| Show I 1 f lv r 1 l UZA CT y li 11 1 1 aw J Z em C fir F 7 w ni f a 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 i 1 1 I 1 V r 1 al V I 1 M r ida I 1 r k 7 N tai 11 U 1 p f 4 1 M r a W f aft 5 1111 W Ls ww N t iv pw 1 01 r I 1 A V r 4 amli W aln N rl ki 1 ali al iz 17 W I 1 19 airo at tm 77 ig T 21 2 1 X I 1 ra 3 1 av I I 1 1411 wo I 1 74 7 4 W T tr r 0 4 I 1 e t e V I 1 U ft ir iw 11 v V I 1 I 1 M i k iv I 1 r I 1 1 P 1 I 1 g 11 kill JR M 0 I 1 n I 1 8 n gi ar 21 ji 11 I 1 L 11 t t 1 7 R R 1 IV A IN i 1 wa r 1 I 1 r I 1 I 1 1 vf A R jf I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 tit i ii 4 i M 1 I 1 tz I 1 alit ail lw V A k I 1 lc I 1 I 1 I 1 ir 1 it i II 11 1 N I 1 I 1 N P itt I 1 a n r 4 4 V V 7 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 Q tl I 1 il 4 1 1 A 6 0 o V MR kl I 1 t 11 FJ 0 ii ru N 13 0 t V I 1 r I 1 ae 7 1 K v I 1 j P I 1 av I 1 Z 3 k V I 1 I 1 I 1 r 1 k I 1 I 1 I 1 ir aw W F I 1 I 1 X rl F i 5 X I 1 I 1 W 1 ai V 1 a 1 ft A t I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 7 3 i J I 1 I 1 f 4 YA 0 ar W I 1 Z I 1 f rill r A W I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 1 I 1 C io I 1 1 r W au J 1 I 1 w I 1 I 1 OR r I 1 N I 1 n it NA W AN f 0 I 1 tl I 1 N I 1 maim gossip in a 46 recent lecture on arnold mr 0 17 IS russell quoted ahn in poet and nil essayist as saying to him blin in the last year of 0 ills his life I 1 people think I 1 carl teach style what stuff it nil is have something to say and say it na as clearly as you oan can that Is the secret ot of style cd I A new find and complete 1 1 le to edition of the works of 0 robert 0 ingersoll Is in press to be known as the dresden edition it I 1 t Is in twelve volumes illustrated with etchings half hair tones and photogravures the edition 0 will tie lip the only complete 0 and an L h 0 r one anil and Is prepared under the of 0 Inger family from his private notes manuscripts and other literary memoranda rt it was curious how many P persona dersons disliked thackeray IL 0 man who to toy icy thinking i i g endears himself lf to you on some part olevery of every page lio lie w rote oue one night I 1 was in ia the adelphi theater and went behind to see an old friend ot of inano in the company lie he presen presently t ly sald to me did you see who was in tho the house I 1 said do you mean thackeray lie said yes yea do you know that when he hat comes he h puts all of us outs out and wo we feet feel we cant do anything thin now lie he continued with dickens it Is exactly the reverse we re ece e him come in and lie he puts us all in a good cue instantly einsla T el Y 11 mr sidney in the athenaeum explains why the recent copy 0 of the first drat shakespeare folio just sold at auction brought uch such a large larg aprice price the book boob realized or double the price of 0 an ordinary cony of late years tile the fol folio 0 was entirely unknown knon un until it appeared in the auction room it having been in the possession of 0 a family in be ici u in for trial moie e t than h a a years i it t Is perfect as to tt text though the margins 0 of a few leaves were iero torti ton and it was probably bound 00 years ago it 14 this edition of shakespeare e in which ignatius Ignat lus donnelly round found the wonderful cryptogram which he elaimy proves that lord bacon wrote grotto the ine I 1 shakes perean clays 11 what are the trees saying as they id atah said the poet as he and the P practical rac trial man paused on the banks of a a river ve they are saying said the practical man that a savl sawmill mill in this section would pay big biff dividends then the poet said something about tho the music in the river that rippled at their feet yes said eald the practical man 1 I was just thinking that such a ine fine water power could turn enough mill wheels to grind all the corn of georgia to a a first class iL article of meal 1 I dont think said hold the poet that you and I 1 can pull together in know it sald said tile the practical man go eo im going to dinner where ar are you 3 ou going gains im going to wonder sald said the poet just how and here ill get my iny dinner mano atlanta constitution the failure of the christian in london has been attributed to tile ilia dislike of the british tor for anything of 0 a sacred nature upon the stage yet tet this hardly seems a true explanation for sir bin witson wilson barretts Par Var revival of the sign ot of the cross at the lyceum theater last month characterized in the westminster gazette as that ingenious mixture 1111 ure of martyrs and melodrama met a favorable even enthusiastic sia welcome nelcome A lady went into tit one of Cleveland 3 st leading book stores the other day says rays trie the plain dealer and said to 8 clerk 1 I want one 0 f mr kippings Kip lings books desm which one please really beany I 1 I 1 warn seem to have forgotten its iti title one of his prose works ma maam arrill no ilow how strange Lne I 1 cant kemem renn m ber its tor for a christmas girt gilt you know PoL poetry try you say yes ali ah now how I 1 raber its kippings Kip lings 3 barro barroom oln ballads I 1 the late mrs lynn linton left ift behind tier her some interesting reminiscences ot of her literary life alto which d derive rive value from her clever impressionist e portraits of 0 notable contemporaries she came caine in contact with george henry lewes george ellot eliot