Show I LIIERARYO5IIP = = Vltli the lilHlorcn pluyfi of Shakes Dr Horace Howard Furncus docs 1 ncnro iot Hi preparing his Variorum edition of the dramatists work Intend to concern con-cern himself These ho will leave to younger hands English scholars have received this ciliiion with brotherly admiration The fastidious editor of Notes and Queries tays of It that It Is the crowning achievement as regards Shakespearian 1 literature of American scholarship and jims to the blush all rival English effort 5 ef-fort He adds It la with delight thai 4 ue watch on the shelves the uusmunt jiii row of volumes and express a hope mat the full series contemplated by the editor will appear under his supervision Enough for fame and enough also to constitute a proud lifetimes accomplishments accom-plishments will be such productiveness J > r Furncss Is indeed the best of editors edit-ors arid has learnt butter than any other oth-er the nilImportant lesson that he edItS best who meddles least The reasonableness reason-ableness and sanity of his comments arc In striking contrast with the rage for misunderstanding and meddling with which most men who approach Shakespeare Shake-speare seem afillcted t l I Charles Dickens was very much delighted de-lighted with a story which Mr Toole the actor once told him of a circumstance circum-stance which occurred on the stage of the Adelphi theater during the run in London of the Christmas Carol One of the children employed who played Tiny Tim was found to have anything but a tiny appetite and night after nijht the food bestowed on this childs plate was observed to disappear with marvelous rapidity Real goose and veal plum pudding were supplied for the dining scene during the run of the piece A close watch kept on the child proved the fad that I sidea little ylrl played the part had tnken advantage of a practicable fiieplace to pass through It the portion allotted lo her which In turn found Its way 10 the hungry children chil-dren of one of the supers In the theater who thus nightly onjoyvcl a high tieat from the selfden > Ing action of their little frlerd Dickens comment when Mr Tool told him of the nlory was filmply Oh Toole you should have givemi her all the goose Mr Leslie Stephen In hip article on Carlyle In I the new volume of the En cyclopaedia Brltannlca has sonv vIse words to say concerning the Scotch mans friendship with Lady Ashbur ton Mrs Carlyle was hurt by the line ladys condescension and her husbands accessibility lo aristocratic blandishments blandish-ments Carlyle as a wise man should have yielded to his wifes wishes Unluckily Un-luckily he was content to point out that her jealousy was unreasonable and upon that very unsulllrient ground to disregard It and to continue his Intimacy with the Ashburlons on the old terms Mrs Carlyle bitterly re nented his conduct She had been willing to renounce any aspirations I of her own and to sink her I self in his glory but she naturally t natu-rally expected him to recognize her devotion and to value her soclety beyond all others She had Just cause I of complaint and a remarkable power 3 as her letters prove of seeing things U plainly and despising sentimental con Folatlone She was chliuless and had time to brood over her wrongs For eleven ysnrs Mr Stephen believes the pair kept up these unpleasant coml ilonp bin were at peace again after I idy Afhburtons death j Jules Verne the novelist though now in his tlijhlyalxlli year still r works at his desk for four hours a day lie has several new books In bund r which ho hopes to finish before the close iJ of the year Ills house In Paris Is I crammed with sckntlllc books electrical ii electri-cal apparatus and nautical Instruments a and on the wall of his study hangs an II enormous map of the world all scored II over with lines Indicating the routes i taken by l the I heroes of hi stories II Verne corrects his works lo n remarkable I remark-able extent and It Is said that he has I rewritten many of his books ten times J V In the midst of the rejoicings to which the English have given themseUes over the termination of the Boer war theme Is one item upon which readers of llc tlon everywhere may congratulate themselves The declaration of peace I releases Mr Kipling from the duty of keeping the I3rIt lab empire In order Nobody I No-body questions the good faith with I which he lion wielded the rod of the schoolmaster but moat of those who rend him have been compelled to admit t that his devotion to it has been as fu tilt as his assumption of the hortatory t and corrective office has been fatuous 33v n his own countrymen while appre ciucic oi me nnunciai I fruits of The l AbsentMinded Beggar have learned to linlo the sound of the song But every Tt mc has felt that Mr Kipling might s have been HO much helter employed mid IV we are sure that there will be