Show I I 4 9 A 4 I I i JLlj i i r z C Fd I j k V rJiij I I f 1 4k4LAIiI ji I 1 I LiJ I j 9k i F 1 Iii I It Is I gravely stated thot the new author linn tremendous changes Juut now that there is a vigorous demand for sootl work and that the quality of I I I i what la I off < rc la poor Suppose a 1 JIPW TlmeKeray were to suddenly I arise i It would he l deeply Interesting to uoni 1 pttio his welcome with that given to the author of Henry 1 ISsmiml S A writer In I the Manchester Guardian 1 ono of the ablest ISngllsh papers finds a motto singularly opt for the present timeS In he writings of Sir Thomas j More Kvcrywhere clol I perceive act a-ct rtnn conspiracy of Hen men seeking I their prlvalo advantages under the name und pretext of the commonweal w a 0 T B Aldrlch Ihe poet Is a great smoker of rlgarelles IOL always do my I biBl work afler u short smoke he J ayH and my favorite houru for 11 tIn t-In arc before noon or sifter midnight 0 Are there really any canons of orll lelKin I ap we 1 ay with surely thai hiM book IK I bad and thai I one Is good Wn Ihlnk t w ran and Just art we are ulniut SHIP of 11 I along comes some one and nstonlrihoK UH out of our eomplc I cenoy Charles Lamb preferred < uw ley Marlowe Drayion and the other minor pools to Milton and Shako tope rr Ill ha nakor Dunn In her Ploa for ihe I I Shiftless Ueailer In the i Living Agi lolls t nf a German profes jor of noli a D D I and TJh D who s onl lo her Rldor llaggardM 1 U1 win wi-n beIng his Idea of a really great 1011 1 unn knew a man holding inrelgn diplomatic post a man rf cultivated i cul-tivated I taste and the possessor of ono I nf ih I < lineI private libraries in I his Sin to I who siimnifl uj j his opinion of TovnyHoit J by t wiylng lie iKver wrote anything worth reading Due poem was paswiblo H I WlI9 the t one 1 hon t I 1 the I 111110 girl Jv hl i > dlrd To Napoleon tho odea of usslan were the i most magnificent mag-nificent I offortu of written t I languago 1 anil MO on through a long list people Of Uralclass minds might bo I walled uhp ueein lo us to be hopelessly at 4 wa a ronmlH literary pojropilnns Did i Hie Mhirp mind nf ihe CTermar pro I feimor fliul fRintelhlng In Dawn that our lepfir inlnua wt ro unable lo J111l1 lid the mlghly Intellect of Napoleon i plenf I ihrough what we are meua tomed to look on as thc orolunU bomb bom-b Hl of OKIII and ICtC bcatitle Invlsl bin to our duller l eyes or to these minds HO highly glfled In oilier re spprljs 1 wax tluMi I donlod l the one glfl of llleriry pcrucpllon New York S Ircsa S S A copy of the first edition of Queen Victorias lxivra from the Journal of lAfo III the Highland presented by the author lo Charles Dickens aold in j London the other day for oOO S It In dangcrouH to make a Joke In print because there trc > many reade s I I 1 o keenly on Ihe lookout for a mistake Avhlcli may give a chance to show their mipcrlor knowledge lhat their onsc of humor Is kept in abeyance It eiCCIIH i that all I thin a ml I inn te1 Hscu 1 Mlun nfl to whether Kipling wrote David arum hkh thrcaUMietl lo supplant Hie hardy and vlgorouM Shakespeare Bacon controversy amse from a misapprehended mis-apprehended Jisl The librurhii I at Smith Center ICnn Inadvertently IllIt David Ilarum among Kiplings book by I a mistake In a publlnhed lint VVIUIani Allen While editor of the J3nl IKjrJa Ganelle pleasantly congratu InLet Smith Center on the addition nf I a book called David Ilarum by that brilliant young author K Kipling Now everybody know billcr I than hut and nearly everybody jumped to tho conclusion that tho idi iii r didnt So lie was riHsallcd on all allies Tho suIt uatlon ainusod him and he wrote un elaborate explanation of how Kipling wrote the book to see whether his work would sell without his name It was j un Ingenious hoax and the debate began 1 f be-gan Immediately but It soon grew FO hot that the Garelto bus had lo make nn explanation Sprlngileld Kepubll I v4 CIlll I 4 II I S S I The difference between popular and scientific writing IH illustrated In the fact that It I will be two yearn more before be-fore Dr 1 Nanuen has his technical account ac-count of his explorations ready for the PIOKS