Show t = L I lll1ERRYGQSHP i A coPY of the hst edition oe Popcs Esay on lan I four Parts wltn nwjniscrlpt corrections by ho I author sold In London the other dixy for uas golt J450 WiS An Interesting relic of Pope Is nnnoiuircd for sale this week This jp the original autograph manuscript of his earliest work Tins Pastorals containing rnuny passages which differ t from the published versions 1 Mlcs Touisc Imogen GuITl > Y dearly jnves J n joke and Is never ns happy un ixrlion she can perpetrate one at the ox V l icnic of a fellow author Several years ago she wrote a bit of vcrs In linl tritlon i of the manner of Thomas Bal AIlrieh She sent it to the Boston Transcript whore It via published lr > vlth this signature T B A1 S A I few days later I the I editor of the Tranii crlpt received t note from Mr I Aldrich Ald-rich In which the poet asked where that verso had been found and adding that lie recognized it as his own but could not roil where it had originally cult J published W Miss Dillwyn an English novelist of considerable reputation Is also I an ox pert farm bailiff and partner in l successful suc-cessful speller business Very few women even In thin age of feminine progress and strenuous endeavor have led snob full and onurgetlc lives as Miss Dlllnyn has and In her business capacity ca-pacity she walks three inilos to JILM office of-fice every morning and works from 0 till 5 lUtes Dlllwyn is one of the few women whoso taste forlfihacco ex loads beyond the cigarette She enjoys a cigar and has he I courage to own It Miss Dillwyn declares that it suits her nnd adds I always smoke openly I do not believe in women smoking In secret p I is now definitely known that Bret Hartc left enough material Lo make anew new volume of Condensed Novels He had written 11 least hilf JL dozen parodies of popular English novels fif coday and some of these skits have already appeared The whole set which brings in Kipling Hal Caine and Conan Doyle will be published In the autumn c a o A correJpondcnt of the London Academy says Men beyond doubt P more theatrical than women In their novels A great gif in either sex Is I always fearless but I among the selling secondrate It will be found that women write honestly If badly what tluy know and feel whereas men of the same literary rank indulge In stilled diction melodramatic effect = shnm sentiment false refinement labored la-bored unreal emotionalism The woman wo-man therefore commands u hirsrcr public She Is more sincere and the great good sense of the common reader read-er heedless of style I responds to her undisciplined earnestness undlsclpln c The book world is already interesting itself an to who will write the official tlography of Cecil Jlhodcs Publishers ore assuming that sooner or later there will bo such n work Their Idea is that Ii Mr Rhodes has left papers having half the human Interest of his f will his biography will be a unique book boolI I is nald of Fourier the Socialist that he had all the qualities of a prophet except vagueness his craze for precision spoiled his predictions for us The Speaker quotes Charles Chile the I economist as cleverly showing show-ing what Fourier lost by this I Thus if writing before the advent of railway rail-way he hue confined himself to stating stat-ing tha a nan would In a slnglr day be able to start from Marseilles I breakfast In Lyons and cine in Paris ji i his prevision would have been considered I consid-ered most remarkable but since he adds that the Journey will be uicom I f pllshcd upon lie I back of a supple and f I elastic porter who will be the anti I J lion we roar with laughter Or again if he had saul simply that people would I some day be able lo communicate In stJuilaneoiiHly with each other from 1 one end of the world to the other Fourier Four-ier would have been credited with a rare degree of intellectual 1 foresight but as he thought best to descend to I the particular A certain vestel leaving leav-ing London arrives In China today tomorrow to-morrow the planet Miirs having been s ndvlscd of the arrivals Iud movements II of ships by the atronomers of Asia IIi I-Ii wil1 transmit the list to the asLnino < rums of London we again roar with rjjWI laughter and forget that he has ar l i f rived by he t fantastic machinery of the IlI t I Imagination at the same results as the j8 IE telegraph and tclcpnone ftg g t Sylvanns Urban