Show I I I I I T Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson has had 8 a fireproof vault built In her San Francisco Fran-cisco house vhcteshe Iceepd the numerous numer-ous unfinished or unpublished manuscripts I manu-scripts oC her husband s 0 The late Bishop Sttibbs described his I recreations as making out pedigrees i and correcting proofsheets lIe was also according to n writer In the Church Quarterly Review a voracious novel lender It used to be t said of him that ha read Monte Cristo once a year before he was a bishop and twice a year aftenuird and he half admitted the I Impeachment Love and Ills Music a new novel by Mrs Jlqnry Norman Menlo Muriel Dowle The Eternal City by Hall Caine a study of Tli Mr Gladstone as Chancellor of Exchequer and Mistress Mis-tress Nell a Merry Tale of a Merry Time by George C Hazellon Jr are among the more Important forthcoming publications Miss Gwendoline Keats otherwise J Zack was educated In live dlfterent schools and not one oC them It Is said gave her any name for brilliant achievement The Taller notes that I her first book written some tourteen years ago was sent to < Hatchard who wrote to her courteously enough In returning re-turning It After this she lost the manuscript and never touched a pen for six years when sho made a second attempt which also missed the mark I her manuscript again being returned It was not until 1S9S that she sent to I Blackwoods Magazine a short story that the ever kindly Mr Blackwood accepted Since then success has been I easy I e Sir Edwin Arnold in spite of his loss c i of sight hris completed an epic poem of some 5000 lines entitled The Voyage of Ithobal The Academy describes the I poem as follows The hero Is a seacaptain of lyre Who takes service with Noko King of Egypt to explore the unknown waters I beyond the Red Sea After picturesque scenes at Tyre vncre he buys In the I slave market with priceless pearl an I African princess made captive In the i Dark continent he builds three ships j I at Suez and sets forth All this Is 1 minutely described together with full I details of the voyage of 15000 miles I round Africa Returning with two out I I of the threo ships after numerous and exciting adventures which bring out almost every feature of African life I and scenpry Ithobal relates the story of his enterprise In a discourse of I seven days before the throne of Pha raoh who loads with honor the suc oossful captain the Princess his wifp and his crews 1 u X i I Miss Laura Conger daughter of Min i ister Conger is an excellent linguist i I and while In China mastered several of the native dialects which she now i i speaks fluently I Rudyartl Kiplings new book Kim will be published 1 In October It Is lo be Illustrated by the authors father I v J L Kipling The first English edi tion Is said to consist of 50000 copies while the first American edition will be I nearly double that number i 0 It Is said that there Is now little hope of discovering an unknown First Folio Shakespeare as all the libraries of England have boon ransacked Never theless whenever a First Folio comes to the surface1 find is sold at auction the search begins anew No wonder The copy sold in London the other day brought S5GOO He didnt look totally depraved by any menus as he dropped In 3cstrrday afternoon and said rather blithely Speaking about catches such that English editor Pearson sprung on as us a while ago I have tossed oil a fqv which arc strictly original i Before wecould prevent he had left a slip qf paper on our desk and slid I out On H It were Written tho following I I catche and you couldnt catch any j I thing worso in a thousand I matter here what risks you ran years Listen no hereWhat What did Mary place For what was Klcqllot What wns It Harriet Where djd Portland What made Aldrich Who tried to Dupont Who Mid Keawood We should be J more than pleased lo I put Brother Pearson at the magazine in communication with tills new lit erary light If he wii agree to give him a Job abroad Minneapolis Tribune a S 4 THE LIVING MTISI3 Horace calls no more to me Ilomfr In tho dust heap lies 1 have found rny Odyssey In the lightness oC her glee In tho laughter of her t ayes I Ovids Een I paso Is thumbcd no more II Catullus has no choice There It I endless precious lorcJ Such OH I neer knew before In tho I music of her voice Ttv Breath of hyssop itcCIcd Ill wine I Breath of violets and jfurao Wildwood roses Grecianmyrrhs All these perfumes do combine 0 i Jn that maiden breath of hora r Nay I look not at tho skies Nor ihtysun that hlllward slips For tim day lives or Ij I dies In the lauGhter of her eyes In the music of her lips man By Harold MacGrnth In tho July Book I Charles