Show 1 mr II 11 I 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 ME I 1 ID f 1 I I 1 I 1 i I 1 1 1 41 it I 1 az 11 11 I 1 rt 1 1 6 j I 1 J I 1 I 1 4 I 1 4 V luellet couchi in his from a cork n 4 WI window d in the pall PAIL mall mega maga P alne I 1 t tells a delicious anecdote elustra five of oc a certain form of celtic 1 I an irish member of 0 one ona of 0 tho the 1 well clubs ot of london addressed addre aBed a T grievance complaint to its governing goberni ing committee in words I 1 sirs ira I 1 have been a member ot of this I 1 clabor a number nu of years and dui during ring my mr membership have been in the ahn habit of ordering m when lien thirst thirsty y a largo irish whisky at the charge ot of per glass A few days igo ago I 1 happened to discover that the charge for or a large f scotch whisky Is a difre difference rence I 1 to bih I 1 desire to call your attention lon I 1 I 1 since I 1 consider it as casting implicitly a blur on the nation to which I 1 have liis honor to belong a I 1 1 regrets nE GRETS I I 1 at the dinner of 0 the tha club I 1 of at title university held on on may 14 1896 till foil following owing verses were read as an answer by rudyard rudl ard kipling to an invitation to attend the celebration 1 A t jd ve fames uv ov wal parti Parna an n w colp of me curnin fears anav i jr 1 ir ini fm df e li nina it hanht AY av V rl 1 tb lh byi ul t yalo vale on the fourteenth i V alln I 1 I 1 tito tim iradell failure fis turo will be liter at lav A v 1 n moral 1 P r ua nature as Is lul just an r rl fi ht for jhaj llila r j II 11 x ht an ir adan are re engaged in 1 I 1 red afe me immortal ni mortal from dawn till night I 1 thwan malle a cl club ab there an staked out it thern T wit WIT arub phil test an b e in a joyous row an A think I 1 ut splendid if 1 I 1 attended an 0 I 1 but I 1 cannot go the th bonet bone t fort act I 1 li that dally practice av roli jl inkpot too the same ame its as me mb 4 C mr ale hours in ill tho the muses how bow cl 1 ani dav av tile lae divil a lay dily to spree i will inn grow crow and skill your 0 id r 1 1 at ill ib ii iphis great crent wheel in your chos WI un hue T toll if mid ur chances as time advances V F i i ia lark aru are as slim as mine j t en bit I 1 to tn falci sin accept mv my bi bler Os at aln n aln n r rn altz ellb r w abat hat xing 8 solomon como ld thil afu ath th ts is an 11 liza theres certain but the anin head I 1 I 1 th medal which has just beoris been pre setd to M t zola ziola by hla his friends Is six I 1 in ht in diameter and bears on one s gid tile profile of 0 M zola with the 4 legend gond li himmage Hom maee mage a M zola while n lille on J the other side Is a 0 f a thunderstorm thunders lorm with tho the sun peeping g out from behind the clouds across the i fill far of the coin on the latter side aide Is a i clims used by zola in ono one of 0 his arti I 1 il alei in favor of dreyfus truth Is ap pro preaching aching arid and nothing shall stop atop it emile zola 13 january 1898 the I 1 medal which welchs five pounds was 1 enst cast instead of 0 being stamped etani ped in order to avoid copies having to be ba deposited bacis with the government the law only ex alln that stamped ped coins shall be def exposited epo sited no duplicate of 0 DL zolas I 1 medal will mill be made but smaller anens in bronze will bo be stamped for or the subscribers to the presentation fund I 1 the specialist Is becoming c ang a bore we rilean mean the man who haa bas written a novel of sea fia life tor for example and Is conse i quenta urged to discourse in P print rint upon every new novel of the same fiame sort to begin with he be Is talking about a i hated rival which itself Is provocative 14 y of suspicion besides baingo in badi bad f tattle then out of t the fullness of aisi his I 1 leli knowledge he beco becomes rods not only odly captious criticizing criticising critic ising laing solemnly a ol 01 j and uninteresting details but talks a jargon which only his fellow 1 I I 1 specialists can understand worst of 1 y all he wears weara art an air of 0 being really auf and this impertinence of bi his 41 has been supported by the chousa thousands s of rho plighted readers who think I 1 that 7 if the nether author of A romance of white ff jfe chapel writes a 0 review of some one eases romance of mulberry behrl it ai must munt necessarily be a masterpiece of M insight and interpretation As a mati mati I t ter ler of tact fact it Is as likely as riot not to bei be i flu flat nonsense the worthless criticism of most moat artists has been attributed toi to the tendency of each one to compare compared reI his companions work w m ith hla his awni own is novelists are in the same boat and as ag f the tha art ot of criticism Is the art of put pui i a thing to tho the test of one abstract standard based on acquaintance with innumerable nn u memble concrete examples their i specialized views rarely have more than the irrelevant significance of apa peering over popular signatures elg natures y 1 among the th recent appointments of colonels to command regiments of 0 volf yete vole e composed of yellow fever imy waves appears tile hie name of first libut F herbert herbert 11 sargent second united i cavalry allcut sargent has haa dis splayed played marked literary ability in the 11 A two avio books recently