Show V or 11 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 L I 1 11 9 I 1 R V I 1 a I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 W I 1 I 1 J oy S f 1 I N I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 0 I h i 1 I 1 1 I 1 I ro 1 I 1 I 1 X 1 ev I 1 I 1 0 k I 1 J I 1 I 1 q I 1 0 I 1 A 1 i I 1 f I 1 rat I 1 I 1 I 1 it I 1 I 1 1 I 1 i 4 I 1 41 ai I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 t I 1 I 1 11 I 1 1 I 1 R I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 C 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 1 0 f 11 I 1 I 1 J 11 q sa e 0 1 L I 1 Z koffi I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 i V O a I 1 0 av 1 W I 1 I 1 akk saz 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 o I 1 I 1 11 I 1 X 6 q 1 I 1 il I 1 1 P 1 g 4 V i I 1 I 1 1 i I 1 W F 17 I 1 t t I 1 A I 1 I 1 I 1 f I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 I 1 P t N I 1 i 1 L a I 1 1 ti f rd 1 it Z I 1 I 1 I 1 I III I 1 f R I 1 it Is 13 estimated that there have been altogether about SOO english editions of 0 Shake works there were about ninety editions in fit the last century and not all ot of those round found ready sale Bu skins great influence over th world ot of readers with artistic tastes was shown shoun lately fit at tile the turner exhibition in the guildhall london over people visited the galleries an average ot of more than an hour the springfield republican attributes this almost wholly to ruskin it was mas difficult dini cult to persuade the dl di rectors that the public would take lake any interest in it a turner exhibition and the result wits was gratifying though perhaps hardly surprising to lo any one who ullo con I 1 elders alders how bow deeply Rusk lna worship 0 of tuiner has been ingrained lit in the reading 1 public there la is much in turners pictures ures too to appeal to intelligent 1 I 1 people ubo it ho have no technical knowledge of art the wonderful ond erful coloring I 1 i which alas Is fading so rapidly and the poetry with which he ha infused ln used every r landscape landscaper lands capr especially the poetry of 0 distance will III be appreciated by those it who ho know little ot of technique i ibsen for many years an exile from home spending his life in dreary german and italian lodgings with hired furniture now that his whitin writings have won the admiration of his bougs countrymen n trY Inen he is malting making up tor for ills his long absence by staling assiduously at honic home for eight years he be has not left Christ lania his dally exercise being a N walk alk from his home to the grand hotel ill n summer it Is hot even in the capital of norway and other me men fly to the hills hill and fjords fiords but ibsen remains remains and works without nIt bout interruption producing ft a play every other year his new drama 0 will o ill be ready in the fall but Us its title Is inot dot announced I 1 an indignant commentator on sir walter bosaits Bp Bo optimistic charac characterization terL of as a moneymaking money moncy making profession records in the author that he has knok bisone able writer x mho lie was discovered cooking it red herring for his breakfast on the very morning that v the appearance of a column in the times on oil his latest book the picture Is certainly disconcerting but aut while we deplore the encourage allent un unwittingly It tingly gl glen en to scores of incompetents compe com tents by sir walter it Is also plain that literature was never in the ahe history of mankind more profitable that it Is today consider the dignin significance 0 of it a step like lie that ahat just taken by the proprietors of harpers magazine they have reduced its ita price by 10 cents thus falling failing in una line with tile the movement that has for same borne years been cheapening tile the price of periodical literature this cheapening hits has not we venture to asselt t diminished bv a penny the profits of authorship on tile the contrary I 1 it t has increased red them IR widening constantly the circulation of tile the popular writer and accord accordingly angly justifying the payment of a higher price for mar wares es new I 1 york I 1 ork tribune Til bune I 1 A few weeks ago sr dr grant crant richards nic hards the london publisher issued an anonymous 8 volume of verse which has hag attracted an unusual amu amount tit of attention now the akan announces that the new poet Is lord alfred douglas we quote from one of the many Forin sonnets leveled devoted to the P psychology of if poetry and abe poet only to build one crypt 1 I barrier against this athla sea rem which bests uron upon our clar 6 to ronsom ono one lost moment with kith a rha ranio no no r if fato raaf cries and grudging goan demur to c lotch clutch lifes hair and thrust ono nukey nuked ilaf a jean itan it an knife between tile the ribs ot of th almo ne literature has crowded an immense I 1 deal dal of common sense into a very small parcel in the ming remark about I 1 the man with the ilor 11 it was a I 1 french picture that mr marchain Mark markh hain wrote up and not an all american concerning zolas recent exile in london a prominent weekly relates the iho follo ing story glory zou zola has bren been lit in london landon and now we have NL mark ark twain the former event the best beat part of a year lit in endeavoring to conceal his identity at least so it appears from nir mr dally to the evening NON