Show 4Z P fl A 1 L QwEyc T I I flIl1 I cAElL si 1 P1jI 1 ji I h jI I I I 1 I I Lii 734 A A complete catalogue of books In the I British museum Is nearly ready for publication Nineteen years have been I spent In preparing It I S I Afcter many years of successful novel writing Mrs L T Meade Is collaborating collaborat-ing with Robert Eustace and tlvjlr joint pens have produced The Gold Star Linc which has Just been published pub-lished Jn this country by the New Amsterdam Am-sterdam Book company a Somebody writing for the Chicago Tinleslierald has been exercising his I ingenuity Upon the names oC various authors and has produced the following follow-ing list Tho most cheerful author Is Samuel I Smiles Tho Noisiest Author Howclla Tho Tallest Aulh Longfellow The Most Flowery Author Hawthorne 4 Haw-thorne Tho Most Religious AuthorPope The Most Amusing AuthorThomas Tided The Happiest AuthorGay The Most Fiery Author Burns The Most Talkative Author Chatter tonThe Most Distressed Author Aken side I a g Louise Michel has completed her me nlrs > anil they will soon be published I In London probably In two volumes SIn S In his recentlypublished memoirs Edmond de Amlcls describes a visit he paid to Jules Verne who showed him a bookcase containing a complete collec lion of his books eighty In all l besides translations ot many oC them into most European languages as well as Arabic I and Japanese And yet said Verne I I owe my prosperity not to these I books but to the dramatization oC some of them I S I < HE LOVES ME NOT I2 I hato a woman who writes a book practices medicine or delivers a lecture I bath tho prominent woman Max ORell r S Though t navo tolled I dreamed until today to-day Lifo was a sea oC love which surged my i way SAnd S-And I have taken labor to my breast Though In my heart sweet Joy has made q Its nest Bii But now my books look down like grinning i grin-ning elves rts And mock mo from their places on the b shelves raU I Accusing emblems of an awful fate ie Why should I live whom Max ORell can c bate S 1n Oh sister womon scattered through the L E land Women who toll with brain or heart or hand 2 Come let us find companionship In Brief ManofrMuchTalk the mighty mongrel E I JllnoffMuchTal1e Of Latin blood and Irish name and gold American Alas Has ho not told I Tho curious listening world ho loves us not S Oh blUer toll whoso end such woe hath wrought S t S Tho all mankind beside himself approve Of what avails it if we lose his LOVE Would ParadIse Itself not seem a hell Ills To wretched woman scorned by Max S OBoll S f FUnS down fling down tho laurel and tho bny at Sadder to us than cypress leaves arc they Since in each hardearned trophy of 3n achievement There lies the witness of oUr vast be S rcavemcntl dc Oh to do nothing nothing My heart thrllls S With envy attho thoughtof imbeciles Ier3 I II Who sit In Bafo retreats outside the ban rrlP Of mighty Max OTtcll tho MuchTalk Man m e Life youwguldfcach us wisdom in your schools Go togo to alnco Max prefers us fools N Y Journal w Sill S-ill A sorclytriod reviewer in the London lu Lon-don Athenaeum hints grimly that S something ought to be done to the gentlemen gen-tlemen who publish books Indexes In-dexes Wo sympathize with him and br would add that the punishment ought 1 to be lingering something with boiling oil In It No work of biography or critICiSm I crit-ICiSm 0 history or book 01 travel shouldlbo published without an Index 4 Ono might as well leave the pages unnumbered un-numbered la there such a being as a professional indexer If not we advise I ad-vise literary mon out of a job In publishing pub-lishing houses to apply at once for the opportunity to create a now profession They could earn substantial wages and A I i their employers would never regret the investment We assume of course that 1 ihey wouM make some study or the art K4 ot indexing If there Is anything worse than a book without an Index It Is a bookiwith a bad one We turn to tho nearest manual on our shelves and find an3 1 half a dozen Important names omitted Wo test acertain solid work of scholarship ii1 S scholar-ship In two volumes and find the first I thrco reference correct the fourth gives un tho wrong page This IB an c11c1f experience so common that we have often wondered why tho authpr took the troublu to prepare an Index at all pe There was talk some time ago of an In I 4 Btitutlon at which young men were to Sh trained for the publishing busIness r ktI S t If a tfood Indexer Is not among the S faculty tho aspirant may as well study publishing by going through the shop windows of the booksellers New York Tribune 9 S J Mlllacd Cox author The Legion I aries hns 5 discovered what almost p overy Writer of fiction knowH to be I Vld true tIt many renders Insist gn making < ma-king thti author the hero