The popular edition was In print a few months after he returned and was a huge iwovolume book The author explains hut sinew much of ih ground he traversed was absolutely unknown and may never be seen again by human eyes he thought he owed It lo the Kclenillle world to take extreme Mlnsxeven though It Involves great dclnjiin the appearance of his bookS tr book-S S S t THE PERILS OF JOKING What stupid people there must be In time East Three months ago scelne In I the announcement of new IxmkJl l received re-ceived It the Smllh Center Knu1 library li-brary David JIaruni ll ted under IL Kiplings works the Gaxettu prlnlea this paragraph Culture is I rapidly pushing westward TJu > Ga S xellc IK pleased to note that the Smith Vmcr llbmry nnnouncoH ihe new ixjok David nartitn by that brilliant > nitnp iiulhor R Kipling W torn fidpni know i this watt Inlended tarp tar-p Ploasanlry But In tho KanU where hey I hlnk I Knnwia Is full of Indium they thought lhat IL Western odlior didnt know lhat Kipling didnt write David ILirum So Eastern people bagim wrlilup to this niU o correctIng the nutement and pointing out tho fart thai Edward Xoyca AYcRtcott wrote David Ilarum not Kipling The Gazettes Ga-zettes paragraph was quoted widely In Eastern papers with great ploe by editors who thought the Joko wu on thin papur fur tint knowing who wroi 4 David Harum Letters became tiresome y tire-some oo the Gazette answered one man a librarian In Chicago tolling the librarian li-brarian thnt Kipling really did write Oavld Ilarum under nn aseumcd nnnii hut thnt 1w Gnzolte thought Kipllii H Fourt n Wok in Phy hit M und HIV Flf inrniarv Tricnono Jlirlrv w r < t 11 J n Mi l > < TttC letter written o the Chicago man wan plainly burlesijuo but by could not see It so he took the l tier lo I the Chicago Post It was primed and now tellers I and telegrams are coming to ibis of I JJce asking If Kipling really did write I David Ilarum The New YorkTFer aid wired today for proof of the assertion as-sertion The Herald was referred to Lydla A Plnkham and H II Warner Great heavens Cant I the people castor cast-or the Missouri river fee a Joke tiniest It Is I hibclcd JCmporiL I Ouzel to 4 r a WllRN 1 l A HOOKMAN DllSS When a bookman dies And his irensuics all ileiomu the prize I or un old book stall lolS his spirit wall in our atmosphere Till he Imows ho I fnte Of his olnmes dear > A khidrcd 1 soul i DOPS he Joy to sco f f r Actiulre the I whole J t 01 his llbrnry I f Now llfo begun tJ tf I DOCH he wlncu with pain i or jf It i ioi to ono > Of the tribe of Gain t Does h wax Irate ° In I illS honveiily homo Al the haplens fato or the fnvorltp Ionic When its plates nrp i lllchcd Hv I a xotdhl WTPich i r I Ami sold for moro Than the books would fetch I If hooka ho hOllght 4L For a fearful price I When consciences fought At ho I SlierlllcO I Fiji his wife Infirm T1 lint Il sontj conimiind t UUOB tlio honkimm squirm I In the spirit land N When youvo found a prlso o < I In in oM hook shop Tho d Iu nen of your oyco I Mlglit Ritildenly stop And your IICMILI might bo I mellow And almost hurst Jf you Iiojuil 01 the fellow r That owjhvl It linn Jiilm Ciuiidby Gregory In time Doojc Lover S 4 A vencrablo and distinguished New Jersey poet lays down the proposition that no writer should undertake lo trammel poetry till after In Is I 10 Jf the principle had been In force In those days we should have lost Miltons Hymn I 1 un liie Morning i of the Nallvl ly together with many oIlier choice I examples of Mlllonian prodticllon as wclI as all tho poetry of Keats and si good deal of lhat of Shelley Probably the limitation tuL only designed to apply ap-ply to New Jersey I pools in which cane Jtls a question wheiher the lime limit might not with advantage be liflcd some notches higher New York Tribune Trib-une S 94 Commenting In the National Review on Ito heightening oC modern descriptive descrip-tive t writing jy as to make it more vivid and Instantaneously realized Miss Jane II Flndlaler concludes I am Inclined lo think that though It Is I In part a literary movement It owes a great deal lo another cause Thorp Is a wellknown saying that the demand creates the supply