New-York tribune., 1907-06-02

staring eyes that searched you through"
published by Mr.. Joseph Renaud, a famous
| French amateur of the duelling sword" They
| are stories Of imagination and horror and one
! OF the most horrible is that called La Ne
| penthe" The Pail Mall Gazette" says Of it:
| young attache finds himself in a sort of castle
eFn m male spes and fS then femnne G deeoy Their OBJ
eG;t is to w[in from him the details OF m the secret
with foreign power-it is easy to guess which
| gagged masked and bound the seat of auto
mobile, from the villa near Paris into which he has
Venus fly trap order Which the rascal an amateur
1 hotanist in his way. has imported from Brazil and
| has trained up in a SPECIAL conservatory 10 most
| horrible vegetable seizes and deyours, octopus
matist IS told by the spy who strongly reSeIn
German professor, that he will be poked into it's
| uon they want. a pretended compliance enables
| and when the threat is carried out he finds TO his
| delight that the drug has the same effect on tho
| finally escapes with the connvance of the
pentant woman who has acted as the lure and as
sail heavenward in an explosion doubtless engl~
neered by her hands
The government has issued compilation OF
| the titles of works relating to the French al-
ance in the American Revolution, together with
! a list Of United States government documents
dealing with the same subject Added to these
are lists grouped under the headings THE
French Fleet in the American Revolution"
Marquis de Lafayette" and The Siege of York.
town" These lists will afterward appear as
part Of the volume commemordting the services
of the French auxiliary forces in the Revolution
airy War.
Miss Betham Edwards in her new volume
France. describes George Sands life at Nohant.
with anecdotes Of the guests received there
! Theophie Gautier thinking that he was not
| welcomed with sufficient warmth, prepared to
| repaCk his pOrtmanteau, but was prevented
| from leaving by a fellow guest You had not.
| then. told him that l a simpleton?" was
| George Sands naive remark
A new Boston periodical is entitled Governs
| ment." 1t proposes to Eravcly discuss all 20
litcal matters covered by the title.
'The Pre-Tudor Texts is the title Of a series
| OF reprints TO be issued from time TO time under
| the cditorship Of Professor Gol,ancZ. The frSr
| volume viii be a limited edition OF Pearl" the
| fourteenth century poem, in which is set forth
! the unknown poets dream OF Pearl his dead
! child. whose happy little spirit talks to him
and strained ALTERATION the poem Is touching
thing.
John Sampson Is an English scholar who has
/ translated the verses OF omar Khayyam into
Welsh Eomany. lie is said TO be the greatest
master now living of all varieties Of Romluy.
and possibly. the greatest that ever lived. He
is one OF the chief members Of the revived
Gipsy Lore Society, which will issue next month
the first number of a new series of publications..
THE London Athgnuum" says in regard TO tho
work OF the society:
It is hoped to devote special attention to e'rci.
datiuF the almost unknown Asittlc dialects OF
Eoului while occasional papers VIII te printed on
such subjects secret largu.gcs. C.Ct ana slang.
especially Shglta. Unpublished work on this an
Cicut JarEon OF Irish tinlerS 10y Professor kuuo
Meyer and other well known authorities is already
I'm hand Room will also be found for the reissue
Of art rlcs of Importance not easily 2cceSSiNIc 10
the Etlsy scholar. waits and strays or curious
gypsy lore and vocabularies and observations by
iude pendent collectors.
The death not long ago Of the Rev. a r
Nichols. whose first wife was Charlotte Brontc.
has raised the question Of the final destination
Of what relics of the novelist lie possessed. Il
appears that his widow has sold these relics for
a merely nominal sum TO the Bronte Society ana
they will be placed in the Bronte Museum at
Haworth. They include Mr.. Shorter tells US,
"a little coored pen sketch by Charlotte Bronte
Of her sister, Anne, the only real attempt at u
portrait Of Anne ErOnte in existence: two por-
traits Of EranWeI. q Silhouette. III" other a
plaster medallion modelled by Leyland. the Hall
fax sculptor. Yet another Interesting portrait
is inscribed on the back. in the handwriting or
old Mr.. Bronte, This is my wife painted by an
eminent artist "
TIE work on the French painter n. de f@argil.
!erIe which is to be published in Paris next
year, is to have large number Of splendid IL
lustrations. The compilers. Mcssrs. G. Sortais
and Roger Miles. have been engaged upon 1t for