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J 1 SHEPP SHEPPARD STEVENS ot 4 1 t v d Author of ot In th the tho Eagles Eagle's S Talons I POET RILEYS RILEY'S NEW SONG You have written ft n. son sons song and md set Bet It to music musk said a n. r reporter porter to James Whitcomb Whit Whit- comb and your friends would like to hear something about It It Mr 1 looked somewhat startled The rho Charge ho said seems acorns to be sufficiently But suf direct to merit an answer Yos J I have o written a n. sons song but 1 have not b been n talking about It ii it Is not r ready ady for or pub pub- There wilt will be three stanzas My air for fOl or tho words might prove so 60 defective defective de de- de- de that my KOCH Hood good friend a a. technical musician may a advise J me mc not to print ItI It J I 1 don don't dont on t mind telling tolling you ou what It I Is Its It's an Elizabethan catch and harks back to tho quaint pastoral poetry and lonG eons of that At least that Is la what 1 I Intended It should do ilo You ask as o 0 my musical ability I pounded tho snare drum In the band buck back in the year ear 1875 or about that time 1 have a a. little musical gilt gift Ift but hut no cultivation Ive I've coopered l' l on the violin banjo guitar bass viol piano and organ l I 1 started out with a na You know that remarkable In Instrument It has haR hasa a a. goitre In the neck and swells out like a cobra dl Cl Jell o. o You blow Into one end of or It and anI the performer Is ts often an s greatly surprised at tho the output as ns aro are the hearers The or organization to which I belonged belong was tho the Greenfield Cornet band Tho drums were vero In charge t of at Jesso C. C and myself Wo We 0 were always chums and antl andare are arc so M today Ho lie Is still ln living In Greenfield Green Green- en- en field where every now and anti then wo get and antl talk of the old times timea But Dut this little venture of mine mil may not come como to tt ma may never be bo published Im I'm Im I'm just jUt thinking about It shaping It up and omI later on well we'll see sec what there thero lit Is a In It It Barclay arcla the composer who was consulted by Mr tr with a view to having ha tho the song arranged for or the piano says The Tho rh words and music of the song are aro Mr I have arranged It for forthe forthe forthe the piano that Is II all Ill I'll pIa play It for you ou Tho air was wall va dull delightfully quaint and at at- at Tho The words went hand in iii hand with tho the music rho Tho composition seemed to have ha tho the breath of oC life lICe In it It the Joyousness joyousness Joy- Joy of or youth tho the flavor or of ot tho the meadows meadows mead mead- In 11 1 May Mr Riley said Mr oIl Valker Walker has treated his theme Jn n metrical style It Is Isa Isa Isn a n llast ral love Iov song of ot the tho days das of ot good Queen Hess I have seen sen but hut one verse hut but he doubtless will add to It One verse erse was enough to exemplify the tune There arc oro two or three peculiar melodic Intervals Intervals Intervals Inter Inter- vals in it H. H such as musicians ml might ht not employ but their er very quaintness will make them theta fascinating This doubtless embodies Mr JUicy's Idea of expressing his Ills poetry In music It Il is quite out of ot tho the ordinary and 1 confess that I ilko It BOOKS WISE VISE MEN ENJOY Chopin rarely read anything heavier ler than a French novel no Lord said that Robinson Crusoe beat any an book ho ever er read St. St John never tired of at reading or of at praising tho the works of ot the apostle John James mes I I. I of 61 t was a a. lover of or the classics and ver very familiar with most atthe of at the Latin writers Bun an read little besides his Bible Dible and often said that Christians would do well to read no other book hook Salvator Rosa Hosn liked JIlted any my l kind of or poetry but more mort especially that relating to the country countr or to country scenes t l Mrs Siddons gave much attention to tho the history 0 r of tho the drama and had a an exten- exten sive library of this kind of or Hume said that Tacitus was wa the ablest writer that ever lived 11 and himself tried to model his style on that of tho the Roman Homan historian Locko Locke gave o most of at his attention to works of philosophy Ho lie said laid I stand amazed at the profundity of or thought shown b by Aristotle Tho elder cider Pitt II liked keel Shakespeare but not tho the labor lallor of ot reading plays vlas Ho lie enJoyed enjoyed en en- Joyed h hearing them and said sail that he had h. h learned arned more history at atthe atthe the thEater than at the tho university lt Shelly Shell read with close attention all the works ho he could antagonizing Chris Chrle- He lie thought ho he was walt an atheist but bul was mistaken as fiB there thore re Is not a a. moro mora spiritual writer In tn our language than heHe he He lie read tho the Bible DIble with great caru caro and some romo of ot hIs finest imagery is borrowed borrow d df f e from Its Ha pages Tennyson would not talk about aboul hl his poetry poetry poet- poet I r ry but once Intimated that thal ho regarded 1 I the Ode on tho the Death of ot th the Duko Duke of Wellington ton as containing more moro Ins lra- lra i Uon than somo of the