nevertheless, exact to call snobbery-
snobbery of all degrees from the most
elementary to the most exalted and
rarefied. 1t appears in various shapes.
Sometimes 1t Is the intellectual snob-
berry of pedantry. That appears In
the present tale (sFenwick's Career"l
in what concerns the painters life
and ideas. With all her knowledge
and intelligence, Mrs Ward betrays
that she remains outside of her
knowledge here. !. The social snob-
berry is more poisonous, the assump-
ton appearing not for the first time
In her stories that the solution OF
problems not only Of manners but of
life and speculation is to be found In;
the companionship of the socially ex-
allied, with the corollary that those
who are wrong about social con-
ventions cannot be right about any
thing else. The flaw here, which
would require considerable space to
illustrate, Is the more annoying be-i
cause Mrs. Ward has q keen, indeed
a cruel, eye for small social difhcul-
ties, and II the comic vein were pos
sible to her might do great things In
the manner Of the Man from Blank
Z ley's.' Worst OF all is the moral
snobbery that makes an idol of Nine.
& de Pastourelles.' This novel the
{ critic pronounces "inartistic' and "un-i
edifying. z S,.s 81 n
"a copy of the first edition Of the
earliest book on arithmetic Calan-3
dro's Arithmetic 1491 lis now avail.
able for collectors at 5000. This was
the only edition printed In the
i fifteenth century, the, second edition
/ bearing the date 1918.
Mr.. Barring Gould IS Forthcoming
+ book on the Rhine ought to be pleas-3
ant reading for those who do not In
sightseeing ignore historical interest.
The history Of the three great elect9-
rates on the rivers hanks and Of the!
owners Of the cast es that still tower,
In ruins abOye Il, this author has ~
E down In his own picturesque wy.
And while tho reader iss about 81 let
him turn to q book which he has not
I aAarl rArhana. flr MANY 4 & wear and;