Show OlICS v which readers are areto tp to Ift upon ouT our American of lotion on I is shown bown by a note MU is II a recent issue of the New NewYork York Post from II iii t While English Ac t be aye II ut t the prevent time timea a drug In the market mrk Mr tin M come almost Ir l as a t 1110 to nader of Action be tIr purity of tone one with nature end and d die from that with which English Action h has so oft often tainted H He com comes 1 I reader re like all an of 01 sweetness r ir y I h En nov eUs a interesting At the his hla book Th ne being widely r red d daU aU 54 tIN the b has made a small for Ut from Ita it BUI Bu hIli hl start I swat hA have been n dl lu luI I ng I h 1 bonn be ore the Ihl literary pUblic about aboul 01 me mer Mr r was I a In and a arlit fl Ut at that thaI but buthi W hi to tin Awl I lIr to 10 Is fa twelve years on hook for of lf hy by laid kad and 4 a Though vs but he be nver lost t M he t t lie be knit J well 11 I Is came cam It i WIt with tilt of I Forbid tb the ad hi It A Au he wu leaving tor t his Is 0 on one evening en In ha Ir to hi wife that now DOW t as story wes bed lit he would UMI dIM flight t n UI to rial II pot IoU Moer U I 1 think 10 u replied the novelist you fOU might read It It They went Int to tendon London but tb the lub were pre not so 10 el elthey the they had hoped firmS re I the book and aDd It wa was only atra er era a weary ort that un one wu to try I Yet TI during the first Arel six s I i after aner publication Mr Moore I ties tiel to 1000 S I In an article on Short ten tell for a forth volume of the UniversAl Anthology Mr Harte relates the incidents connected with the publication ot of this famous Luck ot of Roaring Camp When he assumed tilt the editorship of tIM the newly founded The Overland Monthly tb the beet bitt writ writers on the heile coast were tre invited to contribute In Ia looking over his for the first Mr Uart wu lOncer concerned 4 to And a able lck of characteristIc fiction Action There jb were tre good literature articles article fir Q foreign travel and lId some ome eu ayin ot of the natural reo re resources sources ot of from I a commercial and advertising but he be failed to discover anything ot of that wild and picturesque lit life whir had iMpressed hIm first u as a truant schoolboy and afterward as youthful schoolmaster among amoa the mining I In this b he determined to tomake make good the himself 11 1 wrote Th Tb Luck ot of Roaring Camp And noW an I ro the printer and the pub helter ot of the o tl to the stop tort virtually tot lor not Dot being in III the ron eon K flee ot of subject treatment and nd morals The Th outcast mother the language Jw some ot of the characters the birth of 01 an n Illegitimate child all alike were Wert held to 40 be Improper and lie had bd to exercise his hll u Ru editor to let get the story pub On th the local press echoed all Ih the ob objections ot of his hili em employers ploy HI His 1 w was denounced AI a all 11 canons art and IDd Ot and md u as tending to discourage immigration The tern pee on the other hand welcomed the Ille tory story for tor tilt the very hd had offended the Ille elope and when Europe Jollied joined It its ien to that of Atlantic America Amerl Bret Hart Hartes victory w was won with bl blon his own on public S S S The ot of Law to be draw III leg to itself the h attention ot of religious critics One hi recently well described It la I tb the Republican u as Ilk mall many religious novels novel Inasmuch U II It is III not nol didactic or It does doe not go 0 Into the higher like RoI rt It merely re Jt record I Icord cord the growth crowth ot of a strong mInd be benighted b by farl early teaching Into llito tb the Ri I entitle conception of the universe A AIn As Asin In the case calle nr if Thron Theron Ware the effects treet of by the previous anil started nn in inthe the road there was Io no ni place But BUI while hll th the book I nut formal ar argument U tp tO It its there tan can tit be nu no mistakIng aud or of old creeds which less every dy day will COD It heartily Tot Tet It 11 I ii religious In a high 0 v tn h mote more than In III II itS doubt The truth if the R Jl II t t I thet Mr Allen Alten by bel being n simply t th 1 has put nu trUth I in It its Iii ural tural relations to life A feat r Ir l even by avo av re writers S S The lit literary US not Dot an all tast Iut yet et The Th Sooth 0 of the Uti death of will 1111 occur I 0 lIt 54 more ort notice ml ma be tak 1 or It tU thai of tb the bl I used ltd unheeded tb the other d day too rom comeS the an n nat at that art are uI lIl is pro progress to III rate In fashion the bicentenary of th the at ot of Jamell th 1 of o The Bea Beans ns It II 1 stati the will tall In July although I h birth month w wal S S I lh title of Mr Arl ArIf new MW novel Ive In a cloud I II I I I Is taken laken from nn imaginarY anon story tol bout about h he The curiosity tilt the au I h t hl at Love Lot In n a lloud 1 leads to a aI I of in 10 which I is woven o a 0 of