Show 4 r L i r r 1 a L r t j r t r f l ai i t fl l I r Fdpltl ii li I Itr trn TTJ f I + d r r + 1 1rk 1 I 1 1 i ri 1 h iI y + I I 1 i a tn 11 1 I art t r p t1 I r r r a q 1 I v Si D I fi I i iL h I I t 1 f o i I mxQ A A 1I I 1 jtt r ry 6oss II What promises to bo the most magnificent mag-nificent memorial publication of the Gutenberg semimillennium celebration celebra-tion Is announced by the Llopsie house of Drugelln In a volume of some lf0 folio pages containing selections of masterpieces from the besi anclnet and modern literatures oC the Orient and the Occident In the type of the original origi-nal language accompanied by a modern mod-ern translation the whole being intended In tended for the scholar and the bibliophile biblio-phile and for libraries Only COO copies numbered will be printed a u u Rudyard Kipling has positively refused re-fused the most dazzling inducements I to appear on the lecture platform and I the usually irresistible Moj Pond I mourns There is such a thing Wrote Mr Kipling as paying 1J5 cents for a dollar and though 1 suppose sup-pose there Is money In the lecturing business it seems to me that the bother the fuss the being at every bodys beck and call the night tourneys tour-neys and so on make It very dear I have seen a few men who lived through the fight but they did not look happy M V O In a little village in the heart of Touraine says the Onlooker there still Jives a small brown old 1 man whose great pride Is that he once had the honor of making a pair of breeches for Balzac When he trotted up to the chateau where Balzac was slaying he found the great author writing a novel In the garden staring wildly about him while he covered sheet after sheet of paper with words for which a world was waiting The tailor was forced to Interrupt the progress of the book in order to take the measurement of the writer Balzac submitted to the operation opera-tion with a good grace and made only one remark to the operator This remark re-mark was enigmatic No feet he said and returned to his work The tailor In great perplexity inquired a servant what was meant and was I informed that Balzac wished to have I the trousers made without openings at the bottom so that he could sit and write in them without having to put on slippers f 0 r The vogue of publishing the love letters let-ters of great men seems to be spreading spread-ing As we have already noted there aro the Brownings Victor Hugos and Bismarcks in English translations transla-tions with the possibility that Geothes i will shortly be added to tho list And now we are promised an English translation trans-lation of the love letters of Balzac which were recently published In book form in France This of course Is the famous correspondence between Balzac Bal-zac and a Polish lady Mme Hanska who became his wife only a few weeks before his death The whole affair might be 1 called a romance of the post for It began by a letter sent by Mine Hanska who was a complete stranger I to the author He replied to It and so a correspondence began which led to the meeting of the two and their eventual event-ual marriage e e 4 F Marion Crawford Is now at work on a novel of 250000 words the action of which Is limited to nineteen minutes min-utes by the stopwatch I v a 0 Who authorized the common use of l appreciate for enjoy A man may perfectly = appreciate something that he does not enjoy at all To appreciate a thing is to value it at Its true worth If it Is not worth anything and a man recognizes that fact he appreciates it just as much as the lady appreciates I the novel winch Is perfectly lovely I And worst of all why use get for have My son has gbt long arms Nonsense He did not get them he has them but there Is no arm shop where he could go and get themNew York Times I o 4 M Zola Is about to begin the serial r publication of the second work In the group of novels known as The Four Evangelists Tills Is I the story of r Mark and Js ontllted r Travail C Mr John Murray who was the special spe-cial guest of the Authors club at a dinner in London a short time ago in responding to tile toast of the evening had something to say about the literary liter-ary calling Those who sought after j the potentiality of wealth beyond the I dreams of avarice he declared must j not appeal to the great ht > urt of tho public or xo the great head of the public pub-lic but to the great stomach of the public It vas In pills or beer or perhaps per-haps soda water that wealth Jay and not usually in the realm of literature Mr Murray went on to say that the life of a publisher was one of constant toll and anxiety neverending sllll beginning trouble which might seem to suggest that It Is the publisher rather than the author whose only hope for great fortune resides In an 1 appeal to the lower Instincts of mankind man-kind But as a matter of fact the J f principle applies to both classes and it would be well if It were more clearly recognized by them both Genius In authorship can sometimes beat soda water or pills when it comes to the winning of large rewards It Is a familiar fa-miliar fact in literature today that a good novel Is for both author and publisher pub-lisher a kind of gold mine But it ought to be understood that practically no other form of literature has anything like the same earning capacity Many authors seem to think that their publishers pub-lishers are incompetent or that the world Is ungrateful If they = get but small returns from a work of historical or purely literary research It Is time they unlearned this notion and grasped the fact that above the modest sum which is all that many a good book can legitimately bring the practice of literature Is its own reward We find a writer In the Atlantic by the way reminding us of Johnsons dictum No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money but this only causes us to pray for the Increase of blockheads block-heads New York Tribune oj > REASONS FOR DOUBTING You