New-York tribune., 1912-04-19

must have a hard heart and no heau .ioaU u
| speak Of One might diiferenuate Tet"ev" '',l
wit and hLmor by classic eHahitpiT, tp,,,, list
rold. a wit. and Sydney smith hufnor ISL
made an Identical soke unknown 10 oi,e ,,,,,,t o.,
other. each according TO MS temper alllei y \
The Dean and Chapter OF St. aul " 40 ~
TO surround the Cathedral WIN WooH oi,, =" ~
! ing and In those days did not KNOW no" " Ee
| set about II. Douglas Jerroid WroIe, ,i,,
/ you put your heads together you can tdSiIS I
! do it," sydney Smith remarked. IN -
put our heads together, the tlns w 80
! done" and so, by introducing himself INTO
the alleged blockhead throng, he ieIt ous
the sting. Kindlness was introduced, aho M
wit was reduced TO humor, just as ~ ~
acidity Of Attic wine was sottened oE 'he
Greeks with honey.
LehIsnc's New Book.
THE Frontier" NJ. Maurice Leblancs
new novel, is a story Of love and war
The results Of an encounter between
two thoroughly prepared nations Of to-
day are described therein.
/ A Final Volume.
The Catholic Encyclopedias" VIII be
/ completed in the autumn with the issue
of the fifteenth volume. 1t covers the
last of the alphabetical entries with
criticisms Of the earlier volumes, cor
rections, biographies Of the contribu-
tors, an index, etc.
A "First Folio"
A Shakespeare First Folio has lately
| been discovered, not by a Dryasdust
scholar but by boy, the son of a well
known English baronet. He was look
/ ing among the books in Lord Dudleys s
/ library at Whitley Court when he came
across what he Immediately felt was a
| First Folio He had seen one In the Brit
! sh Museum and was sure he Recognized
another, although it had been rebound
and one or two pages were missing.
! The experts who were consulted con-
! firmed the quick-witted boys opinion.
! This brings the known number OF copies
of the First Folio up to 139. Only
forty-three Of this number are in a per-
feet state. Even the imperfect ones,
however, are valuable; one was sold not
long ago for nearly $4,000.
Lucrezia Boreia.
This much discussed lady Is the hero
ire OF forthcoming historical novel by
/ Mr.. Grahame Richards, novel which is
| to be entitled "Lucrezia Borgia's Ono
Love" It is to be presumed that the
author takes an amable view Of the
duchess's career.
Peculiar Criticism.
The reviewer of THE Manchester
Guardian" has been reading Mr., Cum
ninghame Grahams new book, Char
| ity" and sets forth his impressions thus:
! No one now writing not Mr.. George
| Moore himself can use language in such a
| beautifully liquid condition q S Mr.. Cunning
hame Graham, to watch the smooth stun
| sliding down the page the sentences swill-
| ing back and forward easily TIL each makes
a broad paragraph, is 10 feel that he must
| have been careful 10 keep his paper per-
fectly fiat while he worked. az Whistler
| die his canvases. lest the medium should
/ spill over the edge Yet II Is no refined,
OILY pastlche, made by boiling down other
| books The bones of living dialects have
| been ground up TO make IT. idioms Gallo
| and Gaelic, turns~of speech from Brazil
and Seville and Soho.
Ranging SmoIlstt.
! There is 70 be a new Men Of Let
ters" volume. Smollett Is its subject
and Mr. Thomas Seccombe is the au-
| thor At once biographical and critical
| it is intended. no doubt definitely to
state the novelists position in litera-
ture. JSmollett, who died at fifty, was
an indefatigabA worker. He plunged
! his pen into fiction, drama, history ant
practised as a surgeon as we'll In th'
matter Of money he was never at ease
and his life was probably shortened BY
lack Of sufficient comforts. This mar
! of humor was never care free.