New-York tribune., 1909-01-10
LITERARY NOTES.

| HaPpeileu 10 see the Hght.
For the student of Italian history the unbanpv
! city of Messina has secondary interest in that
II was the scene of the frightful bombardment
and massacre which for the Bourbon brute
| Ferdinand II the nickname of "Bomba" The
| recent earthquake mercy itself in COM
parson with the atrocities which the troops
OF that base creature perpetrated upon the
Wretched men, women and children of the city,
AS for Messna itself only third of it was left
when at last the bombardment ceased.
Interesting MSS, it appears are still to be dis
covered In the City Library at Zurich mas Just
e,l neen found work of six hundred pages dealing
with events from 1916 to 1884 1t is from the
hand Of John Slumpf, prior of the Order of st.
John OF Jerusalem. If says 1.-The London
| Globe" I'VE did not remember the remarkable
i ind of the Institutes of Gaius in the chapter
house at Verona by Niebuhr, the church histo-
ran in 1916 it would seem incredible that the
Ms which has just come to light should have
| reposed forgotten and unknown to historians
LOT nearly five centuries in library well
known as that of Zurich"
The march OF civilization in Afghanstan has
reached the post card. The Amir has intro
duced into his state 1-anna post cards with or
| namental fowery borders and instructions for
use IN Persian script
The fourth volume of the complete works OF
nI<ZzIrll mas just appeared. 1t contains the pO-
ltcal proclamatons and pamphlets which the
Itahan issued and secretly circulated between
the years 1883 and 1885. They all illustrate
nineteenth century history-wfth and without
Carlylean comments-"Mazzini's opinions were
TO me incredible and Cat tragically and
conlcaily) lmpracticable in this world"
The creator of Sherlock Holmes had sur
prise, quite in the vein of his hero the other
evening Arriving in Paris on his return from
the Rivera-"Ffgaro' tells the story-be took
a cab at the station, drove to his hotel and gave
the cabby a good tip "Merci, Monsieur Conan
Doyle" said that functionary and the aston
ished author asked how earth he knew mis-
name. ',Voici:" was the answer, Il read in the
papers that Sir Doyle to arrive in Paris
from Nice, after stopping at Marseilles and
Lyons on the way. Now 1 noted that you had
the Lyons mud still. Sir Doyle" Could Holmes
be cleverer than that? do you mean to say
that was all the evidence you had to go upon?'
asked Doyle We'll, to be honest, no. said
the grlnning cabby. Il also your
written on your box"
One Of the most valuable of the private
libraries of France is TO be sold in Paris next
spring. This is the collection made by the late
Vicomte de jane, of early editions of French
authors of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eigh-
t%enth centuries. The bindings are those OF
Derome, Pasdeloup and other distinguished
craftsmen.
There is characteristic glimpse of York
shire "downrightness'' in the Just published
"reminiscences of an English clergyman:
At my institution to Upham, retired Colonial
Bishop. about to take an English benefice, said,
pdnts e Rat 9
e You 9a tRa my thinks III
fool he comes and tells you so to your face; down
eK hit go n 3 af 6g Sop Gn 9nc
could not be better described"
Yorkshire regard for the pocket the aforesaid
clergyman illustrates in this anecdote:
A groom being, asked how long he lived in the
Yorkshirenlan, lived twenty years down here,
man. but measther were Yarkshire too.''
The Paris correspondent of The London
Times says that the person in London who
offered Marshal Lanness papers to the Monte
bello family after the documents had been miss
ing for considerable time writes to the
press in order to repeat that he acquired them
in complete good faith from reputable book
seller in Paris. He further suggests that tho
documents either by accident by de-
sign included in the sale of books and effects
which took place at Mons Castle a few months
ago In the time the police continue
ing their Investigations
The Darwin Centenary next June will be Cee-
brated by the University of Cambridge in
appropriate fashion. There will be d reception
by the Chancellor, addresses by the delegates in
the Senate House, a garden party, banquet
and exhibition of portraits. editions and relies
of Darwin. Each delegate will receive a copy
of the first draft of THE Origin of Species"
The American delegates are Dr. J. NJ. Baldwin,
Johns Hopkins University; Professor J. Loeb,
University of California; Professor W. q. Far
low American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Boston: Professor c. s. MinOt Boston; Profess
SOr r. H Chittenden. Peabody Museum of Nat
ural History, New Haven; Professor L. B. Will
son. Columbia: DR.. H. F. Osborn, American