| Show I I I r I t r 1T7 I j45 r r3kfr s9 I 1 irr c g LL T i fr1cj1 k II 1j1Jcf l rI I iii J k 4 p I 4 1ii It i JHJ thL p t ti 4 L i The leading philosophical historical and scientific associations of the world at the suggestion of the Berlin Royal society have lately formed a union for the purpose of cooperating In the prosecution of literary undertakings and scientific Investigation The academIcs of Amsterdam Berlin Brussels Brus-sels Budapest Chrlstlanla Gottlngen Lelpsic London Munich Paris St Petersburg Stockholm Washington and Vienna constitute this new body which meets in joint session once in three years The general work Is carried out between the sessions by a representative commission of thirty members The new association is I pronounced to be the most powerful union the forces of learned scholarship scholar-ship that the world has ever witnessed The letters written by Bismarck to his wife from their betrothal in 1817 down to 1S92 will be published about I Christmas The collection of more than five hundred letters have been prepared I by Prince Herbert Bismarck No political po-litical matter will be found In these epistles The late Charles Dudley Warners I My Summer in a Garden had been refused by two Boston publishers When one evening the author met Henry Ward Beecher at the house of Harriet Beecher Stowe near whom I he lived in Hartford Mrs Stowe spoke so well of the book that Mr Beecher asked to see It and having read the manuscript exerted his in lluence and had it published H l > U A moralist named PeddIcord dwelling at Portland Or has it is reported written and published at his own expense ex-pense a book of 200 pages to express his disgust over the popularity of Rud yard Kiplings works The objects of his book Mr Peddicord declares are to expose the sham pretensions of the I very distinguished author reviewed to I plead with our youthful countrymen to aid In maintaining a high standard of clean literature and to discourage adverse criticism of American institutions insti-tutions customs and manners by supercilious super-cilious foreign tyros fIAt U A fI-At a recent gathering In Boston one of the speakers made the following statement as quoted In The Age of Steel The century received from Its predecessors the horse we bequeath the bicycle the locomotive and automobile auto-mobile We received the goose quill and bequeath the typewriter we received re-ceived the scythe we bequeath the mowingmachine we received the sickle we bequeath the harvester we received the hand printingpress we bequeath the Hoe cylinder press we received gunpowder we bequeath nitroglycerin we received the tallow dip we bequeath the arc light we received the galvanic battery we bequeath be-queath the dynamo we received < ho flintlock we bequeath automatic fir ing Maxim guns we received the sail ingship wo bequeath the steamship the greyhound of the sea we received the frigate Constitution we bequeath the battleship Oregon we received the beacon signal lire we bequeath the telephone and wireless telegraphy we received wood and stone for structures we bequeath twentystoried sky scrapers of steel Such are a few of the bequests of the nineteenth century to the twentieth U a Miss Olive of St LouIsSay I cousIn whats a periphrasis Miss Browning of BostonA peri phrasis is simply a circumlocutory cycle of oratorical sonoroslty J circum scribing an Infinitesimal Ideality in terred In a verbal profundity Miss Olive Thanks I thought it was something like that but I wasnt quite sureChlcago News V a a AND ONE SHALL BE TAKEN Kissing me missing me folded down Nightly her lids over eyes of gray All of tho laboring loft for the tOWII All of tho toll and tho workaday Kissing me missing me otlll In sleep Breath like a llttlo tired child abed All of the angels her llowcrsoul keen All ol earths troubles go dYer her head I Kissing me missing me waver so I The cloudpalo eyelids whoso pUlse Is I I gone All of tho quick blood that danced I fling slow run The pulseshake dulling away to tho I dawn I i Kiting me missing meis there a bliss Somewhere otherwero when she shall I wake Something kiss I as splendid to stand for my I Give Loves It not sake Death for sweet ICing Post Wheeler In New York Press III a aIn a-In the current Journal of American I FolkLore Mr A L Kroeber publishes m I an interesting collection of Cheyenne I Tales of which two ire offered to the reader Here is the reason for the Khortness of life and the sureness of I death it all hung the unb on floating of a I alone and the sinking of a chip such I was the desperate hazard that destiny put upon all red men S I When first created the people I gathered to see If they were to live or to die Jf a stone floated In water I they were to live If It Bank they were to die but to a buffalo chip opposite I conditions were attached The stone I wan thrown In For a moment It re mained at the surface and all tho > i people rejoiced thinking to live for j ever then it sank So the chip was thrown in and for a moment it sank C II lIlt of I sight and again they rejoiced but then It rose and drifted away I The uliort time that the stone floated I and tho chip sank represents the short ness of mans life before lasting loath The following legend gains a satin cal value In our day of peace congresses und wars The