New-York tribune., 1906-02-25

"Charles Lever: His Life in His Letters" is the
title of a work which ought to offer much
interesting material concerning writer's and
literary episodes in the middle Of the last CEN
tury. MIR. Edmund DOWney is the bioSrapher-
OF Turgenieff, "a compound of the Western
man and the Slav,' a London critic writes in
"The Spectator with something like tender
ness: The novelist sat in Paris among his
friends, told, talked brilliantly, was
found strangely charming, with his simple.
amiable- slightly absent manners, by every one
who had the good fortune to make his acquaint-
ance:
Tall. white haired soft, eyed, the impression he
something in his looks and his conversation OF
what Daudet calls le oTouaTd % 9lTe hrt;z, TSI9 i1
art and life which made the world he really lived
in so large and mysterious IN comparison WITH
that OF his Western friends and actual surround
Lngs The ANALYST of Russian humanity E was o IN
sad music OF centuries of Russian pain All hls
work was trste CONNIE T c,1nt ma GTa1 T p0et
whose inspiration came to him direct from Rus
an m o s o FS e6n y rs 5fsnFe ea eaGu
beloved fatherland,' cries Potugin in Smoke and
IN France, y have abandoned Russia an. and I fnd
/ feel it Garden soil is good-but cloudbcrries
will not grow on II!
Fanny Lambert is the title of the new novel
which n de We're Stackpoole is about to bring
out. 1t is mentioned a partially humorous
story. Mr.. Stackpoole is remembered as the
author of an uncommonIy clever piece of fiction
In respect 10 statements recently made in
London concerning divers letters of Charles
Dickens addressed to his wife, their son, Henry
F. Dickens, writes to the offender:
It Is not true that my fathers letters 10 her
were destroyed; il is not true that they died be-
fore she d, ID; it is not true that her husband
On contrary, my dear mother priced the POS
session Of them to the last day Of her Life; they
are stin in existence, and in safekeepins.
The current number Of "L'Art" just received,
shows that that excellent periodical is more
and the Illustrations exceptionally numerous
NJ. Gabilot, writing of the painters of ''fetes
galantes," begins, of course, with Vatican, and
his entertaining essay is accompanied by many
reproductions, among them facsimileS of Soin6
of the great artists adorable drawings in red
chalk. NJ. Leroi makes some aIiuSlonS to the
etched work of Leon Lhermitte the painter
whose religious composition Chez les Hunbles.''
has recently found its way into our own mu-
scum. to the regret OF the French editor who
would have kept it at home The plate which
we reproduce "Rouen Cathedral" Illustrates a
phase of NJ. Lhermtte's art which is too Httla
known here
1t appears that the First Folio Shakespeare,
which once belonged to the Bodleian Library
at Oxford and sold "superliuOus" by the
authorities in 1864. may possibly come to this
country. Its present owner. country gentle
and oxford graduate, who inherited the
book from his great great grandfather, would
like to see il return TO the Bodleian, and has
not therefore. closed with am American offer
of 81 900 He gives the university until March
81 the opportunity to purchase the book. and
the librarian of the Bodleian is trying to raise
the necessary fund