Show lflEm J 5Si I Vial Is practically a new cdUlpn of I the Encyclopedia Brltunnlca Is now appearing and has reached the third volume of the set o Lord Leonard the Luckless Is the I odd title of Mr W 13 Norrlsn novel next spring i announced for publication It is a name which suggests a story paper rather than a work by the author au-thor of Matrimony s 6 Sir TVcmysa Kclds biography of his friend William Black the novelist gives many facts of Interest with regard re-gard to the relationship between Mr Slacks novels and his own personal experience It IB not generally known how close a connection existed between those Strange as It may appear the novelist never described an Imaginary rcene Tic was a keen student and observer ob-server of sea and sky of mountain and torrent ot fen and moor of treo and flower and the local color In his honks which lends them so engrossing a I charm was transferred from nature to the printed page with a care that has never been exceeded by tho most careful care-ful of landscape painters t V Germany Is reported to publish about 23000 hooks In a yean Great Britain Is credited with between GOOO and 7000 a year of which about 1600 are new editions edi-tions France turns out 13000 new books and Italy 9500 In the same time The years total new books Is 70000 Many of the modern books the London I Express reminds us are written for the moment only They are merely enlarged en-larged magazine articles If there Is a resolution or a big disaster or a war the men on the spot promptly rush out a volume apiece Of course these works do not last but they pay at the time Not 10 per cent of one years books continue to sell or to be remembered remem-bered a twelvemonth later Mr Stanley AVcyman Is about to bring out a volume of short stories He calls It In Kings Byways o a THE DOVE O bird that ncomst in solitude Oer tearful memories to brood What sorrow bust thou known I Or is thy voice an oracle Interpreting the soulu that tell No vision 1 of their own Thy life alas Is loneliness Wherein with shadowy caress Soft preludlnga of pain Tell that some captive of the heart Is preening ready to depart And neer to come Grain I John B Tabb in September Atlantic o I find that on the average a novel has taken me about elghtor ten months from the commencement to the end If you turn this statement Into a little sum of arithmetic you will find that It means about a thousand words a day Do not however imagine that I write a thousand words a day Not at all M > method always has been the I same The central motif of the story is first settled and decided upon It should be a plain clear and Intelligible motif one which all the world can understand un-derstand Round this theme has to be grouped a collection of characters whose actions conversations and motives mo-tives form a clear and consistent story while they supply views of life pictures pic-tures of life and illustrations of life It Is obvious that blind these characters charac-ters IB the great dllllculty It Is obvious that one may easily fall into mistakes and decide upon characters without much Interest to the reader Now the writer docs not understand this until too late I could name one of my stories where the central theme was very good and should have been striking strik-ing but the tale was marred by the lack of interest in the principal char acter sir waiter wesant s Autooiogra phy o It is reported that there are evidences evi-dences of a change in literary taste in France Zola IH much less read than he was ten years ago Victor Hugo and the older Dumas have come Into a new popularity and there seems to be a demand for more serious literature I a D Robert Louis Stevenson was about as warm a lover of the United States as it would be possible for any man to be says the Pilgrim One night he was present at a dinner In the British Exchange Ex-change at Honolulu an annual affair to which all the prominent men were invited He consented to attend upon receiving I the express promise of the presiding ofllcer that he wouldnt bp asked to do anything and therefore only the few men at his corner of the table had the pleasure of enjoying his talk as the dinner warmed ur > with all hands and the wine went round The favors were tiny American and British Hags of silk designed to flt in small silver holders that were provided 1 An Englishman present at the banquet who had only recently arrived in Hono lulu and who had dined too freely picked up the tiny American ling at his plate and Insolently swashed It around In a big stein of ale before him An athletic young American naval olil ccr near him saw the action and called the Englishman to accoynt for it That is absentmindedness course on your part1 Inquired the naval officer offi-cer uKo said the Englishman con tinuing to coal the American nag In the ale Stevenson got to his feet ifs eyes very wrathful You should be rhastleed for that he said to the Eng Jlnhman The ofllcer invited the Eng lishman to stand up and when he did so ho was Icnocked flat l by the naval 1 officers fIrst The dinner broke up In disorder and the offending Englishman was barred from the club from that night Mr H G Wells thinks that the effect of the recent war upon English litera ture will be to make it less frivolous and more serious sMentiflc and philo sophical l Mr Thomas Hardy believes that the attention of writers