animals and birds held a council In order to have friendship 1 and be an kind to each other as If I they were brothers This meeting wan called thc birds council of friendship I 4 The majority were willing to live la 1 peace but the birds of prey the eagle I the hawk the magpie the crow op posed the rest The hawk said that war was the nobler thing and then I Ij j I Hew 1 1 off to find his food among other birds I Then the eagle also spoke against friendship So at last the council 1 I broke up The various animals and I birds went to find hidingplaces and I since that day have been food for the birds of prey Miss Adeline M Jenney of South Dakota Da-kota has von the prize for the best short story offered by the Century to American college graduates of 1S9D An OldWorld Wooing is i the title of the story I TIle Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Scien-tific circle organized in SiS to promote home study announces that its general I I subjects of study for 19001901 will deal I with French history and literature Greek lands and letters l world politics I of today and psychology Twenty mln jutes J j-utes a day will cover the required readIng i read-Ing of the full course for which a diploma di-ploma Is awarded at the end of four years Over forty supplementary courses are provided l for special students stu-dents e Dictation Is the order of the day The great brain of the uptodate litterateur lit-terateur throbs too fast for any pen or I machine that operates In longhand There must be a young woman about to I take down cold and hot ebullitions In shorthand and transcribe them at leisure lei-sure Even the hustling newspaper reporter re-porter has his stenographer and type wrIt2r and it is always a girl saucy and pink and full of business I hear that a young machinist In this city has designed a machine with which 230 words a minute can be taken In shorthand short-hand Why not It should be as easy as falling off a log What Is become of that wonderful Invention of the Milwaukee Mil-waukee man It was described as a typewriter that could be connected with a phonograph all you had to do was to talk Into a funnel and have your words put in blue record or violet as you spouted AT LAST 0 DEATH I j At Inst 0 death Not with the sickroom fever aiTd weary ± heart 0 And slow subsidence of diminished breath I But strong and free With tho great tumult of the living aca Behold I have loved And though I wept for tho long sunder ing I did not fear thee Death nor then nor now I girded up my loins and soughtmy x kind And did a mans work In world of men And looked upon my work and called It good Now come then in tho shapo I love tho besL In tho salt sturdy wrestling of the sea I civo thee welcome Richard Hovey In the November BOokman Book-man The future historian will have his hands full when he comes to write about the publications of the closing decades of the nineteenth century He will be alert for tendencies movements move-ments schools and he will find them He will Jlnd so many of them in I fact that the odds arc all against his reducing the great mass of printed mat tel to anything like order This seems Inevitable I no matter when the state of letters l Is observed but It is particularly noticeable at this time of year when the flood of new books rises to heights Are they classic romantic scientific speculative Imaginative commonplace I artlsllc analytical historical They are of all kinds there Is scarcely a line of endeavor in the Held of literature 1 that some one or other is not cultivat ing at the present time The reader may find some amusement In trying to make up his mind as to what may be the dominant characteristic of any recent re-cent literature Euglish American French or German Just as he has about persuaded himself that he can Identify i certain clearly defined traits persisting through nil the books of a nation he will hit upon the discovery that those traits after all seem more Important than they really areNew York Tribune a ia THE CHILDREN OF TH13 FOAM In the wild October dawning When tho heavens angry awning I Leans to likewood bleak and drear And along tho blackvet ledges Under ley cavcrncd edges Breaks the lake In maddened fear And the WOOdS In shore ar6 moaning Then you hear our weird Intoning Mad Into children of tho year Rldo we ride we ever home Lost while children of the foam W Wilfred Campbell In Now York Tribune a a a r The biggest of the big words in the English language says the Publishers Circular London is found In the re cent biography of Dr Benson where the archbishop says the Free Kirk of the north of Scotland are strong antl disestablishmentarians This word contains twentysix letters The writer also quotes from one Byficld a divIne who wrote In IClfi The Immensity of Christs divine nature hath inclr cumscriptibleness In respect to peace I containing twenty two letters The Publishers Circular states that these J examples equal and exceed Shake I speares twentytvo lettered word which they give as honorlficabllltudln ity Referring to Loves Labor Lost I Act v se 1 1 41 1 however we find I Costard Oh they have lived long on the almsbasket of words I mar I vel thy master hath not eaten thee for I 1 I head a word as for honorincabllltudinitatlbus thou art not so long by the I This word contains twentyseven