New-York tribune., 1908-05-02

Scribner." To this story Mrs Wharton has
given the title of "The Verdict"
There is odd portrait in words of Byron
| 10 be found in recent book OF recolections.
/ The artist was Miss Fanshawe His is mind
| that never conveys the idea OF sunshine: it is
dark night upon which the lightning flashes"
Nevertheless. ii seemed TO her an unheroic mind.
General Charles King has written novel
OF army life which is said TO be one of notable
excellence. There is mystery in its plot and II
is to be called "A Weeks Arrest" It's incidents
occur at a frontier fort.
Persia: The Awakening East" is the title
Of book by Mr.. w. P. Cresson which is coming
| from the Lippincott press Mr.. Cresson, who is
/ an architect graduate Of the Ecole des Beaux
Arts went eastward 10 study the architectural
remains of Persia and Mesopotamia. but his
book is not a disquisition on Persian art
The monument to Emile Zola which was un-
veiled at Suresnes. the other day. by a repre-.
sentative of NJ. Clemenceau. bears this inscrip
ton above a reproduction of Zola's signature:
Some day France will be grateful 10 me for
| having saved her honor" The pedestal upholds
a bust Of the author. 1t is odd in effect in that
one arm is shown, uplifted and supporting the
| head
/ Il. Is.
! the current number of "Scribners Magazine
! Mr.. Ferris Greenslet quotes interesting letter
once addressed by DR.. Holmes to the then bud
| ding poet. There two DANGERS wrote
Holmes. that beset young poets-young Amer
| lean poets, at least:
The first is being spoiled by the praise of women
! 1T makes little difference which-of the cheap
critics You may have noticed that our poets DO
| not commonly ripen well-they arks in the
| morning, sparrows at noon, and owls before even
ing ing one reason Is that our shallow universal cult
| ure Is wanting IN severe standards OF taste and
| Judgment. We have Fahrenheits and Reamurs
and allow it to form false estimates OF Itself Now
| your forte is sentiment and your danger sent-
| danger is that of becoming a verbal voluptuary-
the end Of which Is rhythmical gout and incurable
| poeTtcol disorder. Let beg you, by fine
poetical not to let the attery OF insufficient
persons render you too easily cOntented with your
self, the hideous content reporter-crtics
ALLEVIATE you from the love OF (Which does not
| art in your great city) nor lastly your tendency
| to vanilla favored adjectves and patchoun scented
| isms
| An English writer notes that eating literally
conceived. has lost its place in the novel; that
| TO Judge by the common novels of the day, the
| frank pleasures OF the table are not recognized
| as they used to be. No one has celebrated them
| so effectively did Charles Dckens-moved
| thereto it is suggested, by the fact that he had
/ been half starved in his boyhood In his books
| take only The Old Curiosity Shop" there is
the food administered by the immortal Swivel
ler to the poor little Marchioness, there is the
wonderful Gaiand hamper which makes every
reader hungry, and there are Kits oysters after
| the play. As for The Pickwick Papers" they
| are more or less redolent of good things gus
| tatory.
Mr. Howes is as tart. as sarcastic, on the
| copyright question as is his brother author
Mr.. Clemens. He says in the Easy Chair" in
| the current Harper:
! The thinkers who imagined and perpetuated the
| unnatural property right in ideas hold that there
| can be property in IDEAS but at the same time
they allow that it may be mscreated for the term
! OF Torty-two years Then the right Iapses and the
| people, who but for the author would never have
mad those ideas, come into their again. 1t is
clearly manifest from the logic involved that though
a property right in ideas may be miscreated here
for forty-two years, it cannot last moment longer
/ ana as the tngllsh philosophers who Invented the
| notion OF copyright now allow that the unnatural
| seven years after its owners death the original
! notion of a fixed term remains the precious her
most alone. for the other nations have Joined the
| English in relinquishing it to US.
Yet We not the sole heirs of the premise upon
which the limit Of property in ideas is based This
premise Is that there is essential difference be
! tween property in ideas and property in any and
a.! other things Il is true that such premise has
easoning has to start soEevhere and in the pres
ehl case II starts there 1t is scientific hypothesis
| supported by the assertion that the creators Of
works Of beauty peculiarly 10 their social
or civic environment. IN accordance with that the
ory they must restore in the concrete form which
they have given II the beauty which they have ma
terialiZed from H. They may enjoy the sole right
10 TINS Tor torty-two years. but their right is
natural, just the right all other property is
natural and inherent The fact that an property is
the creature OF society: that there no natural
right 10 property in anything whatsoever: that a
man night 10 his OK or his ass. anything
which Is his. rests upon absolutely the same arti-
nclaI basis as his right 10 his ideas has no weight
with the reaSoners whose minds We're made I'D for
them two hundred ago Perhaps they cannot
consent 10 the fact because II they do they must
accept the cOroIlary that every kind of property
ought TO be restored to society, to the community
after fOrty-tWO years
There is to be a edition, an Oxford
edition, OF the works of Thackeray The novels
are TO be arranged as far possible in chrono-
logical order and each Of the seventeen volumes
will have introduction by Professor Saints
bury. There will be 1900 illustrations taken
mainly from early editions of Thackeray's
works, Both a crown octave edition on ordinary
paper and foolscap octave on Oxford India
paper viii be available.
The accomplished editor OF Byron Mr. Row
land E. Prothero, has written a book on France
which DuttOn is bringing out. II is entitled
The Pleasant Land OF France and it partlv
deals with subjects which the foreigner does
not often touch upon-subjects such as uf.
in provincial town, French farming tenant
rights, and agrarian outrages.