New-York tribune., 1908-10-04

the pleasant things which his articles have
brought to him is a letter Of cordial praise from
President Roosevelt These articles revised
and enlarged. fill a volume which has just come
from the Riverside Press.
a selection of representative pictures in the
British National Gallery is 10 be brought ont
III parts. The reproductions are to be printed
IN color and in large size and they are t. cover
the whole range Of art of every country and
school
one of the famous interviews in history is
that IN which Napoleon told Josephine that he
was about to be divorced from her The re-
inarkablc conclusion of it vividly described
by NJ de Bausset the palace prefect. and his
GSeScrIptoh is thus quoted in a new book, Tho
Empress Josephine, Napoleon's EnchautrcsS,'
by Mr.. T. W. Sergeant:
Bausset WAS sitting in a chair outside the saloon
door, watching the dining being cleared by
n inc servants ~ Suddeny through the door came the
the door and told him in. The Empress
survive it, ard Iamentins bitterly Are YOU
strong enough asked Napoleon. TO lift Josephine
70 be ATTENDED toy Ramsset STse 80 stout IS 'I' NAM
stopped down and put round the E-nprcsss
waist another under her krecs. Napoleon holding
candle in his hand. went across to the door lead
parently a dead faint lay without moving in
8aussffs arms When the staircase was reached
attempt to up it with his burden in her present
therefore caleo! to the watchInan who always sat
at his study door handed him the candle and told
him t. go on ahead Then he relieved Baussct of
The Empresss legs, leaving him to pass his arms
under hSr % armFits and to go up the stairs back
and almost threw them all downstairs Swinging
it out of the way. he struck the Empress arcid'n-
tally the shoulder with the hilt Suddenly he
heard her voice whispering to him softly. Take
care. NJ. De RauSst't. you hurting with yOur
sword. ana YOU holding me too tight" She
sumed her faint, while Bausset lifted her up hirher
and put his arms again around her waist. the EIn
perez still holding on to her legs. At length the
laid her ted
Ny Edgar Wallace, the author IF that
ing detective story, Angel Esquire has been
an active war correspondent for the last decade
Before that he spent over six years as a pri-
vate soldier and went through divers South
African campaigns He began his adventurous
career a little newsboy, cabin boy a
Dogger Bank trawler when ne thirteen and
at fourteen was at work in the same way a
tramp steamer. At seventeen he enlisted He
has found time in this busy life to write several
books He has perpetrated poems and plays. as
well as novel.
Handy editions of some classics of the Orien-
tai faiths published in The Wisdom OF
the East Series CE. 2. DuttOn & Coz. Among
them is the most ancient complete literary
work eXtant. The instruction of Ptah-!Iotcp.'
The papYTuS from which the prudential max
inns of this primevaI Lord Chesterfield were
taken claims antiquity of more than a thou
sand years Jewish literature is represented by
a selection of parallels and legends from the
MidraSh RabbOth and the BabylOnian Taimud
and by the Spanish Rabbi Bachye's treatise ON
"The Duties of the Heart" An extract from the
Onna Diagaku is published under the title
caHonicaI book of Confucius appears a '"Tho
Conduct Of Life" and the Tao Tt Ching "'Thc
Tn eRose Garden of Sa' d." ~Sa' dis Scroll Of
Wisdom" and a summary Of the teachings of
The Koran.