Show tiotw 1 OJ + ei t a 4f rru r 2 w J p 1 1 I i taR I I I lr Z t-aR l 1 1 w GS V r ll Ii r Again the Academy of London remarks re-marks in the course of ah article on American publications that it Is most astonishing that Over there they seem to read nothing but fiction The best selling books America during the past month are rill novels The curious thing about this statement Is that not only do the best selling books in England for the same period of time belong to the same despised class of literature but that many of them I are of American origin In this fact possibly we find the Inspiration of the Academys complaint In the last few t months at least half a dozen American t novels have reached figures In Great Britain varying from forty to sixty a p d thousand apiece Nov York Times tiThe air ti-The SL Louis GlobeDemocrat hands Air Murlduun the following twister It P0lr says co In his new poem Mr Mark talk liam makes his hero buck the center of the universe tor a gain of ten yards and then leaves him trembling on the brink of things IS I Lord nalhmore has told a friend how I i ftv Ile once took Oulda In to dinner and tom mow disappointed he was to find that the novelist devoted herself to the I l dishes rather than to Intellectual refreshment i re-freshment He said at last in despair at having only been able to get Yes and No In answer to the different i C subjects he introduced Im afraid stir t Im singularly unfoi lunate In my choice of topics Is there anything we hlL could talk about to Interest you To lu which the chronicler of societys shortcomings t short-comings replied There is one thing rc which would Interest me very much lrss Tell me about the duchesses I have I stl written about them all my life and c never met one yet In her early day 1 Oulda was a governess In England and one of her pupils became Mrs r Herbert of Muckrosa L97 11 0 Mrs Humphrey Ward tells of the i r 1 chilling reception her uncle Matthew r Arnold gave to her literary efforts Elk His formula was this No Arnold cant can-t write a novel If Arnolds could I Should have written one myself The result if he had uled It might 1 not have been a success but It Is safe to bay that the book would have been uncommonly un-commonly entertaining I < i s Americans who remember Dlckenss t last visit to this country which occurred l oc-curred somewhere in the middle 60s aar will recall the Mr George Dolby who was his man of affairs and acted as a ILe buffer between Dickens and the public eta receiving J the fierce onset of the reporters tX re-porters and hysterical feminine admirers l ad-mirers In many cities Dolby shielded stir ihls patron from the mobblngs of the Eu impassioned public sacrificing bin coat and his cloak sometimes In the l I melee Dolby made fortune of something some-thing like 3000 In his capacity as Dlikenss manager and doubled the I pal burn through a book Charles Dickens IHS > tl r I-HS I Knew Him which he wrote after sir DIckcnss death But Mr Dolbv3 duties I cd du-ties Included that of Jollier as the r phrase goes now and the consumption > of many cocktails and other seductive y J American drinks He became a hopeless aUml hope-less drunkard and lost all his property prop-erty A short time ago he died In an IP infirmary wnqrc he had been supported Iii C sup-ported I for the past five years by the 7 alma of Dlckenss friends Many sto f j ICH are told of Dolbys good temper si L obligingness and devotion to his pa iron Edgar Fawcett tells one In which Dolby Is I aid to have become so o confused with his various duties and r perhaps something else that he sent miji this quaintly worded advcrlisrmeht to j several papers The reading will be comprised within two minutes and the audience c arc earnestly entreated to be seated a I tt ten hours before Its commencement I a7i a I Tin manorial to the lute William i p Black has resichcd that stage of completion I com-pletion Involved by the acceptance of ji 1 design It Is to bci a beacon In the i form of a atone tower and will bo setup set-up on Duart point In the Sound of lc Mull near Oban among the scenes lime novelist described so often In his books It will cost 5000 T e Bernard Stern In a icccnt issue of the Pesther Lloyd describes the Sultan of Turkeys literary tastes In his residence resi-dence there Isti translation office Here a crowd of oillcIiilK who speak and write all the languages of Europe and thor y tho-r asl arc constantly engaged and for their use all the political and Illustrated f ncu ip iptr of importance are procured X from which extracts are made and 1 translated for the Sultan There arc D liftmen superior translators called dragoman retl1ItJ In this ofllce and 1 f their pt S GIs from 10 to 10 Turkish pound monthly The