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That note is less conspicuous in the letters that Mr. Charles E. Hands is contributing to the Daily Mail. His account of "The Fight for the Convoy," in last Tuesday's issue, had a humour and a detachment that made it delightful reading. If Mr. Hands cared to do so, we can well believe that he could write one of the few war books that will outlive the war. "PERHAPS," remarks a contemporary, at the close of a two-column review of Ibsen's "Dramatic Epilogue" in three acts, "When We Dead Awaken"-" perhaps when the play is acted in England, much that is now dark may be made clear." That may be so, but it will require nothing less than the stage of Drury Lane Theatre to give the concluding episode its proper effect. Here are the directions: [Suddenly a sound like thunder is heard from high up on the snow-field, which glides and whirls downwards with rushing speed. PROFESSOR RUBEK and IRENE can be dimly discerned as they are whirled along with the masses of snow and buried in them.] THE SISTER OF MERCY. [Gives a shriek, stretches out her arms towards them and cries] Irene! [Stands silent a moment, then makes the sign of the cross before her in the air, and says] Pax vobiscum! [MAIA's triumphant song sounds from still farther down below.] THE Poet Laureate, being a Court official, has characteristically chosen Spring and Autumn in Ireland as the title for his new volume of poems. APROPOS the failure of Messrs. Appleton of New York, the British Weekly understands that all royalties to English authors will be paid, including arrears, and that all contracts will be kept. Messrs. Appleton were the publishers of David Harum. It is said they cleared £40,000 on that transaction. Two hundred pounds is still required to cover the estimate for the memorial to William Black, which will take the form of a lighthouse on Duart Point in the Sound of Mull. Contributions may be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, care of Messrs. Coutts, 59, Strand. Price Threepence. [Registered as a Newspaper.] MR. THOMAS HARDY's grave Muse finds a sombre and sympathetic theme in the poem of sixteen stanzas, "The Souls of the Slain," that begins the April issue of the Cornhill Magazine. It is hardly poetry; it is the utterance rather of a reflective nature, expressing itself uneasily and with effort in lyrical language. Like all Mr. Hardy's verse, it has a symbolistic undercurrent, haunting, and not soon forgotten. He imagines himself at the Bill of Portland, "which stands, roughly, on a line drawn from South Africa to the middle of the United Kingdom-in other words, the flight of a bird along a great circle' of the earth, cutting through South Africa and the British Isles, might land him at Portland Bill": And with darkness and silence the spirit came on me Thither flew the souls of those who have fallen in Africa, "and I heard them say, 'Home!"" Then, it seemed, there approached from the northward To the same number of the Cornhill Mr. Stuart J. Reid contributes a valedictory appreciation of his friend the author of The Maid of Sker, the book by which Mr. Blackmore chose to be known rather than by Lorna Doone. Mr. Reid gives a touching account of the old man's last days: He said that he often sat half the night with a book over the fire in despair of sleep. I asked him what kind of book had power of solace, and I was not surprised to find that the old fastidious scholar was living in fancy in the world's youth, as became a man who in boyhood had seen the glory of life in the enchanted pages of Homer. To the last he knew the secret of eternal youth, and was never a pessimist, either in regard to himself or the world. THE sale of the late Mr. Augustin Daly's books in New York last week was a peculiar affair. Great pressure had been used to have it transferred to London, but without success; and while Americans gloried in the most important sale of literary property ever held in the United States, English collectors may be said to have sulked and stayed away. Mr. Daly's collection was simply magnificent, and one's heart aches at the distribution of treasures so essentially English. Milton's own copy of Paradise Lost, scores of letters of Charles Lamb to his friends, the original draft of Dr. Johnson's letter to Lord Chesterfield, the original MS. of "The School for Scandal," and copies of the four folio Shakespeares were among the five thousand "lots." It is contended that better prices would have been realised in London, and the American catalogue of the sale is derided by English booksellers as a thoroughly unskilled piece of work. THE fascinating, if murderous, process known as "grangerising" was never carried out more magnificently than by Mr. Daly. His masterpiece in this line was the Dublin (1792) edition of the Douai Bible, which in its natural state is a single quarto volume. Mr. Daly distended it to forty-two volumes royal folio by the addition of over 8,000 illustrations, which included original drawings by Raphael, Cipriani, Paul Veronese, and others. Croker's edition of Boswell's Life was enlarged by Mr. Daly from two volumes to ten by the insertion of over 2,000 portraits, views, and MSS.; while Cunningham's Life of Nell Gwyn was enriched by 800 portraits, autographs, and even the tradesmen's bills presented to the Merry Monarch's favourite. THE new Carlyle letters, published in Chambers' Journal for April, show the shaggy sage in a kindly light. Therein he appears as a subscription-raiser on behalf of Burns's sister, Mrs. Begg, who in 1842 was helped by a small Government pension and a private fund, instituted by Robert Chambers, to supplement it. To Dr. Chambers Carlyle writes as follows (the phrase, "Worship of Heroes," is explained by the fact that in the previous year Carlyle had published his lectures on Hero Worship): Templand, Thornhill, Dumfries, 3 April, 1842. MY DEAR SIR,-Your Samaritan endeavour on behalf of Burns's sister is worthy of all praise. It strikes one as a most tragical fact, this that you announce. How many tavern dinners are eaten yearly in all quarters of the globe, and froth-speeches delivered, in elegiac commemoration of the broken-hearted Robert Burns, with "Ah, the barbarously-entreated Poet; ah, if we had him here now!"