Show A H 9 RMt LiRiT I L PAC I 1 11 I I Deaf as a post Is an actuality as regards Mr Swinburne Conversation with him Is almost impossible and he lives In a world of his own He owns something like a gold mine In the shape ofa large collection of pictures by Dante Gabriel RoBsetH S A romance by the late author of Looking Backward has just been discovered and Is I about to be published pub-lished Twenty years ago at the request re-quest of a friend who ran a village paper In the Berkshlres air Bellamy I wrote a serial called The Duke of Stockbrklge a historical romance I based upon Shaws rebellion Immediately Imme-diately afterward while waiting to put I this story into book covers he began Looking Backward So It was that The Duke of Stockbrldge lay practically practi-cally forgotten although Mr Bellamy more than once began to prepare It for final publication S A new book from the pen of Mark Twain 15 announced under the title The lan that Corrupted Hadley burg It will contain various descriptive descrip-tive sketches some of the titles of I vxhlch arc Diplomatic Play Mollies and Stirring Times In the Austrian Parliament The increased patronage of literature by classes which buy from the department depart-ment stoic and by others who go to the pubilc libraries has not diminished the numbers of those accustomed to buy editions do luxe says the New York Evening Post This very interesting and Important branch of the book business Is still in evidence and publishers of line and i costly volumes say that the present output of these valuables Is greater j than ever There Is at least one house In this city which devotes itself exclusively exclu-sively to editions de luxe ILJs not an uncommon thing for firms to issue magnificently bound editions of a standard writer printed on special paper and limited to fifty or a hundred or two hundred copies signed perhaps with the name of the nuthor and prepared pre-pared with the greatest attention to elegance and quality which command prices of 25 and 550 a volume a ft tHere t-Here arc some reminiscences of Thackeray from Mr Sutherland Ed arriss Just published volume of personal per-sonal recollections Thackeray was absolutely without affectation or false pride of any kind He did not mind speaking of himself and in answer to my inquiries after a conversation which had lasted sometime some-time as to whether the succcssof of Vanity Fair had taken him at all I b > surprise Very much so he replied And not myself alone he added When a littlE time before I had asked for permission per-mission to republish some tales from Erasers Magazine It was given to me with a smile almost an Ironical one as much as to say Much good may you get out of them They bring me in three hundred a year now Twclveandslxpencc a page he said was all he got for his contribu tions to the magazine and he expressed a hope that writing was better paid now than it was In his young days He told me that Turguencff had called upon him without any introduction pimply In the character I of a foreign admirer of his works and without say lug one word about his own literary position h a After airing her views on ItalJan poli tics through the mcdlim of a novel Oulda has written a book of essays which contains estimates of important personages from Joseph Chamberlain to Marjon Crawford a After tlie horrors of war the horrors I I of books aboutthe war The Acadejnv reports London publishers as bom barded with this sort of literary shell it adds The warbook business like thing el 5e Is overdone Within a every week the rights of no fewer than twentytlvo books about the war were offered to one American publiBher We are also to have a volume BhSop from Natal jv the Bishop of who was ut the < front with Sen Buller It Ia i in the form of and a diary friends waswrlltcl or the benefit Qf hlJ but the diocese urgent needs oC his = have Induced hIm to thpl consent to XataL publication i The Bishop oC a sanguine man We wish him and his diary B6od fortune o I Despite some adverse lplingH AbsentMinded criticisms nf I Beggar It is said that English thc Poem has brought tho war fund the slim or 185000 a 0 0 The dUPlication or HUcs prprnises to become a serious business as already seine Qf our publlshcl arc ndh1OUI Tho other day at tho eleventh hom and Ilt a good deal or of a novel b expense tho title rOIular be author had to hanged hefotc because it had boon