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Show the review. Iiiteratai'e and Oth it Things. The Christian is to be by the author. Realism has had its day, and romance is claiming the evening of the nineteenth century. Kipling is said to have refused payment for his Recessional" and Our Lady of Snows, because they were patriotic poems. 5 when our people produce as good literary workers as mechanical engineers, when the best of our imagination turns from the practical to the ideal, there will be no American novel, lack of an American fiction." clean." Another book comes to us fragrant with the memories of the old South. Brokenburne, by Virginia Frazier Boyle, is a tale of Mississippi, full of delicate humor and pathos, replete with the old time pride, the high sense of honor, and that purity of Dr. H. H. Furness is said to have completed another volume, A Winter's Tale, for his Variorum edition sentiment, which were the legacy of that time to American character. of Shakespeare's plays. Max Pemberton, author of the Queen of the Jesters, pays the American reading public a graceful It is an odd thing," compliment. he says, that the books which I feel contain my best work go best in America, and not so well in England. I think the Americans attach mre importance to finding what I may call heart in the work. Anything that is human and simple seems to go well in America. I don't think they care so much tor the fanciful I mean, for the scientific romance." A Legend of Camelot," pictures and poems by the late George du Maurier is a gay little collection of literary trifles, most of which have appeared in Punch. The literature of literary biography has received a fresh accession in the two volumes of the letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning recently published. Oscar Wilde, of the brilliant petals and the dark heart, has this to say of Mr. Caine. Mr. Hall Caine aims at the grandiose; he writes at the top of his voice. He is so loud that one cannot hear what he says. A clever little article on by Kate Gannett Wells, is strikingly, suggestive of a series of articles which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly some thirty years ago, on the which like the Little Foxes, Moral Hags prey upon domestic felicity and individual peace of mind. The most cunning moral hag," Mr. Paul Leicester Ford, in an interesting article in the Atlantic says, appropos of the hoped for great do it? the writer, is the kind, otherwise called ' We did not do it, or it was not so whats the use of worry in?' Sensible advice which we might all profit by, and dispose of a moral hag whose face is too familiar to us. might-have-bee- suf- fering a French translation. We use the word suffering advisedly, for Scotch pathos would surely be metamorphosed into French humor, and, at the best, we may expect a verdict of heavenly but impossible, quite sas Why-didnt- -I h Ian Maclaren's stories are also Moral Hags, This is a day of dramatization. Three of Ian Maclaren's stories are to be combined in one grand conglomerate dramatization. Whether the result be artistic or not, it will furni-- a whiff of June air for which a long suffering public should be thankful. v It to the uncovering of sewers, and concludes her criticism by saying, let us keep our social sewers covered as closely as possible until such time as we may see our way to make them ns is hard to reconcile the refined spiritual face of Madam Sarah Grand's latest portrait with the charge of indecency which is brought against her A latest novel, The Beth Book. reviewer in The Bookman , whom we may fairly presume to be Nancy Huston. Banks, likens her plain speaking Whatever may be the real influence of such books as those of Madam Sarah Grand and of Hall Caine, this reasoning is hardly borne out by human experience. All vice asks is to be let alone, and to have its stench kept away from respectable and influential nostrils. No great reform was ever yet accomplished by the letting alone process. A Club Woman. A Gentleman and a Scholar. A member of the Illinois Legisla- ture, representing the Twenty-Sixt- h District, lately received a bill for a woman suffrage paper, which had been sent to him, apparently, by some mistake. He writes in reply : I have never subscribed for eny such paper, nether have I ever read an ishue of the paper, although such paper has been brought me in my mail Irregular for some months, and has always bin consigned to the waist basket. This document seems to be genuine. It is written on a sheet of paper bearing the printed heading of the Illinois General Assembly, House of Representatives, and stating, likewise in print, that the author of the letter is a member of the legislative committees on Canal, River Improvement and Commerce, Mines and Mining, Farm Drainage, Roads and Bridges, Horticulture, and Fish and Game Laws. He is also the political superior of the most intelligent and best educated women of Illinois. It is safe to assume that a legislator so little able to spell, opposes equal suffrage on the ground that the ignorant women would vote." Woman's Journal. At no time," said the cornfed philosopher, is a man so willing to take the burden from the weak shoulders of frail woman as when she is harrassed with the care of a large and paying property." Jmiianoplis Journal. |