Major author of When Knighthood WasIn Flower has been forced by Illhealth to abandon for the piesent a i work npoiu which he has been engaged with great energy during the summer A now npvel from which much Is cx POOLed Is an English version of The Death of the cods byvDlmMrl MereJ Jcowskl one oC tho ablest of the young er Russian novelists The story deals I I with the Emperor the V Apostate 1 I II i i I The work had already run through twenty editions In French and has been translated intoGorman a Q Inquiries recently made by the London Lon-don Bookman show that there arc not more than forty novelists In England who can live in reasonable way ont on-t profits of their books alone although FI al-though eightylive live on the combined I I 1 of their and receipts royalties serial rights Only fifteen or twenty receive an Important part of their Incomes from American royalties while only three or four can usually count on getting get-ting more from America than from England C p II Mr Alfred Austin never seems to be able to show his head without having somebody or other hit it His ican polntment to the laureatoshlp by i King Edward has called forth the following verses which appear in LondQn JTruth PARNASSUS PREPARES FOR THE WORST It seems that In consequence of the late Queens demise It was necessary for the poet laureate to be reappointed by the Klncr Tho noesssirv foimnlltlos I un derstand < l have only Just been completed I com-pleted and Mr Alfred Austin again lllls that ofllcc which Is technically in his Majestys household London Correspondent Corre-spondent This news when on Parnassus heard Produced a most extensive pother What cried Apollo In a pet That man again appointed bother Tho Muses also did not try To hide their grleC and Indignation And with their Brother of tho Lyre Engaged In earnest conversation You sec said they the Kings rash L I act Revives our trouble ab Inltlo This Mr Austin now of course Will call upon usox ofllcio Well as to that Apollo said 1 know dear friends ybu arc not jok ing This English Laureates equal quite I To me or one of you Invoking I But listen we must guard against I This posblblllty appalling Let us my dears be alwa s out If he on us Insists on callrg Quite so the Muses nude reply No longer black forebodings lost hi Henceforward just as In tho past I Were not at home to Mi Austin1 I > S A Ijondon dispatch says that Henry Fielding Dickons K C sixth son nt the great novelist is about to visit America for the first time Accompanied Accom-panied by his daughters Olive and Elaine he will sail for Quebec on the Tunisian on August 15lh to visit the Great Lakes St Paul Chicago New York and Boston Mr Dickens Is prominent at the London bar and a member of the Athenaeum club and alto chairman of the Bpz club which reverently assembles In I Rochester and I visits Gladshlll once every year I t Ono of the last books completed by Walter Besant was The Story of King Alfred In his Introduction Sir alter al-ter said I desire to write such a history his-tory of the great King as shall be accessible ac-cessible and Instructive to the gnat body every year growing greater those who read books and wish to be acquainted with the nations hlslory The plain and unvarnished story should be suillcient n Sir Thomas LIptpn and the Amqrl can Cup Is the title of a little book dealing with the career of Sir Thomas which Is soon to be issued It will be I lllustititcd l and has been revised by the ambitious yachtsman r S What tQ take with you on vacation I vaca-tion Is the subject of an Inquiry by the London Outlook The various literary persons Importance who respond show naturally a great diversity of taste Mr Lccky for example abides by Grant Duffs dairy Cralks Century Cen-tury of Scotlleh History the Bishop of RIpons Church History Olllvler Empire Llberala quartette which does not lack weight and relegates a few novels by the best writers to an etc Dr Robertson Ncojl is l equally conservative Ho prefers to take with him on a holiday one of tho large still booRs In recent holidays he has read Burtons Anatomy of Melancholy Melan-choly Clarissa Harlowe the complete com-plete works of Dr Johnson and other works of the same kind A holiday to be complete he concludes must ht > a holiday from contemporary lIter ture Hereupon Clement Short rs frank confession Is suggestive So far as my experience goes he writer I have frequently taken on a holiday a number of solid books of good literature litera-ture that I had aspired to reread and 1 have opened 1 none of them S t AssistantIs the meaning of this poem absolutely Incomprehensible to you Magazine Editor Absolutely l Youre t going to accept it arent you Assistant Oh