Show I I J So T 4 c iI i L7 42 t 1 j ijI Iii t t IiI 7t s JEJ i I ithL II I I > Hall Calnc Is said to have received j SCOPO for the serial rights of his new j I novel The Eternal City publication of which Is to begin In January Marie Gore lIIJs reported to have received a I check for S25000 In prepayment or royalties roy-alties on her new novel The blaster j Christian which Is announced fbr publication pub-lication next month Philadelphia I Press 4 0 JO O SIgnor dAnnunzio who has been mixIng mix-Ing politics with literature has met t with a serious setback in his political career and for a time at least will be obliged to confine himself to letters He has been defeated in Florence In his attempt at-tempt reenter the Italian Parliament Parlia-ment His failure Is ascribed In part to his audden abandonment of the Conservative Con-servative principles which he formerly I avowed and unexpected appearance under the colors of the Radicals Ga i Tolstois latest piece of work says the London Chronicle is an article oC some 10000 words on Patriotism and Government It will shortly be published I pub-lished in English by the Free Age Press of Maldon Essex the agency I which deals in England with all the new writings of Tolstoi We ard also 1 to have other booklets by him selected r from recent articles letters and Unpublished Unpub-lished material in the care of his English t I gUsh representative 3Ir Tchertkoff Tolstoi is now giving the finishing I touches to his volume The New Slav i ery1 which Is an examination of the of the wOIkers position f 1 I Tho lecture on Poes Rank as a I Writer which Prof W P Trent dq 1 10 rod in Richmond last March Is 1 prInted In the lust number of East und Vest Fairly notifying his readers i read-ers I am not a lover or devotee oC Poc at u11J personally prefer bdth I Cooper and Hawthorne Prof Trent gives it as his critical conviction that I Poe Is or all American authors up to Jl the present time with the possible QX ceptiou WkUman the one who has the best chance not merely of permanent perma-nent but of increasing fame He Is not of the supreme masters hels neither I n god nor a demigod nor a giant a I Shakespeare a Ijalzac ora Byron but j ho Is at Jeast a prince In the court of Fame and the bloom of immortality Is upon his llfls ji It was Rid r Haggards birthday the I other day and he is now only II He P began his literary career eighteen years ago with a book on Cetewayo and Lils I White NeIghbors and was famous four years later as the author of King Solomons Mines It may well he I hoped 1 that ho will live to give us many stories yet of a South Africa In which l th political l background shall be leas uncomfortable for English readers than that of some of his early tales Ills lut st book published lost month was a collection of tales called Black Heart and White Heart Mr Haggard who wan on Sir Thcophllus Shepstones slflff r helped 1 with his own hand to hoist the I BritIsh Hag at Pretoria In 1S77 HO It Is t Jlttlo wonder that he has felt strongly on this South African qucslloh il t 9 ii The circumstantial announcement that half a dozen millionaires Including Sir Oeorgo Nuwnes und Sir William j Ingrain havo furnished the money for 3rr Pearsons new dally paper the 15x ci jiresH turns out to be Incorrect says W L Alden In the Now York Times I Saturday Review None of the gentjo j men named l as proprietors or the Bf press has any connertfon with it Thi venture Is I Mr Pears n and although he writes that so far thr paper hue cost an Immense sum of rioiiuy there can be little doubt that he will reap a harvest from it Like the Daily tiiilT the Express nns had a large circulation 1 circula-tion from tho start I shall be curioiji to know to what extent the Kipling I stories which It la now publlHJilnjy r nave helped the circulation They ought jr to have doubled It If there Is any an predation of gool stories among the 1 newspaper reading public T Johan Broaboll bottcr JvTicnvn by his pseudonym Carl Etlar dlel recently Ills first novel A Smucglera Son was published in 115 and his last book appeared In 1SDO when ho was In his 4ih year Durng the sixty years of his authorship Cant Etlar piodticcd an Im njpiik number of historical romances jmys and short torJea In his choice ami treatment of subject he suggests Duinns pere lut there Is no slavish Imitation p Im-itation In all his works he was thoroughly thor-oughly Danish and much of his popularity popu-larity among his countrymen is undoubtedly un-doubtedly due to his strong national ntlnctt rhl tltfl1S especially in his stories dealing with JutlshjMJauant life by which It Is i believed > Ill will be longest long-est remembered in Danish literature e tt a Herbert Spencer whoso health IB J now mild to be excellent has been revising 1 his First Principles for the new odl l tlon to appear In the autumn His e changes however have been largely verbal The substance of the vork remains j re-mains practically unchanged I S I > 6 Gen J3adenPovelI the hero of Mofc kIng has decided to refuse the many publishers often made to him to write an account of the Mafeklng siege Tho reception now being given to reprints of his accounts of the Matabele and Ashantl war Indicates the eugerncBH I with which the public would take up a s fleW book by him but the General In h oChls military promotion and forthcoming honor of K C 13 feels that he should not Identify l hirnHelf with the crowd of war correspondents and < < amateur specialists I A REVISED VERSION They used to nine ° foino time ago A rather pjnlntlvu song Man winis lint lltllo hero below fr Nor wanta thut little long But nQwndnys tho ong IH eel With music to