New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-20

connected record OF his friends and
relatives. The Hon. John Fortescue,
ROYAL Librarian at Windsor, is to
write the book.
"Untidy Verbiage."
There is justice, sometimes-not al
ways, by any means-in the London
Saturday Reviews" tart criticisms on
literature and current taste. Witness
its condemnation the other day OF thei
sloppy, untidy verbiage which is now
accounted English" 1t is not difficult
to determine what the writer had In
mind when he thus continued:
Horace taught us at school not TO CEN
sure a thing just because II is recent,
but we are bound TO protest against the
increasingly formless work-in prose and
poetry alike-which is being produced to-
day and which Is called great because IL
is grotesque, and strong because ~ IS vlo-
lent. Instinct in language, as IN otnerl
things can do much, but IL cannot make
up entirely for the discipline when comesi
from taste and knowledge. Not 10 speak
OF the amazing twaddle which now getsi
into print, we saw lately in the admlredl
verse OF a modern poet-we take thet
phrase az random-eyes credited with.
'ophthalmic caves"
A Story About boarding.
Mr.. Ralph Neville. IN his new book
Of good-humored g0ssln tells story
of a nineteenth century relative Of hist
who had a queer love for putting bank
notes into books. After his death his
executors rummaged out about foO,OOU
from between the leaves OF his library,
About another man who also delighted
in boarding money. Mr.. Neville relates'
this anecdote: !,
A former Lord Dysart who lived more
or less an invalids life in a house on the
outskirts OF London, carefully Watchedl
over by lady who acted as sorl o.
COmpanion-rurse, one day asked her To-
20 to town and get cheque casned Tor
him at the Bank OK England. When shsl
was ready To start the old peer sat DOWN
at his writing table, and having written y
out a cheque for fl00,O10, told her to be
sure and see that she got one note Tor
the whole amount. lWhen shs
reached the bankl the cashier communi-
Gated with the manager, VINO asked Inet
nurse 10 step into his private office. Hav-
ing satisfied himself as 10 her authority
for making such a request, he SAID that
il she did not object he would mucn
rather send clerk to accompany neE
with the note She gladly assented TO this
arrangement, AMI IN due course the clerk
IL. person E:n de1 the ilOOVD oank note 10
Lord Dysait
After having done 50. he told the peer
that there were only three Sucn notes IN
,Xistence "Oue" he said. I'VE have ~
the bank. another l have Just handed IN
YOUR lordship. and the third. which some
time ago disappeared from Circulation We
lave never been able to trace.
Dysart. and hobbling over 10 a bureau,
he unlocked a drawer and took on lne
missing fiO0 COO bank note. which had been
lying there FOR many years.
A Royal Numismatist.
The fourth volume Of the exhaustive
account Of italian coins, the Corpus
Nummorum Italicorum," which the
King Of Italy is producing, has just been
issued. This big quarto Of 5sS pages
OF illustrated text deals with the CONS
Of I.ombardy, excluding those struck
in Milan. which will be described In
fifth volume. OF the previous volumes
the first dealt with Savoy, the second
with Piedmont and Sardinia, and the
third with Liguria and Corsica.
The "Booke Of Kings
Apropos OF royalty and literature, IL
NAV he noted here that the Groller
Club has just made an important con-
tribution TO a collateral subject. This
is a study Of the "Booke OF Kings,
published by Henry Holland in London
in 1918 q collection OF engraved Eng
lish royal portraits from William thsi
Conoueror to James L. The book has
been prepared by Mr.. II. G. LEWIS,
whose notes are OF solid interest both
IN the collector OF prints and TO the
historian. The old engravings arc,
beautifully reproduced, being printed,
like the text, on japanese vellum. Inc
Grolier Club has never put its imprint
upon a handsomer or more useful vol-
ume.
ToIstoy Recollections.
Countess Toistoy's publication or thel
letters addressed TO her by her famous
husband opens the door to other family
records Count Ilya Tolstoy's volume
~ recollections of his father is now in
process Of translation into English, and
the work in this form Will be brought
out simultaneously in London and New
York.
A Book on FL Greco.
A Portuguese addition 10 the already
l.
has lately been published at Coimbra.
The author, Senior Ricardo Jorge, de-,
MES that Spain had any influence on
the painter asserting that he no more
became a Spaniard than Van Dyck be-
came an Englishman. A valuable part
Of the book is a quotation from the
works OF the seventeenth century
Portuguese writer, Francisco de Mello.
IT is an interesting and hitherto neg
Iected passage concerning FL Greco.
A Queer Jealousy.
The author OF paper on Paris IN
.'The Nineteenth Century" makes
statement which seems 10 show that
much learning is not invariably con-
ducive TO largeness of mind. Apropos
of the Ethnographical Museum at the
Trocadero Palace, he says II am
credibly informed that two-thirds Of
the collections accumulated by French