| Show 1 fi y I e i BRILLIANTS AmI ln on the thc little lives of men how holy they this little b by Tc II II sun II II Mow lIow thed one Olle grows of n clay duy rot a 11 rally day so Old revive that are lItI the tho past ball bacic to tile tIit s i lit and touch Anoll Sonic years conic roses rosc Scone coins rue Sonic Somo with clo closes cs Sonic Somo and through Yo nay not mould or shape them Or alter or 01 0 not lIot hit hilt wo Uny e nil o 0 Lord of to Susan c Theres Juan IIno lark loves th the l lift nay Theres mine ship loves loes the sen Theres nee ulle bee lo loreu lime Ihl heather hells bells Tint t loves a ns I 10 then nay Ill love loe loeI I That loves lons liS as I love loe Mice Thc shines anon limo tho fell rime brunt tat time hen lell The Is nt at Its a for lore loc of thee miry love loc i Its n a for fOl love luo of i WHEN AS A LAD LADI I as n a Ind lit at of day r s sI I watched life tho fishers sull away Y II thoughts like birds would follow m 11 k Across time the curving bloc hollow And on and on Into Ino the tho very heart of dawn I i iFor For 1011 long I searched time ho world orld Ah YlI I the sky Ir I searched the life sea With Hit much of useless and ruin hoso thoughts of III mine In 0 So dear zero they ther therSo So lovely and amI so 0 fur flit away p pI T I seek seck therm still and always ill Until my Heart Is still And ArIll I am free to follow Collow roll follow ow Across s time the curving blue hillo hollow Those too Pot For any sare C the SOIl souls swift feet Isabel Mackay in L NOTES I Gilbert Parker 1 ilium Dean i Howells and Marl Mack Twain waln enjoy enjo the illustrious com company pan of George Eliot I In a reprint list of the thc Harpers Their I I respective hooks bools are alc Northern Lights and Rue Captain visit to Heaven and Tho MITI on an time the floss G Booth of Indiana has dedicated his hollad story Beas leH Christmas Part Party to 0 his fellow statesman James Whitcomb Rile Riley The Tho Part Party has hns been said by sonic some to torather torather rather a brilliant affair Compounded I of sparkling Christmas snows the laughter of a crippled child and some somo lonely bachelor emotions a fresh printing of It has just been made on the press of oC the tho Harpers The Great D Divide I e b by William Vaughan Moody and The Melting Pot by Israel have attract attracted ed 11 In hook bool form an attention quite In keeping with their success upon thu stage Critics and students student have hae not i I I I failed to recognize the he significance of these dramas Thus Dr of the University of writes They seem to me plays of rare sig significance especially considered or Ct and give ono one more mOle hope for Cor the future of our literature than almost anything which has appeared In this country countr for fOI a long time lime Gertrude Smith time popular writer of stories for very er lIttle people who has hus been spending several months t in Wyoming has left the strenuous vest CRt am ak she herself puts It until next summer Miss Smith has gone one to lo Atlanta where she II is accustomed tomed to tomake tomake make her winter quarters One of the I first rRt copies caples of oC her hor now new book When holl toggie Roggle and Reggie Were Vere Five to come from tho Harper press was a gift to Miss Ethel Roosevelt to father It w was s dedicated The question of oC how novels noels happen to 0 be dramatized comes often oCten to the public mind A case In point Is Ann Boyd Bod the novel b by Will N Barbell Harbon which the 1 Harper published und and which the Shubert will shortly present as a play It appears that 1 Miss 1188 Luclle Lucile La Verne who fInal fInally finally ly made the dramatization never neer In Intended intended tended the task for herself but only to bring the stor story to the attention of oC the managers Miss La Verne Verno Is her herself self solf an actress and her desire was aroused to play pIa the tho role of Ann She carried time the stor story to several managers who declared It was the ono one the they would bo be glad to take hold of If It were al already road ready prepared for the stage but the playwrights proved to bo be all busy with previous contracts Finally the tho Idea came of oC doln doing It herself whereupon sitting down she be began an to write and kept on writing all du day and all night For days I was not on speaking terms with m my fanny confessed the dra dramatist dramatist matist and I mad had to remember I was hungry This devoted labor had Its reward when the pia play wm was practically accepted after the reading of the first act z zIt zIf It If one aile rare swimmer and In fu Inthe the current stream of fiction ma may trust Jill his own observation it Il Is symptomatic I that the tho supernatural barred from tic I Ilion lion for several generations Is re reentering I entering with power Two of the tho recent novelists whom a reader with something else to do has found himself somehow forced to read lire are Du Maur her and lInd De Morgan Modernizing all as they timey both do though you OU might maintain that the newer also addicts addict himself to modernizing Dickens the they both rush In where their masters would have havo feared to tread Dickens indeed was b by no means above ghost stories But tike like Mr Ir Kipling In InA inA A Matter Iatter of Fact he told It as