Show SOCIETY WOMEN ITEMS CONGER MRS MES EC DE MRS BURTON HARRISON miss caroline duer drier and miss alice A ito e duer the newest additions willlam william astor chanbers Chan lers recent efforts correspondence Correspond mice tribune new york jan 6 5 in tile the lery ery center or oc that maple magle circle round A which aich the like immortal ward mcallister Me AllIster drew the immovable line is a little group of 0 active literary workers the reference Is not 1101 of course to the well bred mell 11 ell todo to do men inen and women who iho have the entro antro to society when they deslie jt it for there ihde are many times tour four hundred indred hi of these theote while the personages referred to scarcely number it a dozen and ate aie constantly and prominently in the swim filling the boxes at the horse bhoj figuring at the opera and leading the iho ball and yet tills this serious pursuit of a literary career sets those as distinctly apart from tile alie ultra small t sot set to chich 1 l alch they belong as front from tho the literary pet mith which they have become allied and since there Is no royal road read to the making of literature era ture 6 and these lilies ot of the held field must toll toil and spin as assiduously ai a the hie humblest of 0 the carallis car llis h heavy e a laden to accomplish hat they a are re ac tile ilia little group 14 4 naturally na ui interesting tang the most conspicuous figuro of this little group is perhaps sirs mrs laer cruger who has become middy knori under the nom de plume bullan Jul fui gordon mrs cruger Is a beautiful woman of 0 91 gibat eat personal charm chich n together with unusual intellect lial aty would seem BC em to render her the lest best equi equipped plied woman bomart lit in new york to establish and to maintain this the salon but oddly enough there has never been the sil glite st intimation ti of any chii upon her part to follow in ill tile fOOt footsteps stOPs of 0 de steel on the contrary tor for reasons impossible to surn surmise ilme mrs cruger keeps her social and literary careers so distinctly separate that the general public has never identified her with ith lier her book boolas and the arnat not aft probably takes thella little into account neither knowing nor caring much about litera ture the best ovey of lier jet novels Is 13 A diplomats diary although alai ma dame ditc itc Is a rather more subtle modal study and Pop Poppa pasa sm who by tho the way may was not the 1 wife 1 fe of nora nero but a fashionable woman 0 of I 1 the JAY day made vom something ething of it a sensation and proved important enough tr io croke cloke much caiti i alm favorable yond and others lae next to mrs cruger stand mrs reginald do I 1 koven oven who iho although a western woman the laughter daughter of senator camell Fa niell has iwen been for several years identified at with tilt new york young prett yand charn charming illig 31 mra do DC koven felix 5 hy by no reflected light through the representations of her husband as a composer a musical critic fill and a writer on kindred she heisele lias has doni done and I 1 is 3 doing good earnest work and began it so early cally that the she wrote a anem cm to jean Fran francois cols millet it when here file shea was scarcely more than a school gilt gill arid and other poems which have been widely copied A sawdust doll coll published a little more than a year age aco in ili toe the only on ly novel so 80 far from mrs do de kovens von pen but another volume LOM composed posed of three united linked together by a connecting thread Is now lit in press tito tho yetar itar of mammon Marn mOry A filch appeared in ti ilie the cosmopolitan la the most mont important a t of these the se stories orles sl it li 19 lioi hone vcr ever pere perhaps japs through her ter critical essay that the psychological trend of mrs de Ko kerens min mind I 1 becomes mure inure fully revealed arid and bite bhe has done nothing better belter titan than I 1 verlaine A feminine appreciation which was published in tile the chat bobic book she paul verlaine Verl alne as the prophet and intel prefer of vi women amen to him alone has haa tile ali secret been revealed to him alone the mantle of deceit ahe he wears earyl the slavish dress of bif the centuries Is no concealment lie he has seen 1 ilas has known slid and he under understands standa the very worst thing in the world says an un unknown le nov n writer Is tilt the soul of 0 1 a I woman vo inan forced to inaction and fed on oil lies her principal power mans mana weakness curiosity arid and the imagination lin agina or oc the intellect lead her in many wandering man derIng ways tasting but few of the actual jos tile the triumphs and the treala or of lire life from the harem of 0 her slavery her fancy has ha wandered with the windy wincle lit in her mind the unique jnue and fatal experimenter she has hail known all t rimes crimes all horrors hor rora as aa welt well as a dorns doms and joys anil and this while her gentle feminine hands have ministered to suffering her voice liaa has cheered her ber smile has haa illuminated and her lun patience haa bag crid endured urcel at the home of the do de the stara of oc the social and of the literary and the artistic world are arc brought together as aa they are not ary n any other house in