Show I Wm lw J I I 4 ri I I I f I 1 I I I f 1 I J i I ie II I < I Prof St Oicorgc Mivarts first novel Castle ur Manor a story of English l 1 social life Is just published ami will I be received with especial Interest at this lime To become both a novelist and a heretic us 73 is i not given to every man II I ia I surmised Unit Cardinal I Cardi-nal Vnughan has already supplied himself him-self with an advance copy Vhat view I 1 HID I London Tablet takes of lIme 1 book I has not yet been announced but It is believed that the editor thinks Dr Mlvart a better roinunclsl than theologian theolo-gian S Itches of JJyron are snapped up HO eagerly that It Ia I surprising tu find more than half a dozen of them in a lump in a catalogue issued by a dealer In I curiosities I J here is a small I silver i powderbox bearing the poets cipher and coronet and a gold snake ring for a neckerchief A plain gold heart shaped locket no longer contains the miniature of fair lady while a gold and crystal I mlnlatur trame Is also empty Tin re Is a diamond shaped gold and crystal slide presumably Intended for a lock of the adored ones hair like uvise l si reliquary which has lost Ils relic Much grealer fs time living interest of a gold and black enamel heart huJled locket which contains1 within a crystal a small coiled lock of hair of one of the pets loves Within tho lower cover arc the lines Ilarth I holds no other I like lo thee Or if It doth In vain for me We are told that this Is apparently an unpublished couplet but purely By ronlc Then there I Is a gold wrist ilnop Is that some kind of bracelet set In pearls containing a lock of light brown hair whose asks the dealer pathetically These seven trinkets will cost the enthusiastic Byronlst who se cuics them a rule of f27 or soLondon Sphere S Pierre Loti has been undergoing severe se-vere disappoint monls during bin mar els in India What he searched for was the native picturesque and what he I has found was largely a poor imitation of Western schools of art wllh South Kensington methods landscape I land-scape gardening after the fashion of Versailles i I zoological I gardens that t might have been In Berlin native I bands playing Parisian music At last when a military parado Jn his honor was suggested he flatly rebelled and dei lined Many thanks monsieur but I did not come to India to see troops Truly we have enough of them In Europe Eu-rope Ho then seems tp have been better bet-ter understood and was allowed to prowl about listening lo the tomtom In the streets watching two old women wrangling over the price of some plantains plan-tains and really acquiring stock in trade In the way of local color S V S WHERE GENIUS THRIVES He started to write with a holder of red And a point that surely I was cold And his paper wns purplo and unclose instead in-stead 1 Of the foolscap paper pf old And his desk was a treasure from silver stamp cane To a pearllaid paperknife blade And ho I foot of his lamp was a I bronze lions fuco While a dragon encircled time shade lie started to writer but ho halted right there I JIo coUrted ihe muses In vain ills linger ploughed furrows through his pottlo hair I And a mountain accrued weighting his brain Desperate Indeed ho smotv Ihe I Inkstand And kicked the desk like a mule Ho swore that display had bridled his hand And luxury made him a fool So he picked up his hal and wont with a leap To ftc I shop that trades for your dime And he bought a cent pen and a pujer pad cheap To scribble his meter and rhyme I Then tip in a garret minus collar and coat He J started the llde to commence And hero on u tyblo he wrote end hu I wrolc He wrote anil he really wrote sense Chicago New I S S I Mr Justin McCarthy writes compassionately I compas-sionately in the North American Ho vlew about certain fulk whom he describes I de-scribes as Disappearing Authors lie means the authors who are not disparaged dis-paraged or underi d by any school of I clitics or Indeed by criticism of any kind but who were undoubtedly very popular at one time and whose popularity popu-larity Is I now unmistakably fading Mr McCarthy is delightfully readable on this prmilsing theme but we venture ven-ture to doubi the necessity for his solicitude soli-citude as to more than ono of the author au-thor he cites Take for example Charles Reade Some one whom Mr McCarthy assures us Is a good authority author-ity has staled that The Cloister and the Hearth would have a poor chance of a large circulation in cheap form just now Suppose this be granicd Docs II really point to the disappearance disappear-ance of Charles Ueade Alluding to Trollope whoso works contain so many admirable studies of English character Mr McCarthy obrervjs that several years before the novelists death his prices were falling off and adds Now I one seldom hears him talked of one hardly ever hears a citation from him I I In a newspaper or a magazine There I wo fear lies the secret of Mr Mc Carthys misapprehension Ho forgets that the periodical literature of the day Is by thin very nature of things obliged to give prominonce to conlem porarv writers And even If thIs were not the case It I does not follow that I ° The Cloister and the Hearth and White Lies or BurehCKler Towers and The Last Chronicle I of Dorset