Show ii 1H I4 4J k e tl I L A7 II 1 fi uMi L p 1 r1 S i i e r 4 i I ri 4P i 4 I tJtL i4tIff I fi iT 4 I 5 i I j 9 t 11i r f Dr S Weir JlllchcII who has been Globe trotting has Just returned home and the announcement Is made that a selection of his verso is to be published London IDnplIsh readers know him only by his lug Wynne which has been widely disseminated through the great circulating libraries I u The WoVm That God Prepared Is the curious tlllc of a new novel jby John Oliver Hobbs which will shortly make Its appearance simultaneously In England and America > I r Mr QuillerCouch who In looks is atypical a-typical KIt lives at Foweyrln Corn wall the Troy Tovn of his fiction > Ie gets his principal recreation In I yachting ands rtarcommodore of his local yacht club Wesleylsm is tho dominant religion of the Cornish and the novelist has made it may be said lifelong studies tor his forthcoming story dealing with the life of Wesiy f 4 cAn 1 c-An Inexpensive edition of Charles Reades masterpiece The Cloister and the Hearth has lately been Issued in England and sumptuous edition of the same romance Illustrated with photogravures Is now in preparation The sale of this book has been remarkable re-markable In England alone nearly < quarter of million copies of a sixpenny six-penny edition were sold but since the story was first printed J In 185U under I the title of jA Good Fight the number num-ber of copies printed and sold In Eng I land and the colonies has considerably exceeded a million Sir Walter Besant was mainly responsible for its renewed popularity because he regarded as one of the great English novels that a should be read by all people Philadelphia Phila-delphia Press Miss Gwendoline Keats otherwise uZacku was educated in five different schools and not one of them it Is said gave her any name for brilliant achievement The Tattler notes that her first book sritlen some fourteen I years ago was sent to H tchard who wrote to her courteously enough In returnIng re-turnIng it After this she lost the manuscript and never touched a pen I for six years when she made a second attempt which alsp missed the mai k her manuscript again being returned Thus It will be seen that Zack has had her share of1 the discouragements which are supposed to hang around the beginnings of authorship It was not in fact until 1S9S that hC sent to Blackwoocls Magazine a short story that the ever kindly Mr Blackwood accepted Since then success haa been easy until we have the general ap proval that has come to her with the publication The M White CottageS Frank T Bullen whose I Bulcn fame as a writer of sea tale Is constantly Increasing In-creasing has Just creaing completed a nw story under the ttP postS of the Southeast Since the success of The Cruise of the Cachalot his first book his pen has been kept busy Jrst bOOIc QUERIES ABOUT AUTHORS 1 What does Anthony Hope 1ope j To Marietta I Ilolley i 4 2 What happens when John Kcndrlck Bangs c Samuel Smiles o 3 When Is Marian Evans Cross 1 When William Dean Howellg r 4Whe did Thomas Btinjianan homasJ oJHl3n ReadJust Read-Just after Wuhr Nnckworth P S PrJd Inlrop lIaclnorth 1 S Why was Rider Hsear < Because he let Ros jerry Cooke 7 6 Why Is Sartih Grand n TO make Andrew Majvol 7 How long will Samu6l Lover 1 Until Jt1ri WInor 8 VhatIves wi John Howard Payne r nn When Robert Burna Augustus HarI Har-I 9 Whcr aid Mary Mapca Dodge 1 1 < AMien George W Cutter j 1 Th Where did tlenry I Cabot feodso S i I In M ungo Park on 1 rloiLsIitli 11 Why I iiid Lcwla Carroll rt I To pjit I a stop to irancls1 Quarles 1 I 12 Why fr George CannhifrKA To teach Julia Ward I Howe L j 13 Whaii I3tinyaii ailed HarrIcL Ececlicr Stowc I 11 What doe Charles Rcndo J i zr The Bookman i z3ic r M Grccnlcaf In thc liguz3t Book man I I S 5 I 2 I The Athenaeum is responsible for I reponsible this curious anecdote ot tlid late Wil liam Morris c j Reference having bccnniadc last week to the readers djrne > i and1 I the appreciation of the services of tin primers reader shown by lltrary 1 men it may be of Interest to incmton ihHt the late William Morris whn he be I Press han his did not reprints known at that the a reader KelmHintfr was required to correct the