published by him led napoleon Bona partes 3 campaign and the campaign Campal nn of ila 1 1 beriro books which have received tho the i 1 highest encomiums from fill all critics in C eluding 1 u ling lord wolseley Wola eley tile tha command g er cr ln in achler of 0 tho the british army i 1 that rudyard milling kipling takes his work mark hard is Is the th statement of a south f african interviewer this observer adds that Is tremendously in earnest ear noat about it anxious to give of I 1 hla him best often dissatisfied with bi his a fr best bent lie he to Is quite ault comically dissatisfied 1 alth ith quite tragically haunted i I 1 by the hie fear that this or that piece of I 1 ork felt intensely by himself in writ irl ae and d applauded 1 added 1 even by high and mighty critics critic e Is in reality ellean cheap and shoddy in execution find will be rapt rant ill it damages before the higher court of posterity when kipling had britten the th recessional which two hemispheres felt to be one of the very truest and soundest pieces of work looe clone by y ROY any writing milling man in our day and generation he was waa so BO depressed by its shortcomings of hla his private conc conception option mat east he threw the rough copy in the 7 mie asto paper basket thence mrs birs kipling rescued it alt for or mra bira kipling mk 1 should have bad 11 if I f Y no 0 recessional S or 11 tits his best beat patriotic poems lie in has de i clittee to accept lilly any pay these est things are pleasant to read tor for they indicate talents of the tha kind that B grow ei 1 it in mediocrity that Is in blissfully aliened ali ened F it with its ita productions extracts arts from mr a talks mith alth glad divine have been gladstone said paid of y did riot not sit how ow at his brat best dur 1111 1119 the last talt nty Y years of hla his life i i he showed d groat grem t ability alien ate flicking POCI peel NI mind mhd I 1 am riot not weighing 9 his staying ita ying in 1 the moral scalp scale but in c ph mowed ovied groat great ability ut gladstone mone ranked linked disraeli an am tile the rr W that 1 i aster of 0 parlia parliamentary wit had ad ever been lie ile loo looked upon is C character har 11 acter as a great mystery und find d ahlm to feet that hat the mystery till never er bo a solved 01 1 ath 1 tin the th ih modern fashion of 0 personal teti ketch tet i in response to Kome tc be hodys riu et for or facts about career ib h I 1 a ld id what jill pertinence mf so and 1 l 1 alac I llac iata folly y aro are these sc have h called 01 of pert persons ions who it done 01 hlinik to deserve such a P ih life of such bubli a man inan B hurton wellington contain lalim con if me ma berlat tor for history bl lory but thit that of it a man luau or moman 0 a tf tile d hoa bag nothing la in ij ul L blell 1 1 if not private and I 1 tt I 1 K to lr aroll oLL i my works arks are there for all read vita 1 in individually they th have noth no than ing g to do S 0 L 8 11 y W D alt Ilen leys pen ore ion from the government la ill one or of 1100 a i ear this la Is the th mian also received by I 1 tennyson find and he be drew it fort forty me seven ell times tho the london telegraph lately d dal voted a column of editorial discourse to a all suggestion of sir bit james bryce that the british public wants cheaper books and that if the tha publishers would supply that want the habit of reading books would be stimulated and tho the business of the publishers increased mr braces idea seems to havo have been that by the cheapening of 0 books book ithac was wa 9 it po possible nib a to meet the formidable compe I 1 itice 0 of f ll 11 the he magazines and newspapers papers the telegraph la Is by no means ready to admit the iho expediency anew or effectuality of this method of cure As to british readers it says that while blia a leisurely and contented class mho ft ho buy books has not increased in number the large chaotic and indeterminate class bred by tho the board schools and taught to read by expeditious methods havo have practically do aided that they do not want bricks books it finds that the number of british readers who mile read literary work moric Is relatively small and that tile the great mass of tho the reading population la Is quite con ten lent it with ith bix penny magazines and newspapers the london chronicle notes that the salo sale of the library produced a total of offutt juat over EG 2712 aich chous the extraordinary average of over LINO per diem by far the most I 1 f alzi feature of the two concluding dayn waft the beautiful set of the first five anve editions of waltons waltona complete angler to all beautiful copies in fine condition the set act realized efto truly a crazy price tor for a book which Is in no sense great i A lost sen sea son sons by robert loula stevenson which Is in t bo be found in an old sign of tile the ship article by andrew lang but bait tit in no lie volume of ste bensons ven vene sons ons works le 1 reprinted by the london academy mr langs lands antio runs thus ihus tile the next sea fea song came caine to use front from the sea mea in till an en ell ve velipe lope with mith HIP lie postmark ealoha Ta loha lohne told 0 21 1 about as tho the handwriting of the address app appears enrit to he that of the viking who alio sailed in john slivers silvers