Show TT H A 46 c I L4 I eEr I I I h i C I Lr J 1i j hp 1 A1 t i I 1 AM t i F r II 1 I A j I I 1t I L 1 I We may oon bo In a position to study the lost history of Babylon as we j can nor study that of Greece and I Rome Ina recent lecture at the Industrial I I In-dustrial Art Museum at Berlin Prof 1 I Delltzch the celebrated Orientalist and j I explorer stated his hope says Blblla I June that 4 n n short time It will I be possible to reconstitute the history 1 j j of Babylon from Its monuments Contemporary I Con-temporary Inscriptions on monuments I f show that the excavators are unearthing I i unearth-ing the relics of a prehistoric epoch 1 antecedent to the period to which we I usjjigii Abraham The list of kings will j furnish an excellent foundation for the I historical reconstruction of the epoch I This has been made possible by the 1 i discoveries of the expedition sent ouL f by the German Oriental society under I the direction of Koldewey Nebuchad I nezzars favorite temple has already been explored and the excavators are now attacking the edifice proper in which Cyrus sinned the edict authorizing I I authoriz-ing theleturn oC the Jews to their own land and In which Alexander died a In Poland It Is worth while to be a i distinguished man oC letters The announcement an-nouncement Is made that the people of Warsaw have decided to signalize I Henrylc Slenklewlczs Jubilee by a gift to him oC a line estate In that province The presentation Is to take place In November i Dr Otto Braun who died In Munich recently was one of the twentyfour literary men portrayed In Paul Ilcyses Das lltterarischc Munchen and for nearly a core of years a prominent figure In the Intellectual and social life of the Bavarian capital Dr Braun was an ardent lover of Spanish literature litera-ture and his volume of poems entitled Aus Allerlel Tonarten of which a second enlar ell edition appeared In 3SS consists In part oC excellent trans I InU ns from the Spanish His villa at Munich he bequeathed to the Schll t lerstlftunp for the bcnellt of needy authors au-thors 0 C S Meeting Mr H D Traill only a week 01 tjvo before his death writes A B Walklcy In Literature I complained to him that books of theatrical gossip of which a particularly tiresome specimen had Just then appeared were as dull as entomological records lie replied with a sly smile Are they not often the anme l thins V O William Stearns Davis the author of A Friend of Caesar has juot won the Thayer scholarship at Harvard This honor Is given only for brilliant work in classical archaeology The world grows smaller day by day and the old walls of linguistic and racial differences are crumbling away The latest addition to English writers Isa bright little Hindu woman whoso lectures are well known In the United States She comes of a hlghcasto family fam-ily and her name Is S Kajahgopaul Her work la 1 a compilation of the Hindu r childrens songs and her own metrical compositions Here and there Is an odd resemblance between the ancient Indian songs and games and those of our own race Where the AngloSaxon child refers to the dog the cow and I the bear the Hindu child speaks of the tiger the buffalo and the elephant Saturday Evening Post a 7Ir Frederick Hawkins the author of 0 f the best of all the lives of Edmund Kean and founder of the English pub lication called the Theater died lately at tho age of 01 years Ho was long connected with the London Times of which his father was the subeditor I He wrote also twovolumes of Annals of the French Stage His Kean was written when hewn < 1 only 20 years old I The English periodicals still keep talking about the completion of The Dictionary of National Biography It appears that the coat of producing this monumental work was In the neighbor hood of 5750000 and Its publisher George Smith Is quoted as saying that lie will consider himself most fortunate it the financial return of the dictionary diction-ary shall equal half of his expendi ture The most prolific contributor to the dictionary has been Sidney Lee who furnished materials which If reckoned I reck-oned in that way would be equivalent to three complete volumes Five other r contributors wrote what would amount to ten and a half volumes S S a I Mrs Schuyler Crownlnshleld has a book In press which It in mid will be published aa soon as the author and publisher can agree upon u title This is not an uncommon stumblingblock to publication In these days when the marketable value of a title Is recog i nized bv both author and publisher often from diametrically opposite points of view S 0 GJftqd Authoress want to leave with you a novel of clerical life with a popular preacher for Its hero CautlouR Publisher Controversial novels dont go your popular preacher will drive all my orthodox renders away from my next novel I G AUlesa you my popular preacher preach-er doesnt pi each He docint do any I thing but organize strawberry festivals i and play coif I C POh