| Show 99 talib ZI 14 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 j I 1 i i I 1 I 1 tho the 05 discovery covery of american L n w writers it 1 I by the english proceeds ap apace a cc after ft tile lh discovery of 0 stephen crane earn cairn the discovery of george cable earni and I last week one ol of the weekly literary journals descove discovered red ina coolbroth I 1 wonder if miss coolbrith she used to sign align her name ida D coolbrith Is still remembered in america she mado made her first appearance in print outside ot of the california prem petg in the arly aly numbers ot of tho the galaxy magazine her poetry nver n ver attracted the attention that it deserved but now that she ahe has hag found an english arila who Is full of admiration for her perhaps she ts IS about to come into tho the honor that she deverges def dev erves mrs fr gertrude atherton Al herton has ini improved proved the occasion by writing a letter in aich which she asserts that new yolk and thu tho east generally dislikes all california writers and treats them with contempt until such time as they tire arc by the r anglish presa nhen now new york instantly grovels at their feet which things are arc plainly an allegory aU ceory and have more reference to mrs atherton and her work than to alsa coolbroth london correspondent N I 1 new ew york times thomas 11 calne one of the best khoan and mot most file writers produced by the ile of man an arrived t today pays baya a new york paper and it adds adda lie he begged reporters not to interview him but gave them EL a typewritten sta statement and printed matter containing about words about himself lie ile seemed to be a ser serious lour men man byln being tho the sort of EL a man he lg Is we w have no he doubt that half hajt caine C allne uttered a hearty manx cuss if t his eye lighted on that lie he would regard it as aa ribald profanity 0 misa helen hay elder daughter of the now new secretary or of state la Is about to publish a volume or oc poems in london under tinder tit the title of some verses incentive As an aji incentive to 1 tho 11 study of good literature lUcra turo the plan adopted in the new yolk public schools of the birthdays of distinguished american authors has hag much to commend it tire the celebration in cluda a brief sketch by the he teacher of the life and career of ohp th author and this Is followed by the readings of selections from some of his works wo we can imagine the joy and enthusiasm produced among a room full of third grade youngsters by a recital of tho the career of W D itanella for example ample and it la Is obvious that readings from the works of stephen crane would go tar far to estall establish among the children a taste for or high class literature richard harding 1 g daviss anniversary will or of course bo be a red lot letter er day and the works of arent I 1 in garland should produce a satisfactory is effect it if the alldren con can be prevented front from jumping out of the windows elitle v ahle the the readings are in progress th the new york plan is all air light fight even if it should bo be a little rough it at first upon the rising generation chicago chronicle A writer in the pall P I 1 mall magazine says aye that in the mida or of some of maca hayg interesting anecdotes lady holland mould tap on the table with irith her tan fan and say now macaulay wo we have had enough of this give us something else or to sydney smith sydney ring the boll bell ile he answered answered oh yes and shall chall I 1 sweep the elie room to lord Port portchester chester her frankness went even further 1 I am sorry to hear you ate aie going to publish a poem cant you suppress it it if her dinner table was vas too crowded she he instantly ga gae e her Imper imperious loust order luttrell make room it must be made mad he an answered sered for it does not exist I 1 tho list of literary americans now Ve residing siding abroad becomes so hat formidable when seriously considered Is it so eo utterly impossible for annerl americans americana to haver a literary center that all our great men must needs go to europe nui eui I 1 I 1 lindley murray set the fashion lie he was a new york man but lived in england on account of his health irving spent spell t twenty three years yeara abroad N 1 P willis mills waft as a 8 much lit in london as new york henry llen ry jamos james expatriated himself too long S ago 61 to to be be considered a real american and a nd bret harte seems to be on the way to the elie same end marlon marion crawford was born lit in italy and has lived there much of his life harold frederic out author hor of the damnation of theron ware Is a recent recruit to an american colony in london henry liar ilar land ot otherwise herise luska Is in london charles G leland of I 1 hang hana breffman and gypsy fame la Is in london and d so BO Is gertrude ache atherton erlon while hile blanche willis allus howard has token taken up her residence in germany and married a german of rank the st SL loun globed globe D democrat e C mt says TI the ie love iove of oc historical 1 neilon 10 n la S gayb just us t now so pronounced that a controversy li IR on concerning the educational value of novels d dealing uns with histories historical 1 periods at flo arft r st glance the d dispute iq seeing one sided for it Is ii