New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-30
LITERARY NOTES.

II ia announced that paper Wy
Thackeray, hitherto unpupiisheu'
appear in the next number OF haipei
Maya zine" It describes a snort Jou,
roy Trough the west of Engiano a''o -
entitled "Cockney Travels His own
drawings illustrate II His daughter
Lady Richie. has furnished some ac-
| complaining notes
"Pernicketty"
This word has been supposed 10 De OF
New England origin, but we belieVe tha'
Scottish immigrants brought IL 70 'fiis
country and that IL was nrst hearo
here from their lips. This opinion IS
confirmed by the statement recently
made in England that IL was intro
duced into literary English by Scottish
writer's A discussion Of the odd Word
has been suggested by the title OF Mr..
s. r. Crocketts new novel, Love in
Pernicketty Town"
A Partisan of Napoleon.
! In The Tragedy Of St Helena" Sir
| Walter Runciman has pictured Napoleon
as an almost perfect being. and his en-
cmies as brutal wretches. His book is
most interesting-the more interesting
| for its prejudices and prepossessions.
| Sir Walter Is Scotchman an eminent
shipowner and the father of the presi-
dent of the British Board Of Educa ton.
"Decalcomanie"-oh!
There is a comical story in Mr. w
q. Liddelrs "reminiscences concerning
Mrs. Cameron, the friend of the Tenny-
sons and the well known amateur pho
| tographer:
About that time a horrible amusement
| called "decalcomanie" came into vogue, by
which strips OF colored pictures and de-
| signs of an inferior kind were transferred
| from paper TO wood or china. Sir Henry
| Taylor had lately built new house in
| Upper Sheen. at which Mrs Cameron was
| put up for the night in the best bedroom.
| which had been elegantly furnished i'm a
| light colored wood. Early on the following
! morning the guest appeared. pale and eX-
| hausted. in the hosts bedroom and would
not be satisfied till she had reused them
from their slumbers and forced them to
| visit her apartment, where she trium-
| phantly displayed TO their disguised vision
! the wardrobes and washhand stands
| dry art, to the elaboration Of which she
had devoted the entire night
French Gardens.
What promises to be very delightful
book is coming out in Paris. II is en-
titled DE Fart des Jardins du XVe
Steele au IKE Steele" and is the work of
NJ. Marcel Fonquier. 1t contains four
hundred illustrations, with forty fac
SMILES Of old engravlngs and drawings
| hOrS- fertC.
Two More Hobhouse Books.
The diaries of Lord Broughton John
| Cam HObhouse) appear to be of extraor-
binary length. Two more volumes are to
be added to the four already published
therein to phases of his friend Byron's
career. since new matter for discussion
often arose during Hobhouse's lifetime.
He died in 1869. the new volume begins
with the year 1894.
| Hunting Indians.
Hunting Indians in Taxicab' is the
| title of forthcoming book by Miss
| Kate Sanborn. The Indians are of the
cigar shop variety-a rapidly disappear
| ing type.
| Heine in Germany
At last monument 10 Heine has been
erected in the Germany which has so
| long evaded such commemoration of the
| noet This monument consists of the
| imposing statue in marble which the
Empress of Austria erected in the
grounds of her magnificent palace at
Corfu. When the German Emperor
bought the place, not long ago. he dis
carded the statue. and it was acquired
by the late Julius Campo. the descendant