New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-14


the writer's politics or creed.
The identity of the "Henrictta in
whom the readers of the first volume of
the biography of DisraeIi arc just now
much interested has been disclosed IL
appears that she was Henrietta Vile
! bois. the daughter of Henry Villebois,
of Markham Hall. Norfolk. and the wife
of Sir Francis w Sykes, of Basildon-
Lady Sykes died in 1916.
Five copies of the four Shakespeare
Folios are to be sold in London TINS
week They include one copy of the First
I Folio, two of the Second. one of the
Third and one of the Fourth. All are in
excellent condition. though slightly
mended
IT is predicted that before the end |l
this century q perfect copy of the FIRST
Folio will be held at S-a,WW or more
The record price IS now S1StFH. A lac
simile will not interest the collector; but
the ordinary reader who cares for critl-
cal purposes to consult the First Folio
will take comfort in that published the
other dav at 81.
Still another book on the Bacon Shake
| speare matter has come forth, Mr.. H. G.
! Bachelor being its author and Francis
! Bacon Wrote Shakespeare being its
! title. The author thinks that Bacon's
enforced ambition for the Chancellor
ship-the hatred of his mother for asso-
! Citations with the theatre-the evil name
attaching TO q class known as rogues
! and vagabonds and liza bic To heavy pen
! alties unless enlisted in the service of
| important personages or functionaries
such as the Lord Chamberlain-are quite
| sufficient to account for the careful con-
! cealment OF the supposed fact that the
| plays came from his pen. The Pal
! Mall Gazette points out that these rea~
! sons might be sufficient if the plays were
mere popular bombast but where they
! happen to be the greatest plays ever
written a glory Of England and a Won
| der OF the world. these things fall alb
surdly short of being an explanation of
| their authors failure to claim them as
/ his own Mr. Bachelor believes that
Ionson was sarcastic in his panegyric
on Shakespeare's portrait. and that no
! body contemporary with Shakespeare
gave him credit for literary ability and
so on and SO on most wearisomeiy.
Books which are not classics. which
are not even notable in the strictly lit
erary sense. continue 10 be read by one
generation after another-they strike
some ever responsive note of human nat
Ilre. Such are Jacob Abbott's Rolto
Books. which, the Crowells tell us, have
steady sale and are always kept in
print.
highly elaborate study of Japan,
strictly limited to two hundred copies,
has been prepared by Mr. Lasenly Lib
nrty. The fifty photographers which
illustrate IT have been taken from Mrs.
Liberty's remarkable collection Of photo
graphs.
The actor Toole's fondness for prac-
teal joking IS Illustrated in the lately
Printed "reminiscences Of Mr.. Seymour
Hicks y remember he says. being
in the city with him once when he went
into the General Postoffice and asked
70, q penny stamp The clerk brought
cut q huge sheet, and TOole said, 1 want
that one Which one said the clerk
That one said Tooie. pointing to the
centre one. \ long argument ensued,
rroole saving that he had Il perfect right
in law To choose the one he fanced. and
50 ernphs tie was he on the point that
I,:. l-lt h4fnrp he had
created q disturbance and clerks from
other count rs had left their work to
see what was going on. He always at
the end of an adventure gave the people
| fe had had his fun with seats for the
! theatre. or a present of some kind and
| everybody loved him"
! Sufficient funds have been collected
! Cor tho making Of the ThaCkeray bust
I " hich il is proposed 20 place in the Cal
cutta church wherein the infant Will
| Am was baptized on January II, ISL
! Another memorial is the new edition of
his works for which his daughter, Lady
( Ritchie. has ampliied The introductions
which she prepared for the earlier bio
! craphicaT' edition. She refers thus to
Some recent COLLECTIONS of her fathers
! Youthful writings:
| Ali sorts Of things have been republished
! from, the newspapers and magazines WIN
! nv fathers name attached to them. NO
| dni1bt many Of these were written by him:
! ,7Ianz- DINERS ] should say, judging by III
! tell evidence certainly were not: there
| :. nothing in the work thus reproduced TO
increase my father reputation. unless. IN
deed il may ne held 10 SeTN" as 4 tflhute
20 his business habits. on which he never
I,1,t x1-l,i1 oh nOSSpSStG
Inc same degree As most people VINO make
:. ,nYrk in whatever degree of life.
/ PM having written this. | remember mat
II ,nsv he read by the youthful and subtle
school Of critics, who seek IN WORKS oi Or |
thn psychology Of the artist. believe
Of criticism who think they ind the real
! TFarGxeraV in his ANONYMOUS hack work,
and not in the books which he h1nseh pup
In addition. therefore, to the hitherto un-
n,hlished napers included in Messrs. smith,
Elder e Co.'S previous edlilonS. nave
| added a certain number of others, whhch
go, ~ me from internal evidence, to be
entirely my fathers, and 10 ne interesting
/ as snecimcns of the journalism OF the day
Signora Mathilde Serao is writing
new novel. TO which she has given the
extraordinary title of 'lntoXtcation,
! slavery and Death" she intended at
first to call 1t sin" It is said that she
has greater hopes Of this book than Of
| any she has yet written.
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