New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-07
LITERARY NOTES.


A biography of Moliare has been written by
Mr.. Brander Matthews. In view of his long
experience as q student Of the drama in general,
and of French drama in particular, the book
ought to prove uncommonly interesting. The
Scribners to publish it in the autumn.
Those who love a t'bIuggy" hero, and have
more particularly a passion for pirates. Will be
we'll served in the book lists this season We
have already announced Mr.. Hardng's ''BuC-
cancers in the West Indies in the Seventeenth
Century, Now comes news of a similar VOL
ume to be brought out by Commander 7. H.
Currey' one called sea wolves OF the MedIter-
ranean." This will chronicle the deeds Of the
Moslem counterparts of Morgan, Kidd and their
followers.
NJ, Louis Berthaud has been publishing in
the 'Revue des Deux Mondes'' some of tho
pithy sayings jotted down by FIaubert in his
notebooks. Here are few of these epigrams:
Criticism is the Tenth Muse and kindlireSs is
There is in Indignation fault of judgnlent-a
What is glory? It is to make people say many
silly things about you
Mr. Edgcombe Staey. whose book on The
DOgaressas of Venice" We reviewed a fortnight
ago, viii soon have another book out.
kindred subject This one VIII relate 10 Tho
Heroines of Genoa"
Mr. G. ". E. Russell recalls in the Man
chester Guardian a dinner which he ga TO
Gladstone in 1892. inviting a number Of yOunS
Liberals to meet the great man They did
not dare to try to pump him on the political
questions of the moment but of course, they
hoped that he would presently unbosom himself
thereupOn Of his own VOiitiOn. Mr.. Russell
thus reports what happened
Ny friend MI. Massinshar viii; am sure. for-
give me if I remind him Of the blank perptzHtty
face and spread to the counterances of his neigh
bOrs, when Mr. Gladstone suddenly broke into the
the best hymns. the best tunes the Caprice5 OF
| discontinue
complete and I nearly persisted by suppressed
memory. MI Gladstone waved enthusiastic ever
vie verses in The Lay Of the Last Minstrel"
That Day CT Wrath. that dreadful Day"
One Of the company. delighted to hear some
thing that he thought he recognized, mildly OBJ
Gladstone bounced on him ike hawk Trans-
aton. indeed? Where in the original do ECU and
when. shrivelIing like parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll"
There is no translation therc-it's Scctts
original genius"
Mr.. Howard c. Lewis is publishing, tl ough
Ellis of London "A BibIiography OF American
Books Relating to Prints and the Art and His
tory of Engraving" The book also includes
notes on catalogues OF important print exhibit
tons and sales held in America. 1t appears in
edition limited to Ito copies
signor Giovanni Rabizzani, yorn., Italian
critic, has just published monograph N.
Rostand. which is proving a very popular II,
depreciation OF the 0CLn0r OF 'ChanttCer re
quotes, by the way, q forecast OF fcrt!cuFaing
work by his master dramatic poem in which
the gods Of ancient Greece are rCr-esentc'! as
returning to earth. where they so sad2encd
by the spectacle of modern life ti.at ore by one
they return to olympus Love a!cce decides
that he can put up With our conditions ard re-
main. All the work of the actors is in paEto-
mime, Sarah Bernhard alone reCiting the poen,
which is L COmUcnt upon their aCt:cI.s and
gestures.
The John Lane Company iSSues Modern Cabi-
net Work, Furniture and Fitneuts," BY Perc"
A Wells and John Hooper. Il is eyhauS
treatise the theory and practice OF all kind
of cabinet work. More than d thousand Illus
trations included among them many scale
drawings, and, to judge from The prospectus
these Of c high degree CT merit