New-York tribune., 1910-01-30

of the paper in which Mrs Deland the novelist
has set down her latest observations of her
This discussion of a highly interesting subject
Will appear in the March number of The At
iantic."
Many of the letters in the forthcoming VOL
umes of John Stuart Mills correspondents were
addressed to some of the most distinguished
perSonageS OF his time. AS for his early letters
to Carlyle, to John Sterling and to Bulwer Lyt-
ton, they are said to display his character in a
wholly new and unexpected light.
A literary trfe which is worth in the market
more than its weight in gold is copy Of
the first edition of Gray's ode q Distant
Prospect of Eton College For this Mr.
Quaritch paid the other day the of 1852
1t consists of four leaves folio, is unbound, is
somewhat soiled but apparently uncut. 1t meas
ures 13 inches by Sk inches. 1t published
anonymously at the desire of Horace Wapole,
Dodsley being the printer This is the first time
a copy of this edition has appeared in the auc-
ton room since 1887.
One of the most eminent of living archseol-
ogists is Mr.. d. c. Hogarth author of that
delightful book, "A Wandering Scholar in the
Levant" and the keeper of the Ashmolean
Museum. Mr.. Hogarth is about to publish a new
book whose title, Accidents of an Antiquary's
Life" promises much entertainment.
That agreeable villain, Don O. has again
come forth Mr.. Hesketh Prichard and his
mother having combined to tell the Spaniard's
heart romance. Don Q's Love Story is not
short tale were the other chronicles of
his adventures. 1t is novel which reveals the
fact that it was love and an unjust accusation
of murder which originally sent him out into
the wlds as a bandit.
The lady who not long ago published
Pertaining book on the Turkish harem has COL
laborated with her husband in writing a novel.
1.-The Dukes Price by Kenneth and Demetra
Brown, is the story of an international marriage.
The book, which is mentioned being full of
surprises is coming out next month
Why does the cult of Verlaine G, ", in
France? The London Times sets forth the
reasons justly enough Apropos of the state
ment that a monument the poet is to be
unveiled this year, it says in an editorial: 1T
is a poor kind of gratitude shall be told,
which leaves in the gutter while he lives
| and then makes idol of him when he is dead.
But there are some men OF genius. men who give
priceless gifts to the world, who live in the
gutter because they prefer it, and for whom the
world can do nothing because they have kind
of unWorldness which despises alike the best
and the worst that the world can give. Neralne
one of these. He was Il poet-satyr of Paris,
and he lived there as regardless of law and
order as if he were IN the wild woods C1VlllZa-
ton could give him nothing but poisonous drinks
and cafe to drink them in. But for his genius
he would have been the very type of what
call a Wastrel of the who cannot keep the
agreements upOn which society is based, and
with whom therefore society can do nothing.
Such men pay very dearly for their msdeeds;
and for that reason society always has an un-
easy feeling about them. 1t knows that it pun
ishes them too heavily compared with many
prosperous evdoers whom it does not punish at
all 1t knows that it presses heavily on the
puDlCdnS
go free. So when of these sinners turns out
to be a man of genius and ministers to the ever
lasting delight of the world it makes much of
him when he is dead. just because il could do
nothing for him when he was alive
THE Life and Memoirs of Comte Regis de
Trobriand," prepared by Mrs. Charles A Post,
has just been published by Dutton. There are
still New Workers who remember General de
Trobrand and they as well as the new genera
ticn which does not will be entertained by these
"reminiscences the
An interesting report from Paris is to the ef-
feet that Prince Roland Bonaparte the president
of the French Geographical Society. has founded
a "Bonaparte Fund" for the encouragement of
writer's who are an honor to French literature,
adding to the beauty and originality of their
works their artistic conscience and their respect
for the French language" The fund is to be
distributed in the form of five annuitieS of S600
each to be paid in January of the years 1910 to
1914. The donor founded a similar fund several
years ago for bestowal by the Academy OF
Sciences
A London street in the neighborhood of
Hampstead. has been renamed by the County
Council in honor of Il poet. Keats Grove is the
new name The house in which Keats lived for
few months when he was approaching the end
of all things, and wherein he wrote most of
Hyperion is not far away Its cOsey garden,
in which the poet walked while ScrbbliIig
scraps of paper the lines Of the "Ode to Night
ngale." still attached to the house.