Show I I iii r I 1 p t ¼ tc17 j i 11III77iI1l7i77Ti17fl71 I 4 I 3 I I t A new critical edition oC Shakespeare Shake-speare ig to appear edited by Prof 1 Mark H Uddell one of the editors of the New Globe Chauc i The text will he printed In Elizabethan orthography ¼ and will be based upon the first foljo I Marginal crossreferences similar to I those of the Oxford Bibles will supply sup-ply the information now furnished by I the Shakespeare concordance or dictionary L dic-tionary Prof Barrett Wendell of the English department at Harvard university hast has-t S written ATillerary History oC Amerl cpwhich will be published here and ti in England In the autumn 4 It i The former Queen of Hawaii Tjllitto fcalanJ has written a book with a title The Hawaiian Tradition of the Creation n i An English paper says that Sir George Trcvejyan Is editing the diary 1 of Lord Macau I > Among the treasures of the Bodleian library the Ave Maria calls attention to a copy of the Gospels which wag brought by SL Augustine to England and to a Greek and Latin parallel copy of St Matthews Gospel which was In the possession oC St Bede Another In teresting fact is thai the largest man uscript In the library one man could noL carry the smallest is a seventeenth century book of private prayer about one Inch square only written in short hand and strongly bound t 0 < j About three years ngo the first special spe-cial exhibition of executed exe-cuted entirely by womer was held fn London the guild of Women Binders S being formed in May IS9S A second exhibition of such work has since been held and tho work of the guild Is S found so artistic and satisfactory InS in-S every way that it Is attracting much attention It Is claimed that the women who take up the art of binding come I from a much higher class than do life men InLhe same proCession hence bringing to their chosen work greater i advantages education anjl training The work done by this guild oven In4 p its cheaper bindings Is all genuine handwork original designs beinp made for each book such designs unless expressly ex-pressly stated to the contrary appearing appear-ing on both covers The guild executes 5 exe-cutes all kinds of work from the simplest I sim-plest to the most elaborate and costly S It is saifl l5 that the women binders take a greater personal delight in their work than Is usually the case the bindings being done for the pleasure taken In J their artistic success the commercial l result being a secondary consldgratloh u a t > J A letter written by Carlyle In 1821 was sold in London a few weeks ago contained this characteristic passage pas-sage Literature is like money the appetite Increases by gratification The mines of literature too arc unwholesome I un-wholesome and dreary as the mines of l Potosi Yet from either there is no return and though little confident of S finding contentment happiness Is too proud a termI must work I believe I In those damp caverns till once the whole mind Is recast or the lamp of life has ceased to burn within 1t0I we S S i Here is Mrs Tennants discovery of S the true solution of the old puzzle why some women marry and others do not Two women were traveling together Both wero mlddlejagcd l and they t spoke it seemed of the second marriage one vas about tQ make So you haveS have-S made up your mind and its your second time too how different life falls out for people Here am I andS and-S never had a chance I wonder how itS it-S is And her friend said very slowly S in answer Well Its no the money < < S and its 1 no the looktf Its jist the G come hither in the eye S c AI EdmonJRostand has lately been receiving S 4 re-ceiving royalties on Cyrano de Ber S terac and IAlgloh averaging 500 S a night i s 111 Though JniJiJs BCenl third year I dI Jules Verne Is at iworic on a new book I po of travel S t > S 5 S S I Mr Gilbert Parkers new novel l 1 which has been announced for publication rI S publi-cation in the autumn bears the rather V unique title oC The Lane that has No I Turning The plot is laid in Quebec ii M a M t ilJprMaurus Jokai the celebrated I Hungarian novelist writes the Parl eorrespondeniNof the Author Is noW visiting Paris accompanied by hit young wife This is his tlt2It visit since 18G7 He has been warmly welcomed by his compatriots and the brethren of hip craft and tho Soelete des Gens de Let j tres has given o banquet his honorS < honor-S Although Mi Jokal numbers seventy I live years well counted he In quite out of the running an regards age beside I be-side the beaux vleillards who stillS still-S S hold honored places in the ranks of 1 S Parisian Writers M 10 Cormpn author au-thor of so many popular plays and father of the wellknown painter Is In I his 02nd year He is an asslduouu theatergoer and was lately in eviderqc at a dress rehearnl at the Theatre de la Kopublique burlly engaged In suPer int ° ndlng the revival of Tine Cause Celebrc the Joint production or MM S Adolphc dEnnery and E Cormon successfully suc-cessfully performed at the Amblgu theater a quarter of a century ago M dEnnery died In 1S99 aged