An interesting chapter in literary! history is that, variously contributed to, describing the complete failure of the late Henry James in the art Christ in miniature.''. Said Sazonoff, "The Emperor designs, but it is the Empress"who governs—under the inspiration of Rasputin."
The late Lady Rose Weigall was of the playwright.
The famous the last survivor of the "intimate novelist failed with the utmost com-friends of the great Duke of Wellingpleteness in a play which he fondly ton and his contemporaries. Her hoped would establish his name on father, the Earl of Westmorland, the modern English stage.
It was: was one of his generals, and her mother was a favourite niece of the painful failure and he wisely abandoned the drama. Another Duke. From her earliest years writer of greater genius—Mr. Con-Lady Rose lived in the centre of dis-rad—would seem to have suffered} tinguished society, not only in England but on the Continent. Her similar reverse. From what I have heard, writes "Pendennis" in {father's talent for music brought her the "Pall Mall Gazette," "Mr. into touch with Jenny Lind and the Conrad's dramatic experiment is not other great singers of the day. All altogether a success. I regret it. this meant that she became, by cor-Of Polish parents, he is a remark-respondence and other records, able product of that brilliant, yet [rich depository of memories, and uncertain, race. Ignorant of Eng-these her daughter has mow woven lish in his early years, he ultimately unto a memoir which Murray will became its master, and a con-publish. summate master at that. Born in 1857, it was not till 1895 that he i A wide welcome will be given to achieved his first success in '"Al-ithe first volume of a completely re-mayer's Folly," incidentally also vised, new edition of '"Chambers's the folly of several publishers who Encyclopedia." To some of us it, thad declined it. With the command jhas been a handy bible of this a virile style goes powerful world's knowledge for long years, analysis, but his subjects, unusual in and nearly always it has answered their setting, are for the most part our curiosity. It and the famous gloomy. An example of subtle "Journal," which, like 'Cornhill'? -analysis, in pemmican, with two: and "Blackwood," has never altered} actors only in the picture, can be found in one of his short stories, "The Return"; while for sheer, unrelieved gloom, "The Idiots," is a striking example The shadows -of the tragedy encompass you. You admire, but it is admiration with a gasp.
"By the bye, how rarely it is that novelist success as dramatist! Barrie is not only a. shy, but a rare bird. Some day, I suppose, we shall give birth to a Dumas who will fling -off novel or drama with equal facility, or a Victor Hugo, who was not only equal to drama, tragedy, or novel, but could turn out lytic, ode, -or-sonnet, and, by way of interlude, deliver an oration in Ercles' vein to the potent, grave, and reverend -seignors of the French Assembly."
The last days of the Russian Empire are pictured with great intimacy cand detail in a new Hutchinson book, ''An Ambassador's Memoirs." "This is natural, because the writer is Monsieur Paléologue, who was the last French Ambassador to the Rus—sian Court. A striking feature of the book is what it has to say about Rasputin, the monk, a sinister fana-"tic, whose doings were as a drama rte Monsieur Paléologus. He thinks the man was sincere, for how otherwise could he have gone on so long, fiery, aloof, and unbending. "De -spite my sins, which are frightful," "Rasputin said.of himself, "I am a its cover, are monuments to the Chambers brothers who founded them. The new generation of the Chambers family has kept both the "Journal" and the "Encyclopedia" up to the mark, grudging no trouble in that service. Very many well-known men contribute to the new issue of the "Encyclopedia."
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