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must therefore be condemned by the
purists In other words. they are forms
of slang which, having been found
pithy or cClvcnient have gradually
come to be accepted by the better writ
crs. and. 50 sanctioned. have passed
into permissible phrases.
But at what stage. it may well be
asked. does a grammatically incorrect
expression cease to he slang and take
rank as an idiOm? 1t might he sup
posed that if constantly used by the best
authors the idiom would have made
good its claim. But as against this we
have the curious fact that in a living
language, though it is true that the
slang OF one age tends to become the
idiom of the next, it is equally undeni-
able that an acknowledged idiom of one
century dcgencrates into slang in its
successor Proof of which may be found
in many so-called American slang
phrases. which are i'm reality good lido
matte English, dating from the days of
the Pilgrim Fathers.
PERHAPS the real solution OF a not I'M
interesting speculation is to be found i'm
the fact that no language is 10 be
judged properly as a whole until it has
ceased TO be used as a living tongue
Then the grammarans and the students
may be let loose to conduct a wholesale
pOSt-mOrtcm upon il.
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Literary Nesvs and Criticism

career. and even after her second mar
rage was always pressed for money In
the DAYS of the Directory she was one
or Pouches paid spies on her own nus
Land. whose genius she was too stupid
10 appreciate. or even to perceive. she
enioyed the reflected glory in which she
lived. but preferred to do so in the COM
pany of young carpet knights, amid the
fevered gayeties of the social lie OF
Paris or the capitals of Italy. Flirta-
tion and worse was her only possible
escape from the cRnHi of her own empt-
ness of mind and character On Ma
poleon's side there was brief, plinu'
all-forgiving infatuation. then the toler-
ance of a man grown Indifferent, totally
preoccuped with his gigantic plans
Josephine was not a favOrite with her
husbands family. NJ Turquan drawing
I, many a picture of the constant bicker-
, .ngs between her and her decidedly ag-
gressive sisters-in -law. Before the end
of the volume is reached the situation
has already reversed itself. Josephine
has begun TO worry over the insecurity
of her position on account of her child
lessness. The author also seizes the OPP
portunity to dispose as decisively as he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31
SAYS SHE.

, ". NJ. Let's, in The Spectator.
My Granny she often says to me,
| Says she. You're terrible bold.
| It's you have a right to mend your ways
! Before you'll ever grow old"
| Says she,
Before yOu1l ever grow old
; For it's stcadfast now that YOU ought
| to be-
An you going on sixteen" says she.
"What'l you do when you're old like me,
What'n YOU do?" saws she.
What win do when I'm old?" says |,
"Och Musha, III say my prayers.
III wear net an a black lace cap
To cover my silver hairs" says |,
ITO cover my silver hairs.
When | am as old as Kate Kearney's
cat
I'll sell my dress and featherdy hat.
An buy an old bedgown the like o that,
The very like o that"
My Granny she signs and says to me,
THE years fly terribly fast,
The girls they laugh an talk with the
boys.
But they all grow old at last"
Says she.
THEY all grow old at last.
At Epiphany cocks may skip" says she,
But kilt by Easter they're like to be.
BY the Hockey! you'll grow as old as me,
A weak an old" SAYS she.
Maybe YOU tell me no lie" says |,
But I've time before me yet.
There's time to dance an there's time To
sing.
So why would | need To fret?"
Says l.
80 why would | need To fret?
old age may lie at the foot of the hill.
'Twlxt hoppin and trottin' Wen get
there still
Why wouldn't We dance while we have
the will.
Dance whiio We have the will?" So
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had never managed to learn more than one
tune. As nothing ever made a very
lasting impression upon this thOUghtleSS
mind, new visitor soon put everything
else out Of her head. Notwithstanding her
husbands express commands, she granted
audiences. signed petitions, pleaded for her
proteges. but this interest was only feigned
Hardly had the petitioner turned his
back, when she forgot her promises. This
kindness, which has so often been praised,
was too general to be anything more than
amiable indifference. Nine. Bonaparte ac-
corded her protection to everybody who
asked Tor II, without examining into
the circumstances Of the case. and without
exercising any discrimination or discern
ment.
NJ Espitalier gives us an important
and generally much neglected chapter Of
NapoleOnic history in his book on the
brief reign Of Joachim Murat. 1t is a
record Of vanity without talent. of 4
beau Sdbreur, great leader Of cavalry
attempting TO play the great statesman;
Of puppet opposing it's obstinacy TO the
will of its mighty creator, of the attempt
Of a vassal to play the Independent ruler
of an intriguer who WIS as child in the
supple hands Of Castlereagh ai.J Met
ternich, and last Of all, II is the record
Of traitor who betrayed his chief to his
own undoinG.
Highly interesting for the insight 1t
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which had always been current in En-
rope outside OF England alone, and been
accepted as the historic truth, as. ro
doubt, il continues to be accepted to this
day. Englishmen, however. decided that
the statement was an invention of the
Emperor, for the purpose of robbing
their nation Of its greatest military
glory.
The interesting miscellaneous collec
ton Of "reminiscences from the pens cf
various soldiers, British and French.
edited by Mr.. MacBride, contains also \
headlong defence Of England's claim 10
the honor Of the victory by the late Mr..
f. Bruce Low, according to whom every-
body engaged in the battle but the Brit
ish ran their hardest and best-Dutcb-
men, Belgians, Germans I'm the British
service, and Frenchmen.
AS for the Prussian armies thew
deliberately delayed their arrival on the
field, because their real Observation-Disclosures
being merely dashing Observation-Disclosures
Jealous of Welt. ton. AS matter nf
fact, Mr.. Low concludes, If was tba
British who rescued the Prussians from
destruction AS COR Napolcon's military
Genius, the editor o; this volume asscrts
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IBSEN'S PEOPLE
An Anglo Saxon Among His
Morse Cousins.