general delight over the turn of affairs that now leaves him free to give xin timeworks 1 time-works of genius that he alone can pro a 1 duce Alieady a newstory by him Is announced to appear In an early number Ah of Scrlbners Magazine It I i will be j4 awaited vllh the keenest Interest and t with the hope that It may contain time S4 4 promise of a permanent dedication of the authors powers to the sphere of activity 11 acti-vity for the adornment of which one i llkcK to believe he came Into the world New York Tribune 1 Canon Ellacombc In his recently pub lished niluie volume of inlsrellnneoiiK i cJiat entitled In My Vicarage Garden and Elsewhcip brings gently but l jrmly a very doughty argument not Ii hitherto used against tin partisans of ic the iteconlun theory Shakespeare s1 WIVM Canon Ellacombe was a versatile 1 ffnliis find one can place ones linger on hut three spots In ihe map of knowl edge which he left apparentv unex 41j plored He i praises not the fragnnt weed tobacco he loves not MB Imiya Jog but far more surprlsfmr and I weighty than these omissions mnvlure 1h throughout the plays do we llnd a sin I gle description of architecture or of any 14 urrhllerluraj structure Now consldei Inm the passion shown by I Bacon In all his i writings for a re hi tenure this omlvilon xlll need morr plausible explanation 51 thru Is even In the power of u 1 Bacon ian theurlHt to glv < fn order to remove 1 the obstacle It raises No inch great 1 artist an he who wrote the plays of j Shakespeare possessing at the same i4 lime t nt Intricate a knowledge of archi I 3ui tectural dvlnils as Bacon could have i t let slip so many opiorlunltle of gin rlouo Illustration and descrlpllon nti are ill afforded by i instances In the plays a I VT Th Tattle White Bird Is to be the 1 Vl rather odd title of Mr J M Barrios t forthcoming story Mr Qulller Touch 1 1 If llniuhlnt a nov novel so IK Mr PJchard Whltelnp and so Is Mr Illeh I 1 s h tird Bagot Mr i Henry James having rt boon 111 In riow In completing his < > x fi peetrd story rime author nf Red Pot 5 1 Jl tage huts ieiily a nev novel which In to have HP Illfit publication as a serial J 5 and Ihe author of thai foolish book 0 c i An i Englishman Love Letters will 1 1g i oon publish n not her volume ono l 4 Which ulll Ihls I time contain u ruvola 5 tlon of Identity The title of Mr J 0 3 jiTUomuUlIe Burtons new novel Val A I fe ytt more than sug ntH the name of j i uf hero of Mrs Whartonn Valley of ufn h < To is to boa new novel by Mr H n l Ia Y7VSlnc ool < who has already IIililiHshed one notaJdo story The Lady 1 Rifler Is the titlo of 110 now book Una Usa Sliborlads forthcoming story Is to bo called A Daughter of Jsh nmcl MAKING < V STORY Certain writers of stories had been dIning together the other day and while they smoked the quuntlon arose as to how fur It Is possible tit remember how you made a story The friends were almost unanimous In declaring that to do this Is generally impossible They said that all time essential part of a slorv comes Into your head It maybe may-be born of something scon or heard or rend It may suggest Itself because you iavc chanced to pick up an ancient capon When It I has done that t the ruined brain In Ices bold of It and gives it proper shape Only one man differed lo admitted that the thing did not jappcn often yet h had on a score if occasions devised a stOry by strictly clcntltlu methods Ills first example could not bu disputed There was a story his friends liked He had made it as he walkid across a London common com-mon on a frosty morning He first re olved to write a story Then he con Idem the life of a i small country own and what particular feature in it t should form the aunoundlngs of his tale Then having chosen the May fair hi 10 sought out the most picturesque audi Irlcd around for methods of mak lug him the hero of a story and re icmncrln what I tho man would doe do-e found the story rs surely as you llnd Q E D at the end of IL proposl 1011 in Euclid lie gnve two other ex mplcs bu neither of them was con Inclng because In each Instancu I there was what tin other men called a jump Jn both oases hu had rend a brief passage In somv old history of a locality mind seen in It the germ or St story Ho explained how as a sclcii illc worker he had altered and ar ranged the facts and this work had ought him nearer and nearer lo the story that was eventually to come into being And then 1 said he I saw that t I had to make suoli and such a change But why said tlnj others How did know that i you come to The man was dumb and yet these changes had alone availed to give him amiy excuse for telling his stories Jn omit case he had changed a great hill into a little flint arrowhead found on Its lopes and that arrowhead was the thing on which the whole of this tale iirncd He had to admit that a story is something which