New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-07
LITERARY NOTES.

The newest biography of Napoleon is one by
DR.. Max Lenz. An English translation is COM
ing out shortly. The Paris Figaro" by the
way, is quoted saying that fewer than
between 500 and 600 plays-dramas. comedies
and Operettas-have had Napoleon for their hero.
The love letters written by King Henry VIII
to Anne Boleyn have been edited by Mr.. Lad
broke Black from the Hareian Miscellany. and
will be brought out soon with an introduction
by Mr.. Black on The Royal Lover"
Among the judicious utterances on the ques-
ton of spelling reform is this from Professor
Goodwin Smith:
The language OF Shakespeare. Milton Bacon.
high qualities they are. in way. but regularity,
Of them You cannot eancei effects Of English 6iSo
tory, SimPhied spelling might in way be
very likely be a gain. But it would have involved
our clocks SimpIidcati0n of spelling would involve
pay - 80 = OODO''D' ~"''"s' TIC '"--S' "O1''
A collection Of letters written by the late
Emile lola in his youth will soon be published
The Russians appear to be intensely Interested
I'm Conan Doyle's detective hero In st. Peters
burg five dramas clustering about the personal
ity Of Sherlock Holmes are now on the stage.
Two are dramatizations of the stories; third is
called sherlock Holmes In st Petersburg an
other is Sherlock Holiness Daughter and the
fifth is brought out as Madame Sherlock
Holmes"
%The Training of the Human Plant" is tho
title of the coming book by Mr.. Luther Burbank.
Of California gardening fame The Century
Company viii publish it
An edition of CoIeridge's "ChristabeT' which
has just appeared is novel In being a fac-simile
Of the original Ms. An account of the sources
and history of the poem has been added. end
Mr.. Ernest Hartley Colcridge has furnished a
bel q a hbiagVau index
authoritative edition Of "ChristabeI" and seec-
tons from contemporary reviews appear il APP
pendiceS-
The book on German Army life. Aus elmer
Kleinen Garrison" which reused so much bitter
feeling when il was first published. brough: lit
tie but vexation to its author. a German CORE
spOndent SAYS that Lieutenant Bilse received
for its publication six months imprisonment,
loss Of his career and-the munfcent sum CO
fl65l The Vlcnnese bookseller 10 whom he sold
the rights is said. the other hand. 20 have
netted tllOOO through its sale. no single peaIy
Of which fortune came TO the luckless author.
The law allows il and the court awards it The
figures are well attested"
Ghetto Comedies" n book OF stories and
sketches OF Jewish life by Mr. Zangwill. is com
ing from the press. Ghetto Tragedies" the pre-
viUus volume by this author. is to be reissued
with this companion volume y striking
magazine story recently brought out BY Mr..
ZangwiH will doubtless appear among the com
! edies,"
The forthcoming biography OF Paul Verlaine is
to contain a number of curious letters on his
religious convictions. The London "s'ka tc-
says:
Not only IN his poetry there the mixture OF
| sanCtity and profanity. In his chequercd LIE he
was not innocent Of blOodshed he was not ignorant
81 prison, and know Scotch doctor who. work
| ing in "A Paris hospital Intimate with a di-
lapdated patient periodically seeking his ward for
the physc Of an enforced sobriety II was tn poet
| OF the cafes But Verlaine. like DR.. JckyH never
@ i as fu Of rdor as the Poetry S that was By no
means spiritual.
Among the unpublished papers in the posses
sion Of the biOgrapher, NJ. Lepelletier some
Impressions OF England when Veriaine at
tempted to teach the French language to school
boys.
The war correspondent Frederic VillieTs. has
recorded a talk with Bret Harte apTopOs of the
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