Show Penn renn Steele writes very cry entertaining ly b I In the tho November Era Kra In nn ammel i w lJ the question Who ho was Baron Daron Mun Iun hausen Of or a II wo we read real This Thill personage appeared In Halber stadt In the year ear 1702 1 He lie gave out that he lie was WitS Baron Daron Karl arl Munchhausen of or that branch of or the fai lly which was not iet tied led In Gourland Ills mission In Hal Ual I 1 berstadt was to lo I l i k d after al r certain prop that formed formal 1 part ot of tho the estate of Ir if hiM lilii lately latI deceived father Incidentally tally however he lie married there n a lady cf of mature ago age and of or some fortune stunted named Anne Allne Margaret laI aret She Sho WAS WS s dazzled not only Oil by br hl hi hll title and by b the blue Hue ribbon n of ot the garter and other decorations ulven gien him ns as he ho averred I ty by i sovereigns hut but by b his hl le It I of or wealth that was even eventually to be hi hla his Meanwhile he jr loer t her to sell wll off a It few rew of or h her r 1 houses louses to defray running expenses The couple then made a n trip to Jeer in III North German where the high bight sheriff was II a n Munchhausen They called ux upon n the latter dignitary and the Daron e cull ll persuaded him hint of or his relationship A 1 distant one The sheriff the strangers to the best society in tho the thoI I lace Ince the baron one oneda day da told the tho sheriffs wife wICo that his first fut consort had been a daughter of or Ma la von on Werder Weeder find and had died In childbirth Now the sheriffs wife wire knew the tho on and knew nUo nIo nl that there then was only one daughter mar married tied ried to a 1 Saxon gentleman named has Han Hanler hassler ler Iller She challenged the barons baron stol slot stollIe He lIe blushed furiously and nn finally ad nIl admitted a n that he had been en lying lyng Even Cven Ennet yet et however he was suspected only if at t braggadocio ana prevarication I th the tho war var and during the war warman many man sketches were being published of ot Artumus Ward the showman among the publicans an Dinners Ho no bios blos blossomed omed Into n a 1 Jt A man mati named Dr Carroll began n It pub Heathen on purpose to down Artemus Ward ard and nut therefore was wall louly the pseudo butt Ward began to lecture with a pan crama the th lecture I a farce the panul AZ ft nothing but be bi wu ws sy syI v I by a laugh an as the Jews were preceded el b 11 a t of or lire Url He lie went vent to London and wrote for Punch ami anit lectured In the hall ball of or Albert Alhert Smith Hollow with he h limy Dna and in III his hla dying moment gravely ruvel momy and proper properties roer r ties of oC ho he h was as guiltless to Vl va vaI Ions ilous I l who came to find thorn hem with crape on their hats halo and l the Ih lost last In t lau h which shook the British orl l like going up UI with n a private eho e ho And ond nd from Crom rain the Vy sky 81 serene and fair rail fairA railA A laugh fell Cell like a n falling tailing star starA A Wardi ho hu ha Jm Wo Vo rolled I hint him Charley His printe life ll in hI George Georgo Arnolds language lan was highly and alii un rong Arnold used to smite Whit tiers lIerl must mitre ith lIth Of or nil all tail id words of 0 tongue or of or pen The Ilie mildest are these It Il might michl could would or should have been James Walter Smith writes from tram London LondonI I 1 was privileged recently to have a n afe few fe CJ with Boy Dey the Turkish poet who IR is now In London to establish a II Turkish paper devoted to politics pol Illes In general and the propaganda of ot the young Turkish party In III particular lar Boy floy ascribes tho the deca decadence dence clence of Turkish literature ture to the bale hale baleful ful rul reign of ot the present sultan sultans No Noone Noone Noone one he says dares to publish a 1 book of or any ony literary value Every writer i II is I IU suspected U of or political motives and Is immediately subject to persecution should he attempt to write anything lut tut commonplaces The result Is that lInt nothing appears except worthless pam the tho sultan and und his hiI system The works of or nil all the best authors are prohibited and In conse cause consequence quence have hae either cither suffered persecution or have been obliged to be become become become come exiles In foreign lands Hinds The sul sui sultan sultan tan Is particularly hostile to poets poet hey Boy Is nn an active nelle Intelligent man of or striking personal appearance and a pleasant talker I am finding considerable difficulty he ho said in my lay roper paper ID per So tar far I have come across but hut one OM man in London who can canet ret et up Turkish type typo and he does some something something something thing else elso for tor a II living 0 It Is Impossible to accurately estimate the influences ot or heredity and early environment In the development of In Individuals Individuals individuals but It may ma be Interesting to know the birthplaces of ot the living Eng English fish lish writers most before the tue public eye Scotland claims a II large number of fa ra famous ramous a amous authors Mr J 3 M r Barrie Mr S SH SIt II It Crockett Miss lIss Annie Swan Hwan Mr Benjamin Swift Mr Joint John Davidson lUta Mr rr