i ai t A r bl 1 U I 1 2 fa IN I 1 I 1 A tie I 1 11 I 1 ea A L t 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I f 14 P JP p I 1 f 1 0 1 yul 11 fir I 1 I 1 1 1 it I 1 I 1 A T I 1 y 1 I I 1 1 T I 1 N 1 t F n 0 1 I t I 1 0 1 ea 11 11 ki J p I 1 k 4 1 11 i 11 I 1 I 1 W 1 II 11 k altti I 1 i I 1 I 1 ai I 1 1 I 1 ill I 1 I 1 k III I 1 1 ai J ii i e t i I 1 I 1 11 ii 1 I 1 14 1 I 1 ai I 1 I 1 I 1 tec II 11 1 I 1 1 I 1 L I 1 I 1 I 1 it II 11 I 1 1 I bip 1 1 az r il r I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 it IT 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I E I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 tolstoy we are told revised sonic chapters of 0 ills his now new book resurrection eight or ten times before he was with ith them when I 1 write he is 13 quoted as saying recently to ft a friend I 1 connot cannot led feel thac I 1 write far or iltis ila I 1 hal hac c to valta rite for or europe I 1 Deiv cys chinese Is curnin turning author noih or the subject ot of his book Is 14 not announced but ll it could never be anything but dewey here is evidently one man mho he la Is hero to his valet I 1 what measure nie asuro of it praise Is 13 meted out TO the valet will III depend on li whether hother lie defares to be a second boswell or la Is merely bribed bribe by one of 0 the enterprising yellow capeis papers ever seeking novelty for its sated bubile public New yolk commercial mercial nier cial A rest many interesting books auto aulo graphs and relies relics of 0 great areu rooi men and notable events were dest destroyed roved in a lire ire tat it chicago thursday night the lite destroyed lesi royed alderman gunthers contic store but in the building was at 11 collection ot of extraordinary value comprising a shakespeare olio folio or of 1623 the moro lorit Ji lt of columbus stone from rom ancient babylon Ua bylon a teat collection of 0 bibles sold d to be the lite largest in private hands manu scripts or 0 Sch ller tasso michael angelo galileo mozart und and others including one of the alleged of shakespeare in IL a book no private coll collit ator tor has tiny any bus business iness with mleh such treasure trea sure it Is the plain euln duty of 0 any plan i who bg acquires such to give them at once to a 0 public t ion AN luch inch can h house ause them property properly bp ringfield republican tt ft Is a new idea tor for an eminent man to superintend the preparation ot of his own blo biography graphy and its very novelty promis s to nake make a particularly interesting book of 0 the life ot of air arthur sullivan which lit to be published dished this f fall 11 mr arthur lairence la Is the luthor r and ill he liaa has had access to tit the letters lt of the great composer and the additional advantage of 0 personal intercourse a and n d consultation with nith him the reminiscences n I 1 ot of the men with whom sir arthur A sullivan has come in contact have a special charm and the personality of oc the musi musician clan himself Is hii one on that will III bear the most Be searching arching 6 rutley washington times MY ity POOR N NEIGHBOR IN lill 11 neighbor hath bath a lordly pile A pi lel luce reared ot of polished shonn I 1 in n aih chich ho he lives in lavish style alone I 1 look upon ills and smile in a rare content tontoni ton tont on my knee A ci ono tie rides and crows to me x M I 1 i in inn sl n I 1 Is a aril I 1 place ace 1 atit I oh all it both no an laughing faco face of it childhood thero there for sympathy if my re garden blooms are fine ho be rise in ili it edges topped with gold avid all their radiance la 13 dinine I 1 see their bluxom sheaths untold I 1 breathe thir th lr fragrance day by it day y and aal eye they tied nod aud and smile my AA ay 4 iy y though I 1 bo be poor IY ly neighbors lawn Is 13 green ond and tlde and ad hero and there a lotty tree 1 pr ead ing arbre stands to divide iti adoro atoro of graceful al with till me and oft 1 im 0 suro o that when lien tile tho chant verdant flays days aro are rono gone vew charms will greet me from the lawn I 1 MY ay iy neighbor hath it a lost of cares lr lio lie must guard tits hla costly wares and golden lioard heard hilo bite J crowned it with ith domestic bielss liay aay gain a tend fond pat patrita wita ks lie he cant afford I 1 cord I 1 and roy ray n neighbor I 1 gabor never froat an ali alary separates our lands aly homo home it Is in a modest street ills on this the dri tt there lie blamis 71 or anan hoa hes nought naught but kold gold and sear k vidle I 1 have la homo orn anil and you nell my in dear chicago r ecord a lime has lately a volume ot of t of 0 holland and tells a autele little elory which coll contains a 0 warning morning to poets poet she was nas in the land id ot of dikes for the ioune queens coronation and noticed among the congratulatory tides odes prepared im pared for the occasion casion one by a get lain it X N who distinguished himself by the warmth ef t ills his loyal clet devotion fotion to his sov ere ign ii late on reading the verses in question which were generally admired fancied that she bhe had been bonie I 1 on thing rather like them before she s he was mas moved to hunt huit through the old mul bumbera num bers bera of 0 a french brench magazine and ahe there sure enough hidden away in its pages ot at some years ears ago was lives