ThAc Thack kerny erity dickens and landor landon every sketch of this kind brings the reader closer to some of 0 the great i w of 0 the past and in lots this inseal instance ice the opinions expressed are delightfully rank frank the portrait of 0 mr lewes whose intellectual pliers mrs linton wati was not slow elow to appreciate la is by no means flattering battering natt ering and goes to prove what it has been bald till before that howa be was s far from being a pleasant alili ald lien alon to a social gather lug even when tharo was I 1 no young cr person present to blush fit at his extravagances lander asaju rig acin as ai lie he was as ad elied by his daughter as lie he called the author Is described as irascible and inconsiderate rash ja in speech and action and dogged in his resolve not to hear hear reason and not to see where lio lie bad been to blame but a nobler co liler finer more loyat loyal more lovine more lofty nature never took on itself human buman form than his lie ile was one oc at the most generous m rou mn n on oil arth earth c lewes thus described to lo mrs lynn linton the different en t manners la in which the two great no novelists would serve I a friend dickens would not give you a tai fai thing of money but he would take no end nd of trouble tor for you and aad would spare himself neither time tima to nor r fatigue ThaL keray would take two hours grumbling indecision and hesitation in writing a two line testimonial but he would put his bis hand band into his pocket und give elvo you a a of gold and bank notes if you wasted wanted them philadelphia phia p pi less ess one of 0 the few writers who have been indifferent to editorial revision was the late gcorge sail sal U lie ile cured that he did not care wh t was done with nith mi his copy after he had written it ile he had supplied an editor with nith an article and the editor asked him whether hether he would object to a few alterations alteration being made in it kalu eala biolo in reply 1 I have fulfilled my iny contract lit in deif deifying ying to lo you tile the required weight 0 of raw merit meat how you uok took ll it whether son roast it boll it hash it or mince il ali r neither care nor want to know clr rl r denson in an ingenious donjose ot of the gentle art ot of plagiarism sets forth some platitudes theft I 1 e declares is plagiarism pa critical theft Is not inconsistent tent with tn tile truest originality ile he cutca los t the cays cast of cit shakespeare who nho in his plays the motives olives iti he found in italian novels tit thin in Is tile the sort sort of plagiarism that obviously needs n no 0 defense it means simply th ill adoption on of a theme we fancy no dramatist of today Is ever blamed tor for tin nn lexing nexing a subject from a predecessor the l critics are applauding tyr lr stephen paolo slid and fran costal cesca takes from dante a subject ubi that dozens of writers rl have also borrowed borro Aved at different times but 1 it we ue do not lot nood need air bennona Ben sona observations on OIL this phase of the subject there is certainly occasion for ahat lie says about the sti le stealer let him this adviser tacitly urges go on oil stealing that Is to say let him avold avoid as he would tile the plague a soulless CEN imitation of 0 do 19 quincey tor for example but lt him also by all means profit by the wo its of that aliat literary craftsman as mu much c it and as often as sible it we alo ai e to make a fetich oc at originality I 1 what lot Is to become of that effect upon literature which every master of 0 style ts is supposed to exert there Is 1 ism and there Is plagiarism the writer with a conscience knows where tile difference lies and nd he Is none tile the worse it if sometimes a hint of some great writer ter steals into his vorst N y tribune latera Lt L tera and reminiscences ances of robert E B lep lee win be published party early in the spring gen lepa lees son capt it K E lee has been con working at tile the volume for several years ard has examined an immense mass masa of material letters journals family and government records etc and it is said that besides giving an intimate picture of gen lee the hook book will till throw 01 new light on art the conduct by the confederates of 0 the clo closing sinI campal campaign n of the civil war 0 walter pater whose polished and fa fayle of composition makes maes hint hini unique among authors N was as ns as precise in his a as in his lit t arary taste here Is a a of his sitting room at oxford yes ther there e were indeed rose leaves eaves a on n the tab table le set in a v wide ide open bowl of blue china and it was just possible to del detect e ct their taint faint swell smell the warm blue tone of tile room was waa the first impression impress lon one received on entering the stenciled walls the cush lors of 0 tile the chairs the table covers and the he curtains to the anu mullioned ned window that pi elected over the pave pavement alt all these were wera blue and whatever hat ever in the room was not blue seemed to be white or wood tn in its natural color or polished brass the books in their low neat case cage seemed all white fait or vellum above them an alto relief lu in plaster showed whlor in the corner a pure while hermes on a pedestal with tiny wings outspread heartless critic playwright I 1 suppose you so saw the premier performance