The Washington herald., 1909-01-10

first as things - the imagination and not
az realities This is not 20 decrv Ros-
setti. il = merely 20 suggest that he
should be- praised jUdicioUsly and dis
criminately. and II is precisely because
he has already suffered so much from the
uncritiCai tGat II seems necessary 10
protest against a further obstacle % a
right judgment ar Hail Game We are
sure. IS weli-meaning, hut he had better
have RETAINED from making Rossetti the
hero Of Ny story
Maude Radford Warren. who wrote
The Lard OF the Living. is the au-
Thor or a new serial in Harper-s Bazaar.
and some interesting comparisons are
being made on the complete difference
in theme end style OF the two novels
Whereas The Land Of the Living" was
a story % middle-cIass Chicago with al
cid irish ward boss and a good-hearted
stenographer 60 contribute the humor 10
a political plot. Peter. Peter" has a
society setting. with q thoroughly de-
voted young New York couple Who are
bankrupt hard upon the heels Of the
honeymoon and are still planning 10
marry Of their unmarried friends
Light as q Cream-pUff Is what one
reader says TO describe Peter. Peter
which. so far as II has gone. seems 10 be
mostly a soft little sparkle Of converse
ton
The encouraging outlook for poetry in
this country was set forth in a letter
from Thomas Bailey Aldrich 10 Madison
Cawein. which was written in 1902. but
which has Just been published Through
permission OF the Kentucky poet In
the course OF the letter Mr. Aldrich
wrote: I believe in a splendid literary
future for this country After the all
absorbing novelists have run their
course, We shall nave a generation. not
Of poets. perhaps. but Of dramatists-
blank-verse fellows Imagination Is not
going 10 come 20 nothing in a vast nation
Ike ours I would Ike 10 look in on
the United States $50 years from now
Maybe ] should come across volume
upon volume of annotations on 'Cawein's
poems wrongly attributed to J. Whit
comb Riley. OF perhaps to Bacon, for
there will stilI be material for the fool
killer in 2052 A. ="
The Oxford University Press is pub
fishing a new edition Of Thackeray under
the editorship Of George Saintsbury. II
appears in twenty volumes. and its lead
ing feature viii be a series Of no less
than 1,750 Illustrations, including those
that appeared in the first issues Of the
novels, essays. &C, as well as others from
various sources, including Thackeray's
sketch-books now in the British Museum,
and drawings Al Charterhouse School.
Many of these viii be quite unfamiliar,
and the addition will also contain a series
Of portraits of Thackeray at various ages.
and Of reproductions Of portions of his
manuscripts. Besides the text as Thack-
cray finally left il, the most interesting
variations Of the earlier forms have been
supplied either in the text itself, or In
footnotes, or. when either Of these ar
engagements are impracticable, in ap-
pedices.
Unquestionably the most important Eu-
ropean contribution 20 the literature of
psychical research to be published in 1903
viii be a book by Prof. Cesare Lombroso.
the distinguished Italian savant. covering
various aspects OF the subjects. Part of
the manuscript Of this monumental work
has been in the hands of Messrs. Small.
Maynard & Co. for some months past.
The remaining chapters. embodying
some Of the results Of most recent re-
search and EXPERIMENTATION. have Just
been br ESght into the Office Of the firm
by Signor Lonbroso's son-in-iaw. Prof.
Guglielmo FeTrero. who has been deliver
ing lectures at the Lowell Institute. Bos-
ton, and elsewhere. The work VIII be
translated forthwith. and published as
valuable addition to the fascinating lit