| Show Im cc 1 H Hr V W hi i 1q Il I jfi ftLL A i1IijII j JiiJi v J iJ rir 1 A 11 kW i11 L I I 4 i 1 I 1 I tf4j L = 7 V 1t Ii 1 7 l tt 1 frI rv Vt t Ii 11 Jessie Benton Fremont In a little California cottage nestling under orange trees is writing a biographyaft her famous husband She Is a dcci eplt pallid l emaciated old lady with Utttej about hnr to recall the beautiful girl who elojicd years ago with the dashing young John C FrcmonL > O 3 u k Felix Gras the poet and novelistof sunny Provence the capoulie or official head of the poetical society of the Fell brlge died at Avignon March 4 viOL He was not without honor In bisown country and his owai town Not only had he won fame Inliterature hut he was known to be an able and discreet dis-creet Juge de Paix Brilliant fetes I were to have been celebrated at Orange In recognition of his servjceSt but they were prevented by his death Felix Gras was introduced to Americans through Mrs Thomas JanvierTwho translated his books t a 41 Authors who aro disdouYaged at the small returns from their books may take heart when informed that a London Lon-don publisher once sent a check for IS cents to Julian Hawthorne The amount lepresented the authors entire profits for one year on a volume of short stories Mr Hawthorne had received re-ceived a lair price down for the book with tho agreement for onefourth after I af-ter deducting the expenses of publishing publish-ing This was in 1SS9 according lo I I the Book World It is only fair to add that Mr Hawthornes popularity was much Increased In the ensuing ten I years I S a In connection with the opening of anew I a-new museum at Burnss cottage Allo way the Athenaeum says that some I valuable additions have been made by the trustees to their collection of I Burnss relics and curios Most notablo I among these are the 115 portraits oC the poetfor the most part oldfash I toned steel and copper engravings which belonged to the late Mr Angus of Glasgow a Julia Orottie is a new name In Irish fiction the woman who bears it I having lately published muchpraised book called The Lost Land It had a curious history Mr Justin McCarthy tells us When written it was shown to a woman friend of MISs Crottic who took Itaway wllh her to read and without the consent of the authoress sent itffor inspection a London pub lisher Tho publisher lost tho manuscript manu-script and no trace of It could be discovered dis-covered so Miss Crottle went to work again and rewrote the old book The new manuscript was then sent to the editor of a London magazine and the second manuscript was also lost and has never been recovered Miss Crot tie must on the second failure have felt for a time something very like despair de-spair She bore up however went to work again and wrote her book for the third time o Wouldnt you hikoto bean author Oh It takes too long to become an author but say I wouldnt mind bc Jng a literary fad for a whileOhii cago EccordIIerald S S A newspaper published at Tldnlng Norway recently gave Shakespeare the following trouncing Tho traveling theatrical company at presentvisiting this town gave last night representation of a play styled The Merry Wives of Windsor by a person called Shakespeare The play Is said to be a comedy but it Is terribly monotonous In its effect ehpecially the ti > o first acts An uncouth and besot ted cavaljer who flirts and spoons with a bg < vy of demlmondalnes but who becomes a ictlrn to their absurd Intrigues such Is thq sum total of the plot We can only say that such a i play is poor fare to Invite any educated edu-cated public to It was arelief when the curtain dropped and we Oiad an I opportunity of listening to a selection 1 of humorous songs n 10 Madame Bernhardt seems to have ost her temper and her ease in her spiteful attack on Prof Sumlchrast of J Harvard His Judgment of Rostand seems to have been fair enough His ridiculous to clabK Rostand with Shakespeare quite ridiculous and 1C Prof Sumlchrast In giving his stu dents an Idea of the relative propor tlons of French literature kept him self free of the Parisian hysteria that has proclaimed the author of Cvrano and LAlglon as great an the Swan of Avon tt is to his credit Madame I Lcrnhardt should keep her vehemence for the stage and give a little tolerance I to other opinions than those she holds I Jr she Is to force ttosland down the AngloSaxon throat It will not be by representing Shakespeare as the Ros tand of his clay and Rostand as the Shakespeare of the present but In setting out Kostand an a unique pro cleuse in the literature of today Coin pared with the great Immortals Ros II tand rails and by the side of