Show I I U1UARY6O55ft I Owen Mister IE going to write Uie biography bi-ography ot Oliver Wendell Holmes which In to ho Included In the American Ameri-can Men ot Letters series 6 Rev Arthur Howard Noll nonInlaw of the Ititc Thomas Junn JBngHnh will publish the lattors rcm nlnBccnces Dr Noll IG registrar ot the University of the South at Scwnnce Penn 6 hero IB a possibility that we nro to learn some new and Interesting facts about Goethe Something of the kind jS said to he recorded In the forthcoming forthcom-ing volume of letters written by his slater sla-ter Cornelia to n friend 6 SONG FLOWER AND PEARL They raj the subtlo 111 that breeds the pear Plants In tho heart the poets germ of pong That In great GanKCS Inlets lots unfurl Th rlfrhOI flowcrlcss sweeps his sacred title along By Thomas Wnlnh In the October Bookman Book-man Darwin left a niaan ot Interesting correspondence cor-respondence and we arc to get more of It before long Some of the letters have already been published but the now onca will cover wholly different grounds S SS The Hon Andrew D White IB reported re-ported to he at work on a book of rem inleccnces describing his experience I no Minister In Berlin In 1S79S1 at St Petersburg In JS929J I and as EmbasHn dor to Germany from JS97 until his retirement re-tirement In November neAt The earliest period on record when quill pens were used for writing was In tho Sixth century and they continued to bo the chlcC kind of writing instrument instru-ment until steel pens were Introduced Henco the name PCP from the Latin penna a feather The inllls for tljls purpose are best when taken from living liv-ing bird In the spring and the goose furnishes1 by far the bust and largest number The tUvan crow eagle hawk owl and turkey are made use of both for pen and for camelhair brushes The five outer wing feathers ate tho ones which are used and those of the left wing In preference to those of the right because they would curve outward out-ward away from the writer THE CUP The golden Jemshhl BO the Perslanu fillY PosBwsed a ranplc wand with seven rlnir i That tilled with wine rrflocted Wondrous won-drous things Tho cfcrotn ofd tlo aovcn worlds that sway In raptured da rhyme their morrow yCSter And now ay and the fond Imaginings OC every ooul that sorrows dreams or ins From dim creations dawn to the last J day Thy body my beloved I for m < > That mnglo cup my lovo Is the red wine In theo tho wonders of tho worlda are mine I Thn Bccrcts of tho stars and oC the sea Tho avid prayers of every hidden ohrlnc All are reflected for my soul In theo By Elsa Barker In tho October Bookman Book-man Fault was found says the Christian Endeavor World with the way In which the shorthand writers reported tho speeches In a legislative body They retaliated 113 giving the speech oC one nf the members exactly an he made It with the following result The reporters ought not tothe reporters re-porters ought not to be the ones to judge of what In Important not to say what should be left oulhutthe member mem-ber can only Judge of that Is I Impor tant As Ias my speeches as the reports as what I say la reported sometimes no one nobody can understand under-stand from tho reports what It Is what I mean SoIt strikes meIt has struck me certain matters things I that appear of Importance are sometimes some-times left out omitted The reporters I tho papers points arc reportedI I i 1O < 1Oto make a brief statement what I the paper thinks of Interest Is reported 1 report-ed I i j Mrs Max Mullers biography of her husband which Is coming out this fall I i will be In two volumes i o I The Grey Wig Mr Zangwllls new I novel Is nearly ready for Issue So I j nre Mr Tom Gallons Mystery of John Peppercorn and Mr Andrew Langs I humorous book The DIscntanglerg I o Mr Morley Is reported to have found the sorting and arrangement of Glad I stones papers an even heavier task I than he had anticipated and there Is i apparently no certainty as to the pe I rlod of publication of the biography I Ellen Glasgows hook of verse The I Freeman and Other Poems contains the following on Fame I 1 In life He lived among them and they 1 cast Him atones for bread He that was mlghUM of them all had I not whereon to lay Ills head I I In death where flaming popplca flro tho I dust I They brought a laurel wreath Honor to ashes on the coffin laid Fame to tho skull beneath i I Cuttyhunk and Shakespeare Dr E 1 E Hale Is I convinced that the conncc I tlon between the two Is rather close i He trace parallelisms between various I portions of The Tempest and the i contemporary accounts of Go noldB ex i perlcnccs