impossible to doubt tile tho fact that the ordinary reader learns more history lit tory from novels than from textbooks text ext books books just as pitt used to say lie he learned more inore of his nations story at al the theater than at the university ver ity in a certain sense the ale plc luies drawn by tho the novelist no are truer to life titan than those painted by the historian for or the latter la 14 tit at every turn lum f tiered fettered e by documents and archives I 1 the lie former has an ideal in his hi mind aich which lie represents without concerning as to the historical accuracy after all if his history tory lei IM but AL table fable agreed upon as one has sold said t the he novelist Is in all probability nearer 1 light ight than the historian for lie he presents a tangible cha character lacter w ahli lul the a historian finds himself so e confused contused cont 0 n f used n by co contradictory n i r let 0 r y ev evidence 1 do n ce A aa 8 0 often r ten to be unzel n t t iad t 10 n make i a ace ii up p h his i m mind ini concerning his subject and thus point I 1 amest instead of a clear cut portrait pr presents e n is only tin an sh adadow ado w G george N meredith I 1 h ha I 1 locked away the M MS orge of a conff ng but still unpublished novel and there Is no probability of ito ita publication tor for many a day it Is called the journalist and it was thought possibly possible that two or three of its characters might be lied fled with certain eminent cral nent living pressmen hence ito by the author it was wa sabi bald of oliver wendall holmes that panic ome of hla big b bist st jokes were mail made at ties u ahn hell there was wan nobody to ap pre clato them save A chance listener lla tener one such auch fortunate listener quoted in tile the youths companion tells of it a reply which bieh she sitting in a street car heard ml holmes mako make tn in a complaining writer of little wit and less talent ive corked with all my heart on that book said the young man who had bec been n tr the doctor to 1 a long account ac fount of a recent collection of poetry N litah lie he lied had edited ive used my best taste und and judgment and research rea parch anil and I 1 feel confident that nobody calila could havo have lone dono the thing better or T more or e I 1 thoroughly than I 1 have and wh what at reward war L 1 I do I 1 get lla harsh cri licis res tor for my M y omission of oc a tow tew popular poeta pact and air d a paltry A hundred dollars echoed the autocrat of tho the breakfast table wearily why I 1 have written that book for 1000 im sure the collector of poetry with gratification but the listener turned to regard a passing debt her face should betray her 0 a benjamin kidd in T alq work on it the I 1 coto colonization n iz a lien of the tropic trop I 1 co 4 tho the attempt to acclimatize the the I 1 white i L man in the troit be to be bi it a blunder of the first magnitude t I 1 all bafurt the idea a arc r more mero idle and empty enterprises to failure excepting only the ins deportation of the african rac races under t th h institution n of slavery probably no ho other idea d pit which v aich has ila held the mind of our civilization during the last years yean has led to so much physical aad moral suffering BU feterl ng or has strewn the world with tho the wrecks of so many gl gj gantic enterprises how far have bave you traveled since you were in chicago three months ago to join gert gen merritt Merrl tt said a chicago rec rc orrt ord reporter it to mural HaJa tead you moan mean in miles yes in alles mlles over miles I 1 why did you KO go to tho philippines to write S A book and I 1 have done it I 1 the death of richard malcolm johnson comes to the south as aa a gentle and placid bereavement ile wit was S an old man when he began to write tho the Dukes borough tales talea indeed ho he bexan begen to write when mot mont writers lay down their pens tend and for more than twenty years this denind ellal en lal kindly bright old gentleman Kent leman has been turning out lr it resi amusing storia stori a of 0 georgia life he leaves behind him the plead ant anc aroma 0 of a kindly generous character ter and tho the memory of 0 it gentleman of the old school tie lie died at a ripe old ago age but hit lit going front from us will not obliterate the recollection of many a pleasant evening evenin ff party parly spent under the spell of 0 his quaint humor and delight fut characterizations memphis appeal A correspondent aska ug its in accents of despair to tell him why nearly every book bonk that iv 11 1 1 published nowadays 4 should be brought out in a a series we cannot tell it is a mystery but there are one on or two surmises Burm leea which might bo be made in the first place it la Is poll poa biblo that the modern modem series exists for the purpose of 0 giving the modern author a chance all the great themes have been tree treated t ed I 1 in n works by dead dad authors now classic if tho the poor author at the present day wa ala to treat ot of tho the history of rome he ta Is confronted by gibbon I 1 if f 11 ho 0 10 lonca n go to r relieve e I 1 le v his soul gout on the tha subject of sir walter scott scott he must eam pots with Lock lockhart bart i which aich 1 it absurd and so an on through an interminable list how ca can n he write a big book in