Show j IN THE LITERARY WORLD I NEWS AND GOSSIP OF BOOKS MAGAZINES AUTHORS AND PUB PUBLISHERS LIS HER S. S t It A t t EEGAN PAUL REMINISCENCES The late Mr J Kegan gan Paul Patti used to give gl It H- H ns hlf firm conviction that nearly ever er every book sent Bent to a publisher was va sure to be fairly airly con considered The legends of oC rate first works work having ha Rone gone the f round o of nil ill the tho publishers In London I had an extremely small amount of or tru truth In th thorn m In Iii the Judgment ment of or this experienced member of or thC the I ence-I fraternity But fewer good hool books s were submitted to publisher nowadays than formerly he used to add To 11 be successful Mr Paul used to say pay a n. publisher her should not have ha very r 3 highly developed literary tastes of or his own as In this th case h he would In Inevitably In- In c bf be tempt tempted fl to accept nept books unlikely to prove pro commercially successful success ful ul because they fell Cell In with hl hiM own literary Ideals and on the other hand handS to reject t those which might do well on the opposite ground Mr Paul had man many amusing flees of ot famous l personages es whom he hec c had met In his time A good stor story he was wont to tell related to John Bright and a I. I visit paid ld II by the the- latter lafter r to a countr country country coun coun- try tr house houge Thinking he would bring a a. servant ant his hostess sa remarked cd at dinner dinner din din- ner ncr I 11 hope Mr Bright ht your our man found everything c comfortable for tor or you Man lInn he said sahl I never ne travel with a man nian I untie hope then tha that my man made you ou comfortable Well he said ald I I found that he had squandered my toy coth clothes s nil about the theL L room and that I suppose Is what he meant to do do Westminster ter Gazette GREAT BUS i The author of oC the forthcoming Life I of oC f Dumas says s 's that he was tempted to preface his work worle with an elaborate subtitle sub sul- title title- somewhat in this fashion The life and adventures of oC Alexander Duma Dumas Du Du- Du- Du mas ma of ot the world orld who was both a black and a ft white man a royalist and a n. re republican re- re publican an aristocrat and a lotte otte who took tool part In three i re revolutions evolutions and made three different reputations reputations who wrote more books bools than titan an any other man ln living or lead dead who erected two Monte one of or which made his fortune and the time other of or which unmade unmade un rn- un- un made It Iti I who Simo enriched the world and wa was poor all nil his imis life together with an account of oC his exploits as dramatist romancer r. r traveler eler politician wit Journalist Jour jour- diplomat soldier lecturer cook historian poe poet t etc MOORES MOORE'S IRISH BOOK nOOK George Moore's Moores new now book Is out In 1 London and Is 18 printed In Irish Mr Ir Alden Aden In his Ms letter leller to the Times Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- Review ne says as a's Mr Moore has threatened to print all his future hooks books booksin in Irish but lUt then he once threatened some fome years ears a ago o to print them exclusively exclusive exclusive- ly in French Evidently E a desire to shake hake the dust lust of oC the En English lish language from 01 off ocr his literary feet Ceel Is no new thing to Lo Mr Ir Moore Every r man has hasa n n. right to decide In what language an he will write provided he knows mows any lan Jan guage Mr l Moore has chosen to write in lii Irish and it Is 18 believed belle that his new book bool will be he re read d by ever every person nerson now living who knows Irish The Tue number of or such persons ons is Iii arlous variously estimated nt ot tram from rota seven to thirteen not teen not counting J those thole who can make out a few words with the of oC help the thc dictionary SOME NEW BOOKS A number of oC new novels for or the time tall fall have e been announced The Pit Is the title of oC Frank Norriss Norris's new star story This story Is the second part In the Epic of or the Wheat heal he begun un h by the Octopus It Is the history of or a u deal In the Chicago Chi ca cago o wheat pit Richard lla Bagot ot whose 0 on the Catholic question have ha been een preached about all over England will ili publish a new now story A Romance in High Life Robert nobert Barr calls his new no novel Over O the Border it will appear serially The new Castle novel has been completed tho the work worl of oC writing It having ha been lone done chicH chiefly at atthe atthe atthe the country countr residence of oC Mr unit and Mrs Irs Castle In Surrey This new work of or fiction will be he called The Star- Star Dreamer Miss lIss Ellen lhorne crot Fowlers Fowler's new nev novel no Fuel of or Fire will shortly be he issued In 10 America by hy Dodd Mead M Co Cn Arnon Among other Interesting new books are the thC following ln The Man Ian In the Street stories from Cram the New York Times rImes With an Introduction Intro Intra by Chauncey M M. Depew DeleW New NewYork j I York 3 J. J S. S Ogile Publishing compa com corn pa pany ny Time The Lit Little tlc CI Citizen a Stor Story for Children Chil Chil- dren D By Dy M. M 1 E. E Waller ailer r. r Illustrated by br II IL G G. G Burgess nos