compositors 3 work the After the production of one of early Kolmscott hooks Mr Morris found that he had allowed mdalowcd several misprint to pass and he tlien upon l S2U2L < JIfcovcr11 nhc existence q i the prlntejK lceQ prInter i reader iind engaged one I Is probablo that a collation of th0 first book printed at the KelmscotL Jlres9 < wIth its oriGinal would disclose I enough mIstake I to et lt woud work to rank among the curloalllca of Utera I ture ot Icm Mr Z 1gWl cherishes n great deal oC bitterness toward this geat country on account of the thcshabbj treatment his dramatized versIon or The ChIldrcl h 1 oC the Chldr and fi Ghoto receIved In New York > i that ot1er Amprlcan cIUc4 He says our nwspnperH TlPaP < riS misrepresented 1 and IIificd him in u nne viifed the most llbcnl manner but he lherl f mnnner made no reply a S he novel lakes the trouble t1ubi0 to contradict it anything that la I said hiS thall about him I mater how deBhtCuly no EV delhtCUI Inaccurate It I ma be 4 rXS Journalism He was not the victim of yel tew journalsm alone One of the Now olk I dailies which highest makes the hIglie it pretense thehlghesl IHctelse to Good niorala and good J I I 1 f manners published an article on a f performance of hiarplay ending with Uicse words Mr Zangwlll wascalled before the curtain and he appeared in I a shirt that Was fairly 0 while I Maurlqp Ilewlctl is now finishing a I bpok the title owlih is NewS Canterbury alcShlf Vblume Is I Jor1c haL dIffezeut ity1e from his previous works hut tJVose who have read It say thal iC is qulleas charmIng S charm-Ing I as TheForest JLovcrs I is expected to tie icadyvfor publication In I the early autlnJ > n > > 1 Arlo Bates professor of English literature t at the Massachusetts Insil tute of Technology recently gave some 1 excellent advice in regard to the rca l ing I of the avalanohe of new books I constantly pressing on the public attention at-tention Prof Bates lays l down two Jaws J One is virtually Frederic Ilar S I rJ i jon The main guide to reading la I to know hat nottoleadan Llie other is something HkV this Read I as thoroughly as you can l some one dire toh and then for he rcstj rca l I wherever and whenever your leisure ait pleasuie lead yoU I la good L advice iand surely It falls jrally with the days of hammocks and soaring thermometers S 4 The late M Pasteurs soninlaw M A ValcryRcdot has written n long biography of the noted Frenchman and anvEnglish versjon under the title The Life of Pasteui will soon bs issued e In Germany there seems to be n regular movement agalnst keeping the memory of Heine Several German towns have refused legacies left with I the object of commemorating the poet The latest Instance comes from fSr langcn l where a gentleman who died L recently left 7000 to the municipality for such I purpose The members the city government however denounced de-nounced the antlpalriotic character of the poets works and rejected the I gift which will now acordlng to the terms of the will be offered to Budapest I Buda-pest S IN YOUTIf in youth stood erect and faced the East But when the stars hud I been dissolved away I marveled that the dawn was not Increased In-creased t By reason of their shrinkage Mad lor I da I marked one ridge above which dawn I must T > laThe la-The blush In purple of eternity Then I grow weary o the black delay Starred heaven brought me no such torture S tor-ture to the eye c Although the star be small they proe there Is a skI sk-I closed my eyc3 and called the sun a myth I raved because the earth would not revolve re-volve But had become i Instead a monolith Lengthening down beyond my power to t solve 1Y The secret of Its base This must Involve In-volve Some neat conlorllon of alt likelihood 1 said In bitterness and I resolved To spin the guessing net myself Twere 1 Good l 1 1 might sland where that wag Plato stood Jonathan Leonard In the Bookman S An amusing story Is told by the Paris correspondent of The Author apropos of the subject of posthumous publication There are manuscripts ol publ aton lhcle manuscripts Lamarllnc and Victor IJugo in the Blbllothcquc Natlonale which are not to be published until 1010 Manuscripts Manu-scripts olTilie brothers Gnncourt