tranplallona are not limited to political publications novels and romances in all language are also translated frtc the Sultan un l until nosy 5500 have found thclruay into In-to he ImpeiliiHIbrnry 9 iI A cast al query In The Academy about the authorship of a fairy tale j published twenty yearn ago produced I no IPSS than twelve lettera l from mature yi lentlira This suggested to the editor that the polite reading world is en 1 Jv Interested in fairy tales and In 1 thilftnias literature generally Why no Tho truth la that the old cafe = 1bi orlex are nufCirlng changes and the l1r publications of any Hemwn have a rustic IU vldcr I and more arlod audience thfin is I icy inmnionly assumed Uuxjey Ijkc Bla mf rrk was fond of a novel from Hmo to time Mr Kiplings Jungle Books might fairly be claislllrd au juvenilia c r hut an a matter of fact they uro road f1 with cellght by Jn0J111 of all agpa And r q t tn with fairy tale which we have par ti ularly in mind ut the inornept a f nursery public In not the only one to no considered The study of folklore e whIch Is commoner now than lL ever i r wan before has doubtless omeihlng1 td if do with the fact Mr Andrew fitmfr we 11 fancy would greet a new fairy mle 1 vlili us ml1 h iiihunlHsm ahr ouM i feel cm un oubtlttlud 1m ab about Irlnn liu i Pliiii iiln 1 llHhorlJ 1 I f r1 d r i P II 1 It Ut crease In adult sympathy for things oncelelegated with ndln 9rence to Rand R-and girls they bring out collections of fairytales with Introductions In which the erudition of the folklorist lies In wait for the curiosity of older readers I and they make the books far more luxurious lux-urious and boautlful than would be necessary ne-cessary If children alone were to see thel11N Y Tribune 1 0 THE WORD CADDIE To the query What is i the derivation of the word caddie says the Westminster West-minster Gazette Angus Dodd writes I as an auld Scot who has endeavored endeav-ored to understand his mothertongue as It Is written by Burns Scott Delta and Galt and before It was discovered and rendered Into bastard English by the Kullyard School and as it is still I spoken in the Braes of Angus and offers this explanation It Is one Of those words which we have from the French namely cadet I 1 Mock the Lalidfs brlther was the cadet the neerdo yell was the cadet the bearer of messages was the cadet and naturally the carrier of clubs came under the same designation I designa-tion We have many words from the French In Scotland the traditional I bawbee is but bas billon base metal Ave still serve up our glgot of mutton In I an ashet and an aumrle or armoire I stands in the corner of many a cottage to this day Indeed our correspondent believes that guld braid Scots Is likely to become be-come the language of the future An auld dame In Rotterdam of whom I spclrod1 the way bade me ga rcgt ult hltHgn recbt oot here ao that I fancied I was In Montrose s e Mr Stopford Brooke now professor of English literature at University college I col-lege London says of the poetry of tho day It only represents with the exception ex-ception of the work of a few men who are scarcely read the helpless wavering waver-ing of a class in society which has no clear ideas as to what it ought to do with Its life and none with regard to its future It takes up now ono subject sub-ject and now another and drops them without finishing them It tries sensu rallty and rebellion and mysticism and supernaturalism and Imperialism and spiritual religion and nature poetry and hospitals and crude coarseness and crime and sentimental love and pessimism and it composes hosts of little lit-tle lyrics I about nothing Everything by turns and nothing long It amuses itself it-self with duflicult metres and surprising surpris-ing rhymes and elaborated phrasing and painting In words and scientific tricks of versing It has no great matter mat-ter no line thinking and no profound passion and It Is the reverse of simple sim-ple And the world Is becoming tired of It and longs for the advent of youth originality joy hope and the resurrection resurrec-tion of vital Ideas la poetry U II INJUSTICES OF REMUNERATION A gifted young man who writes short utorles and novelettes Illustrating them with his owii hand said recently that the author I was very poorly paid in comparison with the Illustrator I J will get on an average he said 75 for a set of drawings three or four or five hi number to go with a short story of 5UOO words For the story Itself I wont get more than 10 or 50 Yet to dQ the drawings doesnt tithe over two I days while to do the story takes from two weeks to a month Who In fact can write more than one really good m1 ort story a mbnlh Nobody can Over In New York I know a number of clever fellows whose picturemaking for