HOME LIFE IN NORWAY. BY II. X.
Daniels. With twelve illustrations.
l2mo, PIP. 298. The Macmillan Company
Bit by bit, in Il lcisurely manner that
seems To be without plan or increasing
purpose, the author Of this little volume
succeeds III giving his reader a vivid
picture of at least the surface of Nor
wegian daily life in city and country.
The Norsemen are evidently not cousins
To him, but foreigners, and. with certain
racial reservations, of course, most SYM
pathetic foreigners at that. Theirs is a
truly democratic life, though not with
out it's social reservations, which, how
ever, are not kept on the surface, but
well hidden, only TO crop up on momen-
tduS OCcasions-a proposed miSalliancc,
for instance. ON the other hand, they
are so well and generally understood
that the crises calling for their cmer-
gence from obscurity appear to be but
rarely created.
If the NOrwegian's life is democratic.
it is also placidly joyous and essentially
materialistic-on the surface, at least
The author devOtes minute attention to
Morse comforts and the Morse cuisine.
which is not altogether to his liking
The food of the poor he considers very
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31

bad. indeed. especially in winter. both
among the fishermen and the peasantry.
Their discomforts are great, indeed far
greater than those of the Scotch, with
v HON they have often been compared.
Mr.. Daniels. by the way, considers the
Scotch Highlander the superior of the
Norwegian mountain farmer
After Japan, he informs us. Norway is
the paradise Of children. and, he contin-
ues, they are worthy Of the happy lib
erty their elders give them, especially
the little girls And. as the little girl Is
the mother of the woman, il follows, at
least in the case OF the Norwegian
woman, that Mr.. Daniels admlres her
with an admiration that hardly admits
of reservations The first among the
women Of European natlons To secure
the suffrage, and her s.at in Parliament.
the recognized authority IN all social
movements directly affecting home life.
she is fascinating mystery to this Eng
lish visitor
How has she managed to accomplish all
this and still remain 80 irritatinSly fem
mime. so aggressively womanlyP For she
u self -abDegatory To an extent that cannot
appeal Ia the manhood" of her moro mill
tant sisters III other lands. She viii admit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31