will now be turned to works of action rather than of reflection Both men arc ap parently thinking only of novels as constitutlncr modern literature Since Dr Conan Doyle had a knight ly handle added to his name he has elected to revive for the better accom paniment ol the Sir his almost for gotten baptismal name of Arthur and vlll be addressed as Sir Arthur Hu has begun a new series of Brigadier Gerard stories COM CO-M Jules Verne having expressed his belief that in a few decades novel ATltlng i will have become extinct Mr riowclln In the North American rc markB that M Verne has taken the passing of a manner of fiction for tho massing of fiction Itself Then he goes on to an explanation of why the psy chological novel at least can never die out of favor It Is imperishable Wherever two human beings or twenty imCl it spring 9 up and flourishes from their talk It hangs Its orchid blossoms from stems rooted in the viewless nr and yet this dlvlnn miracle Is as common com-mon as the grass under our feel Listen Lis-ten lo the gossips over their afternoon tea brvvhan they meet with their milk pails in the lane at twilight and ax soon as they begin the old eternal question ot tln lr neighbors and their affairs and their motives you have the psychological novel which shall seven die No dear M Jules Verne there never was a person more widely astray In his premises or farther from the truth in bin conclusions than you either as to the novel In general or Hi psychological novel In particular o Philip James Bailey who died in England a few days ago was the author au-thor of Festus a poem published In 1S39 and which was regarded by Lyt nn Tennyson Thacltony and others an one of the great poems of the time Mr Bailey bolonged to a prpVIctorl an age and there arefew persons In England or America hut believed that he had long since passed awiy Tim poet put all the genius of a lifetime Into In-to his one work polishing ho I lines changing the conceptions here and there and adding voluminously I to the text up to n comparatively few years ago In 1SSD a Jubilee of the edition wan celebrated and the Jublloe edition considerately con-siderately < expsindrd presents lilt poem In its ultimate form Festus was published nnon > mously at llrst and Its unknown author vas hailed by the beat English critics as the fellow of Milton and Gcothe Tennyson said of It I can scarcely trust myself to say how much I admire It for fear of falling into extravagance The poem ran through numerous editions rapidly In 3SS9 eleven editions had appeared In England nnd in 1R77 thirty editions had already been published 1 In the United Sinteo Bailey was born In Nottingham in 1S1G iris father was an editor who sent his brilliant son to Glasgow for an education but he left the university without a degree to take up the law Ho soon abandoned his studies however for poetry For a long time he lived in Jersey but in JSS5 he removed to Eng land and In 1S02 to his birthplace to spend his old age He retained his clearness of mind in a remarkable degree de-gree but was singularly retiring and diflldent a trait which accounted for the fact that he wan so little known personally to the public His wife died In 1S96 A BALLADE OF THE REVIEWER Ive read critiques for mnny years All In an easygoing way The serious that move to tears The truly heartening and gay And I have marveled as von may Tlmt volumes come from every source Which bring this estimate In piny Mils latest books a tour de force If faint praise damns as it appears To what does ovcrpralfo betray I Twould seem Unit the reviewer fears Against tho bad writing to Inveigh One recently to my dismay A mnldcn eifort to indorse I Wroto Heres an author come to stay His latent books a tour de force A Lolo of travel In Algiers As prosy as the badgers gray A verse collection hinting shears A sea romance an dry is hayl Of politics a warped survey A Dissertation on Divorce 1 read of each In this array Ills latest books a Lour de force Golf weather Copy duo today None ndybut ho plays of course Knowing twill be quito safe to say Ills lutes books a lour dc force Edward VV Barnard In the September Bookman The writer of the Bookmans Chronicle Chroni-cle and Comment has this to say = of Richard Harding Davis Mr Davisa position as storyteller Is now and has been for the last few years so firmly assurad that criticism can do cry little lit-tle either to augment or mar his success suc-cess Its ten or twelve years since ho made his reputation and lie has kept It I which nowadays Is much more remarkable We are not hoping for an extraordinary novel of American life from his pen but on the otherhand we are reasonably sure that he will never writo and publish anything that will not bo entertaining worth while or he Is a born spinner of tales just as Kipling and Stevenson were spinners of tales though In a minor way and a man who can tell a real story and bring to the telling the dash and the fire and the humor that Dr Davis does will never be without listeners The para grapher insists that Mr Davlss brand of humor Is particularly original crisp and spontaneous It suggests Bret Hartes humor and is i vcry nearly as good j Among the new novels which arc on the way arc Miss Silberrads The Success I Suc-cess of Mark Wyngatc Miss Katherine Tynans The Love of Sisters Mr F I Frankfort Moores Castlo Omeragh I The Star