Used or course nearly all tltiestc JaLins to proverbs or famll1al were and used to Hold up yeai ago > So Tb sayings 11ae I I title notwithstanding any is dansc1OUI approxlmallnb a proverbial tillo IiO rhls fact xplaln why Hamed many from rove tim pt chief the pre character nt tJ01C arc + 0 o in It America vas a curlmt Saying 100 c r iso that no natlvc oC mudaR knew the Bel or could Is 1nallt 13 UndelHtall what rhyme mc or meter statement 116hell In London Is to ba found In a bOok pub Tliij In 182j goes a tavern 011 Lo say thata party The dining writer at In that ai colony ngrced that = should all try thch hands at 151nr rhmcs mu and that the author oC the worst Couplet should JnE Thc prf laX thq reclcotl was obtaihed POCt by the who submitted thc GPecimcn or rhyme ConowlnS ag a Here she comes I and WLlics faIthful friend Is hhrd < s to nlocr tln The fOllowlnl big on the Island dCGcrlption or a land woulll becn b1acetd equal perhaps have AIHf 60 wlthoUll11 110 jumped Crom OIC > more inds and ICs clUes the rocks on to the I I I Had not the author ° r nn all rntlon Improved It by I I And 11 HO Withotit any mQrc In and and jUlU11eJI front oft the sands clift on to tho 1 I 4 U That IIlcr h1rai Ji ladY CathIaLl12 Tr nU flfI eff flyp IF or 1 Jlx rqlbTnontar Omnlnlcr Iagand I lorlcalalt various his bJ9JrDuhlcql ra6 Pnrt notes ald eH or tlw I fays p1nr3 arc In her handlillng ranslatjon 13 Crom and OLnC ur them own arc i I j ShLkaspe A1l L I A lIP have been discovered lately and are to be riubllshed soon a Houghton Miniln Co are preparing prepar-ing a complete edition of the works of Thomas Wentworth Higginson In spite of his 75 years Col Hlgginson I is at active with his pen as he has ever I been He makes his age as an excuse however for declining lecture engagements engage-ments that would take him far from iis 1 home In Cambridge a MOTHERHOOD An atoefire where none before had burned I Upon whose hungry flames the Icsstr part OC self is castl No anguish sting no I smart Can frighten back the soul when once has yearned Its strength to build and feed this holy lire No task too heavy none tno requisite 1 To one absorbing purpose and desire t Just there bcsldo her warm wee babe to Mo To feel the tiny hands extend and closo About her lingers and with raptured eyes To pazo Into the bit of azure sky Lut fall so neir Ah I hut a I mother knows There Is no cost too great for such a prlxe Elizabeth Perkins In Harpers Bazar I r < Mr Plnero In the course of his merry speech before the Society of Authors the other evening referred to the confusion con-fusion In the public mind produced by the aliases of popular authors Only I the other day he said while on a visit to a provincial town I found myself my-self silling beside a young lady who takes an eager If somewhat uninformed unin-formed interest In current literature I wish you would explain to me she said why many of our famous novelists appear to be so anxlQus to conceal their identity I hazarded the conjecture that It If I in some instances perhaps a precautionary precau-tionary measure on the part of those who may desire In later years the opportunity op-portunity of living down their successes suc-cesses cessesTell Tell me my companion went on evidently far from satisfied tell me have you ever met Mrs Cralglc 1 said I had had that privilege 1 And what Is your opinion of her as an author was the next question 1 had no hesitation In replying Assure As-sure ly ono of the most brilliant women wo-men writers any country has produced pro-duced I I agree with you said my fair friend I have rend every word she has written But whywhy does she persist In calling herself Anthony Hope Sir Ruskln has left a large number of unpublished MSS including portions por-tions of the lives of Reynolds and Turner Tur-ner which ho meant to write It Is i believed that most of these MSS will be published o a a Afloat and adrift on the Sea of Dreams Wo two we two together In an idle boat ndrltu afloat Through all the summer weather In tho silent night where the moonlight will to And the single lodestar cleams In an Idle boat adrift afloat On the beautiful Sea of Dreams 0 I walcebut the dream lives on for both We two wo two together Hold fast we seem by I the foolish dream I Hound by the dreamstrands tether Through the lolling day in the fray al wav Though hid from the lodestars beams By the foolish dream hold fast