New-York tribune., 1906-12-30

| ence and much of his later work is based upon
them
"Hstory of England"-one intended to bring the
work abreast of the most recent information
The editor, Mr.. L. +. Henderson, has supple
mented the historians notes, has added
many new notes, has corrected errors and has
discussed in detail those points on which Mac
aulay has been severely criticised. The edition
Is to be brought out in two forms
Maxim Gorky has just published in St Peters
burg the r first & Of his hi SIX sketches Of life in New
title.
Here is a glimpse of Shelley offered by Mr..
Andrew Lang:
Ds man Whe at W Eton with % sheey
who left in 1870 This Mr. Hammond, a senior
.a A5oSt IT. 1s9 sS9 tS,a @ could sa
ee1af bow @ he the sent np or was
which means, conceive, that he never did a re;
hat sas daa bad 1aS Wsa nSa;
at hundred yards pace That was all
''Writers-novelists at least-cannot live in a
cave and draw inspiration from the moon"
London Times In a letter devoted to authors
profits IF they do not know the world she
first hand. they not fit for the position that
first success may have given them In fact
IL Is
| one speech Hamiltons.' The writer's Of fiction
that confne themselves to one locality, where
they find 1t convenient economical to live,
soon exhaust themselves and drop behind The
novelist who gives his life to his work-and
matter how strict his retirement may be while
actually writng-adds something to his educa-
ton every year; and travel and the world cost
him good percentage of his profits"
And the more he writes , the more $ unwilling ,n, Is
nothing in Of travelling from Munich to California if
find my knowledge is not definite enough and
trip Of thirteen days with the return. to Van
couver for the overland train. for the sake of one
mental picture I had made of the place from much
| 1t is proposed to erect in Dublin a new monu-
| ment to Tom Moore-although his poems. it Is
moment than at any time during the last fifty
years" Mangan, another Irish poet to whom
memorial is to be unveiled shortly. grows more
and more popular.
What promises to be a book of value and Of
interest is Mr. Clarence Rocks forthcoming
| Switzerland and It's People" The rise. growth
and consolidation into nation of the twenty
two cantons are described, and the text is to be
accompanied by many illustrations.
unlike its predecessors in that artificial divi
sion of the poets work into serious and comic
has been observed. An English ntator,
discussing Hoods plays upon words. says:
Punning is out of fashion now, and the popd-
larity of Hoods poetry has suffered in propOr-
tiOn. 1t is true he Ounned like a genius; even
/ sombre mind CoeridSe's responded to his
brilliant sallias. His best electrically
I expected. their very simplicity is the secret OF
their brilliance. Canon AnSer, one of Hoods most
/ sympathetic commentators, had one especial
favorte
GO where the maiden marriage plan goes,
Consigned for wedlock to Calcutta's quay.
Where goes for mart. the same rlangos,
And think of mei'
The same as goesv' says Anger. How
utter the surprise, and yet how inevitable the
simile appears. 1t is just if the writer had not
foreseen it-as # 1t had been mere accident" And
that the secret, of course, of all true wit The
joke that you have approaching, through
clattering machinery of preparation. is really no
joke at all
The new reprint of Hogg's Life of Shelley"
is the first to the light since it was peremp-
torly stopped by Lady Shelley fifty years ago.
1t is complained that the letters of Hogg have
been printed without their being carefully col
lated with the original documents.
Mr. J. A. Doyle is bringing out two more
volumes of his historical studies Of the English
colonies on this side of the water. One of these
is entitled 1.-The Middle Colonies and the other
/ 1.-THE Colonies Under the House of Hanover"
II is some years since the previous volumes ap-
/ peared.