Show = J a 1i r A r = S V 6 AH < S er = < fl Jtf2 w f < 1l J 0 p 1 8 = il I W C if l < I L b I r t 4 1 < 4 < i tt j c4 nfij ff t > I ijJ < t I I A or t o = 4f 11 L tIi < 1A I1 T i r L C II lmli i I1 f i w r rf R tiLl t de uLJ1ijllhi I J e r2 l llIi i il j t tt l 7 aliiJ 4i 1i II IJ f I t Jf ll J I s tT r 1 I i I J I un VI 0 i nI = I I 11ij bt1i1 I 111 lIi I ii j I < I I > W H 4 A Li j J II I I 3n London a press representative has been golnt avound among the publishers publish-ers trying to find out by simple questions ques-tions how popular Shakespeare really is among the reading public and It is gratifying to learn that the bard still holds his own The following replies were made to the question Is Shakespeare Shakes-peare still popular Xo nlhor nlJt hut comes anyvvliere neat him replied one publisliinjr house WP have tuo editions of our owna choice edition of tree calf the other a strongly bound cleartyped one at 3s Gd They both sell well which thows that he Is equally cherished cher-ished by upper and lower classss We sell certainly over 3000 copies a year and we are only one firm just think of the many other editions Another firm said Undoubtedly If we can judge by the demand for him We have sold 37000 complete pets of one edition alone each set costing 12 or o according to binding And the demand is such a growing one that we are now producing him In another formA form-A third answered shortly Everybody I Every-body knows he is You might just as well ask me If the Bible is still popular popu-lar I Mme Sarah Grand says that In her youth she wrote fiction verse and essays es-says The essays she declares are very funny chiefly marked by the I commonplaces of the theory olf life which are now ass cated with the Old Woman They are almost as ridiculous ridic-ulous Schopenhauer Then adds Mrn Grand I began to think 0 0 Huxleys son and biographer in the 0 newly published Life and Letters of his father cites two amusing examples of fnlsprints In the proofs of an article that the great scientist had written for the Nineteenth Century You have a reader in your printers office Huxley wrote to the editor who provides inc with jokes Last time he corrected when my MS spoke of the pigs as unwilling porters of the devils into porkers And this time when I writing about the Lords Prayer say current formula he has It canting formula W 3 Thq late Max Muller had no high opinion of Mr Gladstones studies in Greek subjects In a letter dated lila lil-a d lately printed he refers to the statesmans Homeric Synchronism I looked at Gs bookit is very disappointing disap-pointing So great a man so Imperfect a scholar He has no idea how shaky tHe ground Is on which he takes his stand The reading of those ethnic names in the hieroglyphic inscriptions varies with every year and with every scholar I do not blame themtheir studies arc and must be tentative and they are working In the right direc tion But the use which G makes of their labors is to me really painful all the more so because it is cleverly done and I believe bona fide III THE CONTEMPTIBLE CRITICS A dog Is baying at tho moon Ah let him bay An ass is braying in the lane 0 Ah let him bray A critic never yet wan aIr So let them sneer and snarl I care Not what they say At last the fearful gloom begins To clear away I hear a hundred ftilry harps Commence to play Farewell to bitter liopelcsa days The critics have but words of praise For me today SE Kiser in Chicago TimesHerald o American authors are hopelessly exposed ex-posed to the piracy of Russian pub Ushers An Interesting example of the pillage which constantly goes on Is the fact that the life or I Alexander the Great by President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of Califor nia which was published J as a serial in the Century and then brought out in book form by the Putnams is now being reproduced In Russian in the Ncvrfj a magazine published in St Pc tersburg The Castaigne drawings arc being printed with the text G H Putnam who knows more about copy right law than any other American In a recent letter to President Wheeler I explains the difficulty of securing pro I tection against Russian piracy as fol lows Russia has thus far kept it self outside of international copyright conventions There is no treaty or convention arrangement between RUG SILL and the United States Russia has also refused to become a party to the convention of Berne If Russia had accepted the obligations of the con vention of Berne American books 0 would be protected In Russia through an < English copyright At present there is no means of preventing unauthor ized Russian editions The books sold by l Russian booksellers are in fact In