Show BOKS LITERARY LEAVES mat Is goinn going L on in the he inner literary world WHAT THE CLOSING YEAR HAS DONE for literature A rather nather bleak not romp eltive glance how hoit LOOK long a book dr holmes on literary Aspi aspirants rante an interest ing unpublished letter prom from the great poet poeta A little man alan of mind nd A pen portrait of paul panl du dol Cli Chal atlin IIii humor on A sick bed mra humphry ward and marghret delando DelAn dw now novels abat some famous authors aro are doing C IM bv b th link Slid lot poo von oi york I 1 1 NEW YORK dm 22 1800 with the th departure of 1990 e w see the close of another year which will lome leave but a small impress upon uon literature lu in general Kont ral we W have bad somo some good books but bill not nol asing A loone one if ue may accurately judko judge fit at this time which m will III stand tho the tel lisl of time kipling Is the only author who has aken with any degree ol of promise upon the literary horl yon and nono none can say that this proui lie will be fulfilled with tho the exception ot of this thia young english author we have hart bad not a ripple upon tho the literary niters during tho the year ibsen has como come more to the front but al how little one hear bear ilk lil name mentioned literary sensations sAngat lous we ue havo have had but none with a basis bals and thus thui the iho year has been one other in our preparatory axe age our bor american authors have bavo written much hut but little of trun work if wo we except axce pt dr holmesa over tho the te tea macaret Mai aret Dp uplands lands sydney 11 joceph jefferson sir mr aldens in iiii HN world the iho years books pacient rather a bleak aspect rt it la ili a popular belief that great events stirring occasions bring forth great au authors and stirring books well may we w wish then that 1991 might contain within it H opened book one leaf of groat great national import LIFE OF MODERN ono one test of modern authorship I 1 think 1 Is to ee how bow short lived are arc the iho books of the pre mot day yearly nearly all the taft books published during tho the first part of the year ear aro are already forgotten or not jot ono one stands out in bold relief noven toole come therk and fast from the presses presse and their death Is almost simultaneous with their birth not onn one piece PICCO of fiction published this year can be considered truly kraal great not a single prime poem has baa been printed which has baa ever caused a day dayt days t talk and yet the production ha baa certainly boon been take all the books published this year avid and not one I 1 venture to say will sell copies within two years from now arid and in five years they might all just as well never have been this should not he bo each 5 3 ear should at 1 least ast give to american literature one single st standard I 1 dard work nork destined to live yet who he can name three books published within the last five years in america which all be read ten years yeara from now DR HOLMES ON ASPIRANT Ts last evening quite apropos to this general subject I 1 was shown a letter written by ir dr holmes to a young pool the let ter Is dated a sow few years year back but bill its iia sentiments apply to the present day with a strong application I 1 give the letter verbatim it has never dete r bo be fore been printed my MADAMS 31 ADAME I 1 am always tory rory willing to read any ot verse bent mo me by literary llie rury aspirants and I 1 be ready tr to do for you roll what I 1 have done dobo tor for beores to speak moderately of others at the same time lime I 1 have to confess that my ex por perl leuco cuco his baa been very tory poetto sensibility and fand an ear for rhythm are arc very common gifta and aro are constantly mistaken for poetic genna by those he bo possess them and their friend 1 L you PAD call well imagine iu atoo that it is not a very aBr ble task to unde cleTe it boa who be lave have been flattered low into the idea that they po poci ed extraordinary howera what I 1 havo have to do habitually unless I 1 choose to keep up the Il luion and betray my correspondents into falso false expectations I 1 lot not an editor tied and have DO connection with any periodical except its AS a cona contributor tri butor whenever Wh oneTer my corr pon dents wish to have their pub led I 1 send to the editor of any periodical they designate and leave all the rest to him taking it ib fur fr granted th that at be knows kooch what will suit stilt his bis purpose better belter than I 1 do I 1 am sorry borry to say aay that the poems and