The Washington herald., 1908-02-02

easily divided equally among the mem
1 bers of family could hardly be taken
seriously as a scientist even ia an un-
/ scientific age. n Melchior de Vogue.
who delivered a charming address at the
dedicatory exercises of the monument.
referring to the phenomenal popularity
which Saint-Pierre enjoyed at one time,
narrated that he complained bitterly of
being obliged to pay 200 francs of post
age in a single year for the letters of
admiration he receiyed-a rather high
price 10 pay for glory at any period
The correspondence of Edward Lear,
him of the Nonsense Books" which has
Just been published. develops a fact of
which it is to be presumed that most of
the enjoyers of the verses have remained
In ignorance. Though Lear died in 1855.
they hardly think OF him as a contem-
porary Of Tennyson. but rather as one
of the following generation, says a writer
in the New York Times. Yet he is the
T. l. whose Travels in Greece" ellie
ited the commendatOry verses in the
English Idyls and other Poems OF
1872 verses known to all Tennys01ians.
1omohrit, Athos, al things fair.
With such pencil, such a pen
10u shadOW forth 90 distant men,
read and felt that I was there:
And tTust me while turned the page
And tracked you sti on classic ground
| grew in giadncss till ! found
Sly spirits in the golden age.
Lear's pencil was. in fact. quite as
much appreciated as his pen" He owed
his entry into English society to his IL
lustradons for some books on birds.
which attracted the attention OF Lord
Derby, who had the artist down to
knowsley TO draw his collection Of
strange beasts and birds for Sumptuous
volume, privately printed, entitled The
knowsley Menagerie." This was In 1892
At KnoWsley he made himself very well
come, being q good amateur musician.
among his other gifts and a pleasant
companion. The correspondence is said
10 contain much entertaining matter about
the English society OF the time it covers.
Charles NJ. Skinner. for twenty-five years
on the Brooklyn Eagle stan. died at his
country home in Vermont on December
u. last. In addition to his newspaper
work. Mr.. Skinner wrote a number OF
books concerning American folklore. iu
which he was especially Interested These
volumes, American Myths and Legends"
Myths and Legends Beyond Our BOr-
ders," and Myths and Legends Of Our
New Possessions and Myths and Lee
gends of Our Own Land" were all pub
llsned by the J. =. IIppincOtt Comp8qy.
and enjoyed considerable popularity. He
was also the author of several nature
books, and his Flowers in the Pave"
was issued by the same house.
review Of Max Nordau's 'Degenora-
tion,' written by George Bernard Shaw
In 1885. under title. "The Sanity Of Art.
is to be published for the first time In
book form by Benjamin r Tucker. Of
New York. It has been subject to Mr.
ShaW's own fevisi0ns. and with a new
preface that he has written. it will make
volume Of about a hundred pages.
Dr Henry Jones. fellow of the British
Academy and professor Of moral phfoso-
ply in the university Of Glasgow has
written little essay on "The Immortality
Of the Soul in the Poems of Tenuyson
and Browning. and it is published iu @
slender volume by the American Univer-
sity Association, following it's delivery by
the author as the Essex Hall Lecture
for 1905. DR. Jones believes that the
thoughts of poets are something more
than ''Tapt unreasOned uttaraneae. express
ing nothing more than their individual
moods and it is 10 express this belief
and its converse that he discusses Tenny-
sons and BrOwnings conceptions of the
immortality Of the soul. "They challenge
their doubts" he says. "and brought
their beliefs To the proof of facts Their
virtue was no cIoisteTed virtue nor their
race won without the dust and heat
This, above all. is the reason why they
have strengthened the faith of so many
thoughtful men and women. and eXercis-
ed. justly 7 believe SO profound an in
nuenCe upon the religious life of their
day. They had themselves been 'perpleXt
in faith, but pure IN dee eis. and them
selves they beat the music out Men Of
vast learning and a wide outlook hating
unbelief, but preferring even that to the
sleepy confidence Of uninquiring ignOT-
ance, they were able to look at the
world through the eyes of modern science.
neither without sympathy nor vet without
fear, bnJld up step by step q natural
world of an order inimtabIe and exora-
bic, apparently a blind mechanism at war
with weak humanity"
The authoritative life of Sir Henry
Irving is TO be published next autumn
by Austin Brereton, who was close
friend of the great actor. Mr.. Brereton
is appealing through his publishers,
Messrs. LongmaHs. Green & Co., for the
loan Of any letters by or about Irving.
Up TIL now the best known Of the many
books on Irving has been Mr. Bran
StOker's two-vOlume work which. when
it was published aroused a certain
amount of amusement among candid
critics. who protested that only about
half OF one volume was devoted to Irv-
ing. the remaining volume and a half
being about its genial author Mr. Stoker.
This is the somewhat curt but not in
exact, way in which His Own People
by Booth Harrington is characterized in
a recent issue Of The Saturday Review:
"A remarkable feature Of this book is
that by some means or other it has been
made to iii 80 pages. It is adorned by
Of rather unusual merit. A
young American clerk on a cheap trip
10 Europe is taken by gang of sharpers /
10 pe d hlliiloHdife, and AT a card party
IN Rome is rocked of all his cash. The
story is told Well enough. But are we
to have episodes which might claim half
a dozen pages of a novel launched as
separate volumes? On the same princi-
pie q composer of music would be justi-
fed in soiemnly classifying a single polka
tune as Op 999 No one as vet seems
to have pointed out that the plot Of His
Own People" was credited by Thackeray
many years ago, and is followed with
striking closeness by the Indiana author.
Boston Transcript We have always with
u.s. as We have also its defenders and its
opponents II is seldom, however, that
The advocate of the split infinitive has the
onr,nrt11r,It,r to r,rnclaltn th i1,ntin 81 Ii.