New-York tribune., 1909-05-22

! forthcoming piece or ConllcdnIy eilIlti0u
boiling with Galatea." Its characters are men
toned professor pig, poet painter d
| bull-calf, a colt, dog, goat ard loVaoio
| girl It is now on the Riverside Press.
! There is a characteristic glimpse Of the novel;
t ist Bulwer Lytton in the first published dog
! raphy of Lord Norton Here it is: l had
most interesting and pleasant visit TO hneo-
worth Sir E Lytton talked necessarily ana
! charmingly. quite realizing my idea of an ili9s-
icat. eloquent man of genius Sunday he spent
! entirely in the house. dressed in black and req
| dressing gown and smoking the whole time a
! cherry stick pipe. He is literally ha1 mao
about his responsibilities and faneies he is going
to reform the whole colonial empire he gets
up in the middle of the night to write dis
patches and is furious if they don't actually go
| in twelve hours
| Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard has
| rewritten in English his book THE Eternai
! Values" which was brought out In Germany
! last year. He has essayed to give therein "a
| new expression of the meaning of life and
| reality" The Houghton NIif1in Company Will
| publish the work next week.
| Some valuable documents relating to Mrs.
/ ThraIe the friend of DR.. Johnson. have come
| into the possession of Mr.. A. NJ. Broadley, and
| will he used by him in book which Will oe
| welcomed with interest. Among these docu-
| ments is the manuscript describing Mrs. Thrales
tour in Wales with DR.. Johnson. Mr. Broadiey
has been known hitherto as writer on Ma
| poleonc themes.
| The book bf "OId Irish Folk Music and Songs
which is published by Bongmans, Green & Co.
| contains S42 Irish airs and songs never pub
shed before 1t has been edited by Dr. Joyce
president of the Royal Society of AntQuarians'
II fS
! I and Part II of the volume drawn The
! former includes 81 airs. with numerous frag-
! ments Of peasant songs, mostly in the Engllsh
| language but some in Irish, with translations;
| in the latter there ffty-eight complete irish
folk songs with the words set to the proper
old Irish airs The third part is made up of airs
| collected in the last century by accomplished
| musician, William Forde. chiefly from Munster
| and County Leitrim. Part " has been taken
from a rich collection made by John Edward
! Pigot who was an enthusiastic student of the
music of Ireland. 1t is stated that nearly all
| the airs In the book were taken down at the
! time-from 1840 to 1S6O-"when the people re-
| tanned much more of their musical lore and in
| purer form than they do now
A beautiful Illuminated manuscript was sold
| IN London the other day for $3.50 1t
French Fifteenth Century Book of Hours. and
| was attributed to Geofroy Tory. whose life and
works are admirably described in the fine vol
ume recently published by the Houghtor Milf
fin Company. The attrbution was justly made
on the ground of the resemblance of parts of
the decoration to that of works known to be by
Tory.
Mr.. Hall Gaines lately published book is Sc
verely dealt with by the critic Of the London
Spectator" There is one lamentabie chapter
in this book" he says:
Under the guise Of "justfying hts character
%hich would nft Rossetti-the weakened poet,
dragging out his last days Win future n0Fe me
waYward, weak, uncertain, neurotiC person, who
cause his Wife had died hy the accident OF mis-
calculating dose Of laudanum; who could 90 a
grave act ard afterward repent Of 1t and undo II;
who could finally shut himself up as hermit, ana
encourage hundred deluslons aoout the i "otIl::
In a word AIr Caine seeks to rebut the charge
Of morhidity by showing that Rossetti had good
to be depressed 2nd this cause ,. was es1 a4St
To quote the exact words-'Above all, II was my
impression that Rossetu had never ceased 10 re-
that had been due In some degree 20 azure OF
duty on his T5,s p3g tba or rifnia Of intimate friend
ship. We need say more about this unpleasant
book.
In aid Of the project for the erection Of q
monument to the late Catulle Mendes there is TO
be given in Paris a musical and dramatic en-
tertaiHment Nine. Sarah Bernhardt has prom
ised to appear for the first and only time in the
character Of Cyrano de Bergerac
That the average woman will not read an old
book is the cynical conviction OF a mere man
who ventures 10 present this opinion in the
pages Of the Book Monthly" He is public
librarian Of much experience and out OF that
experience he has drawn the opinion that new
ness" is a requirement for = successful ladies'
book" He actually has the hardihood to sug-
gest that If writer's were to bring out the same
books each season with new titles and new
covers they might win successive large circu-
lations
Mr.. Maurice Hewlett's sequel 10 his story,
Halfway House" is to be brought this year
from the press of the scribners.
We are to have new lights" Nelson in a
book based A quantity of family material
The present Earl Nelson, a kinsman Of the ad- |
miral, is the author of the volume
There are many anecdotes Of actors and play
wrights IN the lately published recoIlectons of
Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft. Some OF these
OF course. originate with the always amusing
II ! Rvron 1T was at the little Prince of
(yaless," Sir Squire recalls that Byron first |
suggested that Shakespearian motto for the |
bookkeeper SO much for Bookmg-em!' To a !
provincial landlady he once bitterly complained
of having been attacked by f1eas. Feas sir |
was the retort I sure there is not single |
flea in nv house I am sure of it, too was |
Byrons rejoinder: they are all married and |
have large families
Sir Squire remembers Sardou as small
nervous. lean and wiry shabbily dressed. wear |
ing an old smoking cap. his throat enveloped in |
a white silk muffier-et toujours souffrant. he
being a martyr to neuralg lgia. His head in those
DAYS when he was only forty seven, struck me |
as a mixture OF familiar points in pictures of
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