yea But T wasnt willing to trust my own Judgment Life < Q Mr William E Foster of the Provi denco public library has given some further facts concerning Standard Stand-ard Library of the worlds best books lately established by him in that Insti tution In reply to the criticism that 610000 tho supposed sum necessary for this collection could be better spent In somo other way he states that the total COtt of the 1013 volumes was I 1105 twothirds of which were already In the general library He adds The use made of the Standard Library thus far served to deepen our sense Qf Its value in emphasizing the permanent perma-nent rather than the ephemeral In literature lit-erature Yet on the part of the readers read-ers themselves who use this room I there is no such ulterior purpo js If such it may be called present to their I minds A glance at their absorbed S faces will show that It Is enough for them thnL those authors are yielding them keenest enjoyment V II Why are you looking so sad Antonio Anto-nio asked a composer of popular I songs the other day of a songwriter I I want to get a word to rhyme with I talk You sec rye used halfdozen S S words to rhyrno with talk in the first verses and now theres not one left for 2 the last verre The composer here read the poem and exclaimed Hah Good I have It Heres one you didnt think of Use balk In ho last verse Cant was the melancholy answer that wouldnt go at all e A rapt admirer of Marie Corelll who visited her recently says Her abundant abund-ant hair Is of a golden shnde and curls f and waves naturally about her head She hai a clear complexion regular features and her eyes are a deep blue and full of soul Her flgurs Is petite and perfectly proportioned She Is altogether al-together a most charming personality THE SURVIVAL OF DRAMAS Tho deeper seasons of the law of the survival of dramas may not be laid down here andnow says Henry Austin Aus-tin Clapp in the August Atlantic But a good negative workingday rule of prediction can be furnished It Is simple sim-ple enough The play which never passes Into literature the play which In the cold permanency of print cannot endure reading and rereading has the cure seed of death within lu Out of a hundred contemporary dramas dra-mas ninety arc flat and unprofitable on a first perusal and nlnctyandnine are warranted to cause a mental nausea nau-sea at a second Take Robertsons School for Instance which was per firrned to delighted hundreds of thousands In England and America In the early 70s Reading It deliberately today Is like absorbing a gallon of weak warmish eau sucree flavored with the Juice of half a lemon and a small pinch of ginger Contrast with that work and with works of Its quality quali-ty the half a hundred tragedies and comedies which remain to us frqm the Greeks of the fifth and fourth centuries before Christ The newest of thes plays are two thousand two hundred years old they are written In a dead language they have the atmosphere of a remote land and an alien age and civilization yet they still receive the quick sympathy and command the reverent admiration of the world V The memoirs begun by the Empress Eugenic soon after the death of the Prince Imperial are believed to bt now practically completed Her manuscript manu-script has been seen by no eye save her own I 4 A new book on George Eliot Is being written by Mr Leslie Stephen who was well acquainted with the novelist 4 4 S Poet There Is poetry In everything Editor There doesnt seem to be much In the poets Smart Set 4 5 t A Boston publisher has been divulging I divulg-ing trade secrets to a London reporter I and the reporter has In turn been trying try-ing to give light to them that sit In I darkness The unprecedented Pales of some recent books says the Boston ru thorlty are not due to the vast superiority supe-riority of living writers over those of fifty years ago no Mary Johnson is not GO per cent better than George Eliot and Irving Bacheller 100 per cent greater than Dickens The difference In sales declares the modest publisher Is to be ascribed less to the skill of the author than to the publishers unexampled unex-ampled resourcefulness as an advertiser adver-tiser > Apparently there is to be a Hazlltt revival While Mr HenJey is editing the collected edition of the critics works already announced in the Tribune r Trib-une Mr Augustine Blrrell is preparing a Life of Hazlltt So much the better bet-ter 4 I I John Morley talking with a friend about his literary work at Ilawarden I said that his labor had bean greatly lessened by Mr Gladstones personal habits of order and regularity Through the last sixty years of his career he not only preserved every Important Im-portant