New-York tribune., 1909-05-01


| unpublished Verses" dated 1868. OF his poem,
| Grace Darling" there only thirty copies
Other privately printed poems were THE Ballad
Of Bulgaria" Dead Mems Bay" and Robert
| Burns
| One OF the pleasant traits OF Swtnburne was
his affection for children. During his morning
walks he was accustomed to 60 along with his
eyes upon the ground looking so solemn" says
the Pail Mall Gazette" "as to deceive an adult
observer"
But let him catch sight Of child ard ard
}p nv vas eve to @ and Hs do dhd o6n
sst the look upon his face. 1t was, too. at least
might ah sfeB be soegned da in MT % pockets
It was his regular habit TO s load sT RsH b"e @ was
ss 9d by ns s oh had ou Of os9
wonderful pockets.
Mr.. G. X shorter-in company with many
| other readers-complains that the publishers
who reprint Anthony Trolopes fascinating
Barchester novels persist in not reprinting the
! parliamentary series Those who remember the
| 'Phineas Finn and the 'Phineas Redux" cannot
but wonder at this short-sightedness. Many OF
the old friends of the Barchester series reappear
! therein and these novels in all respects
| worthy to stand beside the other series They
| are as Mr. Shorter says, out OF print and out
| of copyright Why are they ignored? We arc
| ecdote: Sitting in an obscure corner Of his
I club one evening he heard two talking
! about his books and OF them was actually
| vawnfng over Mrs. Proudie and expressed the
| brutal wish that the author would kill that
| woman or Trollope went home detected and
made Mrs Proudie die. We who never knew
him. but love much in his writings with
! a peculiar affection. think that we could not
have too much OF Mrs. Proudie and wish that
f,ar oil iva I1h
many q volume"
President Nicholas Murray Buffers study OF
The American AS He Is" is IN course OF trans
lation into seven foreign guages-French.
Spanish. German. Danish Italian. Russian and
Japanese
The English journalists who have credited ths
late Marion Crawford with being IAN Italian on
his mothers side" may like 20 know that that
lady was American OF the Americans. Louisa
Ward. the wife Of Thomas Crawford. was the
daughter OF a New York banker and the sister
of the writer. Julia Ward Howe.
For the plot by the way. OF his new novel
.The White Sister"-the last ara to have
from his pen-Mr Crawford resorted to the hos
tility Of the old Papal families OF Rome to the
secular government. It IS thus described; His
heroine is Angela the charming and oeauuIul
daughter Of the Prince Chiaramonte, an aristo-
cratic old adherent Of the clerical party more
papist than the Pope The prince is killed in an
accident and it IS discovered that in his proud
allegiance TO the Church he had refused to have
his marriage legally ratified by civil cere-
rnonv: consequently. his only child has no legal
status as his heir The situation is complicated
by the girls love for penniless young officer
The queer endeavors Of vanity ridden COM
monplace people to borrow the distinctions OF
others is shown in the story OF harmless
F-renchman who for some time travelled In the
South of France under the name Of Paul Bour-
get the novelist 1t is said that he even al
lowed himself to be interviewed on literary
questions being indeed. exceedingly affable. |
The pretender was in every other way ar en-
treIv respectable person. He paid all his bills
nronontIv and his behavior correct. All he
wanted was the admiring consideration which
he felt was the due Of a we'll known writer.
The publication of letter OF warning by NJ.
Bourget ended this eccentric performance
= is related that in the effort to ind two
thousand names for the town sites along
the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway the
Canadians fell upon the COgnomen OF Mr.. Ar
tbur StrInger author of much fiction Having
heard Of this action Mr. Stringer wrote to the
authorities of the new town of "Stringer'' and |
offered them what is called "a limited free |
library Of his oTyn books a fortnight after |
so runs the taIe-came answer, signed sid |
Wappler" and couched in these vigorous terms: |
Don't bother about sending them books out to |
this here metropolis called Stringer. guess they
are good books all right but the CroT breed who
English and I'm busy track-walking.
2. S.-Cs two Is the metropolis
Mrs. Rose Cecil ONeilI Wilson. the wife Of
the novelist, Mr.. Harry Leon Wilson. has her !
self written a novel which she Will publish this
month This lady is fortunate in that she can |
illustrate her own stories and need not the |
earing discrepancies between text and picture |
in which the illustrators of the day often |
indulge.
Will the diary OF King Louis Philippe ever be |
published? The Due d'Orleans, 1t is said. pos |
sesses the manuscript
The King had many "reminiscences of famous
personages some of these going back to his |
childhood. For example, Grant Duff tells Us
that he remembered being at play with of
his relatives at the Palais Royal when a very |
old man, most carefully dressed. came up to
them and said, "Quele belle BourbonaiIIe!" 1t
IS added that before taking his departure, the |
same old man placed his hands the head Of |
the future King of the French. saying. Sou
venez-vous que vous etc beni par Vol
tare" He also remembered his tutor saying
to him one day as they walked, Look at that
man on the other side OF the street. You will
be glad to have seen him; that is Jean jacques"
OF the hundred and forty contributors to the
second volume Of the New Schaf- Herzog En-
cyclopedia of Religious knowledge" (Funk &
Wagnalls Company nearly hundred are Ger