love that triumphs alt In the I II ul Humor and loin join ith 1 it Ian tangle of complications to make ke keI I tl hui a I readable beet beetS S S MIsS Alden Aillen Curtis CurU is a dr dar drun un American Here is II the a lint frt by S women to render th the 1 of th the Omar in III verse Miss t 1 I iS modest does not claim that will that of Fits Sh lute say Vis lI he have translated the if tb II My little book I is hut a raking A after Iter t these greater ones I lest per OM crimson fOIl rosebud bud 0 on shop bap hot ht ot of vine INV leaves be left forgotten b by bythe the wayside S I Mr William attitude tutu toward America I is ot of the most mOlt there art are few lew English critics who lIe have recognized as quickly and acknowledged edged edId as generously tb the rood good points point In Inthe inthe the national character HI I is not bounded by tIM the limits limit fit if Mayfair and andIn andin In the following extract from ona on ot of hi he shows aa a appreciation of something other than A En Eng i I I Collectors of slant lIaM will iliad And many man priceless gems Im I Ia two to recent books book which I commend to their notice nom Chim ml Fadden b by Z W Townsend md Artie by George Ale Pad Padden den gives u us tb the dialect dd ot of tile the New NewYork NewYork York flowery Doel bo boy or at tough In which the mot molt notable feature Iture t Is the either of d or t for lor th Is II this I wonder a finn or I is It due to and dish Influence When wants want wanti to express his hll admiration for lor a young lad lady lie he says YI Well say a Ibe a tor and dat noel goes When the young oun lad ladys father I tomes om to thank him for tor championing het this Is how bow Chim mi nile describes Den h ha II gives me mea a song lOne and nd dance bout about m me being a I brave young oun mn man for tor Oe lie mu mug I what insulted hi his Wu MUg I Ithe the Bowe Bowery term I ft Jr fellow rellow or r mn man manin In Chicago find I It t equivalent I in guy uy Mr Mes Ade ArUe I is a Chicago clec anti and hll hi dialect I is of the most do ble bleIn In comparison with him Mr deE y I Ia is isa a well ot of 4 He ain w we find of 01 the influence of got immigration Iu for mosey evidently rom comes from the Jew II as a term lerm of endearment from the Dao Dago ot of the sunny south and spiel meaning any anything ny I thin thing you pl plea from When Artie rot goes to a wedding h he reo re record cord tOrd that there was a a long spiel pilI b by tb the high lilY guy In the pulpit Alter After describing In ing tb the embarrassments ot of a country cousin In the city Attie Artl proceeds Down at the farm he wu was the wee cu guy and I wu the soft loft mark mrk Kark In Inthe Inthe the sense a of butt or lilli gilli It Is one Of If the of sling Ian words When Attic ArUe II his cut out mit all 11 rivals In tb the rood good graces r of hi his Mantle h he puts It thus thu There Int aint nobodY else In the one They Int aint even In III the When they have bavi a 10 lovers quarrel b he remark wen Well I spore tb the theother other boys boyl all n m my dates When h lie dill dIsapprove p lO of young gen gentleman Ihl this I Is how h he him next to the all mu b he himself would say ay You Tour a Youre Youra nt the thin thing In tM the deck bees It You cant Int In 1111 like that to me and then Ihn tOI come around at and jOll mt me Met In a mil mu million lion J I till tell you ou youre oure a and nd It If von Yoo come Into the same am part with me Ill Fil chane your face Thre Theres only one wa to get It bark back at t people It if h he dont II been off ff o n my mv route therell be walking alo slow behind him Oil one 1 0 th theSe 41 days Rut Thit tit the earns me a strict that can caD have ban my seat Itt In the cr car any time lime lb she In l I pId lid guilty to an unholy relish for tor anI and Artl vary m mets phora from th the musIc h hell II the poker JOker table and nd the grip rr ear Rut But It I Is to tn tobe be noted that thu both three IhNe profound students of slang Mr Townsend ud end Mr MI Me Ilk th the creator tit of the th delight delightful tul ful express themselves In pure end the moment they th the m mask ot of their personage This Thill Is III Very Many educated tk take delight anI and even pride In keeping or of the din daily develop ment ot of slang and netter but this study does oe not In the Iut ImpaIr their I lIn for tor or their command 0 of ool English The Th idea that t the h English is III In America I IS An absolutely groundless Illusion 1 them all around the 0 of the 1111 ot of America In their editorial columns At aa rate are at t least t all as well written as the newspapers I of London and rn in mainlines and books tt the average level of Are certaInly very Irv high There Thre are bad and vulgar writers Oft on hoth Id ot of the Atlantic but until th the beam are removed from m our eyes 11 we 1 may safely trust till th AmrI Americans to tn I attend to the motes ot In 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