New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-26

philosophical speculatlons." neatly ex-
posinc the foollshness OF the famous
REPUTATION" OF Berkeley. AS for MS
manners and their relation to his haoie
Of thought, Professor Tyrrell has this
abusing passage:
NumberIoss are the instances in which
mere rudeness takes the place OF reason
ing Many will recall. "Sir. nave foui.u
you an argument, but am nor opI7eu 49,, ~.
lind you an understanding. Nay II !o33
are to bring In gable. III talk no NOR;
was his rejoinder to Boswells perlcCtS
reasonable theory about Gives motive loi
suicide. He was very rude 10 BISHOP -.
cy for reminding him that he was SNORT
sighted: you told me I was short-sghted'
we have done with civility. Now, ne was
very myoplc. Here we have chiidl5m
petulance, which appears still more cledI,y
i'm the following scene: Johnson was at
lacking the Americans with vehement
abuse: Boswell protested; johnson said
nothing al the time, bat some time after,
when Boswell remarked concerning q a,o rI'Sn
who was running himself by eXtravaganCt,
I'VE must get him out OF London. Sr,.
said Johnson. "we'l send you to NM IL
your company does not drive man OUT OIL
his house nothing will" Asked ny Bos-
we'll why I've did not express his dlspleasuIc
directly. the philosopher replied. Because;
sir, | had nothing ready a man Sah ,.e
strike TIL he has weapons which the
peasant Confession" If the idolaters do
not pass over this protest OF nine Win Win
silent contempt. they VIII propapiy C cWn
me, In the words of Tennyson's vast
ness" with 90, ,.oa
Sowing the nettle on the laurerd graves
OF the Great"
the protagonist in the last two scenes snow
any elements of greatness, and not rathess
n ittleness rarely found in adults even Vi
| ordinary endowments!
A Wise Novelist.
Several years ago Mr.. Stanley Wey-
man, feeling that he had written about
all the fiction that he really cared to
write, with admirable good sense an
nounced that he would produce no moro
novels Now using the same sound
Judgment, he Is seeing to 1t that his
works are being put into definitive form.
Through the LOngmans he is publishing
an Authors Complete Edition" of them,
In twenty small. thin paper volumes.
He is arranging them chronologically,
and, It is to be presumed, Will supply
them with introductions.
| Eccentric Literature.
| To the current number Of THE Monlst'
Mr.. Arthur Mcdonald contributes some
| interesting notes on this subject. He
tells of a seventeenth century Orientalist
who presented to the French Academy a
memoir in which he claimed to show
! that Adam was 40 feet in height, Noah
| so Abraham 40 and Moses %. One
| Gleiszes, a vegetarian, who died In 1S4o,
deserted the wife whom he loved be-
cause she would not cease eating meat,
which he said was atheistic. Fruits. he
| argued, contained the true religion. and
vegetables were an antidote for all evils
| Mr.. Mcdonald has this TO say on the
symptoms IF eccentric literature:
Some cranks In their writings continually
play upon words to absurdity, or use large
numbers Of words to no purpose, even writ
| ing volumes full Of redundancy. Others
repeat ideas Of great statesmen or philoso-
piers but distort them by exaggeratlon.
often making them ridiculous. Another
symptom Of eccentric literature is a use Of
stereotyped phrases In peculiar sense and
repeated many times with useless details.
| Many words are underscored, and the
writing is in different characters. Even
the pages may have various colors AS an
work consisted Of III volumes. In addition
10 prolixity. the purpose IS not only absurd,
| but the nature Of the books IS often entirely
| foreign 10 the education of their authors.
Thus a physician writes concerning geom-
etry. and a cook on political economy A
| pseudo geologfst discovers a secret way Of
| ombalming bodies that is known to any
| demonstration Of anatomy; a university pro-
fessor In a treatise mentions the exhala-
! lions of the fish an advantage of sea
bathing and yet his book contained many
good things. reaching a second edition.
Thackeray and the Charterhouse.
At the recent impressive celebration
Of the tercentenary Of Thackeray's
school-and Colonel Newcomes refuge
the Charterhouse, an admirable "Masque
of Charterhouse" was presented TO an
enthusiastic assemblage Of old and new
Carthusians. A part Of II represented
was THE Passing Of John Wesley" the
great divine being realistically repre-
sented by the Bishop Of Lewes. THE
Passing OF William Makepeace Thack-
cray and His Vision Of Colonel New
come" was a striking feature Of the oc-
casion. The Englishman who took the
part Of Thackeray was wonderfully
made up as the novelist. Sir Robert
BadenPowell appeared as Colonel New
come, and is said to have looked the
part to the life. The tercentenary recalls
to the London photographers many mem
cries Of the great school. None is more
interesting than that OF the words Of
praise which the headmaster, Boyer,
entered the school: boy, the school is
your father Boy, the school is your
mother. Boy, the school is your brother,
the school is your sister The school IS
your first cousin and your second cousin,
and all the rest of your relations. Let's