Show cL I j1 j j mL = e rtq1 q I15 4 I e 9M 11 N i Miss Johnston typewrites her own stories writes Annie Kcndrlck Walker in the New York Times Saturday Re view after nn Interview with Miss i Mary Johnston the author of To Have and to Hold which Is now past its OOth thousand She spent last summer sum-mer at a fashionable resort In the Al effhcnles and the click of her typewriter type-writer was frequently heard far Into the summers night as she was at worlc on the concluding chapters of To Have and to Hold then running serially In the Atlantic Monthly1 f n S 6 Mr F Frankfort Moore confesses that ho wrote thirtyone books before he attracted at-tracted the attention of the public S 6 The Memoir of Grant Allen by Mr I Edward Clodd which has just been published In England has no preface L but the following I I do not know that any plirase or quotation has ever ben or much use to me In life but the passages most I fnvinently on my lips arc probably these j What shall It profit a man If ho gain the Whole world and lose his own I soul l 1 II To live by law Acting tho Inw we live by without fear I And beciMFo right Is right to follow right Wcro wisdom In the scorn of conse quence Tennyson OenoneY w O O Mr Kiplings dispute with Messrs Putnam fs one of the little things that have neen overshadowed by the war L Bays the London Chronicle Nobody ever mentions It now and the situation is so uncertain that nothing can be as A fccrtcd positively except thalrthe ease U has not boon settled The next move after all these months of silence will I probably Ho with the author As the I publishinghouso of Putnams Sons Is peculiarly noted for Its high principles the further hearing of the action for I 5000 damages In the American courts Is HUIO to be Interesting The chief point to bo deckled Is whether a pub usher may without the authors pcr jnlsKion Incorpointc additional material from other hands In his collected edi Lion of that authors works r < i S I it A literary autobiography of William Dean JJowells b0aHngtlietlUc of JUy r Acquaintance Amonjr Authors A Per Honal Retrospect of American Litera Iu ture tt In to bo run as a serial before bolng brought out In book fonn S 0 W iu Mr James Lane Allens new novel i Tho Reign of Law Is to be published in England under the title The Jn creasing Purpose presumably In or 1 del to aol colliding with the Duke of r Argylls copyright In the former name But It Is only fairness to give HIP vol ume a 1 title which would warn the reader I read-er that as Mr Gladstone said though I invited to play he Is really expected I to go to school The trail of theological I j conflict JH over It all and Mr AlIen lipro Is the Robert Elsmoro of Ken I tucky It was In the course of the col Ipge year 1S07CS Mr Allen makes tlio dale pioulse that this farm boy turned I theological student went into a Loxlng ton bookstore and asked In conscience stricken tones for a copy of Darwins Drseent of Man No wonder he was iLncestrlcken lie was asking for 1 a book and according to Mr Allen S getting and reading It three years be I fore It was published The Descent oC Man first appeared in 18i1New York Evening Post a q all Mr E I r Farjcon the English novel l ist has done something unusual To lilti new novel The Mcsrporlsts re cently announced for publication In England he hUff added a dramatic vet sion for the purpose It Issald of pro tecting himself against the preparation L of other possible versions S S Everybody knows the tragic the talc o t burning of the manuscript of Car hIs s French Revolution by John Mills housemaid Carlyle who took fo tragically the crowing of cocks and other minor distractions of life bore this Mupreme trial with tho heroism he ivoiflilpedln others It Is indeed hard to ay whether for Mill or for Carlylo the trial were the more severe Mill I looked fo scared when ho came to break the news of the catastrophe that I at the sight oC his race Mrs Carlyle I una frightened Cunnlnghnmc Gra ham haw now been l through this ilery ordeal The manuMcrlpt of Thirteen Stories he bad written perished j in the Ballantyne lire In the winter Like I Tarlylp undaunted he st to work to rewrite thorn and tho book will be the next published product of his uncon vpntloif 4hls too solfcongclously un 1 conventional pen 1 S S S Maurice Hewlett whose Forest Lov ers Is now two yenrs old and who lias I In tho Interval produced no sustained romance Is well on hl wy to com I j pIN a new book of which the title Is I i already announced Illclmrd Yea and 1 Nay This Imperious Richard 1M I Rich il ard Coour do Lion of whom Scott to PA namo one only has made such fine use i in romance 4 S S I An old desk from the former Bona parte house In Bordentown recently found Us way to Princeton through a dealer In old furniture says a writer In a recent number of The Princeton Alumml Weekly Except for Its as l sociation It wu > not very good from I the point of view of nn old furniture I I lover bolng of mongrel shnpe and un clnsslcal llnirf However It came Into j tho poKFPsslon of a local deal or who J procfoded to overhaul and roton It and In doing so accidentally touched the lno table secret prlng and before him stood a carefully bound package l of dusty lottPis which ho burned up because written In French Kllzabelh Robblns the American I II 4 actress who gained