just comes Into our head and which you write because be-cause you have had practice In the trtLomudon Morning Post M t Mrs Dinah Mulock Cralk Is appar ntly quite forgotten as a novelist In this country but she survives In I5ng nnd as the author of two books A JIrave Lady and A Noble Life 3o popular have these two stories con luued to be that sixpenny editions of hem are just coming out in London Mrs Cralk was a sentimental moral 1st but was of much ability us her John Halifax proved Her prose was cncrally a thing of pleasing mediocrity with an occasional touch of distinction ler verse was often pretty and musi cat Paw pooplc sing In these days Douglas Douglas Tender and True but there iis a period when an agree fliiO thrill was raised In youthful carts at the sound of the strains CO A writer who recently visited a show 01 f toy dogs in Paris says Voltaire ias Kin led that tho worst use you can ml a man to Is to hang him but I luesitloncd the statement when I saw hose olemn looking flunkeys whose ole duty It ii IIK to guard from caress or prods pets smaller than a kitten ented on a gorgeous cushion and suf erlng palpably from overfeeding I Some of the boxes had been converted Into positive imitation boudolrs but the encral aspect of these luxurious pets undo you shudder at the certain cata lysm if only one determined rat turned up > Sir Henry Irvlngs contribution to the common fund of talk about Shakespeare Shake-speare and Bacon is uncommonly lucid lu-cid bright and comprehensive but Its particular value Is In I the Illumination I I I which he gives to this familiar subject sub-ject from the viewpoint of an actor If there t wero nut a thousand and one reasons why the idea that Bacon wrote the plays is preposterous the intimate tnowiedge of the stage and the close association with the aoior and his work that hey I everywhere display would be sufllclen evidence that Bacon did not write thCm While the Baconian cranltr or humbugs aic not entitled to any such consideration na lu given them from time to time It Is quite worthwhile worth-while to take up their nonsense anew when one can treat it with so much originality of thought and freshness of perception ns well as with the shrewd liumor that Irving brings to bear In hula Princeton add ICHS Philadelphia Times SISNEX AD CHLOE There sings no nightingale to win you forth And I myself am old and cannot sing But ace the peartree stands In bridal while Have pity on me Chloe It Is spring would not wrest you from Lho Thraclum boi Who lovon you and whose vows of hove you love I abk but that you sit awhile with me And let time blossom kiss you from above Give mo your lionel long long ago 1 sal With Lalagc beneath the llocnnir tree As you she sia and mused with fovcllt eyes Ah Chloe weave a golden dream for inc c > < > Tho nightingales are dumb the blossom fallu Tbc hnnd I hold In mine Is limp and coltl Tho utiira arc dead that lived within your CiCH Have pity nn me Chloe I am old E C in the Vcatmlnster Gazotto MY HEAUT HATH SUNG OF ThEE My licnii haili sung of bee Ml i be soft hours nf the slumbrous day Aa thiough the arch of tree and tree Mid springtimes wooing volubility Ono fuller more Insistent note Irom unseen lovepained I throat Comes down time loafy way Hero hour by heedless hour Limon the mossstulned fome I lean Anil wonder at tho < iidrlcn shower Of lilosjHomH on the rippling ireon And watch tho baml of God unfold The poppy and the marigold The row IH lovely and till llcurrtolls And apply blossoms dear lo thec and mile But now I chooflo Ihoac richer colored lluwers Llftlnir Bold faces to the golden hours My fancy IK robust as they one uwcct wai m kiss TJcJlls a dny like this HorlKrt Mullur Hopkins In the Juno Huokman A a a The London Academy aptly recalls Daniel Defoes famous hoax of the year 1718 when he led all London to be llcvc that the whole Island of St Via ctjnt had been blown up and obliterated On time basis of his own Imagination or on Home thin I ship story D foc wrote in Mlstn 1 Journal a circumstantial account ac-count of the destruction of this island giving ouch details as with all our facilities of news transmission we wait for In vain today After leading up very gradually to the catastrophe he told lite readers that on the i night of the said JfHh about midnight the whole Inland of Si Vincent rose up In the air with a mama dreadful iruption of lime from underneath the earth and an Inconceivable noise In tin air at Its rising ris-ing up that it was not only blown up but blown out of the very sea with a dreadful force aa It were torn up by tin roots or blown up from ihe I foun tat lotus of the t earth Finally to bring the event home to hla readern he recalled re-called an accident In a foundry in Moorflelds where a quantity of liquid gun metal coming Into contact with some water had blown up the works |