are perfection he whispered She shook her head sadly Alas no she sighed I fear no man could come so near perfection as this In point of fact not so much as a sofa cushion intervened between them I as she spoke Detroit Journal o 4 o Anyone vhow ill lake the trouble to look over the lists of the publishers announcements an-nouncements for the coming year must be convinced that whatever literary works the new century has In store it will make a fair beginning siyis a writer In the Chicago Record Despite the I discouragements which so many young writers claim to meet at the hands of the bookmakers never has there been a time when the demand for good writing was so keen when the competition among publishers was so earnest or the recognition awaiting new writers more ready So far al concerns con-cerns the magazines alone the rivalry for literary mailer which shall nttrict and hold public attention is astonishing astonish-ing Not only are there more periodicals periodi-cals than ever before but there are some which seriously = make an attempt to publish matter of high grade It may be that the output of books taken j In the nutss may not be so satisfactory t for the magazine contains much which Is excellent but which Js not suitable I for republication In book form Admittedly = I mittedly moreover much of the fiction which Is likely to be printed will be trash although presented In a somewhat I some-what more careful literary style than was the trash which was served up to the reading public ten years ago For all that the general average Is high and the prospects getting occasional occa-sional works which will be far above the average Is excellent Tfie outlook for the readers of books and magazines nex year is on the whole decIdedly I bright 0 I A colored lawyer Washington in arguing a dog case recently before a Justice of the Peace stated that the question for the determination of the court was if vocctlous dogs shall be J allowed run at large In a dangerous community to bite little children that ought to bo killed when by summoning I magistrates they could condemn end kill them The court rather thought so too Si 4 Mr Swinburne who Is now gray hnlrcd lives in a suburban town and seldom seen In London says William L Alden In tho New York Times Saturday I Sat-urday Review Every day no matter what the weather may be he takes his I j constitutional and there has grown up I I n legend among his fellowtownsmen to I I the effect that Mr Swinburne has received re-ceived a large annuity on the condition I that he never once misses hiD dally walk It need hardly be said that this legend has no foundation In fact The poet In In good health though he has always had the look of a fragile man I wonder what he thinks of the discussion discus-sion of his rank as a poet That it one oC the things that most people supposed I to have been settled at least twenty live years ago 0 4 Mrs Marshall used to recall an occasion occa-sion when she found herself by some chance alone in a big drawingroom wIth Mr Goldwln Smith and as he volunteered no remark she ventured to break the Ice by saying she had been I reading Tennysons Idylls which she thought most lovely Had he road them No was the short icpy not I being a young lady I have no time to I waste on sugary romance And there was silence again while the Tennyson I enthusiast in white muslin and blue ribbons duly crushed retired Into her shell once more o 4 6 Mr Ernest SItonThomas Is about to bring out his fourteenth book on Wild Animals I Have Never Saw I 9 O 0 Holger prachmann the Danish poet who has just been entertained in London Lon-don by English men of tellers js a tall whitehaired man of unconventional and roving spirit He has made a vigorous 1 vig-orous translation of Byrons Don Juan Into Danish Danisho o 4 LITERARY CONSOLIDATION A good example Is set by the trustees of thc New York Free Circulating library li-brary who have adopted resolutions setting forth that It Is desirable that all the libraries of New York should be I under a single management and that the public library Is I possessed of the organization and equipment necessary therefor and offering to consolidate for that purpose with tho public library 1 li-brary This corporation is said to have eleven buildings In different parts of the city and property of over 700000 In value It Is stipulated that Its property shall be kept distinct and all its trusts administered In accordance with < heir terms and that it shall have a representation repre-sentation on the general board These are practically the same terms on which the consolidation of the t Mercantile Mercan-tile library with the free library of Philadelphia was proposed some time ago and the larger Institution In New York has shown better I judgment in recognizing re-cognizing the value of concentration In I all such work The New York Public library is itself the result of a consolidation o the Astor As-tor Lennox and Tlfden foundations by I means of which it Is possessed not only I of large and valuable collections but oC liberal endowments and Is ablo to accomplish ac-complish the largest rcsuUs 5n time most economical way Our free library ht re has shown such vitality and has male I such rapid and vigorous growth that the maintenance of Independent circulating circu-lating libraries for general ustf + Is no longer reasonable when readers could I be so much better served under one I centralized system Philadelphia 1 Times S 4 I Over a thousand hitherto unutilized Heine Mss and letters have Just been acquired by Prof Hans Meyer of Lelp ale Among these Is the earliest ISo IS-o AHa Troll embracing 200 sheets containing many corrections The letters let-ters addressed to the poet by relatives and friends throw much valuable light on phases of his life o a v Mr Maurice Hewlett attributes much + of his literary bent and skill to his father but speaks indifferently of tho influence of school and college life Most of his