a reputatldn In j England as an > lnterprotcr of characters In IbBonapIays nnd whoso first novel 1 The Open Question excited con ld I I t 1 able comment last year will publish J her second work oC fiction la the I 1 autumn I Last February Prof Max Mullor began f 4 be-gan to write a series of letters to The DfiUwh RPVUO In defense of Eng I I lands position In the South African t 1 controversy They brourht out a re r I ply from Prof Mommscn which led Loa Lo-a friendly controversy between the two writers Lately thin correspondence has been rcpublishcd In pamphlet form In Ergland by the Imperial South African Afri-can association a a THE MOONDAB Theres a beautiful golden cradle That rocks In lie rosorcd sky I havo seen It lucre in tho evening air When Iho bats and beetles fly With little white clouds for curtains I And pillows of fleecy wool j And a dear little bed for the MoonBabys II I head I So tiny and beautiful There are tcndcr young stars around it Thai wall for their bath of dow In the purple tints that tho suns warm prints llavo left on the mountain blue Thcro are good little gcntlo planets That want lo bo nursed ana i kissed And laid to sleep in the ocean deep Under silvery folds oC mist But tho MoonBaby first must slumber Fgr ho Is their proud young King So hand In hand round his bed they stand And lullabies low they sing And tho beautiful golden cradles I Is rocked by tho winds that stray With pinions soft from tho halls aloft Where the MoonBaby lives by day I Pall Mall Gazette iCt S V Many a novelist has engaged the sympathies of hiy reader at the very outset by exhibiting his hero or heroine under the galling Intellectual restraint of an ecclesiastical household We have been asked to weep over the mls yy of the budding genius whose reading read-ing has been confined to pure theology and a few Improving works of secular I secu-lar origin through the tyranny of a father who Is also a parson Some of us have wept Nowadays most of us would smile at the romancer who put such a strain upon our credulity It Is clear that in actual life no parson tries to nip the genius of his children in the bud We have seen It stated somewhere some-where that at least half the English novels of the day are written In country coun-try parsonages If the reader doubts I this let him go patiently through the current volume of Whos Who He will be astonished at the number of wa authots whose fathers are In the church And arc we not constantly learning through the personalia of the literary Journals that one clergymans daughter after another has Joined the ranks of successful novelists From I Charlotte Bronte and her sisters to the Ca author of Red Pottage the prqces J I slon is a Iflngj onc AVhat interests us I most in the phenomenon is its testimony testi-mony to the inalienable supremacy of I he Imagination The authors oC the documentary school may argue till ill is blue but a noble array of books 1 s there to show that detachment from he life of cities In perfect quietude is I lot Incompatible with knowledge of the I human hearlN Y Tribune S II Prof Charles Eliot Norton is reported L t 0 have said in England that Ruskln L probably left little material for publl atlon as he had published too much L while living I lit S V A modern notion which helps to make he t path of the school teacher a thorny one Is the theory that a child ought Toe 1 > To-e putting out simultaneously and In I every direction as many feelers as a ontlpcdc hag legs As a matter of facta pupil who has learned thoroughness thor-oughness and application has acquired I something even If he cannot explain the precession of the equinoxes or tell 1 how many feathers there are on a hen There used In the former days to belL be-lL good many poetic Mm lies In which the unfolding of a childs mind was I Ikenod to the gradual opening of a I flower leaf by leaf The revised plan admits of no such sentimental and 1 slowmoving processes A childs minds 1 mind-s now opened like an umbrella expanding ex-panding equally and simultaneously cxt all points and fortunately for the child It also resembles the umbrella In i that It sheds a good deal more than It retains Atlantic Monthly a Tolgtol has been cxcpmmunlcatcd by tileHoly l Synod of Russia for writing Rcsurrqctlon i S Mr William Archer nas been study Ing J America and he likes American slang Apropos of Mr Ado Mr Dunne and Mr Townsend he says I plead guilty to an unholy relish for Chlmmlcs and Arties racy metaphors from the musichall the pokertable and the gripcar But It Is to be noted that both these profound stu dents of slang Mr TOwnsend and Mr Ado like1 the creator of the delightful Dooley express themselves In pure and excellent English the moment they drop the mask of their personage This I is I very characteristic Many educated L Americans take delight and oven pride In keeping abreast of the dally developments devel-opments of slang andpatter but this study does not In the least Impair their sense for or their command of good English The Idea that the English language Is degenerating In America Is I absolutely groundless Illusion Take them all around the newspapers of thu leading cities In America In their edi l tonal columns at any rate arc at least as well written as the newspapers of London and In magazines and books the average