New-York tribune., 1910-02-20

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| person wears the name of Sophie Smith.
| Two volumes of "reminiscences are the
way-one by novelist and one by an artist.
Mr.. Joseph Conrad is the novelist and Sir HUI
bert Herkomer the artist.
| The last survivor of the individual characters
| OF Tom Browns School Days" died few weeks
| ago, at the age of nnety-one. This was Sir
| Charles Strickland who appeared in the pages
of Thomas Hughess famous book as Martin
| the Madman.' the young naturalist and Toms
| second in the lively encounter with "Slogger
| Williams Sir Charles, it is said never had
| a serious illness in his life and he celebrated
his ninetieth birthday at meet of hounds.
| Professor C. W. Wallace's discovery of the
record of lawsuit in which Shakespeare was
| witness is to be set forth in the forthcoming
| number of 'Harper's Magazine with photo
| graphic reproductions of the tme-worn parch-
ments and of the dramatst's signature.
| The house at Skien in Norway, in which Ibsen
| was born has been destroyed, but the melan-
| choly abode at Grimstadt in which he sold
| pills and plasters and tooth brushes, and IN
which he his first play. still survives, ana
| there is movement in his native land to pur-
| chase and make Ibsen museum out of it
| Enthusiasts who think that Ibsen was person
| of dazzling genius called upon to contribute.
| Many people assert-Ibsen is said to have as
| serted it hirnself-that there not drop OF
Norwegian blood in the paywrights veins; tnat
he had Danish, German, Scotch ancestors. M L,r.
| Century, that. the contrary, Ibsens ances-
| tors had lived in Norway for generations and
|
| some of pure Norwegian descent
His mothers mother was. Hedevig Paqs, and,
| because her sounds German, people have
| been led to suppose that she belonged to Ger,
man family. But closer Investigation has snG%n riSi
the L Paus f2my was Rgrs ha at the
beginning of the seventeenth century adopted ms
| descendants lived as government officials, mer-
and m a IN the
members among whom We're some m . poets WMo
% in she fnf9f ha tnf 3
Jaeger ssSl traces aces one Of f3f pFnfspt % and IN a
cepting that we shall have to admit that tnsen
| Norwegian.
John Lothrop Motley and His Family IS
the title of the collection Of Motleys leteIs
which Mr.. John Lane is preparing to pubilsfl
inti.nate character, we're not included the
volumes Of the historians correspondence pup,
lished some years ago. because 'heE cohti1Iheo
many references to people then hVlng ana 70
events then current The book promises to be
one of the most interesting and valuable or
the coming season.
Another forthcoming collection is to bear the
title of Intimate Society Letters OF the hlgho
DuIe Of Argyll. the material having been
drawn from the family archives at 1nveraraE
Castle. Much of it has to do with the reign OF
Queen Anne, and much concerns the Jitconlle
movement Some hitherto unpublished letters
from the pen of Nine de Stael are to be IN
cluded
The doctrine Of Scripture held by early Vic
torian orthodoxy is somewhat tardlly asSsillad
and brought confusion by Mr. j Ailanson
PictOn IL Man and the Bible" tHenry Holt u
Coz Fetishistic of the Bible has often
been accompanied by stern moral fcrToT; but,
unfortunately, sa VS. Mr.. Pictnn, The apotheoSis OF
the book has given authority to its worst parts
as wei! as to its best. When superstition ara
fantastic theologies have done their utmost the
Bible will vindcate more and more its cialnl 10
be a still living record Of the struggle Of man
toward purity freedom and light Dr. Feil-
hold Seeberg's Revelation and inspiration
| (HarI3er & Bros.) is effective putting iorth
l0f what modern orthodoxy believes about Holy
Scripture The notion of a verbal inspiration
Of the Bibic has disappeared as If IN a night
saws the Berlin professor. and 10 theo!oSian OF
any renute now upho!ds it. Since it never pre-
vailed throughout the Church the theory can
be surrendered without affecting the vital re
aIity that revelation of God through WhIch fte
hnc0rr,es 0perative in ma a9kind, q revelation or
which the Bible is the monument.
Kings in Exile" is rot new title, but Mr
Charles G. D. Roberts evidently could not re-
sist the conviction that It exactly fits the con-
tents of his new book The diScrowned SOW
ereigns to be met there are not men and women
ouch as play their brief parts in DaudetS novel;
they are the splendid great beasts VINO nave
beer torn from their jungle homes to 1--we among
curious humans The authcr does not make ms
lnt!I.