New-York tribune., 1911-01-21

June. II is entitled John Sherwood
lronmaster.' and its hero is typical
American. a business man Of tremen-
dous energy and will Disease attacks
him and he is forced 10 fight for his Ire
instead Of for wealth. In the healing
woods he finds his romance-and alfs
we'll that ends we'll
The Miller Of Old Church" is the title
OF a new novel which Miss Ellen Glas-
gov has lately completed. The scene Is
laid in the South, and it shows forth the
contrast between n man of strong char
acter and the impulslve and self-indul-
gent man.
The night before Lees surrender was
a night OF rain, and the gloom within
the generals tent was almost as deep
as the gloom without The scene Is de-
scrbed by Major A. r. H. Ransom in the
forthcoming Harper" The ground even
under the canvas was wet, and Lee and
Longstreet sat talking on bundles of
straw When Ransom had made his re-
port Lee gave him. too. a bundle OF
straw. and the tired soldier lay down
upon it and went to sleep:
l was awakened by voices, and looking
up, saw the colonel I had left In charge
of the troops at the bridge standing in the
tent He reported that the rations had
not arrived, and the starving and discour-
! aged troops had all deserted in the dark
! ness, leaving their arms In the trenches
| General Lee heard him 10 the end Of ms
account. and then with wave or ms
hand dismissed him. Turning TO Genera
! LOngsireet, he said: This Is very bad.
That man is whipped. 1t is the first time
| have seen one. of my officers ,TL Tno n nan
versation between the generals was then
| resumed IN low tones. and ! again feil
asleep. I must have slept for some length
/ of time. when / was awakened BY Gen
! eral Lees voice, speaking in loud tones,
| louder than / had ever heard from him. re
was saying. General Longstreet' ! VII
/ strike that man blow In the morning.
| General Lee sometimes spoke OF Genera
! Grant as that man. and Of the federal
| army as those people"
General Longstreet replied in low tones,
giving the strength and condition or MS
command and the strength and posiiIon
Of the enemy and concluded by sdEuls'
| But YOU have only 10 give me the oroeI'
and the attack will be made In the nom,
ing" Again the conversation was resumed
! in low tones. and fell asleep. ] must nave
sIert for an hour at least, when again |
was awakened by the loud. almost herce'
tones Of General Lee SAY sayngl stTto tbat @ man man
a blow In the morning ,feneTal LoilS
street again recounted the dlf1cultles. emu emu
ing as before. General you, Know gon
have only 10 give the order and the attack
will he made, but ! must tell YOU tninK
n will be a useless waste of brave lVes
The morning came. and llstenen lot M I,e
sound Of our attack. bur an Was S,,.s S,,t
There was no attack; our fghtins days
were over.
Tho rurnor that the diaries and papers
Of Macready, the actor, are TO be de-
stroved by their present possessor has
called out a protest from Mr.. Laurence
Irving. He points out that Sir Freder-
ick Pollock published only n selection
from the diaries and he thinks that
these diaries. which were suppressed
thirty-five years ago. may now be pub
lished with no probability Of wounding
any living person.
The literary dressmaker, Madame Mar
euerite AudouX. has written new book
which she calls "Marie-Claire a Paris
NJ. Mirbeau has read the first chapters
and thinks they are better than Marie
Claire" An English translation of the
latter. by the way, is coming from the
press. The author intends TO try play
writing-has. indeed, already devised a
thrce-act drama, which she Will nave no
difficulty I'm placing.
NJ Arthur Meyer. Of the Paris "Gau-
lois " is publishing in that journal a So
ries Of "reminiscences, and in a recent |
number he tells an amusing story Of Ed |
mond About Asked by the Emperor
one dav whether he could speak Span |
ish. About who was anxious to obtain /
a good diplomatic appointment. an /
swered. "Not yet" He at once set 10 |
work with grammars and dictionary 10 |
master the language. A few months !
later he approached the Emperor end |
said: sire, | can now speak Spanish |
All said the Emperor rather surprised, !
7 congratulate YOU L learnt Spanish |
because your Majesty had asked me |
whether I knew that language 'Ah, !
yes was the reply. I remember now /
| had just read Don Quixote' in the |
original and had enjoyed II so much "
There is a touching sketch of Walter !
Besant in an address made not long ago !
by W. Robertson Nicon. The speaker, |
noting Besants delight in writing his !
novels, said that the author constantly !
came out Of his happy world Of Magma !
ticn "to what is perhaps the most labor
icus and thankless work any one can
undertake-the helping of the unhelp- |
able and the employment of the unem-
ployabe":
His whole sympathies went with the un- |
der dog in the fight. II was sufficient for |
him that the applicant for his aid should
he failure. With one side of his mind |
he clearly saw that the failure was very |
often due to the fault of the supplant, hut !
his heart never admitted this. lie took end |
less trouble in rewriting the poor little sto- |
rles or incapable nOVeliStS, so that theE |
might pass muster and bring in guinea |
or two. lie would take unlimited trouble 10 |
find situations for those who were out or !
work Himself one OF the proudest Of men, |
there was little humiliation he would shrink |
from in trying 10 open a way for those who |
had no friend but himself Even when he |
was unworthiy treated he did not resent IT, |
Even when those for whom he had found a |
start were unable to keep their ground |
through Carelessness or incapacitv he would |
do his best to give them another chance |
! never knew any one who would do such |
things for his fellow creatures. There !
was something about him higher and nobler !
than IS often found in humanity and yio- |
lent as some of his preudices were II is |
Impossible TO recall him without the pro- |
warmest recognition Of his patience his /
courage. his passion for Justice. his unend- |
ing pity and his delight IN all that makes |
Tor reconciliation and peace.