Show 1Lll1EURYQSSllPH i An observer oC the art of Illustration ns iti IH cultivated in these modern dny what must often have womlurcd lust might he l ut the bottom oC the Inadequacy to aflllct some oC quacy which KOCIIIS tho cleverest practitioners oC thatarl Apaln anil fjnln a book or a i mgazlne ot with special nourish Is published a trumpets In honor of the artist responsible respon-sible for certain of the Illustrations Vhcn we turn to the picturcn often flrst rate In technique we are Just as likely to find them out of keeping with the text The draughtsman scema sometimes to have Ignored the lext hut to havo deliberately mlHreprcsciuod the authors meaning Ae su pect that what really causes this Is neither carclewincHS nor malice but too much ambition Tho Illustrator Is i 5 1O anx ioiiB to make an effect that will attract attentJon to hh own work that he tieats the author as almost a negnBi tIle quantity The hypothesis Is strengthened by I two books which have lately come under our notice One of them IH Mr Harry Pains Tho One Before Be-fore tin other Mr lacobss amusing novel 1 At Sunwleh Port Hie Illustrator Illus-trator of the first of these books Mr Tom Browne is a maker oC unpretentious unpreten-tious little pcn sketches Mr Will Owen who made the drawings for the second is Tin artist of the same sort Neither could be cnlled brilliant neither nei-ther seems anxious to rise above a very modest plane But both are clever both enter heartily into the spirit oC what they are asked to do and both are phenomenally successful Thus Ave see that upon occasion flt least an ab ycnco or high erected ambition leads to beter work than is done by men who take themselves with excessive seriousness seri-ousness New York Tribune U THE SECOND CRUCIFIXION Loud mockern In the roaring street Say Chriot Is crucified again Tvlco pierced Ills Gospolhearlnfr feet Twice broken Ills great heart again I bear and to myEolf T smllo For Christ talks with me all the while No annol nov to roll the stone From off His unawnking1 sleep In vain ihall Mury watch alono In vain the soldiers vigil keep I I Yet whllo they deem my Lord Is dead 2Uy eyes arc on Ills alibiing head All never more shall Mary hear That voice exceeding sweet mid low Within tho garden calling clear Her Lord is gone and she mutt go Yet all tho whllo my Lord 1 meet In every London lane and street v Poor Lazarus shall wait in vain And Bartlmaeua shall RO blind Tho healing hem shall neer again 130 touched by suffering htinmnldnd Yet all time while I HOC them I rest Tho poor and outcast on Ills breast No more unto the stubborn heart VIth gentle knocking whall Ho plead No morn the mystic pity start For Christ twice dead Is dead indeed I So In the street I hear men nay Yet Christ Is with mo nIl the day Richard Lo Gallicnno o e The Century TMnsrrrfne is about to print a serial which will have an especial espec-ial interest to people who are at home on the prairies It is called The Biography Bi-ography of m a Prairie Girl and the author au-thor is Eleanor Gales L young woman who spent her childhood In Dakota and who writes thus from the closest personal observation The time of Miss Gatess story Is about twentyfive years ago it is put in the form oC a personal narrative of the life oC a little girl and there Is hardly l a phase or event of prairie life which is not touched upon in these pages tho blizzard breaking colts horse stealing by Indians school days on the frontier fighting gophers and badgers cattle raising and other typical typ-ical phuscs of hardship or prosperity It is not a m novel but the characters appear and reappear In the story with a reality which Impresses the reader with confidence in the truth of the narrative nar-rative The Biographyof a Prairie Girl will begin in the August number of the Centur and will be illustrated C II C The Sultan has lately permitted the removal from Jnml el Kcblr Mosque in Damascus of a number of manuscripts manu-scripts which have been for centuries guarded thedeln Experts assured him that there were no documents In the collection affecting the Mahometan religion and he ordered the whole of them removed to Constantinople Here it was found that they included a number num-ber of fragments of the Old and New Testaments in the ancient Syrian language lan-guage and character together with fragments of a translation of the Old and ew Testaments Into the dialect of SyroPalestlne Among the latter was found the first evidence of the existence exist-ence of a