now new york at their musical entertainments calve melba ea eames me a all the great artists of the op operatic bratic stage havo have sung with the single ex ci of 0 joan jean do de amice who never sings at it a private entertainment 0 a the position of mrs burton harrison 1 Is unlike that of cither mrs cruger or mrs do da koven while belonging to 10 the four hundred as as a they belong tt 0 it her tastes lean call more decidedly in the direction of literary awl and the intimate circle tra gathered about her baty ha a distinct atmosphere mo sphere aDhere of letters let leia yet acl mrs sons literary success has har been almost exclusively along the social line for although she nho had been writing a long time and doing as aa good if not better work before the anglo maniacs appeared that was waa tho the story which firlit drat made hor widely known in this book oho alto took at it its nood flood the tide of tho the english tad fad which how hoj since raged so unceasingly to this instinct of tanye liness if the tha modernity of her books may bet so 90 described seems seema to have been owing much of 0 the great but rather transient popularity that her stories have hav achieved A bachelor mald appearing just as aa tile girl bachelor was waa a new term lerm it if not a now new idea ll Is an installed in point slid and bar harbor tales coming an fashion fajt bion first set ft dis finally toward that swell resort sup up delro another pr nut but 1 allo bile this is in tit main truo true of mm Ilar rions no it Is but fair to cull call attention to the fact that she hi hit has written ritten other for tho the which rest on an their merits aside from any dy mode made arid nd which are more worthy winy the me name of literature I 1 Us siaw caroline duer ducr and miss alice vt are the tt hobt most recent It and the youngest feminine additions addition to tills distinguished little group up to last spring sprank when they published it volume simply entitled poems they had riot not men beell in any ally way identified with literature being known to bey society clety as aa elegant and charming young women at 0 wealth and the highest positions tutu mutually Ally known the poems which passed at once through several everal edition s meeting a cordial and appreciative recep ilon I 1 on placed them therefore in an entirely new and different light the anthor authorship thor ship ot of tho the poems Is in distinguished hy by the initial I of 0 the slaters sisters and the manner aimer and feeling are distinctly unlike miss caroline carolino Caroll no duer liaa has written much more of 0 the volume than miss alice and her work has haa a a tenderness am ai well as aa a lyrical quality not to be round found in her sisters see tor for example the following ollow loe fragment riot blot 0 nand ind in the meadow dows green tresses the pools the rush of 0 your iving hakea acko the hie hlf land isai with your wanton for tats ilila is is the hour w m nan hen love exve li Is king wilt thou conin through mist and cloud arid ot of dreaming I 1 lovo love on oil tile th wines nang of tho the nights dark space through the lh moons white beaming beani inK As tho the spark floats down from tho the me tars sweep for we are apart but our souls soul bestre like the lire fire shall leap imp and cling and the name ham of 0 thought by the wind fanned higher burns through tho the hour when villery love Is mine king the contributions by miss alice duer ducr are arc strenuous rather than tender and ar are e squally written lit in dla lugue and I 1 th the e one entitled overhead in a conservatory atory oryl throw s a searching sidelight on certain social phases ile alter after a pall pause so dear are you angry angrys sho she to yes though not nt you but at myself of OC couie course we know its true i that thai A when hen man respects a g girl 1171 ile ho interrupting I 1 thought I 1 say any that its nou nonsense girls are t taught ought to you u know as well as I 1 do I 1 rot ere lo 10 you u motto moio I 1 than hall any other woman dear slid sill indignantly not have done it to elfreds hood lie ile immortal sods gods I 1 think I 1 would silo sho haughtily if this but seem adems to you on food for or jost I 1 say aay no more silence were plainly best beat llo very seriously learn it I 1 jest jel je l it 1 H I 1 read maa the holte hopelessness of 0 that I 1 could in vou bour r 1 stern stem eyes which righteous wrath betray nor I 1 murmur that you teach how far moro more haul hata than others all rood good women LL are re another young and recent addition to the group la Is mr air william astor chanter who entered the literary 11 held eld a rely lew months ago through tile the public publication of 0 his hl explorations in abrila in making these ho old did not follow tho the beaten trade track and jt it Is said by those best qualified to judge that his hl work has haa much scientific value from the non point or of view A t 11 ll 11 ctr eminently readable and acquires a charm from th the e authors faculty acuity ot of upon the especially and the book Is richly illustrated front from photographs photograph taken by nit air ch chanter artier ot of the courage required to gather material for such a work lt it seems seema unnecessary to speak that a young titan man reared in luxury should have incurred