New-York tribune., 1908-03-21

! under the title Passing English: A Dictionary
| of Slang and Phrase of the Day
David Hogarth, the distinguished archaoiogist
and former Director of the British School at
Athens, declares that nowhere is there such liv-
! ing enthusiasm for the ancient glories Of art
in Greece not in Athens only, but in provincial
towns and villages mo one thought II idle
threat when the villagers Of Olympia and Delphi
declared that they would come out
with rifles if the Hermes of Praxiteles or the
bronze charioteer were removed from their keep
ing" The London Times in discussing Mr..
Hogarths latest publication. says this sub
ject:
The name Of Elgin is execrated more than that
OF any Pasha or Bulgarian; and we note that Nj Nj
HoSarth would nave US restore the Caryatlo r4, on
Parthenon friezes. It is 10 sentiment. as he re-
rn epaf p f of Greece fr it es off the trade
c0ntact with the World outside Its own power OF
attraction makes il what It is; and IN spite or ali
sroWng city MT Hogarth whose knowledge and
experience give him the right TO be listened TO- has
the idOsyncrasies of the modern Greek as citizen
gives him better character than cursory
observers have been prone TO do
Mr. Harrison s. Morriss poems have been col
Iected in volume which the Century Company
will publish this spring under the unpretentious
title of a Handful of Verse
A translation of Paul Bourgeois novel,
LrEmigre," has just been brought out by Little,
Brown & Co, under the title of The Weight
of Name" It is a study of the old regime
in contact with modern conditions.
The latest word on the subject of heredty is
at hand in the long looked for book Of Professor
Thomson. A specially interesting part Of the
volume is the discussion of the transmission Of
acquired characters
Those who are interested in the musical his
tory and the musical gossip of the last century
will be glad to hear that Sir Charles Santley
has been writing a volume Of "reminiscences.
The title he has chosen is Sixty Years a
Singer"
A fantastic story under the title Of The
Cheerful Smuggles," is coming from the press
Of the Century Company 1t is the work Of Mr..
E P Butler the author of the tale called Pigs
Is Pigs" Another forthcoming Century book is
Mr. Jesse Lynch Williams's My Lost Duchess"
\ story of thirteen at table which has reused
many shudders in the superstitious has been go
ing the rounds Of the English journals Here
it is as re-told by a correspondent OF The Lon
don Spectator" the biographer Of Sir JOnn
Everett Millais being originally responsible
for it
In August 1885. Millais had party OF friends at
his Scottish home. Birnam HaIi Murthly: among m
son a Mr E S, and Miss G. 5 One day II was
sGoVeTef fae9 er9 Miss C s exclaimed in great alarm:
= that some calamity will happen; Iowards @ %
subject Of superstitions and Arnold is reported
to have said: and nov MISS o.. Iii e i oe iTbtn - ma
year So with the permission OF the ladies' we VIII
po3g EdgqT ARP Pawson @ 3da 3R9 E s T a
ne al
Reaper" The story goes on to tell how now AFnoid died
found deed in bsd % had an sBty Gve59ee eoee
and E S. there were many misgtvngs as to what
r1ary Sa fo1nered j. off the coast Of New
ioa The and na Wso6 was drowned eAnd now"
says the biograDher what shall be said to these J
them ana are only well known to many now |
living"
1.-The facts" exclains the spectators" CORE
spondent-and he proceeds 70 spoil the story IN
q very conclusive fashion: The party is said |
TO have taken place in August. 1880. Accord |
ingly Arnold must have died in March 1886. and
the Ouetta must have gone down about the |
same time Every knows that Matthew Ar /
mold died in April 1855. and l have just come |
across a reference to the wreck of the Quetta,
by one who lost several relatives in that III fated
vessel which gives the year Of the wreck as
1880. What could a serious biographer have
been about when he allowed his memory 10 trlck |
him into penning such piece OF circumstantial |
nonsense? IN view Of these glarlng discrepan- |
cies il is allowable 10 diseredit the whole story,
however il may have formed itself in the writer's
mind Arnold knew from about 1868 that his |
life was precarous, and that his end was likely |
-o he very sudden Is it likely that even In jest /
he ever uttered such speech as is here put into /
his mouth? / think you will agree that II is /
time this story put an end 10, though there
are many who will not part with it without a |
sigh"
Girls nousing in old libraries, used to fnd !
highly moral and fascinating volumes which |
nore on the title page the pretty name or trace
Aprilar" These dingy volumes. descending /
.ror, a former generation, still kept a charm to |
stir suspense and beguie juvenile tears. Home
T,Hnence' these readers will remember as par /
tfclIariy moving, and they may be Interested IN |
learning that these books still maintain a falrly
steady sale in England and that hitherto uI-
nublished work by their author is to De issueo
soon II is to be III volumes. entitled Ta!es
from British History" Miss Agular was an
English Jewess who died in 1Stl, at the age OF
thirty.
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