New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-02-28

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recently published book, the Tie des Pingouins,"
has cost its author senatorship Paris cor
respondent says that his socialist admirers OF
the Federation of the Seine determined to make
him of the Senators of that department, but
changed their minds after reading the Penguin
book, in which, to their thinking, at least. he
made most irreverent fun of them" This book
has been called comic history of France.
An ex-custodian of HoIyrOOd Palace tells in
"Chamber7s's Journal" this story in reference to
the historic pile and the boodStans said to
have marked the floor since the murder of RiZziO:
In the ffftes, when the late Queen began to fire.
quent the royal apartments, an old lady. either
Albert up TO Queen Mary's rooms The Prince, as
where were the indeIble bloodstafns. The form OF
lady pcering at the stains barred the view, and
Wuman Wad stSpd DOT O. the wav," It was the
Queen, who had stolen march on the Prince Con-
In those times the keepers of the rooms had no
YANKEE was caught cutting out splinter from the
panking to carry across the Atlantic At other
found their knees testing the infalble powers Of
their wares on stains
A British author proposes to mark our Henry
Hudson celebration by the publication of novel
called The Half-Moon" and dealing with Hud-
sons famous voyage in the ship Of that name.
Mt F. NJ Hueffer is that author, and his story
has for hero Edward Coleman. the only English
man who accompanied Hudson
The BANQUET in celebration of the centenary
of Edgar Allan Poe which the English Authors
Club has arranged will take place tomorrow.
The chief guests, THE Athen9um' says VIII be
the American Ambassador and Captain Poe, the
senior living representative of the poets family.
Why has no member of the Nco- Celtic school
claimed Poe as one of their distinguished pre-
cursors? The question is asked by an English
critic who goes on to say that the Poes vera
an Irish family. and it was no remoter forebear
than the poets grandfather who migrated 10 the
United States Moreover, Poe enunClateS, alhelt
timidly. the principle which in our own day has
resulted in the production of SO much poetic
beauty the principle Of the indefinite as an ele-
ment in the true pOesis.' Of 'sugSestvenesS OF
meaning, with the view Of bringing about a
defniteness of vague and therefore OF spiritual
effect This principle he applies in a mastery
way in such work The City in the Sea- and
The Valley of Unrest"
The City Of Beautiful Nonsense" is the not
particularly engaging title of a new novel by
Mr. r TerupIe Thurston the husband Of the
author of THE Masqueraders-' II We mention
a book whose vogue has PASSED it IS because 1t
is Mrs. ThurstOns most effective production
The new edition of "Goethes Conversations
with Eckcrmann." to be brought out this year,
will differ considerably from the published text
1t will reproduce the newly discovered manu-
ecrint of The work which was not followed It
appears. in the first edition
Mr. Oscar Fay Adams has turned his busy
pen to the inditng of what he calls "A Motley
Jest" The volume. which has for title
"Shakespearean Diversions" contains two plays
modelled upon ShakespearCan methods and pre-
senting Shakespearean characters.
Five Months in the HimGlaya" is the title Of
a volume in which Mr.. 4. l.. Mumm tells the
story of the conquest of what is claimed to be
the highest peak climbed, Trisul This
record Of a mountaineering journey is accom-
panied by some particularly beautiful illustra-
tons.
In a forthcoming biography Of Cardinal Rich
elieu the author Mr. Joseph McCabc, has un-
dertaken to show how far the accredited facts
Of the statesman's life Justify the romantic por-
traits drawn OF him by such writer's as Dumas"
All the memoirs Of the Cardinals time have
been searched for details Of his life and deeds.
The hook is TO be entitled The Romance OF