of his own fet talc Judge Cox is receiving letters every day nHklng him If he wasP was-P rally one of Morgans rollers 01 If LV lie assisted In liberating the great il t freebooter when he wan a prisoner nt Columbus The book has tlitf air oC efil I actuallty > and IB undoubtedly st faUh fill ronoctlou the limes 1 but If wo field to the compelllni fojce of factS l S a we must admit that while thfe 3000 were i riding to death and defeat described I by Mr Cox so realistically Mr Cox himself was raiding his grandmothers J ers jelly closet J A new and noteworthy provision of the copyright bills Parliament Is expected to pass is that which makes news independent I dependent of the literary form in which it is I convoyed a species of literary I property It Is to be protected for eighteen hours after the date of publication I publi-cation The artistic bill grants to the author or composer of any artistic work the same term of copyright as is I given to literary properly Photographs are placed in the general category of works of art The owner of the negative nega-tive is declared to be the author of tho photogiaph J ond the poison who makes an engraving print Is declared to be Its owner The parliamentary committee commit-tee Is against perpetual copyright It was shown at the hearings that of the books published annually In Great Britain MOO only six and onehalf nrcd legal protection beyond the present pres-ent limit or any other limitS limit-S S S Senator Hoar tells a very amusing story about Prof C C Feltons younger young-er brother who stood very high In the I class at Harvard but forgot himself so far as to use profane language Young Folton in consideration of being tho professors brother received the I mercy oC private Instead or public admonition ad-monition and the professor himself was commanded to administer It He called the youth to his room and said I John I cannot express to you how horrified I am that my brother in I whose character and I scholarship I had taken so much pride should have been I S reported to the faculty for this vulgar i S and wicked offense John said with much contrition I am exceedingly sorry It was under circumstances of great provocation I have never been guilty of such a thing before I never in my life have been addicted to profanity Damnation John Interposed the professor how often havo I told you the word is profaneness and not profanity pro-fanity The admonition ended there Buffalo Courier 55 5 S SIn t S-In the July Issue of the International Monthly William M Payne thus discusses dis-cusses American critics and their methods meth-ods S There arc few Americans who have pursued literary criticism with sufficient suffi-cient singleness of aim to achieve results re-sults of definite and commanding significance sig-nificance Our foremost living critic is also a poet and at the same time a busy man of affairs The one whom we most honor in the past was at once critic poet teacher diplomat and spokesman of the higher patriotism Some are critics by way of diversion from their true function as writers of fiction Somo bend their talents to the exigencies of journalism and rarely find an opportunity to do the best that Is In them Some bound to the routine task of teaching are forced to compromise with conscience for the everpostponed magnum opus by 55 putting forth their conclusions in occaslqnal fragments the chips of the workshop rather than the finished cabinet For these reasons and others the type prevailing among our men of letters Is that of the general gen-eral practitioner rather than that of the high specialized authority or If we find life latter his specialty is apt to be so narrow that he makes no appeal to the general audience of cultivated readers The particularly unfortunate consequence of this condition of things is that almost any writer of moderate Intelligences may Bet up as a critic without fcarjOf too close examination of his credentials sustained by that overweening confidence In the value of his own opinions which is the chief intellectual in-tellectual vice of men who have breathed from their birth tho ozonized air of democracy S S Mark Twain has been lecturing in i England on Joan oC Arc S 5 5 S Somebody told the other day this tale I I originally from a htehchurch paper E temJ1o preachers of the fiorld type often adopt mannerisms which they cannot drop at will An English evangelical evan-gelical minister of this sort had a trick I of apostrophizing his hearers as dear London souls dear Liverpool soula according to the place In which he happened hap-pened to be preaching Passing over to Ireland he harangued dear Dublin souls with much effect but when he extended his tour southward and appealed ap-pealed tearfully to dear Cork souls the result was great but not exactly solemnizing