New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-28

@ay a SI tSsf me 6s,1ad which published in he
English Review for last pecembeer; en nndTce as
a tragic play before printed the ballad form Of
on ETC. % S9 it 81 then a Occurred to the sub
ectone in which the fear OF & 4ent Of
bringing dire dsasterthe eminenty proper on d tha
moral subject. would prevent my getting II Oh '"e
! boards, so / abandoned IT,
OF course one ought TO beat ones breast ana
wall, but considering the figure cut by MI
Hardy-a genius in his own field-as dramatlst
and poet one can only read this letter with
smile An American novelist, by the way mas
had his say on this question of the censorship
In a letter to Mr.. John Galsworthy Mr.. Henry
James has offered the following views:
1t is difficult to express the depth of dIsm 1 and
try finds it impressed upon him, in passing into
the province of the theatre with the veM 9I tb
an obscure and irresponsible Mr. So-and-S3 VINO no
shall make his work square. at vital points. with
Mr. So-and-So's personal and, inteilectuaHy anu
critically speaking. wholly unauthoritative prefer
ences. Prejudices and gnorances and that the less
ing ii is and the more vulgar and superficial and
futile. the more IL is likely TO square. lie thus
the critical Veto with the power to enforce its de
fsoRs that is without Parae ,b IN any other fb S
Of reegang the theatre to the position OF mean ian
sgendences. pOverties and puslanimities.
mr.. Hamlln Garland has reconsidered his de-
termination to write novels and to de-
vote himself to plays He is engaged upon
new novel which will be completed.
The Lippincotts are sending to press for the
fourth time the biography of Whistler written
by Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell. This is well
come testimony to the deserved popularity of
deeply interesting book. IL is said that the
thOrs are coming to this country next winter for
a lecture tour. Whistler the art of engraving
A.
subjects We suppose Mrs. Pencil will speak
on the first and her husband the others.
It is said that in Mr. Roosevelt's first African
article "A Railroad Through the Pleistecene"
which Is TO appear in the October "Scribner's."
there is particularly interesting account of his
first hunting. 1t is to be profusey illustrated by
photographs taken by Kermit Roosevelt In
reference to the ex-Presdent's outfit 1t is said
that mot the choice Of his tents. guns or
provisions gave him and Kermit more care than
the Pigskin Library small collection OF best
books bound in pigskin TO withstand the rough
usage OF the jou: ney."
translation Of l. P Youvatshev's account of
prisoners life in the great Russian fortress of
Schluesselburg has just been brought out in
London. The Telegraph" of that city says
that the author spent three years in the fortress
for the crime of being friendly with two 'politi-
GALS whom. in fact. he had never seen:
He was for the same reason sentenced further
20 fifteen years in Sakhan. From the time when
Peter 'he Great finally took possession Of Schues-
seburg, al the mouth OF the Neva. in 1902. fortress
has existed there. hut though IL has always boon
looked uron a prison. II not until 1854 that
II vas used for political prisoners; then IL
hled AMI the doinEs within its walls kept secret
In 1903 nine prisoners were released all of whom
had been there eighteen years. In the
eighty cells Of this building each cell fve feet
long by four feet wide, where the windows were
so high and small that little light penetrated. men
and women were kept in solitary confinement:
many lost their reason. others sought death either
by suicide or by attacking the guards. satu-
rated the clothes he wore with oil from his lamp
and then set fire 10 them. Vet there some
alevtatiOns- Books allowed. and allowed
literally 10 n prisoner who. like the author Of this
volume. endured quietly the sorrows imposed upon
him. quarter Of an hours exercise was per
mltted every prisoner In an outdoor cell seven
ieet long and later the prisoners were allowed 20
turn SOME Of these spaces into little gardens.
Mr.. Philip s. Marden. author Of that pleasant
book, Greece and the Hsgean Islands," has
been observing life in Spain. and the result is
book of Travels in Spain" The Houghton
Miffiin Company will publish H. Another book
OF travel which they will issue Is "A Brief Pill
grimage in the Holy Land" This is from the
pen of Miss Caroline Hazard. the president OF
Wellesley College.