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8 REAR VIEW OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDING IN BRYANT PARK. Nine years ago the contracts for its construction were signed, and it is a long way from completion yet. The skyscraper which overtops the building in centre of photograph is tho Hotel Belmont. The big structure at the left is the Hotel Manhattan. the other.

Hence the boy took a violent dislikenot to his father, but to his father's favorite author. Manxoni. He turned his back on that poet of the conservative and rebelHously set about producing new ideas in a new form. A series of picaresque novels, English and Continental, will be brought out from time to time in London. This library of rogues' romances will open with a reprint of tho translation by Mabbe of the curious old Spanish work, the "Celestina." Rowlandson's translation of the "Lazarillo de Tonnes" will follow this, and Will, in t.irn.

be succeeded by the first English picaresque novel. Nash's "Unfortunate Traveller." A selection from the "Beggar Hooks" and TRogue Pamphlets" will be added. Later publications in this welcome series will be reprints of early translations of the chief Spanish picaresque novels of the seventeenth century and their French Imitations. One of the mosl pertinent descriptions of Mr. Andrew Lang's activities i.s to be found in "Oxford You ask mo.

Fresher, who it Is rhymes, researches, and reviews, Who Bometlmes writ's like Genesis, Anil Sometimes tho Daily News; Who jests in words that angels use And is most solemn with slanfj: Who's who, who's which, and which is whosaf Who can It be Lut Andrew Quips. Quirks are his, and Quiddities, The Epic and the teacup Muse, Bookbindings, Aborigines, Hallads that banish all the Blues, Youmr married life amnntr Taboos, An Iliad, an Orang-outang, Triolets, r.ml Who can it be but Andrew A now hioprraphy of Hmr. do Stael is anbounced for early one which has lons engaged the efforts of the Knjrlisn critic, Francis (Jribble. He has made a fresh investlfation of documents and bis work promises to entertaining at least. There are some amusing glimpses of Tennyson in Mrs.

Charles r.rooktield's now book about the band of clever men who were the comrades Bit Cambridge University of her father-in-law. W. H. Brookfield. One of these is of the year before Tennyson died, when the elder Mrs.

Brookfield paid him a visit at Freshwater. The old poet surprised her by exclaiming, "Jane, let us dance!" She suggested that they wero no longer young enough for such a pastime, but Tennyson scouted the idea and assured her that it was still hi 3 favorite exercise. "Ho then proceeded with deliberation and statelines3 to pirouette by himself down the room." Here Is a Btory of the poet's youth: "When Douglas Heath ventured to suggest to him In his Cambridge days that a clean shirt might bo an advantage, Tennyson retorted: "H'm. yours SPECIAL HOLIDAY SALE ANDIRONS, FIRE SETS, GAS LOGS, ALEXANDER REID CO. IJ7 BAST 211) NBW YORK.

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A. van Bever, has by a little exercise of common sense an'J logic succeeded in recovering a large pail material of Guillaume Colk-tet'a MS. "Uves of the Preneh Poets" the MS. itself having been dcs toyed during the partial burning of the Louvre Library in it covered v.a. from to and its loss was much deplored by historians.

It to the biblii her that a greal number of critics and editors must have followed Sainte-Beuve in copying such portions of the MS. as illustrated their particular studies, and with indefatigable energy he has searched for such transciipta He has found them so many of them thai be has been able to reconstitute the lbiographies written by Colletet. These valuable fragments are to be published in five octavo volumes in Paris. John Ruskin's monument in St. Paul's Church, Herne Hill, is now on of the objects to be visited by literary pilgrims in England.

