New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-13

,r,o these well-remembered paees,
IT,, easv II IS to go on reading them,
.ho neglect of the latest best seller,.
And we may add, the temptation Is tn,
o,ronger when these works are put be.
fore lis in such handy form.
ToIstoy's Anthology.
In the last years 81 his life Tolstoy
ocripied himself with the selection 90
.oasoces from old and modern writer's
Itch no arranged for daily reading.
assembling In this way material for S55
d,vs In translation by Leonard
Stewery. and with special introductoni
'..,,,on nv the anthologist's son. this
,rork Is NOW appearing under the i'm.
pr;nt of the International Library Pub T
Itching Company. 1t hears the title Of
"rhe cycle Of Reading: thoughts OF the
worlds Greatest Authors on Truth on
rife. and the Ways Thereof. II is
printed in pamphlet form and Is coming
ont IN narts The first booklet Of ll2
nooes has lust been published and eleven .
others will follow at monthly intervals
Thacksray's Nose.
We printed not long ago the curious
story of two old ladies concerning the
wav in which Thackerays nose was
broken Here is another contribution
from ",rhe Westminster Gazette'-to the
h,storv ~ that i'll treated organ:
MANY wears ago an intimate friend Of
Thackeray told me that IN tne hsht WIN
Venables the nose was lnJureq, Drt net
s.rinusIv The accident by which Thack-
erav was dishgured for life took pace ~
ST Cloud. when he was living IN fsils
There was picnic. ana snc frbackorays
animal suddenly stopped ana ne Was
| thrown headlong on a heap OF s'o"es W
the side of the road
Books in Canada.
Canadians, we are told are remarkably
liberal buyers Of books, sparse population
and severe weather leading them to fall
! back upon reading as the occupation OK
several months of leisure. Dickens,
Scott and Thackeray are, in this order
the most popular of novelists there.
Also Canada is loyal to her own
writer's, as the booksellers testify.
The French Revolution.
! Never ending is the procession OF books
dealing with the great cataclysm divid-
ing the old regime from the new. A new
volume is Miss Una Birch's Secret So
cieties and the French Revolution" II
is a picturesque subject, and one allow
ing picturesque treatment
Walt Whitman a Warning"
That Walt Whitman stands apart, IAN
awful warning to those who would break
the laws of literature" Is the conviction
Of the writer of an article in "Elack-
wood" He came before the world" 1t
is added, "a strange. inchoate monster.
q savage with a half-articulate voice.
one who might perchance have been
poet had he not dried up the wells OF
poetry in his breast" Already, this
critic holds, he is forgotten.
Now and again he may be mentioned az
the drunken helot Of literature; the best
and the least Characteristic OF his WORKS
will be cited in anthologies: and another
generation will recognize that he was toll
cradle only when he abandoned his anl!cS
and did his utmost 10 conform 10 tHs rus
OF his craft Yet he lived not in vain, Tor
he proved. even to the doubter, that there
is no music without melody and that
poetry cannot be fashioned in contempt OF
sound and sense.
School Oddities.
The English journal of Education IL
rarely without amusing quotations from
reports of school teachers. In the last
number, for example, is pertinent an
swer to a teachers question, who was
sorry 10 see the Prodigal Son come