the au thor of Hamlet he Is a pigmy indeed 1 I Philadelphia Press I p A GOOD ROOK That book is I good Which puts me In a working mood I ilC5s to Thought Is added Will Apollo la I an Imbecile what anlne part what gems what colors I Ah but I miss tho wand design Ralph Waldo Emerson S Ellen Thornycroft Fowler who made her first success with Concerning Isa bel Carnaby The Farrlngdons ahd 0 A Double Thread has completed a new novel entitled Serlus whichwill be published this month a a a It seems a curious example of life S occasional ironies that Sir Edwin Ar nold the author offThe Light of Asia anlLlie Light of the World should have become totally blind In his old age Besides his various llterarv undertakings and his travels he has louna time for active journalism and i JdlJl ring5 the past forty years he has been On the editorial start i of the London I i Daily Telegiaph Jn spite of his allllc Ubn 1it is aid that Sir LJdwln niay devote I de-vote some 6t his leiburcato new interpretations inter-pretations 1 of Oriental Iltfi and thought t O u if Mr Stanley Waterloo says an cx change is individual m his literary i methods as In thu work which he iWO dqpfis ic He spends hIs afternoons and evenings in lea lnsandJn working out his plots The Iatt6r pioctiss is wholly mental and he seldom makes a written note Each morning he goes astenographic office in dne oth I busy skyscrapers and dictates with great rapidity to an expert operator I His recoid is 15000 words in a forenoon fore-noon i lie believes that verbal dictation dicta-tion gives a freedom and spontaneity I of composition not to be obtained by the laborious process of longhand and that carefuj revision corrects all tendency ten-dency to looseness of style eo o An influential factor in securing fuller full-er educational privileges for women Is the National institute of which the u secretary is Miss Clara Barton of Washington Under its auspices CeLl CeL-l lowshlps for women are founded in the chief universities and loans are made to deserving women students At present pres-ent a special effOrt is being made to raise funds for the new Victoria foundation foun-dation the aim of which is to aid deserving de-serving women students and to honor womanhood as exemplified in the life and character of the late Queen of England o S a A Soldier of Vlrgina Is the title of a tale of adventure by Burton Egbert Stevenson which will be Immediately Im-mediately It Is a story of the time of Brnddocks expedition to Fort Du quesne and the hero is young Virginian I Vir-ginian who enlists as a soldier under I Washington o a a How Mr KIpling3 Recessional reached the London Times has been the subject of various anecdotes all of which are set aside by the publication in Literature of the following letter which accompanied the poem Dear Enclosed please find my sentiments on things which I hope are yours Weve been blowing up the Trumpets Of the New Moon a little too much for White Men and its about time we sobe ell down If you tould like It its at your service on the old k conditions that I can use ItIf I want It later on in book form The sooner its In print the better bet-ter I dont want any proof Couldnt you run it tonight so as to end the week piously If Its not your line ftlcase drop mea me-a wire Ever yours slceiely Til K Next morning the Recessional appeared ap-peared MrKipling when asked to name his own price refused re-fused all payment a a a T Jenkins Ilains well known as the author of The Windjammers and L Mr Trunnel has ready for publication publica-tion a novel of sea life The Cruise of the Petrel which treats of incidents in the war of 1812 v 0 V A Boston dispatch of April 10th to the New York Sun states that an unpublished un-published l hymn by l Lqngfcjlcw has been discovered amonglheprivate papers pa-pers atthctJongfellow house It says The hymn 1 is entitled Christo ct < Ecclesiae and was written for the dedication Appleton chapel which took place on October 17 1858 Dr F G Peapody read the hymn at morning prayers last Monday Miss Longfel IQW dqes not wish to give out the poem for publication just now and she has not definitely decided where the hymn is first to be published yi a fr Arthur Lawrence published coma tlnie ago a volume entitled The Life Stqry Letters and Reminiscences of Sir Arthur SulJIyan written with thC 1 th-C innosis approval Mr Lawrence is I now at work on a complete biography which wjll be lth rewritten and contain nuch new matter 41 THE THOUGHT A D THE SONNET You think tint yoUie Thought tho Sonnet hlpsorli > > Just let nc onco cn111ciih ouln my rhymes nlt though you may poichanco bo guessed at