It ia made of various colored marbles and is thus An arch, supported bj two green marble columns, with gilt foliated capitals, i ivera a white marble plaque, on which i- a well executed bas-relief profile ol Ruskins end, represented with hair, whiskers and beard, looking to the left underneath this Is loi tablet ol rod marble bearing the inscription in roman characters: Jolm Ruskin M.A: D.C.It: 1.1.1' Born in Bloon sburj 8 Ffeb: 1813 Brought to 28 11. me Hill bj hia parenta In 1523, on Hernr and Denmark llill for 50 years His latrr days were eliietty lived upon the shore Coniston lake under the where he Brew be had a home in tJiis Parish end, the house having pa.s.--.^l into the possession of bis Cousin JC- aaupted -I iiik i.i.-r And h'-r hushnr 1 Arthur Severn. at Brantwood vtm Buried at Coniston "Tho words "I the wise are as goads, and nails well fastened are the words of the masters of assemblies." HOW FISH ARE IDENTIFIED. The wanderings of various types of food fishes in the North Sea are traced by means of marked fish. About 50 per cent are recovered by trawlers and brought to the Marine Biological Laboratory, at Lowestoft, England, where their record is kept.

The most important results have been obtained with regard to the plaice, the habits of which have been almost completely discovered. It has been found that the plaice swarm southward and down the shores of England toward the southern end of the North Sea to the spawning grounds. In the spring the northward currents convey the spawn to the eastward coasts of Holland, Germany and Denmark. It is on the foreshore of these countries that the young plaice population grows up. As they get older they are found more and more toward the of the North Sea, until in five or six years' time they are fully matured.

The Sphere. MOIli: UHHAKY DELAY. Brifant Park Structure Will Sot Be Ready for Use Next Year. New York City has again been disappointed by the builders of the New York Public Library building in Bryant Park. In spite of past delays those associated in its construction had promised thai the new edifice would surely be ready for occupancy in 1907.

But so slowly is the work advancing that the structure may not be completed for still another year Such, at least, is the opinion of a high official of the New York Public Library, who said yesterday: "Not even all the marble is In place. Of the exterior there is still 7 per cent of the marble work unfinished, and there remains still to be done in the interior the cutting and setting of the large vault over the Fifth avenue rotunda and the steps. As to the completion of the woodwork and the furnishings, i can only guess. We may move ia by and it may be still later." The anaU-Uke praajresa which has been made by the builders Of tha new library may I iz-d when on- reckons up how many yean have passed since work waa first kgun. It was in November, Just nine yean ago, that the PATRIE" IN FULL FLIGHT.

dir J9' balloon purchased by the French War Office has made a most successful trial at Nantes. Carrying six persons, it was manoeuvred for two hours without the necessity of throwing over ballast. and White. contracts for the construction of the building wore signed. According to builders of business buildings, who put up the sky scrapers in this City with great rapidity, the library If erected as a private enterprise would have been completed and "doing business" six years ago.

When the Htm York Public library building Is completed, however, it will be the largest library in the Western Hemisphere. And in the whole world there will be only three that will surpass it in the number of volumes on the shelves. These three are the Bibliotheque Nationale. of Paris, with 3,000.000 volumes: the British Museum, in London, with volumes, and tho Imperial Library, In St. Petersburg, containing 1,500,000 volumes.

The New York Public Library will start with a little over 1.000,000 volumes, and with room for 1.000.000 mom If all its books and pamphlets were stood up side by side in one lonjj line they would reach from New York to raterson, N. a distance of twenty miles. It will contain all tho books of Astor Library, in Lafayette Place, and the Lenox Library, in Fifth avenue; books which will be used only for reference purposes, and aLso about a quarter of a million of books that may be taken home to read. In its accommodations for readers the New York Public Library will surpass the British Museum more than three tlme3. It will be able to provide seats for 1,000 persons.

Not only will it have general reading rooms for the public at large, but it will also provide special study chambers for students and investigators, to which admission will be granted only by ticket. There will be rooms set aside for public documents, for newspapers, for for patents, for Oriental literature, for sociology and economics, for mathematics and the physical and hemical sciences, for maps, for music, for Bible collections and for Hebrew literature. The children, too. are not to be forgotten. They are to have a room of their own.

The British Museum provides seats for about COO readers From end to end the New York Public Library measures 390 feet. Its width is 2TO feet, extreme height feet. The cost of the buiUing will reach £1,500,000. TIIE FARMER. D.

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