New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-02

cfimney-so as to keep the room sweet
and delivering q monologue on Cromweh
or some other all-absorbing subject IN
that strong Scotch accent of his. Mrs
Carlyle would sit in silence-she had
heard e all before. If he became very
fierce she would say, Don't be angry
with Mr.. Espinasse. He Is not TO blame.
He had no amusements. He was always
writing. talking or reading, with pencil
in hand. AS to the troubles between
the pair, they were at least IS happy as
they-or any one-could have expected.
OF course, Mrs Carlyle wanted, and de-
served. TO be something more than mere
Iy 'Carlyle's wife She was a brilliant
nationalist, but never had
chance EXCEPT when he was away. ~
was, perhaps. a little significant that
once when I asked Mrs. Carlyle, VINO
had a pretty voice. to sing Aud Robin
Gray she delicately refused-for an I'M
spoken reason"
There has lately been found I'm the
French Foreign Office a collection of ia
miliar letters written by the DUO dor
leans, father Of Philip Egalite, to Nine.
de Mcpherson, the lady who became his
mersanatie wife. 1t is said that the in
suitably curious King Louis XIV inter-
cepted these love letters and read them
before sending them on to her for whom
they were intended, These letters have
just appeared in print in a volume en-
titled ''L'Autumne dun Prince"
A forthcoming new edition Of the
works Of Charles Dickens has been Illus
trated throughout by Mr.. Harry Fur
Mss The edition will include supple
msntary volume containing a collection
of the drawings Of Phiz. Cruikshank and
other illustrators of the novels.
The proposed monument to Mime. de
Stael in Paris is to be erected ON mar
row site at the junction of the Rue de
rArcade and the Boulevard Malesherbes.
close to the Church of the Madeleine.
The movement for securing the statue
has been conducted by women, and the
sculptor is a woman, Nine. de CharHoy.
The model shows the de Stael seated on
a high pedestal of yellow stone, berdered
with variegated marble columns. she
occupies a wide seat and is reading
book. Upon her shoulders says cor
respondent of 1.-The Pail Mall Gazette,
lis a scarf picturesauely thrown. with
the effect of a Greek garment; her head
is enveloped in turban, which serves
as an aureole The neck is bare, ana De
low il hangs a pendant. The figure, also,
will be in yellow stone quarried In Lof-
raine. a material that stands exceilently
we'll the weathering Of Paris. Upon the
slabs of stone at the base appear the
names of her principal works, 'Ceflnhe.'
'Deiphine,' De PAllemagne.
4 new edition of the works of Kabelais,
i'm five volumes is to be issued by NJ,
Henore Champion, of Paris. The vol
umes have been edited by the societe des
Etudes "Reminiscences.
A copv of the rare Madras private re-
nrint of the London edition of the "Ru-
baiyat" was sold in London the other
day for $50. 1t is dated 1861.
The book in which the Cambridge
University student Miss Georgette Bow
den-SmIth mas TecOfutu hcI poSOA w.
tons on life and education in America
has won praises from English readers.
The London Telegraph says;
The conclusion one must come to Is that
the United States of America may wen
claim TO be the most enlightened of the ma
tons and the one where high Ideals ana
faith in human nature glow brightest: Inc
task is no doubt easier there than IN an
old country, for the fact that their Tadl-
ti0ns do not go back more. than three CEN
turtles gives them an enormous adVantaSei
thew can he ever starting atresh, and what
thew are doing, to put 1t as SIMPLY as pos
sibIe is to get all that is good out or CIVIL
cation and to correct and combat all the
necessary evils which civilization brings III
its train. Whatever the present state OF
America may be politically and socially,
this book will help us to understand what
the best people desire that IT should be and
are striving TO make 1t. There Is sense
of cleanliness about the whole book and
sense also of the real dignity of labor and
Importance of education.
La Barriere," the new novel by nj.
Rene Balm, has been severely handled
by some foreign critics.