Show L LIIIERARYIQUP Theodore Roosevelt author never 4 I had much trouble finding a publisher und he has J still less now S S Mournfully heavy Is the fun which tho London Globe Is poking at the literature of this favored land Some Americans unusually big for their boots are occupying themselves with the proof that American literature must inthe future bo the model of English When American literature has been discovered It will be time enough to discuss its claims to precedence prece-dence Meanwhile we guess our style ld be a sight too cute for the slickest style If It tried to boom a Yankee Idiom right away Nope S Mr Cyrus Townsend Brady has A come to the rescue qf old Gen Braddock F Brad-dock whoin we have always used asa as-a mere foil to make our Washingtons s virtues stick fiery off We quote I 4 from < < Mr Bradys new book Colonial Fights l and Fighters Nothing defeats c1 de-feats like defeat and poor BraaOock luis been overwhelmed with unmerited censure his character and career made the subject of heartless jest his mlsCort emphasized by undeserved obloquy his reputation destroyed by f insinuatlonand innuendo and his good 1 qualitieswhich were many have been almost totally lost sight of S I i Prof Walter Raleagh lecturing the other day on Shakespoaios Library said that our Gentle Will was by no means a learned man in tho common acceptation of the word it was his wIsdom rather than his learning that was remarkable He had an easy grasp and a quick eye for essentials and a clear insight The saying Great artists have no need to learn they guess might aptly have been applied to him Even the majority of smaller critlos with minds of second rate order or-der had wit enough to recognize his 1 supremacy but they based it on wrong grounds regarding him merely as a nan with < tentfmcs their own power of application One ot the most recent Instances vvas the refusing to Shakespeare I S Shakes-peare the wprksprfssing as his This 1 which was commonly called me Ba S conlan theory Mr Raleigh did nrft intend S in-tend to discuss but even believers In I the theory might he thought be content I con-tent to retain the name of Shakespeare as signifying that pnrtlcular part of r Bacons brain which thought out the S Shakespearian plays c 0 N BOOKS 5 5 Bee the publishers announcements the books S A Story books Gory books Books for high pnd mighty Indies books S for cookc S Books for laddies and for lassies I I I Books Intended for the masses I i Books designed to please the classes l Books In yell w paper wrappers I l i S Books concerning scouts and trappers Books of war and books of rhyme or Books at which tho reader marvels f Books that have some later Carvels I > I Dancing through them all the time 1 Historical romances by tho score Books tho like of which were never writS writ-S S before Books for mooning spooning lovers Books In gay and sober covers t Books galore H An avalanche of books S A Oh tho world Is being buried under books Ir Under Himalayan ranges of new books t S Books books hooks books books I 5 books books 5 5 0 See the lists tho papers publish of the books that they receive S J S Fairy books I Airy b l oks S i Books that J somehow shall achieve I S 0 Tho success for which their hungry au thors pray f Books that perished that dayS day-S J That tho presses gave them birth J f Books pf mirth t Books concerning farofC corners of tho V j earth < 1 Books brimfull of dash and SOI S J Books of woe 5 Unintentionally BO S S Books by Rudyard and by Winston andS and-S tho rest of them you know 5 5 Piled In 1 windows and on counters S everywhere S Stacked in pyramids that tower In tho S I air S S L S Oh the books books books books S 5S hooka S P r Oh tho millions and tho billions of tho 5 books S For thq coming holidays S How their numbers amaze Tho world groaning under all tho books The mountains of new books books books books books books books 4 i S The tremendous mass of Christmas 5 books now coming from the press ex cites again the curiosity which is each year excited as to the broad lines of L development followed in this class of literature It Is gratifying to recordS record-S in 1901 as we recorded hi 1 1000 a dis tinct improvement For one thing the S distinction between the book of a pro fessedly l holiday character and the S book that is published at this time of Ski year for no other reason than that ItS it-S is believed to be a hook worth publish S ing Is far less frequently drawn than S was once the case Serious books that f were formerly held over to await the Lime when the holiday mood S should have passed leaving pur 5 a l chasers free to think of thoughtful things are TIOW published as a matter I of oiirse in the thick of the holiday t < season This Is a sten nalnod fnr it it I 5 L recoSnltion or tnc ract that buyers i S of books do not necessarily stroll like st sheep through any pastures that may be chosen for them There was In t fact something tn the uature of a su I perstllloll about the Practice or plllnc J I high the counters In December with c nothing hut sift books The gift 11 > ooks arcthere are now and we are glad r of it but it IsO comfort that other 5 books Xmn5 are there too Lhere that the t 2 511 lion