New-York tribune., 1910-08-28
LITER4RY NOTES.

Among the books of travel to he brought OUT
this autumn is that Of the Duke Of MeCklenburg,
In the Heart of Africa" 1t is to have four color
plates and sixteen full-page Illustrations. Cas-
sell is the publisher of this English translation
The same firm will issue Mr. John Foster Fra
sers Australia: The Making of a Nation
The present Lord Tennyson son OF the poet,
is not stranger to the muse. He has just
published poem suggested by his first sight
of Australia His biography of his father. by
the way was useful and interesting, though
rather too discursive and too big Here is the
poem mentioned above as it appears in the
| United Empire:
It see,rs but yesterday at dawn
The faint line of the soft Australian shores
As fast sped borne % Ger T ne WhspeG1ng tide
And all the sea was barrd with purple green
And nd da11ns 6n1 whe SG afar in ds5ance shone
Thro' tremulous haze the scanty-scatter'd farms
I Homed in the quiet hollow of the hills
A land. they said, of golden air, where scents
Of sweetest flowers float. and where the grapes
In honeyed clusters droop Paradise
OF glowing blue and tranquil loveliness-
Mr.. Pierre Lott has apparently retired from
the world Complete TepOse' his secretary
saws has been ordered him. and he opens
letters It is reported that he will spend some
months in meditation among Mussulman friends
in AsiatiC Turkey.
Poor Shakespeare, The so-cal1ed experts are
now dealing in an incredulous spirit with the
signatures supposed to be his. Sir e. Durning-
lawrence The Manchester Guardian" says,
disputes the genuinoness of all five. What he
has to say on the occurrences OF the name IN the
similar The VS. all three differently
shaped; the 'S's-there are only two-are differ
ent also; the h in one case begins at the top
and in the other at the bottom, which IS also
the case with the following "a while the k
and the s. as widely unlike as possible
What he asks. could have induced man
Who really signed his name to his last tes:a-
merit to play tricks" with the first letter OF
his Christian nance and his contention IS that
the clerk who drafted the viii wrote the names
and varied the forms Of the letters TO indicate
they were not autographs Now, 10 an average
man the argument seems not unreasonable, for
, II is likely that Il clerk writing dHotH6r
mans name should vary in the writing of It
than that should who was writing his own
It is stated that Professor Saintsbury con-
templates the preparation Of a compact manual
dra wn from his formidable History OF English
Prosody.' We beseech him. says THE Lon
don Chronicle Ito put the compilation OF It
into the hands of some ruthless, resOlute friend
Himself. he seems totaLy HnaDle 10 slaIG -
simple fact simply, nor could he resist expand
ing his primer the dimensions of cyciopedIa
by constant implication that he knows all about
everything.
Mr Chat1eld-Taylor, whose book Moliere
is about to be reprinted in a popular edition,
is living in Venice, where he is engaged IN
writing a biography of the eighteenth century
dramatist, Carlo Godoni.
The Swinburne MSS. sold by Mr.. T. Watts
Dunton to a London bookseller and by him TO
an American collector do not include, the
former owner says, the manuscripts OF any OF
such as Dolores or "Anactoria." They were
not bequeathed to him, but We're gifts during
the poets lifetime Mr.. Watts-Dunton writes
The London Times:
Mr. Swinhllrne was the fastidious of cor
rectors. with system of punctuation of his own.
in which d comma instead Of 4 SFInlcoi0n was
treated as a vital matter. After manuscript had
been finally corrected by he would often give
il to me as kind of ackn1W ledgInent Of M Ia
borS in connection with it Sometimes 1t occurred,
however. that the editor of magazine would ASK
retain the manuscript, or some oticr lELclu
would ask for
Tnay add that if the prices put upon the
MANUSCRIPTS BY the Chicago owner are IN excess
Of the prices at which I sold them in London and
they certainly arep. I do not in the least TeSret
that ! had The worst of the bargain. It shows
that Swinburne has in America a greater attrac-
lion for the public than I had dared 10 hope
Signor d'AnnunZio has stepped writing novels
20 devote himself plays and to the Trep1r1-
tion of his hemtsrherical iron theatre-a port
able rIavh0uSe planned to seat t.3Nb spectators
and TO be called the "F'cstal Theatre 1t is To be
opened in Paris in Aprii relt with 4 poetic faIry
niece" by d'AnnunZio, which VIII require 40
surtre. Among the performers VIII be Miss
fssld0ra Duncan and Eer little girl dancers The
novelist il also writing four 1ct piece emitted
san Sebastian
e" is the Letter which after twenty years
the French Academy has read in its great
revised dictionary Of the French language. It
is = rnou-nfuI fact that some portions Of a,
b 80" and D. are already eut Of date
Mr 5ohn II. Ingrams just published h5og-
raphy Of Chatt,rtou has Eut II is understood,