New-York tribune., 1911-01-01
LITERARY NOTES.

M. Roman ROLAND. the author oP
jean Christophe." says TO his critics:
when you see man do you ask him
whether he is poem or a novel? II is
a man that have created. ] have at
tempted to put the life OF a man into o
literary framework"
DR.. Johnson's house In Cough Square,
London, which has for some months
been for sale, has been rescued from the
speculator and builder. A judicious
person, whose name is withheld has
bought It for the purpose OF giving 1t to
the English nation, and will confde 1t to
the holding of trustees 10 be chosen by
him. A host of American pilgrims to
the shabby old house will rejoice in this
news
Speaking Of old London houses re.
minds us to note that the house In which
Mr. Lucas has placed that agreeable
parsonage, ,Ir. Engleside, is the one in
| which Mrs. Pennell wrote her book, Our
House" Master Samuel Pepys, II Is
| said, once occupied IL.
From Thomas Nelson & Son We have
| received "The Three Musketeers," print
ed on thin paper and beautifully bound
in limp leather, as the first volume in a
set Of eighteen devoted TO the romances
Of Dumas. The selection from his works
| has been made for this edition by Mr..
IN, fnt m
the first volume discloses once more the
whole hearted zest which he has always
had for the genius OF Alexander the
Great "Fulness of life," he says.
strength, gayety, brightness. such is
tn. work of Dumas" We need not en-
large upon the theme. II is enough 70
state that Dumas in any form Is cure
for most of the ills Of the spirit, and that
in an exquisite little pocket edition like
this one he is a sheer blessing.
American collectors will be interested
| in the proceedings Of society which
| has Just been formed in Paris for the
reproduction of the finest illuminated
manuscripts in the public Libraries OF
Europe. The secretary, Count Alexandra
| de Labord., No. 81 Boulevard de Cour-
celles, Paris will furnish particulars.
| Well, well-wormwood is bitter the
mouth of THE London Saturday Re-
view! In the course OF notice OK
Lady Dorothy Neville's recent book 1t
declares that it is in perfect agreement
with her conclusions about society. IL
continues thus:
The predominance Of money over birth
and brains, the sensuality and lnanlty OF
smart" people are disgusting facts, which
strike you in the eye. But because they
are so obvious they are hardly worth re-
| peating in serious way. There is only
| one weapon by which they can be success
| fully attacked-ridicule. We want Ju-
venal, or a Pope. or Beaumarchais, 70
satirize the ladies whose talk Is OF
| "nighties." and the gentlemen win the
physiognomy Of Shylock and the manners
| Of a booky, who pratte about the Stock
Exchange, motors and Kempton. Conver.
sation Sharp and Abraham Hayward, and
Rogers may occasionally have bored, the
witticisms of Luttrell and Jekyll and sgd
ney Smith may sometimes have palled.
| But surely they were not quite so tedious
as the endless, pointless. boisterous per-
sonal chaff which forms the staple or mod-
ern conversation
The curious manuscripts which were
recovered in Central Asia by DR. A. u.
Stein and which are believed to be frag-
ments of the Buddhist work "Abhid-
! naunnakesha," are to be deciphered by
Professor Stchorhatgky, who occupied
| the chair of Sanscrit in the University
of St. Petersburg. He has gone for this
purpose to Calcutta. where conference
of Oriental scholars will consider the
mysterious manuscripts.
Sir Norman Lockyer, in an introduce
/ ton to the volume showing Tennyson as
a student and poet of nature, tells THIS
anecdote: 80 far as my memory serves
me was introduced to the late LORD
Tennyson by Woolner about the year
1864. | was then living in Fairfax Road
West Hampstead. and had erected my
six-inch Cook Equatorial II the garden
| go,,nl ba GntnuSl-