William Archer anti Dr Con eon Conan nn an Doyle Dole were nil all born north of or the tho Tweed Inn Maclaren one of ot the typical cal novelists was born l orn In Es Essex Essex sex lec and Mr Iro a Flora Florn Annie Steel whoso whose origin Is pure Scotch at nt Harrow t IS ISTo To Ireland belonG belon Miss Jane Barlow Mme Sarah Grand Mrs Irs Katherine Tynan on Mr Ir Frankfort Moore Mr Bernard Shaw Mr Ir W n B Yeats Mr ide Justin McCarthy anti and Mr 11 George Moore Mr Hall hail Same was born nt It Cheshire and Liverpool Mr Lo La and Mr Nr Augustine Hindi Mr Lawrence Mr Lr John Morley Morle Mr George Gissing are arc also while Mr 11 13 n W V Mr Alfred Austin and Mr h William Watson nrC S S S SIn In III the west vest Mr Quiller r Couch Mr Mv Silas Hocking Hoelting Mr Joseph Hocking and Mr 11 Arthur were Vere born In to Corn Coin ahI Mr und and Miss Norah Hopper In Devonshire Mr III A II 11 Walk Walkley WalkIe hey ley Ie anti and Mr W K E J Henley In Gloucester shire Miss lIM helen Mathern In Somerset nut Mr Thomas Hardy In Sir Lewis Morris Is a u Welshman Mr George Meredith Lucas l Mulct Malet cre born bom In Mr fr r H II 0 Q Wells Wello Mr r Maurice Hewlett Howlett Mr Hob Itoh HobIrt eeL crt HI rh and Sir Edwin I Arnold In Kent ent Miss 1 Lynll In Ia Mr III Stephen Phillips In and lint Mr Ir A C Benson heusen In Berkshire Miss Adeline Adelino Sergeant Mr Max Mux and Mr Jerome K It Jeronis are arc Midland cm ers and Mr III Haggard and Ouida hull unit from Crom East S IS Mr Algernon AI ernon Miss Brad Dral Braddon i don Mr Percy hercy White Mr Morley Marley nob Itoh erts crts Mr r Mr 11 Anthony Hope Hoper Mr r Frank Bullen Miss Beatrice lUr hIa i raden Mr Egerton I crl n Castle Mr M Holt Bolf Mr W V W Jacobs and Mr William Lo Le I are nil all Mr Ir Kipling und and Mr Ill Eden IMen Phil potts were born bom In India Mr Loul Louis Beeke In Now New South Wales Mrs 1110 Campbell In Queensland Mrs Humphry Ward Vard In Tasmania Mr Gil all Gilbert allbert Gilbert bert Parker arler J In Canada Mr Marion Marlon Crawford In Italy Mrs Craigie nt at Bos lice Boston Bostoni ton toni and Mr Ir Joseph Conrad In Poland a Julian Tullan Ralph In writing to his hits Ameri Amen American can publisher the Frederick A company tells tell of or the Order of ot Friend lies Just founded by Kipling and com cant composed posed of ot the members of the staff of lit the Friend a remarkable newspaper newspaperS S AS A conducted for tor Lord Roberts Roberta at fontein by Kipling Ralph Doyle and other writers Including generals and noblemen Air Mr Ralphs new book Is to contain much new ness matter with his re remarkable reo remarkable letters from tram Pretoria to I America the correspondence having been remodeled and rearranged a a t a aThe The Tho announcement is made by Charles Frohman that the initial pro production production of or the play Eben J ben Holden was given In Bridgeport Conn on Monday night September SO M O with E M 1 Hol itoh Holland Holland land playing the character or of Uncle Unell Bb Kb The dramatization of ot Irving phenomenally successful book has hns been Jeen done by b Edward E 1 Hose and Is said to tobe tobe tobe be a n very ver strong piece of or work worl and to portray tho the story accurately atel Mr I second success and andI I has hns been for the tM past two weeks the best selling book In New York and oth other other er Cr cities cI ties S U S Mrs MeL Burton Harrison line has embodied In her story Luck pub published fished In ft a recent New Lippin Lippincott LippIncott cott one of ot the Incidents of or her child childhood childhood hood In Virginia at the outbreak of ot the Civil War Two chests ch of or oh old English silver part vart of ot that brought by lIy Lord Fairfax to the tho colony coony In 1762 were hastily burled buried by Mrs Harrisons mother aided by b a n ayoung noung oung young cousin of at the tho family killed afterward In the war anti and an nn anold anold old negro steward who died carrying the secret of ot the hiding place with him The old house above the hiding place of the treasure was vas subsequently burned to the ground the forest sur sun surrounding rounding It laid waste th the trees of ot the tho lawn used usel as os breastworks for a fort tort erected on the site sl te of or the dwelling A camp of or Federal soldiers occupied the place and had bad they the but known of it nothing would have hae been b tn easier than for the lounging troopers to occupy their waiting uniting hours by lIy possessing them themselves themselves selves of or what lay la so conveniently et t hand band Hut But years afterward the exact spot pot was Identified by the family and the contents of or the two chests found under the of ot the cellar c lying Iring loose In the keeping of o Mother Molher Earth blackened but otherwise Intact The Tho tragedy of the tM story was happily not nota a part of ot the family chronicle af t the theauthor theauthor author but was supplied front from the th ex experiences x of others not uncommon In border history of ot that day daya a IS In America it Is not an nn uncommon thing for tor a map to make his hU upper opportunities to rise from rain the lowest levels to and responsibility but nn on Englishman who does this thins If is a u much rarer specimen Francis Thomp Thompson son Fon the poet In III it perhaps