have disappeared because they arc not constantly mentioned In print I Some one Mr McCarthy 1 may be sure Is I always reading Trollope and Ueado to mention no others And some one we believe will always be reading them New York Tribune 55 I A minor mystery I of Hamlet I seems to be cleared up by a discovery which has Just been tnade at TCfelnorc Ihf i scene of the play An old document lum been found In the archives of that an Hnpt seaport setting forth the fact 1 that In 15K H wooden fence whkh had been put up in the year 13SJ by the r bur gomaslcr had been destroyed by a company of English actors The names of these actors are given and they include in-clude sonic whn nv known to have belonged be-longed to Shakespeares company The Franklurler Zcilung whence the information infor-mation comes polnlM I out thsit Shakespeare Shakes-peare shows a curiously exact knowledge knowl-edge of the local conditioiiH of thai little I lit-tle seaport The London Academy commenting on the discovery says The Elslnorc local color may not I seem very strung lo most of us but only those who are familiar with the I town can be Good Judges cither of Ils quantity or quality Horatios wordy I come back What If It tempi you toward the flood I j my lord Or to the dreadful summit ot the cliff That beetles oer his base Into the sea I i So also one lliinks of the lines I Save yourself my lord I The ocean overpocrlng of his Hat l Eats nol the flats wllh more linpcuioua basic Than young Laerte In a rlolous head O crhears your ollleerH It I should be noted that Shakespeares I choice of Elslnorc Is curious Tho older play which he worked up Into his own and which followed the legend placed the t drama In I J im mud Shakespeare arbllrary preference of Eislnore and his Irulhftil louches about that place are easily accounted for If we suppose that he consulted I some of his fellow players who were of the party that i I broke clown the hUIJomu lena fence There is good evidence Unit troupes of English actors did wander over western I rope at the lime necessary to establish estab-lish this Interesting theory In fact the Earl of Leicester sailed to the Low Countries In 1585 taking his players with him and four years later Shakespeare I Shakes-peare we know was of that company Many things remain unexplained but If the Elsinore document be genuine there Is ground for Interesting research II Philadelphia Press c U S I ADVICE TO LITERARY ASPIRANTS In submitting manuscript for publication publi-cation In a magazine the placing or the amhors full name and address at I the head of the first sheet and the Inclosing In-closing of return postage are universally univer-sally accepted by editors as sufUclently Indicating the fact that time article Is to I be paid for if it Is published or to her he-r < turn to the author If It Is not acceptable ac-ceptable Letters are usually sent with manuscripts but are really superfluous unless some opeclal explanation Is necessary nec-essary A price sjiould not be put upon a manuscript unless the t author has positively decided not to accept any smaller amount March Ladles Home Journal S S S Sir Edward Clarke M P I In a recent address at Ihe Robert Browning Hall Waleworih England took occasion to lament time decadence of literary Ideuls In England lie said ns reported in the Westminster Gazelle Onring the year jusl closed perhaps the l two most notable books were Swinburnes Rosa mund and Stalky Co by Ructyard Kipling the manuscript of the former ought to have been burned Instead I uC printed and the latter work was a spetlmen of the degrading i state lo which preseaitday llteiature has sunk There was only one remedy for ihla slat of affalrx and thai was a word of alvice lo parents nol to allow their children i to condescend to follow lltera line down lo the gutter by reading such publications but rather to keep the delightful works of a bygone day works which never died and which always al-ways brought their Intellectual reward re-ward S S c RARE BOOKS AND THEIR ENEMIES ENE-MIES An organization recently formed In Chicago has for Its object the placing of rare editions where they will bocn Joyed by book lovers In general The dicers of the society complain that the finest editions are kept under lock and key by private collectors the general I public reaping no benefit from their existence i The object of the Chicago organization organiza-tion Is commendable but the chief ob slaele to lib success will bei the booklovers book-lovers ihemselved Many persons who have a high regard fur books do not have time faintest Idea how to handle them Most persons when they select a new volume from a booksellers stand open time book at the tlllc page Instead of bending It gently back from the cent cen-t ci I and rendering the binding flexible Others who would perhaps be guilty of moistening the fingers lo turn pages do the equally reprehensible trick 01 turnIng turn-Ing the leaf from its surface Instead of from the edge ThrowIng Throw-Ing an open book lace downward down-ward Instead of inserting a bookmark book-mark ana replacing the volume on Its shelf Is also a common practice to the ruin of line bindings Then there is time reader who has the pencil habit and who must be eternally marking and underscoring