New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-23
LITERARY NOTES.

Nv parck. Of the Grand Rapids Public
ribrarv. reports that an examination y.
-,,,,otior records shows that out OIL
eighty thousand volumes ol4 n'u 80
boen removed for reading al nome. WHY
.b;rteen thousand had remaiheo ioie
,,,on the shelf for long periods. MahS
IF these are books that at one Tune "ero
exceedingly popular
The Literary Roosevelts.
Ex-President Roosevelts sister, MrS'
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, has, ike
her brother, literary gift. She mas
written a poem entitled THE Call OF
brotherhood" which has been placed III
the August number of "Scribners Maya
zine"
Thackeray's Double.
The centenary Of the author or bs-
mond" has evoked from many quarters
anecdotes about the novelist. FROM
Scotland comes a reference TO Or. Car
ruthers of THE Inverness Courier,
friend of Thackeray, and so like him that
when the novelist was feeling under the
weather, he humorously proposed that
his friend should take the Ms. o. an
immanent lecture and read it TO the ex-
pectant audience. on one occasion, when
Carruthers was staying in London,
Thackeray called TO see him, and the
maid who opened the door burst out
laughing at his inquiry for his friend.
"Carruthers had just gone out, and here
he was back, as she thought, gravely
inquiring for himself"
Young Tennyson's Book.
Mr.. Alfred Tennyson, the grandson OF
the poet, has finished his novel, and 1t
will shortly be published. The hero is a
Scottish youth, a shy giant, who has
many painful viclssitudes to encounter,
but energies triumphant. "A Portentous
History" is the title of the story.
UIrike.
A paper on Ulrike Won Levetzow, tho
charming person who was the last TO
evoke Goethes ever bubbling senti-
mentality. has lately been published by
Dr. l.. Stettenheim, the editor Of the
"Leipziger Tageblatt,' He knew Frau
lein Won Levetzow. and visited her at
Castle Triblitz her home in Bohemia, in
1893. She was then in her ninetieth
year Her round face had few lines; her
dark blue eyes were clear and full Of
light. She talked smilingly Of the time
when she first saw Goethe. He was
seventy-two and she was seventeen. Il
had come from school at Strasburg,'
she said where of literature l had read
only Votaire and other French writer's:
knew rot page Of Goethe. But this
very ignorance greatly pleased the great
poet He knew my family, and as We were
living in the same house at the time, II
came about that he and ! -ook many walks
together. He would have me quite under
his charge. and used to invite my assist
ance in his mineralogical studies. He
might have been my grandfather, ana, In
Geed. ii was much IN that Hght mat L
viewed him and his attentions 70 me. He
used to call me his little girl
Goethe used to say 10 my mother that he
wished he had another son, so that that
son might marry me. Then: he said, ne
would bring me up himself just as he
wished He constantly instructed me- ana
told me many interesting stories. / revered
him greatly.
Ulrike never married. Frau Won Le-
vetzow once said TO her daughter, after
the rejection Of several suitors, Il be-
lleve you ought to have married Goethe
We'll" said Ulrike, when you have
known Goethe and rejoiced in his COM
pany and kindly interest il IS not easy
10 be pleased by any other man.
Theatrical Recolections.
Mrs. Charles Calvert, who has trodden
the American as well as the English
stage in the plays Of Shakespeare, has
prepared for publication volume OF her
"reminiscences. The book ought 10 be
amusing as we'll as valuable.
The Book OF Martyrs
The agitation over the proposed sale OF
Bunyans copy of Foxes Book OF Mar
tyrs" has ended ingloriously. The Eng
lIsh Attorney General has decided that
the Bedford Institute is free 10 sell the
book or not, as it sees fit. ...
An American Novel.
Mr.. ]. A. Mitchell has again entered
the field Of fiction. He has given to his
new story the suggestive title of Pan
dora's Box" It will be brought out by
Stokes in the early autumn.
Pensions for Authors.
Mr.. w. B. Yeats is now the recipient
NJ pension OF $3.50 from the British
Civil List TN recognition of his distin-
suished literary attachments and Of his