Show A new bW volume ot of short Mort stories orl au I essays ar by Mark TWain entitled on The Man Mait that Corrupted will wili willbe be published by the Harpers earl early till this month In addition to the etory front from which I the h honk book hat has taken It title the th nw new volume contains fI My Debut as a Lit Literary Person Times In the th Austrian Parliament About Abat Plat Pta Acting and Con Concerning ln the Jews lewil The collection will be illustrated b by Lucius Hitchcock and others A Diplomatic Woman It I U ike title of If a collection of t tales b by an author wrItIng under uDder Ib the pseudonym of Huan Mew Mee The Th stories torl relate the theIr I very Ir unusual and swelling t of a young an and worn woman who ho engages n In diplomatic intrigue and herself In an aD Interesting eon coil ot of adventure I ITh Th These experiences are related b by tilt the 1 heroine herself end there It Is not a lid deli page pae I is the volume I There Ia S much l speculation ma to the lit I authorship tf of the Ihl volume olum no informs ll fIM tun being II save that he or t 1 she he a as the lie ease may be Is m I weik It known person Ifon In where the M I book has baa recently been I The Downfall of pain from the I pen or of H W Win the author or Iron dad clad In Action bear marks mariti of If the same me preparation that the former york ork It Ie i a critical 1 of our lat late war var with Spain based beed largely I w spell It Ort and documents i Id ett In the ot of the so n navy fir Kr Wilson begins lbs tort torr of tb the of the i liaise lee In Havana ba barber ae 11 take taba up Iii detail and sifts the e gIven In I 5 COlI coarse ot of tb the I and I It Ilk t tl 1 Tir of th v e work o of p 11 1 h I I h I es to ant and ard of the theU w t ith I Ial U 1 A 4 Im But been the tbt Cau eau tl UK r f tl tb Main was a the iia inai Ial of war warIn warin In tte the strength an and fh fight I in capacity of th the AmeriCan ad SUd Ilk tub niU fite tb the author says There cuU I Ito 10 comparison between the theto to two ever an 1 American ship met meta a IJ ship I ot of anything 11 like tr her I on n nII II sire t the American was wa almOt almost hound to 1 A mid em rl force vastly Uy superior In numb h had nt not the auIe to tear fear a fur force wk eak In ev every f The Th vigor Ilor ot of initiation I is wanting In te the chr character The R d doN not nul at att attack t tack k h ha waits alt Te ti to ti tI attacked Au AR for forthe the pall h dIsplayed hero heto heroIc Ie Ic U Mt but he 1111 unintelligent awkward I and In mi instances of bl bad I The train training In of the Spanish b u was u dlf defective I i flunnory a WU an aln unKnown art manu were wre held drill I anti were n Essen tb 1 Spanish Ih nt n y in ID stood where le I it 1 In 1 9 In 17 Ind In hi 11 when British s mi rde I it with It I Is known hur cn fm 11 that N elIso Ik looked the Spanish Dav navy and seamen mn with onus pI n t It uld used to b be art an anold old saying dl that A chip Ih chased 1 Is a dip tak To aggravate 1 tIps I ot of thO the aY navy n no plan of Operation prepared Nt beforehand nor Dor was ln nv car I out during the tbt war EverythIng tt we was done don donal at al ant jl rn jg Ipu clamor al all this fully and Ih the pa le vern met ment persistently Ind aM Mtr of t th weakness ell and of If hl his 11 fleet Nothing l he telegraphed to Madrid when ord ordered to eaU 1 f fir r the Wet Vest In Indies dies can cab be ep 1 of it this except the destruction ot of the fleet or Its Ita h an and return In command of oC the was 1 11 tin leAI less despondent On tl the Am earns A Aay h he telegraphed to the Spanish nr Whilst I as seamen alf we ae ate alt 1 ready to die 1 with lh honor In the fulfilment ot of dut I think It en an un no undoubted doubted tt fast that th the ot of this naval fO force will be trul fruitless nd l use It u More Moie thin Utan half If Ih the volume I 5 I Ito to the Santiago Ti The thor shows that Admiral m mail bl his fatal tatal milta mistakes In fo felting to escape tap fm from blo before the beginning ot of 1 blod on May I 21 Ta The cn con Spanish lalk leek of ard of I allowed the opportunity tl to In go by Jn en the hon hoe In sight I bt running for life with lie Ita cargo arlo ot of 01 coal for lor hI he allowed It to tn b be before h hi II I eyes b by an anI I unarmored vessel on th the After fer the blockading