times In fourteen rounds UI1 knockoutall your gist ThoThought was daringami would fain plilbiEt tj < 1 nut soon a rhyme allured Itand It left Tho path of tsonsc to cul1tktJlln blroft 1 Of sanity wandered In n mist And it a rhynio would guldo It back to1 u TVIDU Another rhyme would lend 1 It alt astray And So It zigzagged on Its blundering I way t Losing all semblance of Intelligence Thanks Bald the Sonnet yoi have male mo Kr < at What men can graspth underestimate l THohton Courier a o An American novc i which has at tri tecl comparatively little notice in I this country The Hprltage of trmost by pvendolen Overtoil gains very hjgh nralflOl1l the London Spectator ftLarali 31st wiiicliiareiR to ltns iby 1 far the most brlUlUnt and striking Hovel I on our list T it deals with fo oiuthe frontier In ArlzouaQlld New I Mexico and this iroatmont Is lo some I extent historical Indeed concludes I the Spectator whether we consider scenic accessories incident sometimes I as the theme necessitates of the most terrible nature or characterization this IH i one of the ablest books of the year from America a a S A historical novel l of Napoleonu time Is I announced It will bear tho title Sons of the Sword and la I the w rk of Mrs Wood an English writer who has been praised by English critics p GUARD YOUR SPEECH Lapses In grammar do not offend when they are made by the Illiterate who have not been taught propriety of speech But they aro exceedingly disgraceful dis-graceful > In the educated person writes Marcraret E Sancster tho May Ladles Home Journal Beyond incro correctness of expression there Is such a thing as a beautiful choice of words and there are hallmarks of culturo which the rich vocabulary shows while the meager one convicts of Jgnoranie and poverty 1 of resource Colloquialisms and provincialisms are caught by those who live constantly II among the unlearned but the Influence of this contact may be modified by a dally study of words as In a lexicon 01 thesaurus and by the habitual reading read-ing of good books Insensibly we acquire ac-quire the speech of our associates and a faviVltc author If he belong to the I aristocracy the literary guild Is one I of the best associates we dan have S S I Mr Stephen Phillipss new drama Ulysses will not be the first play on ihp I subject poetical or otherwise Nicholas Rowe who for four years was poet laureate wrote In 1704 or 1705 a play with Ulysses for Its hero A A i FJ5OM AN AGE OF INK Of all tho ages over known For Brass or Bronze of Brick or Stone The blackest and the worst T think Is this pestiferous Awe of Ink In volume vast the torrent pours Volume on volume blocks our doors Its 1 boaom broadening as It Hows With verses canned and potted prose Though all would dam Itand some do The Delude Is still aprcs nous Lured to ftc I blink women and men A moment pause then dip a pen And you 1 hojir some scilbbler say Oh yes Im there exhibit ABut A-But ono must Hvo small IM my store A wolf stands darkening tho door I Ho must bo driven to his den And so I prod him with my pen When children for new grammars cry Can parent stand unheeding by Ahno the verbstarved babe 1 klsn 1 Thou dash ore versos much like this If J like this too my special pride A roundtrip ticket provide Thai If 1 nono elso the mortal sco Itwlll at least como homo to me Nor Is 1 = It needed to proclaim O nthe envelope street and name I To which the vcree In mentioned days May i ho returns with thanks and praise i I Thoiiph JIomega homo bo still in doubt I i My sins and songs soon find me out 1 And with a picmptncsr non can guess I l I Turn up and at tic right address I If one did not J fear 1 should 1 DoUbt much that It or I was Rood Charles Henry Webb In the May Atlantic I Atlan-tic t > S S ticWe We have not Included in our Gossip Authors this month says Current I LIteratuie the Information sent out bYI an enterprising publishing house concerning con-cerning the J author of a forthcoming book vis that she has large blue eyes the most expressive In the world a wealth of golden brown hair and that her laugh is merry and frequent Neither do we repeat tho announcement announce-ment that Is I the most comical quaint and delightful book that has appeared ap-peared since that the author has the good qualities of Mark Twain Jerome 1C Jerome and W W Jacobs Nor that a certain detective story Is simply crammed with excitement suspense I sus-pense humor and mystery which for sheer sensational quality will make it one of the most popular of the year Nor that and and are now In the front rank of our best novelists a SS Mr Henry Savage Landors new work On the Road to Peking will