New-York tribune., 1906-07-29

osity to rival historians which English scholar
OF to-day might well take 20 heart:
It is too much the fashion TO hint dislike of some
Dody else's methods. to denOunee predecessors az
differing from somebody else instead of on doina
one own work as we'll possible. These phaTisase
lueaS or seif-adVertlsement are unworthy of the
scholar. Prescott charming companion, gen.
vI5S vLiS 3 neI9yed, never emnttered by dlenltles
wien Wien Wouiu sour an ordinary man. never 50 much
taken up by his own work to be nuisance
veilous. No one knew for years that he was writ
ing history, and those who interrupted the cur
most part in his brain before it was committed I.
revse were received with such foThe5rance nee thas
they had Ia no idea Of having seriously hindered him
This Life" is one Of the most gracious records OF
scholar that We know.
Christina Belgioso- -Trfvulzio is the heroine OF
q forthcoming book entitled "A Revolutionary
Princess" This is the lady who is remembered
as marching at the head Of a regiment OF
NeapOlitan youths.
An episode Of the honeymoon OF the young
Spanish sovereigns was a literary reunion"
the house of the Count of Villana Alfonso an6
Victoria sat on a small raised platform ant
listened to recitations by the most distinguished
spanish writers, including Senior Echegaray
The poets OF the day read poems written es.
pecially to celebrate the royal marriage
AprOpOs of Francis Bacon's term. concealed
poet" correspondent Of THE Academya
writes:
An attempt has been made to place him at tho
mead OF our literature as the concealed author Oi
the Shakespearian drama, and this casual remarh
1ound among his literary remains is held as evi.
The term 'concealed' might include ANONYMOUS
ana lnedlted; ana we have evidence of the latter
TOO close to Bacon himself to have escaped his
notice He a younger son or Sir NicbOIas
Bacon, Keeper of the Seal under two nlODarchg
and a worthy bibliOpole Mr Bertram DobeII nj
Charlng Cross Road, has disinterred twenty OF
Cnlrty poems written by Sir Nicholas hitherto un
published, fully qualifying him a Concealed DOet.
for even the elaborate account of Sir Nicholas in
Lne u. N b. mas not prepared US for this fact
Can we thus reduce the ambiguous term ''cOn.
ceaIed poet to mere commonplace?
"They buried him at Fontevrault as he had
directed at the feet OF his father" writes MaU.
rice Hewlett OF Richard LiOnheart The Kings
statue placed in the crumbling abbey in the
tomb 1T is said, has been rif1ed and destroyed.
That something Is left however seems to be
shown by the fact that Sir Francis BERTHE the
British Ambassador at Paris is conducting negO-
uatlonS With the French government with a
view TO repatriate the dust Of Richard to his
own country. Lord Derby in 1869 begged Ma
poleOn III TO permit the removal Of the remains.
put the FFancO-German War then interrupted
the arrangement The heart Of Richard or its
70 Rouen Cathedral and laid among the dead
Dukes OF Normandy; fitting sepulture for
heart as bold as any Of theirs, and capable OF
more gentle music when the fine hand pIucked
the chords"
Sir Conan DOyle's American friends will bs
sorry 70 hear that the author has lost his wife
They were married twenty years ago Lady
Doyle was in her youth Miss Louisa Hawkins,