New-York tribune., 1910-06-25

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address on Biological Anaiosies in HIS
tory" THE Pail Mall Gazette notes
that he was the nineteenth IN tne once
broken succession OF Romanes lecturers
since the start by Mr.. Gladstone IN
1892. Mr.. Balfour was the lecturer last
wear. and before him came Canon scott
Holland who succeeded the present
Chancellor of the University. Lord Cur
zon. Then. working backward. the uni
versity was addressed by Mr. w. +.
Ker, Sir Ray Lancaster. Sir Courtenay
ubert, Sir Oliver Lodge and MIR. James
Rrvce. 1t was in 1901 that the hiatus
occurred, when Lord Acton did not de-
liver his lecture In 1900 Sir s. A II.
Murray discussed "The Evolution Of
English Lexicography." and the year
previous to that Sir r. c. Jebb was the
Romanes lecturer, with "Humanism in
Education" as a theme. The fee paid
for the lecture is f25, and the lecturer Is
appointed by the vics-chancallor OF the
university. Mr.. Roosevelts lecture, by
the way, is published here in neat
pamphlet by the Oxford University
Press.
'.T. r. in Cartoons" is e paper covered
sheaf, published by - c. McClUrg &
Co. Of humorous drawings Of Mr.. Roose-
velt by Mr.. John T. McCutcheon. He Is
not precisely a brilliant craftsman. but
he contrives to make his swift, blunt
line say just what he means. and what
he has to say is often irresistibly funny.
Mr. McCutcheon satirizes his hero, too.
with all the good hunor in the world.
There is a kind of gentle friendlinsss at
the bottom of his droll 'larks-' Alto
gether this is book of very good fool
ing.
Miss NJ P. Willcoeks left an excellent
impression in her story of The Wing
less Victory" and accordingly Ameri-
can readers will be interested to see her
new novel In this. THE Way Up she
deals with the problem presented to a
naan-an ironmaster-whose duty TO the
state conflicts with his duty TO his wife
Mr.. Alfred Austin was recently elected
president of the Dante Society in sue
eession to Sir Theodore Martin He gave
an address on Byron in Italy" in the
course of which he said that Of all
English poets Byron was the most cos-
mopolitan. recalling that Goethe-a su-
prene Judge on that point-had declared
that no poet could be accepted as poet
of the. highest rank who had not that
characteristic Partly because OF Byron $
perverse and rnischievous habit OF de-
picting the less admirable side Of his
own character. the impression OF a good
many people concerning him, and espe-
was exceptionally dissolute. II must be
allowed that at the time he was in that
country Italy and Venice especially pre-
sented abundant temptation TO one of
his temperament. Byron arrived in Italy
under a sense OF personal wrong, and
this caused htnl-never very careful Of
his ewn reputation-to be more than
usually reckless. AS an emotional and
intellectual poet he had left admirabI
and ample testimony to the character
of the italian race. IN some OF his Ital-
ian poetry there was q suhlimity, a
breadth, g. depth and height that could
not be surpassed and had never since
been equalled. 1t had been said that
Byron was not sufficiently intellectual
but, as was proper, he merged his in
telIect in his poetry-unlike some mod
ern writers who had put intellect into
verse and asked US to accept il as poetry.
Dolf WylIarde, the English writer. has
hitherto been known to us only through
long novels. The John Lane Company
now presents a book of Tropical Tales
from her pen, a collection of short
stories about life in South Africa and in
England.