New-York tribune., 1907-11-30

idlltaIO Wliitb " men Edd loaned tle
the habit of selling pictures. was very much Of
said: 'wcIi. Nj Wiiiett we are both business
and time is valuable. You bought that picture
n9G395 sternE, and ! offer you four thousand
Immediately agreed. In Mr.. WiIletts house: in A
hdIh parlgf. ne had Two pictures 1y Gerard DAVE:
ana b." thought that perhaps Mr. hann might
INTO the room and showed them Mr. kann SAID
They arc fine pictures. and if / have room in my
f,le~ what ,oii bonebt II al And within a few
pounds for the Gerard Davids. which Mr. Wett
had also bought for four hundred
The GhirIandajo bought in this prompt fash
ion was that lovely portrait of Giovanna lorna
buoni. which is one of the treasures Of the
world 1t is probably not overvalued now ar
Slo0o0a SIR Purdon mentions that this pict-
uro, which was for years in the National Gal
lery in London. might have become the prop
erty of that institution had the directors cared
to ask for it, for MI Willett would have been
glad 10 make ii over to them. even though il
had cost him the large sum of two thousand
dollars"
lagiuatiou is a matter which is eyoking COM
plants i'm England. It is grayely stated that
some British publishers not content with in
sertng the numbers at the bottom of the page.
have introduced them into the context. its dis
tgureueut and the annoyance Of the reader. Il
regret says one who Justly considers this
'monstrous. that I have mislaid the hideous
illustration but it ran somewhat after this
fashion. The eutre countryside was laid bare
hy the devastating 30 hurricane etc"
II is pleasant news that we are to have =
volume of letters from the pen of Edward Lear
the author Of inimitable nonsense verses We
may hope TO find them full of good stories of
the many regions i'm which Lear travelled
sketched and painted. Grant Duff tells an anus
ing anecdote Of one OF Lear's experiences in
Southern Italy The artist having gone out early
IN the morning returned at night To find that a
revolution has broken out in the town Being
unable to find the key of his room he hunted
up the waiter and asked for it, What key?
What room?" said the fierce revoIutionist in the
apron. There's no more l1ey-no more room
no more nothing. All is love and liberty
Perhaps poetry still means something to
Americans in spite Of the prosaic struggle for
existence" It is said that nearly ten thousand
OF them visited the home of LoHgfelow during
the past year.
Mr. Hall Caine is intending to witch the world
some day with an autobiography. In endeavor-
ing to revise for edition his Twenty-Five
year-old book. ''RecoIlections of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti," he found that he had an abundance
of material hand and he will recast the
whole, published and unpublished, into an en-
tirely new book.
For copy of the first edition of The Vicar
of Wakefield" the collector is now asked to paw
$500. set of the Waverley Novels, all first
editions in the original boards and uncut, is
valued at $4,000.
A collection of the verses of the late Italian
poet, Giosue Carducci, has just appeared in Eng
lish. the translator being Miss Maud Holland.
Here is one of the best Of these transIations-
which might be better:
BY THE SOURCES OF CL1TUMNUs.
stiI from the mountain where the darkly waving
shes are nnTmHTng m to the winds and fragrance
salvias and wild thyme,
Through the wet evening to thee, Q Citumnus..
Come down the long herds, and the child of I'M
Kneeling. doth dip within thy shining fountains
Soft ewes reluctant,
While from the drained breast of the barefoot
Sitting and Singing by the humble homestead
Toward him the babe just sucked turns his round
Milky and smiling;
P'ensive the father with the skin of wild kids
Wound Ger his sinews like faun of old time
Beautiful oxen,
F5.sl BeaHtiful . oxen with the lusty shoulders,
WITH the eyes gentle, snowy, loved long since by
Mantuan Virgil
Mr.. f. ". Bourdillon. who is generally re-
membered as the author of a little poem only
eight lines long, has prepared for the Biblio-
graphical Society monograph on THE Early
Editions Of the Roman de la Rose It is re-
garded by the London "Athenaum' as an al
most perfect model OF a bibliography He has
not only dealt with his subject. says the critic,
by the ordinary methods Of photographers. he
has also brought to his task that intimate
knowledge of the book itself. the lack of which
is too often a reproach to them
The editions here treated range from 1880 TO
; 15s; alter & winch year none We're printed III l735
seven quarto editions, four of Clement Marot's
Bourdillon has succeeded in arranging the early
undated editions in chronological order from in
dependently 10y NJ. Claudin from Typographical con
siderations After a full account of these. de
ScIlptlon OF an ne woodcut Illustrations designed
for the various editions is given and those pressed
BourdlHohs note on the weight to be laid the
presence OF ~oodcuts as evidence Of the printer
students of early illustrated books
We have left TO the last of the most pleas
only brought his bibliographical researches the
methods Of d scholar and the experience Of text
ual critic he has also enriched them with "A little
essay which will be the despair of future
tributors 10 this series. 1t is gay, sympathetic
learned, and discursve in turn, but always good
In the Louisiana Canebrakes' is the title of
the Presidents account of his recent bear hunt
Illustrated with photographs taken by Dr.
Lambert the article will be published in the
January "Scribner."
The absurd ignorance and obtuseness which
were often to be observed in Thomas Carlyle
are illustrated in AlIinghams recently pub
Iished diary. one of the sage's pronounce