New-York tribune., 1910-01-08

Lampson
Illustrated MSS of the past are rising
in value, collectors beginning 10 regard
them as ''old masters in miniature. a
fifteenth century MS on vellum of Gull
laume de Guillevflle's Les Trois Pele-
rinages. de la vie Humane. de fAme'
ct dc Jesus Christ was sold the other
day at Sotheby's for $3.50. in spite OF
certain omissions and repairs. 1t had
200 leaves, with 1I4 square miniatures
1t is sometimes said that Bunyan
founded the Pilgrims Progress" on
Cations English translation of this
work of de Guilleville's-the translation
which he produced under the title of
"Pylgremage of the Sowle.'
There is an amusing paragraph i'll one
OF Maria Edgeworth's letters from Paris.
a letter just published for tho first time
in a new volume by Miss Constance Hill.
Here it is: Both Cuvier and Prony
agreed that Buonaparte never could bear
to have any answer but decided an
swer One day. said Cuvier, 4 nearly
ruined myself by considering before |
answered He asked me, "Faut-il intro
dire le sucre de betterave en- France"
"D'abord SIRE il faut songer 81 vos
colonies"--- ''Faut-il avoir le sucre de
betterave en- France?" "Mais, sire, il faut
examiner Bah! je lie demanderai
Berthollet"' This despotic, laconic mode
of insisting on hearing everything in two
words had it's inconveniences. One day
he - or nf q
Fontainebleau, How many acres of wood
are here?' The master. an honest man,
stopped to recoIlect. BAH and the un-
der master came forward and said any
number that came into his head. Buona-
parte Immediately took the mastership
from the first and gave it to the second.
arrivait-il?' The rogue who gave the
guess answer was soon found cutting
down and selling quantities Of the trees,
and Buonaparte had to take the ranger
ship from him and reinstate the honest
hesitatOr."
Lady Butler. the English artist who
caused Ruskin to alter his conviction
that women could not paint pictures OF
worth, has just published a volume Of
herself Some of these have to do with
the Gordon relief expedition, in which
her husband, General Sir William Butler,
played a prominent part The book IS
brought out here by the Macmillan Com
pany, with colored plates
Mr.. Cables article on the New Orleans
gardens in the January "Scribner''
points to one phase of their charm TO
which most Northerners are bEnd-the
judicious fence. No one need censure
the hospitable sentiment of the house
holder who prefers to expose house,
garden and lawn to the gaze OF all
passersby with no barrier TO obstruct the
view of pleasing architecture, of glow
ing blossom. emerald verdure and rare
shrub. Yet there be those, in the North
as well as in the South. who love the
delicious sense of home insured by the
wall or fence that shuts out the glance
of curious or Indifferent eyes. That sense
is jealously cherished by the Englishman
whose patch of lawn is shielded from the
outer pavement by a beautifully tinted
old brick wall, hung with ivy. Through
the wrought iron gateway are caught
beautiful glimpses of flower beds and
velvet grass and sometimes of a happy
reader on a garden chair The little
lawn has in some sort become an outer
room of the home--it is an agent OF
happiness, and a joy to the passing
stranger, who likes to imagine that
family happiness so costly shut within
In New Orleans, as in England, walls
and fences are draped in green and
Towering vines. The traveller who has
seen in South Carolina the walls covered
with a riot Of Cherokee roses in full
bloom can never forget the loveliness of
such barriers. -
Travellers in Italy who have bookish
tastes appreciatively remember the
Florentine shop in which Leo Olschki
always has some literary antiquities of
interest to show the sympathetic visitor.
This sagacious bookseller, who is also a
publisher, has recently brought a num-
bcr Of his books, prints manuscripts and
hin6iI1pc IN Now York aud