SS years possessed of a fortune which amounted In round figures to about 1100000 MM t > i Aurelian chool and Paul Meurlcc S likewise leave M Jokai behind The nc former resumes his pen at Intervals In S dilatory virtuoso fashion His senior S M Paul MemIce still compares favorably fa-vorably In literary activity with a score of modern author He la an ardent dlaclple of Victor Hugo to boot and S recently presented to the NationalS National-S Library a collection oC over a1 thousand I thou-sand documcillH photographH etc S connected > witli the great French writer r and hIM family This collection willS will-S shortly be open to the public S j J v i + j5il Lit Li-t JIIMtln TUrrarthy Is thlnkhur nf writS writ-S I I ing a novel of Irish life as he knew it I in his youth I I i SI Co SAt I S-At the dinner of the Society of Authors Au-thors In London short time ago Anthony An-thony Hope made a speech in which he said that the society was prevented from doing Important work in the Ip I terests of5 Its members because ot Insufficient In-sufficient funds this was notably true with regard to their Increasing interests inter-ests in America where the society felt the need of maintaining a staff of agents I a S SMirk S-Mirk Twain does not enjoy traveling It seems that when asked about a recent re-cent voyage he replied I do it for the sake of my family If I had my way Id settle in one spot and never I move In fact I cant underotaijd how any writer can be persuaded to move of his own accord Old Bunvun was In I luck when they threw him Into prison If I had been in his place they never have got me out a o I S Following Julian Ralphs declarations regaicing the meagerness of hiy earnings earn-ings IUI her evidence of poor pay for some writers is found in the statement I that Stephen Cranes estate in Great I Britain has been valued tor probate at I SSCO grots with no personally Crane I was Iald i only 100 for ths English rights of his bestknown book The I Red Badge of Courage The question Is asked How is it that viltors of such undoubted talent as Ralph andS and-S Crane average up so poorly while sen siltlonallsls like Guy Boothby and Max Pembertoi go rolling about in wealth and dog carts The explanation is very simple the general run of readers read-ers like the poor stuff put out by the lastnamed writers and buy It in sufficient suf-ficient quantities to keep l the producers I in dog carts and other alleged badges of wealth gays the Buffalo Express Of course it Is deplorable but now Is it Lobe Lo-be remedied without making over the race and holl undertake tat ob JL I S According to a prediction of i the American Bookman made with refe renpe to Ihe Reign of Lav now S that the Historical novel has run its course for he I time being the next iwo I or three yeaiS wih wItness the vogue of thp religious novel a o What a wonderful old man Is Herbert I Her-bert Spencer Here ha has passed his eightieth birthday after a life of unremitting unre-mitting hard work against all forms of discouragement yet he is engaged in the final revision of his First Principles Princi-ples to meet so much of the vast volume vol-ume of criticism In the jvast forty years a3 he thinks ought to he met After his emancipation from tho stupendous labor S la-bor involved In Iompletin the Synthetic Syn-thetic Philosophy ho Is reported as regarding the revision of his earlier books as a holiday task 1 Co S S Though Stephen Crane is said to have jdied I poor he left books and manuscripts i that wilt In time be of considerable value Ills will hai lately bean probated I pro-bated in England Mr Cranes brother Mr William Howe Crane of Port Jer vhs N Y has been i named executor S S Mr Clodds memoir of Grant Allen I contains the following passage about his personal habits There was one curious thing about hlmh never I seemed to read Practically lie traveled without books Certainly he didnt own a dictionary In his sktlngroom at Antlbes there wia barely a book shelf and no sign of MUrature except the current cur-rent magazines und newspaper and perhaps the last new pasL Jl he did use a book of ref icne it was Frazers II Golden Hough or the pljra Fran calsc of Glllet and Magne This last I numcd was annottrtnJ ii l his small distinct dis-tinct hand and the notes ought to be invaluable for any new rdltion I have heard him say the I Ust I reading in i the world was the Continental Brad shaw and I have seen him sitting for long spells on a journoy South cn tirely captivated by the problems he found in Us pages lint if he could do I without books ho could not do vihout pictures bare valls froze the genial I current of his soul and jE would bring S with him ntitotynos of old masters nr send to London them to denoratelmig sittingroom After the plcni and the walks came the ta and many visitor S to his lnianywlnloVcd rojm will remember < re-member the naming sunsets beyond the Esterels sunsets so gorgeous that artists ar-tists declared they were too dramatic for the brush One of the things that charmed him was the vtew oC Corsica I occasionally visible