low l of literary accomplish I ments Is certainly very high There aro bad and vulgar writers on both sides of the Atlantic but until the booms are removed from our own eyes we may safcly trust the Americans to at L tond to the motes In theirs I have a capitol Idea for a story said an aspiring young Detroit author to a friend I call It Drafts That Must Be Met and this Is my Idea The man who goes through life profligate Idlo and dissipated Is drawing a draft that must be met in later years In pov erty wretchedness and woo Like a man that goes through lICe paying no ntfontlan to education or the develop mcnt of i his faculties and then aK tomms to spring full panoplied into political btislncs life That remind me quietly Intcr rupt d the friend I have a draft to mftPU and I have no funds deposited tnthe bank T think I am a sort oC practical embodiment of your story I The literary aspirant saw the point I and ho is now embellishing his little Idea Detroit Free Press f S Who discovered I l or rather revived tho word Inwardness ns denoting the true meaning of a aiwakers words ThI Is the latest query of Dr Murray for thP purposes of big New English 1 dictionary The WOrd In a similar con nectlon was employed in ihe save L 1 t I tcenth t century but it dropped Into I desuetude and did not reappear until some twenty years ago When It was I revived In the eighties it was printed L between Inverted commas but it has now passed that probationary stage p and become merged Into ordinary English En-glish London Chronicle S 011 THE ECLIPSE OF POETRY Beloved Art beneath thy wings I creep Worn with a world whero thou canst be decried i Thou too my Beautiful art thrust nsldo Where dreams and shadows vague oblivion ob-livion keep IToro thou dost sitthy shame glorified Thy grief a queens Thy tears IC thou I should weep Wore pearls which In lifes acid wo I would steep Making it precious but thou slttcst In pride Dost thou recall how once thy leaf of bay Outweighed tho proudest plaudits of mankind Dost thou remember still lime ancient sway Though now tho world seems to thy beauty blind l Or dost thou dream of that more glorious glori-ous day When thou thy larger sovereignty shaft find findAda Ada Foster Alden In tho Century 9 S S There is an amusing story of a woman wo-man of title who found it difficult to understand Journalistic methods when she first encountered them The sister L of a wellknown and eccentric Scotch peer was traveling In Japan and the far East when she received a cable dispatch from a great metropolitan dally Would you accept L for series travel articles The woman was pleased and replied by cable that she would send copy In a fortnight fort-night She was therefore annoyed when the paper withdrew from Its offer of-fer cabling her No need to send copy Dignified silence scorned the only way to treat such unbusinesslike methods meth-ods Many weeks later returning she found a parcel of newspapers and read with some astonishment several spirited and gossipy articles on the far East written It was announced by herself Had not a letter inclosing a handsome check accompanied the parcel there might have been a considerable con-siderable row Philadelphia Post i to S < I It is no compliment to an author to throwaway I all standards and abrogate abro-gate all common sense in talking of him and whalever we may think of j I Iltoraryvaultythc l most selfesteemed of writers docs make distinctions as II to the source of praise He values most the kind that Is accompanied by some evidence a sound mind It is i probable that sense persists Inn a in-n author longer than It Is supposed I to We do not share in that low view of authors which is so prevalent in the literary l periodicals It is seldom that an authbr shows his claws and spits when you stroke him but it does not I follow that he is totally Indlffrent to the personality of the stroker or to the kind of stroking That Is where he differs from other kinds of pets A cat would ns lief be fondled by an Idiot boy if he were good to it An author would not This may sound elemen t ary but It Is a fact that is utterly unknown un-known to hundreds of contributors to current literary comment N Y CommercIal Com-mercial Advertiser S 5 V I THE RETURN Except ye bo converted aul become as lillie children yo shall not eritcr Into tho kingdom of hcavcnSt Matthew x viii 3 God made a HUla child so far ho was The angels might have learnt of him a grace Nor gall nor guile woro In hlmj heart and taco Ono Image bore of Innocence Alas That oer to evil aught so pure should pom Long years rolled by and of the child no trace Was left save In Loves memory In his placo A man selfdoomed viewing hell ad through a glass rAshes I Ashes for beauty1 for tho light of day Dark drcnms strange wanderings Into regions sad Then God took pity on his work defiled And seeing that In himself no power ho had Of resurrection from the mire and clay God changed him back into a little child Quiver S V S GUTENBERGS MONSTER Philosophy discovers that mankind Is1 one and civilization confirms the revelation reve-lation l First comes the selfconscious ness of the Individual thon oC the ram ily afterward successively of the nation na-tion and the race Humanity lan l-an unselfconaclous unit was splintered Into fractions by selfconsciousness and history