a alie lie when ho did not present Is ns as an equally obvious allegory and never for n a endeavored to impose upon the credulity of his readers Thack Thackeray erty eray on limo tho other hand strictly ab abstained abstained stained from relating any adventure which might not plausibly have hap happened happened to anybody As for Anthony Anthon he would have havo dIed first So for that matter as q were subjects and his hili treatment would Charles Reade Heade The double conscious consciousness ness In Hard Casim and again In A II Is not but pseudoscientific The In ht fact disdained or Ignored as subject mutter mattor un any material which was nut not documented But the late lato Victorians I mud and early have havo reverted to the prime primo matter of romance The two recent novelists named might ho be dismissed as amateurs who have havo felt bound to Impart an am adventitious In Interest terest to thelt pictures of life and manners man manuel ners uel There Thele Js III nothing of the supernatural mural tural In Joseph Vance rance But the host ghost hostIn In Alice tor fOI Short Is so 50 to ta say of the tho essence and It Is pretty nearly WI as documented docu documented as the double consciousness In Somehow Good But Du sought and found a properly supernatural supernatural tural motIve for each or of his stories I The Tho dreaming true truo In Peter Ibbetson ton son the tho hypnotism In Trilby arc distinctly of the essence And so was the tho Martian motive In Time The Martian In the tho auth rs mind Inappreciable ns as I that motive may be to the tho readers who have vc yet yut round found delight in the picture of the tho French school lifo life or of a British ot or bilingual bo boy Persons who have havo been privileged to meet the tho novelist Thomas Hard Hardy per personally have ever made a point of his quiet and retiring manner his unas unassuming unassuming suming modesty modest This agreeable Im Is confirmed b by Lady St Helier In her het volume of oC Mcm orles olles those graceful impressions of oC a privileged life with which readers In Inthis Inthis this countr country have become through a sequence of oC articles In Harp ors lla Magazine During his lying flying visits to London ho he Mr Hard Hardy used to stay at out our house writes Lad Lady St Heller and I look 1001 balk back now on those delight delightful ful Cui evenings when ho he and my husband and I sat around the lire listen listening In to the stories theories and Ideals out of which all his novels haul had developed I think he Is the tho most modest person I ever eel came across and he hated time ho publicity which necessarily surrounded him and shrank from It Il as much as the most timid woman Ills His visIts to me become few and far between for Cor he loves the world less than ever eer he did and remains to tn the country countr In his own home a e I Maurice Hewlett whose latest slot story The Tho Ruinous Face was teas recently published pub published over hero here by the tho Harpers has been quoted as saying that It should be much moro maIo to time the pUblic to know a aman aman man through his work rather than to desire to have hae personal knowledge of his But you OU have liked to meet meat Shakespeare m 01 Milton or Chau Chaucer co I or Byron Mt Mr Hewlett was I by bv one who disagreed with him himI I dont believe hellove he answered hesitating ing that I would hn havo vo cared so much to know Shakespeare for this reason I think hI his work was greater than ho hovas was vas but I would have loved loed to know Dante a man for you OU so much greater I Imagine than his work tre tremendous as was wa that I doubt Ir if there thero was any Homer and Socrates does docs not allure mc to time tho point or of desiring a personal Interview but George Herbert ho must have havo been beon It a very sweet and likable character and Sir Philip Sidney SidneyI I think I should like to have known him best of Sim Philip Sidney was the man the thc gentleman courtly Sit Sir Walter alter RD Ha Haleigh leigh f I am not so IO keen about him but old Doctor Johnson yes os There Thero are arc anI only 21 I hours hour to time tho da dato day dayto to the do day and the night And how few arc left to that quiet time between the tho light md the dark Ours is a hur hurried hurried ried twilight We c quit work to sleep we tt ake e up to work again We e meas measure ure time till day b by a clock we measure time the ni ht b by an alarm clock Life Is all ticked off We Ve are aro murdered h by bythe the second What we need Is a da day and a night with wIder margins a dawn that conies comes moro slowly and a alongel longer longel lingering twilight Life LICo has too little selvage It Is too often raw and raveled Room Boom foil and quiet and verge are arc what wo we want not more dials for Cor time nor more amore for time the dials We ro have things enough too moro more than enough it is space for things per and the right for fOI the he things that we lacka measure not ono one foot fool short of the distance between us usand usand and stars It If we got get anything out of time he fields worth while It will be this measure this largeness and quiet It may he be only un an owl or a that we go goforth goforth forth to see sec but how more we find I in things we cannot hear by day things s lon long long