New-York tribune., 1907-01-27
LITERARY NOTES.

| LII EhAh1 NOIES.
| II is hinted that Mr.. Marion Crawfordrs forth
coming i novel "Prima Donna" is to be sequel
! TO his Fair Margaret story in which the
heroines adventures were left unfinished in a
most tantalztng manner.
| Mr. Crawford is engaged with Professor Gu
| seppe Tomassetti in writing History Of Rome
| in the Middle Ages" Professor ToInassetti is
! the custodian of the remarkable Colonna Ar
chives. The work is said to be based on hitherto
| inaccessible material. The first volume is now
on the Macmillan press
| One Of the persons who Cannot get to believe
| that William Shakespeare wrote the plays at
! tributed to him" does not think that DR.. Bleib-
tren is correct in assigning their authorship TO
| the Earl of Rutland. He advances the theory
| that William Stanley, Earl of Derby was their
author basing this theory on a reference in two
| contemporary news letters dated 1599@''Therle
| of Darby is busyed in penning comedies for the
common players" This ingenious person OBJ
| serves:
| The great scholar. well poet and obscrvant
student Of life IN England and Italy, who wrote
been thrown Off his mind and ne had seen them
tndn the modem jGgTnast does for his
IN contemporary literature, because spontaneous.
| shskespeare's hands is certain. and ne was able
market value. and sold them to the printers hav-
ins nad time 70 make those personal interPolations
Leo TOlstUy's second paper on Shakespeare
| and the Drama" is pronounced IN England to be
| as narrow and Illogical as the first '@Notes and
Queries says of it: 1--WE recognize in the later
instaInent, however. the note of personal vanity
always to be expected In such utterances- The
whole constitutes painful lesson ON human
nttlenesS'
According to Tolstoy. the first cause of Shake
speare's fame was that the Germans wished to
oppose to the cold French drama, of which they
had grown weary, and which. doubt, was
second cause was that the young German writ
required a model for writing their
dramas The third and principal cause was the
activity OF the learned and jealous aesthetic
German critics without aesthetic feeling. who in
vented the theory of objective art, deliberately
rejecting the religious essence OF the drama
The volume ON Shakespeare I'm the English
Men of Letters" series has been prepared by
Professor Walter Raleigh and If will appear
this season
The presentation of the Nobel prize TO Giosue
CAr1ucci the eminent italian poet, took place
recently at his vina In Bologna The poet, who
Is now helpless from paralytic seizure, uttered
a few words Of thanks, with tears running down
his cheeks- II is doubtful IL he will work
again Queen Margherfta, who has done many
a kind and noble thing. not long ago bought the
effects, TO the end. we are told. that IN his old
age and suffering he should not be troubled
by sordid questions Of ways and means
| IN the recently published Life Of Sir Charles
Fox Bunbury, the srandnephew OF Charles
James Fox, there is an amusing glimpse OF Cole
Lord Holland:
She one Of party at BOwood. Of course when
last century WAS young Coleridge was there also,
the bright particular star OF the gathering At din
ner some one happened To mention the literature OF
| Germany. WhereupOn the poet launched into
prOSy dissertation the subject He held tho
panY-with the persiStency of the Ancient Mariner
| himseif-vvith his interrnfnabe harangue- NoOoiy
else could get a word IN edgeWayS When the gen
] temen joined the ladies IN the drawing Cole
| ridge was still unabaShed and uneXhauSted- His
poem ''C'hristahei~ then unpublished, but he
Volunteered graciously to ron up the curtain and
eut through the whole OF Il TO the CONSERVATION
/ Of the company Then comes the unktndeSt cut OF
All He used 10 prime himself for society By large
doses Of laudanum.
The writings OF Captain John Smith, the rec
orCis OF his travels. adventures, observations and
discoveries. to be brought out here by the
| Macmillan Company in two handsome volumes,
printed antique paper. in form like the re-
| ties" This edition win be printed from the
| original editions and win contain facsimile re-
productions OF all the rare maps and Hlustra-
tions in the originals. including the portraits Of
! the Duchess Of Richmond and POcahontas The
edition is limited
! The quaint portrait OF POcahoutas Is not
! quainter than Captain Johns letter to the
Queen OF England describing Powhatans most
! dcare and we'll beloved daughter. being but
childe Of twelve or thirteen yeers OF age, whose
compassionate. pitiful heart, of desperate estate.
gave me much cause to respect her"
| After six weeks ratting among those Sal
wage CourtiSrs at the minute Of my execution. she
haZarded the beating out Of her owne braines To
her father. that was safely conducted to James
toNne where found about eight and thirtie miSer-