New-York tribune., 1909-10-10

grave, asked "Why was his name to-day the
most widely reverenCed and the most deeply
loved of all the names which Englis hmen cared
TO recall from his age? The answer was given
In a wOrd-character.
A translation of the sixth edition of Professor
Sombart's Socialism and the Social Movement
has just been published by the buttons. This
sixth edition. which is four times the size of the
first, brings the history of socialism in Europe
and America down to the present time The
work has been translated into seventeen Ian
guages. including Japanese.
Mr.. w c. BrowneH is adding to his list of
critical ESSAYS on American authors paper on
Ralph Waldo Emerson. II is to appear in the
November number OF "Scribner's Magazine"
The collapse of the art of conversation is la
mented by the London Nation" in hopeless
terms. In the struggle between the spoken and
the written word it declares. the latter has of
recent times gained an evil ascendancy; the
knowledge of human nature and of life which
can only come through personal intercourse, and
which is even falsified by the bookish life, is
gravely underrated':
It is among those who must be called the in
teIIGetgaF that 'hf defect and even faISity ot
OF banter, with studied avoidance of depths, a
Intellectual life. talk about scholars artists
playwrfghts and their works. anything to escape
where lurking underneath our conscious Hfe
The cause is partly timdity. but largely Il mis-
chievOus and even mOrOse secretiveness. a really
fTee ana generous talk to Contribute to any coy
operative effort to clear thought or win truth ac-
S0mPanied by disiTus in this social mode OF
that, in day when most men of intellect are
writers, words Of wit and wisdom are deliberately
withheld for the profitable uses of the literary
ssnlightened Chancellor of the Exchequer should
such churSh policy.
The deeper-seated trouble this mournful phi
IoSopher attributes to "a state of society which
Is inmcal 10 the true art of friendship For
real conversation is only possible among friends
or long and settled intimacy whose sympathy i3
both deep and wide-ranged. Under modern con-
ditions of civilized life circle of such friends
becomes rarity: division of labor change of
residence, the excessive demands OF Drint the
material iuXury-in a word the restlessness and
olsslpatlon Of our lIfe-render very difficult that
sort of intercourse of friends in which conversii-
ton of the best sort can really flourish"
The autobiography of Princess Helene Won
RaCOwitZa-the betrOthed of Ferdinand Las
sale and the heroine. Clotilde of Meredith's
Tragic ComedianS"-is to be brought out this
season In this Will probably be included much
OF the material OF the little book about her ac-
quaintance with LassaIe which Helena pub
hshed in 1879. She knew the Paris of the Sec
ond Empire and saw much of Ludwig of Ba-
Varla and Richard Wagner, and had interesting
experiences among the Normons in this country
With her second husband, Count Shevitch she
spent some time in literary work in this city.
In the forthcoming novel. "Celt and Saxon
by the late George Meredith the Cet is said
to be represented by both Welshman and Irish
man. and the story treats of the divergences of
race. The period is modern. As for the Mere
dlth comedy which is also announced for pub
ncation, II is supposed to be one in due dra-
matte form. 1t is hardly possible that Meredith
could adapt his peculiar genius TO the produc-
non oi plays, and the expected comedy viii