The New York herald., 1922-04-30

Alone among the poets OF mueern
times Moore gave his poems TO the
world with his own voice. His
mission was to make the sorrows
known and felt in English society.
and his equipment for this task was
most remarkable. This small. plain
Irishman, the SON of a Dnalir
grocer, had social gifts which woN
him welcome everywhere. Th
diaries and memoirs of the time are<
full of tributes to his wit. good
humor and personal charm.-FroM
''7he Poetry OF Thomas Moore" in
John o. London's Weekly.
An American Eugene Aram-
M EMORIES of a Cornell col
44 league of Goldwin Smith are
recalled by the report that true
bill for attempted murder has been
returned against professor Of
modern languages at McGin Univer-
sity. In his "reminiscences Cold
win Smith gives a vivid sketch of
Ruloff, "a counterpart of Eugene
Aram. whom we had on the stan
at Cornell. He combined in re-
markable way criminal propensi'ies
with literary tastes, being a great
philologist and engaged in the in
vention of a universal language.
He committed a series of robbelies
and murders, the murders be i'm
ming with those of his wife and
daughter. On that occasion he es-
capped justice through the abs ice
of a corpus deficit, Lake Cay ga,
into which he had thrown the
bodies, being undredgable. : Ter
this Ruloff wandered into virs ia,
where he committed other crimes.
all the time working at phil9, gy
and his universal language. Re
turning to his old haunts. he again
committed robbery and murder. nd
again fell into the hands of JUS see.
There was a petition against his
execution on the stock plea Of in
sanity and on the somewhat il on
sistent ground that by hanging him
light of science would be pui out.
The State Government issued Two
commissions of inquiry, one to re-
port on each plea. Both repo ted
in the negative and Ruloff as
hanged. - From the NoacRs -
Guardian.
ACyp's" Latest Indiscretion-
IT HE sensitiveness of the Frc Il
4 man of to-day on the su 'ect
of nationality is illustrated By
little incident which has just oc-
Cured in Paris. 1t would har lly
have happened. or at all eVents
have happened in the same way. in
any other capital. The Comtesse lie
Martel. better known TO the novel
reading public as "Gyp,. in an ar
ticle in daily newspaper described
NJ. BinetValmer. himself a novelist
OF some distinction, as "a foreigner"
Now NJ. Binet-Valmer was bor-i in
Geneva, and his family had been
settled in Switzerland for a gers srs-
tion or two, but were undoubte Ilv-
OF French Huguenot origin. Tsera
is no reason to suppose that &C -
meant to cast any aspersion Oh 81.
Binet-Yalmer. but no sooner haa the
articles appeared than two Generals
OF the French army waited on Consts
de Martel and demanded a rectifca
tion. The Comte considered ths
matter so serious that he sough.
out two friends, choosing person
no less important than N. Maurice
Barres OF the Academic Francaise
and Prof. Jean Louis Faure, the we'll
known hospital surgeon. to confer
with NJ. Binet-Valmer's Generals. s
duel did not result, but it was
agreed that NM. Barres and Faurc
should insert in certain newspaper
lengthy statement setting forth rs
Entertainers descent from Ia
hdate R0blesSe of France. and na4
forgetting to mention his brilliant
war record.-From the Manelcsfc.