New-York tribune., 1909-01-24

an authority on all that concerns that immortal
/ brother and sister Charles and Mary. This is
/ to be entitled the Oxford edition.
| twenty-five Lincoln letters and documents Ii.
| the correspondence between Lincoln and Sem
| ator TrumbuIl are to be published for the first
| time in the February Century Reproduc-
tions of twenty-five portraits OF the President
and a paper by Mr. Glider on Lincoln the
| Leader will also appear therein.
| Those readers who have appreciated the vivid
/ effect of the opening chapters in Mr.. Marion
| Crawford's story, The Dfva's Ruby" may like
! to know that the author once stumbled. in the
Orient, upon place like the strange ruby mine
which he describes in those pages. II i'm
pressed him that he wrote out the episode it
suggested long before il incorporated in
the story of which Margaret Donne is the
heroine
| 1t is stated that the Shakespeare memorial
| committee has finally decided 20 recommend the
establishment in London of q National Theatre.
! at which ShakespeaTian plays viii he performed
| at regular intervals throughout the dramatic
year. 1t is proposed also to include other plays
| in the list, both revivaIs ana works Is living
| dramatsts.
The late Mrsc. Louise CeciIe vinccns-in liter
ature "ArVede Barine'-lefi IN a nearly finished
state a book entitled Madam. Mother Of TIE
Regent" 4 translation Of this j. coming frcm
| the Putnams.
| It is a poor tribute TO Chatterton to coEnf.are
| him, as some critics have foolishy dared t. do,
| to that wondrous singer. John Keats. bCt,
| though Chatterton sinks to insignifcanCe under
! that comparison. all who interested in Eng
| lsh literature will be GLAD to know something
| OF the fresh material OF Importance which Mr.
| J. II. Ingram will include told. il hiS
| forthcoming Life of the poet.
| Mr. Theodore Watts Dunton is blooming rorfs.
| into many books He is preparing volume Of
| "Reminiscences of D. g. Rossetti and William
| Morris at kelmscott' new novel, volume
| which, under the title of The Renascence Of
| Wonder will give critical account of the ro-
| mantle movement and 4 book discussing
| "Shakespeares Adequacy to the Coming Cen
tury.''
| The collapse Of the great bridge over the st.
| Johns River appears incident in a novel OF
| Quebec which Little, Brown & Co. VIII soon
| print. 1t is entitled The Bridge Builders and
| the author is Miss Anna Chaplin Ray.
An unpublished song which Mendelssohn wrote
| for his sister is to appear in Sir Charles SAINT
| ley's promised "reminiscences, together win an
| autograph sketch of Ludgate Hill from the PEN
ell of the composer Both are taken from a
/ to English friend and which in turn
/ given to Santley.
| Miss Betham- Edwards, whose long residence
/ in France has helped to make her authority
| on French manners. says. in the course of
/ appreciative review of Nine Waddington's book
| Chateau and Country Life in France.
| In an Interpretation quite apart from our own
~ PrenGni,tah hSie, S Ma Ma S@ I o'yE t "u< ]
sense. inaccessible as Monte CriSto's grottp-
/ The sesame is never matter of money. In
/ other words, while among ourselves only pal
/ aces and ducal seats encrcled with Chinese
wall, in France no one irrespective OF ms cirr ruh-
i stances. let's or lends his dwelling house
Let home to strangers. allow other folks 70 use
our furniture ard beionenes:, said French house
/ wife to the other day. such a course appears
| incredhie,' The explanation of the matter il per
/ haps this: As the late Edmond Dem0lins pointed
/ out an EngliSEmaU is tho hest possible machine
| invented for spending money. Frenr hUlIn
[ the worst. Thus in England most folks liv" up
! 10 their incomes and most French folks far below
/ it, mere even VruccIv mansions are let furnished
] every day: the water such device Ter
/ making up for financial deficits is needed. To got
inside "A French chateau. indeed. inside F:"ncE
home. . visitor. is equally difficult AS
Pierre Dc Foulevain ronts out in his popular honS.
! Lille InCOnruo.' Mine. Ia Frarce. should she
/ open her house you would feel obliged TO op"n
her heart also. and the key Of that she keeps more
/ jeal"usly than Is generally believed"
Mr II f Krehtiel's book chapters Of Cp"ra.'
has Eoue into second edition within month
/ Of publication These chapters. il Will Ia
membercd. originally appeared in tie cJIuHns
Of The Tribune.