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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1908
Page
16
A reminiscence of eighteenth century Rhode Island society recalls Dr. Joshua, his simple table, tea routine, and banter with Franklin. The note cherishes King Richard Greene’s charity and the era’s portraits by Stuart and Copley, praising the Merrymount Press edition and its illustrations.
A roundup of literary gossip notes: H. G. Wells plans three books this year and touts Tom REnngay as possibly his best work with a plot center on a patent medicine fortune. The column mentions Christina Rossetti letters, Swinburne, Hodgson, and notes on Kipling misused terms found by a Notes and Queries correspondent.
A two volume work titled Versailles et les Deux Trianons is announced in Tours. Text by M Philippe Gille with illustrations drawings and plans by M Marcel Lambert architect of the palace and gardens. First volume due in May with the second in October.
Benjamin Kidd has long studied animal instincts and intelligence. He asserts the most permanent result of these studies is a gradually increasing conviction about the yet unimagined significance of mind in the broader evolution of the universe. The next Century issue will publish his position.
Unpublished letters promise insight in a forthcoming life of the sensational novelist Harrison Ainsworth. Despite famed friendships the biographer may find little dramatic material from Ainsworth’s own life. He began as a law student and apparently married a publisher’s daughter, steering him into letters and literature.
Dodd Mead & Co to publish Shelley letters to Elizabeth Hitchener once regarded as angelic but later called a Brown Demon by the poet. The collection promises insight into their correspondence and Shelley's views of Hitchener.
Danish author Car Fwaid has died aged 52. At the time of his death he was publishing a novelette titled The Son of Cordt. He wrote historical romances and modern life novels, with his fairy tales regarded as his most creditable work. Some tales appeared with the Secribners.
The Orient Review presents translations from a 560 year B C collection including The Bride Cometh about marriage and nest imagery. Grace Denio Litchfield unveils a new book The Supreme Gift set in Washington with a plot around a remembered financial failure. Napoleon III as a historian is noted for limited impact and Cesar is suggested as unnecessary.
A London Chronicle report reveals France has a higher illiteracy rate than several European nations despite its cultural reputation and prior compulsory education policies. The piece highlights public concern over literacy levels and the gap between cultural prestige and actual schooling outcomes.
The article notes France has a high illiteracy rate with 40 percent of men and 60 percent of women illiterate. It cites 24 percent of conscripts in the Seine area could not read or write and compares France to Germany eight illiterates per thousand and Sweden Denmark and Holland with eight to forty five per thousand.
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