has been super line exploded N Y Trlb > S 5T 5 Larcndlo Hearn Eon of an Irish fath er and Greek S mother has S now become Sa thorough Japnnese He has marllcd j a Japanese el lady and occupies hlmself r In lecturIng on English literature in the university at Toklo r will not pay Olle cent for ny ad S vertiiiig this week he Announced f with editor a of htbh the color in Ms checks to the S country paper You told t 4 me youa Put lhe notice of f mrShoe S polish Ii 5 Wltlithe i Tthe reading1 matter And didnt 1 dolt Inquired zL i editor fHJael the j j kbc No i f sir roarcd the advertiser No I t i sir you did not You put it In the column with a me soCpoetry sir thats where you put I tYouths Companion S of The recently published diary of Miss Mary Bagot contains the following anecdote of Dr Johnson related by the niece of Sir Joshua Keynolds During one of my visits to my uncle when 1 was young and shy he requested re-quested me to sit at the head of his table on a day when l expected a large party among the guests were Cumberland Garrlck and Dr Johnson I trembled at the name of the la eland el-and in consequence of his presence begged that mine might bt dispensed with My uncle laughed al my folly would not attend to my entreaties and assured me if I would provide a good dinner that nothing more would bo required of me by his old friend who probably would not trouble his head about me in any other capacity I did my best as to the dinner and look my place at the top of the table determining determin-ing not to offend by my words by dint of not speaking at all The conversation conversa-tion by some unlucky chance turned upon music to which Dr Johnson was totally insensible Whereupon he indulged in-dulged his eloquence at the expense of his sense Iha violent philippic against the art itself that no man of talent S or who was in any degree capable of better things ever had ever could or ever would devote any portion of his Hnln nrl < > ttnntlnn In en Irlln H i1frh olous a purpose j I happened fo beu exceedingly ex-ceedingly fond of music which conquered con-quered my fear of the sage and prompted me to say to my next neighbor 1 neigh-bor I wonder what Dr Johnson thinks of King David He which I did not intend heard the cst c-st rtcd laid down his knife and fork got up talked lQ the head of the table as I thought to knock me down but I did him an injustice for laying one of his large hands on each of my shoulders l shoul-ders he said Madam T thank you I 5 stand rebuked before you and promise that on one subject at least you shall never hear me talk nonsense again There is no pleasanter anecdote of the good doctor in existence S S Lo S Dean Hole says in his new book of S reminiscences < Nye the American humorist bfilliant as the best whose comedy never fails to charm and wfiosetragicdeath 1 I shall never cease to mourn told me that when he met I Wagner he said to him Your music Is b ond my comprehension but I always feel sure when I hear it that it is really much better than it sounds S y The celebration in Germany of the seventieth birthday of Wilhelm Raabe brought out the fact how little real merit stands for For forty years Raabe has been writing novels short stories and poems In his own country he is ranked with the names of Its greatest writers The Prussian Government Govern-ment has had an edition of his works placed In all public schools Yet this author Is scarcely more than a name here and only the scholarly could give the titles of the old problem of the successful novel and the literary novelCurrent Literature < S One of the most thrilling novels of the last century was that In which Marcus Clarke dealt with convict life Iin Australia Sir William Molesworth of whom a biography Is about to appear ap-pear was indirectly responsible for the book In 1837 ho obtained House of Commons committee of Inquiry into the transportation system and on the appalling evidence elicited by this body Clarke largely built up his story For the Term of Jlis Natural Life IIo S There Js one publishing house In this city which has a rule often bringing It into conflict with Its authors It insists in-sists that the preface of every book shall contain summary of the book written In such a way that a purchaser pur-chaser by reading the preface can tell at a glance Just what he is getting When an author sends in a flowery preface full of glittering generalities and little else Is Is promptly returned with the request that the author wrltn another telling just what he has pill into the work The authors often re bel but the required preface Is always forthcoming in the endNe Yorlc Tribune 5 Co S S SOMEBODYS GARDEN S The rose la made of 1 little frllla Tho Illy Is a cup S And goblets are the daffodils S From which the fairies sup t The daisy is a darling sun > So small and lountl and sweet The Bunllowcr Is a bigger one < Though never half so neat It sounds mysterious and yet You really cant deny The lovely little violet S S Was once a piece of sky The orchids that I may not touch Arc curious like shells S The hyacinths remind me much Of lots of little bells In fact through all our garden plot In aiimmcr time or spring Theres hardly any flower thats not Just