translation of SL Pauls Epistles info the dialect which was spoken at the time of Christ There were also fragments of the Pentateuch Penta-teuch In the Samarian language a translation of Psalm LXXVJII in Ara llc but written In Greek characters and thus affording a valuable clue to the pronunciation of Arabic In pre CMahometan limes seventyseven pages of a hitherto unlmown commentary in ancient Syrian twentyfive rages of the Psalms and eleven pages of the Pentateuch In I Greek chnractcis dating from the eleventh century It is slated that the German TSrnbus j Bador to Turkey has been allowed lo fiend the inanuHcripls to Berlin for a thorough examination 4 A eCIlaln American writer oC international inter-national reputation who died tenth was like so many geniuses strangely Incapable of managing his own domes lie aualttJ The small boy or the t fam ily wu his I fathers pet hut the ter ror of the rest of the household Now it happened that under his same roof with this small boy lived two maiden aunts sisters of hlo mothers That they were thorns in the flesh he made no pretense of concealing On one oc casIon when he had stepped a bit farther than muQa1 the bounds of propriety In add ressing His relatives lilK Aunt Julia appeared before hllf father to state the case Her I nephew liad ealle helL fool while his Anal Martha he had chamcicfflnS dSSn as a do inn fool The young offender was sum moned to limo paternal presence FIx mantled JnG hIm wIth his eye thc Lther do fool DId you call your Aunt Julia a foolYes yes rDld you call Jour Aunt Martha a damn fool Yes iVMiy Mon Y wits the Tronipt reply lint t In the exact distinction that I jhouia make mysclfSt Louis iMir her Hendrlk Ibson has rrovcrod from Iom lib long and dangerous Illness and t heze sire already hirth in time NonvJ PIVSR of a new work from 11 II JItII In the t inornlngtt Ibsen moves ahou t tie lively I In I he house though ho cannot dispense with the assistance of a cnmC About midday he takes a louir walk out of doors and tho afternoon he iicvolcsj to hhi corresiiondenco and to reading numerous newspapers which lias become an indispensable part of his days programme He has taken special Interest In the Paris performances > perform-ances of his plays and thc recent ap pointment of his son as a Councillor of Slate In Stockholm has given the old man especial pleasure Both his physicians and his friends for IL long time advised him to take a cure at same place that he would find attractive attrac-tive such as Pandcrfjord but he energetically ener-getically opposed this Idea holng In of financed largely by his dislike of the curiosity of the public which annoys him extremely Tb en has become since his Illness even more retired in his lutblls than he was before and avoids companionship and conversation I 1 > Among the few who are accustomed to talk with Ibsen from time to time the composer JJdward Grieg 1M 1 tho chief S Unpublished letter of Boswcll thc biographer of Johnson were discovered recently In a L lumber room of Auehln leek house Provided the consent of one or two member1 of the Boswell family Is given the letters will appear ap-pear In volume form before the end of the year S I THE RETJCIDNCF OF LEARNING It Is not often In modern times that any complaint can be leveled at any mini for paucity of literary production The reticence of learning l is so rare In llipSL days that to complain of a notable no-table Instance may seem an uncalled for ciillclsm Yet we do deeply regret any instance of such reticence The feverish volubility of ignorance the amazing output of llllteriture coin a much needed word lhat distinguishes the present epoch renders all 1 the more ncuejMiry the I measured productions of the scholar and the sage The absence of production when production Is both possible and desirable since any Plo ductlon must bear the burning stamp of originality and learning Is Inllnltqly I sad and the sense or loss that follows the apparently complete extinction of great learning Is 1 among the bitter teais of things There arises the real aol e of tragedy when the earth closes over some mute Inglorious Milton or over a man whose capacious intellect reinsert lo unroll let us say the EUrOpean history his-tory of the late Middle Ages Yse seem to remember a story of an Oxford Ox-ford scholar of great t learning He published little nr nothing and one day when he felt death was not far off he deliberately destroyed notes and annotations an-notations ot priceless value London Spectator |