which Il11n give us Homo clue lo all this change This Is an Impatient nervous generation overbusy overstimulat ed and unless a writer can rlie a description which Interests time reader In spite of himself I I he had heller nol write at all The author who appeals to an overworked nervous reader Is one who conveys his meaning almost Instantaneously to the readers mind without effort on bin part This is what really good descriptive writers ran do It IH what the best writers of I the now school do Perhaps thc Inherent r Inher-ent love of novelty that there Is In all i of us Is also an element In the new I movement We should rather have any change than none nnd stYle has 10 ediTh under this law as surely as every olhcr art but as 1 have Pointed out thin wordrevolution Is one which has been brought about tblnklngly so It Is likely to prove a permanent one not a were rebellion against the power that be S S S A literary joke In the Paris Figaro f suggests thai there are some things I which they do nol do belter In France I How Is your nephew 7 T hear him highly spoken of Yes he Is n good boy but unfortunately unfor-tunately hu does not understand versl lieu llon Surely thats no crime Ah but he has a perfect mania for writing verses Sir Walter Besmni hits all unconsciously uncon-sciously come forward as the best critic of hiM own plcaOftnt assumption lhat the practice of Literature may easi lyload on to fortune lie Is down for a substantial contribution to the new pension fund for authors a scheme started too by that very Society of Au thou of which he Is so valuable a member mem-ber Tho fund In l to supplement the operations of the Royal Literary fund and tho civil list pension The money will be used for pensions only which will be not less I than C30 nor more than 100 a year No one will be eligible who In I Ice I than CO years of ago It Is a scheme proposed by authors for the iHMiolll of author rIll general piibllu AU1 not IK asked to subscribe Th mom born of tic emit have at onco yhoun the llvolkm dlnpoHlllon lo pup part Ihr t plan Sojnethlne in tho nolph Imrhood of a lliouamul iw > undn has already al-ready boon secured and the list prom lnou to I grow ulth rapidity Snm authors au-thors offer u modftut sum but they promise to pay It every year presumably I presuma-bly for the resl of their lives Alto gelher It Is nn cngajcinv fcpcetaclo anti I In a wy n healthy confession TIic rewards re-wards of literature may sometime be great but they arc often most eaprl I cloualy distributed Many a man who i has In good faith Kjid with every prom I lace I of succea dedicated hlmrelf to the I pur uli of Icttem fluids hImself Inevitably Inevita-bly pushed to the wall as the years 1 craep on S S V Ulehard Uliltelnff whoae renmrknbk Uidle ot life InUIt Kt lend ot London Lon-don have made BO marked nn Impret Ion upon the reading public gftlnetl hi knowledge of the subject by M Ins InnUI Die I < irti rH i > n mir > it tluni t iyx f the PhlhidMphia Evening Post Many of his uNpOlencf among the submerged I tcntlu are even more lmerc9fli than those he has told In print Once while talking with a grizzled old I woman who lived In the same tenement I tene-ment he referred 10 the Queen I Oh ow I ould like lo be the I I I Queen1 aald the ancient beldame Why asked Mr Whltelng I It Isnt because of her ores because I Jf I were Queen I would ave a don keycart I with red wheels and It Isnt I became of her i band of musicians on hbrorback which gOes ahead of the IOn i I I-On guards for Id much rather ave i a Hltallan with a and organ but just I think If she wakes up at a oclock In f I the morning and wants a bite to cat she can touch a bell and arc beef and boiled cabbage right awnjV A factory girl visited u collection of antique sculptures and on her return Mr AVhltelng asked I < VUow did you like the statues None too much tit flrpt sir because nearly all of them were shamelessly I dressed That made me mad until I Uiought that they wun awfully poor hi them days and didnt ave money to buy clothes with Then do you know I felt real bad because there wasnt a I Mingle lldy in the whole bloom In lot of I them what ad a bonnet to her name a I |