new 8 the moat amusing incident of zolas stay in our midst thit that has at so far occurred occurred lit in ile air biart active relates to lo EL a asit sit paid to tile the baloon bar of the york hotel a hoste hostelry lr in tile tho caterino Wa terIno road which abuts I 1 in a I 1 ahat hat famous poverty corner so BO much frequented by lidgus and gentlemen of tile halls when clely against their iri they are resting here it appears that sl zola iolj wID JJ to to big ex es prosperous appearance ills his white his jewelry and 00 e forth coupled wilh the circumstance that lie conversed in french walh ith des had bad led ld some of those present I 1 to imagine that ho he was a continental i hall ball director on the lookout for english artists artl als one hold bold spirit actually approached mr Vly clelly with ill a view to secure an engagement hut but way was politely informed that zil M zola 7 waa its quite full up subsequently the fugitive and his confederates never ceased laughing all the way up I 1 the he incline into waterloo station the new fashion of joing doing novels on a typewriter Is 14 thus celebrated by a scotchman in black find and tveite title foor and twenty tons polished up tit so bright F four ur and menty noels noela jn in A night whon n tile the was over vh tho publisher di did dia A ling and the great danced a fling McCrock tt in lit h parlor turned hla his bankbook oer aho critics in their studies ahey nero sick rick and sore tile tho public went to Mu dlos to keep paco pace life Crockett bought anol her rem tile the public lost loat tho the race LUTHER AS A HUMORIST zell zeal tipped with humor Is that made luther so effective sais samuel za M crothers in the september atlantic lie he struck heavy blows at the idols men adored aJor cd but lie he vas such a genial it hole holc iconoclast that those aho vho he wore were most shocked at him couldn coulden t help but like him between times ile ho would give a smashing blow at the idols and then a warm hand grasp and a hearty god bloes bless you to tile the idolater kind and then the idolater end and iconoclast would be down doun on tile the noor floor together ty ang to bee it if there aeto any pieces of the idol worth san sang ing it was as all so unexpected and so ise in incongruous congruous and yo so shocking and yet yd so ao unaffectedly re ond and so surprisingly the right thing to do that tile the upshot of it all was that ahat people went away saying that dr martin lartin such it a bad follow fellow after SIT all luthers table talk penetrated circles which wore were well uell protected against his theological treatises nion men bere wc ro conscious of a good humor even in his invective for he usually gave them time to see ace the kindly twinkle tN Inkle in hla his eye eve before lie he knocked them doin down n in older to karlstadt Kail stadt in a controversy he drew out a flomin f from rout his hia pocket and cried heartily take it attack k me boldly karlstadt carlstadt took it put it in his purse and rave gave it to luther luther then jhc thc n drank to ills his health thon Karist atit pledged luther then luther said the more violent your attacks the more met e I 1 shall bo be delighted then thoy they gai gae e each other their hands and parted one can almost be reconciled to the logical controversy when hen it Is conducted in a manner so truly sportsmanlike luther had a way of characterizing a person pc reon in a sentence that was much more effective than hla big labored NUTT altu aeration per pe atlon ration in w chich alch it must munt be con ft sed he was wag a master thus speaking of Er crinus inus lie sam said Fv erasmus temus stands etL nd looking at creation like a calf it al a new door it was very unjust 0 erasmus and yet the picture sticks in tile the mind for it is such a perfect char factorization of the kind of mind that we ere are all acquainted with which chich looks looka at the marvels of creation with the wide vide eyed gate gac of bovine youthfulness curious not to know how low that door came there but only to know 1 whether hether I it leads lea Is to something to edt cat the german pot poet ernest seberen berg his coth birthday on july ills fi lends it and ad admirers took the occasion to make him a present of 1 marks which aich ho he ill probably find more useful than a monument after his death HOW HOV WORDS acre once meant a held of any size the germans still use lite word in this sense gods acre meaning a cemetery Is an instance of the old mean i ing libel once had bad no reference to anything offensive but simply mean meant u small book or pamphlet but pamphlet wars often were e but printed changed ged lla ry iti meaning caning jeremy taylor to tit the imps that rang banff botian the th temple imp once meant a little ll 11 hiltl lid and not a child of the devil as I 1 it i does no now preface face was f oi morly tile the word vc of welcome elcome before it a meal voy adges were made over land as aa ull toll UK am vater A ater meat was applied to any kind of food while hile to alaice originally meant to work ones onea self to death deatha sign incan t footnote to tile history of if peasant risings lit in tho the early days Bibliomania cs do not often trouble about bout new books except those which are re necessary tor for the completion of special collections it la Is therefore worthy northy of note that copies of the first edition of edwin