Boston Lon Lothrop Publishing company Separation a novel By l Margaret aret Lee author of ot Divorce etc New NewYork NewYork NewYork York F. F M. M 1 Buckles CoA CoA CoA Co A Speckled Bird a I. I novel no B By Augusta Augusta Au Au- gusta Evans Wilson lIson author o of StElmo StElmo StElmo St Elmo etc ete New York G 0 G. G W. W Dillingham Dilling- Dilling ham bani company Sea Breezes and md Sand Dunes a astory atOl story stomy tOl for or children n By Rebecca Rbecca Van DU n. n New The rhe A Abbey Press Doctor a novel eJ Dy By I I. I C C. de e Vane Illustrated h 1 by the author New York The fhe Abbey Press Pres Three Years on the Blockade a n. naval al experience By I I. I E. E Vail New ew NewYork NewYork York The Abbe Abbey Press Jesus the Jew and other addresses D By New York Funk Think Funka a nalls company Neither Bond Nor Free a n. Plea D By Dy G. G Lan Langhorne horne Pryor New York J J. J S S. S O Publishing com company pan The Time Bale Marked Circle X N a blockade blockade block block- ad ade running adventure ad By ny George Cary Car ar Es Eggleston author of oC A Carolina Cn Cavalier valler etc Illustrated led by hy Chase Emerson Boston L Lothrop Publishing I company The Concise Standard Dictionary of oC the English Language Abridged from Crom the Funk a s naJ Standard Dictionary Die Dic b by James C C. Fernald New Nw NewYork NewYork York Funk company compan How lIow to Get Acquainted With God the Meaning of oC the Christian Science Movement Mo By Theodore F. F Seward author of or Spiritual Knowledge etc New e York Funk Fun company The Errand Do Boy Loy of Andrew Andrev Jack Jack- son eon a n war var story of at 1814 D By fly W. W 0 O. Stoddard ard author of Jack Jock Morgan etc Illustrated by Will Crawford Doston Dos Dos- ton oton Lothrop Publishing company The Essentials of oC Business Law D By fly Francis M M. Dwight ht professor lor of oC law in Columbia University law School New Nev York York- D D. APPleton Co The Church hurch of oC St. St Bunco- Bunco a drastic treatment of oC a copyrighted religion un religion un- un Christian non n By fly Gordon Clark New ew York The rho Abbey Press Pres HATED BATED GEO GEORGE GE ELIOT When George Eliot was Miss Mills Evans and before she had begun to novels no she used to frequent an anold anold anold old book shop on the Strand where sho simo loft lett a ary very ry unfavorable Impression on one OtiC young oung man who was at that time run nn assistant In John Chapman's Chapmans shop IIi His Hla description of or her 11 Is that of or a re remarkably remarkably re- re ugly young woman of or uni em 1 knowledge e whose delight It was to use the lie Socratic method In convocation cot f tion hut but without th the Socratic benevolence o knee lence of oC The re result wan waH that the young young- men at the dining table the lime I. I shop had a I. I house boarding for Cor Its emi em- em i iV V. V Fi i ies s and guests who heedlessly haz- haz I I Ito I In arm an opinion soon oon made t were vcr very to feel teel f not ohl obly that the they knew nothing I r I n o of the subject under discussion but I that tha t they y mew knew v vcr very r little Indeed deed of or I Now Nov a young oung man hoes does not I relish being olne ba badgered and made a fool Cool nr or i h by a n. prell Pretty woman but it lt Is Intolerable I nt at erable crable t to Lie he sat Eat uV uron n by an ugly one I I least such lIuch 00 was the thc reeling feeling of oC our Informant Informant In- In formant and one consequence of oC this I treatment wn was tha that t In ln after years cars I I when x Miss 8 Evans Evas had become George Eliot on one Ve man finn could never persuade himself to read Adam Rede Hedt or to adi ad- ad adI I 1 nut t that the tho author or wi was other than a a. arin vcr very Intolerant i I I Person pernon anti and an I rin rant Intellectual Harpers Harper's s I Ycek I PRE COLUMBIAN BOOKS nOOKS When hen are mentioned one Sc naturally it thinks or of the records of or nn- nn dent clent Egypt yet et l before ed yf Columbus landed land- land nn on these Ali 6 shores reS the tho Aztecs of or ancient an- an dent Mexico i had 1 a most elaborate Stem S 'S tern tem of oC r wrIting In They formed Conned long strips of ot deerskin Into folded B screen fa fashion Cashion on omu which were ere tI signs and representations ons of nr ceremonials These old pre Colum bian hooks the Spaniards Wl greed greedily II cS- cS col- col and burneti so that but hut ten are known today In the time whole world I found rJ One i In or of f these has only ony recently been I one of oC the libraries of oC Europe I and an exact I copy presented to the American Museum of or Natural History I In this city where there It will wIil shortly bo ho placed on exhibition The Tho text represents the history of or the lives of oC E several everal Individuals One recounts the life liCe of oC the Lady Three Glints who has two husbands husband and a child and goes through h elaborate ceremonies Another portion of oC this old Codex a aa ai It la Is called treats of oC the tile life of or a R great lord and conqueror named IJ doer deer r. r who In company compan with other chieftains l makes many mallY conquests This old hook book proves prO most conclusively el how hov love religion lon and warfare went hand In hand han In the lives N of oC the