In a paper on tiN m Bath in the Cornhlll Magazine givcu i K If this delightful Instance of disagreeing iiI F f doctors I remarked in the jnirnp t i1 room a ticket on an antique incised inscription that would have delighted Dickens It was as follow H < ad by Professor Sayce as a record of the l JIf cure of a Human lady by the Bath 1 i waters attested by three witnesses i1 3ead by Professor Zangermolsler as a curEe on a man for stealing n tablecloth table-cloth 2 It Is said that everything the late rII Paul Leicester Ford produced was eml I neatly successful from the publisher 11 I point of view Fven his Ijay Psaln I JI j Book and Hugh Gainc imbllsJiei l ii In limited editions and for Hbrariob 11 I and collectors only Wurc successes i 11 This Is aJcrlbcd largely to Mr Ford I l i Jceoii business SOIIEC an attribute rare I illlJ In men of letters I Commonly ques t i tlons of typographical form and prlr I I I nrc left to publishers to determine but > Mr Ford seemed to have an a linos Intuitive so > s of what the I publl I would buy and the farm In which Il i l itI might to appear and Iu nover failet p Uo have his ovn way In such matters rj I I l7hB fact however reunited In his fo I books being tanned by several liout > J 111 The library In the rear of his fath I 01 J ers house on Brooklyn Heights winre II i 7 1 l he llvfd for a i time and where he I t 111 c wrote Peter Stirling was a room BO by CO fc ° t roofed iith a huge Hity 00 light and with walls literally lined I if with i books and Ijroad shallow drawers OJ 1tI icontalnlng historical letters auto 1 14 Braps and memoranda In this room 0 J and that below It was gathered the 1 I largest and oldest private library of Ill I rAmorlcana In Greater New York Therms I p1 ere at 1I1l l moOOO volumes and ian t 5 04 jphlcts about the houre 1 n the library I r r veru four great 11 Icsks and as many vrltlng tables each heaped high with nttcrlnl for the work carried on at hat particular spot Alfred Austin poet laureate has ded bItted the American edition lIe his lat cst volume of verse itA Tale of True uve and Other Poems to President Roosevelt in these words To one vcn ioru dlstlngulsliud for his personal CjunU tics than for his political I position lofty though It I t he Theodore Roosevelt I Inscribe this volume with deep ad nlrallon nnd reapuct II Every mnn Is three men remarks nc of the t cynical women characters In The Wisdom at the AVlse Mrs Oraljjles latest theilrlcil t l production the man as lie Is I before he becomes en aged the man after he Is I engaged and the man after he Is married Slinllar y I think It might be remarked of Il woman author that she Is I three omen o-men tlV woman the Interviewer sees and the two other women whom he docu lot yee The I vo 01 her women In Mrs rnlglcn case are verv Interesting Mrs Cralgle Is rather mill a brunette ills Inctly pretty with tine clover eyes and with the I art of dressing wll and lii hug nlo her surroundings Some persons nay consider this It small mutter but opinions flltYer o j lhe writer described as the gifted 1 young Canadian otMr Bliss Car man to llIs about to puhllh a Coronation Cor-onation 1 ode and the fact will remind the readers 01 American periodicals t h1 thc t-hc is in truth no American but a sub ject of King Edward i The London Times In Its literary supplement remarks that u curious euture of the publishing world Is the argo numb > r of books now appearing In England which seem to he of purely merlcai Interest What Is more cu lous Is that it has recently become the mcllec lu jfubllsh English editions I of ooks on so distinctively American Hub erts as American natural history gardening gar-dening and country life The Times emurks that there Is undoubtedly an ncreasing demand for good American oolcir and many serious works especially espe-cially those dealing with I certain iranihes of science and history and education have surprisingly large sales 17 n England Novels essentially Amen JMI IP stylo and subject are also road nOTC than they used to be and the Idea jf the publishers suims to he that they licet the demand for local color The Southerner did not refuse because It vas so Scotch to enjoy so purely 11Ilal I a study as for instance Mr Bar ieR Thrums and the British reader who likes to get away from his own surrounding Is nowhere so It is thought likely to find so much to arouse his eu loelty ns In