the magazines brings them In over 5000 a year Their pictures are dashed off In a hurry and while they arc clover they wont live and theyre not intended to live Other clever fellows will brood a month over a sonnet six months over a talc and theyll make barely enough to exist on Yet their work will perhaps live It hut 1 a square deal Philadelphia lleeord a I TO A POET WHO LIVUS IN THE PAST O 1 liclioGutherer why with servile breath Suck the lost music from tho lips of iJfitlj Then with the great sounds too familiar grown Rovolce ileail harmonics as they jwero Ihlno own Why rob the masters Mny we not today See fill they sang of Has love waned away I Has hope Has faith JInvo lowers forgot for-got ivi spring Hits the sky faded from tliu bluebirds I wing Grow > ogles lame Do lurks Mug out or I lute I Doth not Jlorco juminej drain the cup of noon Brlmmd with tho suns blood Is June robbed of wealth llath moccaslnfootid Twilight lost her stealth Still reaps tho Hainbow with her blush of lire I Daughter of Wonder abler of DeslreJ 1 Still sinks the Sun behind the western 1 I I slope i I Still 1 trail the heels of commerce a and hope Still Mlf ltislppl liold her continent awny I Still California winters inlmle tiny f SUM proud as Athena attiml the factory fed I New England towns where tell and learning learn-ing wnl HUM while the incUTmongcri haunt the ahlllh Fame crowns time Golden Gale nnd Pall ajidw i Still though the Past has perished stands till Now 1C thou IUdalnent her no poet thou Kiedcrlc Lawrence Knowles r Do you believe In the power of mind over matter asked the mystical man No answered the practical friend iII i-II belluvc In the power of matter over mind 1 have known t i dull Insensate tack hantmer by one swift rap on the thumb to make a mUTe vuy things that he had not thought of for years i Washington Star 1 1j j I The appearance of III paper on George Eliot In the Christmas number num-ber of Scrlbners magazine only serves to call attention to the singular eclipse thfct haM iome over this groat name Within a comparatively brief apace of time It IB l no exaggeration to say that twenty ycMirs ago her novels were rated equal or superior to those of Thack I evay and Dickens sand considerably Above those of Sir Waller Scott whose I I mltn gifts now once more seen I IPIV h trrp at that time somewhat tl d Ly v hit mty be called the rationalistic movement In fiction which pervaded the third quarter of the century cen-tury and of which George Eliot was the great protagonist In the SOs every review and magazine was full of her name It H ured on every commencement com-mencement programme If anything seemed onfldtnlly settled In 1SSO It I would seem to be that Marian Evans was entitled to a place among the Immortals = t Im-mortals without waiting for the tedious red tape of that unpleasant customs oillccr the devils advocate Then gradually grad-ually hut not slowly there came a tlme when It was Just a little old lone and provincial to quote or discuss George Eliot She was reserved for the prigs The magazines and literary reviews re-views forgot the existence of such a person and her novels have not been Included In the host of pretty and popular popu-lar editions which lly from the pass In swarms sometimes three or four for Scott and Thackeray or Dickons In a single season It Is not to he supposed that George Eliot Is no longer read but It Is not to be denied that for the time being sin has dropped out of sight Mr Bronells essay really comes with the force of novelty He attributes the swift decline of Interest In her work by the way to the predominance of the Intellect over HIP emotions In her writings writ-ings and very likely he is right It is another matter however to consider her example as he does a warning tot to-t psychological school for psychology psycholo-gy rightly considered t takes In the feelIngs feel-Ings and the will quite as much as the Intellect Out it Is quite true that while George Eliot surpassed all other novel lIsts l-ists of all countries in showing how people think the minutest workings of the machine there was a lack of the warm red blood that makes literature vital and lasting Springfield Republican I Republi-can 0 At the sale In New York Pity of the library of the late Thomas Jefferson McKee some notable pieces were obtained ob-tained Mr McKee held that early American literature would some day besought be-sought with the same avidity that early English iltcrature Is now Edgar Allan Al-lan Poe Is I represented bya complete set of his works In the first editions believed to be the only complete set ever gathered by a collector t Tamer lane of course Is famous in the annals an-nals of bibliomania Thfrc are but three known copies In existence and one