New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-06
LITERARY. NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
N. A Il W. Mason has written another new
CouhiIL" Its title is 1.-The Broken Road"-one
which. like that Of his Century novel run
ming Water; leaves its meaning to be sought In
the pages OF the story.
me third volume Of the new edition Of Grove'a
Dictionary Of Music is to be brought out next
month The biographical articles have been re-
SV1Sed and biographical articles continued.
Among the articles is the Rev. F. w. CAL
pins list OF collections and loan collections OK
musical Instruments
IN the excellent shape Of an endowed cot in
London hospital A great grandson Of hers has
realize a nucleus OF two or three hundred pounds
for the fund. Alas not thus does poetry sell in
these days! And In spite of the fact that the
breaking waves dashed high" are inclined to
doubt that Mrs Hemans poet deserved any
such tributa Lewis Carroll used to read her
verse. they say. and it may be that he had .
caste for its kind We need not envy him
miners hammer Is carved The tombstone
which has Just been erected over thesgrave OF
Ibsen In Chrtstiania- A large slab covers the
grave itself. and on il IS inscribed Ihsens name
only
-Just the library which found tn most
English households In Shakespeare's time
this. If we may believe the editor of the forth.
volume. Its contents are drawn from the hith-
erto unpublished manuscript In the possession Of
Lord Macclesfeld, at Shirburn Castle, Oxford
shire Therein. we told has been preserved
"a number OF pieces, OF no slight value, which
and which possibly found nowhere else.
Further, 1t bridges over the gap between early
| ballads and post Restoration ballads" Are
to find In this collection ballads which were not
known to Professor Child? One new one at
least. is claimed by another discoverer-a ballad
entitled 1.-THE Jolly Juggler."
A book the great Emperor IS on the
way-the Fall of Napoleon by Mr.. Oscar
Browning. 1t begins with the return to Paris
| after the Russian disaster. and closes with a
complete history OF the surrender at AK How
few are the years in which Napoleon book In
| not published!
The late Hamilton Aide was curiousfy versa-
| tile man. He was tho author of many novels,
verses and essays he was less popu-
| lar composer; he turned out divers successful
dramatic pieces. and he painted LANDSCAPES de-
in his veins. He was the son of an
English mother and an Armenian-Greek father
Not in water is writ the name Of John Keats
but in gold No less sum than 50 800 was paid
| In a London auction room the other day for his
WILL two locks of his hair. and a letter.
At the same sale ten of Blake's Illustrations to
| Paradise Lost" brought $4,000 They would
probably have brought more had the set been
complete Two OF the drawings have another
owner. A larger set OF the Paradise Lost" de-
signs in the Boston Museum
Further details OF the recent discovery OF
papyrus manuscript OF Menander are at hand
Even If this MS. does not offer n complete play
of this author II IS discovery worth making
II appears that NJ Gustave Iefebvre a French
Inspector In the service of the Egyptian Depart
ment OF Antiquities in Upper Egypt had OPP
portuntty OF making L small excavation in a ruined
village, in the course of which lie came upon jar
containing papyrus manuscripts. which the
treme dryness OF the soil had preserved from de-
cay Some OF the books were Coptic others were
Creek (whether others besides the Menander are
literary work have not yet been todd; but
among them was large number of leaves which
quotations. which very numerous) contain
ing portions of Menandcr. The manuscript In
book form. not roll; It can. therefore hardly be
older than the third century OF our era. and may
be 0or all that We know at presently Of any date
century. It is Incomplete, but according to the
discoveries estimate IL contains about 500 lines,
In very good condition, of play, 500 less
perfectly preserved lines OF another $50 of third.
and 80 of a fourth. NJ Lefebvre hopes to publish
them In the course of next year; but II may b
that the task of preparing the text for print WIN
take longer than he anticipates
One of the early publications of the new year
win be the first volume Of Zola's letter.