New-York tribune., 1907-12-28

its illustrations Of the animals intellect are not
beyond belief For, to anybody who really
knows dogs. 1t is hardly necessary TO say tna'
stories of doggish goodness, affection and faith
fulness are often entirely credible One or the
most interesting Of the quaint biographies IN
this volume is that Of Bandy, Dandie Dinmont,
the darling of three generations of boys at Marl-
borough, one of the great public schools OF Eng
land. Bandy, while still a puppy, developed a
prodgious passion for cricket. He grew. says
the author, ITO be one Of the most enthusiastic
and untiring Of feldsmen and for long sue
cession OF summer terms he was seldom absent,
morning or afternoon. from the little field prac-
tice net He generally stood in the long field
and would work himself to state Of complete
exhaustion in retrieving the balls The author
tells, though she does not indorse. a tale firmly
believed by all the Marlborough boys: While
Bandy was an interested spectator Of cricket
match he would gradually get nearer and nearer
to the scoring board. with the object. as his
friends declared. of seeing how they had ac-
quilted themselves. If when the numbers went
up they showed that boy had made good in
ningsNBandy would sometimes walk down the
steps from the pavilion to meet him and to ac-
company him back with applauding barks" On
one occasion Bandy's habit of standing near
In on the Off" with eyes fixed. q feldman's
should be. not the bowler. but the bat nearly
led to his extinction He met ball full on his
head and was carried home unconscious and
apparently dying.
He still alive when his master went into
school at 10 o'clock the following morning. but 1t
Soon after IL. when his master went into the
the 9uestion a Have you DP heard about Bandy sr
AS there seemed only one possible reason for such
b Of the
ing answer. hes fielding inside the net
volume in which bound UP q number
Of autograph documents relating to the case Of
DR.. Dodd. the English clergyman executed in
1777 for forgery Is offered for sale Brentanos-
The valuable portions of these MSS are in the
handwriting of DR.. Johnson. who attempted to
save the culprit from the rope. These include
among others the letter In which the tender
hearted bear" advised Dodd how he should
prepare himself for the death which awaited
him, and the draft of "The Last Speech and
Dying Words" which he wrote out for Dodd and
which the clergyman gave to the sheriff on the
scaffold Just before the end
There Is possibility that, many years hence,
an immensely valuable collection Of papers re-
ferring to the affairs of the Second Empire may
get into the hands Of historians. In little win
dowless opening out of the Empress
Eugenies study In the Tuileries were nests of
drawers all round the walls. and these drawers
filled with the private correspondence of
the imperial family It is said in the just pub
Iished volume. Court Life of the Second French
Empire:
In 1870 the Empress. with curious foresight and
prudence had this large collection of private pa
pers removed from the Tuiieries in such wise that
the new republic. who were. therefore. only able
number of documents which for or another
reason had not passed into the En1peror,s Gus
public at that time was one from the director of
the State Asshyes sskng e that old Ps2srs n OF b tine
from time TO time for safekeeping, He little
aneT m e tha could ihs and aa
Of her other ladies spent no little OF their time
lows sst So Far as
sseEe are many m qewn9 m m NOT n9 mean TO te
official state documents are In the Empress's pos.
pap sss wsh
ba she had 1fo m in e pow to @
very damaging revelations respecting ,,,a many OF
s5ss he In n it. She has
ferred however; to cast vel ever the past, and
nTTn erfvleged to Consult her corrections IL Is prob
able that this VIII only come to pass after an In
new and cheaper edition Of Mr.. Justice
Madden's delightful study OF Shakespeare and
of Elizabethan sport, entitled THE Diary Of
Master William Silence" has been brought out
by Longmans, Green & Co. This edition con-
tains a new preface and some fresh matter tend
ing to strengthen Madden's contention that
Shakespeare stayed for some time with friends
In Gloucestershire, picking up there provincial
isms. local traditions and sporting terms. with
which he afterward produced in his work an
effect of local color. 1t is to be remembered that
MI Madden, becoming interested IN the ancient
sport of hunting the red deer, began to gather
nd pIa ting ttra
subject with the result that greater and greater
grew his amazement at Shakespeare's knowledge
of the most intimate secrets Of woodcraft and
falconry.
Tho statement that in hard times people buy
books for presents instead of more expensive
gifts leads "The Century TO declare that 1T
would not be bad outcome of hard times il
people should learn to spend more of their time
In good reading, rather than in the highly ex-
pensve amusements and distractions. The habit
of reading Is not only profitable to those who !
write, print and publish. but if rightly guided
vastly profitable to those who do the reading. |
Let US all read!"
A strange discovery was lately made in the J
vaults in London of the famous old Nudes |
Library A new room was found-a large !
space" says Mr.. Shorter. hitherto unsuspected. |
which when opened turned out to be filled to the
ceiling with dust. Three centuries had passed
since that room was occupied. Mary of Scotland
was about losing her head IN Fotheringay Castle
or her son James was Just ascending the throne
of England when that room was last inhabited
1t was cleared out. showing an ancient archway.
It. like the others lined with shelves. and
now 1t is filled with books that record the doinSs
of that same Mary ard her luckier son. or per-
haps with novels that give an added glamour to
daya