Show t I 1 at W Alf lh I 1 I 1 ry F p 11 1 ag k 4 r I 1 1 10 I 1 tai g I 1 I 1 i i t I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 if I 1 1 I ta I 1 11 1 1 V lr L r I 1 ta the demand on public libraries at present to la for or bork ork on territorial ex ei parisian pan slon our new possessions new races under the american etc capt mahana 31 a ban a In influence fluen cc of 0 sen sea power la is sel seldom doria le left f t on the shelf the long lone debated question of turo and tile dementia life for or woman worna n la Is pleasantly referred red to by mrs julia word wiford ilowe in the first installment of her reminiscences when I 1 hod bad published my mir first drat literary venture u sho e nays hays undo john showed me tit in P A newspaper a favorable notice of my work saying savins this is my kill alio s ito knows knowe about books and writes an article and has it printed but I 1 that she pho know knew more about housekeeping in a sentiment which alch in after years I 1 had occasion to echo with fervor tho th conversion of a novel into ma a magic lantern show ta Is certainly a queer use uee of fiction but such la Is the u a to which watch hush hugh wynne has hag come with the per permission salon of the publishers an baet eastern ermi firm his haa mado made slides of the pictures lo in this tha text of time the story and from photographs sketches sketch and drawings from scenes in old philadelphia delphia and vicinity has produced ft a complete pet of MCL malc gic views which perfectly illustrate the novel front from beginning ito co end it 19 supposed eur posed of course that the company furnishes with its ita slid and lantern nn explanatory lecture and on an evenings literary entertainment la Is thus easily and quickly provided r ov 1 d by any one aho lie can intelli ed go cantly n pt i Y read r aloud caloud and find an assistant to juggle Juff fite the slides ell ijes taking up the suggestion that a I 1 school of mellon fiction be established an english writer the rev anthony C deane has produced some verses versea on the various prope itten find and lay JAY figures in such a school ahre li a part pan of the song bons of hodge oh I 1 bo be vun of the tha useful 0 0 rustic volk I 1 be and arlun g cn elmon du tho the d doln ole mm 0 such as we I 1 dont donl killow mooch a 0 corlino wor plants I 1 cant tell loes ow from grovels tro wela vels but ear car rno rao mix mn ma consultants an all monclo hap hit LII ma hovels vo vels 1 it I talks in a wun dialect that vow cm can tl ria I 1 expect alth IN till a dash 0 the oll brand Boroo ilmet ell a bloomin floar ot of speech I 1 bichis from cockney cochley apo si poti 9 anu and v hen truths I 1 teach arn ma nc hl gido scots e a a wordsworth was a terror to his friends his pull was pen iren leel teel but very ery dexterous lie he could flash a MS on you beare you could gay aay good morning morn lne ho read all of the excursion to lamb and hazlitt one once 0 wrote to coleridge 1 1 tried to escape wordsworth because I 1 knew he had a new poem still him but ho he finally cornered me in yesterdays with authors james T fields innocently tolls tells ho gra clouspy read aloud to 10 hire a poem seemingly not anre thit that wordsworth was almaa lying in wall alt for his prey capt Sitf bee says in hta big century or ar licit that hal his orderly dedret enter the tha cabin of the maine directly after the ni slon und and rp rt alth tt lah a formal torr nil B s ur the odthe chip that a good story but it true report was alde ft till a great deall deal of 0 informality as the orderly cordei ly ran a nit it ills ohm comman ding LUn in A 4 do da it passage leading forward forgard through ui lh lb superstructure the career st f Ih the cheap chel novel during tie he last twenty ove five years as aa recounted y mr john elderkin Is worth atten uon lion the seaside library as many people will remember beiran the publication of 0 good novels in paper dam covers magazine size and generally deiy bad print then the harpers took look it up and issued the life franklin square libraty publishing scott dickens george eliot and other standard authors in pamphlets of at the same shape but bul excellent print and P caper per thac sold from 10 to 25 cents and ronny ronn reudel s of 0 eager appetite appetito e for or bi As aks but limited tn coin began to 1 1 that abat they really might have a library it may he DB said without any acry it al fallen that harpers Harp tirs and scribners Liga and tha franklin square it try ry did more to roles balc thy the edged thoi jl it average in this country from 1375 to than all the col colles colless legos s universo ar alc and special training schools put they with the country acid ny have made it possible for or the children of the farmer and the mechanic mec hanle to know lhing ot of literature tie art t and science the franklin square library nai followed by other libraries of paper novels and se be have now the greatest reading public which has ha ever I 1 existed in the history ot of the world L it Is said bald that no account of bigi marchb dismissal from win will be found in its ills forthcoming autobiography hy that such buch an account Is in existence isto pee we ue are riven to und understand it estand but I 1 it 1 a in the bands of 0 the princes eldest son bon sho nho will not no