New-York tribune., 1907-11-23

and it bears his arms the cover. This relic
is held at S4O0, the book containing the Looir
plates S:;T5
Americans viii probably cherish a grudgo
against Shirley Brooks. the brilliant contributor
to lunch, whose biography by G. s. Layara
is coming from the press Of Henry Holt & Co.
'Punch's" cruel caricatures of Lincoln through
out the miseres of the Civil War were heartily
condoned when. after the assassination of the
great President, it printed Tom Taylors noble
poem of recantation. 1t appears that Brooks
did not approve of this poem and expressed his
disapproval in words which might better be for
gotten.
growing appreciation Of the fact that in
adding 10 the beauty of city, town and country
Americans may be adding to national wealth IS
becoming apparent. Hence prospective series
of papers in The Worlds Work Making
our Country Beautiful" The author is Mr.
r L. HART.
Captain A. T. Mahan gets an odd mixture Of
praise and blame from one of his English critics
the reviewer of the Manchester Guardian TO
wit This worthy speaks of the historians
wonderful power of exposition" but declares
that he has no skill in story telling, no power
of color of humor. no liveliness, none of that
delight in detail which makes a memoir great
and damns history" AS for his style it is less
attractive says the commentator than the style
of any man of similar eminence. 1t is cold, it
is heavy, it is unrhythmical; it is without any
quality of beauty. But historian he compels
admiration-he has such grasp upon his sub
ject; his cold, clumsy, telling phrases go home
so deeply. His nuts of knowledge are heavy
round shot. ="
Lovers of the literature of the past will be
interested in a new Partisan reprint-that of
Joachim du Bellay's Les Regrets and La
Guirlande de Julie" from the original manu-
script. sketch of the period and notes have
been added by NJ. Adolphe van Beuer.
Mr.. Longfelow was once visited by Lord
Lorne-the present Duke of Argyll--and in the
"reminiscences of the latter, recently published,
there is some account of the interview. The
duke thought that the effect of the poets coun-
tenance was very fine:
He wears his white hair long, and brushes it. as
do many Germans straight. and it falls over his
piercing. His nose rather large but does not seem
so. as he wears full white mustache and beard.
thought ws5 as the nest ng he ad
ten after In Memortam," Next he spoke of Swim
his lyrics and thinking that his force lay in them.
talked of Alexander Smith and Bailey, as curious
instances Of the way young men come TO the sur
face suddenly, and then disappear apparently never
books in England, he Said he met with copy of
some early poe poems bse OF tan ms IN & snoR be @ nnee
twenty. and he bought the only copy he saw at
once, wishing 10 stamp out productions or "hlch
he was ashamed.
Of Tennyson in the character of Poet Laureate
the duke has Renaissance, quoting that Off
ciaI as saying with "a soeInnly sly wink: I
live in terror of any of the Queens family
marrying. and of hearing from her that she
of that kind yet, but live in terror of 1t
Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale. daughter of the
late James G. Blaine has prepared volume Of
Stories from the Old Testament for Children"
DR.. Fraser has been obliged by the continu-
increase in his materials to make many
changes in the third edition of his Golden
Bough." While he retains that general title. he
will break up the book into monographs with
these sub-titles /. "The Magic Art and the
Evolution OF Kings: 2 The Peris Of the Soul
and the Doctrine of Taboo: 3. The Dying
Cod; 4 Adonis. Attis, Osiris; ; "BaIder the
Beautiful" OF these monographs The Athe-
naum'' says that "the fourth is already pub
lished in a second enlarged edition. and the first
two and considerable part of the third are In
type It is hoped to issue the first two in the
VI,
by the end of 1909"
Various "reminiscences Of Kate Greenaway,
friend Of children" are to appear in the forth
coming number of THE Century" from the pen
of a son of the poet. Frederick Locker-Lamp-
son. Some hitherto unpublished drawings by
Miss Greenaway will be reproduced to accom-
pany the article.
Mr.. H. 9. Wells's story gives It is said.
"a dramatic picture of war in evolution, Science
on its mettle. and the nations wrapped in con-
fict under conditions of a new and startling
character 1t is of course the new developments
in aeronautics that make up the stuff Of the
story, which is thus described:
He has taken for his hero. not an ideal inventor
cess but an everyday suburban Iondoner Mr.
6ert snallways, TO quote the authors own descrip-
9d civillzatlon Of the early twentieth century pro-
WoT bp ~ me IlinIon IN every country OF the world.
our OF ms ms marvellous modern world for time,
and sky" -
But this plain parsonage has some knowledge Of
the newer phases of mechanics. and under his rest
less and experimenting fingers the great golden
brown, bolster shaped. unweldy monster is brought
TO obedience and safety. strange sense of Sc
curty grows upon this kidnapped man. and we
follow ms adventures through the clouds until a
whimsical fate plunges him into serious
events. events He becomes fighting unit in conflict
and Japan; and uses up al the new inventions OF
had looked Forward TO an uneventful life becomes
"a sad, blackened, Promethean figure, cursed by
his home the world has been swept by new ele-
ments OF destruction. and the face Of England has
been transformed. The things that remain. how
ever. are the airships.
Mr.. Joseph Conrad's forthcoming novelette,,
THE Duel,' is the story of lifelong feud be-