exist t which similar condition apply and du fact more than one public insiltu tlon Ii the worW Ij the custodian of unpublished loc Avhlch Is some day to be put Into print hcordlng lo the ordqrs of authora noV cleal MMalot 1 It seems hias brcn captivated by the Jdea Severn years ago he resolved lo I vrllo no more lat n > r < Uo t refrain 1 re-frain fiiii publication But iA3 WG read InV The Author be reckoned 1 without his lio tor rather without granddaughter Ashing to malt I a tifcslaniial l aflcllllon fo her dot ht went to work on a now storaj and took h the manusQilpt to his publisher i With thtt gentleman contract genthm1n a 10ntllCl was nc > InngCd which erp0i err him to publish the tai within thiV > c moiitas after tho authors death The profits secured In the enterprise rare to be handed otc t I to Mile Pcrrine Mc ple Ihe grand daughtcral01esald t Y Tribune j Zof IK about to revive the incidents of the fcUH case by making a novel t i I out of U h pm which will be called Jugilceand wlll orm the last of the scrlL soC four Jo1n which he haj designed as l sort QC parallel to Ihe Four Cfospcls ujiCl us a message mcsago auitod t the condljlona of the I jiresent it day Tlio titles of the thr < 1 books already II I al-ready published are FooondSte Travail I Tra-vail and Vcrlte1 TheJlrst deals with the depopulation of France the second1 with the labor problem and the third criticises French educational methods The great French rcollsilc novelist did yojrto await the publication I publica-tion of the 1 preyf 1 in corrospondence which prcBcmTr the martyr oC Devils Island in a very noble as well as put pu-t l light Ijefore nresQnlli to Uu > worlcl this most thrilling and dramatic I siorj of nineteenth century I Alfred Austin the official Gazette announces his been reappointed poet laureate This is I one of the strongest arguments In favor of the rotatlonIn oMlcc theorywe have remarked In sometime some-time remarks the New York Press 1 p S S Canon Ahigcr not a bad authority has taken part In the discussion of the question Can literature be taught I lie at least I has not much confidence in the abljlty of the teacher to create a taste for what IB excellent where Nature has not s willed it I To tho 1 mediocre says Jouhort the mediocre Is excellent Yand the hundreds of 1 1 thousands who read and admlrQ the novelist called X could by no amount I oC lecturing be persuaded that their Idol was or clay You may conduct a reader to the classics of our literature but you cannot compel their enjoyment I The germ of a literary sense i J and a literary bias is born with some pet sons and not with others There seeins little use In I Ignoring thin act The literary sense will early stimulate literary curiosity and the young student stu-dent will read right und left for his own pleasure He will taste this and I that wine this and that vintage and will come to find out which is the best Wi toJnd and why certain poets and proscu writers have come to be called classics clas-sics this There Is no other way than S S S IN ANGEL COURT In Angel Court the sunless air Grows faint nnd sick to left nnd right The cowering houses shrink from sight Huddling aiul hopcleas eyeless hare I Misnamed you ern For surely rare Muul bo tho Angel l shapes that light In Angel Court S Nay tho Eternities are there Death by tho doorway stands to smite LIfo In its garrets leaps to lIght And Love has climbed the crumbllng slalr S Jn Angel Court a it 4 1 A curious addition Is made to By ronlana by Paul de Laurlbar who writing for Le Journal des DobatSj I attempts to give from original sources a picture of Byrons stay In J Venice where according to the Frenchman t the noble lord conducted vhlmself with Satanic wildness Ills lielgnlng I favorite we learn was one Margarita who used whcn Jealous to thump his lordship severely malgre son addressc a la boxe When the < Comtessa Guiccloll appeared upon the scene Byron took ugo in the convent of Mechitarlsts I on the island of San Lazaro Ills days stillaccording to 1 M de Lauribar were spent in the convent con-vent library or at prayers with the monks but his nights were terrible S He would often lllng himself Into the gondola kept at his disposition andS and-S