markham Jar kham a man afan with the lee hoc and other poems published last may alay already sells for double the or original price even more valuable tire are co copies lea of the lh western paper i aich originally printed and copyrighted the verses vcra ii one ile of these newspapers was waa bought recently by a collector for 10 the book bok la is now in its ha fifth edition philadelphia press DANTE AS A BUSINESS MAN baron d de renzin the italian ambas eador cador to england recently was announced to speak before the london dante society upon dante as aa a business man blan it turned out that the title had been misquoted however be ever and the paron baron repudiated the notion that dante D a ante had any aptitude for business he said paid as aa quoted tn in the new york times dante was an exceedingly bad business man no and he was bitterly opposed to tho the accumulation of wealth aich which he regarded dod as it a symptom of the decadence of it his 9 be beloved ov ed city of florence ile ho had a passion for poverty which he atlea idealized I 1 iced until he used language in speaking of it of almost amorous admiration and devotion for the sinful and erring ho he had a tender I 1 heart eart his malediction uttered when it was uttered vaa nas always ac om panted by forgiveness but for avarice ar I 1 cc fraud simony usury he be had bad no pity and when lie he had exhausted fill all the vehemence of his invective in denouncing noun cing those thoa vi who he were given to these vices he directed against them that irony which was wa ills his greatest and most formidable instrument in dante form and thought wore alike great he was wag tile the high priest of truth and beauty while he was a pure catholic the weapons from his arsenal were those by which the papacy had boen ben most severely scourged urged lie he had the sweetest purest and best of thoughts but no one had ever been able to surpass the fores and ot or ills his invective 0 A story of holland in the time of william thi th silent li Is the latest work of jr rider Hage pen ile he calls the novel by the odd title of tile the secret of sword silence 0 A writer for the nineteenth T century assuming that bodoin brains are dr teri orating holds that it could hardly be othera lac modern education and modern environment being that they are modern IlIn derly education he declares 1 Is greatly open to the objection that it tends to cultivate the purely receptive faculty too much and the reasoning imaginative inventive ani creative t ive faculties too little and he adds add crea that h at to make a really great man we a r eq u lr e the cultivation of originality an and of a cc certain abstraction and aco devotion alon to an independent line ot of thought fully as much as if not more than the general all round development of brain power ile he laments as regains novel reading that thousands of readers run through 0 9 novel in such a careless and slipshod way that they never get any real giamp ot of the book for what it may be worth and would be unable ahen hen they have finished it to write down the story in any latall le tall they merely titillate the surface of the mind with it as they read and baite arte brain energy u which aich might be de voted to some good purpose durpos this inabit of mental impatience c combined with unthinking receptivity ta is growing fast and threatens to become universal it crowds the mind and occupies its ito energies with a coustant constant stream of transitory Impre impressions no one of which li is properly digested examined and made food for any independent and original thought it must involve a regressive progressive deterioration of all real brain rain power DOTI the impatience and the mental habit of mere receptivity are partly its as has haa bee been n said paid due to a reaction from bruin brain worry and overpressure over pressure they are arc partly also as I 1 think due to mental to idleness adl nan especially among britons the anglo saxon axon race Is emphatically it raco race of workers rather than thinkers we ve now find ourselves confronted eve everywhere with vast masses of literature and poten potential t jai rood food tor lee thought in ever every y direction lu in this sitAl atlon oil our e minds mind a and cope especially c fally the more idle and ul undisciplined disciplined minds among us tend naturally to choose the line of lea it resistance and minimum fatigue this line Is clearly that of a discursive and purely receptive attitude for we should spend more brain energy in ten ini in really studying and thinking out any one subject so do as to come to an independent judgment upon it than in running rapidly over a dozen clIt different Terent subjects for fop an hour without plopping flopping to consider or come to any conclusion of ou own upon any one of them verbatim reports are seldom seen in french papers and the shorthand writer plays a very insignificant part 1 in parisian Jurn journalism allom these circumstances lend peculiar interest to the fact that the figaro has a staff elan of eleven cleven stenographers tit at the rt ancs trial with them thein are ten typewriters and four sub editors A special service has haa also alio been on foot to insure rapid transmission of the copy to the let telegraph L office and between the C central 0 n trat telegraph bureau in paris and figaroa Fl garos house THOSE BOOKS what have yu you been reading |