New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-03

A biography Of Harrison AinsUorth is
coming from the press 1t is supposed that
some Of Afnsworth's fo1.y-one novels are stiIl
read-thOugh they can hardly be called liter
iture
NJ Frederic Mistral the Provencal poet has
gagged for nearly fifty years-the translation
of the Book of Genesis from the Latin text into
Provenca1 and French. The three texts will
be included in the volume.
A copy of Shelley's pamphlet Of twenty pages
the Address to the Irish People" was sold in
London the other day for something like 60
guineaS-its original price being fivepence The
author and his Harriet hawked it through the
Dublin streets, where he printed it in 1872, and
fammable by the British postoffiee authorities
at Holyhead. Hence its present rarity and high
price. The text. it may be added. boyishly
foolish and ignorant
Writing of Byron. the other day. Mr.. Andrew
Lang said: NO other poet WAS so dependent
openly displayed, and calculated to make some
desired impression on the public mind: some
times yelled in Oriental! mirage of Yasmaks
and Yataghans. There is no biography OF
Byron which is at all a level with the facts
Of his history. Doubtless many documents exist
which have never been published. In his own
day the little set of poems To Thyrza' were
eagerly scrutinized. From the nature of the
poets methods they must be about somebody,
people said. one acute critic decided that they
were about Byrons celebrated bear, which he
brought up to Trinity to stand for fellow
ship. Probably Moores view was right the
poems are mosaic OF sentiments about various
persons"
Mr, Thomas Hardy, in accepting the preFi-
dency of the English Society of Authors. re
minded his fellow members that he was
getting on i'll years and infirmites were gather
ing about him he would not often be able 10
attend the meetings. although his advice and
would ALWAYS
also mentioned that there still great deal
of work he wished to Go. Let us hope that this
work is not the writing of more poetry.
DIT William Hayes Wards book, The
Seal Cylinders Of western Asia" has just been
published by the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ingtOn. 1t contains over fifteen hundred draw
ingS Of these strange seals which In BABY iona
every property owner was obliged to Possess
Or. Ward has studied every seal of this kind in
The great collections of Europe. and among the
reproductions of the cylinders are hundreds
hat have never been published before
Types from City Streets Is the title "f the
forthcoming book in which Nr, IIutcIins Hap
good has undertaken to describe the underworld
of New YORK. especially what lie finds to be IFS
charm. Funk & Wagnalls viii publish the book
IN private letter. dated 1871 and just printed
for the first time Carlyle lan~Ets the state If
misery in which France was then Plunged and
he adds:
Few persons. believe. :haps au fond not You
Yourself. have = deeper &fH:e Of the beautiful
graceful and shining qualities Nature has lod--cd
in the French. but except in conforming. il per
TctuaIiv striving to CGCtUrm - the Laws when
Nature has cternaI'v appoint Il. Nation can
prosper, at length can exist at al in this
world. Alas my common idea, Wltf1t Is mat
Euglaud'S turn must come next. and that in exact
proportion 10 Englaud& folly. wickCdrrSs and
worldly haSeHeSS must E,uS,Ird'E disasters and
diseraces likewise be Ard often II strikes me
moreover that the hour cannot ne distant
and IS fastening But let us Q'.it these
sad considerations too dismal /" he dwtiJ an here
elsewhere If one could hep IL
A lively account Of the fashion in which the
reconstruction of homes in Messina was eff
fect"d after the earthquake. by the Americans
has been set forth in a volume which is coming
from the Putnay1S press. 1t IS entitled Amer
lean House Building in MeSsina ana Reggie"
and its author is Lieutenant Commander X X
Belknap. the head of the American relief ex-
pedition The Americans erected nineteen bum