at runsct he would then rush to his friends rooms and bc seoch them not to lose a night so rare and glorious Evening brought tne sociable so-ciable hour In the bite hall of the Cup 01 the round game of romps for chil dren In which h3 enthusiastically joined Or there would be a gathering Iin Grant Allens room wJien the ralk i would turn on every subject from the wickedness of ground rents to the mer its of the last now poet Tie commonplace common-place and the conventional seemed ro vanish in his company and we loved to follow him into an Ideal land where he l vividly pictured things not 113 they ale but as he hoped they might become u I The son of George Macdonald Mr Ronald Macdonald who recently made a promising start as a novelist has been a school teacher an actor and a playwright S S Dr > Conan Doyles views on criticism are quoted in a recent number oC M r AP the franklypersonal weekly paper pa-per edited by T P OConnor The creator of Sherlock Holmes nays I I want the boy critic he said the I hpy who will start a I story and then chuck it down and say Rol or who I I 1 will read a book straight through and cay Ripping Thats the person I I I want to criticise my work Its strange too he saId one day while I snatching a few minutes rest the I older I get the lcsn1 read and the I more I think As a child the book that appealed S ap-pealed to me most wan one of Charles RcadeH and curiously enough It Is the book I enjoy the moat now He i I talked of the way he w oje hIs storlis I I Xfa said Of courne know the end of I i my utory lieforo T becln it I dont S I S create characters and then allow them to work out their careers In their own way I always fix the end clearly be fore I begin to write > > II a 01 Hall Ca inc is having his usual luok In gratuitous advertising You say writes a representative of C Arthur Pearson Ltd In The London Academy Acad-emy that Mr Hall Caine received pSOO for the serial rights of his story The Eternal City Thin Is not correct cor-rect Tho sum we paid Mr Hall Caine for tho aerial rights alone is far In excess of this It Is darkly hinted in the English presr that Rome being disposed of as a subject for a novel Mr Cnlnen next book will deal with the Zolnesquc theme of drinkS drink-S S SCOTTS NOVELS So far as any man may bo said to invent I anything Walter Scott invented the historical novel His fiction drew upon life for characters and events which he colored and shaped and posed to serve the ends of a fancied scheme Historical personages had been used before his time an In those monstrous and and tedious fabln classified in the annals of notion as tilL herolcal romances Many Asian and African princes wondrously translated trans-lated figure In the illimitable pages of Gomberville Calprcnade and Scuderl the rival families of Granada after valiant service in the suppositions Spanish chronicles were made to amuse the vast leisure of the ladies f and gentlemen of LouIs XIVs court by the same authors But these authors I au-thors took liberties with the originals of their creations such as Scott never allowed himself He did not mind forcing a civilization in the hotbed of his fancy or transposing tho peculiarities peculiari-ties of ono epoch to another but he I kept n fairly good conscience as to personality and his historical characters charac-ters realize in reasonable measure tile Ideal tradition if not of veritable record rec-ord W D Howells in Harpers Ba zar O M S TOLSTOIS RUSSIA Tolstois Labor Cure sprang from the exigencies of his sItuationthe needs of a growing family and of that larger peasant family which required sympathetic and skilled leadership more than ever after the emancipation I It was and Is directed rather to the idle rich than to the ignorant poor and It in his preaching work has nearly always and eXclusively meant agricultural I labor breadwork as he called It later on we may rcmem ber that In his practice for the last forty years there has been a perfect l balance of mental and manual activity The period of his discovery of the Labor Cure which for him meant actually sharing time grinding toll of his field hands was the period In which he accomplished his largest and his finest imaginative pro ductions It was the tlme nlso when he carried out those quaint essays In anarchist schooling which are perhaps the most original contributions to practical pedugogy since Rousseau He admitted their failure afterward In My Confession the educational World has yet to learn their full value For a short time too he was occupied as a district magistrate he made studies stud-ies In scientific agriculture he was a model father and husband and an en I thusiastic sportsman Anna Kare I nina which was completely published pub-lished In 1S7G won him not only a very high place among Russian literary artists ar-tists but a seat among the worlds Immortals I Then came the shock of his conversion S conver-sion The artist so far from respect IngJiis laurels had choaen the moment of supreme honor as the occasion of most utter selfabasement i e in Russian Rus-sian eyes