of 0 f my comedy last night first nighter yes I 1 was kofl there alayu firlit ilow did you like the climax of the first a act e t t I 1 first nighter really I 1 tee that playwright too ban bad got there too late ell eli first nighter no went want away too soon catholic standard and times wentworth la 13 tin nn english author tit and critic who nho writes amusingly when t hen he chooses ile he told recently ly tho the trick played on him by a phonograph says sir mr sine it if by any malign in fluen riu ot of fate you ever become a alf ti ry pent geat dont buy a phonograph why because it you do you will I 1 indulge n in language unbecoming a man ard an author this is what happens yesterday esterday V I 1 bad a telegram from in an editor you know the way editors editors tele graph when ihen they want anything in a hurry send scrib SUM im words sentimental story tonight toni fht without tale fale As artinus mustard ward says in all the bright lexicon of youth there Is 14 no such word as fale still I 1 cant presume to to correct an editors spelling hed knock dolt down n my pt lees at anc 1 I thought id just reel oft off tills this gentl mental attry on my iny phonograph and let some one else hive have the d drudgery udgere of copying it outs out but lit l some idiot had left on art the machine a cylinder conte ining a song called our lodgers such a nice young ulan blan ilow how was I 1 to know that when jhc n the young person who edits me on tile the typewriter riler bro brought light me the first page of the story site looked at me suspiciously auspiciously chucked 1 a I use tho the word advisedly it down on my deik and haughtily ic this J Is how the story real real jle jie nerved himself by one supreme earott as he gabed into her eyes and taking her pretty hand in his said our lodgers such a nice young toung lion alan os as sung sune by bliss the vest rest was nos chaos here and there a word of 0 story and then extraneous ki about the young man lodger no we der the carl r I 1 no hae be anthi tir to lo 10 do with u ff tho hero he ic I 1 felt ashamed of him my myself s it As for the lodger mell eu tile the less laid build about him bim tile the better the phonograph may be a very charming instrument but bill it 11 wants knowing pie remarked that my friend the rv bilas hocking uses one but he gen generally orally gets his mite ife or daughter to copy out his bin work on a tipe riter tho the phonograph wont bo be a perfect instrument for literary people until the makers supply a select assortment sort ment ot of wives ives and do daughters ill or t to go with it then pit ill give div it another 0 r chance and not till then mr frank T B bullen tillen who Is undoubtedly a 0 forcible writer never never had nay any proper education he was waa it a poor boy and his youth was spent in toll asked to tc what louice foni ce he owed hla his power of writing tri ting he an answered sered the source of 0 my style as you are pleased to term i it Is ILA tile the bible I 1 beian began reading acal 11 ll ng that earlier than I 1 en can remember re lr I 1 am 43 years Cars 0 of age ace flecca Cn years of 0 which I 1 a spent pont at rea climbing up from rom cabin lioy boy to chief mate and I 1 have read the bubli through from cover to colver twenty five live times you cannot quota mo the first halt half of any verse but what I 1 will be able to g give I 1 ve you the second halt hait nothing h has a taken hold of 0 my 11 heair eat t and soul boul like the tt bible ht I 1 used us ed to preach in fix the upon open air and a n d some a a me 1 times limes then I 1 felt I 1 had oo no words ot my own I 1 we would u ILI ft whole chapter from I calah ajah or job or one of the I 1 gospels the bible and john bunyan have really formed my style hut but then theres we inspiration ot of tile the sea ea what colors in sky eky and water 1 rip ip your pen in those sell and you cant fall to be picturesque tur esque esquo and interesting cleveland here said set d a cleveland man who he has haa just rc returned turned from doston boston ahre I 1 r Is a neat little four corilla conundrum that is 13 the listen to it 11 what vital character la is thre in tho dublo 11 ho possesses no name w who lie a u death in diffee different nt form from any inflicted indicted before or since that time a portion 0 of whose shroud I 1 Js a in every e cry household and the cause 0 of whose death has been made famous is IOUs by a modern author eha ell ig 19 it too hard as a han dart daly used to say fay give it up an easy little thing like that pi haw well its lf lots wife ilfe sho she tin no name no one else met d death ath through being turned into a pillar ot of salt halt salt li Is in every household find and I 1 danad bellamy wrote As rote looking backward ackward 13 froni from cleveland plain dealer I 1 TUB ETERNITY OF ART secure the honey cell iho 1110 solders aub eb la is strong tsong theres nano aono can tell left it live long ions and long lone I 1 lor lammard hours or fleet may bring no norm harm to art unco once diw wrt ot forever sweet alfo I 1 ito holds it to her heart job john v anco cheney in tho the december atlantic KIPLING AND fitzgerald of the lovo love of pure beauty there Is singularly nine little in kipling in con compall part son fon with the force and breadth of oc his gri genius lug rays 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