crew mho ho winged tile the black arrow and who aho wandered in tile th heather fiber with alan alai brock aut rob er us ludovicus u ovilus nut Dla Dia bolus sent the song I 1 presume but ul whether lether he really heard it sung flung at or whether he Is tho the builder of the lofty rhyme Is between himself and his conscience this Is the song in a public h haure at tho the jolty jolly Yel lomboy la 14 a coin w u lin bon now new tho the yankee daubl eaglet la Is large enough for two iwo 0 these may do tor for seaport towns ilbe por or cities these theao roily ratty doi do but t tho the dibbs bibbs that takes the th ands AT are the dollars of peru 0 tho the line pacific 0 tho the d dollars cism of peru its there wo we buy the coc cocoanuts cocoa canuta nuts I 1 mast beaded in tho the muo blue its there no me trap imp the iho lapses lama all awaiting for tile tha crow crew its ita ro we me buy the trailers alers tr rum what bor bort it a rimon M through in the iho fine bacille BIA Linds with the collm ot of peru in the fine I 1 with the dollars of berul now messmates mess mates when my watch la is up M abid I 1 arn am quite to ill give a tip if to t ewing evvi ng of 0 the tha sma L to do let cm am just juitt rolt athla it ailor man maa and launch him oft anew to cruise coulso amons among tho the Ilip lands of tile tho bollara of peru per in the fine pacific lands with tho the dollars of at parul the hundredth anniversary of the russian poet A Is to be CC acla boated in russia bueala next year on a a grand scale chis man has been called the russian russian byron though this we was a a misnomer he was waa only a child m when hen lie he began to write arid and at I 1 19 hi ha was famous lie had african blood in bis ancestry ne estry his maternal fraternal great gra grand nd f father haying having been a favorite negro of peter the groat grat the marriage of this black ancestor Is the theme of one of the poets stories th the E edinburgh d I 1 n burgh review lately published lah a d discourse course of some eighteen pages about novels of american life arid and all of the books discussed except democracy which appeared oppi aired sixteen cri years ago are of recent date some of them aro are miss hiss Wilkin ss pembroke harold Pred frederics erics theron theran were wae gertrude patience ti tience nes henry B fullers with the proc procession salon james lane no allens aliens the choir invisible three books by stephen crane call gallagher gher by R it davis and stories by F r J sion alice brown clinton ross rosa and 0 G D roberts the tha writers of all these books the review classes as realists not bent on narrating incident but given to tile the portraiture of character as it Is discovered in the more trivial domestic events and emotions it crItic criticizes ives mr fuller sir air Fred frederic pric and mr creme crane as writers wild who either cither in their style or their standpoint signs of european Europ eam influence it gives much attention and much praise to miss bliss wilkins Wil klos A hose traffic fragile narrative it follows through its direful course albeit it observes that her stories are old in temper and that thai an atmosphere mo mor sphere phere of soup and writer water pervades her books it traces mr frederics tragedy to the point up to which nothing could bo be better done conf and thence faithfully on it becomes on tho the whole photo the most disagreeable study we ever read although its as regards the central figure a masterpiece of psychology ch it finds it the strongest american novel of recent years and the most fully representative a groat novel though inconsistent in the presentment sent ment of the principal womans comans character but not a book that Is good reading tor for the average e ignorant young man or young woman it devotes two pages to bit mis atherton horton Al not only because she hns has been it success with some educated people but because she presents in a kind of caricature elc rica the same tendencies in american nature which other novelists indicate tit in pst a glowing colors mr allens allans choir invisible it describes describe as a beautiful work and commends its as u s real effort of the creative imagination and a real addition to the literature of its country it says saya of mr crane that hi he seen aeb what he sees flees not directly but am it were translated into print but it has good hopes of him because lie ling has talent and I 1 in still young tho the other books it regards regard 11 in a group but they help it to this conclusion altogether the school of american actually klaung existing I 1 IR a rich in widely availed range of interest it ta is I essentially conscientious in its workmanship man nhip and serious even inc I 1 in aim upon the whole a body of tit which Is in riot not marked out by tiny any commanding achievement but which by its high average of 0 power and vitality might do honor to any ago age arid any country I 1 the worth of rare books if a dibdin should ailse to con continos tinus the history of book salem salea which aich closed jn in 1817 ho he would give a high place to tile ashburnham library dispersion just concluded less la voluminous than the sunderland Bun derland or lj LI bit bil collections it contained u larger number than either of of exceedingly pre clous cious books |