New-York tribune., 1909-05-15

We're is well known, the work of the Men
of the Ninth Thernidor,' who. as NJ. Z. Hamel
has proved to NJ. Matthews satisfaction,
oeeded in casting the odium for them on their
victim. So the worship of the Supreme Being
was their invention rather than Robespierres,
as is proved by the fact that it survived him,
and that the Directory obstinately refused to
substitute Sunday for 'Decadi'; while he al
ways defended in the Assembly the right Of the
Constitutional priests to say mass"
A new edition of Waterton's ''Wanderings in
South America" which the Macmillan Company
has Just brought out, is to be heartily vel
coined 1t includes a biography and an ex-
planatory index prepared by the Rev. J. c.
Wood
Mr.. Maarten Martens CDr. Van-den-Poorten
Schwartz has written a new novel to which he
has given the title of Lis Doris" 1t is 10 be
published here in the autumn.
Martens gave before the English Authors
Club the other evening, an interesting address
on some Points Of Contact between English
and Dutch Literature In the Past" In the
course of il he said;
You must let me point out that three Of, Of the III;
biggest books ever written-enormous in their in
fuence here. in England. all over the world
written, not in Dutch by three cenRuyiISii Il
OF mine The "Imitauo' by Ihomas OF hehPeL, pei
the 'Laus Subtitle" BY ERASMUS. the De Jure
BeIi &C Pacis' by Hugo de Groot. Ihe !aSl a
named is not the most known. AS the foundation
Of international lawNits influence is not perhaps
less leTe 40 think that from your side the
water came 10 US. most read OF an TSltEiou9 tE.
tan devotion. ne rGa IN Trtatio" came f1oni
Tho cell OF a convent: the supreme manuals
Of Christian warfare Catholic and Puritan against
the selfsame foe And 1t is pieassI{ 70 reIieoT F
joye and to Sir Thomas More the ''Laus Stultitias
stands gratefully dedicated.
In a recent lecture on Swinburne Professor
Mackail noted that no man of letters Of equal
eminence had lived in our own times who had
ever been less in the newspapers and less IN
what he called the world. Sir Edward Burne-
Jones. not very long before his death, destroyed
reluctantly. but deliberately, nearly all Swim
brrne's letters to himself He Uhe lecturer) at
tempted some remonstrance. but Sir Edward
had made up his mind. and he thought he was
right"
a verse written by Swinburne for the tomb Of
= friend Mr ] w Inchbold, is 10 be seen in
AdeI Churchyard near Leeds. but is not gener-
allv known Mr. Inchbold a poet and
painter, and was for years an intimate Of Swim
burne. The inscription is follows:
II far beyond the shadow OF the sleep
A place there be for souls without STAN
Where RsSe rs s that aP change and shine again
There none OF all unsullied souls that live
May hold a surer station, none may lend
More light TO Hope or Memory's lamp, nor give
More joys than Thine 10 those that calieo 4hee
Friend
Apropos of Professor Silvauus Thompson s dis
covery that the opening forty lines of Swim
burne's Prelude" TO 'Tristram of Lyonesse'
are written 10 the same rhymes in the same or
der as the opening forty lines Of the Sailing OF
the Swan" in the same poem. The Manchester
Guardian says: 1T could not have happened
by accident one Of the two passages must
have been written first; then Swinburne must
have detached the rhymes and set himself in
the vantonness Of his metricaI skill, to write
verses to suit them Of entirely different purport
from the first. He was playing simply game
Of 'bouts-rmss' and the only question is, Which
Of the two passages was written first? No one
can tell for both seem equally spontaneous
The concordance 70 Wordsworth the work Of
Professor Lane Cooper of Cornell, is nearly
ready for publication. He has had several as
sistants and has labored under the auspices Of
the Concordance Society.
There was an interesting discussion the
ouestiou What Shakespeare Thought of
women" at the recent meeting Of the London
Sha kespeare League. Mrs. Charlotte Slopes was
2 little tart. The first thing that struck one"
she said was that Shakespeare believed women
to be human. That discovery for the six
teenth century and it a fact that not
even recognized to-day" Another aspect Of
Shakespeare's women, she declared, which had
not been much considered was the intense 10y
sItv and affection which existed between woman
and woman as in the case Of Helen and Her
mia RosaIind and Celia. Hero and Beatrice We
found il even in the most unlikely relationship
of rnother-in-law and daughter-in-law. With
the single exception of the wife OF Cymbeline all
the mothers-n-law were devoted to their daugh-
ters-in-law She pointed this out because there
was nothing that men who wrote plays in these
davs delighted in much in representing
that women were not loyal and kind TO
other Her reference 10 the stress laid by the
drauatist on flial obedience in women aroused
Dr Furnivall. who said he thought Mrs. Slopes
had overlooked the young man He thought
Shakespeare recognized that when there was
a Young man in the case the father was not
worth twopence." In winding up the discus
sion Dr. FurnivaH combated a suggestion cf
Mrs Slopes that Shakespeare had yielding
submissive wife He thought the early plays
showed that Shakespeare's wife had temper.
The four volume edition of Motey's History
Of the United Netherlands" has long been
cherished by faithful readers. Now. by some
notifications of manufacture the Harpers have
brought the text into two volumes, without
abridgement or reduction of the size of type.
The baby princess Of Holland, by the way
Little Julie" has been named after the mother
of Motleys hero, william the Silent. Juiana of
Stolberg gave her husband twelve children.
headed by the great William. and her surviving
letters to her show her TO have been
woman of strong and noble character.