on the New England Island and he thinks that the poet undoubtedly j < undoubted-ly used In his play some of the details i of the mariners report He reminds I I us that the Concord Gosnolds vcscl I was sent out by Lord Southampton Slmktspcare8 patron and that the quarrels of the gentleman adventurers I adventur-ers and the drunken sailors of the vcs i > el I must have been brought to Southampton I South-ampton for adjustment when the men returned to England Now observe I he says that William Shakespeare Is on Southamptons staff at that moment i probably living with him and that heSs i he-Ss contemplating already probably writIng writ-Ing The Tempest I think the critics I now all unite In saying that the date of I the acting of The Tempers Is 1603 i i This corresponds exactly with the time of GoBnolds return In Southamptons house Shakespeare must have met the I drunken sailors on one side and the I gentlemen adventurers on the other I He heard there possibly for this first I time of mussels from the rocks oCr oC-r pignuts of sramcls or tcatnews from the rocks whatever they were and I the rest of the bill of faro of the Island i I I Isl-and From the narrative he learned how I I lush and lusty the grass looks how t I I jjrccn Meadows very large and full of green gross Is Brcretons phrase i And a race of the unfortunate quarrel I I I between the gentlemen adventurers 1 and the seamen runs all through the 4 I I play One doesnt wonder Indeed that I I gentlemen adventurers who camped out for the first time In tho Cuttyhunk woods were ableto supply Shakespeare with some suggestIons sis to Calibans with long nails as to devils and IB to Arlels In brief I think them can be no doubt thai flue I local coloring of The Tempest Is I In part derived from the I narrative of Gosnnlds adventures This conviction gave me courage to fury before j I be-fore nn nudleme of the 7xnvell lectures ll hat I WP have a right to ciulm Miranda III t as a MafirLchiisrttK girl I American Books Bead Abroad I i Some sixty or twenty years ago Sydney Syd-ney Smith the English author und di l j vine npkcd condf c ndlngly In thin four quarters of the globe who reads an American book or goes to an American play or Jocks at an American statue ills derogatory qtiogtlonmarl m have now lost all their meaning As Is pointed point-ed out by 1 u writer Jn the Worlds Work for September practically all thenota ble American books arc now repub llphtd In Kngfnnd and the tourist finds Triuchnllz OdllloiiB of the latest Amer ican1 oucccst strewn all over Europe Time wrKor continues In a little Lincolnshire town Is a club t11ut meets weekly to read and talk about literature chiefly tho claH xlcs When the time cam they read Lowell Emcraon Hawthorne Irving and Poq Jus these live I Americana Hut they road thorn not as American wrIters at all the books were sniclud In their proper perspective as Mngllsh classics And thin has been the typkal English attitude In the same ton t lens cultivated culti-vated folk M > rr ivadlng Will Carleton and Tames Whllcornb Riley catching the mlnlintiniof local color and provln clalaplrlt tin maximum of homely familiar fa-miliar nentlmentl to all Intents and purposes they were rending English l verse ThlKagTiln Is typical All there writers are read throughout Great Brl taJn nn freely as licro though by pro portionately fewer readers and Long fellow without doubt Is one of the two most popular many even say the most popular of English poetn but there Is no faint a hallmark of Americanism on what IK I lead hut I It Is nil regarded na English letter A welllnorncd Englishman when asked recently If lie read the American authors icpllcil that he did not know America had any distinctively national literature Vltcn Passed hbwcvcr he l I L ac mn tted that 110 wtus fTnlllar with > r i m Mark IlrI Twains writings amt his < oves opened wider as he cohfcaacd a knowl fJSC of this list Hnneroft Prescott n4Motley Flskc 1 John Bur toughs S5Ptl Iahan Frank > Stockton and Mr Howells Bret Harle Mr F Marlon Crawford Mr Henry James and Mrs Athcrton he averred were quanlLnglsh through theIr residence In London Furthermore Ho onCe siT to having read I Helens I Babies and Two Tears Before the I last uu with his Cnlfoe < V and Cooper wJth hIs Scott Ho also reads Mr hilh ard IJArdlnE Davis and with commend able enthusiasm ho Paid And who Is this nelw man Waster That story of hishe had reed The Vlrglnlanls the real gold of fine clean vigorous life in a book His whole confession Is an average sample of the English view not the bookish or the university view but the everyday