ho published In this country and promIses prom-ises i to be an interesting and elaborate history of recent and present conditions condi-tions In the Chinese empire S a SONLY S-ONLY A MATTER OF DETAIL The gifted poet had been engaged by the publishers of the magazine to write a sonnet Alfred said his wife coming timidly timid-ly l Into his study the boy has called again for that poem Tell him to come around In about half an hour replied the poet Ive got the rhymes fixed All I have to do now is to fill In the lines Chicago Tribune o 55 DELICATELY PUT What a gift It Is to be able to express ex-press ones self delicately The schoolteacher school-teacher was chafllng the young doctor oer the cardtable one evening not o very long ago about his attentions to the typewriter in the next block Ive never seen her except at a distance dis-tance said the schoolteachei but she struck me as being very pretty Is she Quite pretty I should say answered an-swered the doctor suddenly looking as I if he had Just come home from a throe days yachting trip They say went on the school maam that her eyes spoil her Shes crosseyed isnt she 7 Well said the doctor hesitatingly I should hardly I call the peculiarity of her organs of vision that She she well she has not what one would rail 1 mutual cyesSt Louis GlobeDemo orat o S 0 A MATTER OF TEMPERAMENT Tho day Is line quoth Mary Jane Yet lest It should como on to rain Mv waterproof and umberell nd rubber shoes Ill take as well For though these may by 1 troublesome In case tho ahowcrs do not come Methlnks twere bettor after all To bo prepared lest worse befall I The day is fair cried Jeanno Marie Tho day Is i fair ah trc8 Jolt My giyDsC hat my prettiest dress I shall put on what happiness But If t It rains wall what of that Ill get another diesa and hath hat-h but Ill look BO fresh and gay rite sun will have to shine all day I Alice Held In Harpers Magazine S S U Tolstois new novel will be about a society girl named Spzlefzeff The book ought to make delightful summer reading as the heroines uame sounds like the drawing of a glass of soda walcrDenvcr Republican o a a LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT The method adopted by the Brum back library lo bring ltd books to all 1 parts of Van Wert county is easily I explained ex-plained The lib I ray Itself whcn icp resents a value of SoOOOO receives an annual income of rally SG500 and has a stacl < room capacity when all available avail-able room shallbe used of 100000 volumes vol-umes Is located Inthc city of Van Wert the county secL of Van Wet county Fortunately this city is located lo-cated In the center of the county which contains in round numbers 275000 acms and has a population of near SoOJO Besides the central library there aro ten branch libraries which are no situated situ-ated that every resident of the county Is within easy access oC the library Itself Ot one of its branches The ton branches have a unique feature In the form Qf what may be tcrmo 1 a traveling I travel-ing library system and are also Indirect I In-direct communication with the central library The ten branch libraries are placed In the more Important stores or olllces of the villages of the county where they are excellently managed by virtue of the fact that those having charge of them receue nominal salaries 1 L sal-aries To start the traveling library system the library trustees purchased u 00 I books moat of them entirely new I which when accessloneJ were sent to i the ten branch libraries JLOO to each branch After keeping 1 its HO tooks 1 two months each omch sends them to I one of the other nine branches and receives re-ceives a second 100 from one of Its neighbors to take their plac2 Ho the books pass from branch to branch until each branch has had had the liO t books when they are retunvd to the central library and catalogued In the I meantime another 1000 boots i have been purchased and put in rcadniss to ie 1 Peat the experience of the first JCGO J I have already said that the branch I libraries aie In direct communication with tho central library J3y this I mean that all persons hecurlnj hooks from the central library through any oC the branches are subject to no other rules than those Imposed by the con tral library Cards can be had from the central library only but persons holding cards may secure books anywhere any-where in the county The more important Im-portant papers of the county have pub llllihe lists pf all the bookscontained in the library and continue to lob i Jlsh the titles of new bT > cs 1 as soon as they have been catalog1lirflCSt I Irving Antrim In the May Eoruni I |
