New-York tribune., 1907-05-05

cess in reading is destroying it,
THE Woman is the title of Signor Antonio
| Fosazzaros new novel announced for pubIica-
tOn this month
One of the incidents attending the issue Of
current fiCtion-which is very different thing,
be II remembered, from permanent imaginative
hterature-s the reported financial success OF
Mr. T. w Iawson's novel. It is stated by the
publishers tnat 30 900 copies of the book have
already been sold; that transations into Dutch.
swedish and German being made; and that
II IS proposed to translate it into French Span
/ lsh Italian, Danish, Norwegian, Bohemian Hun
garian and Japanese
Articles, biographical and critical on the late
| Thomas Bailey AldriCh are beginning to appear
| IN the magazines. The most interesting OF
the month fills several pages of The Atlantic
and comes from the pen of Mr.. Bliss Perry He
gives this pleasant glimpse of the poet as a
| visitor IN the office of the periodical which he
once edited:
P|ched upon the edge of chair, as If about to
! the delight of his listeners. His caustic played
disdain the verest shop-talk concerning printdTs!
at those boys! he exclaimed once. as me ncEcd U1
an illustrated periodical containing the portraits OF
| When 1 began to write we waited twenty vars
those young fellows have tttmsevcs pGoiogra phSd
! Itr h1tore they even sit down TO write their hooh'
Aldri i.h was severely critical of current magazine
once said of an Atantic eontrb3ton whh he
d ba sec6gt 6nt y9g viii ma EgPernuoqs of upon
nraisgd a contemporary poem. Mr. S. '. coles
lyrics by Father Tabb the only verses OF recent
ygTS y, aoS which now recall as having won his un;
t!In declare that he would have rejected Mr.. Kip
! Atlantic extreme was his DISLIKE for one or
@ %o @ MaIsh anes IN tmht jnStIy celehrated 20 m
/ "Erl to "rtG was: he said Emers3n,s "iiac nus
| harsh lines enough.
Another forthcoming book devoted to the Ma
p"i'onic period is entitled queen Hortcnsr and
/ Her Friends" This memoir Of Napocor'S step
daughter, the swan -neckcd woman half French
and half West Indian is by Miss @ ~ Taylor.
/ Concerning DisracIrs literary tastes. one Mr.
kchbcI who knew the statesman rather well.
says in a ne"ly-pu1iishcd volume Of reu.inis-
CcNCcS.-
or PoPs he was a warm admirer and the author
OF the "Dunciaa was one one OF the iew English poets
thought 'RedEauntet' Was OF his fines, crca-
wr;crs do not recoIcct herirg him say Nun
and IhAckeray had written themselves out
Here is a sketch of DisracH in the House
4 sketch which. in the passage OF time. it WAS
well TO preserve
Lord Beaconsheld had once been dandy. and
had lived with the dandles, and how completely
he had caught the tone OF them may be seen from
" lavs in the best Black frock coat rr.
trousers and wcll-tittinr SHOES on his wr-snafeIi
fcet HIS garments ne Yer looked either old oy new
his coat buttoned. hc looked. men would sometimes
lie stopped little in his later days. but otherw se
lie had = very figure l have said that Ne
not - dandy. But there thing about
which he very particular and that was las
When any Conservative member, IN passing
his the bench just above the front one.
disturbed the Arrangement Of his leaders back
hair there always little impatient gesture
and q hand hastily raised and passed round to t.e
raue OF the neck 10 repair the disorder II there
were any.
Dr. Wilhelm BODIES work italian Bronze
stauettcs of the Renaissance" is to be published
ten parts and the English edition is limited to
ILO copies. The Illustrations include 900 large
photographs of hrouZcs. selected from all the
leading collections 1t is said that Renaissance
sculpture is the f,vorite subject of the Director
Of the Berlin Museum. ana this book represents
the labors of many years. lie Will give, II -
sald. full account OF all the notable Statu'ltrS
that are scattered up and down Europe, and It
is added that ne has arranged them mainly
according TO schools. beginning with tn" Older
Florcntine works Dy Donatclo ana PoiIaiu'lo
and the older Paduun WORKS by BcIIau" Tnd
others. going on to the bronzcs Of Riccio and
Spcrundio, bronZcs aTtcr the antique and
brouZca of animals and concluding with the
small Florentine ana Venetian bronzes 10y hich-
acl Angelo Ccni, Sansovino and others.
a now periodical which is coming out in Eng
land is intended to provide oxford and cam
bridge with common meeting ground and plat
form for the discussion Of questions affecting
the welfare of both. and to discuss without
partisan feelings or scctaTian prejudice all these
topics religious political. educational, literary.
social, retrospectiVc-w which make up the
plex life and thought of the two universities.