Boston Evening Transcript Tran-script S S 5 There Is one thing that the Girl who Writes ought to consider and that Is this has life been real enough rich enough deep enough for her In her fifteen or sixteen or oven twenty years to have fpund iiuR something to give tho world Experience after all is what counts And generally speaking if the Girl who Writes has lived tho Iso I-so o and guarded and normal life which oho ought to have lived sho has had no experience and she has not gone down very deep Into life Her hopes and fears and happiness have been all on the surface and It Is i well that they should bo And there is still another great danger about early expression the stream Ics out Margaret De I lund in Harpers Bazar tOne t-One of the anecdotes told of the ac tor Forrest Is that whbn he reproached a supoV < for speaking his lines Ill the supc anHWoredr Mr Forrest dont you think I speak them up to 5 a weekS 1 j week-S The civil pension list of the British GaVcrnmeht as lust issued shows that the crown haN allowed Alfred Austin S1000 for all the poetry furnished by him to order during the past year Thuft Is I criticism completely disarmed dis-armed In proportion to Its bulk and rluallty tho raging poet lnuroato has boon fully equal to his wages Chicago Chronicle S S S LYRIC DECALOGUES Mr C II Pearson whose memoirs hnvc recently been published was the author tilt it Ten Commandments Put Into VCIKC which It IB Interesting to I compare with doughs wellknown version Cloughs Is an experiment In I pure cynicism which he termed The Latest Decalogue Thou r halt have ono God only who I uould be at the expense of two X graven Images may bo orshlyed except the currency I Swear not at all for for thy curse Thno enemy Is nono tho worse At church on Sunday to attend will servo to keep tho world thy friend Honor thy parents that IH all I From whom advancement may befall Thou shalt not kill but ncedst not strive Officiously to keep alive 1 I Do not adultery commit Advantage rarely cornea of It I I Thou shalt not steal an empty feat Vhen Its so lucrative to cheat r Bear not false witness let the Ho I Have tlmo on Its on wings to fly I Thou shalt not covet but tradition Approves all forms of competition Pearsons Is the version of the gentleman gen-tleman and man of tho world I S heir of all thought no Ood but truth have thou To no drad creeds to no conventions bow Bo thy yea yea and all thy mind con tossed Llvo not all labor pause at times for rest Honor thy fathers In thyself they live If wronged revenge not If thou canst forgive Keep fixed thy loves these tarnish If J they range Eschew tho practice of the stock exchange ex-change Forbear tho words that as they scatter t I sting With tube own pittance count thyself a king o LiTERARY CAJlEERa MADE EASY In the oldfashioned days when a man wrote a book lhat was ill thero was for him to do If they made It worth while for tho author ho took N Up his pen and reeled off something now I But today when a man writes a book I thats a hitS I hit-S Why thats jut made a sort of a start I For ho has to wrlto others explaining how It I Came out of his head and his heart Ho must toll how he thought of the story i and when How many woids daily he wrote I If ho set down the lines with a pencil or I pen Those things he must carefully note i Ho must give us the names of tIme people ho took 1 For his models and nothing omit In these diiys when a man makes a hit with a book Ho can write all his life about itS it-S Chicago TimesHerald a o The London Academy says that when Tennysons first version of the Dream of Fair Women was published the lines One drew a sharp knife thro my tciUlcr i throat S Slowly and nothing more were met by one critic with the question ques-tion What more did she want Our correspondent regrets that this blunt effective sort of criticism is out of vogue and he would like to see a revival re-vival His desire Is shared by others A correspondent of the Chicago Dial writes to that paper under the heading Honey or Vlnegav in Book Reviews An oldfashioned acquaintance of mine complains that reading a modern i review leaves him with an unpleasant sensation as of having dined wholly off honey The book reviewer of today is altogether too lenient too considerate too apologetic too blandly deferential a creature to suit this readers robust taste He laments the decay of that fine old spirit of forpolty which animated ani-mated criticism In the palm days when Jeffrey and his merry men used I to fling themselves on an Inspiring Laker or Cockney with the Joy of I an Iroquois scalping his victim and I the fluency In Insult oC the late Mr Brann The most readable thing In the world he thinks is a merciless roast of a new book something in I the way of Macaulays flagellations oC Crokor and Robert Montgomery I |