New-York tribune., 1908-09-27


volume viii be entitled Magazine Writing and
the New Literature" We suppose il will con-
tain much of the criticism which from month to
month has been contributed by Mr.. Alden to
the Editors Study"
Alongside the Letters of Edward Lear"
which was reviewed in this place last Sunday.
the reader will be glad to place the new edition
which Little, Brown & Co. have just published
of "A Book of Linericks.' Here are gathered
together the famous nonsense verses. with their
pictures and added to them are the Songs
and the "Laughable Lyrics" The volume is of
joyousness all compact, from cover to cover. II
is good to renew acquaintance with The owl
and the Pussy Cat The Dong with the Lum-
Everybody knows The Pebble Who Has No
Toes" but just for the pleasure of it We must
quote these lines:
The & Pobbie who has 10 toes;
Swan across the Brist0! Channel;
But before ri ne e SET out out ] ne wrapped his nose
For his Aunt Jobislsa said: NO harm
@ And f 9 ecy IF i Known hi la ose PoSeg toes
Are safe-provided he minds his nose
The Pobble swan fast and well,
He A4d eeR B2its or P5 e bg gfar him.
So that al the world could hear him
When they him nearing the further side,
He has gone TO FISH for his Aunt Jobiskas
Runcible Cat with crimson whiskers!
In the plate which reproduce on this page
from the current number of the Gazette des
Beaux Arts" students Of the old masters Will
recognize a theme which occupies place apart
in the history Of Flemish painting. The man or
business wont to sit for his portrait 10
painters of all the schools, but the repetition OF
this particular double subject banker and ms
wife, seated together while the former counts
his gold, produced a strongly indlVlduahzed
group Of pictures. It has been customary 10
credit Quentin Matsys or Marinus de Romers-
vale especially the latter, with the invention or
the design NJ. F. de Mely, in the Gazette,
erin TTrH
is due in the matter to Matsys- The point IS
not of prodigiOus Importance, but 1t has Ger
tain interest. and the essay to which we refer IS
a striking Illustration u the manner IN WnICn ~
modern scholarly analysis VIII sometimes clear
up very obscure question
G. P Putnams Sons American agents for the
Cambridge University Press announce several
interesting volumes which are soon to be issued
| I.inacre, by DR.. William Oser Another IS
book of Studies in French Education from
Rabelais Rousseau" by Geraldine HodSsoil
| The second and third volumes of Professor
Sandyss History Of Classical Scholarship are
| also to be expected.
| Doubleday Page & Co. have in press new
| book by Mr.. Booker 7. Washington He calls ~
| sThe Story of the Negro" and in 1t he sets
! forth his observations on the progress mace Dy
| his race.
| erature will be attracted by two books in the
Macmillan list One is Professor Burys An
|
| Warde Fowler's Social Life at Rene in the Age
! OF Cicero"
The Iron Chancellor appears in pleasant
| light in a book which Herr Arthur Botnling
| has just published in Berlin. This work Is
| called Bismarck and Shakespeare" The states
| man was all his life long a profound adnIrer
| of the poet.
| The latest addition to the steadily swelling
| company Of French memoirs Is a book on Ihe
| Wife Of Lafayette" by Mrs. Mac Dermot Craw-
| ford She was the granddaughter, on her fathers
| side of the Due de NOailles, and, on her moth
ers of the famous Chancellor d'Aguesseau-
/ During the Terror her mother, sister and grand
| mother were sent the gC!llotine, and 1t was
| onlv through tremendous efforts on the part OF
! her friends including the American Ambassador,
/ that she herself was saved from the scaf0Id
/ Miss Anne Douglas Sedgwick has in Psess
! with the Century Company a new novel called
"Anaabel Channice." The heroine is a woman
! married to a man she does not fVve, and mo-
/ rnentariIy infatuated by Jung artist AS il
! is bv the author of "A Fountain Sealed" this
! story should be worth reading.
! Gardeners are not concerned with the beauties
| of flowers alone Most Of them are ambitious