New-York tribune., 1908-12-27

Work 1<Ller Lincoln IE Ut state lli>
formed somewhere down Chatham street and let
back to the end of the line TO lock at him again
This completed my vision Of the big man Eut t1s
WaIiack's Theatre. on Rroone street. revived
the profound soemnity of my impression With see
ing every enc Uncoycr as the funeral ear went 3y-
NJ Rene Bazin. the novelist. has been lectvr-
ing in London on the Peasants Of France re
said that the peasant OF yesterday HEed ana
died on his farm. but trat the peasant of to-day
more easily left his land The kind OF peasant
however who is fCnd Of his farm economies
ard endeavors TO buy it-and that k.nd of man
does not leave his country FrenCE peasants.
he declared, are extremely charitable anG ther
moral tone is high
\ large number Of sheuey's letters Will ho put
into print for the first time IN a new collection
of the poets epistIes which Mr Roger Ingpen
is preparing. The latest edition of Shelley let
ters contained only oue hundred and thirty MT
Ingpens edition viii contain about toUr hu'oTeu-
An edition Of Thomas Love Peacock's Ne
rnoirs of Shelley IS coming from the oxford
University Press This VIII include Shelley :
letters to Peacock The book has been edited
with an introduction by H F =. Brett smith
Another book about to be issued by the oxford
Press IS a new edition % tharle5 v t--[S ; t 1'.t
and His Brethren" For this Nj SWlnburn5
has written an Introduction Our readers VIII
remember that it was Swinburne " no rescued
this poem from Oblivion when its author had
become an old man. and. disheartened by failure
~ rsoIect had burned all his other manu-
sl-~fnts What would have been poor Wols's
sensations had he known that one Gay MS poem
was to be added TO the Worlds Classes
In the Royal Library at Munich has lately
been discovered a manuscript which y 0- con-
siderable interest It WAS traced by the hand
of Cyrano de Berserac-it is the original manu-
script of his Voyage a Ia Lune." II shows that
the romance which was supposed to have ..~rn
written in tG49-J0, really dates from I0+I--'.
The Royal End the unpublished novel lcst
by the late Henry Harland. IS just coming rom
the press. The scene Is laid partly n New t-TS-
land and partly in Italy.
The taciturn Hawthorne as he appeared at a
dinner al EmerSOu's house Is thus described N
Mr. Lehmanns Memories: As usual he
hardly ever spoke. and / only rrilleillo'T ms
breaking his apparent vow OF silence when dD-
peaIed to by d Mr Bradford. This gentleman,
after 4 fiery danuucjatiou of the South, having
come 10 the end of his peroration, passIon2t'sy
turned 10 his silent listener with IN" W'ros'
Don't you agree with me" Then Hawthorne
aStonished him by UtterlEg the moEoSyllatie
No. after which he again relapsed into silence
An English periodical which is to be devoted
entirely to fiction is Mr. Evei"igh Nashs new
Monthly Magazine" kIpliug, Conan DOYLE,
Anthony HOPE Rider Haggard and Robert
Hichens are among the contributors announced
The C;oncourt rrize has been given this YEAR
to NJ Francis de Miomandre for ms novel en-
Titled 'Ecrit sur de lEau.' II IS suggested that
this title is drawn from tn" memorable words
of Keats. The story Is described as TO
mantle and poetic effort of a younG man TO de-
scribe with much deHcacy OF style the dreams
Of youth in 4 background Of Bohemian HE aE
Ma-scl-les.
Miss Amy Fav's we'll known Music Study il
Germany Is corning out in a French translation
NJ d-Indy. the composer. has written an nitro
ducto-y CHAPTER for this version