New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-27

ten by DIR. Moore to the Duchess-the
former Miss Cunning and Duchess %
Hamilton. DR.. Moore was bear leading
on the Continent the duchess's young
son. the Duke Of Hamilton, and was
fiirtations. OF one Of them the good
doctor wrote from Geneva to the ducal
mamma:
He attached himself to a Madam Cozenot
a Lady with the Blacklist and finest eyes
in the world. The Duke says the DeVll
own Eyes cannot POSSIBLY be placker- pc
lieve he is little Catched by this Lacy
Since he must have a fame for his hear
Is like tinder) he cannot be better hXed
The Woman fortunately IS Marryed Ines
say She is fond of her Husband However
he ought not to trust too much to that
This is the third Passion the Duke mas
had since we crossed the Sea They gener-
ally affect his appetite, and | can make
pretty good guess Of the highth of his Love
by the Victuals he Refuses to eat Shgnl
touch of Love puts him Immediately from
Legumes and all kind OF Jardinase- III II
arises degree higher he turns up ms
nose at F'ricasses and Ragouts: Another
degree and he will Rather go to bed supper
less taste plain Roasted Veal or Pouiets
Of any sort This is the utmost length his
passion has ever come hitherto.
Only two presentation copies of Mil
toms PRO PopuIo Angelicano Defensio
are known to exist. One Of the two,
holding an inscription in the poet S
handwriting, is now in the possession OF
Mr. Bertram Dobell, who thinks it Is
worth $3.50.
In her recently published book about
her Japanese travels Miss Marie C.
Slopes. of the Royal Society, the first
female scientist who has visited that
particular part Of the East, quotes this
little anecdote from the japanese Ga
zette" "An amusing incident occurred
at an at home at Toxic this week a
matron, talking to a slender young
woman in a pretty art gown of blue
velvet, said: oh, 1 hear DR.. Slopes is
here I want to meet the delightful old
party l hear he is strong on fossils.
Later she said to her hostess: Who is
that girl I've been talking to in the blue
dress? She seems a nice girl That is
Dr. Slopes. the learned geologist,' said
the hostess"
4 biography Of the late King Leopold
of Belgium is to be published soon by
the Sturgis & Walton Company. The
author is Dr. A. S. Rappoport, who is
given to dealing with the dramatic and
picturesque phases of royal histories
Regretfully returning TO times past,
an essayist in the London Nation" Ia
ments the change in English, written
and spoken. He declares that there is
in progress a steady elimination from
the vocabulary of all but strictly utili-
tartan words-"there is a dying out in
speech of all that is contemplative and
leisurely, as well as Of all picturesque
ness of thought and expression:
There existed in Victorian England q
treasure of vivid and picturesque colloquiaI
speech. which is either altogether lost, or Is
we'll on the way TO be so. It may not be
WITHOUT interest to note some Of the pro,
thirty years ago Many OF them, of course,
are still to be heard, though always more
rarely. Blind mans holiday" an old WON
an would say as she laid down her knitting
in the twilight (Talking of twilight. the
French ''entre CHEN ct loup" is wonderful
India to-day. the domestic animals were
abroad in the daytime the beasts of prey
at night "A wolf of the evenings shall
spoil Them he Bible says Again, a cry
ing child would be spoken of as Peter
Grevious-" one phrase OF Dr. Newman
carried US baek to our earliest days, We
Of the irnpenetrability of heretics-hut he
says 1t is piercing to think" where
writer Of to,day would say 1T is shocking King
and tanner the new phrases aret 1t seems
to US, as we look back. that there was
nance and faery altogether lacking In the
hard. practical speech of to-day The
Man in the Moon, the tlyins Dutch-
ouently referred to- A circus clown was a
MERRY Andrew-an altogether delightful
for the banaI trip" treat or outing
Of to-day.
Language without color or associa-
ton or romance" concludes our essay
given a wealth of modern in
stances-"'is like a flower without per
fume" and we will not quarrel with his
opinion.
Was Shakespeare in trust? The tes
timony of some records found by Pro-
lessor c. W. Wallace points in that di-
rection. TN keysar's suit against the
bage-Shakespeare Company, he
saws in the September Century" The
made the sensational charge that they
had organized all the private theatres OF
London into a trust. to his great loss
and hindrance. The defendants mar
yelled at the charge, and said that If
they had done such they would have
been not only malicious. as accused.
but also malicious fooles. Then they
proceeded to show why. . 1t has
always been a mystery when and why
the ST. PauIs boys ceased to act plays
Many have supposed it was on account
Of the growing sentiment of Puritanisrn-
But we have here the solution presented
in cold facts. far remote from sentiment
or religious fervor. Mere sordtd money
did 1t. If it was not wholly true. as
Keysar charged. that shakespeare
bought off this church theatre
to quit business, there was yet some
thing in it, as they had to admit.
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