very large part piratical editions of Trqneh and German worlcs We have therefore on record a very long seriea of cases of Russian literary appropria I tion o v What are you doing nowadays Mr TrYhard In the Way ° f making a name f9t yourself marine1 writing poetry for the magtLzlnes How does that happen critics VcU > I kept reading slurs by the saying there was no real poetry written any more and I thought Id just go to work and show them whats what5 what whatAnd how are you succeeding Fine Pine Ive had a doxen Poems refuHecl already by thf best maga Jf55jnen Chicago TlmpsHerald S S Of nll the mohumcnlH that may be I 1 ralHecl to the memory of Rusltln L likely to he more Interesting none than the block of 0 TolIow ale atone Just placed on I the 0 crest of Friars Crair Derwentwater near Rusklnu home lhc I spot has a peculiar appi applOHIut T a The filSt thing l remember as an event In liCe he write was be ing lakeii i by my nurse to tlje brow of Friars Cruff Dervenlater The ito i-to foregoing wordsare inscribed on the I stone together with this insetIption from Deucallon I The spirit of trod is i around you in 0 the air you breathe hla glory In the light you FCC and In the fruitfulness of the earth and the joy of his creatures crea-tures He has written foi you day by day his revelatlon and he has granted you day by day your dally bread On the opposite side of the monolith facing the lake view which Ruskin described I de-scribed as one of three most beautiful beauti-ful scenes In Europe says the Acacl i I emy is a bronze medallion by Signor Lucchesi representing Ruskin In his prime The head is in profile and in I high relief a crown of olive Is seen In the background over the head and among its leaves Is Introduced Rus klns motto Today Tho Inauguration Inaugura-tion of this finely conceived memorial was as simple as we could wish The unveiling was done by Mrs Severn S V The profession of letters is rapidly losing its purely literary aspect says the Philadelphia Record It is taking on more and more every year the aspect as-pect of a purely business transaction Authors seldom deal directly with editors nowadays says John Luther Long the young Philadelphia novelist whose Japanese stories have commanded I com-manded such vogue They simply I place their wares in the hands of one I of a score or more of literary agents I in New York who undertake to sell j J ycur manuscripts usually on a 10 percent per-cent commission basis subject to the approval of the author These middlemen middle-men are building up quite a business and the author doesnt begrudge them their commission because they save him a great deal of bother Wlien he finishes a manuscript he simply places it In the hands of his agent In whom he has Implicit confidence and awaits II Its sale These men have made a special spe-cial i study of the exact wants of various i vari-ous editors and publishers and they know just what would appeal to one editor and what wouldnt appeal to another They know the field thor I oughly and r they save the authors an 1 rti 4t l lrt A 4 1 n 1 A u tl v VL OJVLI v 4 < r Tolstoy Is nothing If not frank and he spares none of the contemporary writers whose work he disapproves He makes a scathing attack on the poets of the decadent school represented repre-sented by Baudelaire Mallarme and Verlaine nor does ho spare Maeter linck Pierre Louys Marcel Prevost Gerhardt Hauptmann Edmond Ro stand Rudyard Kipling and others As to Wagner Tolstoy regards him as the very antichrist of music It was while writing h1s last novel Resurrection Intended by him as a model of Christian artthat Tolstoy laid aside his work to pen this credo He admits that art Is necessary to I mans happiness but true art he argues Is based on religion and this Is an age of unbelief In every human community he says there is a religious sense of what Is good and what Is bad and It Is this religious sense which decides de-cides the valur of all expressed through tt art It was so with the Jews the Greeks the Romans the Chinese the Egyptians and the Indians and also with the early Christians Chris tianity during the early centuries only recognized as good art the legends the lives of the saints all that exprcssed love h of Christ purely secular works wore condemmed as bad art From Tolstoys Denunciation of Contem pprary Art By Arthur Hornblow In the December Bookman S 4 5 WANTED A BOOK OF TRAVELS I Oil who shall writs the voyages clown Wlere dragonflies set sail and drown Vimt i Jtnowi the rising of the craft Where fare the tat moths drunk and daft Oh h come historian of the sky Name UH the navies of the fly And trace the pathways up the blue V he re prayers arhte whore Ariel