at present permit its i publication some day no doubt it will see the tight 0 rider haggard seems to be going 0 oft IT on tangents of lute late ills ilia last book was waa about farming tarm lne imd and he bits baa now written a story on the vaccination question why cannot mr hazard haggard ko go back bach to africa and make his hi readers happy he might try australia if africa Is worn out sm london telegraph although Alt houch sidney cooper hit has attained the great ake fre of I 1 ninety five ho be Is still tour four years behind the old master titian who lived until ho was ninety nine it Is to recall the fact that sir mr cooper and mr me watts exhibited in the royal academy of 1837 the first year of the present rel reign agn with regard to painters ages abes note should be taken that many of the old masters lived to oil an advanced age for example the th following may le be quoted quok ri michael angelo 89 hals SO bems 51 1 Ten tellers lers 80 morales 80 Gret ize M 0 78 snyder 73 79 Tle polo 7 77 mantegna Mint egna 75 76 van der heyden 75 vern t 75 73 van I 1 i tie de velde 71 74 lo coussin 72 mabuse 71 de keneer eyer 71 kaleya 70 TO 70 dolca 70 there tire are of c course many others and there can be no doubt I 1 I 1 that the generality pener allty of satiate a axe are a 1 long lived race A cynical writer in the tha SL bt louis glob democrat discusses the disease 0 of he describes mus san ln unnatural gluttony for r reading e matter the effect la Is to call into ex et Is telico a class clai of 0 Ilter aters men stra from various professions and shipwrecked upon thu tho outer rocks I 1 which edge the journalistic shore the if neer e er do ik alls in medicine jmj jurisprudence art jt music ny ay and the tha knowledge of 0 like divine those plucked by examinations or pente nt in the open practice of 0 their profession spread thu tho crumbs of theler ji i 01 before a titi it 1 rat infected bosia old ev by a more mora fj 41 lema le skillfully concocted nostrum noat I 1 al la in ma a thin literary they witte ll 11 palan B of the unknowing inz their it I 1 rr B a are superficial but tie BO dressed decad dr cad and served nerved as to tool this the antle relder reader into the belief that he la in upon son bonc Is alca for or a physical moral or a social ill III anarchism Is pretty free arcely I 1 y fringed w walh I 1 ill these llie Itte raten and I 1 the ho good tine tina bolting hla his quota of 0 bralo alunni lufi would be horrified borr ined to know the actual of 0 the souls bout who lafeld his bl opinion a me it WM was the tr truest t art ot of friendship that existed between the luthor author of 0 alice ln in wonderland and the life little people for sham nhom he wrol arn 1 it I 1 ahr ha t children love th hi br DP in n w tp tc is in a private itt liaf I tt I 1 thought to lui I 1 11 11 I 1 lava I 1 I 1 value tho the sympathy of 0 those who como come with w th a child a hart h art to what I 1 have tried to write about a childs thoughts next to what conversing converst nR with an angel might be for it Is hird i to imagine it otnes I 1 think tho the illga or 0 hing having a real childs thought h 11 uttered to one I 1 have known some same few real children chave you have too I 1 am suie and their obits Is H IL blem blaya 3 ing land im a help in lire life sm byrona byron la IS about to marry grandson cabout the bridegroom Is the iho hon neville lytton youngest ron of 0 tho the blytton lato late lord lytton I 1 owen me c d 24 and the bride Is alsa it I 1 s judith dl blunt nl th tho only daughter ot of mr air wilfrid dexwell djuna the london outlook mentions s hat halt it colls calls a dramatic of the unity stitch at present exists between england and alae le unitt d states two of 0 the iho most notable contributors to tho the history ot of the navy which mr lourd clowen Is editing are capt mahan tind and mr theodoro theodore roosevelt thi the former we all know as aa no doubt the first waller of 0 the lie day on con naval subjects simile the he latter has haa ju jut t been elected governor of new york state slate licit hut to emphasize bof the lie point which Is 19 being made the next now nearly ready ot of tile history will largely deal with the struggle between ourselves anu and tho the 1 united states when the latter won her independence thus thua we have two LINO no na tlona lions sitting down dovin in amity and writ iny ng a 0 story in which they were the principals well vell what could be better only its all very instructive hull halt cano caine expects expect to receive for ills hta new mm noel oel the drunkard a larger palen pi ice than has ever before been paid for far n a work ot of fiction the and american rights to the christian Chrls Uan it may bo be remembered netted him 0 not long lone a af pro on an anxious mother who was Impress impressed cd by the educationist and who had there therefore kept her youthful ful sea and daughter fi from am any knowledge know ledio of certain stock subjects of old fash toned juveniles sent them out to PI play IY in gramercy Gramc rcy paik near which she had lately bought a house they came bick back at noon ajl ail aglow with enthusiasm on yen yea they had had auh a good time limy they had met some nome other children and had learned some bome splendid new acl wei hat bat did you play naked limited the sympathetic