Show V h I 1 V II 11 the 0 J II Iii tI HI toda 1 today II l to I a illera to 10 the Ibe L I I U f r I I fl tho V Easy Chair iiI famous II by V U If abandon I V I J bl b Mr II I ds II I II I Ih LIe r I nt V II fled tm Mr I 1 and bouk V f l hat hall 1 1 Ilk 11 III V I ik k In cnn I I In III Ih 11 i iI I III I I II tw twI I II fl with Ih V VV 1 V I V I II i Ih V I nl fl ur f iii I I 1 I iii V V I I V 1 4 V j V 1 III tHy In liar 1 t V V Which V work V I OIt VV V I I I e eI I I nt Until hI V fl I V Ii t lit tIP II 1 V V nIn a 1 Ie a V I T I V V cn I I It I edl I ill h I VIc h a nt n t I V I at 1 1 i r It r 1 t hilI it I II V I tI L Iii IiiI 11 I Ii Ie 1 I V Ii fl I It Iloe II UI III flIt In InI I i I V I ra III 1 r f hn h i It Ii III I 1111 I r ri I i r r V r I I I III I h IJ I I V I I VV I II I IJ I f l III Ml I f I n 01 n T V for thirty ears particularly for the Ille task luk taskS S I IThe The last number q the Academy contains a little writing about vt if loud Good cud and by Mr Arthur Symons whom It rath rather r un kindlY calls call A Poet Ith the ache W We copy sats Mf the ing Post I a portion of U it says as AI to 10 of our young American tho majority of whose aches tu III emanate from a lower ot of tip Ih human body than IY by the tha heart A pot poet I is what lie he II and It is II Idle to complain that he be Is II Hot nOI elpe l e BUt Bul when hen A po poet t mci the gifts that Mr lr Arthur one cannot lInot but bUI regret that thai lie he cultivate just JUIt one poor little fleW field of all 1 the worlds Ills I a Wan n and weary tar muse hll ph phy of life Is II attenuated he never from himself lie I Ia all iii crill crl a and and regrets Th Thun Thi sun un never Dver him the bIrds never slug lie II is II of sorrow lorrow h hII he heI II I tired J of oC ra rapture and he would wash th duet dual of at the world In a Soft lOll green Ireen flood W We have searched arched IIII bin hook In aln for one ne emotion Kven ven the spring Is Ia a l SomethIng has baa In my heart hert I 1 It death or leei I know iL bill I have forgotten the If V And yet Fet In hll way Mr dr Smon II a poel His diction I Is sun pit pie and of often tel exquisite mall many of at lila hili passages have II a haunting nd melan holy bOUt but It I Is th beaul beauty ot of emotion not of feeling I A well known AmerIcan wrIter e Ot presses himself u Oil on thi thi nub lub ot of literary remunerAtion At the present moment of writIng the twentieth centurY ma ins be unto a bursting with 1101 or of all aorta upon mst of ofu ofus u us are looking with feeling ot of Interest and anxiety That UI the hundred Pa period that II lies before us UI will sensatIonally rl rich h In material In n new an and In Hue develop mont or of ele electricity and other forces even lei Iu understood II lUll to 10 bp be doubted But a subject if far greater Im importance to my cause BUle I am Hall Interested In It m my myself self Is hat this thle In the way 11 ot of rewards for fill lIterary ef d effort fort and nd I lna may add dd that I am more deeply Interested in III the Plum at atthe the top representing let up say the thO first two decades of De the century than thanIn In Ibo those at tIle bottom which will lIol be poured out the Flu mr be It from me tu lu write anything that Ihal might the incompetent to 10 rush ruh into Inlo literature or Into lo lu hint ote the usual but an my belief is II that we nia just upon a In which the class or In lure ture will 11 enjoy B a far fi ot of all any of hl his kind hav I ever Or knon U Ii hl lila loll linn I lull roves w ii U ri fig III I I t I y I I In the same Im proportion that It bl hi during Ih the u t IWO decades ho bo will have nu Do to 10 complaIn of hi hilot his lot I consider niP ftc or of the writer of twenty years ago u the prices which hi work commanded and the wretchedly small that Wee open to him I teal that w we ot of the pies prel ant ent day have Ample cau cause for thanks thanksgiving giving In there were but three masa nines In a 0 f C any n Ih Century anI and The It Was not until about that time that the tue first named was forced by the Pit e ample of oe 1111 It most malt rival The Century Into printing the Ihl of Its author In my memory tall falls me McLeod ot or Darn Darf was print printed In the early part of this Ihl yent without William Dlack name The Century wu IU looked upon u al the highest rewArd or of merit and the young writer who sue lue In selling a story or poem pom to Ihla was Wal wen well on the road mad to tame fame Between h the which offered lIttle ele bUt glory lory to those who were on the upper rounds of th Ih ladder I nd the Ihl daily newspapers most of us UI gained our brud theli thein iI a wide lull gulf h re and here with stepping stunts U an uck Wile Wild Oats Prank Frank Lc LesIle h to which w Were re lat r the MI Mc and newspaper Judge Ute Ufe and a host hoal of If periodicals The gulf that V between Park Row flow and nl the erene literary heights from whit h the mid contributors inked down upon uron u us WillS Was indeed a one line In those and I 1 need Ked to 10 fancy tane that I could coull detect a glance fIance uC of on the Ihl fare faie of 01 nearly one of 01 those ani anti there were Ire not more than Iban forty of them at thet time They had but scant reason for tor undue 1 pride for there Will wan scarcely one of them who made ni much money as the bet liest reporter and n