stories seat through me uro tire almost invariably declined you will aak why Js Is it because they come cimo arout rom tb this Is or that section of tho he country by no means mean mr f from he one of the lV western estern states stat dr bret e t ataro fro from orn california nere eagerly welcomed while plenty of eastern writers had their pieces rejected by our la Is JU it thon then aboy ure are now new and unknown to fane on abo contrary a now new writer ot of real pour Is to r any fany no tile real reason Is that new writers to mutch atch themselves thone who slave bova praed probed their superiority it IC is just like it il lIage club challenging the I 1 hii 0 o written you much more boore fully than I 1 commonly do and more at length thao than 1 I should expect to again but I 1 do not wish you to be 10 ds disappointed appointed your letter Is ia fran fraak se an tuUa 4 fair lr and you have bavo your of uko like another but of 0 the abe bun bull of thousand ii of poems that tire an written by our educated and ladled very few aro are marketable or remembered a w wook cu ck after they are published I 1 am afraid y you wilt will ool not bo be mado made happier by my criticism but I 1 am nevertheless yours youra vory tory sincerely lu corely A LITTLE MA MAX OF residents dents of fashionable walnut street la ire philadelphia wo five almost dally a little man loan taking tak liiK as he be calls lt it his health Bulk A alk with his hands burled buried in his overcoat pockets a stoop of 0 the shoulder a quick and nervous stop throwing his head up tip occasionally to roveal reveal pair of coal black penetrating eyes one would scarcely recognize in this little man ono nho he has seen as touch much ot of this world perhaps as any man lu in it IL ono one of 0 the most indefatigable of travelers and devoted to historical re he came near shattering his health by hurrying from onA point of the globe to another now he Is roc retting and under at the home of 0 his friend george IV chulds viliore ft here be h hm been for or barr two whenever ho be swi into philadelphia society lie ile naturally attracts t 11 and women delight to do him honor and yet I 1 should not ho be sur ur il if in ili a weak I 1 read thit that rul B du do chaillou wai wahoo on his way to egypt few men hue have tra tr Melid elod so 0 o extensively a his mr ilu ile chaillat Chail ChaI IIii lit and tin no enjoyment 1 Is to my mind BO rare ua res to sit fit with him and hear bear hill talk III lis earnet nta at onto omo conini ands respect and the I 1 ness aich in ili others might bo be annoying li so characteristic of tills little man of mind that thai it adds to botho I 1 he of tho the he hone of alie greatest little men one cau can meet and as delightful in his personality as his bok boic of 01 the tb land of tile midnight sun while reading one of the humorous 4 papers a fow few day ago 0 I 1 tame entire across a a sunny story which carried ruo 0 brick back four months ties ago when sitting billing ran in my lay room ono evenings even ingI was summoned nril by fres messenger songe to tho the sick alck bed ot of a friend lie 0 flos I 1 la perhaps berhe p one 0 n e of the best known f funny t P calr n sh r s in n tho the c country and his bis work finds a ready sale wherever offered upon arriving at tho the room of my friend I 1 found him in a high lover tossing ore on a bed of perfect agony I 1 had not sat ion long by his tide bide when turning Is over bo be s said aid tome to me my dear fellow my copis y Is duato due tomorrow to morrow mornIn morning gat at wont you take a pad and write down some paragraphs it at my dictation I 1 took a pail pad and for a nail half hour our my friend dictated to rue me a continuous string of jokes many of them so funny that hat I 1 could scarcely repress laughing myself one atory I 1 especially ally oa exceedingly bright arid and w wally Itt yand and yet it was dilated between groans that story Is the one ona I 1 read the other evening in the holiday i and recalled too the incident there ar are indeed people in his bis world who suffer offer to make others laugh WHAT AUTHORS ARE ARB anito eugene eueene fields I 1 to ci clever books have already gono gone into their fifth edition two of A bach were sold before publication and strange enough the ilia book of verses leads load the book of prose in salts sales poetry does doea pay in ili some instances 1 I was told a few day ago agn dorlite contradictory reports that mrs If humphry umphry wards now novel Is no nearer completion cow p lelion than it was six alx lx months ago benl