passages and making I marginal comments to say nothing of thc Individual who turns down the corners cor-ners of leaves or who holds a voluirte so close to the I body that the lower edges are escalopcd as 1C done by machine ma-chine These unconscious enemies of books are not alone among the illiterate and the youthful but arc in many Instances from Lime ranks of Ihose who pride themselves on being bibliophiles and literary authorities In consequence 01 lie widespread lack of Information as to the proper method oC handling books It Is not probable that the owners of rare volumes will care to submli their Measures lo Indiscriminate Inspection The Chicago society should first endeavor en-deavor to educate readers In the art of laclng cure of books and then the raijt editions that are now kept under lock and key vlll be delivered more readily Into their hands Denver Republican Richard Carrel Is being translated Into German for innnediaio publication > In Berlin It Is I said to be all the rage i among the Americans and English In the Philippines anti according to the English papers in Hongkong Bombay and Calcutta it isfhaving a hV run In each place 01 I 1 EARLY JOURNALISM IN I ENGLAND Among ot Item examples of newspaper l ontCMjnibc In the days before telegraphs and railways had covered the countiy I Mr Colenmn tells how Murdo Young the proprietor of the old SLum in whose ofllic the veteran writer rose from readIng read-Ing boy lo Hiibedllor went to the nor niouM expense of engaging special relays re-lays of horses between Glasgow and London In order to obtain the earliest report of the Installation of Sir Robert I Peel us Lord Rector of Glasgow university I uni-versity The copy wns In this I way received and printed In a little over I twentyfour hours which wa about the equivalent i of two 1 hours of time present pres-ent age of wires huge stalls of compositors I com-positors and perfected printing presses London Morning Post H I Tho late Richard Hove > although Simple and sincere In his writing was somewhat of a poseur in his manner I especially when among strangers Thus he would sustain an hours conversation conversa-tion bent double with his chin in the palm of his hand and his eyes turned I upward like a cherub In Raphael I whom however III no other respect did he resemble re-semble A wellknown literary man of I New York relates that having never before met Mr Ilovey he invited the I poet to call upon him at his house The I day when it came proved to he a typically I typi-cally wintry one extremely cold and 1 with n heavy snowstorm falling unln J terruplcdly Fancy then the astonIsh 1 men I of IMP host when Mr Hovey appeared ap-peared clad In a creamcolored lop coat I and wearing a light straw hat 0 TIM hi WICK ii D COMPOSITOR Wljosooks wllh malice In his heart My I ChoIcest thoughts lo mutilate And pets the horxo behind the cart Amid thn foieeU io punctuate J ho bad compositor Who changes all time bright ideas Thai I I for weeks to write have vjnccl And Jumbles them and never sees fho iiolnt his carelessness has spoiled The rude compositor Who wickedly seeks to onuralt Into I my theme hIs feeble lore Wllh all the cunning of his craft AiHl then loaves out a Hue or more The sly compositor I And when the proof to l him la sent With all corrections noted plain Who Is utlll on mischief benl That lets the errors nil remain The mean compositor Oh hat t this 1 heartless llciul would wrllo A poem grand an essay ripe Id maim bin work 111 awful sight I Cuiild I but BM H I up lu t pe Thai base compositor Rochester Herald a o AN OPERA LIBRETTI REMINISCENCE REMINIS-CENCE It is about the books of time words nol lie music which has made a mesalli aimed with the words that I am to write says Andrew Lang in Ihe Forum Any man may write about t poetry especially If be Is himself a poet as almost eveiy body has been In fad everybody according ac-cording lo SalnleBeauve Moreover i myself have been time author of time fIrst acts of two libretti In clicum stauces so full of admonition that I venture to describe them I It 1 was not that 1 had any desire to shine in opera I did not knock at the stage doors nor pine to have my words Interpreter b > Hinging men and singing women The composer the manager came to me and Invited cooperation The composer vmni one of our most celebrated He asked for a libretti about King Arthur and Queen Gulneere Anxious io oblige I composed one act It opened with the Queen going amaylng She and her bower maidens chanted of course the mediaeval commonplaces of the season nightingales Mowers and so forth They mel Merlin at heart an unconverted heathen who was doing ancient British ritual see Mr FraVcrs I Golden Bough and was singing hymns To them enter Launcelot And here I pointed out to the composer that Launcelot must be riding no knight over walked a mile and when Launce lot had no horse he drove In a charretie a woodmans cart The composer would not Derinlt horses to commie on so con tiary to historical truth Launeelot was obliged lo pad the t weary hoof The act was Mulshed I sent il to the celebrated cele-brated composer he said that it was excellent and fiom that day to this I have never heard another word from him on the subject I daresay he has my MS somewhere |