New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
LITERARY NOTES.

LITER1RI NOTES.
President Henry Fairfield Osborn, of the
American Museum Of Natural History, will
bring out in the autumn his new book on NAM
| mails
| ing of the French Academy that when the letter
| S has been reached by the Academy it may have
| to include the name of SardOu a new French
word, which he defined as "the manner of OBJ
tanning great effect with small means"
The spring publishing season in London is
said to have been far from successful. One
commentator declares that the real cause of
this condition is that few of the books issued
are of any permanent value. There's something
in that.
| The third and last volume Of General Kuro-
patkin's memoirs has just appeared in Russia
In this he attacks the Russian press for hav-
! ing, he declares, contributed to the demoraI-
fZation of the Russian troops during the
with Japan; and he advises that in future
! only events calculated to raise the morale of
army should be allowed to be mentioned in
| the newspapers.
! Mr. G. N. Treveyan is at work the third
volume Of his Garibaldian histOry-that devoted
/ to the conquest of Naples-and is at present
| traYersing the path taken by GarlbaIdi between
Reggie and Naples in August and September
! 1860 Palermo and Genoa are at this moment
celebrating the famous expedition of the cap
! tain and his Thousand in the spring of that
year. The celebration Will continue the greater
part of this month, and all the surviving MEN,
/ q
festivities of this jubilee The rock of Quarto.
from which the expedition sailed was recently
| declared national monument
Signor dAnnun2io has been staying quietly
| in Paris. studying the life of the dressmakers
| employed in the great fashion establishments
! for the purposes of his new hook, "Amaranta-'
The heroine is 4 poor girl who leaves her Italian
hcme to seek employment in Paris.
The publication of the complete edition of the
works and correspondence of Calico undertaken
( 4 in
the concluding volume having just been issued.
1t is the twentieth, II contains indexes to tho
whole set and "Indice biograhcO" of Gal
/ ileos contemporaries. The edition is published
| at Florence, where Calico died. Its full title
Is lie Opere di Calico Galiei: EdiZiOne Ma
tonale soto gil auspicii di Sua Magesta il Re
dItalia.'
/ Miss Ellen Wilmott a well known English
botanist has made a lifelong study of the rose
and Purposes to publish in Tire Genus Rosa q
splendid crown folio volume the results OF
SIX drawings in black and white for the volume,
which will also contain 120 colored plates. 1t
VIII be brought out in twenty tWenty-four
monthly parts. TIE edition Will be strictly lin
tied and not reprinted.
In one Of the newly published letters of John
Lothrop Motley there is a story concerning the
Queen COnsort of SaXo.y Of his time. who
a very tail woman. 4 British dame who could
not have been renowned for tact was presented
to her ma jesty, and the royal lady remarked
BY way Of something to say that the Queen Of
woman eagerly rejoined, Oh yes. your majesty.
but it IS far better to be short Queen n
big thrcEe than tall QGeen on 4 small
throne
Mt. Hl3so2 Maxim. the inventor, has been
writing Z bCC- which he calls The Science Of
Poetry, anG the Philosophy Of Language II is
stated that he has reduced to a scientific cal
cul1tion the reasons for the spell worked by
poetry uGon mankind. He differeatiates poetry
and verse holding that the former is Il phe-
poEenon OF thought and the latter a phenom-
eEcn Of sound His booI. promises 10 be curious
IT !caCL
Thrrc are to be eight or nine volumes of the
"Dicttcn1airc CeS VeDtes dart Faites en
France ct 4 TCtrangsr Pendant les XNIIIc =
IKE Siccies" which Dr. Mireur is preparing
Tie first ar1 Second volumes have just ap-
peaTed.
| That unconventional book, The Martyrdom of
Nan," by " inW5Jd :?eade. nephew OF the no.
eighteenth edition II Of its author that
siderable estates ana gifted with genius: hut
he did not live long enough to inherit the
or to mature the other" Niny,rod Reade Wrcta
:I3n:y books Of fiction and travel. but only the
O;lne mentioned above has survived.
ne recently Discovered Goethe MS. the draft
Il -Wihc,.n Efcistfr.' has been acquired for the
Goethe ard Schiller archives at WCinar- Eari-
cuS publishers and libraries offered large sums
:or II. but the Owner sold it for smaller
| hat Wit no