Show LITERARY IGNORANCE EXAMPLES or OF IT V ae LEAST TO BE EXPECTED authors and friends by mrs james T Is a treasure of 0 personal anecdote tribune I 1 xv ni w york 10 aw ark an american lady lecent decently ly returned f froni rot 11 says that tho the one book by an ali american Amei ican author to bo be found in almost eiery lionson iran it a ins ing room is in HIP flip poems poems of it allta ira wheeler bileci er wilco x A As q a rule bording to tile lady aho lw la Is quoted neithel lh fit mar man nor the na s men ot of uio tho ultra met 1 in U ank ng lalla now anitohin ani aril thina thin tit of the works work R u lending american N and ate aie not even acquainted alth ith their name ju ill low of tills lilg fact it la Is all the more remarkable aern that they should have the ilia kocins ocilla of pa almost 1 by heart bild should feel and express the great infelt in tile aluth aular nr another young american lady vrho ho has just returned lelur ned front from paris I 1 als has an interesting story to tell ut of M alj ld slip him as saili if in a recent fill homely that he and hla his vur ire bee are treating their daughter on oil the hie american plan in fad fact the damous novelist la Is qu quoted cited 1 I hope to transform a nath nalle e fi fience ench girl into a typical avi ical american oman she will then be launched in society ca deiy and d I 1 am anxious to see ace 11 ahe result it it ar Is of course an exper experiment ime she haa the french blood tile hie fram arr nali temperament an Arne american rican training trai ninn what 1 M imal 11 1 1 sa 0 a magazine waa vas to have all the i e maninger man inter p 0 ot of EL a woi wo it before ho he bet gaii R I 1 I 1 the pub leat 1 0 or 0 it atall all or 0 which N waa occa atoned 1 by Y f the he printing ot of one of elf the unfinished to jalcs I 1 Is of 0 hobert louis stevenson not or I 1 ie g it necessary to say that tit hi TI J ot of tile tho fragment had been analo made in duo due form T 1 1 og so N alio ho hane todo to do nith the pub iash 0 of r books are arc brought into conart I 1 ill more soils and conditions ot of moll men than in almost an any avocation thern selves have long since been coded ol in cecen tri triciti city slid and tile maxis ot of literary Inep nees appearing tills ason taken front their fame faille in ill th ahli Is I 1 expect t 11 in honc ver e aro Aut hooi atol friends by mrs J janich au T fields clr last anon to le be published by alestra ac Kiri Inich to MIM in co folkler have been toti tr olied I 1 y tin and 1 I pleasing traits aci na n it fa for r is possible polito time ago 1 at t tile date nt AT tit alio death of siow 0 1 I nai ablo able th lit courty court by of 0 tile iho to end the th som boni extracts from mrs vork IL lating to II 11 mra stevo her tier A M k and her life iut the advance wheels of the complete work have leavo not been until now end antl tile look I 1 ill not be out for several 1 daya I a art A the I 1 alfe ife of the foremost amer 1 can P or of mi ill time and livinia in doblon ahon alx n that city aas who ho con ter bof of intellectual wind literary lr ml at fl flad has had every possible id altage antage lit in the preparation of 0 a work reminiscent of leading men anti ami 0 women o or of letters the relation between mr fields anil and the he authors hose works lie seems seema to have been made closer more cordial and personal onal thin than any more mere association tile th correspondence chich alch forms form a large part of 0 the hie book proves this and I 1 makes maker many pleasant pictures of 0 the inner lire life of the he to think lor for instance of 0 emersons Hm erson i to his hi publisher r in a whimsical totter letter when hen lie he had had his pocket picked and did not have money enough to get home there aro are many stories of 0 emerson and ate lars stoc and colts cella thaxter and whittler ind and others mrs arg fields also Is knew tennyson well uell and has hai much to ray 0 of him in her look between lady Tenn tennyson yn and herself there was a do de breo ot of intimacy arid and t I 1 lie to last chapter or of tie tho work la 19 to tier her describing liar hr first lerat visit to Tenny sons honie at farrington Fair ington mrs arm fields says it wag aas already afternoon when WO we ILI BI rived r ved duty arid and travel stained at the hospital door which was wag wide open shaded balled by vines showing the iho interior 1 dark ond and enni col mrs tennyson in her babi habitual arid and in e of IL a lonk long gray bray drosi anti and lace kerch kerchief lot over her head met us ui vath her ter truo trite and customary cordiality leading us to the low drawing room chere a larse oriel winlow window opening on the lawn iann and the halt life size abtam ot of were acro tile two points which caught my attention a we me entered iler stew an she bhe tre T re ceded ua tin it as long staid and free in her bearing tind and trilling dress per halm sav tier her a med medieval levai aspect ulrich forsted fui tid mleh ith tile the house the letter at ter I 1 have been told mas ag a baronial holding find and tile hie aar fair until and the young elaine appeared to fie be at oni one with her own oun childhood they wore no longer centuries apart from tile the slender blender fair haired lady who he now uy lay on A conch h by our mide hide they hey were a portion of 0 her own existence ot of a nature obedient to tradition obedient to home hoine obedient to love the world hao ham made large advance and tile the sound of the wheels ot of progress pr were nere not nol unheard in tho the ladya room ot of farring told she was ready sympathize to etli every form of emancipation but lit for h lir hr r life was wa lier her life find and his necessity was her great opportunity all this nas long ions aso ago ond anti the finger of memory has left taint trac ingo lo 10 lor r me to follow but I 1 recall he her r figure at dinner us as mie sat sal in her soft loft while muslin drops tied with bill blue c nt at that time hardly whiter r than her face or bluer than tier her eyes cy c and how tile the boys stood sometimes on one on either cither tile of her ter in ili their mick velvet dreas s like Mil 2 laiss picture of 0 the princes in the tower lower arid and sometimes sometime helped to serve the guests ry anti and by we adjourned to another toom loom where there wis was a ore and a s dark table with fruit and wine ater after tier her own on picturesque fashion and where later tile the poet lead to us well slie she being always delicate dell calo sit in health tool took her accustomed couch I 1 or tho quaint anart apartment ment for the night on different levels levela and tile the faded tapestry recalling tile the faded mantle and the faded volt veil her tender personal ibre care and tier her friendly rood night tle tl e silence tho the sweetness and th calm calin tile th work nork la Is an important one anti and will ill he b read with interest but the utter absence absen e 0 of humor la Is felt fell it would scarcely seem poin sible tor for any one to yelte of dr holmes without at least cast a reflective or of the tun fun with ith which lie was always bubbling over but in sirs mrs book the ile nearest m t approach to anything like hilarity in i the anecdote ot of klaw hawthorne thorne abich has already been mention d NANCY BANKS |