others He lie once said that he ho did not expect much of oC tho the t Charge of or tho the II Light hL Brigade and was agreeably abl surprised at HH Its r reception Scott believed that Waverly crl a was his best no novel noI I and Tho Thu Lily Lady of or the Lake Lako be best t poem Ho lIo and arti the hall had more than one lively discussion on the subject but he would never nC admit a achang change chang of opinion lIe He knew The Lador Lady Lad of or tho the Jak Lake by heart and once r repeated tho the whole to provo the fa ta i t Lire Life BOOK ADVERTISING S The Chicago Tribune Tribune ha has begun the f of or the opinions of ot authors authora rind and publishers as tb the advantages nOl and ethics of oC book advertising advertising- The fhe Initial contribution Is by ly Ripley D. D the author of or John Kena- Kena die dle who seems to on somewhat elevated ground as may nay be seen from rota r. r r this extract It If we ve remember the hl high h esteem In which civilized cI hum humanity Instinctively U holds the gentle and antl fine arts art the tho corf cor cor- f of at the public to arrive at a a. Just Justl l opinion Iri In this matter Is la beyond al nil all doubting Noble oble and ture the aspiration of or high dreamer in color and ancl in marble noble music the dreaming of or souls expressed in har- har noble drama the worthy expression ex ex- o of life liCe In the mimic life ure of or tho the stage tage noble books the tory story of oC hu humanity hu- hu inanity manity told In the printed page arc are al nil alike nUke secure from permanent degradation degrada degrada- tion at the hands of charlatans am find tricksters Their welfare Is In the tho keep keep- Sing of or the people and the people do no not J surrender them for Cor nn any long time to the merc mercy of ot the unworthy This i Is true of ot good books the mos most intimate companions of at so 60 m many n mil roil lk ns of or this worlds world's folk tolk The soap poap an and anel circus method of oC book advertising has hns seen Its leSt best lays days Mr Saunders is In tho the flush of hi his first book anti and as he lie has haR had very kind kinc treatment from Crom the press R his salos sales ar are arc probably satisfactory We 0 do 10 not know kno just what h he means by the soap ant and circus mt method thod of at book advertising nd Wo We 0 ha have hae e never no seen Been anything very cr in ln that line Hut But rea really 11 why should books hooks be considered an any more sacred than soap Boap which is one of oC the worlds world's greatest cI rs and can bring us next to It strikes us that the common sense I of or the question I la Is expressed ed by Will Payne tho author of or The Story Stol of I Eva I I When a book Is la made the vending I I of or It is 18 purely a a. affair The publisher ia Is with I a simply a 0 merchant such fluch and such mch wares to sell Nowadays Nowa- Nowa I days the merchant in any other line who hopes to keep In the running docs does I I I not riot overlook the Importance of ot adver- adver I Using Why should the publisher I The time to make a 1 book worthy of or I veneration Is when you are writing It t tIt It la Is what is iR In It and not what is said saidi i i about it that makes make It prized by hy people peo pit plc who love o good literature With a a. anew new book the great object is 19 to let the reading public know that It exists and that it is worth reading The Tho best medium medium medium me me- for spreading that Information Is s tho the newspapers Everybody rea reads 8 I n newspapers and if It one sees sec a notice of or ofa a book that strikes 9 his hla fancy he ht is alitto apt alit to go and get It The brightest publishers pub pub- lishers have discovered that newspaper per advertising pa pays best for tor books as asI well veil as soap or anything else Indian Indian Indianapolis I apolis Sentinel IN THE TEE COUNTRY GOD FORGOT The literary value of ot th the novel In Inho Inthe Inthe the ho Country Countr Go God Forgot by Frances Charles which Little Bron Co publish says the DOE Boston ton Courier will vili jive give it a permanence which not one Ina in Iii ina a hundred of or the tales of or adventure with which counters of oC booksellers arc are crowded today can n hope to attain We e speak peak of or Its literary value first because specially especially of the style of at th the author vich attention att In t th the first ar i Th rr a k ki i t 4 page provokes pro expostulation as tho eader goes on on and finally compels admiration fascinates and inevitably Inc leads eada to reading re an and clearer elation It is a style which tho the careless care care- less ess reader may call affected and obscure As for tor the story itself its scene and Its action the country God Is 18 Arizona the story is that of 01 the he tragedy of life liCe played out by men and women er very human In their passions passions passions pas pas- of oC love lo and hatred and humor pathos jo joy and sorrow move th the reader It Is not simply a a. melodrama a star story of at action It has a psychological Interest exercising a deeper lon tion than that of oC mere narrative The Thc book ook is en engrossing r when read with thought bought It cannot be skimmed in a a. lazy hour ASSIST YOUNG POETS When Nobel obel