with full-cyed candor that for her the Udag
toward motherhood and the home Is OF inc
very essence Of her being; yet falilnS me
attainment of those ends, she VIII make
the best uses of her many accomplishment;
OF nature she is Yenturesome ana
courageous TO an unusual extent 10 nel
the true Viking spirit would seem To nave
been transmitted in all its pristine yirility
In the list of toboggan casualties her name
appears oftener than that or her less Ilsh,
taking brother. On ski she will accompany
and equal him in pluck and endurance She
can man9uvrc sailboat like plot, swift
like her native elder duck, roam her rugged
uplands; and withal she Will remain 10 No"
OF womanly women the very woman
And, in addition. she can discuss the
merits of Tolstoy, Dickens and lbsen, or
the ethics of citizenship, or even the
classification of polygons, not to men
ton her we'll bred ease of manner that
fits her for any social level.
The author ascribeS her merits in part
to her education-one cannot write oil
Norway without speaking of that-and
her assured position in her own world, to
her camaraderie with the other sex from
childhood onward. He refers to our
country I'm this connection, Fastening to
make room for the assertion that his
Norwegian divinity is far less cXactng
than the American girl.
Into on analysis of the Morse soul,
especially the Morse feminine soul Mr..
Daniels does not enter. He finds great
capacity for friendship, which implies
loyalty, and especially for friendship
among women, but of the depressing
spirit that lies heavy upon so much of
recent Norwegian literature there is no
trace i'm his pages.
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can of the long lived scandal that linked
Napoleons name TO that of Hortcnsc de
Beauharnais.
His portrait of Josephine indicates
that she had the exotic charm Of the
Creole. but was not beautiful. Her fig
ure was bad, her arms shapcly, but
her fingers were square and her nails
fiat. Her teeth were awful" but, says
our author, perhaps Napoleon did not
notice this at FIRST, because Corsican
women nearly always have bad teeth
whenever they are lucky enough to have
any at all after they are twenty-one
years old.
Josephine's life at Malmaison, when
Napoleon was First Consul, was che
long struggle with boredom:
She did nothing most of the time. She re-
ceived many Visitors and strOlled all over
the park. which She found dull
Sometimes she sat down at her embroidery
frame. but she worked listlessly
| After putting in a few stitches. she would
/ tire of il, and sit down to her harp. Lack
/ of perseverance had prevented her excell-
! ing in this accomplishment, for she could
| never do anything for long at time. She
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31

ends sadly but contains clever descrip-
tions of emotional conflicts Of race and
religion. In "Jours dc Famine ct dc
Detresse" Nine. Neel Doff tells stirring
tale of a little Dutch girl who acts as IL
sort of good angel to her poor, hard-
working parents. and gives original ana
truthful gimpscs of the daily lives or
the men and women of the proletariat.
NJ Charles Henry Hirsch, who devotes
himself to the seamy sides of Partisan
socialism, gives strongly outlined
study of the Juvenile criminals OF the
boulevards in "LAmour en- Herbe." The
story, like most of the holiday fiction
this year. is pathetic, and dwells upon
the prevalence of suicide among the
precocious boys and girls Of the working
classes of Paris.
In LA Question du Vagabondage" NJ.
Fernand Dubief studies the slums OF
Paris and throws a searchlght into the
dark misery that prevails in certain
quarters OF the capital. NJ. Ricciotti
Canudo author Of remarkable social
list work, LA Vile Sans Chef" notes in
his now book, Les Liberes." the impress
sons Of a physician made during long
sojourn in an insane asylum. The book
IL written in a light, colloquial style, but
brings under rigid analysis some new
phases Of insanity. NJ. Paul Adam. who
has written preface to Les Liberes,'
places NJ. Canudo in the foremost rank
of French philosophical observers.
One finds some relief from these SOM
bre subjects in "Appassionato, bright
and frisky novel by NJ. Camille Audigier,
who presents in constantly changing as
poets the experiences Of rather coquet-
| fish Partisan widow. who is loved by
all, but loves nobody" Fasquele also
publishes the second series of "Heures
d Italic." in which VI. Gabriel Faure con-
tinues his admirable descriptions Of the
highways and byways of Italy. this time
devoting his studies and alert Observa-
tions to the Dolomite region, Pieve di
Cadorc, Conegiano, PIacentia, Modena
and Bologna. "Heures d'Italie" is a de-
! lightful and instructive companion for
those who intend visiting Italy.
c. /. Il.
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IN his introduction that it was "gooi
enough for the Russian peasant or the
Portuguese and Spaniards but
when he came TO meet born soldiers liKo
Moore Wellington and Abercrombie it
was different. . Napoleon was OBJ
viously outclassed."
1t was a pretty quarrel; it will be one
again some day. Meanwhile, one well
comes the rest Of the contents OF TINS
volume, the unpublished diaries of nom
commissioned officers of the British
armies in Egypt. Spain and Portugal
and of the captivity of one of them III
France. There are, further reminds
cences of the last survivor of the charge
o. the Scots Greys at Waterloo, an ac-
count of the GOrdons' share in the pat
tie. several other papers concerning it ny
Mr.. Low, and an accusation of cowardlce
brought against Napoleon by one OF his
aides de- camp which the editor dis
proves The book is capitally illustrated
from contemporary drawings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31
Recent Additions to NapoleoniC
Literature.

THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON. BY Arthur
Hassall, NJ. A., Student of Christ
Church. oxford. With twenty-nine IL
lustrations $40, PIP. Ky, 81. Boston:
Little, Brown d Co.
THE WIFE OF GENERAL. BONAPARTE.
BY Joseph Turquan. Translated from
the French by Niolette MontaSu. With
photogravure frontispiece and sixteen
other illustrations Svo, PIP. XVI, 3'Z,
The John Lane Company.
NAPOLEON AND KING MURAT. A
Biography Compiled from Hitherto Tn
known and Unpublished Documents.
BY Albert Espitalier, Translated from
the French by j. Lewis May, win
photogravure .rontispiece and sixteen
other illustrations. Svo. PIP xiii, 5VJ.
The John Lane Company.
WITH NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO
AND OTHER UNPUBLISHED DOCu-
MENTS- OF THE WATERLOO AND
PENINSULAR CAMPAIGNS. Also
Papers on waterloo by the late Ed
ward Bruce Low. NJ. A Edited with
ar introduction. by Mackenzie Mac
Bride With thrty-twO illustrations.
Svo. pp. xiv. 249. Philadelphia: The }.
b. Lppincott Company.
The end Of the year marks the addi'
ton of still another quartet of volumes
10 the steadily growing literature of the
Napoleonic era. Two Of them are by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31
IDIOMS.

From the London Globe
When an obviously ungrammatical ex-
preston is repeatedly used by the class
zeal authors of a dead language the diff
ficulty is readily got over by the happy
cxpedent of calling it an idiom. But In
the case of living language the prob
lem is not 50 easy of solution. All
idioms, we take it, must originally be
lapses from the best grammar, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31

and oxford and all the lands belonghs
thereto" How tho milenary may o
httingly celebrated is a matter nov
, under discussion. oxford had It's pa
geant in 1901. and its repetition is no'
favored. though feeling exists tna'
certain historical incidents might be re-
called by ceremonies on various SITE
within the city. Whatever is attempei
will he done in the presence Of 8any VIZ
itors from afar. for oxford at midsum'
mer becomes one Of the most coSmopOi'
tan cities in the kingdom outside 'n'
metropolis.
Dead Books Once More.
At meeting of the Scottish HisIoN
Society, of which he is president Lou
! Rosebery had the following to say "heA
replying 10 a vote of thanks proposed !"
"A gentleman who referred to the iSe'
that the earl had recently acquired
reputation as rather formidable, df"''
tic and inoendiary critic Of books
/ Mr. Nelson has referred to some renlaIS
have made about dead ana Supe,, alsh,
ated books. which caused consiIeLhS
amount of perturbation. and NliVs
think. have been taken a little 100 -. 80
ouSly. ! do not want anybody TO o.s',G n.
any books that they Ito not want go
stroy, and / do not want am body 10 ssse
any books that they do not want 10 al
! want q sort OF freedom. but Wu,n, h,ar.
serve the Voracious propensltlrs OF Nv ana
anS-whO, after all. are collectors maj
there are no limits 10 what a Cohe.'vns,
do-and when | think OF the '..l,,hol
and of the space which libraries, my n
discrimination, must inevitably v,tss tlss
the future, ! am a little dismay"d ~ 'annoo,lgA
that they consider any book goed 80
To find a, place FOR My friend MI - ds
the librarian at Aberdeen mas 80 sr,cis
cussed this matter. lie sent ne zach "
Yesterday I'm mis- annual report mo ho,k
fers 10 this point. and ne SAYS lI,a' I Ia higr
could be considered quite eNtincl, ,sv ths
self had taken the trouble 10 N.'.y aftl
matter. and he had taken a Us. ,, ~ ths
books In one particular depal ..,v.n,le thel
library and pointed out lhat t,nct ~
might we'll seem To have been fA'is ., ieSs
each of them had been asked lS ghst Is al
once In the last twelve months is ~. "a hll
perfectly true; but AZ pointed - depan'
he had very carefully taken I'm, ~ fTce
ment OF travel as the dep@rl VIA there
which he should take the test, ana ossblch. i
no department of any library m Whssd q
venture 10 say. books ere so rarely ney,'
the department OF travel, ! Ra ~ travs.
b0weyer moor /; may be or howesss' thsi
parently ieiune it's subject. thaln o. say
books OF travel, If that can ,o'e,s sSu 40,
Drose books. are almost rlihV,, spped
Therefore cT wish to make this puDlSs ' oths.
TO Air.. Fraser to Try his test IN SOM" that q
department of literature, ana n "ne or ~,
tr1Vel / think could indicate o., some q
IN him where he would md tnats Willis
the books have not been asked ~ IN he nH
the last twelve months. ana ! MsIsd for
live iii he finds some Of them as"'
the course OF his life
The Goncourt Prize. ,ao ~
The Goncourt annual prize 81 az
the encouragement of literature ,,s,i.
bccn awarded 20 NJ. Alphonse de : "' ,or.
briant. author OF Monsieur o's ia
dimes" story of French eoa"''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31
LITERARY NOTES.

