New-York tribune., 1908-01-12

Bessarabia three or four years ago The Har-
pers are publishing this book.
The grave of Macbeth saws correspondent
| of The Manchester Guardian" does lie in
the country near Dunsinane, where Shake
speare represents the chief to have fallen, but
on an Aberdeenshire hillside to which, after
his army had received the sound thum ping
which Shakespeare pictures, Macbeth fell back:
or seven yards in diameter ringed about by a
dwarf wall and belt of starveling ems, and al
fdrafs the most most ffeqqented of ighand routes no
probable No other place seriously competes for
the distinction There are said to be in the neigh
tTadlflon has % run strong stone mile off s
wounded he fed from the lost field A Snrima So
deep that in the btterest frost it has never been
run dry is 'Macbeths Wen for it was there re that
the local color Of shakespeares play is so true
that he must have collected it the spot. At any
Ic6 and looking toward T'f the mountans on behind
a Erf1emaF one sees such sinister and wizard twi-
1t the appearance of just such a witch haunted
dramatist- One thinks of the weird heaths. the
robbeT frequented roads and the Inurderous inns
| That the place has had its witches local tra-
| d1tons ayer-traditions full of terrifying in
| stances Still, it is asserted Shakespeare never
VISITED the spot 1t is added however. that a
| company of players under who later on
| became colleague of the poet, in the
lneighborhood.
book of lyrical verse is coming from the pen
or pens-of Michael Field The aunt and
niece, Miss Cooper and Miss Bradley who share
that name, have already produced several vol
umes of lyrics as well as a dozen, more or less
of pseudo poetic plays. Michael Field" is quoted
in anthologies, but not that fact nor those many
| books of plays and poems will keep the
| alive. certain wavering music and a certain
misty sentiment characteristic of this verse,
but it suffers from curiously prosaic words and
passages.
| The American publishers of "The Burlington
| Magazine are to be in future Messrs. Moffat.
| Yard & Co. The frontispiece of the January
number will be reproduction of a picture from
the Kann collection. Rembrandts Scholar with
| a Bust of Homer, a work which has passed into
the possession of an American collector.
| What became of the unhappy little prisoner
| Of the Temple, the of Louis and Marie An
toinette?-this is a question which will probably
| never be answered with certainty. NJ Joseph
Turquan, the author of new book on the mys
terry, comes forward with a not unreasonable
theory that Louis XVII was strangled in his
prison by order of Robesperre a consumptive
child from Paris hospital being substituted
| not far from death. NJ. Turquan bases his be
lief on the story that Count d'Andigne, when 4
political prisoner in the Temple in 1901, dscoy-
| cred while idly digging about the moat the
| skeleton of a well grown child that had been
buried in quicklime- An English commentator,
Mr. Tighe Hopkins. says:
The governor of the Temple approaching at this
moment, D'Andigne said to him, This must have
not without embarrassment The story is told by
ID'Andigne in his Memoirs, but has been neglected,
| or Il VI. Turquan holds, miSnterpreted.
| Starting from the discovery OF the skeleton, he
proceeds, in the of the 'juge obstruction.
to reconstruct the crime. A child is buried in the
moat of the Temple and. since he is inferred with
out 4 coffin, it clearly impossible to bury him
with the customary rites elsewhere. There must
have been dark reasons for discriminating this
possible. it is laid in quicklme The death
could not have been declared since notifications
of death were necessary then A death
that declared is a death that must be con-
ceaIed. No formal act of deCeaSe having been
drawn up, the corpse could be delivered to d
denly brought 10 light must therefore, have met u
violent end Some crime had been committed. His
tory knows of but child imprisoned in the Tenn
pie whom there any cause for making away
with What child this? The Dauphin!
, viOusly that of advertising pose) that Words
! wCrthS mind "a genteel, third class mind"
unnecessarily stirs a critical commentator 20
making the statement that in England Words
worth never had many readers as he has
| now. He remembers also that one politician,
| who hated wars. justified the Boer War to his
conscience by saying that it would spread-a
| knowledge of Wordsworth on the veIdt!
| Strange to say the first complete critical edi-
| ton of the works of Sir Philip Sidney is to be
/ given to the world by a Frenchman. Professor
/ Albert FeuiIIerat is the editor in question, and
! his edition is to be in three volumes, two Of
/ text and of notes.
| AS everybody knows Lear's quaint song, The
| Owl and the Pussycat' nobody will be at loss
IAn q Tn