New-York tribune., 1908-06-06

use Of quantity Of unpublished letters and VIII
reproduce number Of new portraits. including
one Of the soldiers mother.
The John Lane Company has just published
a volume called 1.-THE Iliad of the East, by
Frederika Macdonald. This ernbodies selec-
ton of legends drawn from the "Ramayana
the great Sanscrft poem. The Illustrations ana
the cover have been designed by Mr. J. Lock-
wood Kipling. the father of the story teller
Professor Walter G. Bronson. who fills the
chair of English literature at Brown Univer-
sity, is making good progress on his series OF
volumes Of English poetry The fourth was is
sued some months ago. and now he is bringing
out through the University Of Chicago Press
third. in which his selections illustrate the
poetry of the Restoration and the Eighteenth
Century.
Thomas Carlyle could be. occasion. all
| the world knows, a fearful curmudgeon, but
many of his friends have testified to the kind
ness that also in his SOUL The late David
Mason was one of those who came to love him
for his finer traits, and in the current number
of "Blackwood's Magazine the latest instalment
of his Memories of London in the Forties'' is
devoted to affectionate notes on the historian.
Mason knew Carlyle in gentle moods.
alence Of the habit of irony. sarcasm and jest
ing, he used sudden phrase of standardization
which have never forgotten. Ah! and 1 have
given far too much into that myself-sniggering
at things These are the exact words. In
these Memories Carlyle is shown to us going
out of his way to help others, and in illustration
Of his friends attitude toward himself Mason
tells this story about walk that the two took
| together:
We had not gone far from his house, and were
on on narrowsh d part Of the foot pavement in front
said as II careessly by the bye have lot of
1sSs nave any IN need for some of 1t might be more
by the generosity Of the offer and by the sudden
OF and j. only Way m at In the
san same time that really did not need to avail my.
e tff IT, ali aye parpose nq9e Of Better ae ta:
much n st better SOL h he replied almost R Ely
deeply his. kindness touched me, he would not hear
ehasas s aSsS a sy at @
@ again dse s e ufa ad oan in
the later days of our intercourse; but it was not
for me to forget it, and L never SHALL
It is good news that these recolIections Of Dr.
Massons to be put into book FORM He
wrote about his distinguished friends with sin
eular discretion and good feeling.
We have already announced the translation
of M. Turquan's book on Louis XVII the little
king who never sat upon the throne OF France.
There is also to be a translation Of the same
authors work "The Sisters of Napoleon"
NJ. Turquan argues that these ladies had q
greater influence public events than Is gen.
orally supposed and that they cost the Em-
peror dear.
Mr.. W. R. H. Trowbridge, the translator of NJ
Turquan's book Napoleons sisters, is also at
work on a book of his own, TO be called Seven
Splendid Sinners" The seven are Catherine
the Great; Nine Lamotte. who was imprisoned
for her part in the affair of the Diamond Neck
lace; the Duchess of PoIignac, the friend of
Marie Antoinette: Nine. de Chateauroux. one OF
Louis XV's favorites; Melustna Won der schu-
lenburg, Duchess of Kendall. the Hanoverian mis-
tress of George I; Elizabeth Chudlefgh Countess
of Bristol who died in 17SS. and Lola Montez-
Some Of Mr. Thomas Hardy's countrymen
have been ready enough to acclaim as brilliant
poetry that amazing Napoeonic composition.
THE Dynasts.'' but there are others VINO look
at the work with more critical eye. In the
Edinburgh Review for example, some one
has had the courage to say that what we are
wont to reckon the essentials of poetry are.
over large tracts, very plentifully lacking
Choosing certain Illustrations. the reviewer
to a very low level. more near then any verse
in literature to that verse that lies outside of
literature. and which. enshrned in quarto
manuscript books. represents the leisure of
some country doctor country parson who
has paid shy and sly court to the Muses."
MIR. Hardy is said to have told some one that
he had put into THE Dynasts' more than the
material of three novels. Think of the pleas
ure we would probably have owed to him If
only he had written the novels and whstled his
"poetiCal' ambition down the windI
Professor Martin l.. d Ooge, of the University
of Michigan, has after years of study com
posed a volume ''The Acropolis of Athens"
The Macmillan Company will publish 1t In the
fall as a companion volume to Professor Sey-
mour's life in the Homeric Age"
THE Naturalist in La Plata" is so good a book
that anything written by its author Mr.. W. H
Hudson, is always of sympathetic recep-
ton We look forward with interest to the vol
ume which he announces under the title of THE
Lands End" a book West Cornwall, its
scenery and climate, its wild life its plant life
and it's human inha btants.
The Macmillan Company is issuing immedi- |
stely the second volume of Professor Edward
Channing's History of the United States" This
volume will cover the period from 1860 TO 1850 |
''Diana of Dobsons." by Miss Cicey Hamilton. |
which the Century Company is publishing. is a |
story of life among the girls in London shop. |
The book also deals with the experiences of the |
heroine on coming into small fortune.
The books of Vernon Lee being put rather |
generously before the public just The |
John Lane Company is issuing very attractive |
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