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

ton of essays which will be published this fall
under the title OF 1.-The French Procession: A
Pageant of Great Writers" Her studies extend
from Racine to Anatole France.
Allusion was recently made In The Tribune to
a forthcoming volume intended to mark the GEN.
tenary of John Stuart Blackie. Apropos of this
a correspondent sends the following anec-
dOte which a friend Of the lovable Scot was
wont TO tell: Professor Blackie was called
away on one occasion, and left the following
notice on the blackboard Professor Blacbie will
meet his classes on Monday Some merry stu
dents came along shortly afterward and erased
the letter C. leaving the sentence. Professor
Blackie will meet his ''lasses' on Monday
When the professor returned he went TO the
board and quietly erased the T. There was
silence in the classroom"
II is interesting news that presently to
have biography OF Gambetta in English The
author. Mr. ". G. Berry. has had plenty OF ma
terial at his disposal. The great Tribune has
figured in most books Of memoirs having any
thing 10 say at all about his period. We hope
that Mr.. Berry did not complete his manuscript
until he had examined Gambettas recently pub
lished correspondence with the lady who
secretly exercised so profound an influence upon
him. and We hope also that this biographer has
consulted NJ. Hanotaux's statesmanlike and
vivid pages.
We have already called attention TO the pros
pect of a volume worthily commemorative Of
the late George Meredith. In regard to this we
have received from the editor of "scribner's
Magazine" the following letter
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Supplementing the announcement recently
collection OF Mr. George Meredith's letters. is in
preparation under the supervision OF Lord Morley,
Mr.. William Meredith desires 20 ask that
American correspondents possessing letters who
viii toward Them to me at this address SIS Rhers
co M the be a4ns al G ben ane @
mediatey, to their owners without the delay OF
Very truly yours.
l5s Fifth avenue. August 20 1873
Readers Of the standard translation OF Cellinrs
autobiography. the one made by the late John
Addngton Symonds. will recall the pains ne took
10 expose the gross inaccuracy OF the English
version which bears the name Of Thomas Roscoe.
Mr. Paget Toynbee. we'll known in modern
scholarship for his dealings with Dante litera-
ture makes I'm a letter 20 the London Times"
this reference 10 the book which Symonds so
roundly condemned:
II is not generally known that IN connection with
this translation Thomas Roscoe was guilty OF de
cepton which imposes on the Literary world 10 TINS
Benvenuto Cellinis autobiography was Thomas Nu-
gent who PuaSphe1 ma 'eIsign ,b YsaT bsfoye
his death. Fifty years later dn ls22 Thomas Ros
S eS the title of which Is eauivCcay worded
There is re, e TO a6 5he b nee
mention of him Is made on the title page This
work. the two versions. except for the hrst few
paragraphs Of the first chapter and occasional
work. being almost Identical word for word. in
Guiding the verse translations
Ar,ore, all The old master. there Go MT opa
more generous than Rubens in providing the
biographer with illustrative material. and ap-
parently the reproduction OF his paintings is a
grateful enterprise. We recall at least three
sumptuous works devoted TO his art in recent
years Another volume in his honor is now an
nOunced. prepared by Mr.. z. Dillon. for the
series in which have had useful studies OF
Velasquez and Ghirlandajo, and II Is 20 contain
nearly five hundred plates
The Emperor Of Austria IS the subject of one
more Of those gossipy volumes which are now
adays popular. II has been written by NJ
Henrie de weindl who calls his book The
Real Francis-Joseph." An English version is
just the market in London. and presumably
will soon be imported here.
When believers in the Shakespearian author
ship of the Shakespearian plays and poems mod
estly point out that they have never been able 10
discover anything in the writings of Francis
Bacon to justify the theory that he possessed
any poetic faculty at all. the Baconians put on
owlish look and darkly suggest that the
speaker must be only specifically acquainted
with the statesman's works Sir Edward Sui
livan. the Shakespearian scholar. has interested
himself in the subject 10 the extent of giving
Bacons writings good overhauling in search OF
poetic evidence. He finds not a lot or little of
II having any serious significance whatever
James Speeding. who wOrmed himself into
Bacons character If ever a man did, doubted II
there were five consecutive lines In either
Bacon or Shakespeare that could possibly he
interchanged and not recognized at once bv anv
person familiar with their styles" The con-
tribution which is made 10 this argument nv Sir
Edward Sullivan in his essay on Francis BACON
Poet" printed in THE Nineteenth Cen
tury' for August. is clincher and ought not
TO be missed by the Shakespearian student In
the same number there IL. by the way n de-
lightful Last Word" from Canon BeechinR 10
Mr.. George Greenwood. the author of that in |
terestng but specious book which would dras
ticaly distinguish between the stratford player
and the author OF the plays
Sad tales about the theatrical censorsbIn I'm |
England usually relate To some masternIeca /
which had got itself written but had then been
cruelty kept from the boards. Even I'm these in |
stances. however. weeping mankind is solaced |
by the publication Of the ill-used drama in hook |
form. But the present public examination into |
the whole melancholy question has developed |
the circumstance that one eminent author was |
actually struck mute by his fear of the censor |
nipped in the bud. as 1t We're. Just as he was |
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