obel instituted el his annual prizes for lor or those who had furthered the cause causo of or pence peace and happiness for lor mankind ho did didlot not lot know that ho he would help n aspiring ung French pl poets 1005 ets to fame lame But through h ho tho agency of ot M. M Sui Sully Prudhomme tho the fortune of at the dead Inventor and manufacturer manu- manu of at explosives will yearly assist these fledglings to a n. broader night flight ht Recently It M. M Sully Prudhomme was WiS awarded a Prix Nobel bv hv the tho Swedish hoard board in charge of oC the prizes because of or his ils pre eminent ability amon among the poets pools of oC the world This award came to him himas himas as DS a 1 surprise and swayed b by tho the deep loop reclines feelings that It Insl inspired he he- determined to tomake tomake tomake make use uc of or It In such cuch a wa way that his country countr not himself should profit It by ly It lIe le know knew from his wide acquaintance with struggling young oung poets how difficult It t was for tor them theta to secure the n of their works work In book form So io ho he select selected a n. committee to be presided pre pro sided over o b by Paul ul the Academician cian cl-au to Invest InveRt iho the prize mono money that had been awarded to him to u use e the Interest In- In erest terest of It In tho the following manner g er year car WK I will bo Is devoted to tho the lon lion of the thc works of at some young poet who has las not the means to publish his poems himself t. t In order to decide who shall be the the- redolent re rc- rc- rc dolent cI of this thlu honor a contest will be heill All 11 those competing will send their works to the thc committee and antl the best and most promising poet will be selected The Thc examination of ot these works will bema be bo ma made e privately ABNER DANIEL Abner Daniel shortly to be issued b by Harper Bros Dros Is pronounced h by Georgians who have some orn knowle knowledge ge of or Will N. N Harben's abilities to be the best thing thing- this Southern writer has yet n t produced An idea of the story ma may maybe maybe be gathered from the following Love 0 and business are arc closely commingled com corn mingled In this star story and Doll Dolly Bar Barclay par par- ar- ar clay a a. young oun Southern girl 1111 develops such good business jud judgment ment that she ahe becomes an important factor actor In her lovers lover's success The scenes lie In a rural district of north Georgia and In Atlanta Alfred ilfred Bishop Dishop law brother of or J Daniel is deceived b by a land lanti agent who tells him a railroad is to be built hullt He lIe buys hus a 0 groat tract of or land putting all aU his money Into It it despite the protests of at his wife wire and son Alan Alan loves lo Dolly Barclay Col Barclays Barclay's Barclays Barclay's Bar Dar clays clay's daughter l a and foreseeing financial finan loan cial ruin for or hi his father r. r he be despairs of oC marrying her Doll Dolly Is 19 not discouraged but full of t spirit an and pluck she helps to bring about abOlt a n. plan whereby the railroad is built and prosperity comes to er e every esery one Alan's sister Adele loves Rayburn Miller an and their happiness happl happi ness also depends upon the railroad The account of or how the I Ignorant vil village village vil- vil 11 lage Inse people view the prospect of or a 0 railway rail mil wa va way and how they ore are won over o b by Uncle Abner Daniels Daniel's humorous speech and Pole Bakers Baker's ruse at the mass meeting Is highly entertaining One of or orthe the strongest character In tho book Is Pole Baker the ex who through his devotion of Alan Bishop becomes a powerful factor In itt th the dra- dra nm mn To save Alan's Alnas mope money he lurea the ra rascally banker Craig to a cave e and forces him him to give it up under threat of oC death Another vcr very ery good scene Is 18 the Incident In church when the minister in tn his prayer makes accusation ac ne- ae- ae against Abner Ahner Daniel anI anti and calls for testimony from the members Abner Ahner rl rises es anti and speaks humorously in his own defense e. AFTER jj STIVER COFFEE COPPEE SPOONS A little spoon for Cor or persons who like dainty things of or the kind Is an after after- dinner coffee corree spoon In sliver er gilt very ery simple with a 0 little twist In th the lower part of or th the handle anti and from Crom ron there plain to the top where thero there In is a U small thistle The lower part of the thistle is of ot silver Hill gilt the part ia Is an amethyst ame am ew New York Times HEROINE OF THE TIlE STRAIT r t e SK lt i Every ery Englishman in th the town willbe will willbe willbe be killed but not a 0 Frenchman will Heroine of oC lose his scalp From The rhe the time Strait Miss Misa la 1 May Catherine Crowle Crowley author of ot The Heroine of or the Strait has been actively engaged Iz ia In literary work for fOI about ten years eurs She Is a native of or Boston and had the tho good fortune to be born of ot scholarly stock her father Cather John C. C Crowley ClOwley Is an alumnus of Harvard Har university and her mother a finely educated and accomplished woman woman- Miss Crowley Crowle Is a n. I- I graduate of or the noted convent Q of f Manhattan Manhattan- yule |