ancient Mexicans Just as In peoples people's lives lI today New toda-New New York Times POINTED PARAGRAPHS FROM LATEST BOOKS I SI SELF POSSESSION Dorothy was entirely self possessed as It was her custom to be he under all circumstances When hen people feel Ceel embarrassed em em- she once sa saId d It must be because they know something them them- relves fJ which they are arc afraid other people people peo peo- PlO will wl Ill 11 fInd 1101 nd out I From rom l rom Eggleston's Doro Dorothy h South Lothrop A AN IDI IDEAL AL OF A DAUGHTER Her mother groaned I never understood understood un un- un- un Ruth Huth and never will ill Im I'm sure Ive I've wished often enough Id I'd had a daughter aughter dress dressy and bright ht who wouldn't turn up her nose hose at al ny n Holdsworth's Michael l Ross floss Minister Dodd Mead WE E ALL KNOW THE THEM I. I There are often otten men and rind women who whose e only source of pride appears to tobe tobe tobe be their modesty How often orten do rio we meet with men who when requested to do some service Immediately hoist the hag flag of oC their humility and declare that the they are of or the humble sort rort and prefer to keep In lii the time shade Ye Yes humility hu hu- liti- liti takes lakes the thc lowest place and does hoes not know mow that her face ace shines Pride can take tho the lowest place and find her delight In the thought of her presumably ably shining face Cace Self-consciousness Self s to Lo sour Our humility and pervert pervert per per- vert It Into Inlo pride Moses not that his face race shone From From Jowett's Meditations for Quiet Moments He- He Yell Veil A PROPHECY FOR CANADA When hen the which the continent continent conti conti- nent of oC i has cast over Britons has somewhat f faded as it certainly will they will wl turn to those countries over o sea where nature will aid alii them In founding and perpetuating a race unequaled unequaled un- un equaled In physique anti and those thoe great reat qualities which have made malC the thc parent stock fo so o powerful The Pacific slope of oC Canada has no climatic and everything necessary for or the creation creation creation crea crea- tion of or a fresh Cresh ba base e for sea power From The rile Mastery of oC thc the Pacific Macmillan A MEETING l IN VERONA A As Att I was drawing In the square this morn morning hiS hiS- In a lovely quiet Italian light there came up the poet Longfellow low with his little daughter a girl of oC 12 or 13 with springy spring curled flaxen hair hair hah curls or waves wa that wouldn't come out In damp I mean They stayed talking ta beside me some sonic time I dont don't think It was a n. very ery ry vain thought that came over o me that If a photo photograph could have h been taken of oC the beautiful square of or Verona In that soft lI light ht with Lon Longfellow and ani hi his daughter talking to me at my work some people both In England I and AIn America would have hll liked copies of It From a letter etter by nu in Collingwood's Life LICe of Ruskin Houghton BOOK nOOK NOTES Charles Algernon will haVe hae an article on Dickens in the tile next number of or the Quarterly Review There has been a 1 good deal of satisfaction satisfaction satis satis- faction over oer the time bestowal in this years year's civil Il list of oC a pension of or 1250 upon Austin Dob Dobson on and one of oC SO upon Mrs Airs Elizabeth Reid field the widow of ot Capt Mayne Iane Reid Do Dobson by the tho wa way I Is furnishing the text of a new volume of oC Hogarth's drawings which Is about to make It its appearance c c. Hitherto unpublished works by both Darwin and are arc promised soon oon Those of or the philosopher opher of or Chelsea are ore oreIn In the shape of stray stay papers Japers on nn varied subjects The voice olce of oC Da Darwin will he be heard again II by means of letters Jetters of or his which cover er entire entirely different ground from nn any of those previously pre published S The publishers of oC tile the book written b by Sir Frederick I fre el the thc lie physician on hl his In the South African war var called The Time Tale fale b the of oC a n Field held Hospital took time by forelock b by getting g out a n popular edition edi edl- tion lion of oC the thc work ork while the distinguished distinguished distin distin- surgeon was one of or the most fi figures In lii the thc public eye Frank Fr Norriss Norris's book Time The Octopus attracted a great reat deal of or attention In Inthis Inthis Inthis this country countr and the similarity between between between be be- tween a tragedy raged that happened at Cardiff Cardiff Cardiff Car Car- diff th the other ha day to 0 the fate of S. S Behrmann the Bonneville banker didn't fall fail to be commented upon Like Behrmann the victim of oC this affair whose name nane was Michael Keen ven n ventured en lured too near the thc edge cde of oC a wheel bin Suddenly a n plunged him into the tin grain he sank and was before Lafore he could be lie rescued A statue to Alphonse e Daudet has Just JURt been placed In the time Champs in Ill Paris HOOSIER LITERATURE Public Opinion says pays the thc Now New IW York Sun Sumi eXIl plains explains ln how the Hoosier school of or litera ture k keeps p at tt the head of or the thc procession I In this wl uise e I Letters fitters llers on |