and that scribners have no idea wh when 1 the manuscript v m III bo be ready for the types I As A the report seems to have bava gotten into circulation that mr john ilay Is writing a lories of personal articles regarding mr lincoln I 1 may say authoritatively that such i Is not the case mr ilay hay has written everything on the subject of mr lincoln that he 19 intends to write either now or in the future 31 maurice aurica thompson Is one of those fortunate who car can seek his chiq own place to do 10 work and at present be it 6 Is I 1 comfortably ne nestled aled in a flower cov covered ere d bower way iowa down tn in mississippi lie in gracefully writes of the spot As I 1 write the fragrance or of roses roe Is in in my y nostrils arid and the gulf waves are roa roaring ring sweetly it Is place of joyance w where here I 1 come every winter to work with open doors arid and with the salt breole blowing through my room mrs Cand candace aeo wheelers work on color in decoration is 19 now flow nearly ready for pres aar mrs john sherwood has finished a new book on society to be published directly after the I 1 have it on the bort authority that william T stead of ilia re review vicle of 1 jle C 1114 ruS Is IA negotiating with a very known western editor bhoge whoso articles in recent numbers of the century have given him a national reputation to secure bill him as editor of the american america a ed edition of his periodical which even now n 0 with in itai preponderance of engligh 11 new 0 8 and opinion lias has a large n in this country yr St shearls earls pur purpose i la sio to make the american edition distinctly american in its tone arid and proportions and ito he realizes the impossibility of doing it ft three tho thon oRand miles away so 0 o he is ill trying to secure a thorough american an for the position it if he bo secures tile tha gentleman now in london consulting with him ho he will engage the right man A nian man who Is acknowledged to ho ba the tha highest authority in the united states in his especial department of kocl sociology elegy and a an n alumnus of johns ll Il university ver sity where it is conceded that he la is the tha roost brilliant graduate 0 of that institution the rapid growth of tho the farmers barme r 3 alliance and the very general disturbance ance of the worlds aff affairs have cau caused sed the publication of 0 a work mork the manuscript of which was accepted three years year ago go the presidential campaign of ISIC by tho author of the battle of Bertl helm Is 14 im a prophecy and tin admonition according to senator ingalls ingalla its author Is a united states consul in europe wh who 0 bears an bisto historic ric name letters to young citizens is the general title of a series of articles which tho the american institute of civics has arranged to have published in the leading newspapers of the country during the bear 18 isal john Is to I 1 r ito on true patriotism tho the lion ilon S G i IV benjamin on truo true political independence theodore roosevelt on the merit system ot of making government employers Employ eos col thomaa wentworth on TUB the evils of 0 8 sectionalism 0 dr titus munwng coati coan on qualifications for or diacos IS ac es of 0 trust dr edward everett hale on town tow 11 government albert shaw on municipal duelm and od obligations the rev kov wa s abington on oil A look forward into american history and bisho liisi hop P A cleveland coxe on law a and ud 1 bublic morals mrs Al margaret argaret deland Is taking a rest irom from literary work until otter after the tha new year festivities when site she will b begin g in her next noi el 01 what its character w will be tho the author herself does not know although she lio hail bas had several offers for the book bonk even before mrs deland del idd his the plot I 1 mrs sarah K belsons liol Bel tona tons next book boob will be fatuous Tatu I anious ous english Stat men in th aba 5 series of popular biographical books book S which hie base proven so successful edmund clarence stedman Ste dinan has bag coi completed his wco k on the laborious ill library of american literature and la turned to preparing hla his courso couro of eight lectures on poetry which ho he Is to deliver before johns university during lent T thonas thomas For fortuine trine the lamous colored editor ed I 1 tor Is to come forward for ard as s an ambitious author corking at the sallie time on a collection of verse a v volume 0 some of short stories and corn core platina a novel which ill have for its title the robins nest again I 1 enward NV bok |