benefltofclcrgy view of American letters though nat urally among many men the lists would vary These writers havo a steady wile In English as In American book stores The writer proceeds to enumerate other definite Instances of American hooks which are Inning a recognized place In European libraries Capt Mnhan was actually discovered discov-ered In England and every English naval oiTlccr now owns his books With i German French and Japanese editions I every Japanese ofllcer Js supplied with The Influence of Sea Power tho volumes have affected the naval policy or the word Mr George Kennans Siberia nnd the Exiles boasting German Ger-man French and Danish translations was read by the Czar though It was blacklisted In Russia and It profound ly Influenced European opinion Mr Booker T Washingtons human story < Up From Slavery eagerly read In England has been translated Into more languages In all probability than any other American book And I ul present Ben Hur Is swooping Europe about as It swept tho United States for obvious reasons but whv so late It I Is hard to say saySome Some of Dr Van Dykes works a I novel J of Robert W Chambers and some talcs s of Mrs Deland who Is popu lar In England have been clone Into French as has Mr Roosevelts Cromwell Crom-well and Miss Vllk 4s nnd Mr Howclls are read In both F nch and German There Is a German edition of Edward Bellamys Equality Mr T B Al Orlchs Story of a Bnd Boy Is a standard stand-ard reading book hi French schools officially authorized American novels declares the writer In the Worlds Work arc finding a larger and larger audlenco In England While It Is sometimes true that novels well known here do not become known there because the booming of them does not roach so far yet American publishers agree In admitting that a good story well written Is sure of an English sale If the society presented Is I not too provincially American to be I comprehended Rewrites further J Devlin Boss I a really capable talc of American politics was refused the Imprint of a London publisher because be-cause English readers he Mid could lot understand American politics There was no such difficulty with David Da-vid Hirum and Eben Hold n which were widely read in Ensland Ebcn Golden to some extent in pirated 1 edl lions Here In a way was an American Ameri-can Invasion for the publishers of Eben Holden have been seeking a foreign for-eign imirkot for only a year and a half and yet added to Ebcn J Told > II five other hooks last season reprinted for English readers Mr Hamlln Garlands stories and other Western tales such as Mr Toughs Story of a Cowboy hivc appealed ap-pealed to English readers na satisfying their preconception of American life which not even their familiarity with Mr Howclls can correct Mr Frank Norris helped to strengthen It by The Octopus profoundly pro-foundly affecting critics with that plcndld Western canvas Miss John tons romances feeding another desire and likewise Mr Churchills stories sold readily In England but with no such rush nt they piled up edltlnnsn + at home Air F Hopklnson Smiths stories Mr Cables The Cavaliers Mr Chamber Cardigan ware well accepted these books cited standing for a longer list of the sort of American novel that permeates per-meates to the English storyroucllng class I It la useless to mention the serious seri-ous books that might be typlllcd by the late Mr Scuddcrs recent Life of James Mussel Lowell or such essays as Laf cado Hearns as being read In Eng and they fall Into the class of books hat come to every cultivated mans able a-ble In Englishspeaking countries round I the world only the novals are salient on the point under I consideration nnd hey show merely that English readers read much what Americans read only less of It in proportion BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY A cct of Vbllalrec works conntalln of ortytwo volume will be added to tho Salt Lake Freo Public Library Monday morning October 15th 102 among which are the following Biographies i Charles XT of Sweden Two sols AGO of Louis XTV Two voK Pitor the Great Two vols Tlcnrlaclc the Epic of France BioLVfipnlcal Study ot Voltaire By Morley Dramatic Works Moropo and others w Muhomct and others r Alzlro and othorp The Scotch WOman and othersj JSalro and other llntorlcil I works Ancient and Modern History Seven void vOhho Tho War of 1711 Hlotorlral Miscellanies Two vols Philosophical Work A Philosophical Dictionary Ten vole Phltnronhlcni l Kpsoys Poetical Wotkfr I vLn Pucellc tho Maid of Orleans Two vols Philosophical Poems Humorous Poems Romances Satires Burlcoquoa etc Four vole J 1 |