Gazers by Agnes and Egcr I ton Castle and The Private Papers of Henry Ryccroft by George Glssiny I These aphorisms are from The Confessions Con-fessions of Matchmaking Mother Never hasten events That Is one of the first principles of good generalship general-ship An Interrupted proposal Is an absolutely abso-lutely fatal thing and may lover be fln ishedThere I 1 I There arc people of allkinds in this i world All that one can do Is to lake i them nc they are and make the best of I them themThe I I The height l of art is to hide art There Is nothing that BO enhances the value of a thing In ones eyes as having lost It The typo of woman selected by a clever man is generally pretty empty and affectionate Heart appeals to him much more than mind of which he Is rather sick When n woman is passed being kissed on her own account nothing pleases her more than being kissed because be-cause of her daughter Twentythree docs not always go on loving seventeen when they marry early but If It does not it Iii l the fault of seventeen A man Ignevcr BO 1 awakened to the charms of a woman us v hen other men arp Fjiqvljiff lhejr njt > rcclatlon of her It Is your widower or bachelor of over 35 who can hardly appreciate the woman who studies the comforts of lm o o The editor of the EpworLh Herald tollaanamusing upon himself He declares that he was seized not long ago with a subtle temptation to dip Into fllUlop j nil wrote n sketch which he much admired r Desiring an absolutely impartial verdict upon his story he arranged ar-ranged to have it I submitted in such I form as 1 would not betray Its authorship author-ship for publication in the pages of thin Epworlh Herald Upon its arrival In I the ofllcc the editor was compelled to itncss Its rejection by both of his assistants as-sistants To use an expression not permissible I per-missible except under extreme provocation provoca-tion he says In his own paper we had boon turned down In our own ofllce I by our own colleagues lie adds Henceforth we shall never return a contribution without feeling a largc I sled pang The pang will be caused partly by the memory of our own bitter bit-ter experience III the realm of llctlon and partly by the thought that we are I about to be a party lo a transaction which will cause another heart to I bleed Apropos of Mr James latest novel 1 an English critic says that It Is I Impos j I slblc for ordinary human beings to be I to prodigiously deep ar he would like to make them that real people lo begin with as his characters are apt lo lose I their reality In the minutiae of an Incredible In-credible observation and to become phantasmal Intel Ilgenccs U b The Gorman critic Hans Fischer has lately published a atrong Indictment of Tolstoi and his school of novelists af cualng them of exercising on Western thought an enervating Oriental influence influ-ence Tolstoi he says Is I the apostle of passivity and while time morallly of I passivity may have Us place In Russia it is noxious to the strong manhood of Western civilization Tolstoi and Gorky are probably the most rend of the modern Russian writer writ-er on the continent although the Influence Influ-ence of Dostoyevskl tho greatest and most Russian of these three L is the most Powerful on the thinking portion of the younger class of readers It Is high time to protest against this condition of affairs af-fairs Just think who and what these men are and were Dostoyevskl la subject sub-ject to epilepsy Tolstoi Is old and decrepit de-crepit and Gorky comes from the lowest low-est ranks of the proletariat All three are thorough representatives of a barbarian bar-barian type of thought All three come from a church that has as little connection con-nection with true culture as has a Persian Per-sian mojque All three try lo force the yoke of a Slavic morallly and ethics on Western civilization It Is to be lamented la-mented that the Germans have not been able to resist the Immoral influence of this Hlernlure How much havoc has Tolstoi alone created In this respect He has misled the young with his very moral scruples There arc many who through the purely passive morality of this novelist have really lost their moral manhood In Christian circles we hear many warnings against the poison of Nietzsches teachings but this poison poi-son is not half as dangerous as the In slri lOllS flattering weakening poison of the Russian notwithstanding Its Chrls LIon scent THE BANSHEE CRY When the great gray fog rolled in The cry came up from the rica Twas not the shriek of Iho windswept bard Or the voice of human kind It heat like a dead man hand I On the casement ho fain would find Three times It come and wertt three times I Qtmked ni J heard For you or for mo OConncll Is it for you or me o I I flung the casement wide The gray fog drifted through There was roar of llif1 wind and wave And never a sound beside 1 irrssed the cross to my heart Till my breast with the blood was dyed I 0 little Lha use lo pray littler time lImo to rave For you or for me OConnell Is it for mo or you Oh Alary MttryMolher Which soul dost thou hold In fee 7 Mine the bride 1 of a night and a day Prloalbound to n bond abhorred Or the red OConnoll himself ChSoftaln and mnnler and lord I have heard tho Irmshces crythe death hoovojJ on their Way For you o for me OConnell Is It for von or me Thcodosla Garrison In the Criterion |