New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-17

settled by his widows announcement that his
romance '"Pharais.,' the first Of the series OF
books he Issued under the pseudOnyne OF Fiona
Macleod. " is to he repUblished shortly II
has been out Of print for some time
Mrs Alice Mcyren who is member of the
Roman Catholic Church, contributes to THE
London Saturday Review this poem referring
to the religious situation in France:
THE FUGITIVE.
Nous chasse Jesus Christ.'-From a public
Yes, from the migrate heart, the street
OF garrulous tongue the warm retreat
Within the village and the town:
Not from the lands where ripen brown
thousand thousand hills OF wheat;
Not from the long Burgundian line
The southwark, sunward range of vine.
Hunted. He never will escape
b The f se t9e m blood the r Snedf the GRAPE
The new volume of Carlyle letters which Is on
| the point of publication has been edited by Mr.
Frederic Harrison. Thes. epistes chiefly
lending library in London which it's
istence to Carlyle's need for books when his
"Oliver Cromwell" was in progress. The volume
is to be embellished with a portrait. nlustra-
tons and facSimiles.
Maria Nugent wife OF the Governor of ia
maica at the beginning OF the last century, is
said to have been the first American
ried to any governor of any British colony
| She was the daughter of New Jersey Tory
COurtlandt Skinner. Her paternal grandfather,
William Skinner. was a clergyman in Perth
said to have been Scotchman of rank who
J after being "oUt in the To- escaped to this
country and changed his name to the not par
| ticulary eCphoniOus one of Skinner Lady Nu-
| gents journal, kept during her life in Jamaica
| OSDl-O5D privately printed after her
death, in the 30s Of the nineteenth century. An
edition with Illustrations and maps has been
brought out for the Institute of Jamaica. In the
days OF the Nugents thirty-tive British cruisers
were maintained on the Jamaica station and
garrison of five thousand men in barracks The
| Journal Of the governors New Jersey wife pays
special attention to the condition of the Negroes
and she says shrewdiy enough that the evil Of
slavery is mainly in its effects the white
population"
1t Is reported that Mt II. G. Wells really be-
| lieves that Mars is Inhabited, basing his belief
on the variations on the moons surface shown
in photographs. He thinks these do really in
dieate canals or something else, not the chance
result of nature"
Concerning the drawing Of Charlotte Brontd
by Richmond which her husband has left to
the National Portrait Gallery. Charlotte her
self said in a letter:
do h w pron MhS aav with aet the 1T T o as
notable cxception-viz old servant who tena-
old lookng-bu as she with equal tcnacity asserts
that the Duke Of Wrllng;on's picture is portrait
of the master tmoauiug papa / afraid not
much weight is ascrbabe to her opinion
One of the odd things remembered Of Byron
was his careful Observance of English customs
abroad customs maintained with an acCOmpani-
mcnt or abuS" OF ms native Iani. lie rollSlOuSY
ate plum pudding AZ Christmas and roast goose
on Michaelmas Day. An acquaintance chroni-
Cled drou consequence Of this last fancy Buy
ing large goose ~ Pisa early enough to fatten
II for Michaclnas, the poet proceeded 10 feed il
himself daiv Alas, AS the fatCful day
. rived. he found himself fond OF the creature
that he determined to spare its life and buy
other in its place. The respited fowl now began
10 travel with him. being swung In cage under
! his carriage
Mr.. d. !. O'DonoEhue. one Of the clever Irish
men OF the period. has just brought out
entertaining book on the geographical distribu-
tOu OF talent in his beloved land. Writing OF
the origin Of genius. he scouts the idea Of hered-
it, AMI states that in his opinion genius largely
depends upon the place Of birth. on other
theory. he declares. can h explain the fine crop
OF genius in some parts OF ireland and the sad
La X of II I'm others. zone is tempted" he says,
TO believe in the presence II a microbe OF
genius which attaches itself 10 4 special local
, ity" The concluding decades of a century, he
thinks. furnish forth the greatest supply OF chill