New-York tribune., 1911-12-23

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Calendar for 1912 designed by Harold
Sichel. Spencer Wright and Charles
Ingerson. and published by Paul Elder
& Co, san Francisco, is worthy OF wall
space i'm bedroom or den. The quota
tions are from Browning Tennyson, Or.
van Dyke, Stevenson, William Morris
Wordsworth and other worthless of liter
ature. There are Gfty-two leaves. one
for each week
Enalish Christmas Numbers.
The Christmas numbers Of the Eng
lish weeklies bear their Wonted festive
a pprarance and the stamp Of British .
empire I'm their tales and illustrations .
of all parts OF the Kings dominions /
overseas. There are pictures also oi
the good old days" of top-boots anG pig
tails. OF stage coaches and snow ana solld
good cheer THE Graphic besides
some Handsomely printed cOlored pict-
ures. offers its readers as supplement |
a large reproduction In colors for franz
iny OF Francis Barrauds painting AN !
Encore Too Many" Eden PhillpottS /
and Frank Frankfort Moore contribute /
stories to Holly Leaves" which is ac- /
COMMANDED by a large engraving Of Lady |
Buffers we'll known picture, "Bala- |
clava." THE Gentlewoman," in keep |
ing with its sphere, honors Mother |
Christmas on it's front page, giving to |
= crestfallen Father Christmas modest |
q
ing eighteet tn century girls heads /
printed i'm colors on silk, accompany TINS |
number whose chief literary feature Is
"A story by the late Sir Walter Besaht.
THE Sketch" contains some very smart /
and ultra-modern colored drawings Of |
women. and two black and white illus
trations by Charles Dana Gibson OF
Girls We Should Like to Meet Under |
the Mstletoe." The supplement consists |
of a large en- raving from painting by |
Henrietta Rae. international News /
Company
The Church Kalendsr for 1912.
This useful compendium FOR Episco-
palians has again made its appearance |
i'm it's long familiar form ready for hang /
ing ON the wall The scope of its intor-
nation on Church matters is too well |
known TO require repetition here.
Tennyson Stories
In the just published book on "Tenny-
son and His Friends volume OF
"reminiscences Of the poet, written by
many who knew him, and edited by his
son. there are many interesting ana
amusing passages. Mrs. Margaret L.
Woods. daughter Of Dean Bradle,, an
intimate friend Of Tennyson. tells OF his
life at Farringford, where the Islanders
did not properly appreciate the honor
done them by the residence of the poet
in their midst:
one of Tennyson's friends asked cab
man at Freshwater, Whose mouse Is
son" Friend: "Hc is a great man, you
know" Cabman: "He great man! lie
only keeps one man servant, ana ne doh
She remembers "the long Farringford
drawing room full Of the green shade OF a
cedar tree which grew nea" the great
window:
No sooner were the greetings over than
ten to one the door would open, and the
poet would come, slowly, softly. silently
into the ROOM dressed in an Old fashioned |
black tail coat, and fixing my mother with
his distant, short-sighted gaze. One day,
she being seated with her back to the
window, he approached her
with such extreme Difference and so sol
emn a courtesy as made her all amazed;
until i'm minute with fash of amuse-
ment both discovered that he had mis-
taken her for-the Queen.
FictonaI Fashions.
In an interview in a recent issue of
the London STANDARD" distinguished
novelist Of the modern school, (name not
dlsclosedD is reported as holding forth
rs follows in answer 10 the Dean Of st.
Paurs charge that current fiction has
adopted a lower lone than Victorian lit
erature allowed:
We are here To observe humanity and
.ranscribe an impression Of IL. Well, the
spirit of one age differs from the spirit of
another age. II / may be allowed to remind
The dean OF one Of his aEiOms. Now, in
he matter of literature, this simply means
that after thirty TO sixty years OF one lit
arary tone and tradition the reading public
gets bored with that tone and tradition,
and desires the substitution OF another:
That seems To me to be what mas happened
10 us novelists The public desires that a
section of lie neglected by tie Victorian
writer's should be represented TO 1t.
As a matter of fact. this distinguished
English novelist might, ii he looked
closely. discover the dawn Of new
boredom i'm the reading public. and he
might also discoyer, by looking closer
stiu that the cause Of this new boredom
lies in the very tone and tradition" of
the fiction which he and his colleagues
have been turning out for several years
7ow. The end Of the vogue Of the tenn
ocramentaI" novel is unmistakably APP
preaching
o New Edition Of Rossetti.
An elaborate edition Of the collected
works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is soon
In ba published in England. 1t will he
under he general editorship OF his
brother. MIR William Michael RossettL
he last survivor of the Pre- Raphdeiites.
Not only will it include all the hitherto
published writings, but also quantity .
# material never before printed.
Moving Pictures.
The moving picture business already
las its trade papers Now word comes
rom London of the publication there Of ,
volume entitled Moving Pictures: How
rhey Are Made and Worked" Whether
his will have any appeal for the patrons