New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-23
BOOKS and AUTHORS.
Curent Comment on Things Present
and TO Come.

The first calendar of a series devoted TO the
papers of George Washington (nOw in the
Library Of Congress) has just been issued 1t
deals with the correspondence that passed oe-
tween Washington and the Continental Congress,
including the letters with the documents IN
closed and with references to the action taken
upon them by Congress. This calendar or 81
pages has been brought out as publication ol
the library
NJ Philippe Gounard has written in volume
entitled Les Origines de la Legente Napoleoh-
ienne" study OF the ex-Emperors iast years
az St. Helena He holds that the last phase
was active and fertile and ne proceeds to deal
with Napoleon's method Of work the documents
upon which he could count and the WORK Oh MS
coIlaborators, Las Casas O'MeaTa' Moh'ho'o"
and Gourgaud. The book Is said to throw certain
light upon certain points that have hitherto been
obeorra thanks possiblv to the fact that the
Count de las Casas and the Viscount de her-
gonaler have given the author access to their
family archives.
Let no one who discovers that the literary
copyright OF "Alice's Adventures IN Nohoer-
land expires this year fondly fancy that ne can
bring out a new edition. The copyright OF SF
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tinue for several years to come.
OF the poetry Of William Allingham-whose
Diary is now on the press-nobody In this
country knows much more than the fairy song.
Up the airy mountains.
Down the rushE glen.
and the lifting lines about Lovely Mary Don
nelly" Yet II is said that such was his popular
ity in Ireland that his poems were sold all over
that Green Isle by hawkers in half-penny
broadsides.
He was the friend OF Tennyson. who, in his
later days used often 10 quote Alllngham's last
words: Il see things you cannot dream Of
w ~ RossettI thus describes the poet as he
was in his youthful days In London
Allinsham was a well built man, hardly up to
the middle hecht. with q thoughtfal cou1IenhaInce,
fairly regular features crisp hair and under 6lacS
I have rarely seen equalled. The Celtic glamour,
Iectual with some sprghtlIness and some tartness
for he was far from incnea 10 taHe a" me e nTn
valuation.
II was Ailingham 70 whom at breakfast IN
his own house Tennyson carefully explained
that when he asked will YOU have a hegg?"
he joking.
book dealing with the extinct birds OF the
world ought TO be uncommonly interesting.
Such book. beautifully Illustrated in colors. Is
IN preparation by the Hon. Walter Rothschild
son OF the first Baron Rothschild. and an au-
thority on zoology. whose natural history coll
lection is famous lie has been engaged Tor
several years this volume.
DR. E. p. oberholtzer's Life Of Jay Cooke"
which will include 1t is To be supposed. the ar
ticles now In OF publication in The
Century" is to be brought out soon by G. W.
Jacobs Of Philadelphia. The hundreds OF let
ters written 20 Cooke during the Civil War by
distinguished personages then engaged in MAX
ing history are to be deposited in the library
of the Pennsylvania Historical Society.
An excellent Englishman. who lately de-
parted this life. will be remembered for his at
tempt to whitewash Mr.. Squeers OF Dotheboys
Hall He declared that the condition OF AFFAIRS
in the school kept 10y one Shaw. said TO he the
original of Squeers. grossly exaggerated
Charles Dickens the younger. however, has
stated in his preface to one Of the later edi-
tons Of Nicholas Nickleby." that Shaw Of
Bowes School not the model for Squeers.
although all his neighbors seemed To think the
Identification complete. His school was ruined
in consequence The novelist himself said that
Squeers was merely the representative of
class.
The curious plagiarsms to which Dckenss
popularity exposed him are noted in a recent
number of The Manchester Guardian" Dis
reputable publishers rushed into the market.
we are told with the most extraordinary imi-
tatons Of his work. which they succeeded in
putting off upon a public less educated and
less protected by the press than that of today
He had no sooner begun to publish Nicholas
Nickeby' in the usual monthly parts than riva!
appeared in the field with the rNiekle5y Papers.
with this, the same writer brought out later a
represented as having returned from Botany Bay,
and was ultimately shot while engaged In break
ing into Nicholas Nickleby's house In DevonshiTe
Another impudent piracy was "Nickelas MCKEE
berry" by BOs, containing the adventures mis-
ornes mysteries mseries and miscellaneous
manceuN res of the family of Ntckieberry. This
WAS ,bich Vincent Crunmies became Montmorency
Crumples Smike appeared as Snikes. and so forth
VARIED" by Guess. with Illustrations by Quiz
NoyIadays these things have a commercial value
oconsideTabc annoyance 10 Dickens who seems to
have been unable TO stop their publication II Is
being harassed by this method
.Jos Pastores," the Mexican miracle play,
performed at Christmas time in Mexico for
two hundred years. has been translated and
edited by Mrs. o. Is. Cole for the American
Folk Lore Society. An edition. with iIlustra-
lions and music. has just been published by
Houghtcn Mifiiin & Co.
A forgotten Ibsen fragment is soon to be pub
lished. This Is a half completed epic poem
which is described being in many ways
roughly. outlined Brand" The MS was lost
by Ibsen during his visit in Rome in the CO.'S.
and when found many years after was pre-
sented to the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
tenants of the Trees is the title OF a new
nature book by Clarence Hawkes.. These ten
ants" are the birds and the little "four-feet''