the rhyme Man vmniHsiK much UH he cnn get And wants Itall the time riL13a4 a Mr Solbcrg register of copyrights I j cO has Just issued the third bulletin of his I office entitled Copyright Enactments 17831900 This Is a very convenient I conspectus going back to the copyright resolution of the Colonial Congress May 2 17S3 which had been I anticipated as an injunction to the States to secure I copyright to authors and publishers by Connecticut wjth its act of January 17S3 Massachusetts followed suit on I I March 17th Maryland April 2JJrd etc I Rhode Island copied the Massachusetts act verbatim even to the preamble I l This collection embraces further the Presidential proclamations regarding international copyright I a a q In America says the London Out 1 l look tho harmless necessary publishers I pub-lishers render appears to be largely a woman This is a mistake There I are quite as many If not many more men readers The paragraph goes on In the jaunty fashion that English paragraphists like to assume In discussing dis-cussing American literary affairs a fashion by the way that helps to emphasize em-phasize t their blunders That Is to say American publishers write to you like this Our reader has just reported on and speaks very highly of it from a literary point of view though she doubts If the book would have avery a-very large sale As a matter of fact the feminine pronoun is practically never used In business of this kind As a rule publishers try to keep the I identity of their readers a secret from the authors of manuscripts voluntarily submitted In England says tho same writer ve know there Is still a I handful or so of men publishers readers read-ers left though In a certain house I which shall be nameless the rough reading Is understood to be done by the typewriter girl Probably women aro very fine Judges of fiction They know what they like and as the Hellenists public Is mainly a feminine one the British publisher might perhaps do worse than Invest in a few choice lady I readers If these remarks are founded on fact they may explain why so many Worthless books are issued from the English 8SN Y Tribune 4 o Q A lappi point was made by counsel in I defending a bookseller Bow street the other day In a case where an English En-glish translation of Che Hcptamcron was the cause of offense says a writer in the London Morning Post I Do you consider Tom Jones an improper book the police witness for the prosecution was asked 41 I do was his reply II Are you aware said the defendants defend-ants counsel that the novel in question ques-tion was written by a former chief magistrate of this courtS court-S Stephen Phillips the English poet has completed the first rough sketch of the metrical play he is writing for Richard Mansfield but he has rtot yet found a name for It 010 SOME COMMON MISQUOTATIONS Perhaps the commonest of all misquotations mis-quotations in the English language is the phrase to the manor born for the true form to the manner born Probably Prob-ably oven the speaker who quotes this Shakespearean phrase correctly will 1 find some quotations In the following list selected by the London Academy from a longer list In the Pall Mall Gazette Ga-zette which havo hitherto caused him to stumble The misquotations come first In this list then the correct rendering ren-dering Tho tongue Is an unruly member Bui the tongue can ro man tame It Is truly an unruly evil JaniQS 111 S Charily coVoreth a multitude of 8ins > Charity shall cover the multitude multi-tude of alns I Peter Iv S Rev Vcrs Loo covorcth a multitude sins sinsA lOA little knowledge Is a dangerous thlngtoA little learning Is a dangerous danger-ous thing Pope Essay on Criticism Criti-cism MIsquotors are hereby given notice that Pope wan a man of Intelligence Intelli-gence and did not write nonsense A man convinced against his will Will hold the same opinion sttllHc that complies against his will Is of his own opInIon still Butler Hudl bras part III Butler also was a manor man-or Intelligence Make assurance doubly sure Mafcc assurance double sure Mac beth Act V Sc I Benedict tho married man should be BunetllcU the married man Much Ado About Nothing Falleth ns the gentle dcwDIop path as the gentle rain Merchant of Venice Act IV Sc I 11 The man that hath no music Jn his soulThe man that hath no music in himself Ibid Act V Sc i Falls like Lucifer Never to rlso ugalnFnllB like Lucifer Never to hope again Henry VIII Act IlL Sc 11 v Thick as autumn leaves in Vallom brCJH1fhlclc as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks in Vnllombrosa Milton Paradise Lost Book I Fresh HeMs and pastures new Fresh woods and pastures new Milton Mil-ton Lycldas Just cause and Impediment Cnuse or Just Impediment Book of Common Prayer The even tenor of their ayThe noiseless tenor of their way Grays Elegy I ECONOMIZERS OF TIME Last week while riding In a crowded electric car In Philadelphia my attention atten-tion was drawn to a man evidently a Journalist who with a fountain pen was busily engaged In Jolting down Homo ideas on small pieces of paper laid on the top of his derby hat said IL literary man to the writer yesterday Ills novel method of working and his apparent unconcern for the noisy surroundings sur-roundings recalled to my mind the fact that genius has frequently had some remarkable workshops For Instance Robert Burns once wont galloping over a remote Scottish moor His horse on thai occasion was not much Iroublcd with tho guidance of the rider Burns was busy brooding over a glorious I theme His lyrical powers touched one of the highest points The result of his I journey i WM the Impassioned I national lyric 