New-York tribune., 1908-07-19

his scenery. "The Athenaum" adds
rhs Gr Rst has put in his es4 home IN e a sa Of
e the conception of the 'saperman', Of Nietzseh.
Infatuated by pride. he endeavors to exceed the
Ss e he
to undsrtahe another more brilliant and tame
man: in short. he tries 70 vanqnish Death To
alta attain h his end he goes as far as Egys and down
question que the Initiated: ne there meets with the
slaves him in letters Of sensuaty. HE debase-
ment proves his cfastise1nent- 1t Is HsTaphrass
fait la bete'
A jealous paragrapher writing Of Mrs Hum
phTy Ward describes her as the granddaughter
Of the famous Doctor Arnold who wrote the
Tom Brown stories" Thus is the worlds store
Of precious information Increased.
Since the publication of the ''E.ulosy,' of Rich
ard Jeferies. written by the late Sir Walter
Besant a number Of new letters by the clever
English naturalist have come to light These
have been made Of by MIR. Edward Thomas
in the preparation of the book on the life and
writings Of Jefferies, which is to be issued in
the early autumn.
No series of popular monographs that we have
had in recent years has been, on the whole, more
satisfactory than that Memoir Series" pub
lShed in this country by the Putnams. in which
studies of Petrarch, Nine de Scvisne, the Duke
Of Buckingham and one or two others have aT
their themes at all events, excite lively hopes
Mr. E. L. S. Horsburgh IS to contribute a book
on Lorenzo the Magnificent. and Florence in
Her Golden Age" In a book The Medicf
Popes' Mr. Herbert M Vaughan will give spe
cfaI prominence to the social and artistic life of
the brilliant court of Leo X Mr.. A C. Brett
will treat Of Charles III and His Court por-
traying the King and his followers more from
the personal and social than from the political
point of view.
The Pa1zer G. Tay,or Company will publish
in October an elaborate work "Mediseval
Architecture by Mr.. A. K Porter. The author
has been engaged upon his task for six years
He Includes in the forthcoming book bibliog-
raphy and list of monuments, as well as some
three hundred illustrations
In a collection of letters sold in London the
other day there was an interesting series writ
ten by Lord Beaconsfied to his sister In one
he relates story of Theodore HOOK whom ne
met at the house Of Horace Twiss-
coffee Mrs Horace having , an eyspin @ part pary a anh
nance. my name is Tea HOOK
Another has reference to Queen Vietoria's
wedding with the Prince Consort:
Everything is dull nothiag is thought OF
it. unless the balladmongers, who may be heard
in every quarter chanting
Vic she declares. I'm Il trump
Next November the well known series OF
magni6centIy made historical monographs pub
lished by Goupil is to be enlarged by a richly
illustrated volume La Regence durant la
Ninorite du Louis XIV" The hero of the book
will be, of course, Philip, Duke of Orleans The
author is M. Frantz Funck- Brentano. whose
delvings in French archives have produced sew
eraI curious and entertaining volumes.
Mr. Frank Rutter Is a lucky man He made a
;ourpev from London to Paris, sailing from
Sout uthampton to Havre and travelling thence 10
the capital on a bicycle. He had a companion IN
Mr. Hanslip Fletcher, artist with a facufty
for making fairly clever drawings and as these
needed when reproduced, to be printed on good
paper with nice margins, MI Rutters lew ch;tp-
ters about his experiences have got themselves
published by the John Lane Company IN a very
handsome volume He calls it The Path to
paris ,, and in It he discourses lightly of way
side incidents-none of them especially pictu-
resoue or amusing-touches upon rlIns, wItfl Els
torical notes. and frames, IN short. the USUAL
inconseuuentiaI narrative. Decidedly ne is IN
luck to have such tri1ing notes prInte'f In SUCH
attractive form. Mr.. F1etchers drawings vary
in merit He is at his best as he devotes nm
self to architecture pure and simple his
sketches of cathedralS and churches are some
times admirable. There IS. by the way, one Dit
of odd information In this book In the Abbey
church of St Martin de-BoschervflIe the trav-
ellers found a tablet comYnemorating the escape
from death in tempest. in 1873. of four BFitens.
who finding their canoe in peril. lifted mp tneaf
! nrayers to the Virgin, and were saved Ono q
the canoeists was IAnley SaInbourne, the noteo
cartoonist of Punch