How Which SniilJrya sunuooU skylark knew bhow us the canvas gossamcithln Which wafts tho dreamboat Might Have Been 0 Fathom the lvujujs l ethersea And vvrile the Udyugey of A bee I Frederic Mrcucc Knowles in On I Lifes Stairway 4 5 Miss Harradcn has fpund a feminine translator in Norway who Is more than usualcalm in impudence This p rson entirely qmltted the last chapter from her version of Ships that Pass In I the Night and when remonstrated with coolly replied that In her Judg ment the story was greatly improved by the Qmjs ion of the last chapter S o < James Speddlng < the friend of Edward Ed-ward Fjugerldand t the biographer of Bacon did nut wish even to be called the advopalp pf Bacon An acquaintance ac-quaintance remembers him as saying that he had approached hlfj > subject with a perfectly unbiased mind not knowing In Which direction the cvl dence would take him and that he was I led by the ovlu > npe < < he met with to u jwrm me estimate ne did of Bacons character Head rJed thai he hart tried to be perfectly Impartial and If pos slhlc to give the benefit of the doubt to the other nlde He had not started with the slightest wish or1 intention of whitewashing fJncon The present book season may bi fitly characterized as a fiction year I Not only we believe arc there now being published more novels l romances and stories than during any previous autumn but for the most pjrt the standard seems higher and malces a better claim to being literature than In other years says the New York Times Saturday Review It IK evident that the same condition prevails In England for the Academy In Us current aunt ber holds ip Its hantlH In amazement at thp hcopH of novels sent for Its ex amination and Is moved to apologize to lie readers for thij sipaco accorded reviews of them and adds The In ference IK that a vast number of peo pie road novels and nothing else That Is not an encouraging thought A I careful ixanilnailon of the catalogues of renrra > nLailvc publishers however shows that they arc quite as strong In serious literature as ever and IC It be true in thip country an the Academy says It IB In England that people seek i more mere amusement in book than they formerly did It Is at the same I time gratifying to say that the sources of amusement are more varied enlightened en-lightened and worthy of attention than ever before 0 Sarah Grand the novelist who Is engaged en-gaged In a sharp controversy with an English clergyman as 10 the effects of her stories upon the minds of the I young was born in Ireland of English parentage She J began writing at the nge of 11 and at 16 was married to an army officer with whom she traveled 1 In Ceylon China Japan aud Egypt irer contributions to periodicals were at first returned with unfading regu I busily but ahe refused to be ells cfouragcd and kept on sending manuscript manu-script to tho publishers until they were compelled to give her a hearing Idealn her first important work was published at her own cost while The I Heavenly TIns perhaps her most successful effort hud to wait three I years for a publisher Sarah Ginndr position in contemporary English I I literature has boon the subjectof much controversy She has many friends I and many enemies Her real name is Mrs Chambers McFall U a co I I I LIFES COLORS J Theres many a hue ami some I knew J In I the skeins ot u weaver old Ah thoro arc the while of the IIIjshand Tho glow of iho silky gold I And tho crimson missed In the llpsy I I Uhwod And the blue of the maidens eye Just look at the strands In the wen of life And sec the weavers dye Irving BachcllLi In the December Book man I a A YOUNG POETS AND GREAT ONES Mr Andrew Lang writing of the way young poets used besiege the gieater lights of the Victorian cia by sending I them presentation copies of their first Imaginative children says Longmans 1 Magazine September j By 1815 when ho SO < was iti Tennyson I had become the recipient of the other poets poems Rascals sen fmc theirs I I I per post from America books I of which I cant get through one page I 1 for of all books the most Insipid reading read-ing is secondrate verse Coleridge and Wordsworth could not read Tennyson I they were too old he was too young Very soon he was tofeel like lnem i it1 > I I most every book of verse Hew straight at him like a moth Into a candle I I though I suppose that such books as Mr Matthew Arnolds did not automa f tlcally assail him Miv Brownings arrived I ar-rived quite late from Mis Browning I Nothing Is so llkelylto put down a I recognized poet asto flop a book heavily heavi-ly I down in front of him You might as I I well throw a fly with a heavy splash at a wary old trout Tennysons friends 