like somo other thing Margaret Steele Anderson in Kinder S garten S S Q An authoress of note wis In Naples and very much desired to know Mo rolU Italys famous painter but could find f no one to act as intermediary At I last shfi resolved to introduce herself but not without qualms As she ap proached she found the studlp door open and pushing a curtain to one side stood before the artist at workS work-S who looking at her absentmindedly said Those lines seem to be all S right What do you saY1And to her I murmured response he went on But the eyes of the nuns do not suit me I pray sit down a moment yours arc Just the thing with Inward delight S the lady sat down and acted us model for an hour and a half during which S writer and artist talked as though they had boon friends all their live a I At a certain point Morelll stopped I abruptly took off his glasses peered at his handsome model and said I But excuse me who are you Sy S < A Japanese translation of Prof Elys I l Socialism and Social l Reform was < lately brought out in the land of the J chrysanthemum The translation was made by a young Japanese student stu-dent now In this country Mr Kipling has apparently discovered S discov-ered that serial publication injures the after sales In book form oC a novel or collection of stories This at any rate Is the explanation given of the rumor that lIe has refused to sell In England the serial rights of his Just So Stories I v or Mr Bertram Doboll publishes nth I S n-th Athenaeum a series of poems by Sir Thomas Hencage of the Elizabethan Eliza-bethan age which he has found in an old manuscript volume The songS song-S Farewell False Love hitherto S counted anonymous Is given In Mr Dobells MS as a reply to one of these poems and is ascribed to Sir Walter Raleigh We reprint the Jlnes from I the AthenaeumS Athenaeum-S Farewell falce Love thou oraclo of Ilea H rnuttall foe and enemy to rest an nxlou j boye from whomc all cares mine a bastard vile a beast with rage pos ECSU a way of error a temple full of treason In all eTfcctes Contrary unto reason 4 A poysencd serpent covered all with flowers mother of slghcs and murderer of repose a sea of sorrowo from whence are drawen such showers as moysture len es to every griofo that growcs a school of gyle a nest of deep deceit a gvlded hook that holdes a poysened bait S A fortress foiled whomo reason did defend de-fend S I a Cyrens songe a leaver of the myndc S a maze wherein affection findes no end I a raging clodc that ronnes before tho I S wlndc I a substaunce lyko tho shadow of the sunnc S a gonlo of grlofo for which the wysest I ronne j S I Charles Frederick Goss author of Ir the Redemption of David Carson told the two following stories recently A young man with an impediment In his speech went to a stammerer Institute I In-stitute and asked for a rourse of treatment The professor with an eye Jon the main chance asked him If he iivaiued full 01 a partial course A Qrtpaivttial i course was the icply I How much of a partial course was 5L the reply Readers may supply the I stuttering we are short of dishes but this was his reply I want enough of a partial course so that when I go to the florists and ask for a l cccchrysssanthe whistle here mum that the blamed thing wont wilt before he finds out what I wantCurrent Anecdotes I S S WAR AND WRITERS Take the English civil war of the seventeenth century and think ot what it has given and Is still giving to literature says Henry A Beers in the I December Atlantic Why are such wars so perennially Interesting to the human mind 1 he asks Not merely because be-cause of the political Importance of the constitutional questions at Issue between the Stuarts and their parliaments parlia-ments Poetry does not easily attach itself to questions of prerogative and privilege to petitions of right exclusion exclu-sion bills and acts of uniformity It Is because this was not a mere struggle strug-gle of factions but a war of conscience con-science which aroused all that la deepest In mans nature It was the S shock of opposed ideals Ideals not only In government and religion but In character temperament taste social so-cial habit and In the conduct of life Now apply these tests to our own Civil war Was It as Carlyle said nothing but the burning of a dirty S chimney or was It as Carlyle came later to knowledge a crisis in the eternal warfare of right with wrong S of civilization with barbarism On each side was the grandeur of high S convictions and that emotional strqs S which findsfts natural utterance in i eloquence and sonS I TolheSoulhlt appeared as h war of national defense a war In resentment of Interference with local rights and social condi tions And this was the constant cry pf the Southern writers durng thp I roartcpcl the Invader Clear the sacred soil of him Let the North take Us hands off us Let It mind its S own business On the Northern side the patriotic motive was the preserva tion of the Union and here the great speeches of Wobster the Reply to Hayne the 7th of March Speech memorized mem-orized and declaimed by thousands of schoolboys throughout the North b cam Influential against secession and belong properly to the lltcrature 1 of the war S S |