New-York tribune., 1907-11-09

Algernon greatly interested at the thought
of seeing the great poet; it intensely
awkward and odious. going to a person
merely TO say you have seen him. Standards
of taste have changed in half century! The
Englishwoman continues:
No could in the least have mistaken the visit
for a common one. one respects him much. and
MS age f makes him SO that quite hate
kind and very nice TO Algernon especially, at
@ en fa eE have fed R 1Sd S dseFR1 sc & d M tS %fse tse
gate. Lady Jane said what a pleasure 1t had been
it. as he already acquainted with his writings
geGnon might have read We Are seven and some
other little things There was nothing In his writ.
some things that might do him good" Some Obser-
M 2s was snd W me He I
not think Algernon would forget him."
A distinguished poet cannot always be brill
liant and therefore Robert Browning may per-
haps be pardoned this atrocous limerick, pro-
duced by him in response to a challenge to sup
ply rhyme to rhinoceros:
Whenever you see rhinoceros.
If a tree be in sight,
Climb quick, for his might
Is a match for the gods-he would toss Eros!
The great-granddaughter OF Robert Fulton
Miss Alice Crary. is at work upon the family
papers preparatory to bringing out volume
found unused material as well as various new
portraits of Fulton and portraits painted by
him. Previous to the publication OF this vol
ume extracts from it will appear in THE Cen
| tury."
French Art from Vatican to Prud'hon" is
the title of forthcoming work by ]. ]. Foster.
author of some well remembered books, Min
iature Painters and The Stuarts in XVI.
| XVII and XVIII Century Art Studies of the
| social history of the period have been
| tributed by various writer's. The three royal
quarto volumes have been richly illustrated by
| reproductions of hundreds of paintings in the
| most important public and private collections.
| For those drawn from America Mr.. Foster is
| indebted to Mr.. ]. P. Morgan. These repro
| ductons some of them in photogravure and
| some in color The work is to be brought out by
| the John Lane Company.
Why not let the original edition of alice in
| Wonderland" alone, to remain the little classic
| II is both in text and illustration? Again an
| artist-this time woman-has meddled with
| the immortal book and bestowed upon it piCt
| ures perfectly conventional and commonplace.
| II is labor lost. for Tenniels Illustrations in
! stinct with sympathetic genius, will for un-
| counted years to come reveal the cheapness and
| poverty Of invention of too daring successors.
While writing of this new English edition we
! are reminded that est. Nicholas proposes to
! print in its forthcoming volume a welcome
! paper on Lewis Carroll. New and authentic in
| formation concerning him will be found therein;
and another article will tell the young reader
how alice in Wonderland" came to be written.
A valuable collection of autograph letters and
documents relating to the Civil War has been
placed on sale by Dodd Mead & Co. These pa
pers include letters written not only by Presi-
| dent Lincoln and members Of his Cabinet. but
by the most distinguished generals OF the Union
and Confederate armies One of its most notable
| items is a mournful letter from the pen of Gen.
| eral Hooker. A letter which takes on curious
interest in the light of subsequent events was
written by Senator Henry Wilson in December.
1859. 1t deprecates the John Brown raid. which
he fears will prevent successful anti-slavery
| legislation:
note. John Browns raid, and the folly of our
vents all efforts to do anything effective. browns
poson no p6soH We have been
thrown by the folly Of our friends ends upon the pixies
yanced men of our party will be sacrificed and the
sentative attitude for the present If we are de-
1eated feat next year we shall owe it to that foolish
ton tion & OF men who have allowed their Judgments to
feel sorry for some men, but this investigation
| Will so on, be the consequences to them what
learn "A lesson from what has transpired and that
they may in future TRUST to the influences of peace
and lawful efforts.
"Dapper little George had famous tough
spirit of his own. and fought like a Trojan"
says Thackeray Of the second Hanoverian King
Of England. and he adds: "At Dettingen his
horse away with him, and with difficulty
stopped from carrying him into the
enemys lines. The King, dismounting from
the fiery quadruped, said. bravey: Now I
know shall not run away and placed himself
at the head of the foot. drew his sword. bran
dishing it at the whole of the French army, and
calling out to his men to como on, in bad
English but with the most famous pluck and
spirit" If quote from delightful little
book which is perhaps not read as much now
adays as it ought to be, II is because it seems
70 have furnished to Mr.. Frank Taylor sug-
gestion for this lively poem in THE London
Spectator:
DAPPER GEORGE
(743)
Dapper King George. he was round and red,
With German toneCc in his g-tated head;