-and his own sister is yet here, and one of those tavern dinner bills would be a benefit to her; and froth-speech is still all that results! 'Be ye warmed, be ye fed,"— pockets remain buttoned, only our foolish mouths are open, to eat and to jabber. It is damnable. Such "Worship of Heroes" is like much else that it holds of-a thing requiring peremptorily to be altered. I for one thank you that you have stirred to act in this matter, instead of dining and talking. -our The remaining letters show how thoroughly Carlyle pursued his object, that of rendering substantial help to Mrs. Begg and her two daughters. In the end the pension was fully secured to the three women, and £400 or so besides. Finally Carlyle wrote to Dr. Chambers in these terms of satisfaction and good-hearted interest: Your project for these young women and their mother meets, in every feature of it, my entire approbation. They will do better in Ayrshire every way, since they themselves wish to go thither. The scene is, at any rate, more genial, as I suppose, for representatives of Burns; by removal from Tranent, where they have from poor become "rich," they escape a multitude of mean village envies, and other impediments; they have free scope to begin on new ground a new course of activities. Being, to all appearance, sensible young women, I think there is no danger but they will do well. Their sixty pounds a-year is perhaps after all just about the happiest sum for them. Work is still useful, necessary; but no longer tyrannous tread-mill necessity; they are not dangerously lifted into a new sphere of existence, but rendered easy in the old one. We may hope, a blessing will be on that poor good household, and better outlooks on all sides are opening for them. From COLONEL PRIDEAUX continues his very full "Notes for a Bibliography of Edward FitzGerald" in Notes and Queries. Last week's instalment included notes on the three editions of the "Rubáiyát." Two hundred and fifty copies only were printed of the first edition, of which two hundred were made a present to the publisher. February 15, 1859, was the precise date of publication. Col. Prideaux's notes the following facts may be gleaned : The first edition of the "Rubáiyát" (1859) contained seventy-five quatrains. An Indian reprint of this edition, privately printed at Adiyár, Madras, with no indications of editorship, contained some critical matter and a few additional quatrains. The second edition (1868) contained 110 quatrains. The third edition had nine quatrains cancelled, leaving only a hundred and one. The fourth edition (1879) shows little variation on the third. CONSIDERING What has already been done by zealous Omarians (that is the word), no one need be surprised to hear of the existence of a Concordance to their gospel-a thing lovely in white vellum and crimson ribbons, ten and three-quarter pages of which-beautiful pages too, exquisitely printed-are taken up in informing the student in how many places in the four versions the article "the" We have nothing to say about the book except that it is; that it costs six shillings more than the poem itself; and that we wish we had as much time on our hands as its author, Mr. J. R. Tutin, must have had. occurs. SOME of our poets have written war poems, but Canon Rawnsley has already written and published a whole volume of such verses. His Ballads of the War (Dent) contains fiftythree poems, dealing in poetic-journalistic, or journalisticpoetic, strain with events and incidents as they have risen. The inspiration of many of the pieces is found in the newspaper extracts appended to them. Mr. Winston Churchill's armour train exploit, the burial of General Wauchope, Lord Roberts's departure, the C.I.V. at St. Paul's, and a dozen individual heroisms receive their mead of patriotic rhyme. Bugler Dunn is not forgotten, though in this case the transition from the paragraph to the poem is hardly perceptible: "What shall we give to you, bugler boy, For the bugle they lost in Tugela's wave To go to the Front with my bugle again!" Even the Queen's visit to Netley has received its sonnet. MR. LANG'S "Sign of the Ship" this month is sad, gay, and acute by turns. He has tender words for Frederick Tait, of the Black Watch-a champion golfer: His prowess at his favourite game was merely the cause that made him so widely known, and, where known, he was beloved by old and young; by everybody, from the boys who carried his clubs, to the men, women, and children that liked to follow him, and watch his smiling strength and honest, open face. He brought sunshine where he came, and his mere presence added zest to life. .. Wounded in his first fight, slain in his second, he |