mother ol of her small son copo cope and burglars Bure lajB was as the eager answer ansbe r and what did you play she damand cd of tier her sweet faced little girl shooks spooks on ruid it witches so wags waca the horld orld and DO be la 19 nature always giving a blow to art the bookman sir mr ruskin is said d to derive an aji in come ot of 2000 it A year from his sixty acir books and amil mr air although lie he revises more than lie he sm tt riles makua makes per annum by hla his poems criterion new york men of 0 letters find and artists who visit paris in 1300 1900 will find that french con contreres confreres freres have gone cone out of their way to give the iho llo lie to the old cou contention that writers aud and rs are an irritable and in hospital folk foil mainly through the th exert c x sections lolis of BI georrea dols it a young playwright and andre The urlet the veteran a malson don doa armistea artistes Arti stes has haa been founded it n nah fit be a sol abil L of at club in which every artist no matter what hla his bratich branch ot of art may bo be will be welcome I 1 in a recent article by it charl charls s te lo gras ton ion the pr present feht school a 0 anglish women of letters he severely the fondness of english novelists for furnishing tf if not weed indeed Blumn StUff lug ff their books with scraps of hla his own language why he asks write walto sallo aminger a instead of dirilma room HP he might bf be reminded that the fair ring novelist now islas ans less ices often in this thir direction than she did in the middle of the th century M legras does docs not seem to care very much for english fiction and quotes tile remark of ft a parisian that it Is enough to put on the cover of a romance Thin translated slated from the eng Ens I 1 ish llah to kill the sale I 1 A chicago press dispatch states that unless claimed and removed by its owners within a short time alm the old undo tonis tomb cabin this the home borne at one tins time or of harriet beecher stowe s immortal trier tal hero which has been standing a al t tho the north end of libby prison grounds slam the worlds fair will be sold to the llight t bidder or othe disposed of th cabin was brought north at the time of the worlds fair from the lower tied hed river country tn in texas it did not prove a great at tra clinn but its owners mad no attempt to take toh it at all the eton elon of the fair 0 conquerors the black troops in cuba round tile the wide aldo earth from the rel field your valor has won HOD blo blown wn with tho the breath af of tho the fax far speak ing inc gun goeb cues the iha word ord bravely you spoke through the battle c cloud loud heavy and dun tossed though the iho speech toward tho the mist hidden sun inn tho the world eard 1 hall woula have bavo from you seeking it fresh from the froy fray grim with tho the dust of tho the battlo battle and cray I 1 from tho the facht heaven would have have crowned you with crowns not of lefold cold but of buy bay owning you nt fit tor far the to glory and peace of her day r fisit mull of night might far through the cycle of years year and of ue that shall come there shall speak voices long muffled a ond nd dumb out of fear anil the noises of trade end and the turbulent huni hum truth shall rise over the iho militant drum loud joud J oud and clear clar then on tho the cheek of at the th honester ho hom neater natt nation lami that 9 4 browe all for t their 1 lovo 4 of Y you not at for your boes oca there shall lie ilo tears that shall chall bo be to your souls as tho the do dow to the roue afterward thanks that the present let knows know not to VY ply I 1 paul L laurence a urence bunbar unbar in the tha bookman literature atura in now new yorks yok ghetto Gl ietto it in a fair question n bother the artists ot of tho the ghetto it 1 allowed to delop belov spontaneously uly would produce any really great works ot of art unfortunately tuna tely it la 19 one that can never too be ans on all sides american lui lie 1 ly pr eEsIng in on them in every corner children are coming under tile the spell 0 of lt ft grou ouia jd warl iid d glamour clamour sl amour it la Is morris ties adago of fame among his ard people Q that he was discolored by a harvard professor and ha has 2 read big hi poems before tile tho leading literary nun imn of J nw new york even the Itin guaRe ile ht uses use la Is affected by the outlying edloni till mr W it II howells 1 11 ho 8 speaks a V arry y highly of n the poems tolis tells ini ier that a t many of tile the words were plain english A resident of the Ab abrahamn Abra hajn C cac lian ha 1 written im of life in new ew york tot foi american arid and tins IMS published tuo tao successful books in III describing the influence c of 1 if american tire he told me of a mother r who said 1 I dont spi pak alt english b but ut I 1 shrill soon learn there ther pa e pointing IA is to her son on that Is 1 my to teacher iho children mostly go 10 to the public schools and except in I 1 their homm havo have discarded dl carded the yiddish language 1 I ilk I 1 I 1 to 0 talk it about tit old country it a T yiddish ddll mother her said to mf me one P earn v ing tit at the windsor and tome doy day ni I 1 think I 1 eo back but my iny chialdi on make I 1 ru tun n of 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