New-York tribune., 1909-01-31

-er-uight be almost said. in sense, to have
educated himself The street the ware house MI
and post chaise-sueh the education that
R at tRe banaget Of at an nprecedented
age, to make the best speeches IN London. TO go
TO lead every company in which he mixed to travel
the most animated letters known to the modern
world.
The statement of the London Chronicle" THAI
Devotional books. religious books. do not sell
as they did has evoked a letter from an ap-
parently well informed reader to the effect that
though the style and form of devotional books
may have changed with the changing years, they
place of the cid devotional Manual there is to.
day a large variety of books and booklets thar
literally selling by their thousands"
Students of the Peninsuar War will be inter
ested in a book which is coming out IN England
This is collection Of letters written during the
campaign by a British soldier Captain Ware
afterward Lieutenant General Sir Wllllarn
Ware He was present at the battles of Rolica.
Vimiero, Corunna and Salamanca, and at inc
sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and BadaJos-
number of Mr. William J. Bryan's speeches
are to appear in a volume which MeSSrs. Funk
& Wagnals will produce in the spring. Mrs.
Bryan has written biographical introductloR
for the book.
Mr. John Spargo. in "The Spiritual Signif-
canoe Modern Socialism (B w Huebschl'
gives ms OPINION that, spite OF all HluCit
vaunted progress, If we except the StrlVlngS OF
the Socialists the spiritual note is almost wholly
lacking in our national life" The churcneS
have lost their social ideals and their faith.
The Socialist dreams and believes, but Mann
and the Church mock the dream and the
faith This looks as if Mr.. Spargo had not
been correctly informed about the churches. Ac-
COrding TO their lights they not only believe IN
brotherhood in a general way, but endeaVoT 10
give it wise economic expression. The fact that
the measures favored by the majority of church-
not always socialistic in tendency IS
no warrant for the somewhat ostentatious spr-
itual isolation of Mr.. SpargoS friends. Happily
for the exigencies of human lot, the churches
make social justice but a beginning and not the
end of religion.
A new edition of Trevelyan's Life and Let
ters of Lord Macaulay' is to be brought out by
the Harpers- This edition will include the Mar
ginalia' which the historian dotted through the
books in his library
Oriental fiction is to be drawn upon for an
important Romance of the East series which
will be brought out soOn- One of these volumes,
entitled Tales of the Caliphs." narrates authen-
tic anecdotes of the caliphs of Bagdad and Cor
dova and stories of Haroun- al -Raschid not to be
found in the Arabian Nights In Tales With
in Tales" the animal stories Of Pilpai are re-
cited. Tales from the Sanscrit are to be pub.
lshed IN due time.
One of the welcome books of the spring is
promised by DIR. Guido Biagi, librarian of the
Laurentian and Rccardi Libraries, Florence. This,
under the title of Men and Manners Of Old
flOre0ce, is a cOllecC1on OF essays DdSSu upon
hitherto unpublished documents, and dealing
with various aspects of social life in Florence
from the thirteenth to the beginning of the nine-
teenth century.
NJ. Georges Hugo has just sold his library.
the larger part of which once belonged to his
grandfather, the novelist and poet. An item
which brought 5000 was presentation copy Of
Prince Louis NapoeOn's "Etudes de PArtilere."
1886 inscribed "A Victor Hugo, hOmmage de
haute eStime ct de viVe sympathe." Why did
Hugo preserve this gift of a he detasted?
A biography of Mrs. Norton containing hith-
ertO unpublished letters is coming from the
press in England. Although We are no longer
expected to believe that this ladys portrait IS
drawn in Diana of the CrOssways," the beauti-
full and brilliant daughter of the Sheridans IS
interesting enough in herself to need no touch
of the nOVelst's art.
An inexpensive pocket edition Of the English
Men of Letters" d series which includes many