the original of 0 the poem in que euon but rd iid to herself A rely few alterations mostly lor for the worse had transformed md it into a tribute to royalty ond and ame mme kihen lien thi loud literary theft in lier ter lately published volume THE mentions lations that the had beld announced announce it ellie he be was engaged on a play for sarah bernhardt and the bhe expresses express Mi a hope that the magnum me anum opus a hen completed will ill not ell turn rn out to be a hacked about version or c lucrece or C charlotte Chai hai lotte Coi corday dayl well known kno it english writer riter on natural history explains explain the tra present ext extraordinary ordinary popularity of books on that ihal subject thus I 1 think the great reas reason onla Is that people cooped up in cities hac hat e an a 11 inea desire dp lr lowald the they cart can only country antry matefy it by it y ark an occa trip ora bicycle blet e to ride but la in hr br i 1 they rind find a lutr tu te bubett i kuto kate gilld A record by cillan la 18 not 1101 only a pora unal bo bio gramby but the author has haa atao also Vore dio tito invest the cation narrative with fell local at m cipher of the and tile the rhods aloda in abich billits TIC PC was vas and vital altal factor the an active poetic and imaginative life fe in italy is anshen hen soun as a young rill gill rite eno wa a glanting chan Ol lini figure in the chole choice fiorite circle I 1 rele and an d talt enet gathered about lh ili hi at 11 journ in her ter cterne cushman 0 and harold u hen charlotte charlolle I 1 I 1 reined her I 1 the h e b tor of wi vl i t L abell she I load ondon was vaa coriat charm steeped la in their liar visits to parla any germany larol Idyll cl li and s spain pain th alio Rall a in nell newport port aye age hi fit boston life fife the gel golden den I 1 jowall onnell longfellow emt I 1 mid n 11 IVIn doll phillipp abon and the al alcorta cc cotta I 1 E ard th t h ia gathered red at mrs great inga 95 th tha chipp s ovan kr ond 0 or her 0 life as is a lecturer with it a description ot of i the days of the lyceum and galvarin aril ing into vit vitality edity again the enthusiasm t that ha t rot followed owed mrs and philliph phillip curtis Curl lf beecher Ke Dee echer lher and APR anni the ilie liatsos of her mothers death dath MI lit sen sea as they wore were sailing falling for europe Juro pc the piquancy and po er of 1 I hr her famous press lettera to the herald and tho the tribune of new york miss fields later political work influent luene 1 I g moi 1101 mon legislation her ter eurnice to alt ait her ter distinguished work in early life as the lie dramatic critic of oc stoll and fechter Ie chlor her ter later experiences in the nations capital editing her ani own n review and mingling in the rich and versed social life and tile the touching close of her career in her sudden budden death in hawaii Ifft ivall in the midst ot of important research and study all these tile the author has endeavored to depict with the special atmosphere of 0 tile the in the varying tile the volume Is rich in letters from many ot of the racist most famous people of this century vash ington times we still discover curious names in current literature says the attana atlanta constitution they have a poet pod in virginia who he 19 quite happy rod and contented tent 1 us a J cupid brown broun another her in arkansas la Is adgar allen alien poe smith and ono one who ullo halls blont the gl glorious orlou state or of georgia signs himself ayio ft jones dasher but never mind I 1 the he names for some of these same breah bre tit tea of tile the pon pen are doing excellent war work k in spite of all obstacles would mould still be ever even it Lt Bi iother cither busher of 0 georgia ined had written it well andrew said bald the teacher teach r after a sew few absence h how ow mud ill dy you rL member of oc my les lea sons ah k h maam never a vord ord 11 said haid A andrew d r e w oh andrew andrew lla teacher exclaimed have you forgotten all about the sun suit the ninon and stars the I 1 day and night and the seasons oh no inaam maam lie sad 1 I do remember her now and you yet set them on the schoolroom table and mars mara was a rc red d gooseberry and I 1 ate ale him philadelphia times tit 11 e 8 a dr william darry barry in he national renew nils lit in a rite plea for critics as the keepers of f literature this Is his oam opening ning paragraph critics have seldom fared joyously at the hand of englishmen they bear a bad name as aa though little 0 e better than yelping curs u which bich leap cap up lip at the table rot for crumbs and bite the master hose benevolence feeds them to the english mind it seems indeed that genius cannot help snatching a grace beyond nd the reach or of art nor needs it in of creative ec cc stany whereas it will bp be said tile the clifia la Is nothing it if not artificial arUO clil lie he Is id merely secondhand second hand the ape or plaque plague of authorship a caknip follower u who he strips the u wounded while bite wearing tile geneva gt neva cross aud and yet in the mighty roll of our literature this I 1 poor loor anatomist cannot be wanting lie he dares darca ean to achieve greatness neither will the ago to come forg t P pater a ter arnold anold carls ie macaulay rc lie Q clincey ulin cey lamb coleridge