New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-12
MISCELLANY.

The publication of the memoirs of the
Duchesse de Dino has, of course, re-
newed interest in the personality ana
career of Talleyrand A further contr-
button to the subject is therefore aptly
made in the forthcoming translation OF
LA Vie Privee de Talleyrand,' of NJ.
Bernard de Lacombe. The English YER
sion will be called ''Talleyrand the Man.
We reviewed last Saturday Mr.. Kip
ling's new book, Rewards and Fairies"
in the luxurious Outward Bound" edi-
ton published by the Scribners. 1t is
brought out in the ordinary edition by
Doubleday, Page & Co, we'll printed
octave with the same clever illustrations
by Frank Craig What a good book
il is! We find ourselves rereadlng some
of these pages Of enchantment and es-
pecially pause again over the delightful
verses. Almost could we review the
book a second time.
It is pleasant to see 1.-THE Rise or
Silas Iapham' reprinted in the excellent
Riverside Literature Series" published
by the Houghton Miffiin Company. This
novel of 1884 marks one of the happiesf
moments in Mr.. HOwells's career, illus
trating at its best his quiet, sensitive
and searching study of American life
a brief introduction sketches his life
and work and a chronological list OF
his writings is included. The book, by
the way, is q striking piece Of workman
like printing. and its convenient size
further commends it.
MANY a novelist will envy Miss Marie
Corelu the title for the new story in
which she is said to have drawn up an
Indictment of the "get-there-quick
theory of life. She calls it THE Devils
Motor"
Mir. Frederick Keppel, the print-seller'
was born in Ireland in 1S45, and came
ITO this country while still a young man.
He has been dealing in prints ever since
SThe fruits of This long activity Of his are
embodied in 4 book which the Baker d
Taylor Company is presently to pub
fish. under the title Of The Golden Age
of Engraving." To that age he evil
his subject from Diirer TO Joseph Pen
nell. He treats engraving and etching
historically. but introduces also plenty
of "Reminiscences and anecdote. This is
TO be a stout volume of $50 pages, and
it viii contain 263 illustrations.
Apropos Of etching. there is apparently
no end to the procession Of stories about
the greatest Of the modern masters OF
the needle. Whistler. The latest we find
in THE London Globe" thus set forth;
II was WhistIer's custom when drowsy
to 90 deliberately TO sleep, no nl3tteI Niiet (
or what the circumstances might ne: ~
one dinner party his gentle snore suddenly
aroused his neighbor, who nudGed MN N4o,
leutlv with his elbow. Il say. Nhlsllei,
he protested eXCitedly, YOU must nul SIsep
i-arr u cave me alonel'' snapped Whist
lrr i've said all | wanted 10. I've no
interest at all in what YOU and your TRENDS
i3ava 70 say" One evening he was a guest
at q hotel as was also Edwin y. Aopey;
ana Immediately aftcr the dinner was served
vent calmly to sleep. on the way TO the
Theatre he had another nap in the cab He
also slumbered peacefully through the play.
The next morning ne blandly asked: "What
did Abbey have TO say last night? Any
thing worth While?'
Another anthology for the garden lover
has reached us. Mr.. William Aspenwall
Bradley is the compiler of The Garden
Muse" (the Sturgis & Walton Company,
and he gives US a quantity of happy
verse from the old English writer's and
from poets of our own time. There is a
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