New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21

1--WE
said to have been rejected by more than ono
noted writer, but he is a wise and skiIful man
of letters, and his book will doubtless be a meri-
tOrious performance. We ought to be grateful
that the writing of this monograph has not been
turned over to some spTightly young author like
Mr.. G. X. CheStertOn.
Warm hearted words about Scott are ALWAYS
good to read, and make no excuse for
quoting passage from glowing tribute found
in THE London Times" The writer knows all
about his heros limitations, but he protests that
when all differences are admitted Scott is still
the one man who has breath of the Shake
spearian air about him." and he closes in this
eXhilarating fashion:
It IS this breadth of sympathy which than
anything else makes Scott still the greatest novelist
/ in the English and perhaps i'm any Language His
business rs not with side study disease. O
these things seen to be the exceptions; and If
ne iofSets either as indeed he often does it is tho
exception ana not the law, that is forgotten He
carries with him everywhere air of Homeric
gladly, as Sainte Beuve felt one goes back to battle
ones self in his streams of purity health
and women have gifts that he has not. bmt no one
poetry which is not in Dickens, the swift energy
which is not in Thackeray, the largeness both OF
matter and manner which is not in Jane Austen.
the lghtness of touch which is not in Charlotte
Bronte' the fresh air and motion of life which are
NOT IN I{alz4c. the tenderness which is not in
Eliot. the artlessness which is not in Stevenson
the quietness and simplicity which are not in Mr.
He is not the cleverest the wttiest or the pro-
ioundest OF novelists: but none is 50 sure Of i'm
streamllkc suavy of life itself. and that
thins whose pleasure never fails the generations
and centuries go by.
The author of The Viper of Milan" has writ
ten two new novels since the publication of that
clever. readable, but not at all phenomenal tale
one of them, a Scotch romance called Tho
M MaSITT OF p STAR VIII soon be published by
Leopard and the Lily has been deferred.
The Baker & Taylor Company has tust pub
Ished a new novel by Miss Edith Rickert the
author Of Folly" and The Reaper" This new
nook a romance Of modern Provence is called
| mission to Frederic Mistral the poetic genius
OF that sunny corner of France.
A pretty auusion TO AIphonse Karr. that brill
liant and somewhat eccentric Frenchman is
made by the writer of an article in the London
Outlook on certain hooks and corners Of tho
Riviera. Twenty five years ago he rambIed one
day along the rocky shore and had this little adj
venture:
saw an old fisherman in his shirt-sIeeves anI
these tucked up. the phrase is and four or five
barelegged children Juggling at a boat whose ,oSi-
him If ne could tell me where the house ana ar
den OF Alphonse Karr were. lie turned inland aud
said. IN perfect Partisan French There il is, And
az al your SERVE Monsieur for am Aphonse karr."
place still. is there? Ever and anon some one
writes to say an old piece of mine has been per-
formed again ~ they send me my royalties for
gamins there. my grandchildren If not what does
shine
The HOughtons made their first edition If
Kate Douglas Virgins New Chronicles of f,a
/ beCca" OF fifty thousand copies No doubt
/ their confidence in the book will be justified
ltebecca is one Of the deiightfullest of the young
heroines in recent fiction. Mrs Riggs first
book about her endeared her to thousands os
/ readers