New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-10-19

and are not yet. If there is any semblance Of
the present hue he says, in a gently :ronical
article in "Harper's" addressed to the incoming
American traveller, lit is Illusion in which
you had better not confde."
Everything. here is provisional merely, Graft
anc in yi7ic ogI jif here IS held The oostIibees
so sickeningly The heart of the sensitive home
conner when his ship docks at the end OF her voy-
age have in them the promise Of the civilization
which may be ours wheE We snail be true TO The
hopes Of the fathers. If the pleasures and duties
are 50 repulsiyey convertible in the briefer per
al that vanishing point where they blend indistin-
guishably
Poetry has drawn to its fold another
prose writer in the person of Mr.. Clark Russell
The author Of that still enchanting story, THE
Wreck Of the GrosvenoT," complains that the
conditions Of seafaring life have changed
greatly that he will write no more stories of the
wave and the sailorman. Voyages are short
now and there's no time" says he. at sea for
the development of a love affair" Hence there
may be looked for soon book of ballads bear
ing the title a Turnpike Sailor. Rhymes of the
Road
Among the handsome Riverside Press Ed
tons soon to be published is a translation OF
Auguste Bernard's biography of Geofroy Tory,
the "Maitre au pot casse"-so called from the
printing and engraving house He was Printer
to that intelligent monarch, Francis I, and was.
the whole. remarkably capable and taste
full typographer. The edition is 10 be heauti-
fully illustrated by number of Tory's designs.
The last work Of the late Ian Maclaren was
q novel of the historical sort It's hero is that
Graham Of Claverhouse who has stirred the pen
Of 50 many writer's. The story viii first appear
as a serial.
Maupassant and Zola appear in a volume pre-
pared for students Of French by /. B. Shipper
and y. l.. Greene. These representative tales
are entitled stories from French ReaIists." and
are issued by the American Book Company
This marks a long step from the days when that
pretty story. ''Elizabeth or. The Exile of Sibe-
ria" aroused the mental agOnies of young wres-
tiers with the French language.
4 handsome new edition of Swedenborg's
writings in thTty-two volumes has been brought
= out by Houghton Mfin & Co. It is a COM
plete one and is sold only in sets. That so
beautiful and costly an edition should be de-
manded is strong testimony to the grip which
this philosopher has established upon the inter-
est Of mankind.
The theory advanced by Biblical critics that
the ancient Jewish patriarchs were not histor-
ical characters. but tribal myths, is attacked by
Dr. Olaf A. Toftteen. of Western Theological
Seminary, in a book just published in Chicago.
He, for example Identifies Joseph with the
mighty Sesostris III and he believes that he has
made clear the much vexed subject Of the chro-
nology OF the Judges.
There is to be new Goethe Museum at
Frankfort the city Of the poets birth. It is to
be built in the style of the eighteenth century
and it will be close beside the house in which
the son Of Johann and Catharina Goethe saw
the light on the morning of August %. 1749. 1t
is 10 be presumed that this building viii receive
the objects preserved IN the present museum
connected with the dwelling of Councillor
Johann.
The lady who more than forty years ago pub
hshed in "Rutledge" exceedingly popular
novel has just brought out a new book at the
age of seventy-three. The heroine is a fair
American ingenue, who comes from the training
OF a French convent into the contrasting liveli-
ness Of modern society
It is possible we are told. that an article
written long ago by Charles Dickens may soon
be published for the first time. 1t has been
found In the Forster collection at South Ken
sington in the form Of proofsheet bearing the
title "The Spirit of Chivalry at Westminster
Han 1t was apparently inspired by a picture
Dy AldcllSe ana article and picture are TO he
reproduced In the next number of the "Diczen-
sian" Nobody seems to know for what period /
zeal this article originally prepared; It NAV
Of course, have been published somewhere and
forgotten.
What is described as an original document
written in the eighteenth century forms the
basis OF quaint love story which is coming
from the press OF Doubleday, Page e. Co. II
bears the title Of THE First Nantucket Tea
Party" The old paper was found in a Nan
tuclct library.
Il Is well known that there is a vast collection !
q stuart MSS. at Windsor Castle and II 70
interesting TO learn that these papers have been
consulted by Mr. Martin Halle in the prepara-
ton OF very careful biography of the Old
CheVaiier- Charlie My Darling was nict
uresque II not an admirable parsonage. and no
really adequate memoir Of him has vet been
produced Mr.. Haiies book on the Fretender.s
mother, Mary of Modena, was one of the publi-
cations Of 1908.
Olivia Rossetd Agresu who is. we believe a
daughter Of Mr.. w. NJ Rossetti has written a
book about Giovanni Costa. the italian painter
She discusses his life work and times and a.
she knew him well she is at least competent IN
deal with his character and history.
Mr. L. s. divers biography of Alexander
Hamilton. which was reviewed last season In