novels portraying modern American life The late Bret Ilarle was In his sixty third year and had fortyfour book tRies to his credit The Luck of JRoarlng Camp rescued him from poverty pov-erty and uncertainty and brought him to the summit of the hopes of all young authors of that t day the Atlantic Ann S Stephens once said of him that his gift was a lead not a pocket III An English writer has the following to say of a popular American novelist I was surprised when I met Marlon Crawford Craw-ford today down at Sarah I3urnhar 1ts theater lIe had been supervising the rehearsals of Francesca da Klmlnl and was very happy with the enthusiasm of Sarah for the work As we drove back together the brilliant author told me thai he could count on his lingers the days that he haI been In England dur in the last twenty years Southern llu 1 Iy was to him a paradise Marion Crawford Is a burly man almost horse guards blue in his gall but I should Imagine of very delicate temperament Although the day was mild and a jacket jack-et was suftlclcnt for the ordinary man he buttoned up his overcoat to the cheek bones and then seemed chilly III III It Is not only In Russia It appears that Tolstoi is under the official ban A Prague newspaper reports that he was proposed by the Czech Franz Joseph Academy fOI Science and Art of that city for foreign honorary membership The proposal was laid before the Ministry Min-istry of Public Instruction which submits sub-mits all such propositions to the Emperor Em-peror Francis Joseph through the patron pa-tron of the academy Archduke Franx Ferdinand Tha archduke however struck out the name of Tolstoi from the list of candidates before It I was submitted sub-mitted to the Emperor Herbert Spencers altitude toward war In general Is strikingly displayed in a fragment of autobiography published pub-lished In his latest book During the Afghan war news had com that I some British troops were in danger At tho Athenaeum club writes Mr Spencer Spen-cer a wellknown military man drew my attention to a telegram containing this news and 1 road it to me in a manner man-ner Implying the belief that I should share his anxiety I astounded him by replying When men hire themselves out to shooL other men to order asking nothing about the Justice of their cause I dont care If they are shot themselves them-selves I S DEFOES PR ID VISION The terrible news from SU Vincent following the Impression that this island liarl escaped the volcanic deluge which has cremated I half Msirtlrilque at once recalls and reverses the famous hoax by which Daniel Jefor led all London to believe In 171S that the whole Island of SI Vincent had been blown up and obliterated On the basis of hIs own Imagination or on some thin ship story Defoe wrote In Mists Journal a circumstantial cir-cumstantial account of the destruction of this Island giving such details as with nil our facilities of news transmission trans-mission uc wait for In vain today After Af-ter leading up very I gradually to the catastrophe he told lila readers that on the IL night of the said Gth about I Midnight the whole Island of St Vincent Vin-cent rose up In the Air with a most dreadful eruption of Fire from underneath under-neath the Earth and nn inconceivable Noisii in the Air at I Us I rising up tIt t-It was not only blown up but blown out of the viry sea with a dreadful I force as It were torn up by I Ihn Roots I or blown up from the Foundations oC lie Earth Finally to bring the event I home to his renders he recalled an accident ac-cident In a foundry In Moorllelds where a quantity I of liquid gumneial coming Into contact with some water had blown to II I f1 1ir G1t tf tco r 5 J N 5 11 sN 5I J 03 fl 4 4 4 iA OJ OJco iir 5 J SOSJ 513 5m i7 5011 I E 5 1 I horns of Hungry Hoarders Havent we meat today Landlady Xu gentlemen 1vf Joined the AntiMeat league and were recd re-cd not to buy incut until the price la I cut in hulL up the works Just as a journalist of I today might perhaps recall the recent destructive lire In the same district to suggest however faintly the storm of lire which swept over these hapluss Islands Is-lands last week THE IllSTOHICAL NOVELIST Lnrlor iho history chestnut trco The novel 1 makor mauds A auiiorllchil I brain bus ho But atronrr ami able hands He thumps the tree with might and main And calculating frown And like a shower of ball or rain Thosu clicbtuuts