thats all right I guess the book will take Boston Transcript i t The Situation The AuthorI wish I had time enough to write a good i book HiB < 1Yhy not take It The Author Cant afford to I am too busy writing successful ones Life a a To the general public John Oliver t Hobbes or Mra Craigic is known as a irettyIittlo woman who was the sue cessful petitioner In a very sad divorce case and writes bright plays r and bright novcla Butu3 a matter of c fact JJrfl Cralgle Is a great deal more than this She Is not at all what her books would have her scorn She la 1 very well read and it deep thinker who has made philosophy a special study 1 i i 1 and has become a Roman Catholic from honest conviction She Is said to be a little bitter In conversation for life has not been altogether kind to her but in reality she Is a very sweetinitured woman who has a host of friends oC 1 whom tho greatest Is her little boy f I the very delight of her existence She lives with her father John Morgan Richards a charming American gentleman gen-tleman In Lancaster Gate Mrs I Cralgle took the name of John Oliver Hobbes because she thought no publisher pub-lisher would take Some Iflmotlons and a Moral 1C they knew It was written by a girl of 22 Her latest book Robert Rob-ert Orange has just appeared Quo Vadls has smitten Mascagni the composer and he announces that he will make it Into an opera with an Italian libretto o DEDICATIONS IN RECENT BOOKS Martha Baker Dunn In Memory Street To my father a man whose brain Is as clear as his conscience and whose long record of stainless purity and in tcgrlty Is his childrens best heritage this book fs affectionately I dedicated Harriet L Kcoler in Our Native Trees To the memory of Phyllis and Nicholas Nich-olas my loving companions through field and woodo this volume Is dedicated dedi-cated Phyllis and Nicholas being two dogs Marie Corelll in Boy A Sketch To my dearest friend In the world Bertha Vyver who has known all my life from childhood and has been the witness of my work from the beginning begin-ning this simple story is gratefully and lovingly dedicated William Stearns Davis In A Friend of Caesar To my father William Vail Wilson Davis who has taught mo more than all my books George Gary Eggleston In The Last of the Flatboats To my lastborn boy Gary Egglc ston a brave manly fellow who knows l how to swim how to catch fish how to handle his boat how to shoot straight with a rifle and how toc tell the truth every time I dedicate this story about some other boys of his kind Lillian Bell In As Seen by Mo To that most interesting speck of humanity nil perpetual motion and kindling Intelligence and sweetness un spcakable my little nephew Billy absence ab-sence from whom racked my spirit with its most unappeasable pangs of homesickness home-sickness and whoso constant presence In my study since my return hassparcd the public no small amount of pain S C Mr A H Millars recent attack In the London papers on the Omar Khay yam erase has Its counterpart in an article by Mr Edward Fawcett In the New York Journal This writer contends con-tends that the Omar Khayyan fad takes Its place In a long lino of English fads and fevers connected with Tur gene Browning Maeterlinck and others oth-ers All these Cad 1 said Mr Fawcett are dead or dying and the Omar fad will die too and the sooner the better It has shown up the hypocrisy oC English En-glish ethics o Mr Gcorg Moore has lately come forward with a novel proposition that instruction In tho public schools of tho Irishspeaking districts In Ireland should be conducted the Irish language lan-guage Mr Moore contends says the London Academy that the English language burdened with 100 years of Iftorature has lost its frcnshness and that Its fate Is to become tho more language lan-guage of commerce ns Latin became the language of theology The literature litera-ture of the future Mr Moore thinks will be written in small languages rather than in the universal language Mr Moores views do not seem to betaken be-taken very seriously p though Mr Edmund Ed-mund Gossc has oxprcsBCd a mild approval ap-proval in print C SAt S-At tho time of his death Richard llovcy was engaged In writing a long noem on the subject of Dou Juan It Is possible that It will be published in fragmentary form o a The English Board of Education has prepared a syllabus of Instruction in English literature for schools of lower jprade It Is intended as an indication to lclchors who are dealing with young people who earn their living by I the sweat of the face The following general hints might well be adopted by American teachers with profit to themselves them-selves and tlmlr pupils It is impossible to teach English literature lit-erature In a course of lectures your object ob-ject must therefore be to awake interest Inter-est In It Keep In mind the continuity and development of literature but dwell mainly on tho greatest write Do not give lists of minor folk It