emerson lm erson ill all of whom hom keeping a vigilant eye how books banks ionian as well as mell toi to incite Ml Ifil llona tons langua language gc have given proof that criticism too work miracles and ascend the bligh ll 11 haaven avan of invention ven en tion the subtle wisdom the ore fire of immortality lite light and music khith anake of oc drama romance and Illi tory n living thing cleall tLe all along these there buea also alio in aleli bl eli books ale aie dealt with aa rot ming a world of their own onn tiny nay ail aa tile the lifeblood life blood of a master spirit embalmed embalm ed and treasured up ot oi purpose to n a life ill hi yond afe if e I 1 critics as the keepers of literature litera turu JL Is their theft office to pass true sentence on all that Is written and subdue it to order and virtue other anen conquer in the held of oc action I 1 these hese conquer sri in tile the province of thought they have their own moral code co do art an ethics or it a standard and according as aa they observe it ve e roust must recount account them base or noble but siut it if I 1 am not lot wholly holly Ini mistaken staken there never was a L time when nhen criticism had so BO large a tak lauk or was mole llo ble than now amid the deluge of publications licati ons without ceasing which blob claim to be judged and interpreted x I 1 A reflection not altogether w value to such euch feminine scribes as aa have not yet aft round their public 1 is contained in a remark made lit at FL a recent dinner in london M here 00 literary women mt met one another As the extremely viall dressed crowel crowd surged and swayed round the plat platform forin after the which it followed the dinner a young 1 woman 0 ventured to remark to one of the old hands upon the exceedingly prosperous appearance of several of the literary women bless you was tile the quick response that is riot not literature it Is husbands an anglish translation tian of a volume of oc legends of at the bastile Is just coming out the author M f l anck brentano claims to lo have ill ed u ualle bite deh h ang ing among the records of tho the preat great prison that the man alan in the iron ire mask mark was an italian named mattiola Mattl Matti olt oll also that the mask was waa not iron ron but velvet 0 0 in a chapter of reminiscences of von bunsen mud an hla his friends arlt ads in tho the century john tells tella this anecdote vt of humboldt one day lie he was dining lith mon iron df cl Assolin tho the hanker banker and an unusual thing for him was very cry silent 1113 host it observed to huni boldt thit thil lie he was sure lip in must be ill no said humboldt HumL but I 1 an am in great trouble rouble only ten minutes after loav lay I 1 aig lily iny apartment nt to to come hl re I 1 rf r bcd my landlois land loid a noto note in dorming me that lie he balul old bold tho the rumo lit in mitch I 1 demide and that I 1 anit move tho very thought driven nit fmc to lo despain I 1 really cannot bear to niovi agala gradually gradual iv hl humboldt into conversation during which b he ro found U n 4 time to ruo a note annl ft nit receive a an I 1 It neiMer to it I 1 clr 1 then then took look Hual boldt aud and said uy BY ehla note I 1 learn that I 1 um am now ell the II 11 owner nf t the house in which you rouble i the condition lion lic niever ever upon which I 1 have become ila ha possessor is that you continue to lo occupy your apartment in ili it 11 us as long as all you lne live sir fr Sin hurne onte one announced that could be no such stich thing as aa nn nit lita in I 1 ticul kite ruet poet mr hir martin Mol lieI artong Artl ng in the nineteenth century Uen lury de clares billat illat Is 14 roll not an art an bic anit the ex excellency col lency and the halo of 0 nil lill I 1 the ho arts r slid and h tile that t 10 no lo matin mati I 1 n NN what 1 at form a roan man en may a y c choose h nose for I 1 alic I 1 to x of 0 tits hl ideas it 1 itis his do Nord with certain porters of 0 ft cling ond and imagination big walk will III be 1 iiley tilt y jr advancing this theory he ibes it homsi lt as aa 3 tc 1 I 0 O but we ate would K go curtier fur tier cr and al ancil el t fiat in spite of t the pi albl e 1111 digs lie hi has to pay FRY in III its rotor fo it to i inac than limn unsophisticated Ill let tell it iw Is 7 irue u S and pernicious for the lite efterp of uch such a Is 1 not net in rely to 10 K trople that they hale bair poetic A imm A chichis aich is common enough and neds no ratification it also i ent in many elie idea iha 11 one I 1 hos has arctic pi alle fc ling one may bilte poet i y air Il orriss plea pica Is likely to t to io 4 more haim than good he II 11 tl it as aa I 1 r contribution to lo the philosophy ur of i poetry that is a dangerous thing thlin to i about it li Is only the poetry if f poetry that cou conns lits new yolk tribune here ere la Is a fr from om an american girl who is mopping stopp lne in london about eliout KI DIllig 1 I mot met art an irnia offie officers ers sister aho vho had lived lived in india and they were speak speaking 0 af ot f the anglo indian writer 1 1 I 1 was brought up tit with vilh him said ill the army w omao you knew him thon as aj it a child I 1 nd asked 1 oh yes ruddy mas as the most h horrid r little beast of 0 a boy imaginable and you played with 1 bilm II m I