Show COI coir carloo loam amone book briefly told I 1 mr air gladstone it Is i said paid lias has devoted hlf his leisure for the past ten years year to the preparation of anew a new edition ot of bishop butlers butler analogy with annotations lie boez not con consider till this a faa ak but says ITS tile the time given to the study of the noblest and wisest of writers has brightened hit hl lew few holi holidays dayss the book is 1 to be in two volumes the text in 1 one the anno annotation lation in another ind and the modest reason mr gladstone alyes alres lot for this Is that dedoes i ot con old crills own reni remarks arks worthy to appear side by side with those of his author recently as his work was drawing to a close he heard that another book on bishop butler was about to be published this which to many men would be a severe evere disappointment has not agea mr gladstone but he continues as busy as ever and hopes boon to finish it it has repeat repeatedly ealy happened in literature that the same plan subject and even ideas have been suggested in two persons each of whom has an equal claim allm to originality mary russell Mit fords the fos carl cari 1621 had been sent to london on the very day tile the same was announced by lord byron she wrote to her friend haydon tile the artist deploring her shocking ill luck in having written on the same game subject vt ith lord byron and added 1 I am so distressed la in the idea of a competition not merely with alth lordships lord ships talents but with ills his geneat reat name and the strange awe in which he holds people and the terrible cobs scoff sand and aine sneers rs in which he indulges itself that I 1 have written to a friend in n the propriety of suppressing my play lay 11 it was too late however and a few months later she writes writer of her pleasure in n reading lord byrons byrona two forcari Fo a 0 finding that he took up the story just here othere she left it off so that his play d id lot clash with hers when miry mary cowden clark had about aalf that work so valuable to shakespeare students her concord ince she heard that another person ras fas engaged with the same task sor awfully she abandoned her ter loved labor trill ind packed all her portfolios and other materials nate rials modest modestly lv thinking that her unknown rival would excel her she has described her feelings while heeling on the floor pushing the large lacket under her bed tor for safekeeping they lived in small quarters and space lad iad to be economized joyful was she hen she learned that the rumor was 4 ise ilse and that she could resume her work ork and complete it the concordance was published in 85 after the unremitting labor of sixten years twelve in the preparation of he manuscript arid and four more in seeing t safely through the press what may be termed the accidents of Luthor authorship ship are arc many johnsons Rn resembles vol tires alres Can candid didt a book composed with i very different purpose dos boswell ell writes 1 1 I have heard johnson say if they had lot been published so closely one after he other that there was not time lime for or inflation it would have been in vain to leny that the scheme ne of that which ame lafeat was not taken front from the hie ther ither ai john lothrop motley after he fie had pent several years in collecting mate isla ill and sketching the outline of his astory it story the rise of the dutch i ic c I 1 heard that prescott was anticipating im with will a lite life of phillip the second in none one of his letters he fie tells what a id ad blow this Int intelligence ellig gence was v as to him am it seemed to me he says that I 1 had nothing to debut do but to abandon alonce at once i cherished dream and probably to re lounce authorship for I 1 had not made up my mind to write a history and then cast about to take up a subject my subject had taken me up and drawn me on and absorbed me into itself vot not wishing to be disloyal to prescott he went to him at once and explained his position prescott generously gave him every encouragement had the result of the interview been differently writes write motley 1 I should hav egone from him with a chial cahl upon my mind and no doubt have laid down the pen at once for it t was not that I 1 cared about writing ahl a history story but butt that hati I 1 felt an inevitable impulse to write one history coming to more recent instances as illustrating lu the subject we give these sin gular literary coincidences on the pub of the 41 prince of india two years ago the cryor cry of plagiarism was started chiefly because the scene chosen v m as similar to that oi of Lud ludlowe Ludlow lows 6 interesting novel the captain of the Jani Janiz zaries arles a tate tale of the fall of con stantin ople a book which general lew wallace said he had d never read A short time ago it was noted that the name of raeburn nota common name had been given to a character in three edna lyalls wee too A serial story by adeline sargent and mrs wards the century magazine for or april 1895 contained curtained a I 1 short story with the title of A faithful failure and in the may atlantic appeared a short story with the same title new york press |