let I tern Thus Shakespeare as usual I stands at the top U a I I Here Is a story of George ElIot told in Notes and Queries A lady asked the novelist what her duly was In certain difficult circumstances and re ceived a clear reply But she ob jected if I did that I should die purely that has nothing to do with your doing your duty answered Goorge EliOt I U a U Truly a classic JB Charles Rcadcs rc markablo novel The Cloister and tho lI nrtho book by the way which Sir Walter Besant is never tired of f I praising Two hundred thousand copies J of a sixpenny edition were recently sold In England and a neat and pretty little pocket edition is J soon to appear there a E oil I A literary couple have just separated Husband to h r1tJttst occurs tome to-me that our experiences will make admirable I ad-mirable material for a romance or would you wish to use them yourself Fllogcnde Blatter I e AmemoIr of Zachary Macaulay the I father of Lord Macuulay Is In course of preparation by the historians niece I I Knulsford The book will contain many glimpses Zachary Mncll lays letters of his more Illustrious son TUB BLOOD ROYAL Tho blood thats hot and Joyous That tingles with lifos thrill Ah theres the blood thai keeps the world AIL young and happy still Its foolish and HB I reckless its mad and swlfl and strong But It llllj the earth with color And makes It sweet with song Tho blood thats red and ardent That stirs the soul llko wine All theros Iho blood Unit makes this life All sunlit and divine Its eager and Impatient It orooks no bars nor chains But all ot bliss that living holds Runs with It In tho veins Rlpley D Snundcrs In St Louis Republic Re-public I U WHY GIRLS READ BOYS BOOKS Within the last thirty years an entire I now literature has grown up In this country In the shape of books specially written for boys and girls Juvenlln books now constitute perhaps onethird of the total holiday output of the publishing I lishing houses A curious feature of the case Is found In the fact that there I are three or four books for boys where there is one for girls Why should this be so Boys are no more given to reading than girls are if so much Yet every year shows an Increasing discrimination dis-crimination against the feminine half i of our youthful readers An actual I count of the Juvenile books received by I the Tribune reviewer since the opening of the fall season shows a proportion I of nearly five td one in favor of the boys books of adventure i I An explanation for this state of affairs II I fairs Is I offered by Everett T TomlIn son a writer of juveniles Jh1 the No I vembor Atlantic He says the girls are reading the boys books and rather I prefer them to the milder and more preachy books written especially for girls He cites the cases of a maiden I of 32 who recently made out a list of sixtyeight favorite books at the request re-quest of a prominent librarian Twen I tjseven of the sixtyeight were books written especially for boys and only eight were books for glrfs the rest were books equally well adapted to I either class Thus while few boys I can be found who wIll read books written writ-ten for girls the converse Is markedly marked-ly true and the sisters are reading their brothers books with almost as much avidity as the boys themselves The publishers have not been slow to note time fact and are Issuing an increasing in-creasing number of books that appeal to boys and girls alike The distinction distinc-tion between the two classes of books Is rapidly disappearing Mr Tomllnnon explains these changes by ascribing them to the more active outdoor life of the girl of today The days when girls remained indoors and worked samplers and guarded their complexions have ceased to be Girls and boys now hold their own together on the golf links on the tennis grounds or with the bicycle Girls go to see athletic games and arc themselves them-selves acquainted with the gymnasium As a natural consequence the literature litera-ture of action which appeals so powerfully power-fully to boys has Its attraction for the Ilrls m l wfIolL The change Is only the most recent step In the movement away from the artificial and often mawkish Sunday School book of a generation ago which was the beginning of modern juvenile fiction The time seems to have come when girls as well as boys demand fic tioncharacters with red blood In their veins and neither Is content with the promise of an early demise and a cherub carved on his or her tombstone It Is a matter for congratulation that healthful Juvenile books of the newer and better kind are to be had In abundance abun-dance Chicago Tribune f New Library Books The following books will be placed upon tho shelves of the Salt Lake public pub-lic library Monday morning October 5th MISCELLANEOUS BuellPaul Jones Founder of the American Navy two volumes I Conncllcy John Brown Hudson Divine Pedigree of Man More Utopia Saint Amand Napoleon III at the Height of Ills Power FICTION Anstey The Brass Bottle Bellamy The Duke of Stockbrldge Banner Hardpan King Rays Daughter Hope Qulsante Horning Peccavi LoomisYankee Enchantment Juvenile Ju-venile MooreThe Conscience of Coralle RobertsThe Heart of the Ancient Wood Scawell The House of EgremonL Turnbull The Golden Book of Venice Ven-ice i I Warman Short Rails Wilson Rafnaland I |
