New-York tribune., 1907-06-29

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children by fear and by love. the skin deepness
| of beauty boarding schools the duties OF
! motherhood, old age, sCoundrely patent medi
cine advertisers, materialism, religion, the value
! of prayer. the future of the human race, some
! observations on Danish philosophy the death of
! Socrates and the religion of Browning Shelley
! and Wordsworth. If this isn't enough to make
| the readers forget their troubles cannot
| blame Mr. Saleeby. Worry being most easily
| cured by getting the patients mind other
| thlng3, the present volume ought to produce in
stant relief where all other remedies fail. Or
can 1t be that worrying about worry is itself the
| last stage of the disease2 Ef-that be the-ease,
| the writer and his readers in sad plight;
! hut. personally, we have not been worried by
| Mr. Saleehy's words on worry. The writer spars
! too playfully with the Demon Care.
| Two hundred thousand copies of Kate Douglas
! WiGgin'S ''RebeCca of Sunnybrook Farm have
! been printed by Houghton. Mifiin & Co. Seldom
| is a best seller" worthy as this is of it's
| popularity.
G. p. Putnams Sons complete this month
! their edition of the late Sir Leslie Stephens
| essays with four volumes containing his Hours
! in a Library" This group is made up of much
of the very best work that he did. though it
is hard pressed by his Studies OF Biog
| rapher." Stephen is soTely missed. He
! Of the few men Of his tme born write essays.
The form is extraordinarily difficult. and only
at intervals does appear with the
temperament qualifying him TO master it.
About one hundred hitherto unpublished let
ters Of Wagner appear in Herr Angelo Neu-
mann's just published "Erinnerungen, as Rich
ard Wagner" The work Is illustrated by four
portraits and two facsimiles.
'J-rsuIe Mrouet" the story which Balzac
wrote for his niece, has been prepared by Mr..
+. H. Osgood for class reading In colleges and
schools Mr. Osgood has added an Introduction
a,ITN n i0pr
as specially adapted for class work. Miss Pod
snap of the elbows might indeed peruse the
story without injury to her delicacy II Is
worth while to quote I'm this connection Balzac's
nournfuI comment ON the attacks OF his critics.
Il write for men and not for young girls, he
said TO his sister. but | defy them 10 cite a
single page in which religion or the family is
! attacked"
THE Snob" the little weekly paper which
vas rubIished at Cambridge in 1929 and whose
columns Thackeray had large share IN hllhs'
expired after the eleventh number was issued
II is now rare. and a treasure 10 coHectors'
What is described as a well preserved surNlNof
,ras cold IN London the other day for 5000.
Tbackeray was nineteea when as an under
graduate at Trinity College ne amused HliitSe, -
| with this mild literary work. "Oh MONDAY Hsnt
be saia In one of his letters. myself and the
si,or of The Snob sat down TO write The
Snob' for next Thursday. We began at q anu
0risbed at .: but was afflicted with laush-
ter that | came away quite Ill AT TINS .,'''o
10 wrote q skit on TennysOns "Ttmpucloo d
,oero for which its author as we know, re-
l.;o5 ,b, C-hancellor's medal Thackerays hheS
T., ..,rhc Snob" received mucr laud ne "'ot0 "
bis mother: and the hoy added: Il couu hot neip
ending ou: that was very iona OF tI''s s', ,.
praise The men knew not 'Ie s,,c.aI uCs,I II in
nraised the poem; how eagerly sueAe" r" H.
! All is vanity!
,,u- Charles Rrookfeld is soon TO publish an
| ,-ta.taaI novel called My Lord OF Essex II
| .aa,s ~ incidents in the career OF Rooert Dew
ora,,x the favorite courter of Queen Elizabeth
x,,r,, hetng one OF the noisiest cities In
49, ,,,orid readers here will surely apprecIa'' '
the following poem. whlch IS coi,' , ~ w taIfa
,n 1'le s.nectator' by &C. J.. c." whom we tame
| -. ha of course that clever writer MI - ]"
| Graves: ,,1cCopD
Havoc 1oathAd Melody. whose name recalls
The mellow hrting OF md tne "5 Yale 5,ie,'e
trbe rnurnlur of the stream
Heard in dream .o-sous
| ~ orov,sy pash of distant Wti'eIl"t'N
| D,,+ tboti divine Cacophohy, aSo"l'io
I,t. ~ ,.iaT,fr, oyerordshp in her room
| t1 Win Percussion stimulating atu ,s,, maid
| ISxnei the heavenly but no longer Sou'''N'
Resttr We. minons of the goddess he"
| And pay her homage ot,c uuei ,orr
r'9' Us;th clash of shivering metal
,o,c,rate the reigu of Sturm una DfGn9'
l"'us Let drums (bass, side and ket!le)
a., +,stbe General welter, and conspie
1rt ~ our senses furiously on nre' . b,ars
no o,se se' vet v m ire noise. say Ye trSmPet5 oi1rs
| H. ,IrroIated keys and rend the alirtei'o
| Nor let the shreking piccolo reIi|th en- I'm hro,,
| NJ 10 oiarce the midmost marrow OF the ~ ~ora.
| TO pierce 11r,nts heat and let the loud hassoon
| pn,. ike a bloodhound at an azure hioo'
Dag Tast with stentorian roar.
| r. oore,muate musicat MaJupu'
| 10 '' ! of the profound bass tuba
| ,,..,. one long and Brobdingnagian sno'e
| Va de,rons of unrest, your efforts spare
| IA that StOCC tOuf -SQudit
" FOR thrice hundred years
Crashes about our ears
~ ,or, shall Music's votaries endure
| ~ '' rrbe stream of sound that flows
Nonotonous pure
r,uor, C"VstaIIine source to an inspid cNse
Beethoven Is Sped'
His works are dead, , ,
Or merely minister to our posprandial siunipers'
| SVannnr has reached the limbo of back numbers
| But We bthe anarchs of a hustling era'
With rapture unalloyed,
Tursue amain the strenuous Chmera
That boometh in the void
We scorning beauty as snare lnsldio9s, ii ,,sss
Salute the abnormal and acclaim the hldeous'
With pous uluatons uShering IN
| The unassaed dominion OF unbrldIed oln
The successor of the late Ferdinand Brune-
there at the French Academy is a lawyer NJ
| Henri Barbour. Among his rivals for the chair
there were three men Of letters, M. Deiafosse'
| NJ de Nolhac and NJ Richepin.
| Miss Maud Cruttwen. the author of several
mertorious monographs on artlstlc SUBJECTS
| has produced a capital little handbook In "A
| Guide to the Paintings in the Florentlne CAL
| leres' (E P Dutton & Coz. This is practically
catalogue of all the pictures of serious interest
| in the UffiZi the Pitt and the Academia. Fol-
| lowing the preface there Is remarkably we'll
balanced little sketch of FlOrentine painting, and
| prehxed to the lists of pictures in each or the
| three galleries there is record of the salient
foo In ta history