Show Not nil Uie mill inti In the till publishing I arc nt nr large minded Idealists idealist eo II und timid It Is t to expect that valuables will 1111 not hot be tampered with if It they arc oro left unguarded Copyrighting Is IB n u cheap and iid comparatively simple thing thin nowadays and to be authors who neglect It have only lvis to 10 blame for lOr forthe the losSes attendant upon that neglect t t The unkind strictures of ot other com corn communities regarding te tho the ItI who volunteer distinguished services to the Boston Public 1 Library have cutlet forth some very ery brilliant Jo do o fentell ot of the system Champions by bythe byth tile the th score cor have to uphold the ladles who ho excluded Mm Mrs Hum Humphry Wards latest book from the tho shelves because e of Its effect upon young oung GIrls and amid who pondered Ionic upon ullOn that doubtful work wor Their Silver Wedding Journey before per hier permitting ler omitting It to sneak III In through the buck door ns nl It wore vore In tho the general liter literature department The rhe chief contention of ot these thelle charn cham Pious teems 1115 tu to be that the tho unpaid readers reader for time the Public Library are unpaid and that therefore their judgment must be r limit thull that of ot the reader tender of tho the publish publishing ing lag house houle anti and tit paid lIB III critic of the re ru review view These Theae latter are made to appear AI venal enal winking nt at bad grain mar lg over bad butt logic loCh to bad bA moral provided only that they recommend a bonk which will viii have a 1 asale sale alo whereas time tho volunteer experts of ur are represented as a 1 clear via 11 honed loneil sternly conscientious lot vowed owed and dedicated to o the cause of pure flure lit literature literature literature reading because they the love lovo to rend read and judging out ot of the fullness full ness of ot H i rich experience In letters Ilir 1111 simplest answer Is lit to recall ho limo books book upon tipon which thene eminent Ron Bon Ionian have g set t the s lit a f th thir lr dis Its disapproval approval The Ihie he mon one ant Is 18 Isto istO to consider the time amateur In nil all his pur pursuits ur suits as RII compared with the lon lonal al ol la Ia tho the amateur musician a n better performer thou than the lh the and nd their toss less 1 fI renowned fol tol folio io lowers went T Is III th amateur sportsman even een ft It hotter than thun him time the professional I here the tho th Intense delight In 11 time the pursuit HI rs lIlt and the publicity of or it bicak down own many mOil of the till of at de tie demarcation bete n the two Is III time the dilettante writer a it bettor better writer titan time the professional Mrs Van Villi lions ela outer Iller r Cruder Cruger anil amul time the Into lato Queen Vic Vie Victoria Victoria Vietoria toria against t Miss Wilkins and Georgo George ny say no to that So with tho time amateur critic rille hoor ho or more inure frequently she nn an Intense personal a n for far farfetched fetched nicety of ot taste for tho rules and standards of an established and tim I criticism IU She Sho herself elf I the with which BU Is 8 pleased and then she sho herself pleased with some senie lucre affectation The fhe professional render reader may howe have his hl stilts faults and Ind thu tic books that appear anti and the hooks books thit are praised show that ho Ito iii many litany man of ot them but he has line rt the preciosity of ot the amateur mattur which Is III of ot all thing time most destructive of ot sane BatlO and amid reasonable judgment Anti And the professional reader ronder may mar al RI always ways Vl solace olace himself for tor tho the attacks up upon upon on him turn by remembering that George Meredith Is in In Jo tho the some same line of hush busi business ness fleas Time Tho of ot London which lies has hlilA achieved A new by It this the went recent admission of Bronder Mat dIll Matthews Into Its It membership lisa lioe on one one of lit if the most bOut t curious regulations known to the club world No N member may tnt ma maII II nile within Its 1111 portals As s It Is III really a Ii distinction dl to belong to It and as tho the Brilon ID III a n conservative ron tradition re na respecting person the lie rule MIlt Is III not lIot corn com combated hinted bated It Tt has hia hA been picturesquely lature evad etil evaded ed however by the excavation eX of oC n a apart part of the tue rear of the garden In which xo n two to smoking rooms have been built S SVery Very Ver few Americans to tho the Huh climb and only those limos I ht fn who lio ho have won some sonic distinction In art let letters tori or the church Professor sor br Matthews WIM wu proposed eighteen year ago ngo by h Matthew Arnold The Theother Theother other day da when his hie turn tUMI for rOl election came Austin Dobson Dobon took Arnolds place In sponsor for tor the Amer loon icon author |