shows us how it voluntarily recombines till It becomes a unit once more every atom conscious of tho whole and the whole feeling through all Its component parts That means to this end was first human hu-man speech to which succeeded writing writ-ing and finally the printing press Some theorists believe that a yet more unlvcrsay and Immediate means of In tercommunication may bo awaiting us the discovery or development of a master sense in aplanc above senses as we know them Certainly though the triumphs of the press have been wonderful Its shortcomings are obvious a book or a newspaper Is a master sense In a plane above scenaes brous Inert whose tenure of existence can be secured only by the clumsy pro Css of Indefinite multiplication Scientific Scien-tific telepathy would i be preferable However tor practical consideration this anniversary Gutenbergs contrivance contri-vance gives food enough for reflection One of Gutenbergs first books was the Bible the Word of God and every thing printed since then has beenmore or l loss supererogatory and might have beenomitted without vital loss In the millennium niln wilt want no other reading than tho law the prophet nnd I the gospels which will be Inscribed on their hearts They do not content us now because evil und perverse genera tions have lost the key of scriptural In terpretation missed the spirit and 1 deadened ihumbolveti with the letter whence came commentaries creeds controversial essays and at last the higher criticism which Is the final word J oC human arrogance and stupidity But all our errors and perversions have done us good service there iu no way I to purge man of error and yet leave i him his free will except to indulge him In error to the top of his bent mnI thus prove to him Its futility and 1 1 rQpulslvcnes From our blindness toward the Bible I I arose history poetry l drama essay fIr I tion and the newspaper These are human hu-man works echoes adaptations Imitations I Imita-tions and perversions The best of I them like Homer Dante and Shakespeare Shakes-peare possess a transient and Illustrative I Illustra-tive value only None of them has life in itself that Is the sole prerogative of the Holy Scripture and by and by we shall sec so much In these socalled I Hebrew records and apostrophes that f w shall find neither time nor temper 1 for lesser reading That by and by is I far off In state If not In chronology meanwhile we must expect still more i I afllucnt productiveness from Guten I bergs monster No doubt Mrs Shelley had Gutenberg and his press In mind when she conceived her allegory of Frankenstein I Had the first printer himself foreseen I fore-seen to what uses his Ingenious ma I r i chine would be abandoned he would I > probably have turned It into firewood 1 The prattllngs of myriads of fools more I numerous than the leafy babblings of the forest primeval have by this machine ma-chine accomplished a quasimiraculous I visibility and tangibility But the miracle is only a magical one present I ly this entire vast output must vanish like the Insubstantial fabric of a vision 1 leaving no wrack behind Nothing was I ever so rare as literature and the mul tlplicaiion of ready writers has only made It rarer And even literature does i rhut I supply a temporary defect In the human mind which Is fain to have recourse j re-course to written records because it I has lost memory and Intuition When I the race lives through its Individuals this awkward cxperlent will be super seded Jt is a singular fact that just at present pres-ent newspapers and the yellow Jour nals more especially are using Guten bergs monster to better purpose than Is any other agency De Tocqueville says that a democracy lacks means to I resist tyranny because where all arc equal none feels strength or obligation to make war on the tyrant Now the yellow newspaper with whatever mo the l you please makes good this lack In our community all those things which the citizens feel they ought to do but which they arc too lazy selfish or busy to do the yellow journal does as their deputy the work for which they could find no leisure and which they could not afford to attend to and which nevertheless must be clone under penalty of loss of political liberty that work has become the special field and means of profitable activity of the yel low Journal It unites the oldtime ar gum ent and exposition of the orthodox newspaper with aggressive and ener getic action out go the rascals < lid I the thieves disgorge The yellow Jour nal thus represents the Incarnate civic virtue of the nation woefully deficient till now And because the newspaper lives by its readers It can never be I made the effective tool of evil or des potism Doing the work and telling the h story of It at the same time like the l Greek chorus the yellow derives l the profits which keep newspaper It run ning from the Interest It arouses In readers and advertisers It is a great scheme me which has come about natu rally and spontaneously For other purposes newspapers have probably seen their best days there is altogether too much of them But for their prac tical achievements In the way of stop ping abuses and punishing eliminate they deserve our unbounded gratitude and a Gutenberg may come In for his share in It Julian Hawthorne In San Francisco Examiner |