cruise at midnight round the Gulccioll palace In the hope 0 gelling f glimpse of his beloved The monks we are told still revere his memory and Ills room in i the convent adorned ly his portraits por-traits Is piously conserved in the same state that he left iLNew York Times Saturday Review S 5 5 Miss Louise Gulnoy is In England this summer working on her elaborate I S editIon of Ilenry Vaughans poems She is staying at Oxford and searchIng search-Ing I for materials at the Bodleian library l Her volume ot essays Pa trim London has juVt Oiecn f published in i PS 0 The KIngS Secret by R H Savage Sav-age The Court ofHonor by VV Lc Queux Mrs Harrisons novel The History of Sir Richard Calmady S R Crocketts novel The Firebrand nre works of fiction announced for S early publIcation 4 o An Impressive Illustration of Japans eagerness for Western f learning IB furnished by the sale t Pi of Max Muilcrs library to Baron Jwasakl for the University of Tokio By this single purchase the university obtains r collection o hooks such as would have taken years of study and careful selection to gather I seems strange I moreover that Oxford should have neglected the chance to take over the library of one of her most famous men permitting the Japanese to teach her appreciation of a great treasure of learning l Philadelphia North American Ameri-can o a 0 Mr Henry Jamess new novel The Ambassadors Is to appqar as n serial in Harpers Magazine a WHAT WESTCOTT WON BY SONG That the author of David Harum was conspicuous for his mellow baritone bari-tone voice Is little thought of by those who only knew him as an author I was a voice so sweet so rich and so flexible that It could play any prank with the emotions of those who heard It and had Mr Westcott chosen to do vote his life to music he would have become a noted singer But he contented con-tented himself with the modest position posi-tion of basso In a quartette choir in Syracuse and in delighting his own special friends by singing In a draw ingroom He was fond of telling of an occasion on which he was Invited to sing at n concert In one of the smaller towns of western New oYrk The musical affair passed off satisfactorily satisfac-torily with the help of the neighborhood I neighbor-hood talent assisted by Mr Wostcotts rare voice Aa Mr Westcott was about to retire his host came timidly to I his room carrying two long paper boxes I leave the house so early In 1 the morning to go to my factory the man explained that Im afraid I may not see you hut I want lojglve you something for your singing tonight Now heres two pair of the very best real whaleboned corsets that our factory fac-tory turns out and I want you to take them home with you When Mr f Weslcott found he could not even protest pro-test effectually his sense o humor came to his relief and the fastidious man of cultivated extravagance stalked home laughing the next day with two pair of useless corsets In exchange ex-change for his matchless songs Literary Era S S Sarah Grand authqr o The Heavenly Heav-enly Twins and Dabs the Impossible Impossi-ble has been signed for Q seasons lecturing tour In the United Stales The noted British novelist has Just closed a lecture tour of England t which she has proved a success of the firstclass She Is said to be even a better lecturer than wrIterS writer-S a Mr S R Crockett chooses unusual hours for his literary work He begins be-gins at 4 1 oclock In the morning and ends at n I and then rushes off to his beloved golf This system means health if one may trust to the athletic appearance of the big sixfoot minister minis-ter O 5 M I I A London dispatch to the New York Sun says The Chronicle comment lHg Oil the purchase of the library of Ihe ate Prof Max Muller by Baron Iwasakl one of the richest and most scholarly noblemen of Japan who has presented It to the UniversIty ofToklo on condition that It bo accessible ton to-n student engaged In studies simi lar to those 0 Max Muller Bays that Baron Iwasnkls aid lon hnislts was Invoked by Prof Takukusu and other university professors who Hulled under Max Muller at Oxford The library comprises com-prises 13000 volumes and nearly a hun dicd Sanskrit manuscripts or great S vajue 0O u MOPDR7 