New-York tribune., 1907-06-16
NEw-YoRK TRIBUNE, SUNDAY JUNE 1s 1907

| brilliant German humorist Fritz Reuter-. one Of
whose best skits partly based upon this doc
trine which Mr.. Shaw thinks kindly Fate has
revealed 10 himself alone
| The man who does not pass his days scurryinG
! up and down broadway will derive much inter
eStng information from the little book on
Races and Immigrants in America" by Pro
fcSsOr John r. Commons. of the University of
Wisconsin the Macmillan Company. The rela-
ton of race 10 political government is first dis
cuSsed, after which the history OF immigra-
| ton stream is vividlv Sketched. The bearing Of
| immigration upon American industries. labor.
problems, city life. crime. poverty and politics
! Is brlefy discussed, and the manner in which
amalgamation and assimilation proceeding
| is treated in a separate chapter The volume is
well illustrated with photographs of the various
immigrant types and contains many useful sta
/ ustics.
| The copy Of Gabriel Thomas's Account Of
! the Province and Country OF Pennsylvania"
which mentioned in these columns last
week, brought at auction $495 This specimen
! had only one map instead OF two, as in the Har-
| ford copy, recently sold.
! A correspondent of The London Times calls
attention TO a genealogical link between Sir
| Walter Scott and Robert Louis StevensOn-a
! link which he believes has never before been
noticed and of which Stevenson was ignorant:
The connexion is this. Aud Watt Scott OF
of Yarrow" From their son Sir william Scott.
were descended in succession Walter Scott OF Rae
burn, Walter Scott, known "Bearde"; Robert
of Sir Walter.
Aud Wat, scott and Mary Scott had on the other
hand. q daughter Marsaret no married Gilbert
Elliot. Of StobS known as 'CIibbe wi the Eowdvn
Sarters," and became grandmother Of the first Sir
Gilbert Elliot Q6-l7lSl His granddaughter in turn
, Cecilia ElphInstOne the grandmother Of the
Rev Lewis BanOur, ID. d. of CDliutOn the grand
father of Louis Stevenson Cecilia ElphinstOne 5
son, John Balfour and Sir Walter Scott thus
NTH cousins. When Stevenson wrote in Memories
and Portraits Il haV" shaken spear in the De
batable Land and shouted the slogan Of the EIots'
he was within q little Of making tins discovery IL
is hard to say whether he would have been more
delighted a finding he was 'sih to Sir Walter or
an inherltor ot ihe traditions Of The great Border
! family.
The novelist Maarten Martens has returned
to his native land with the pleaSanteSt opinions
as 20 the literary future Of America. He thinks
Philadelphia is particularly fortunate in haN ing
! two sons Of such capacity in authorship Or.
The authors of New York, the Dutchman says.
are aliens there-"they come from other places"
A hitherto unknown writing ny Archimedcs is
/ reported 10 have been discovered in CONSTANT
nopie hy Herr Heiborg. assistant keeper Of the
archives at Copenhagen. He found II in pa
limpSest which originally came from Jerusalem.
methods showing more clearly than the other
works OF Archimedes how ne arrived 1T his con-
CiusIons.
The second volume Of Mr.. W W Grcg's edi-
I tiOn Of "Hcnsowes Diary it is announced, s
in the press. and that partial revelation Of the
inner history Of the EIlZabethan stage is to
Papers" issued ty the same cditor. This con
talns reprints q valuable documents, together
with certain dramatic plots" which we're hung
w ;he theatre to assist the performers.