the only oni Eng Englishman ng lishman of or letten of 0 the present day who has done donI Just this nod and the tale of Jt his degradation and his hili triumphant es ts escape escape cape enve from It Is III as pitiful all as It Is III ro no romantic romantic mantic mantle Its counterpart In Is found round In the life lICe of ot Els Etc Elsworth worth Lawson lason who Is making makinI his debut this tItle spring through Herbert 8 tono Cos Co publication of or and npr Her Golden Hook Book He lie too sold 1101 1 papers on the streets for Cor a II meager mea r living hiving unit though he ho escaped the opium which almost U 1 kneed Mr Thompsons talent ho he never nevertheless passed through n a fiery furnace of or a II different sort Ills father Cather like Simon of or old was a tanner but A n man Inan manof manof of or sue rue upright tastes and anil Instincts an M helped the son lion perhaps more atone than he lie knew Yet It Is III an extraordinary thing that from such uch a background the spec special ial is kind of cf book thAt I Is tow now could coult have emer ed It line reline ment If It ever a R book hook Possessed IJ It and amI tho the style Is the sophisticated style of ut one familiar with the literatures of or tho the world It Jt seems na as though oven even the tho generations Pablo behind him must have known arid and sifted them before tItle this special distinction could have hae been beell reached The fancy which cull can produce a story might succeed In any class but the Imagination which can write a bo hook K which Is III not a story ston nn Inn toll tell a simple simile tale tulo of or a n great love hove and make one ho hu In ItIn Its Ita poetry alit spiritual spirituality ity Is not often otten found Cound In a 0 newsboy of ot the streets street It Is Interesting to learn leant that this Englishman has hin practically become an American and that his tal talent talent ent enl Is now introduced to the world for forthe forthe forthe the first time S S S The recent Journey Journe of Count Tolstoi to the Crimea Crimen took the form torm of ot a B tri trl triumphal tn progress although the Rue Ilus sInn elan government did dill Its utmost to at stifle I He nil all demonstrations At nearly early nil all the stations on the line Count Tolstoi re 10 received received Moral horn of All AU speeches s sand and addresses were forbidden The hessian Itu lIlan government would not allow a single line referring to Count Tolstoi or his Journey to appear In any an newspaper The Tue St 81 Petersburg Kaja however published a n short note on the Crimean journey The minister of ot the tIme Interior promptly forbade nil all sales of or orthe the paper In the streets for a Q month The Pines of ot loOn Lory Lan by J 3 A Mit Mitchell ut chell the editor of ot Life Lite which has line Just finished Its Ita course ns os a serial In SerUm ners nors Magazine has ha been brought out In handsome Illustrated book tarot form by h b Life Lite Publishing company Those Thos who remember Mr M 11 r Mitchells charming story Amos mos Judd which by the thea way Wa a has hall Just been republished In edt edi edition dl than tion de mie by b the time will wel pI rome come The Tho Pines of or Lory It Is a n love story with a n touch of the mysterious and rand Is brimful of Mr Mitchells genial and always polite humor Lovers of ot a yet et nn an date dale story will iIi grief It with pleasure It possesses the romantic atmosphere and the mystery of that tale yet Is III richer In picturesque Incident mind and In Its flow of at humor Two happier lovers lover than those tho e de do depleted plated In this story could not exist c Yet rPt both hath were confronted with direct and most unusual possibilities bill tip They are in every respect re ll ct real people of ot tOOn and are the lie kind of nal people that we Wt would like to meet The plot is unUSUAl and the situations most unconventional S S The Care of Destitute 1 and Delinquent Children by ity Homer Folk the first volume olum to appear In a 1 series of at works work on American Philan Philanthropy Philanthropy of at the Nineteenth Century published by it b Th Macmillan company This volume will bo be n a historical stud of or the system employed in America tot fot the care by b public authorities or pil private rate vate charities of children who ho ha been definitely separated from parental control and nn have Mr wards ward of ot this the th community This The t honk hak k succinctly lh the evolution of ot private und and public on for far children ot at placing out In families temporary temporal homos protection of ot neglected chU ren and tho the education of or delinquents ll n a ch pter on 01 present ten tendencies Iri In work worle A mj iii glim analysis will accompany Ute the tot text together with u it 1 full tull index Tho Tue book bookIs Is hI one ono of ot a I series aerie of ot eight the this purpose of or which IH is to make available till for or st t dents deitte and practical workers worker a statement of o the lie experience s IiI sh Mr gained In this country In III the filM at ot philanthropic effort effortS S S S Tho rho November number of t the Hal far Harpers pers perlI American Novel Series Is In When Whelm Love Iove Jo Was WUK Young Youn by Ity 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