LITERARY METHODS 5 As jcon as money Is allowed to crowd other kinds of success out of the Held the American people will begin to lose much that Is better than wealth The highest standards of excellence In science In art und In literature will then be endangered If not actually trampled upon and lost This Is rartlculaily true of literature The highest kind in obscured highet t by mere commercial success Some great wri leis have attained both feat by working with an eye to the 100000 mark In circulation r There has br en a great a waken nr InAmerican litoraluro and a corresponding corre-sponding development of llterarypabll ityr which if I i properly rostral neil and directed might he a decided Btopl rHHl ward a great American literature n melcan lier But It Is In danger S The press Is teeming with almost I dally announcements of new novels every one of which is acclaimed as a great literary event The advcrlislnr I columns of the dally press and even 1 he pages of some periodicals die I t filled with those false claims in some capes It is not even pretended that they I retlect life that they correctly analyze I the human mind and heart or are written with purity and taste Tiiu I I only object appears to be to attain the circulation which means Just so man dollars Yesterday It was works or realism today it Is novels oC realsm fashion of the hour determines thc book Authors are In clanger of throw ing away their gifts in competition I ijvlth h manufacturers COmpctlon p the W 1f lS of ttmosers 5 i 5 7 S S 1 ing nOels and of writing with one eye on the department stone counter and the other on the melodramatic stag Jf they wish to build up a permanent American literature and attain real literary success they would do well to refuse to be led further along the broad and dangerous way of today and turn once more to the steep and I lollsome road oj true literature Thomas Nelson Page in Success p0 v BOSWELLS BESETTING SIN In the Boswelllan vocabulary there was no such word ns reticence pays S P A Sillard IntheAugust Atlantic He tojd Temple of everything his foolish amours his excessive drinking I his melancholy and hypochrondrla his i elation and gayctv Scarce a thought emotion or feeling good or bad hade h had-e that he did nat communicate to his friend The perusal o these letters can never arouse in the reader respect for their writer The feeling they create Is best expressed in Cardinal Wolseys remark I How much mcthlnkw I could dcsplcc thin man But notwithstanding all that has been said against him follies arc about the gravest charges that can be brought against poor BoswclL Much thai Is lo his credit these lettcis bring to light abundant good nature true friendship anxious solicitude for his wife and his desire and care that his sons and daughters should be well educated There Is also evidence of some com monensc but not sufficient to warrant his saying that he was a very sensi blegood sort of man In the loiter in which this occurs he tells Temple You may depend upon It that very ooon my follies will be at an end and I shall turn out an admirable member mem-ber of society i S U 1 SCIILIiY ON THE WARPATH To ono Mr Maclay ho thin warning now said Dont embalm men In history unlll theyre dead Chicago RecordHerald t 5 MR DOBSONS RETIREMENT Word comes that Austin Dobson ban retired on a pension from the British civil service and proposes to devote all his available energies In the future to letters l Ho is 61 years old and has been In the service of the Board of Trade since he was 16 yearn old Besides Be-sides his civil service pension he has S one of 250 from the Crown given in recognition o his merits as a writer so that presumably hc will be able to live l In comfort on his Income That Is good news because he wlU be the more free to write the sort of writings that I he l does best anil which have made his t I reputatIon They are not the sort of writings that gentlemen turn to who I have h noed of earning considerable Income In-come Neither by light verse nor by literary I I essays however charming are the dreams of avarice to be realized real-ized m though reputation of extraordinary l S extraordi-nary durability may bo won by them Harpers Weekly |