New-York tribune., 1908-01-04

complaint from the Contributors Cluo OF Inc
Atlantic" would seem to indicate it:
THE MUSE AsTRAY.
Once in a land where memories throng.
BY far southern sea.
A poet sang little song
OF rhythmic ecstasy.
He caught-or thought he caught-the glow
OF rapt Italian wales.
The lustrs sire, OF unstaned snow
Since on the theme was cast
The precious antique influence
OF a long, storied past
Now" cried he, for magazine
M h-,Iiian PHzz5ed as to WhGn tad scena
Most fifty shall enrich
The dove returned; one tiny leaf
The singer stood transfxed with grief,
Yet sent ii forth once more;
And back it came, and back. until
SO early trained TO roam
If but gave the thing its will
The carrier song flew home
Moral
Be good sweet muse, and wisely choose
Some fresher. homelier strain
Shall llamazoo, Metuchen. too.
And Oshkosh sue in vain?
Mr.. Swinburne's tragedy, dealing with the
murdered scion of the Borgias, the Duke Of
Gambia, is not to be brought out this winter
The postponement of the publication is due to
the intention of the Harpers to issue it stimuli
taneously here and in England
The speech which Mr. Rudyard Kipling made
to the students of McCiH University last Octo-
Der is printed from his manuscript in The Uni
versity Magazine" 1t is short and frank.
Among other things he exhorts the young men
before him to draw breath after the first heat of
the game and to watch their fellows for a while:
Sooner later you will to whom
the idea of wealth as mere wealth does not appeal
whom the methods of amassing that wealth 90 not
interest, and who will accept money II you
offer 1t TO him at certain price
and to think that he is not smart IN ms Ideas. /
presently demonstrate 10 YOU that money domi-
mates everybody except the man who does not want ~
your village. in your Legislature But be sure
as ii comes to direct issue between YOU his little
finger will be thicker than YOUR lOins. You Will go
will do what he wants: ne will not do what you
your armory with which you can attack him; no
argument with which you can appeal to him
would like YOU to study that man FL would you dos like
you better 10 be that man because @ rom ae M H6
desire of wealth for wealth's sake If more wealth
use yo t 70 hand yS to 50a ACQUIRE it. but keep your
right for your proper work in life, If you employ
STOPPING in danger also of losing your soul
Il have no message to deliver" said Mr.. Kip
ling at the end of his address. "but if had
message to deliver to university which I love,
to the young who have the future Of their
country to mould would say with all the force
at my command: Do not be smart. If | were
not a doctor of this university with deep in
terest in its discipline and if did not hold the
strongest views that reprehensible form of
amusement known as rushing would say
that whenever and wherever you find of
your dear little playmates showing signs of
smartness In his work his talk. or his play, take
him tendery by the hand, by both hands by the
back of the neck if necessary, and lovingly,
playfully but firmly. lead him to knowledge of
higher and more interesting things"
Mr. Kipling, it appears is preparing new
book which will be announced shortly. His
publishers predict an early revival of interest
in his work-whch prediction is in sense sur
prising. for we had not thought that there was
any abatement of interest in really good work
from the Beetles" pen
A Colonial manuscript, discovered where and
by whom we are not informed, has been pri-
vately printed at the DeVinne press by its
owner. Mr. w r. Bixby. the ST. Louis biblio-
phile. It is the ''Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander
Hamilton. scotchman. who practised medicine
in Annapolis and in the second quarter of the
eighteenth century journeyed through Pennsyl-
vania New Jersey. New York and New Eng
land His story of his tour offers some inter-
esting gimpses of the Colonial manner of life.
which was comfortable in many respects but
sometimes odd. 4 bad habit recorded by him
was that of cursng; even the ladies occasionally
tuned their most sweet voices to swear words.
Linen nightCaps. he says, were much worn IN
all the churches and meetings of America that
I have been in unless it be those of Boston.
where they are more decent and polite in their
dress He was entertained by various clubs
in the larger cities of the provinces. and tells
/ rlV
experiences.
Robert Louis Stevenson's war correspondence
is published for the first time in the new "Pent-
land edition of his works. The edition also
contains one whole story four essays. num-
her of poems and some miscellany which are
not to be found in the Edinburgh edition.
The latter however, has the "Nalllna Letters,
which the former has not.
The Count and the Congressman" is the title
of a new novel by Mrs. Burton Harrison The
heroine is a fair Nirginlan
The diversions of a scholar generally have a
Iettered air-witness the dropping into poetry
of Professor Skeat, apropos OF the conpletfon
long ago of the 'C' section in the oxford
English Dictionary and the beginning of d.:
Those words in d. a dismal. dreary dose'
her HERE dnRe dog our steps and dreadful duns,
Doiours and dragons. donkeys, dolts ana dupes'
Devils and demons, and the dreaded name
~ Demogorgon.' Dirks and daggers haunt,
Dank dandelions flourish, dampneSs dauhlS'
TIenression and detection drag us down
Irear desola ton dwels, and dire delay,
disaster disappointment dlSarray-
Defeat disntegratiOn and despair -
Dsease decay. delirium. darkness death!
Yet through the darkest dens OF dlminest ooNDt
r,neeed determine ton drives its way
DIemmas yield to diligence at last
Teliberation disSpates dispute ,r,-t.
~ dainty dances, and delicious dreams
~ mower TO do ones duty still SURVIVES,
sill dawns the day. divine dominion rules
collectors of first editions may IKE 70 near