New-York tribune., 1907-06-22


Brahms II will also gather material for the
preparation of deilnitive biography of the COM
poser.
Mr.. Frank T BuIlen has written many books
since The Cruise Of the Cachalot' established
his reputation, but II is some little time since
We have had volume from him We are
glad, therefore. that tie buttons have just is
sued one called Our Heritage the Sea"
NJ Edmond Esteve has just published in Paris
a book on Byron et le Romantisme Franc2iS,' "
In which he studies the influence of the English
poet In France from 1912 to 1880. He finds that
influence in Lamartne. Gautier. Stendhal. Al
fred de Musset. Alfred de Vigny. Victor hugo,
Alexandra Dumas. Theodore de Banviile and
George Sand Among his documents there IS
list OF some thirty poems on the death OF
Byron published in Paris between 1924 and 1880
He also gives a photography OF several hundred
books II his work is good as THE Academy
SAYS Il is. II ought certainly 70 be translated
into English.
Another Frenchman who has been making
contribution 10 the literature Of English poetry
is NJ Maurice Castelar,. He has pubHsneA i
volume on the life and works OF Ben JotSui1' d
volume of nearly a thousand pages.
Henry Holt & Co. his publishers, supply some
interesting details of the career OF MT. w 'Hi@u!
Friend De Morgan, author Of Joseph vance
and "AlI,e- Short He is the son or Au-
eustus De Morgan. the mathematician, whose
father grandfather and great-Srandtather We'3
officers In the service of the old East India Com
panv William De Morgan was educated ~
University College. in London, and in ls5S took
nm the career of an artist becoming a student
at the Royal Academy in the following year
He has ever since practised the arts and crafts
in some form or other. Morris ana Burhe-
Jones were among his intimates. As tar pack
as 1872 he established Il pottery and tile works
which have produced what Is known as De
Morgan ware. A sister of his, who died only
short time ago. was we'll known as writer OF
fairy tales. The Holts declare presumably on
the best authority that Joseph Vance" was
not founded on the authors own experience, as
many readers have imagined and they make
the same announcement with reference 10
Alice for-ShOrt.
The Scrbrers propose issuing shortly a cheap
edition Of Stevenson's "Travels with a Donkey"
This edition will be 52mO bound in limp leather
and uniform in style with The Pocket r. l. S.
which was published last year. The occasion of
this publica ion is the announcement by another
house that they bringing out edition OF
the book. The Scribners will also bring out
shortly an edition, similar to this in size and
style of Stevenson's IAN Inland Voyage"
The current list of Harper & Bros includes
a new edition of DR. Franz Won Reber's His
tory OF Medieval Art 1t will be abundantly
illustrated. The same publishers will presently
import a new book by Mrs. Humphry Ward. 1t
is the biography she has written of her brother,
William Thomas Arnold. the journalist, who was
also in his hours OF ease an historian.
Every year the hazards of the auction room
deprive England OF some Of her greatest treas
ures The Saturday Review" deploring this
fact speaks especially of the Importance of re-
tanning the original manuscript of great book.
declaring that such a manuscript is kind of
national property and ought TO be defended
against all foreign buyers
1t should be priceless. anmarketable. To part
with a foreign nation. to allow II 70 so out of
the country ought to be impossible. But here
that the enthusiasm of English people for their
possessons In art and literature laugushes. Ma
polecn must have been right after all We are a
nation of shopkeepers. There is nothing in the
shon we are not ready to sell at a price We would
no doubt sell the Great Seal If we could get good
enough offer from Mr.. Pierpont Morgan. Shake
speare foos. first editions of Walton, the portraits
of Reynolds, OF Romney-these and any other ma
tional heirlooms only given fat enough offer. We
are happy TO part with to any foreign nation that
has the taste and money to buy them. We put
them UP as coolly Charles Surface did his fore
bears. One OF these undoubted heirlooms of the
tiou is coming into the market next week. 1t is
the authors holograph of ''Seborne" II includes
not only the entire series OF letters White wrote TO
Pennant and all but two three of those he wrote
to Darlington. but also various delightful odds and
ends, such a the manuscripts OF several of his
poems ana More particulars OF the old family
toise''-perhaps the most famous animal IN Enslisi
John Browns "kao." White has quite The
world fame that Walton has We suppose thit
many thousands of pounds would be uld ior the
manuscript OF Waltons book, did IL exist to-day,
and that foreign nations than would come
70 bid But have little doubt, the less.
that there manuscript enthusiasts and col
lectors in America well as in England who have
their eye on Whites MS. and that TWO of
them will make a great effort TO carry 1t away. IL
Is be hoped that their rivals in this country wiz