Though first published some fort
years ago, the Messrs. Hollis Engli.b
translation Of Auerbach's ION m.
! Heights" continues to find a ready sal.
| in this country. A new edition OF H..
book--the eleyenth-has just been Sen,
TO press. Another popular German An
| thor OF a past generation continue, =.
hold her vogue here, the late Lou,..
Muehlbach. transations of whose nanv
and voluminous historical novels hav.
passed through numerous editions I,
this country since their first appearanc.
here, about the time OF the Civil Va,
The difference Is, however that WIFI.
Auerbach continues TO be read in Cor
many Miss Muehlbach was forgotts,
! there many years ago.
| Studies in Heredity.
Professor w. Z. Castle, OF Harvard
University has gone on geological az.
Ucdition TO Peru. He will make hi,
Headquarters at the Harvard Astronorn,.
cal Observatory at Arequipa, and ey.
poets to be absent about three months
DR.. Castle has a new volume out thI,
| fall on "Heredity In Relation TO Evolu.
ton and Animal Breeding" In which IA
gives the first general account OF nj,
/ extensive experiments with guinea pips
and rabbits under the auspices Of n.
Carnegie Institution, brief reports a,
which have appeared in the newspaper,
from time TO time during the last ay.
years.
! Zoa's Method Of Work.
The manuscripts Of Emile lola, vhic,
are now the property Of the Bibliothecu.
Rationale. were recently put on EXHIBIT.
ton there. The great noyelist's method
of composition can be readily traced IN
! these sixty volumes. He began, with A
scenario" a general plan OF his story
He then collected his documents per.
! scnal observations, newspaper clippings
etc.-and finally began 10 write, hI,
manuscript being practically withou,
erasures or changes.
Oxford's MilIenary.
! oxford City has decided to celebrat.
/ it's millenary next summer While there
/ is little doubt that oxford was an i'm
portant frontier" town in early Saxon
times, the earliest authentic record ap-
pears in the Chronicle" relating to tia
death Of the Lady of Mercia, and her
succession by Edward the Elder, son o.
King Alfred. This record states: AT
her death Edward took over London
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31

When the German Emperor declared
some years ago. in an address TO one of
his regiments, that the Prussians had
saved Wellington from defeat on that
famous field his words created feeling
Of bitter Indignation in England, which
puzzled not only the Fatherland but oil
the Continent as well. William IL had
merely stated the version of the battle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31
The Goncourt Prize.

The Goncourt annual prize '' - IA
the encouragement of iitefaiu'e ,s,s.
hccn awarded 10 NJ. Alphonse de ca''" .'r
briant. author OF Monsieur o's n,
dimes" story of French eou''''
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-10
Contest Notice
Department Of the Interior,

Department Of the Interior.
United States Land Office, Pueblo. Colorado.
d cember 10. 1910.
sufficient contest affidavit having been
filed in this Office by Laura J. Kibbv, contest
ant. against Homestead Entry. No. l62l3,
made Septembe: II. 1876. for NWA Section II ,
Township % South, Range 81 West. Sixth
Principal Meridian, by Miles 8. Case. contes.
tee, in which It II alleged that Miles 8. Case
has wholly abandoned said land for more than
AK months last past: that he has never estRb
ished residence on said land. that he has
not restded upon or occupied the land since
September. 1909. that said defaults exist at
date hereof. and that said alleged absence from
the said land was not due to military or
naval service. Now. therefore, said parties
are hereby notified to appear. respond and
offer evidence touching said allegation at
the Register and Receiver Of the United States
Land Office In Pueblo, Colorado.
The said contestant having. in n proper
affidavit, filed December Is 1910. set forth
facts which show that after due diligence.
personal service of this notice can not be
made. 1t IL hereby ordered and directed that
snch notice be given by due and proper publ,
cation
s. A. ABBEY. Register