New-York tribune., 1911-03-19

VI tiic icttciS VI As'Shoiu lenry L.
which the Macmillan Company will 49,
publish have never been printed. ~.
editor Of the collection, Professor ~,
lagh, has found many of them IN ~.
possession Of private owners and oth...
in national or state archives. There -.
no fewer than five hundred letters e
this collection, and they are hstoric.u-
important.
Byron's Doctor.
In 1.-The Dairy OF DR.. Polidori." wh,..
is on the point Of publication in Londor
there will be found, we are told. man.
passages about Shelley and about Byron
whose secretary and physician PolIdor,
once was. He was also an uncle ~
Dante Gabriel and W. NJ. Rossetti. ana
/. is to the pious labors of the latsh,
that the publication of the diary is du.
Concerning this diary the editornAf
Byron's Letters and Journals say..
During his attendance on Byron poh.
dori kept diary, which Hobhouse with
some difficulty, prevented him from pub.
fishing in 1920 Byron denied that |,
could contain anything about him which
il true, was interesting That Poll.
doris truth and honesty might well B.
questioned is shown in the fact that Ia
published as Byron's THE Vampire.
which was really written by himself
He committed suicide at the age Of
twenty-six. having been driven to de.
spair. it is said, by gaming deb.
Byron said to Medwin: 20
I was convinced something very unpleaa
ant hung over me last night. | expectld
to hear that somebody / knew was dead:-
so 1t turns out. Poor Polidori Is gonel
When he was my physician he was alway,
talking of prussic acid, oil Of amber, blow.
ing into veins. suffocating by charcoal and
compounding poisons; but for a different
purpose TO what the Pontic Monarch dId
FOR he has prescribed a dose for 6inss; ssd
that would have killed fifty Mithridates
Mr.. GLASS; Novel. ...
Mr.. Montague Glass has interruptM
the pleasant current Of his tales about
Potash e. Perlmutter, and is writing A
novel. His motive is thus reve aled: ~
think that a short story writer, as rule
won't make a good novelist, unless he
breaks away in time from writing short
stories exclusively. That's why I'm try.
ing to change. l don't believe that a
man can go on writing short stories all
his life and get away with IT,"
A Magnificent Book.
What is truly a magnificent book will
be issued this month by Goupil. II
deals with dress in France in the Eigh.
teenth Century, and its two. hundred
illustrations in color are things Of be.
guiing beauty and artistic finish The
author. NJ. CASTOR Schefer, has had a
wonderfully rich store Of material upon
which to work. The book appears under
the title Of "LHistoire du Costume do
Louis XIV a la Restauration."
Mrs. Spofford's Novelette,.
Many agreeable hours have the read.
ers of American fiction owed TO Harriet
Prescott Spofford in past years, and We
are glad to note that a new book from
her hand is coming from the Harper
press. THE Making Of a Fortune Is
the title Of the novelette,. May It recall
some OF the glamour Of I'm Cellar
,~I Ap,har Cod
Fogazzaro's Leila"
The last novel Of the late Signor Fo.
gazzaro will be published soon. 1t Is
described as the story Of a woran's
heart, a story revealing ideals despev.
ately upheld and difficulties deiantly
confronted. The end is happy one.
Inferiority."
"Rita's" remarkable discovery that
Americans are very touchy on the SUBJ
feet Of intellectual inferiority, despite
the proofs afforded by their literature
and their drama" has aroused the
London Outlook" to the point OF making
a mild protest. Surely" IT says, this
sneer is a little unfair When we con-
s:der the enormous material expansion
OF America, and remember how this eS'
pansion must necessarily have ABSORBED
much OF the intellect Of the country, We
must admit that her literary output
very creditable. indeed. As Tor he1