New-York tribune., 1908-04-25

! Through the meadows over stiles.
! Day by day he 1nds his way
4Ing Among d the lonely mel yro2qssr:s houses; door
Down Down he ReiSi sits; his his brow he knits:
/ Batter, batter. batter!
tte hed bsgns ahie t2 the eiatas[ Mork is going on
Right good ale e he heb bowses; gss; h. Is gone.
! And in his scarlet coat,
! With merry note
/ Finds some place or other
/ Wien in the woods the little Fowles
Again the jolly Tinker bowls
| Forth with small leave-taking:
/ Through the valley, up the hill -,
Hes the terror Of boys in the midst of their noise
| When the market Maiden.
bringing home her ladlng, ,
With his outlandish look
! Bumming bumming, bumnlfng,
| What is that that's coming?
She thinks that she and all she has
A. A6e f9e Tinker 9Gse's shakes naaaen his head.
Laughing, laughing, laughing;
AS if he would laugh himself dead
And thus with tl work TX or or, none
! With a light soul TO cover him;
And sorrow and care blow over him.
Whether he's up or a-bed
oIt a book on Home Life in Germany" She
knows her subject well, for she is the daughter
of German parents. She was before her mar
riage to Professor Sidgwick Miss Ceciy Ulman-
The readers Of her delightful novels know that
her literary style is free from any tincture of
Teutoric mannerism.
The final volume of the English translation OF
Taine's Life and Letters" Is coming out at
once.
Nietzsche's view Of Carlyle as lately set forth
in an article on the mad philosopher OF Ger
many is Enthusiastically queer
CARLYLE Of strong words and attLtpdes tPd i
rhetorctan by necessity who was constantIy agd &
feeling Of nGaPaeiy & Tqf dsr IL IN for It sfTopg b
2 }EPlfa n@ Idence of strong belief but rather
sIeor4T se as regards hmsefNthat is his pro
prum: he is interesting and Will remain interest
ing thereby.
Miss Katharine P. Wormeley's translation of
/ .e-The Memoirs of NJ Claude has had a notable
success in England well as in this country
another edition having been demanded on the
other side of the water. The English reviewers
I have been bestoWing many praises on tIie uh-
common skill of the translator. 1t is sometimes
forgotten that perfect translation Is t"e o"'
come Of a gift as definite as that for original
writing.
Tho "Kaats and Shelley House" in Rome has
been opened TO visitors The Lohooh 7Ae''h
SAYS of it
It would seem at first glance that this is Paoe ,f Of
@ oiitT 80 ad+ions and what not. But it is as Wei
TO have few catalOgued dlslraCttohe nf
the poets long agony is exactly as the oI Poe look
great bank Of stalled spring HoWers, anu md 'i ff
ts sad memory that for one portion or ms ol5
here the beauty OF tn ms 6ttterness Of his mood
=, +ba+ nionant book The Gourmets Guide
70 Fprone" by Lieutenant Colonel Newman
Davis. there is an amusing anecdote OF Mahoh'o'
the proprietor of a famous Madrid restaurant:
Manoto is small greyhaiTed 7tI SRanla5f' b wha mat
ii1tIe he saws is always the point young span
lard who owed him large g,einf sum IF nPf the meal
tbat he annoyed Manolito II Will ,T DTlng 1 you 10 q
a aisn, aAneT seen before" said Manoto and dis
appeared 10 aaf coVer The dish was put be
fore the particular SPanla%Ta arc anu @ long and
much overdue bill
Mr.. Henry Haveock Els's new book, The
co,,l of Srain" is published to-day by Houghton.
Nfift1in & Co. Mr.. Ellis is a physician, but prac-
,isad only a short time. his taste for literary
,orl, being too strong to resist. He has been
H. adi+or nv the way OF the Mermaid Series
of Old Dramatlsts
4 collection of the letters written by wagner
20 ,,oor Nflhelnine Plauer, his first wife. has
.t haan published in Berlin. There are 269
=. .haee enistles the first of which is dated 1s42,
/ a. tha time Of the production Of ''Rienzf In
Dresden The separation OF the pair took place
/ T., 1873 and the last letter is dated 1868.
II il said that seven thousand copies OF LoFd
croner's book have already been sold in Eng
land.
Ae matter Of literary sensation the Just
r,rIished memoirs of j. T. Delane, the greatest
dttor the London Times has known, IS for
.be rooment taking first place. Delane was the
nv rouans OF Meredith's Diana OF the Cross
u,avs" He was probably not the Tom Towers
of Trollope's book THE Warden'-or II ne was
,t was an unconscious portrait for the novelist
d,savowed any intention in painting IL
Washington Irvings diary. covering more thah
q wear of his life in Spain is TO be one OF the
treasures to be disposed OF In the sale, in the
a,,,uron of the late J. c. Chamberiains collec-
,,on Of letters and manuscripts. An equally
desirable item is Irvng's notebook for tn7
.Knickerbocker History This notebook, says