tumbledown Ami then tho1 min inry weep he notca No human victims I cry But crams those chestnuts down the tin oats or achy pnnserby Luc NATURE STUDY One to whom the skin of the earth In which William Morris uo frankly de lighted is not everything may well fcel llltle Impatient at the sentimentality which so often nowadays attaches to what t is called I natural 1 study One sometimes feels toward it us a distinguished distin-guished professor of the theory I and practice of education recently remarked as to pedagogics most people who used It dirt not know what It meant and what they thought It meant was tedious and empty The distaste which nature study often excites IH mostly due to the ridiculous conceit which It seems to kindle In the minds of those who are most conspicuously devoted to It I L They regard it I as something I esoteric which It Is their special privilege privi-lege to understand In their pwn way Tlny constitute themselves a sort of secret society after th I fashion of boys of larger or smaller growth and the secrets they I possess In 1 common are about I as Important I and Incommunl cablj as the passwords and grips of this juveniles There are certain emotions 01 simulacra of emotions wilh which their breasts arc thrilled t and all who I arc unable or unwilling to thrill with them are regarded as Philistines and treated with undisguised contempt This curious affection prevails largely large-ly I In tht minds of tel eliers who by the llmltnllpns I I t 7 of their experience and associations as-sociations arc prevented from enjoying fully the wholesome Influence of sensible sen-sible criticism and are much exposed tot to-t lie worship I l of each other and to I the misleading attachment of Immature creatures Jt was the forluuc of the present i writer recently to fall Into the company i of a number of these enthusiasts very nice young women they were too and doing some very good work in various WI 1 swho were I discussing at least talking about the proposition of some high priest of the cult Urat the Love of Nature is the beginning of Spit It uallly I I I An effort to get at what they meant by Spirituality and Avhat by love of nature and how the latter began the former was rewarded with meagre results re-sults Reduced to Intelligible terms apparently what they had In their minds was that enjoyment of the study of growing things was apt to keep little human beings out of mischief which Is true of any occupation that can be made Interesting and Is I an Important function for any study It Is however a trick of the minds of men from school teachers up to justices of the Supreme Court to magnify their jurisdiction Juris-diction What Is of consequence to us as Individuals naturally seems to us of great Intrinsic consequence and to deny It is to strip us of it share of our rightful dignity and authority But this error In perspective is not the less Injurious for L being common and It Is much to be desired that the devotees of nature study shall correct It as far as possible For the study of nature the study of observation t of living things animals 01 plants and of the earth on which they live or from which lucy spring Is properly and sanely conducted most prolKable In many ways And It Is ca pible of giving a great deal of healthy and sincere and modest pleasure such as Is good for children and for men and women So far is the children are concerned probably the most effective prophylactic for the morbid affection of which we have spoken is the association associa-tion of good honest work with the study To learn fact to learn their relation and significance to Interpret them and apply ilitfin can he made plcasurcable but It can never he made If the process be thorough so easy as lo promote conceit 01 sentimcntallsm Undoubtedly In the long run the study of nature which Is now lo so considerable consider-able a degree a fad will clear Itself 01 its unhealthy accompaniments and find its true and complete usefulness That Is an aim to which all sensible teachers will gladly l contribute Phila dolphin Times q A PAYING HOPE The poets since the world began Ilavo tuneful tribute paid To hopo that In the heart of man Eternal home hath made But tim throiich I life his I virtue blest Acuoimmnlcs you mill me i I think the I Hope thats puld the best Accompanies Atithonv Jennie Belts llurtsick In The Bookman Book-man |