New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-14

Consciousness which too often
iHe literary controversies. This ad-
MAJ s,o nerson is Henry JAMES. 1t is
,, enough, as the Engllsh CONNER,
u ..,or points out, that no man has had
's''. or, more severely criticised and
DIS So has always taken his punish
msnt like man.
o.b.r. srowning'' Income
' An interesting letter written by Rob-
prowning to the income tax au-
en- tics in 1880 has just found its
'nO-' ,rto print in England. 1t shows
We. his profits from his poetry were
'i@ Mt negligible--a fact which does
Ii's seem to have distressed him. My
Nv rs" he says, ARE unpopular and
pa a,oh,e. being only written for my
ord a certain small number of
S IS whose appreciation is satisfac-
-. enough. l publish them-never
~ than one in a year, at various in
"Y.,s-sometimes of several years.
~ publishers give me a royalty
." ,aver they please. and l derive no
We proft from the transaction.
ia do so if the works reached Il
"a edition. but they never do reach
onlv one piece, many years ago, had
d,stinctlon." The poet concludes
his letter thus
have got a good deal Of reputation
varsity honOrs, and so torth-but that
eN act because l never wrote Tor money.
Ny works circulate very larse.y IN IN amer
as5 hut do not bring me a 1artnlng'
10 well aware many or my literary
sia,6s obtain more for a single poem,
lIoyei or play than l ever ola from all my
I nSorEs put together. But l take my way.
Posters.
M C. NJ. Price has edited and MIR.
q ". Bricka has published book
allied Posters: A Critical Study of
,bs development Of Poster Design in
continental Europe. England and
america" The text develops the sub
,.ct from its inception to the present
,,ns tracing It in all its ramifcations.
rorty-two Of the 162 reproductions are
nripted in colors. The edition is limit
ID 10 $50 numbered copies.
obo p Hundred Years Ago.
The first book to appear in the series
., yale Historical Manuscripts" pub
vsbed by the Yale University Press, is
an interesting record of American life
carly in the last century edited by Pro-
tsssor Max Farrand. 1t gives us. I'M
dor the title Of "A Journey to Ohio in
1910" the journal of Margaret Van
Horn Dwight, a niece Of President
Timothy Dwight. In 1910, when she
left New Haven 10 60 to her cousins N
Warren, Ohio, where a year later she
VAS married to William Bell, the trip
had TO be made in wagons and under
conditions which must have been ter
nbly hard upon a refined young
woman.
This travellers notes wildly expose
The primitive state Of things in New
Jersey. Pennsylvania and Ohio. The
taverns were fearful and wonderful
places. There was a cockfghting in
the house last night" Miss Dwight
notes, and a great many Of the finest
young men in the town got so intox-
icated as TO be unable to get home
without assistance" Sometimes she
passed the night not only in discomfort
but in terror She put this journey
through. however, with extraordinary
pluck, and if her brief pages present
rather dreary picture of American CIV
ulzation along the highway a hundred
years ago, they also give the reader a
ane impression Of brave, resourceful
womanhood. The quaint diction makes
this modest souvenir Of the past
dOubly charming.