New-York tribune., 1910-09-04

tain the opening chapters of the story-which
is entitled The Patricians."
| The late Florence Nightingale was q writer
| lucid She produced many books. pamphlets
and papers dealing in practical fashion with
the work of hospitals Her Notes on Nursing.
published in 1860 had very great circulation
Some colored drawings of the coast of va
rious West Indian islands have lately been found
in the Bibliotheque Rationale in Paris, and these
have just been published with other documents
| by the Imprimerie Rationale The fact that
| makes the drawings of special value is that they
were done from the deck Of Sir Francis brakes
ship under his supervision during his last voy-
| age. There is mournful note on the margin
| Of drawing of Puerto Bello, off which brakes
| flagship Defiance was lying:
This morning, when the description notd or
| being Wedensdae in the mornnge Sr Francis
Drlcke died of the blldie fix righte of the ilande
| OF Buena Ventura som six leagues at see.
Thomas Love Peacock left three unpublished
plays which to be given to the world
The editor of these pieces believes that when
writing one of them ",The Circle of Loda.' Pea
| cock may have had in mind Sheey's desertion
| OF Harriet Westhrook for Mary Goodwin An
other OF the plays, The Three Doctors" is full
Of hits against the medical profession, WhIcn
| Peacock loved to attack
| THE "reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur" to
be published by Mr.. Theodore Stanton
| The American has been permitted TO draw his
material from the papers and letters left by the
| artist Various hitherto unpuhilshed sketches
| from Mile. Bonheur's notebooks will appear
!
signor dAnnunzio. it appears is coming to
| this country next year. after a visit TO south
America He proposes to deliver lectures during
| his Journey.
| "Recollections of Scottish Novelist" is the
| title Of volume which Mrs L. B. Walford is
preparing to publish The author of Mr.. Smith:
| A Part Of His Life" and of The Baby'S Grand
mother could not be dull if she tried; and she
! has moreover, known most of the clever Eng
| Iish men and women of her generation Mrs.
! V-aIf ford infe
| daughter Of John Coquhoun who wrote Ihe
Moor and the Loeb.
| The publication of the correspondence Of
washington Irving and John Howard Payne
viii be begun IN the Octoner nuInoer l o.
for those who are old fashioned enough in liter
! ary taste to cherish still the delightful memory
| OF Irving.
! volume to be entitled The Pilgrim
| Fathers is be added to "Everymans Lib
| rsry" It viii contain Il collection of more or
less wel-known narratives relating to the
founding of New England The book has been
edited by Mr. Masefeld.
The curious ignorance which is shown by
| many of the advocates of the theory that Bacon
swrote the plays of Shakespeare is amusingiy
| displayed by the latest BaconiaD, Sir Edwin
Burning Laurence. In the book. Bacon and
| Shakespeare" he takes the attitude of disbelief
in Shakespeare's possession of anything like
1education, and points out the consequent i'm
possibility Of his writing the plays. Classical
scholars" he says, are amazed at the prCdg
ious amount of classical lore which they dis
play" This is pure foolishness. and many a
| reader will ask with Mr.. Lang. What classical
scholars arc thesc?" This cool-headed critic
goes TO say justly enough, a classical
| scholar would go for his classics to the original
Greek and Roman authors Shakespeare motor
iousll went to cribs. translatons whether OF
Ovid Plutarch. Perhaps he knew little
| Latin. Ben Jonson who knew him intimately.
credits him with little Latin and less Greek
For 'Troilus and Cressida' Shakespeare used
the first published books of Chapnlan's version
| Of the Had mixing them up with Eares
Phrygius and other medi9vaI sources Nothing
can be less Homeric than his characters. the
dregs of Ionian and Roman parversions OF
| Homer. In like manner travellers feel certain
| that the author must have visited the fcreiGn
cities and countries which he minutefy ano
graphically describes What city OF counG!
on the Continent Shakespeare 'minutely anc
gra phicaliy describes I do not happen TO know
OF course every classical scholar knows that the
PLAYS are not the work of q classical scholar
| Tt is stated that more than 10000 books wers
published in Great Britain last year-it is tfs
first time that this number has been reached
| There is recorded 4 decrease in the number OF
Volumes devoted 10 poetry and the drama. ana
falling of.
The p-ovencal poet, Frederic Mistral VINO II
| aav from two hundred children who tnai;ed
| ali the way from Marseliles to Maillane- Ihey
came into bis garden and then into MS STUDY
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