0 cast his verses as lightly as possible over Coleridge and Wordsworth but these old fish hardly looked up at the lure This Is a lesson for young authors I fear that tickling not fair fishing tickling by Judicious flattery is the way to catch the big fish Praise them do not try to get them to praise you That may come later but the recog nlzed bard swims away whenever so pretty a little book of rhyme is presented pre-sented to him He has seen so many A trout in the test has been known to rush off with every sign of terror when a real olive dun floated near him i Even real poetry Tennysons alarmed Coleridge and Wordsworth Of course there are exceptions Southey and I Scott used to look at presentation copies and praise the donors Mr Browning I have been told was I equally good naturad Perhaps our modern poets rise frcelyvat presentation presenta-tion copies from beginners On the whole however the plan of tickling eeems decidedlythe likeliest way of catching your poet What I particularly particu-larly liked about him is that he did not press on me any verses of his own so Tenhyaon wrote about Mr Swin burne in 1S5S Mr Swinburne must have been quite a boy in 1S5S but he was wiser than many much older poets I The Interesting announcement was made recently by Prof Lielzmann In n lecture l at Weimar that a large number of poems by Wilhelm von Humboldt have recently been discovered While he was looking through the Humboldt family archives at Tegel he discovered I a surprising quantity of theseproduc lIons mostly sonnets Their contents on account of the repeated references iu them to contemporaneous events are of special interest and their form Is said to betray the hand of a master Prof Lletzmann has been commissioned commis-sioned to get out a new edition of You Ilumboldts works S S S There is a movement on foot In Boston Bos-ton for the erection of a monument of Edgar Allan Poe which will be put up in the Public Gardens which adjoin f II the historic Common a A Just and touching tribute to a goodman good-man Is that paid by Mr Howells in Harpers Monthly to the late Prof Child one who In a world where so many people are grotesquely miscalled was most fitly named For no man I adds Mr Howells ever kept here more I perfectly and purely the heart of such ns the kingdom of heaven Is of than I Francis J Child He was then in his prime and I like to recall the outward image which expressed the Inner man as happily as his name He was of low stature and of an Inclination which never became stoutness but what you most saw when you saw him was his face of winning refinement very regular regu-lar with ejes always glassed by gold rimmed spectacles 4 straight short t I most sensitive nose and a beautiful mouth with the sweetest smile that I over beheld and that was as wise and sluewd as It was sweet In a time when every other man was more or less bearded he was cleanshaven and of a delightful I freshness of coloring which his thick sunny hair clustering upon his fioad in close rings admirably setoff set-off I believe he never became gray and the last time I snw him though he was broken then with years and pain his face J had still brightness m of his inextinguishable youth It Is well known how great was Prof Childs x scholarship in the I branches of his Harvard Work and how especially how uniquely offuctlve It was in the study of I2nglfsb and Scot L tish balladry I to which ho gave so many years of his life He wasa poet In his nature and he is wrought with passion as well as consummate knowledge In the achievement of aa monumental u task ns any American has performed But he might have boon Indefinitely less than he was In any Intellectual wise and yet been precious to those who knew him for the gentleness and the goodness which In him were protected l from misconception by a final dignity as delicate and as Inviolable that of Longfellow hi mael fNew York Trib I une I New Library Books I I I The following books will be added to the Salt Lake City public library Mon I day December 3rd MISCELLANEOUS Bullon Tho Men of the Merchant Service DunnjMr Dooloys Philosophy FarnTmm Life oC Francis Park man I iosLerA Century or American Di plomacy Tame3rn and Around the Grand Canyon Howels Literary Friends and Ac quaintances Macdonald Paris of the Parisians 0 Makato Japanese Notions of Euro pean Political Economy ScatonThompson MrsA Woman Tenderfoot Williams Tho Story of Nineteenth Century Science J UVENILE t Barton The Prairie Schooner < < Brooks A Son of the Revolution Drysdale The Treasury Club Grlfils Pathfinders or tho Revolu tionMunroc Munroc Big Cypress Persons Our Country in Poem and L I Prone I Scawcll Quarterdeck and Foksle rd |