forgotten things we never thought or dreamed before The day Is 18 none too short the tho night none too long hut but all too narrow Is the hedge between Dallas Lore In The Tho Atlantic L BOOKS I hero time tho Laborers Are Few Fow lay y Deland uniform with An Encore with three illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens and page deco In sisters old maids In Dr DI parIsh of oC Old Chester their thelt poverty with the pride of They knit afghans and socks locks and no Inter Intel Interests ests beyond woollen yarn Iun II a pet cat and thu memory that their er was myna a bishop Ono One day Miss 1188 Jane time tho youngest meets a crippled wayside preacher The rest Is a precious bit of at The rhe Severed Mantle Is a 1 living glowing pIcture of oC land landof landof of the tho nightingale and the tho the tho time of the Troubadours History tells us that here love first came to mean more marc than passion and homa homage o for woman grew to he be IL a religion The joy of life was 0 over 1 all and song long was the tho natural expression of every feeling With such a background Mr Lindsey has hus written an inspired novel of stead fast flUit lovo und and perilous adventure of quickly moving Incident dark doings aid deeds of oC miraculous es escapes capes and just rewards Its is 18 l v to show show that the tho Troubadour of old was not nol a shallow fellow who wandered about twanging IL a lute an aim singing pret prett pretty t ty to foolish women omen but a man manof of oC earnest loft lofty Ideals which often led him to the shadow of tho cloister or to deeds of oC valor alor on time the hot sands of Pal Palestine estine Those who best sang of oC jO joy and valor alor and love were often mon of high purpose of oC refinement and of line courage coura e and of these was all Hahn baut of tho severed mantle With se say en cn exquisite illustrations In color b by Arthur I Keller Helen H Summer PhD the tho author or of E Equal ual Suffrage In Colorado tho report which was prepared for the Col Collegiate Equal Suffrage League of oC New NewYork NewYork York state and recently published b by Harper Harpel and Brothers Is actively In interested In documentary research for Cor historical ends Together with Richard RichardT T EI Ely Prof John B Andrews John JohnR R and others she sho has been engaged upon documentary history of industrial so society let In America Tiie Work has been conducted under the tho auspices or of the thc Bureau or of Industrial Res Research arch with tho cooperation of oC the Carnegie Institution of Washington Dr Sumner who is attached attach cd to the tho United States Bureau of lAbor and has made mado the labor policies of oC American democracy C cy a special study is the only woman among the thc distinguished hoard or of edl edlers ton ers t The Swiss Family Robinson unI unIform form with Robinson one book that has been called time the rival of Robinson Crusoe Indeed It Is the success of oC that other classic which has Inspired thIs edition In the form Corm of a companion volume In these happy pa pages es writes Mr 11 Howells In his In Introduction introduction there Is never an any want or of work or play never neer an any lack of oC sport How time tho Family Robinson came to be written and what Its his history history tory has been Is 15 told In n a note preceding ing 11 Introduction to the new edition of oC the stor story Illustrated b by Louis which time tho Harpers have havo issued In time for holiday demand In Inthis Inthis this edition the name or of David not Johann Rudolf Wyss SS appears as the theauthor author It appears appear that the story was written In the latter years of oC the tho eighteenth century not b by Prof Johann Rudolf Wyss of Zurich as books or of reference generally general state but by his father David Wyss of Berne a chap chaplain chaplain lain In the tho SwIss arm army He wrote the I story to amuse his children and after acter his death his son revised and published It The first copy was printed In 1812 tinder the tho tremendous title lItie Del Der und and Seine Famme e Eln Buch fur KInder Kindel zo ze Stadt und mind Land When It came to l be trans translated translated Into I French rench It was enlarged by Baron Baroness Bs de dc the tho new por portions I being later retained by the Ger German German man publishers Time Tho En English lIsh translation tion here reproduced js is the standard one olle made b by Mrs Fault Paull In 1868 Christmas Party 11 by Booth numerous illustrations Illustrations varIous sizes In color colot by Ruth Clements Ono One of oC the truest stories Mr lr has written The Tho party Is all In bachelor candidate for governor gives I it t as a reporter says just to please a little sick kid But his political fol followers lowers do not understand when thc they hear of a party parly to which they have havo not been Invited and for no a moment It t looks all as If the tho party would coat the governorship but It reallY swings s the tho vote nil all hi wa This love lovo of a mall maim for a 11 child Is the tho heart of the stor story As for Cor the party part Itself a 11 mote mora Interesting group of people was vas invited anywhere before And the stor story Is just as unusual as the party Hamlin Garland book Is Isn isa n a stor story of Dakota which the Harpers Harper |