we seem On the foolish Sea of Dreams And I know come time wo shall dream again We two wo two together Shall rail soulfreo the Impossible sea Through nil tho summer walhcr Where the while surf breaks and the dreamer wakes And the single lodestar gleams I shall como to you and the dream turn true By the beautiful Sea of Dreams Philadelphia Press S 0 a It Is the fashion to get up novels as one gets up a book on astronomy 01 bottle washing Emulating the historical his-torical romancer who delves first In one period and then another the contemporary con-temporary novelist devotes one book to life In a lumber camp the next to a particular university a third to Monte Carlo or a match factory He is strong on local color If his heroine a shop girl he can tell you and does tell you everything about a department store from lop to bottom For the novelist of this sort the gieat show at Parts r offers p unique opportunity The life of those officially attached in one way or another to the gigantic enterprise mtiPt Ineyilably lake its color from Its surrounding Thero must be peculiar situations among tho denizens of the ldL shows Out of the commercial rivalry Involved in the occasion there must spring some strange occurrences And an exhibition llko that at Paris Is a world In itself it has the odd quality qual-ity of seeming to share in the general permanence of civilization whereas it Is = one of the most ephemeral things wti know One novelist has begun to use the opportunity but so far It stems likely that his stories will only deal with a few traveling Americans and will rrtake their advantures Incidental tc a descriptIon of the fair We cpm mend the show to novelists in want of a theme with seriou possibilities N Y Tribune a < Mr Sidney Leo sugpcats that a Government Gov-ernment fund should be placed at the disposal of the British museum for the purpose of buying any Shakespearean treasure whIch may come into the market mar-ket He laments the passage of invaluable in-valuable Shakorpeariana to America f V t Some Authors The Most Cheerful Author Samuel Smiles I The Noisiest AuthorHowells I The Tallest Author Longfellow The Most Flowery Author Haw I Ihorhe The Holiest AuthorPope I The Most Amusing AuthorThomas Tickell The Happiest Author Cay The Most Fiery AuthorBurns ThcMost Talkative Author Chatler lon t i The Most Distressed Author Xkcn sldc Chicago TimesHerald a e If Miss Marie Corelli declares that stfc does not consider her new novel a masterpiece and she thinks any author who presumes to Imagine he or she can write a masterpiece at all is a very unfortunate person I a 0 e I During the next fow months tho Har ppra will publish several reprints oC popular novels Including an edition of Blackmorea Lorna Doone and one of Charles Readea Cloister ind the Hearth both profusely illustrated They will also bring out In popular form a series of books for young people which have already had a success 3 MODERN RUSSIAN FICTION II I Tjlie shortt ujovsee ll11 paramount Jn Russia and is madm to contain truths protests longingsoven hopes Korolpnkofi Morion mostly consist uf simple dally occurrences HCUIICS of Ptawmt life detached Incidents Ha docs not strive to tit human Jives to his or our preconceived notions of what they ought to be nor does lie seek to I draw deductions It IB because her literature lit-erature Is young and fearless unhampered unham-pered by classics unfettered Ijy traditions tradi-tions that Russia has been able to enlarge en-large her borders What was formerly accounted discord in mush Is now liar mommy hat was formerly outside the domain of art now engages painters and uculptors Russian writers have long ceased to bostow their talents on scientifically accurate plots or waste Ingenuity = on the delineation of characters charac-ters abortive because cramped by the artificialities of convention To quote the pregnant words of another contemporary contem-porary Russian Tchehov It is said that all man requires is six feet of soil But truth to tell six feet of ground is I the requirements of a corpsu not of a human being Man requires not six feet of soil not a plot of land but the I entire terrestrial globe the whole realm I of nature wherein to develop all the capabilities ca-pabilities and Individuality of his un trammeled Joulfhe Gentlemens Maigazinc t 4 4 fTho Austin Poem MAFEK1NG October 15 ISM May 16WOO Onco more banners My