squadron I arrived aa md drew Il Its nt net clOMP gud closer the chance for Cur ad escape steadily diminished aD and when the nightly patrol began aU all hOI hope Wa was put t Not by Wila William I H edwards portraits Ind facsImIles I is another attempt to show how t that wu was not the theauthor author o of i the plays and p poems aU rib to hi kim Mr Edwards do does not aim to know who ho this rl reel author was wa I is morally certain that th the strolling u as he be wrote his hll own Damp name rould Q not hye have been the writer of any part o of them He hu has but te few ne new to d fr t tn in of 01 h his trite Ht but hll hi argument in de dc feb ot of It It bd based uon a review ot of all tte evidence In the Iu ease direct and nd I Is In some ome re respects tta the strongest hat has thus Ihu far been ad This I is b because au he devotes devot himself t to tM the single tall task of denying credit for th he plays to Shakespeare without definitely according I it to ay any oth other r lal The ant aut t f ys he be hu has set himself to the t guse I it I is Nl full time Ila that I l should re emine the le they have be 16 that ak illiterate butcher from froman an n Ignorant a and n Inland vl Vii la lag who flew t to London In disgrace before the constable and became a servitor and nd If later a player at t a public theater the tb then G meet degraded place plu of a and who spent the greater part 0 of every year ar 11 in strolling through EnIa England with hi troupe of ced I I set It down aol and wIthout p or knowl knowledge l dub d 0 oI and not only 1 Hallet Hamlet It hut nel nearly two tore score 0 of the worlds world greatest ri plays To account for fOI t this hi wonderful I It h hIn baa In been claimed wrote b by tion The ut says b be certainly wrote by Inspiration I if he wrt wrote at all U for lor In his hll uninspired moments moment hi he f pee not ome oe accomplishment or char chr characteristic that would belr help him to the writing of a play pia o of an any sort Mr FAw and offers proof that the Ibe Shakespeare pleys were er nt not written for Wi William thea theater theater ter nd t t D one une of them was wal ever Ir played II in I his except II ta enes ne 0 ci Ii pantomime and a ilso that r O one the lifetime attributed II p plays to William or so UI pealed hm him of ay any authorship what whatever ever r 1 It I is o red that tbt h he wu ws simply one e of 01 tb the clOwns in ID a variety ar J show how theater whre where t interludes pan and were wre for tor I the he I ot of tM the lowe lower c ot of Ln Len Lendon don that bl died U deo devoid of a as wl when tie t first entered London unknown to an any man ot of letters or of 01 eminence Ia by shrewd roan ment b be amu amused a large lae in 10 inthe tl the show business aM that tbt this wa was the Ilp sole achievement a of hi his years l on earth parth Tie The claim II that the Ibe Shakespeare p play which did not apar appear In print un on tl Iveal several years after nr the death of William Shakar ike comedian were re rethe the joint work ot of a coterie of pIa play playwrights wrights b by a syndicate of and lo for HI purl purpose credited inferentially t to the decu deceased actor cor William I ft I is also 11 claimed that Hel Homing and nd ondel Shakespeare are who bo vouched for tor the ot of the plays were ert paid 14 lo for the taR false attests pa tion ald and that Ben JOo Jonson who fr fur Dished some Ve tr for tb the publication WI was privy to the fraud fraudin II in concluding pv bl his introduction the theauthor author says y The he English speaking world orld I has n is this matter Long enough bUt the ta la br bore U or of of nebY of und and or of Fin Qt at len h tn en enable able ble u us to know exactly uth what hat William did do do and what be did not oot do I It is II enough for lor ml me to prove that William did not write aUr a these l pl plays Wo Who did I know not Dot and nd offer 10 no suggestion ulo but wh when th the yen rable 1 I image baa i tumbled and d tl the h have a UtU tl time t to clear hr lU eyes ot of dust dut aitA cobwebs Ih the thereal real althor may mar b be 0 or for I believe lle tie there were several veral who wrote under th the as nUll name ut of William Shake spears The author certainly mI makes a p strong showing the m man ot of otAva Ayes Ava but bUI tb the substitute for 11 him I is to too absurd to be entertained |