such euch I 1 ances there aie somo some hear wretches who nak ask at this point why he bethe hethe the ambitious author in question should write any book at all but they have no tion lon and need not be b taken into account obviously our author must ila ahne e hla his fling and so ao a new serlest series Is 13 established the man who wants to I 1 celebrate dr johnson say aay and Is timid limit about bringing himself into direct comparison with boswell Bo swoll gets get himself ll made mada editor or 0 a series on eighteenth century Wort worthies bJes and a dozen other authors ulio mho never expected any such fate are called upon to help give a kind hind of 0 plausibility to hla his performance that is one explanation of tho the series then their thre th re Is another which looks to the modern modem rage for conden condensation new york tribune jerome K jerome in the second thoughts of an idle fellow tells of one way to suppress criticism 1 I was once drinking coffee ho he says with 8 novelist iz who he happened to be a broad shouldered athletic miln man A fol cl low member joining us a said to t the he novelist 1 I have just finished th that at I 1 last t book of yours I 1 ill 11 teu tell y you my v idad candid opinion of 0 it IL promptly du replied clit ind tho the novelist I 1 give you fair N warning arning if ac you do I 1 shall punch your head alas ala for 01 the candid critic if h ho be undersized authors always were cruel and vindictive critics humble and long suffering sir Alv alexander xander mackenzie Is said to be engaged lit in writing an aji opera on the subject of Dick enss cricket on tho the hearth inasmuch as goldmark quite lately produced a successful opera based on that storsand sto no two sue successful as operas have ever yet been wr written ten on the same subject mackenzie 1 Is obviously an unwise man sir henry irving hasi has also commissioned him to write the abe music for or hla his revival ot of richard II 11 a thankless task as english audience never listen to incidental dent it I 1 music at a play when the late prof henry drummond was gl ing a course of I 1 lectures on evolution in the lowell institute ho he overheard two women evidently much opposed to hla his views discussing them one of them said mary M va it what be says Is not true we can call 5 td it but it if it la Is true we must hush it up now new york tribune the rewards reward 5 of authorship are seldom subjected to so keen an analysis as that ot of an english Nir writer lter who recently gave a faithful account of 0 the pecuniary iary returns from the nine books ho he had published they were stories and biographies of H v good class well s boken of and even lilg highly lily praised by h honest 0 nest critics yet hero here Is tho the authors c conclusion of the whole matter matler since no 9 1 I have discontinued the steady at sally labor of book production 1 I 1 ind I 1 can make more on the strength of my press rot ices ces by b a couple COUPE c of weeks wot k over articles artick a w alch aich w will 1 I 0 be in the waste paper basket the day atter after they axe are published I 1 have given this egotistical survey ot or my literary performances in order to point a moral me r al had I 1 applied myself to addressing circulars with the same ceaseless diligence that I 1 did to book production I 1 bellevo believe I 1 should have hare made a better income by my pen I 1 dratted drafted tho the MS ot of my first novel nine times limes and none of 0 my books have been it fit I 1 ten ell out loss than four times I 1 estimate roughly speaking I 1 have scribed ascribed b between 0 e f four 0 and fly anve e rn million ill ion words in ret t the p r 0 0 s not t to 0 m mention e antion the hours ond and hours of thought reference and reading up conceive ahat hat wealth that me niini ans ui when applied to the raid paid find and practical purpose of addressing C circulars A descendant of boron ban munchausen the real not the fictitious huron Is now in new ark anet and Is trying irving to 10 restore big ancus ances lors ie for vu ve the book of trL travels vels bearing br iring that name was iva written by one and has haa damaged duna fed the elie name of Muncha lusen for off all time new tork rork tribune in the days when jane jana pyre was idely i cad men w m ere apt to lie bo cynical concerning the ell character or ot of rochester lochester I 1 its hero cereas reas women worshiped and built up their own ideals on that model it Is ir interesting to know that tin the character had an at least air wemyss reid says that this was waa tho caso case ile he was tile the brother of charlotte Char lollo Dr droutas ontas frie friend n d ellen Ni ninivey nisey and was it a west rid trip merchant who had all tho the unpolished force and dogged egotism which marked the yorkshire magnate in those thomp days charlotte mr fr reid adds Ideall idealized idealised rel him into 1 rochester oc hosLer and planted him in the gildt of circum ch curn ta tle bleg 4 0 ot f which his own omit life knew nothing ot joneli joeph hodman drake author of the american in e clean flag Is burled buried in ft a litlie out ut f the conie cemetery tery in mor hostile borough of the bronx the cemetery to la situated in the midst of a up of about an all acre in extent and 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