Clang again bells on high Sounding to sea and sky Longer and louder MafeklngH glory with KJmherloy Xadyamlth Of our imc9iuiucrud kith Prouder and prouder i Hemmed in for half l a year Still with no succor near Nor word of Iropc or cheer Wounded and dying Fevered au < J fpllpd 3 Qf sl p By the fierce cannons leap They gllll sllll vowvd to keep Englands Hug flying I Nor was their mettle shown Liy rmilo and stroiiK alone But as Inlrupld giown Fragile and tender Without a tear or sigh 32cbo d tho brave old cry Ve too would rather die Die than surrender J Ax pressed the foe more near Only with naked spear Noer knowing l what lu fear Parley or blench meant I Forward through shot and shell While Htlll thin t foremost fell Th v with rcslstlcbs yell Stormed his Intrcnchmont 1 I Then when belie dawned at last I And fled tho foe aghast At tho relieving bloat Heard in the molly Oh our stout stubborn kith I Klmberley Ijudysmlth MafenUiiK wedded with Ijucknow and Delhi I i Sound for them martial lay Crown thorn with tilebay > Both thoso who tiled and they Gainst tlcalh could wrestle Powell of endless fame All all with equal claim And of tho storied name j Gallant young CcclH I Long 03 tho waves shall roll Long as Fame guards her scroll And men through hftarl and soul Their deed from ago to age Thrill to true glory Shall volco and verso engage Swelling tho splendid pago I OC Englandn story storyAlfred Austin I Llanvlhangol Court Aborgavenny May 10 1 t l a 1 WHFN HOMER NODS To err is human wrote the poet Pope lu his famous paraphrase of the classic erraru humanum osl Un like much of his ooelry this Is u line 1 containing more truth than literary polish From Chaucer and Shakespeare down to The Man With the Hoe almost I al-most all the great makers of English literature have done their share toward exemplifying this maxim Drydens words are profoundly true In this regard re-gard 1 Errors llko straws upon the surface how lIe who would search for pears must dive i below Where lie Shakespeares coasts of Bohemia j Bo-hemia upon which the bark of Antigo I nut touched as we are told In act III If of rho Winters rale Did Britons of the era of the Roman invasions boast striking clocks as In Cymbe line Or could a courtier to the I nephew of Casslvclannus be dressed like Leonatus in the first act of the same 1 play In Pisanlos words this ancient Briton 1 Did keep The dock wllh glove or hat or handkerchief handker-chief Still waving The great Sir Walter Scott came to I grief over the habits of the sun In the Antiquary the setting sun Is actually described as In the easunii fJ heavens More than one writer has taken ta-ken similar liberties with the moon So careful a writer as Robert Louis Stevenson Ste-venson In his Prince Otto has described de-scribed the cretcent moon riding high in midheaven an astronomical feat that IH i alllrmed to be impossible by scientists Perhaps the most famous blunder on record relating to time moon Is to be found in the lines of Charles Wolfe on The Burial of Sir John Moore Wo buried him darkly at dead of nlghl I The soils with our bayoneta lurnlng By the struggling moonbeams mist light And the lanterns dimly burning I According to the Nautical Almanac on that date there was a new moon I The best of historical romancers have a way of falling into the pitfalls of anachronism l J an-achronism Thus Alexander Dumas 1 lots his Chcvuiier I dllarmental tell IJ a lVly I thai she paints like Grouse at a time when that painter was not yet born So too Victor Hugo in his Ay maillot puts I into HIP mouth of Charlemagne Charle-magne the words You dream like a scholar uf Sorbonne This famous institution in-stitution was tonndcd in 1252 four cen tories and a half after the days of I Charlemagne More glaring sllll nro the liberties same authors take with the lives of their own characters Ono of the most startling Is that of Thack eray In his Henry Esmond when ho lets his venerable Dean of Winchester write a letter in chapter ix several f months after his death a had been announced an-nounced in chapter vi MI Rider Haggard has similarly boon caught napping In that charming story of the Boor war to which the ill fated heroine Jess hIS given her name A simple matter of arithmetic upon the data supplied by the author shows that a character In the novel i has grown up and the father of a pair of babos before he was in his teens Colliers Weekly I |