New-York tribune., 1908-03-21

by NJ. R. J. Du Bois and volume entitled THE
Poetic Old World" compiled by L. H Humphrey,
announced by the Holts These verses,
which deal with the places in Europe which the
tourist is apt to visit. largely the work of
English and American poets,-a comparatively
small number are drawn from foreign sources.
A very frank book of "reminiscences, published
anonymously but understood to be from the pen
of Mrs Panton, the daughter of the artist Firth.
has started much talk in London. Here is one
Of her stories from which il appears that she
once slapped the German Emperor:
Would IT be lese-paajeste to describe the small,
fractions. and very naughty little boy vino was
generally with the Princess Royal and who is now
the the risk s He was tiny pretty ds,eate little title lad
which aad ne he utterly d o m the zed m On
which he brought to England. and 1 fancy the
duct was sWfu w Somehow or other the dirk be-
longing to his costume was not Forthcoming. and
ne was lent one belonging TO his Uncle Leopold
The first part of the ceremony he pretty quiet.
in picking out the great cairnsor IN the dirk
handle and then casting it away. and do not think
mother tried to hold him and at last handed him
over over to his two uncles Leopold and Arthur whose
stocs. | only hope they smacked him wen when
His Sister .'f ttIe ui1 Priacess a'S charotte e
gave him good tap on his naughty little fingers
when ne was pulling her hair; ne looked at me for
u minute ana SAID nothing.
Mr.. F Hopkinson Smiths address on odd
Fashioned Folk a plea for the simpler life
of former times has been privately printed in
Boston in edition of which hundred
copies have been offered for sale The address
originally delivered at the Harvard Union.
The proposed Shakespeare memorial in London
will be-as it ought to be-the most costly mon
ument in the great city. The sum of S1.000,ooo,
We told, is to DE devoted to the purpose 1t
will be a grievous thing if so splendid an op-
portunity for a worthy tribute is thrown away;
but where oh, where is to be found English
sculptor who can measure up" to it?
The fact that would-be desecrators of Shake
speare's tomb have not dared to risk the falling
of the curse invoked in the lines cut upon his
tomb is a striking testimony to the powerful
effect upon mankind of such an imprecation.
Mr.. J. O. Hall1wen-P Phillips, writing in the
sos. said:
The nearest approach to excavation in the
the year 1896. in digging vault in the immediate
pTesed ~n m an per gppeareG Wfb w b Was V
OF the bard's remains The most scrupulous care
ing earth in the slightest degree the clerk having
been placed there til the brickworh Of the adjoin
ing vault was completed, to prevent any max
ing an examination No relics whatever were visi-
itself and as the poet was buried O in the gTonnd
not In a vault, the great probability is that dust
Dhalanx trouble tonbs lanterns and spades in
hand assembled in the chanCel, dead night
intent on disobeying the solemn injunction that the
bones OF Shakespeare were not to be disturbed
But the supplcatoTy lines prevailed. There were
some AMONGST m f the number who at the last
the design was happily abandoned.
A correspondent Of The Athenaum" wrote in
1881: Il remember, a visit to the grave Of
Shakespeare in 1897 or 1928. rernarking that it
was little creditable TO the authorities that the
raised covering to the tomb should have been
allowed to fall into such decay, for I could see
into the grave through the hole formed by the
account OF the anathema inscribed upon the
die with tt
An earlier incident is thus set forth by con-
tributor to The Monthly Magazine" of Febru-
ary 1, 1918:
Notwithstanding the anathema pronounced by
wardens were so negligent a few years ago as to
suffer the sexton in digging the adjoining grave of
tomb of Shakespeare Mr IS told the ~ VrftaT ter
that he was excited by curiosity to push his mead
remains of the bard and that he could easily have
brought 6 IT, away his skull but was deferred by the
turbed his remains
The attempt at a later day to neddIe with the
tomb had no more effective ending
1t is stated that Mrs. Burnett's story Of an
International marriage, The Shuttle" has been
one Of the notable successes Of the past season.
mand.