New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02

race IN the Universe continues to be IN de-
mand though it has already passed through
lnnumerable editions.
The name of the woman to whom Alfred de
Musset wrote the letters which are TO be pub
lished ere long will probably never be known.
OF the romantic way in which they came TO
the Bibliotheque Rationale, where they have
been lying for thirty years, 1t is said
Thirty years ago NJ Jules Troubat was lierar-
ian in Compegne Castle. In this little historic
since il the headquarters of the Scottish
archeTs Of Louis XI lived IA, an old lady who had
for fiye-and,twenty years when the old lady told
M ter He pers ta her not TO- do so rhey
belong, he said, Ito the literature of country
old lady left the letters to Troubat He when he
died in his turn. left them to the Bibotheque Ma
tionale with the preYlso that they should not see
the light until 1910.
The first Bulletin of the Keats-Shelley Me
mortal" contains some documents hitherto un-
published documents referring to Keats. Shell
ley, or Byron their friends. Thus it is
stated, one passage establishes the precise hour
at which Keats died; while another letter de-
scribes the attempt made upon Trelawny in the
cave of the Greek chieftain, Odysseus. on Par
nassus.
The diary of the reconstruction period kept
by Gideon WeIles is to succeed in The At
lantic' his diary of vsr time II contains il is
said, emphatic Endorsement of Andrew John
sons policy.
The Cornhill"? Anthony Trolope thought he
made Indifferent editor: Mr.. L. It. Cook in
a paper in the just issued jubilee number of
the magazine SCOTS TrollOpe's reasons
'Thackeray.' he says had too thin a skin. it
seems; had not the necessary hardness OF
heart; found it painful to reject contributions
from widows and orphans with nothing but the
res augusta domi to recommend them. Thack-
cray hated doing il. we know he has told
in his 'Thorns in the Cushion, but the Gues-
ton is. Did he do it all the same?' If he did.
the pang of the kind heart interfered nothing
with the efficiency of the editor I have looked
for the articles OF which Tr7llcpe may have
been thinking probably below the Corn
hiP standard and protest that / cannot find
Them Mr.. Cock considers that the worst
thorns Thackerays editorial cushion
probably those connected with Mrs. Grundy.
He adds:
In hese DAYS neat Gen f@ in
'Thackeray has turned me out Of the 'Cornhl!l'
prettiy and kindly that l. who am forslvmg. sent
him another poem He says that plain words per
in England and also that his magazine is for babes
and sucklings'" Lord Walters Wife though
il contained pure doctrine and real modesty and
pure ethics. was thus ruled out on account OF Mrs
Ritchie in the "CornhP' for July 1896 and APP
pears also in the Letters of Mrs BrowDing
Every who remembers the letter. or cares 10
turn it will know how greatly ckeray hated
cious taste he did it He had his reward lie lost
good poem, it is true. but he got another. and re
"A later editor Of the Cornhii' admits us behind
the scenes of another trag-comedy of like kind
Mr. Thomas Hardy's Far from the MaddnS
Crowd Leslie stephen admired the tale greatly
there Il point at which. he averTed "thr'e
respectable ladies had protested and they were
representatives. he doubted not, Of other Mrs
Cirundys. II slave" he wrote in pIeadlhS
for 'gingeriy treatment and afterward in dec:ln-
ing THE Return of the Native. ''SGch were
noses comments stephens biographeT characers-
icaIly in the mid Victorian age
Lovers of the Ben Gaultier Ballads" VIII be
Interested in statement recently mad" by the
late Sir Theodore Martin. He asked if he
could remember which were the ballads written
by him and which by Professor Aytoun. He
replied that they wrote away NJ them together
and he could not recall which were his X has
been said of these performances that they are
among the wittiest things III English literature
intensely humorous, pungent and raty, and
in perfect taste
to imprisoning the outspoken Toistcy. but it
has just capped behind bars for years so
journ the publisher Of the nOvelists work, The
Kingdom OF God Within Us.
DIR. !. +. Erase. the author Of The Golden
Bough'-a work which is the way 10 be
come n cIassic-is about 10 publish three
volumes upon the deeply interesting SUBJECT of
'Tntemisrn v Exegamy." II Is stated that in
the course at the argument Fot"mism Will be
considered ethuosraphicaily. with an historic
as il be traced among the scattered nations