when they developed from hacks into Inlo their rewards were not much b the very ty blIt literary nien of the da day Longfellow and found It advIsable d to 10 tallow follow 01 other calling beelike literature In order to with the comfort and lux urles urle of life A fur th dramatist lie he Was simply Imply all object of general lidl rule twenty years yearl ago 80 Manul Magnue and actually succeeded In sellIng Conscience lence to 10 Clara Morris and when hEn how howard Ard be II to be regarded AM Palmer and Dal Daly a play apiece from Edar or of us thought that the mIllennium WI wee Jt et band but bUI not ohe ofle or of U us couiI h vo the good fortune that Ihal wan to 1 store for certain American ot of the yr year anol nl The twenty years ra Just put past hale hae done more mort for the American sn men man titan the eighty that preceded tb them And not nOI the least the many man blessings which two decades hR bestowed II I tl Ih Invention of the tyPeS WrIter which enables him to hi lila output without additional labor Jn In place e ot of the three great there thre are now at t least half a hundred periodIcals that thai pay good lood prices to say y nothing ot of t the he dally daily newspapers Particularly their Bund of hl h signed from the very er beat bUI II and nil moat writers In the world I ha have a firm belief In the better betterment ment ot of the mans man durIng the years that Ihal III directly before us UI and that behli I is ba based eil on the pop of 01 the Ibl cue cent newspapers arid their lIve cent Bunday edItions They are lI spreadIng the reading habIt among mon chasMs that formerly teu nothIng but the bare bure news new or of Ih thu day and are re add addIn adding In ing every epry year ear to the enormous of hook book buyers buens that our country bIJl ot of s The following letter whIch In Iii Inthe the ew eJ jork Y rk I 1 h has aed like Ilk a In circle To the of th the Poet Sir Will Wili you be kind enough to let letIn me In explain In your our column that tile the en entitled II tied The Congressman Wife ife which appear alpearl In he Janu January number ot of The Smart mart Set Uh my attached I Is not ot printed at s I It II and is III published l against my protest hien It II came to tome Roe me In I round found that the editor r Mr Ir Arthur hail made matle an appalling number or of verbal changes all nary many man trifling or lu Ia two to e c errors of In one Instance the hu has be been n restored but bUI the other have tell retained Ione I or of them I did not re I II of 50 little consequence I did er wh why thee should hl have made madl It et all U Three or four seemed to 01 nip to hi improvements though the first fint used had eon ouo d I the he meaning The Tho quality or of the editing may b be Jude fre frota this teis a young youn graduate ot of harvard a Northerner ha had remarked Well I II Its all 0 over the Ille editor made mad I him say ItaY It looks look like It its all over owr When I objected to 10 this phrase and to 10 othe phrase Mr Ir declared that he had merely merly edited the manu scrIpt accordIng to the of oC The Thc Smart Set I 1 then trIed to with withdraw draw Ih the tory story hut Mr Ir re is fused lo 10 give e It up JOn JOhI n I It II 11 Russell has bu large and unique souvenir This l a departure ot of the usual run or of the nUll Itus sell In t that b I It lit 14 page wIth lIh a historical and sketch of Madame with an II autograph introduction by her herself IC are arp picture her Iter in III all her famous rolt and andin in III her home together with a portraIt ot of her In her girlhood and nd tion or of man many cartoons cartoon and nd other draw drawings ings ot of her b by artists The price of oe this I 50 cents It constitutes a AddItion to the nuel lint lilt or of theatrical publications I The rhe of JI a eerie ot of by Carmen Sylva Elisabeth Queen Quen of nt which the Womans home Companion will prInt during durin 1801 1501 wIll 11 appear In the number ot of that tbt It II I a entitled A in III And is II Illustrated b by beth belh Shippen Green GreenI I The minor poet of who are hardly as RI as the ties ot of have Itel lately had a audition In this the person of Mr fro Gilbert who lies hu just pub published The Wild Knight and Other which amid a good nod deal or of turl ty contaIns several IU strong n things of an Individual kInd Is 18 Isone one ot of them Item All 1 Around they 0 profane Keep th thy hearts HeftI eret hid U gold I h b Gnu ouId lOOn sooner be knight In shattering wars of old oldIn oldIn In brownish arms arma to o rid Ant And In love to every err star Itar With lun lungs to milk make a mild maids name Detent the Iron ears art or of war lIere whet the crowd To stand and so to of t love That the tour four corners Oral of oC th Ih World hour hor It and nd take hd That to 0 shim 11 l One alt n LI n AI A naked IU as this hanging Christ As 1 as the sun lun In h heaven aveh Thele they mpa epard to 10 Ii a On IOP on rN do In h II a th t sha t r tb Ic c n rn S ST T p I tI Ih III t i 1 01 th Tle tI t L td Liol it II I a nt net Some of at broke the girth And told the good all mon have known Since inci the first mornIng i Ir the earth larth t IS In lb the last number It I the he Londot Academy cadem Ii a symposium of from tm famous uI literary men on which have bU JI a ed In iii Among Amon them Hurton that the only book boo of 1900 hu has been Yea and Nay It |