IH not worth while merely naming any writer if you have not time to do more Read out good passages and at the end but not in the middle explain why they are good Encourage the students to read widely for themselves In un annotated an-notated texts and the better anthologies antholo-gies and if they like It to learn lyrics 1 or l short passages by heart On the whole It is perhaps best not to put a primer Into their hands until the course Is finished then one may be used for revIsion Literature < loLa not lend J itself It-self much to an appeal to the eye but tho exhibition of portraits rare edi tions and facsimiles of handwriting servos to stimulate Interest Do not forget local associations Where such exist the rule of exclusion of minor writers should bo modified Chatter ton Is not Shakespeare but if you are teaching at Bristol you will visit SL Marys Redcllffe Just as at Stratford you will visit the birthplace and Anne Halhaways cottage The lives of au thais should bo told only uo far as they affected their work A mans ijnr roundlngs such as the landscape orhlo home give him local cplor Episodes which bring out character Ce g Sidney I at Zutphcn arc valuable But avoid accidentals an enumeration of the posts at court held by Chaucer hi unc lose Do not be Plcel about dates there nro no dates of Importance In English literature It la sufficient to remember re-member what great writers wore rouchly contemporary and the larger > chronological periods centuries and reigns In which hey full o u w EXCUSES IlIR excuses tho forgiveness Of Ids good wire lulled to win For his toniruo was very very thick His excuses very thinDetroit Detroit Journal t u The theater owes a great deal to the Shakespearean drama said the gUl with the dark glasses and iiejjslve expression ex-pression t Yes answered the young man with wide cars some of tile best burlesques j I I over saw were on Hamlet and Romeo Ro-meo and Juliet Washington Star 0 a a The sceno of Gilbert Parkers new novel is laid In Quebec This is Mr Parkers favorite hunting ground This book which will be called The f Lane That lias No Turning will bu tIme fist book from Mr Parker since 1897 a V 0 Wo have often referred to the grievous griev-ous plight of those authors who Mini when they have I completed a book and christened It that some one else has used or Is going to use the snmc title or the same material So fur as the duplication of titles is concerned we would be glad as we have previously stated to see It avoided by the establishment estab-lishment of a registration ofllce but wo would be sorry to have any obstacle put In the way of the publication of as many hooka on tho came themo ns the authors choose to write Tho other day when Mr Frank Matthew Miss Dora McChcsney and Miss E A Thurlow dls coered that they wore all writing historical his-torical novels around Thoninn Wcnt worth Earl of Straftord l It Is not unlikely un-likely that each member oC the trio regretted the choice made by tho others But this occurrence IK illustrative Illus-trative of exactly the ort of thing that Is good for literature In general and for every author Every novelist is quick to state that he wants his work tested by the ordinary rules of competition Ho will admit with his lips if not in his heart that If some one else can treat a subject better than he can treat It he Is content to take second place What better opportunity then can he ask for the proper appraisal of hit work than the opportunity which Is offered by the simultaneous publication publica-tion of several other works on the same theme that he has attacked If the I author Is sincere lit will be the first ton to-n < that granted the Inferiority of his own work It should promptly be withdrawn from circulation But what a hero he would have to beN Y Tribune C S i THE UNESTHETIC HOUSE OF AN ESTHETE Not a few people who have glanced at the photographs of the Interior of Brantwood published since Ruskins death have had an uneasy conclousness that unless the camera prevaricated Ruskins taste In domestic decoration would dollltle credit even to one of the despised race of the Philistines Apparently Ap-parently the gloomy truth can no longer long-er be concealed A writer in the London Lon-don Dally Chronicle who visited Brant wood shortly before Ruskins death thus writes of the place The house Is miles away from everywhere every-where and even when you are there it Is very difficult to get in you enter at the back and the front door Is where buck doors usually are The house Is half museum and half old English En-glish home I had pictured It inside as tho brightest example of exquisite taste and thought It would be a lesson In beautiful esthetic decoration But the furniture was simply appalling I I have to this day nightmare recollections recollec-tions of an awful green tablecloth with a gilt edging to It and a cheap forlorn little vase In the center and thcro was a terrible sideboard and