There were to be no more novels no more plays the master artist ar-tist had got religion Henceforth there would be nothing for him but the Gospel It Is difficult for us to realize the effect of My Confession on the educated class In Russia where praise was thus scorned and turned to naught because It Is difficult for us to realize a condition of society in which for that class rollglon lIds been so completely com-pletely starved and persccu led out of existence by the allied powors of state and church In the early eighties tho new nonconformist sects In Russia like the Stundlsts and Dukhobortsl were only just beginning to take the serious dimensions they have since reached No one thought of the possibility possi-bility of an effective religious revolt against the autocracy Tolstoi himself never put such an Idea into words Yet he was very much In earnest The J critics everywhere took him at his word and got the episode quite out of focus with the facts of the mans history his-tory and environment a iii 1 f MOUNT KAINIEB I Like autumn leaves the years may fall upon His brow from off the ancient tree of Time Yetwill he tower above the dust and grime Of Earth the first pink petals of the dawn That bloomed Into tho Mower of day tho S wan S And heilt tine moons first skyward climb He viewed In silent majesty sublime The fir proclaims him king the great seas P SAnd fawn And weave fair garlands at his fcQt each S stream S I Salutes with Hashing sword the wildest storm That beats against bus massive breast neer mrrs I The deep serenity of his white dream At night how Vaguely grim his awful form SS I S Highlooming In Goda wilderness of stars S Herbert Bashford In Alnslces Magazine 5 5 S 45 I Your camp follower like your courtier cour-tier is always more on his dignity S than the general or the king It is so In literature The artist who imitates Whistler Is more artistic than the master himself the student of style is a more captious stickler for what he believes to be the rules than the gratesL master of style For this reason I rea-son It Is doubly gratifying when an Imnortant nartlclnant In some literary movement comes forward to counteract the esoteric dicta of the small fry Thus Fiona Macleod Is one of the imitators imi-tators of the Celtic movement and one of Its most Important figures But in n recent essay on Celtic she says III am somewhat tired oC an epithet that in a certain association Is becoming becom-ing Jejune through use and misuse She mentions Home of the characteristics character-istics which in her opinion distinguish Celtic literature intimate national vision a swift emotion that Is sometimes some-times a spiritual ecstasy but sometimes some-times Is also ampere Intoxication the senses a peculiar sensitiveness to the beauty of what IB remote and solitary I and notes other elements which however how-ever we need not cite here For thc main point la not that Fiona Macleod gives us a more authoritative definition defini-tion than any of her followers It Is that she denounces their disposition to take Celtic too seriously undervaluing underval-uing or neglecting other things There Is no law set upon beauty she Bays It has no geography She does not hesitate to lint > Catullus and Theocri tus above Ballc Honeymouth and Oisln In shortFIbna Macleod has common senae the OIJD thing needed In the Celtic movement S u SHAKESPEARE WOULD SHUDDER A piomlnent Shakespearean lecturer Bays tho August Atlantic has playfully play-fully described Shakespeare recalled to earth making a tour ofrour beat theaters He pictures tho great dramatist dra-matist as charmed with all the perfect stage appliances delighted with our wonderful Improvement and viewing us with steadilyIncreasing respect and admiration and then the curtain rises and he listens to one of our modern pieces first with curiosity then astonishment aston-ishment and lastly with disgust until he ahudderlngly withdraws marveling that folks apparently so clever really possess no brains at all It would bo sen elos8 to Ignore the value of proper stage sotting of lights and costume and a genuine artistic background Shalceapeure we may surmise never lost sight of the Im S portance of costume and stage effect Ills methods called for an accurate mounting and costuming of every piece Hti delIghted In an artistic picture pic-ture for the eyes to dwell upon but he never lost sight of Us relative Importance Impor-tance It was first to the ears oC his audience that his drama was Intended to appeal and Its elocutionary renderIng render-Ing was a weighty consideration Indeed In-deed the Elizabethans laid great stress upon the art of elocution The audi onca of that ago was trained to comprehend com-prehend that which was written with tho voice for they read with the ear Instead of with the opcraglufcs Actors today speak with their hands and feet rather than with their voices whllo the spectators listen with their eyes There is so much to see that what they hear Is of small consequence conse-quence Contributors Club In the August I Au-gust Atlantic |