New-York tribune., 1911-12-03
Meredith's DeIstions.

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moved much that they wish he had re-.
tained.
AboIshire Poverty
Can poverty be abolished?-a wonder.
ful question in its development II possi.
bilities for mankind. Professor J. L
Hollander. OF Johns Hopkins, has bess
studying the subject. and the results o.
his study will be shown in an article by
him in a future number Of The Al.
lantic.'
CarIyle's BirthpIaee.
When the admirers of Carlyle yea.
ago made Of his old home in Chelsea
permanent memorial they rendered what
Hooked like a final service 10 his fame
But they have not wearied Of weldo.
irg. Some months since they undertook
To place the Arched House ar Eccls.
fechan in which he was born upon the
same basis secured for the famous dwell
ing in Cheyne Row. Mr.. Samuel Elliott
one OF the American trustees. now re.
pCrts the successful carrying out Of this
admirable enterprise. About 1000 was
needed for the purchase and cquipment
| of the house. The trustees had In their
possession some f2J0 which they could
amply TO the purpose. With public sub.
scriptions number cf which have come
from sympathetic Americans. the neces-
sarv total has been obtained. Lovers q
Carlyle and pilgrims 10 his birthplaos
may henceforth rest in the cheerful con.
sciousness that the little building is for.
ever free from chances OF ruin. Con.
yerted into a museum, II Is also certain
| 70 put before them. as time goes on, an
ever larger number OF relics Of the seer
| Owners of such objects will sooner or
later fill the rooms with their treasureS
Great Poets.
/ on the question Of great poets an
anonymous English critic Is somewhat
pessimistic, though not unduly So
When one looks across the field Of
poetry Of to-day he says, what one
finds is a race OF poets each cultiyating
a corner of his own, glorying in the ex-
ercise OF his own fastidious art and
gathering about him group Of admir-.
ers who find in his work a satisfaction
which they cannot elsewhere find.
The poets ask no more The finger q
the passers-by is nothing TO them, and ii.
love Of the public is not the mark a,
which they shoot They are not, therefore.
popular poets. Are they great poets? K
challenged 10 name one who might =
spoken of as great, a critic would he sorely
put TO ii.
Amy Robssrt's Death.
A report on the Pepys MSS. preserved
at Magdalene College, Cambridge, has
just been issued as a yellow Book by
the English Historical Manuscripts Com.
mission. 1t reveals the existence Q.
many precious letters and other docu-
ments; among these il a mass of the
correspondence Of the Earl Of Leicester
Five of the letters referring 10 the desih
Of Amy Robsart We're printed by Lord
Braybrooke, but It is stated that both h
and NJ. Froude overlooked al important
letter of 1861 from Thomas Blount 10
Leicester. This describes an attempt to
suborn John Appleyard, half brother to
Amy, to give evidence against the Eah
as to her death. II is said that a mer
chant, instigated by the Duke OF Nor.
folk, the Earl of Sussex and Thoms.
Heneage, had an interview with Apple.
yard at Hampton, offering him, in yaa
FL 0e0 down and from time 10 time ss
much as he should require.
There is letter among these papss
which shows Mary Stuart in one Of her
most self-assertive moods. THAT QueeH
this other day." says the writer was
q merchants house in Edinburgh whers
was a picture of the Queens majesty
which when some had said their opinions
how like or unlike it was TO the Queens
majesty Nay, quoth she. II Is not like
her. tor am Queen of England"
French Classics.
In the preparation OF cheap reprint
English and American authors have. "
course, been kept in the foreground o.
our publishers foreign literature bens
represented in translations The Put
mans have just begun 10 issue here
series brought out by Dent in Londc'
as a companion TO "Everyman" and ~
Guillequin in Paris. In cheap but SUD-
stantial and pleasing form this series
ltc give us various French mssterpiece