New-York tribune., 1910-05-11

takes a simple pride III his nameSake
and far away relative. "As he chat:ed
with me at his cottage door. with the
swans sailing by in the twilight" says
ii correspondent of THE London Chron-
icle.' "he told with immense conviction
and gusto the story about the poet hav-
ing gone TO sleep for twenty-four hours
under crab apple tree, after convivial
evening. and missing day You may
be certain sure that it's true said he,
for ] had it from my father. and the
| crab tree is still there. And d'you know
what he said when he woke up? why.
bless me-" he says. 'to-day's to-mor-
row. Them WAS his very first words.
You may be certain sure they were!'"
The biography OF Henry Clay. written
by his grandson. Thomas Clay, and COM
pleted by Mr. E. P. Oberholtzer. is one
of the spring publications of 6. W.
Jacobs &c Co. of Philadelphia.
| Professor Ssntayana,. has contributed
| q volume entitled "Three Philosophical
Poets-Lucretius. Dante and Goethe" to
the Harvard Studies In Comparative
| Literature" a new series which is to be
under the general editorship of Profess
sor Schofield 1t is intended that the
series shall present the finished produc
tons Of mature scholars who are Hsr-
ward graduates or instructors. The first
volume will be brought out next month.
One Of the most interesting French
publications Of the season is NJ. L. de
Lanzac de Laborie's lie Monde des Af-
faires ct du Travail paris Sous Ma
poleon)" It is described as a vivid
picture of the business side of the French
capital during the Napoleonic domino
! ton Once more are proved, says 1.-THE
London Times 'the amazing fertility
and versatility Of Napoleon's genius.
The great Revolution had practically
destroyed the trade of Paris; those who
! still possessed, or who had acquired,
money were careful to conceal the fact:
all foreign credit was stopped, and nler-
chants and tradesmen found themselves
compelled to pay Is per cent on six
monthly loans. BY the year 1901 the
popula ton Of Paris had actually de-
creased, and commerce was practically
at a standstill. The First Consul at once
applied his organizing mind TO the solu-
ton of perhaps the most difficult Of the
many problems with which France had
at that moment to deal. There is a rec
ord of his having held conversation in
| 1908 with the famous f1nancter-p politician
Molten. in which he went into the whole
question, declaring with his usual
shrewd sense that Frances first interest
was agriculture. while the second was
her manufacturing interests.
In the Just published biography of the
Empress Eugene there is quoted a sug
gestive speech Of Napoleon's grand
nephew. the young Prince Imperial.
Some one asked him If, as a sovereign,
he would give great artists and great
poets seats in the Senate. NO. he
answered, they were not made for that.
7 would make them princes; I would
give them all kinds Of honors, but not a
place in the councils of government"
A book which treats Of the fairies of
all countries has been brought out by
Nine Lucie Faure Goyan. a daughter of
the late President Faure. She finds her
first fairies in ancient Egypt, and brings |
her history down to the modern fairies |
of the play.
The being called by Carlyle the king
Of Liars" is to be celebrated in a forth |
coming biography. That famous quack
Cagliostro, otherwise Joseph Balsamo, |
furnished plenty of material for |
picturesque book, and Mr. W. r. Trow- |
bridge will probably make the best of it. |
Beugnot has given d good description of |
the behavior of Cagliostro in company. |
He spoke [ don't know what sort of |
gibberish, half Italian and half French, |
making numbers Of quotations which |
passed for Arabic but which he did not I
take the trouble to translate He did !
not fail TO ask every moment If he was !
understood and the company Bowed all |
round to assure him that he was. When |
he attacked a subject he seemed trans |
ported, and treated it in the loftiest style |
by voice and gesture. But suddenly heet
came down to a lower level, and paid |
vefv tender compliments and comic at |
tentions to the mistress of the house. |
He went on in the same style |
throughout supper. l could remember |
nothing of his conversation except that !
the hero had spoken of heaven, the |
stars. the great arcanum, Memphis, |
hierophancy, transcendental chemistry, |
grants, immense animals, town in the
interior Of Africa ten times as great as
Paris. where he had correspondents; Of |
the ignorance we were in concerning all
these fine things which he had at the
tips of his fingers, and that he varied his
discourse with burlesque inanities ad-
dressed to Nine. de Ia Motto, whom he
called his fawn, his gazelle, his swan
borrowing for his compliments what
ever he considered most agreeable in the
animal kingdom
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