letter or document that reached him but neatly indorsed It with his own hand and stowed It away I In order of date Among the papers docketed Mr Morley found notes of a speech delivered by l Mr Gladstone at i the Oxford Union just 70 years of age 00 4 Nicholas II is i a voracious reader He and the Czarina get a great dal of pleasure from discussing new works together Unlike Alexander III the present Czar Is most catholic In his tastes and is acquainted with the literary lite-rary stars of all climes Jules Verne Scott I lpling and Stevenson are his favorites among foreign writers Tit Bits S o 4 VIclorien Sardous only daughter writes the London Sketchs Paris correspondent cor-respondent was married last week to Count Robert de Flers The marriage is talked of In Paris as the union of two aristocracies blood and literature Sardou has now won all the honors asa as-a French dramatist He had fame and money before his possible descendants will now be titled He has got very far from the Bohemian student days when In the garden of the Luxembourg Luxem-bourg he used to gaze with admiration at the guardians cottage with the duck pond before It and wish he might live to possess just such a place Today To-day ho Is very rich and lives In a splendid house in the fashionable Rue do Madrid Ills new sonInlaw Is a grandson of a Marquis de Piers whom Napoleon III banished at the time of the coup detat He Is a young man of talent Ho has published several l books and written a play called Tra vaux dHercule which has had a run 4 0 THE WAY The pathway to the Land of Life i Parses the threshold of my door It turns down yonder narrow street Hedged by the dwellings of the poor It winds beside the hours of woe Under lit panes where watchers wait Who strives too hwlftly on that road Reaches the end too late But he who pauses turning buck For deed of love for word of cheer Fallhinl unhastlng unafraid Nor wondering if the end be noar Lo whcro the shadow blackest falls I While yet he seems mldmobt the lrlto Enters through the uplifted gates I Into the Land of Life v George Lyndc Richardson in the Out look S Q DEAR MOTHKRHEART S Dear Mothereyes That watched while other eyes were closed In sleep That oer my sliding steps were wont to S weep Are yo now looking from the starry skies 5 With clearer spiritvision love more deep Undimmed by tears while I my vigil keep Dear Mothereyes S Dear Motherhands That tollcd when other hands Inactive were S That clasping mine constrained mo oft to prayer S For grace to run the way of Gods commands 1 I Are ye now resting or In realms more fall 5 Still tlnd ye some sweet mode to minis ter S Dear Motherhands I Dear Motherheart That felt the good where others found the HI That loathed the sin yet loved the sinner S still And charmed his soul to choose the hotter part Farewell a moments netting space unlll God reunites us when It be nls will Dear Motherheart John Henderson In Chamberss Journal S V LITERARY ASPIRATIONS The editor of a periodical constantly con-stantly besieged by wouldbe writers who inspired by what they consider true genius send notes to the pub Ushers announcing the birth of their offsprings and asking many curious I I questions and making many astound ing suggestions Hon are three which were printed In The Bookman recently Madam As I have Just written a story titled A Journey of Love It has be twcon 1SOO and 10CCO words In II and would like to send It to you to Judge and If you think It worthy of publication and would want II but If noi return it at myS > ri > 5 I expense Also please toll me how to send I It to you and the moaning of MSS Dour 8111 1 have three rhort story I would like very much tu toll the three weighed together weigh one pound and shall will you Kindly lot me Know If you would I1kn to examine the MSH 1 If so I shall end It to you hoping to heft from you at an early date J remain Very Rcjjpectfully Dear SJrsVont you plcaso Ipl l me know why you kept my MSS SfJ long and now return It Please dont take mo for a Crank but a honest man who trys to light tie battles of life scncablc I This I only mention as a purl history his-tory of my life It you accept pay me a snug ssum now and remainder years royally I roy-ally Then go to work and announce In the Patent Sheet and Assoclaicd Press Pimers that you paid me 100000 CO for the MSS This they will take up IS a news Item I will keep all this strictly secret and so can you Have n short history of my life wl hOU largo Picture of Under Un-der my picture have the words Tho handsome Young Hoosier Author who made himself famous nnd received 100 OCOCO for A Few Strokes of his Pen Hoping at least to hear from you again 1 remain for business Sincerely |