New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-16

which is described as Important y hears
the undeniably imposing title of Achilles in
ScyrOs'
MIS- Janet Ross has place apart among those
authors who make books about Italy. and ac-
cordingly We look for volume rather out Of
the ordinary run in her Lives of the Early
Medici as Told in Their Letters" The title
suggests a fresh and unconventional study of 4
SUBJECT Which has not by any means been neg
lected-
An interesting story connects the name of the
late Louisa Lady de Rothschild with that of
the great novelist Of her time. It appears that
on one occasion she complained to Thacixeray of
an unfaVorable bias against the Jews in his
writings. It is said that it was to make repara-
ton that he wrote, in the second chapter Of
Pendennis." the following passage:
not ii s ha, lady and the boy is
sacred sacred emotions Of love and grief The maternal
symbolized in the Roman churches in the image Of
the virgin Mother with bosom bleeding with
mighty bounty for) every day saw a Jewish
sae e ah at there her and
sweetness angeiical that it seemed to form sort
before her too, adored in her the divine benef-
cencs IN endowng US with the maternal storge
tory OF mankind.
The relation of the federal government to bus-
ness affairs a subject not lacking in suggestive
ness for the vigorous debater, is treated in
book by David Walter Brown which the Put
mans publishing He calls it The CONNER
cial Power Of Congress Considered in the Light
OF It's Origin" and in it he makes an exhaustive
study of all the aspects of tangled problem
"Ouida'' in decidedly pessmistic mood APP
pears in the new volume OF Lady Dorothy
Nevilrs "reminiscences. In 1887 she sent to Lady
Dorothy a card bearing the following Jubilee
Epitaph":
Full half century Of measures small.
Weak wits, weak words weak wars, and that is ALL
It is amazing that "Ouida" could even for a
har into Sfch 61l mis- l-
ness Lady Dorothy's ascription of the foolish
couplet to feelings Of depression" is doubtless
just.
The John Lane Company has much biography
| in its list We look for interesting details
relating to Scott Lamb and Thackeray in Mr..
S. NJ Ellis's William Harrison Aiusworth ana
His Friends" Another volume that aWakes
| keen anticipations is Mr.. Edward Storers Peter
the Cruel: The Life of the Notorious Don Pedro
of Spain" The same publishers are also issuing
another volume in their invaluable translation
of the complete works of Anatole France ON
Life and Letters is the title Of this latest add
ton to the Series
Mr. G. w E Russell that industrious con-
tributor to The Manchester Guardian whose
articles always interesting and sometimes
contain delightful recoIlections has been set
ting down his memories of Charles Kingsley
He thus portrays that lovable personality:
He was not suppose. above the middle height
but his extreme attenuation made him look taller
There was not a superfuous ounce of flesh on his
bones, and he seemed TO be compact of wire and
WhipcOrd. His features were strongly marked
trenchant and prominent chin His eyes
bright and penetrating: His skin furrowed and
wea 1her-beaten. his abundant hair and buShy
| wfiskers originally dark but tinged with gray
In all his movements, actions and gestures he was
and restless. 1t seemed impossible for him
sit still, and, except when he was asleep, his
life was an incessant activity. Much of his rest
iessnesS was, | imagine, due to his StaInner. He
loved talking, had enormous deal to every
able subject, and onged TO it. But his
stanln1er was always checking him. He gtlrgled,
and gasped and made faces, and would sometimes
break off in a conversation or meal, rush out into
open air. and liberate his suppressed emotions
by rapid exercise physical eXertiOn- Yet, as has
to preach the subsidized. and, though there
facial contortou. the flow of the dis
course interrupted. He said to his friend
Tom Hughes: u could be great talker as any
man in England bat for my stamnerlnS. W hen
am speaking for God in the pulpit, or praying by
bedsides l never stammer. Ny stan,,ner is
blessed thing for II keeps ME from talking IN
company and from going out as much as I should
do but for it
A new novel by that assduous maker of cpl
grams Ellen ThorneycrOft Fowler, may be
pected this 1t has an epigramnatic
title, The Wisdom Of Folly.
MI Francis Gribble, who probably knows
more than anybody else in the world about what
Mulvaney would call the 'amoors'' of the great.
has had another book published by the Scrib
ners THE Love Affairs of Lord Byron The
time will come, dare say. when no great
writer will count for anything at all if his ro-
mantle side has not been duly settled by Mr..
Gribble. IN this book. by the way. he subjects
Lord LoVelace's pretty Indictment of Byron 20
IAN elaborate and impartial examination.