hideous chairs and pouches all huddled up In faded chintz Truly the master delivered us from early Victorian bad taste but he I himself remained in bondage to It all his days As for the wall papers they were enough to make Morris turn In his grave There was a legend attaching attach-ing to one designed I think by the master himself representing Very realistic bunches of flowers with detestable de-testable scrollwork zigzagging all about the flowers were so naturalistic that mlsrul lod l bees had been known to dash in at the windows and hurl themselves on the deceptive roses Once being much tormented by this repulsive i repul-sive wall paper and the aforesaid I legend I ventured to ask why his roses I were right though he had demonstrated that Zeuxlss grapes wore wrong and I was gilding softly Into his pet theory of representation versus Imitation when he burst Into laughter clapped his hands and said His bees were wise and I was a fool whereupon I changed the conversation The chairs and sofas I treated with distant respect as I knew Papa and Mama and old nurse had sat on them and so they were evermore sacred I have an etching of one special chair In i which a great part of Modern Painters I Paint-ers was written and I never look at It without taking my hat off Amid the bewildering ugly surroundings were exquisite drawings and rare paintings by Turner BurneJones Prout and Titian cabinets of shells and minerals rare books and still rarer missals and the delightful Incongiuily of It nil was a constant surprise and charm a f George MacDonald the novelist Is recovering from his long and serious lllncEs x S It Is said that L the original of George Eliots Felix Holt Is Gerald Massey the poet In the 60s George Eliot fre quently met him at John Chapmans V Dr Maurus Jokals Reminiscences soqn lo be published will review Hun garian political social and literary his tory for the past fifty t years TIIEWAJTJNG OF THE CIRCTE Tho uphill years drag by me I must wait Until Ulysses comes light of my eyes Cornea through the Eastern gate moro great than wise Then pnpsos through tho Wc t more wise than creat Alexander Jcssup In The Smart Sot j Gordon Craig a son of Ellen Terry and wcll known both as an artist and as the editor of the Page a monthly I publication Issued from tln Sign of the Rose Hackbridge Surrey a little tnagazine devoted to wood cuts music book plates menus and all sorts of ar tistic trifles lo i becoming very favorably favor-ably known as a designer engraver und printer of book plates AN ARABIC POET TO THE QUEEN The following poem which was pre sented to the Queen by the Khedive when he visited her Majesty at Windsor Wind-sor castle way written by Ismail As scm a famous barrister and man of letters He Is the author of many plays and poems and his work has a wldo vogue In Egypt wheio he occu pica a high position among literary men The poem appears In this weeks number of The County Gentleman 1 To Thino own glorious Country nnd to tho Court which do Thy queenly wings shade havo we come when In I the bright sky of Happiness vHhono > our own Happy Star bcnrer 10 Thine footstool of the choicest Tlmnks that Knypt 1 offer 2 0 J Lady of lilt Kingdom 0 Thou Off HI > rln > r of Those MighmL SUHH who miiircd alone with tlieli Kenlnifl iq Spheres under which roll IH humble middens iho I Heavenly Planets blight 3 Around Thy Sacred lica1 do the An golB wrcutho their Love gnrluiulH In tliowovcn with limo Love Jewels of human Soul Dot nit Tlmu u God I I desK too that before Theo have I rimes flinched nail Unclt with an urrrlKhtoil look 1 To Thy Swiiy have humbled them I MJlves iho Countries of Iho Earth and the mighty Orenitb with their rolling foaming Plulns nail tho fearful deserts with their rolling I sandy uivcd thuiidcratruck stood before Thee c To tho firmament of Thy Kingdom I novor approach tho harming Light nlnga nor the thmdorbolts Under Thy Mighty feet They stand anti I Rcnro till world und Thou art In Thy Peaco secure for the gnnta I I tooth never bleeds time sllox rock r G i All Men aro but a body to whom Thou art the thereto carrying llfo heuri nnd this thy Nation la the hoHom I III whloh such a heart ls ciuilnlnod 7 Ami all of them Thou rule t will Justice and lllchtcoubiicss and to bo ever prosperously earned on lathe la-the destiny of Thy aJlRhleol orders or desires CS 0 good good tIdings brIngs to tho world tho annlvrrsnry oC Thy ace Blou to the Thfofto ISnirlanil hUH been Impjiy with It nay the whole Century Cen-tury itself has been irradiated by its rejoicing hNlm 0 Ana bo here running nro tho Now oC VroHjierlty lo lay down the lint I thereof and cry Ever Victory Is tho atftllatlon of Victoria on tho Brltluh Throne I N 1J Kvory letter of the Arabic alphabet alpha-bet has nu arithmetical t value Now 1C nil till > letters of tho last Arable tleml Mllchb nro added together they will total IfOO which IB i the date of time lxiyllilrd anniversary oC the Queen Victoria |