days were given to reading I and writing and he left Oxford without with-out obtaining a scholarship I wasted I my time he says concerning these university days I dreamed I tried 1 r to do things too big for me and threw them up at the first failure I diligently I dili-gently pursued every false god I dont think I wus very happy and I am sure I was very disagreeable I doubt now 1 if I was over a boy except for a short period when by rights I should have I been a man i I Mr Hewlett is a barrister but has I never practiced at the bar He has I upon occasion lectured on mediaeval themes at South Kensington and University Uni-versity college 0 9 r ORIGIN OF HOOLIGAN According to Dagonet in the Referee the term Hooligan owes Its origin to the Indistinctness of a witness and the misapprehension of a police court reporter I re-porter The name arose in this way I I In a wellknown and busy center of South London there has been for many I years a family of flower sellers One day some years ago pretty Polly L I was In the language of the fraternity I Coppered by the Bozzer for willful damage One of the witnesses brought I I against her by the police was a young borough rough While he was giving I I 1 his evidence Polly according to the 1 I police report shouted out Dont believe I l be-lieve him sir hes one of the Hooll I gans The reporter afterward frequently fre-quently used the expression In his copy when he was describing cases of assault as-sault by the borough gangs Gradually Grad-ually the word crept in and presently it took deer root and blossomed and became a permanent ornament of the English language Now let us find Polly L who is still selling flowers at the old pitch and ask her why she called the hostile witness a Hooligan Now Polly youve heard the story of your remark Did you make it Yes sir I did and It was true Why did you call the lad a Hooligan A what sir Let me write it down I I so look Hooligan1 No sir thats not what I said I said Dont believe him sir hes one of the Hooley gangs Eh not Hooligan 1 NoIr No-Ir I dessay thats how they put It In the papers but I said one of the IIoo ley gangs cus he belonged to a lot of young chapsmostly liaddlck smokers they waswhat used to go about In gangs and was all under a chap what they called Captain which his name was Hooley They was always called the Hooley gangs Jn the borough and thats why I said the chap as spoke against me was one of em And so he was sir and one of the wust though he did turn nark and try to put mo away London Telegraph n 4 fit THE VINE Tho wino of Love Is music And the feast bf Love is song And when Lovo sIts down to the banquet Love sits long I 1 Sits long and arises drunken But not with the feast and tho wine r 1 He reeloth with his own heart Thai great rich Vine James Thompson in N Y Tribune I 0 0 I LADY NAIRNES POEMS > An article In the American Melho I dist Magazine calls attention to Lady Nalrne the author of The Land o the Leal and quotes an anecdote re I latlng to Gladstone which shows that t I even the most scholarly may blunder at times Some fifteen or twenty years I ago Mr Gladstone delivered a political i speech In one of his Midlothian campaigns cam-paigns and as the Scotch Liberals had always been faithful to his leadership Mr Gladstone in a grateful tone referred re-ferred to tho country to which his on grandfather belonged as the land o the leal The distinguished states i man could not have been familiar with I the poem or he never would have made j the awkward mistake It Is singular that Lady Nairne Is so i little known At Scotch banquets and I I other festivities Burns is the great sons writer and Lady Xalrnc is never mentioned Many of her best pocma have been attributed to Burns Scott and others In the memories of Thomas Hood written by hIs children mention Is made of Hoods last illness and of his repeating one night with singular effect ef-fect during his delirium Burns lovely love-ly words Im fading awa Jean Asa As-a matter of fact these lines wore written writ-ten by Lady Nairne years after the grass was green over Burnss grave But Lady Nalrne herself could keep I silence and hear the praise of her own I songs and ballads given to others For years not even her husband knew of j i I her gifts and when finally tho truth I was discovered by a friend she begged her not to loll Nairne for Nairne would surely blab Sho was equally unostentatious In her benefactions She once sent to Dr Chalmers a letter requesting that he would make a list of charitable objects ob-jects naming them in tho order of their necessity and she enjoined upon him the utmost secrecy After her death he obtained from her nearest heir permission I per-mission to reveal the secret Her poems show a wide range of sympathies from the merriest mirth to the tenderest pathos Were a Hundred Hun-dred Pipers and a and a has the martial music and the troad of an army vith banners and no wonder for Lady I Xairne was named for Bonnie Prince Charlie and her grandfather was one of his most loyal adherents Her latest I lat-est poem was written at the age oC 78 The first stanza Is I r Would you bo young again I So would not 1 Ono tear to memory given I Onward Id hie Lifes dark Hood forded ocr All but at rest on shore Say would you plunge onco more With homo so nigh Chicago Chronicle New Books for the Library The following books will be added to the public library Monday morning December 24th MISCELLANEOUS Jubllep History of the Latterday I Saints Sundayschools Reference Collier Tho Trusts Conn Story of German Life Done Women of the Bible Reference Refer-ence I 1aijloa Home Economics FICTION E V BScven Gardens and a Palace Pal-ace FullerThe Last Refuge JonesChevalier St Dennis Wells Love and Mr Lewisham JUVENILE BurnetteSarah Crew Dodge Donald and Dorothy o i b N 1 ° f t 1 u M 7ti r t x Cam w a 3 Id i1 r pr r c Oj o rI t a O Q 0 o o cI d tflJ7 1f Jl 1 I + jI f e f 1 I r Z r t b r f rt r a r I 1 j i R a 1 1 s a f r fT r |