of them that In the British museum mu-seum lacks the covers Mr MeKoes copy brought 2030 AI Anraal 1100 The Haven G10 0 This year has been a veritable anno santo for the London Weekly Rrglster calls attention to the fact that April saw the sixth centenary of Dante AII ghlerl and the first centenary of William Wil-liam Cow per on May 1st the second centenary of John Dryden was celebrated cele-brated August witnessed the six hundredth I hun-dredth anniversary of the death of I Guido Cavalcantl and the second hundredth hun-dredth of the birth of James Thomson and to complete the list last October the fifth centenary of the death of I Geoffrey Chaucer was observed with fitting honors In London III THE PUNGENT ELEMENT IN NOV I ELWRIT INC The terse remarks to be found In loss Fowlers books Concerning Isabel I Carnaby A Double Thread and The Farrlngdons have been collected in the Isabel Carnaby Birthday book He who would talk or write carnaby I writes some one reviewing the book In the London Academy must grasp Its simple canon whlclt Is this to Inc Ideas down Connect the Parthenon with tho pantry or love with lozenges or Shakespeare with boots and you are I safe I safeHeie are a few examples I It must be delightful to care for a I man so much that one would even wash ones face with yellow soap to please I him himi always pray that I may never outlive I out-live my Illusions or my front teeth though all else may fall me 1 Admiration Is like pUrl awfully stodging but you get hungry again almost al-most as soon as youve eaten It A good nose Is an abiding resting place for vanity You know that It will outlast your time and that age cannot wither nor custom stale its satisfactory proportions There must be something wrong with your back If God save the Queen does not send a thrill all down It You may change his haberdasher but you cannot change his nature The quality of mercy should not be measured out by teaspoonfuls in a medicine glass but should be sent round in a wateringcart by the County Council Theyve no sense men havent 0 The very best of them dont properly Icnow the difference between their souls and their stomachs and they fancy that they are awrestllng with their doubts when really it IH their dinners J that are aw resiling with them It Is the duty of all women to look I happy the married ones to show that they dont wish they werent married r 1 and the unmarried ones to show that I they dont wish they were I I mean to fall in love because everyone every-one does and I hate to be behindhand with things 6 THE SADEYED PORTO PORT-O we are the dolorous poelur And we are the singers of grief We ilngle rhymes of sorrow betimes Tho song of our joy la brief We dwell In queer Bohemia Of sorrow and care and sin Where never a ray from day to day Of sunshine enter in We write In a mournful measure We tell of our wrongs in verse Wo wallow In griefbeyond belief And once In a while we curse Wore given lo sighing mud crying And were writing the saddest stuff Till gentle readers stand aghast Unlct owing tIe till bluff For really now we nsvcr I Are nulio HO blUer or sore I Wo relish our throe square meals a day And hunger again for more AVVro liable too to temper Vhenevur Iho L world ROCS wrong But thin Is I slow and commonplace so 1 We keep It out of our song So were the saileyed poets And wo arc the wrl ors of rot Wo grind our fears and trouble and tears Wo lirjiiPHtly know them not We harrow the gontlo reader With sorrows beyond his ken Yet uillnt our food wo call It good rime some as the rest of men Life Now Library Books The following books will be placed upon the shelves of the Salt Lake Public I Pub-lic Library Monday morning December Decem-ber 10th 10thM1SCELLANEOUS M1SCELLANEOUS Addlson Clergy in American Lifo and Letters Bolas Tallent Senior Handbook of Photography In Colors Con way The Alps from End to End Flnck Songs and Song Writers Forsyth Thrilling Days In Army Lift > UfiHnnlerlgg Mctuphysical Astrology Johnston Karma Johnston Memory of Past Births Maeterlinck Wisdom and Dudtlny hel1TlomlH Henry Huxley Morley Oliver Cromwell Smith Colonial Days and Ways Stretch Prospecting Locating and Valuing Mines Yem1p1A Literary History of America Whiting Thu Spiritual Significance List of Officers of the United States I Army 177G1900 Otllflul II Catalogue Fine Arts Exhibit Ex-hibit United Status oj America Paris Exhibition of 1000 f FICTION Austen Jane Set of Novels with Memoirs Jlroughton Foes In Law < Crownlnshleld The Arphblshop + and the Lady Fowler Cuplda Garden I KingA Tame Surrender and Rays Tlfcrult 1 Mitchell Dr North and His Friends Stockton Bicycle of Cathay Stutphcn The Cardinals Rose Zangwlll The pant u of Elijah The 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