voluntarily such pi and Eur ring its as the story elory reveals la Is truly remarkable mr chnaler li Is a great grandson ottlie or kanal john jabob astor and a grand eia son ot of samuel ward the present generation of the astora has ha mado made tho the name known in ill the world of letters lettera the publication several months ago of sir mr john jacol jacob aglora sacral romance A journey in other worlds won for the author serious literary tile tho batary itself Is the mereat Tn crest thread to liang hang ba tl en lino facts and theories upon but the work as a whole reveals reve alii a remarkable knowledge knowl edgo of astronomy of natu natura naturu history and of other subjects depre seating long and labors laborious 0 us study ludy there are also interesting references to the occult and ami there can lie be no doubt that there are many forced and influences in nature B hose existence ex are as yet little more inure than suspected the work ashow eier eer trial more a thary than a transcription of set entitle knowledge knowl edse in 1 the guise of ile tion anti ls in free 0 of in ingi nation in tilt chapter on the hurry of at death la Is the following before resuming their journey the travelers tra velera paid it a visit to the bell shaped lilies on their pyramid or of bones the flowers were ivere closed cloned tor for the night and the elers elera saw by tho the moonlight that the white bite mound was simply alive with diamond diamand headed beaded snakes these coiled themselves flatt flattened belled their heads and set up such a hissing on art the explorers approach app roath that they el a glad to retire anil leave this curious cur tou contrast ot of hide and beauty to the tire re dies flies and till i 1 0 m moon marching alone in indian india fl file 1 0 tho otter better to a void avoid treading or on the writhing serpents ac that thai sit strewed ewed the ground they kept on for about two hours they passed huge huce haapa or mounds of boni bones 8 evidently the remains of bears bearn or others other larg large animals ang i tnie als the carniv carnivorous OlOus plants blant gi irow in lne at their center were otten often like hollow troea and might easily have received the travelers in one embrace but as before the mounds bere iere alive with serpents that ollde relly made them their home mid and malsed an angly ill alb Vilo never tile the men approached tied 2 mr william waldor astor lias has not I 1 believe published any book but he ili ia the author of several admirably britten stories of christmas sentiment in addition to theno the are his editorials editorial lit in tile the pall fall wall mall gazette gazette which are f tar or above the ole average work of the kind and which have it a d literary quality in ili its his contributions to ti the pali fall mall magazine also sir mr astor has haa tone done excellent walk and indeed the literary bent of his hia mind and Inc inclination linly trilly may be traced back to his early youth when as aa a mere boy he used to write articles fo for arthe the paper published by the beefsteak club the writings of mr theodore noose volt veil are perhaps moro more widely known than those ot of any other member of this little literary group ot of tile tour four hun arod they are arc of a more serious character with lie elc exception eption of sir chambers book and appeal to a bucl much larff or er audience it may ile bo said bald that his him winning ot of the west stand stands and must munt always stand bland lunona tho the ged test ot of american works it does doen not seem beem possible that the prodigious research which it represents can have left anything to be gathered by any future historian moreover mr roosevelt has haa brought to tile the performance or of his film task per personal ronal force and en enthusiasm that can call scarcely be matched it to 1 these theme traits which make his work tales from american history so BO peculiarly vivid and oiliest wiliest give tho the intensity to his him biographical work particularly to hla his lives of morris and thornas thomas denton mr Roosevelt 9 attention has been a f largely turned toward tho the west where he has studied the ranch much life mid and the ble gaelic or of w which web he bas baa written that it can scarcely be nf ne Det sary to to so into further detail of hla his work that must be perfectly familiar to ta the site readers rca derti of the tribune 0 0 speaking of writers who find field tion in the west recalls mr fr william alien whigs new look book ithe real Is 1 tue rue just fust published by my may I 1 and williams of 0 chicago it will perhaps lit be remembered that an editor editorial lat written by mr whit waltr and entitled ahava wrong aprong with Xam kansas tag which appeared in his him paper the i gazette gaa a tie made a 4 sensation during the llie tc rc cent presidential canvass and was re einred by tho the hundred thousand for use aa a campaign document having thus awakened to to find famous mr fr white while now appears app tara us a the author of 0 it a volume of 0 studies of 0 kans kansas me life the journalistic stai stajan rip in bl still on every one of the stories which could lie be scarcely called liters literature yet there them 1 la nevertheless something 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