1 Scots Wha fIne WJ Wallace I Bled J S Mill penned lite Logic as I he walked from his house to his office and buck again Sir ilAiUievst Hale composed his Contemplations as he I rode on horseback about the country on his circuit journeys While traveling In the same fashion on his numerous and piolonged preach 1 ing tours John Wesley contrived to accomplish ac-complish a vast amount of literary work Byron composed the larger portion I por-tion of the Corsair In a London thoroughfare aa ho alked up and down I Albcmarlc sttcet between Grafton street and Piccadilly and states himself him-self thai he composed Lara not In the study but at the toilet table The Revolt of Islam took form In Shelley brain ae the poet apparently frittered I away summer hours lying In a small boat on the bosom of the Thames at Marlow Washington Star I a 0 Prof J Flcker of StIasburg has just discovered In German libraries and most of all strange tp sayIn the Vatican Vat-ican library Home the following hitherto hith-erto unknown works of Luther 1 Two commentaries on the epistle to the I Romans of the years 115151G 2 Two conies of a Latin version of Romans I which Luther had printed for the use of his student as he leolured in which I they could write notes beiween the lines and on the margin Gi Two Mss containing Luthers lectures on Romans I Ro-mans condensed from his commentaries I m commentar-ies he delivered these only once In the year 15151516 C4 Two commentaries on the epistle to tho Hebrcws like those on Romans He lectured on this I in 1517 These works coming out of the very formative years of Luther containing I taming many personal notices references refer-ences to current events and discussions shed much fresh light upon this somewhat some-what dark period of his life a 6 The Important announcement comes from England that Mr Hall Caines new j novel will be called The Eternal City 4 Miss Marie Corel who by the way greatly resembles Mr Caine and whose I work is just about as Important will also devote to Rome several chapters her forthcoming novel t The Master I Christian Stories of the fabulous prices received by these geniuses for I their new books have already been started in London DUrlhg the next few I months wo shall hear them echoed and reechoed v I 0 0 o AMERICAN OUTDOOR LITERATURE LITERA-TURE American outiloor literature has now reached a stage where for the first I time perhaps < It can be considered a wr0le and be viewed from a critical 0 standpoint Hitherto this has been 1m I I possible neither the quantity nor the J j variety of material being sufllclent to warrant ono In treating the subject In I u broad and general manner The English En-glish ou t10QI lileralure I I which preceded preced-ed the American was neither large In quantity nor Valuable In quality Prior to 1SOO there were comparatively speaking speak-ing but few contributions I do not forget or course the quaint little volume vol-ume The Eokc of St Albans written I writ-ten by Dame Juliana Berners near the close of the llfteenth century In which I the Trcalysse on Fysshlnge wyth an Angle throbs with a tIne enthusiasm and wherein L9 shown a keen appreciation apprecia-tion of the swelc savouie of the meede flouresj or the oftnuolod and much I reprinted observations lovable Izaak Walton These Iwo writers however were but oases In a wide extent barren bar-ren desert It was really not until the appearance of Whites Natural History of Sel borne that the soil of literature seemed to Droduce writers who were In sympathy sympa-thy with n tureA noticeable publication publi-cation was an octavo volume of some 300 pages entitled Country Rambles in England or the Journals a Naturalist Nat-uralist by rL Khapp a book more familiarly known as Knapps Journal Jour-nal and nubllshed In London In 18281 i Bishop Stanley A Familiar History1 of Birds which appeared about 1810 reached some six or seven editions bur is more to bo 1 prized for painstaking care oC its research than for any originality origi-nality of thought Essays on Natural History Chiefly Ornithological were issued In 1S52 under the signature of Charles Waterloo three volumes of moderate size following each other In quick succession Their contents were artificial and controversial In 1855 Charles Boner published In London a translation of Dr Hermann Masluss Studies from Nature a series of essays es-says bearing the Impress of deep thought Four years later A Tour Around My Garden by Alphonse Karr was translated from the French by Rev J G Wood of London In Its quaintness quaint-ness and individuality this work was far in advance the others The view of nature taken by these early writers however was purely from the standpoint stand-point of observation Their work was objective not subjective It was not entirely futile no honest work can be but It contained nothing to attract and it failed to appreciate the closeness which exists between humanity and nature na-ture It treated the latter as If It were something afar off and did practically nothing stimulate outdoor literature in the New World From the limited number of authors in the early period of American out door literature and the still more rc slrlcled circulation attained by their Works fllsJ pleasant to pass to the widespread wide-spread appreciation I bestowed today upon those who write of nature We HOW have magazines devoted exclusive ly to outdoor tonics Thorcaus books are issued in luxurious editions and we see the later writers enjoying popularity popu-larity and the practical results thereof Indeed the bibliography of current American outdoor literature would 111 a volume of no mean dimensions n |