Show American l n Books and nc I The fhe English I Reviewers LONDON INON LITI I Correspondence r ONDON ODO June 22 mIl L I and Scotch lotch f was WIl tha thaI tUI I UtE It I will wi bo he remembered of ot lle upon the and 1111 that of American and h Ho HoI vl I wen we might bo 10 applied 1111 to lo tho IH that has I been h en nt 01 lato In ft London newspaper re rl regarding 1 prominent garding from the United Status 1111 their standing In II country Probably ot of thin argument have lint to 10 reach Inch the other othel of oC tho thoI I Atlantic I It I It I started In II ihu Chronicle Is 1 known an I the mot most literary of or tho London I dallies anil III arose out Oll Ollor ot or a II which re 10 recently In II the columns of that news newspaper paper Tho ho volume reviewed which tin al subject Matthew Arnold lold by h O 1 1 Hons Honl and nn net Imp this was WI why wh tin th reviewer the tlc work get It the th slun UH I origin was Wil American and gave this In tn what he h wrote U H Instantly came a letter leUer from frol If H Putnam who U II now In the country pointing out that thu volumes author was IU not American at ut all al hut but and what the described as III a 1 prejudice American books on the tho lerlan bok Oi part of r 11 rm resultant I has hal lieen lel an 11 tc t whether HUch fuch fuchI n I el U and opinions have lx ni by hy anthers them John Hta Illta Mrs Mt last lastly ly Iy Arthur Waugh ugh who wrote of ot review It I by hy byone one fino witness that the books by hy AreIl in I n professors that their way over In II u 10 Invariably compart so 10 nn UI I the works of 01 I Hint no In h reviewer ran can canIn rant In t blamed for ti feeling some un I n 1 11 P lOed I pro profound found volume from rl the other side Ille but bi M u 1 r dental vini a Il book of any alY kind would be I rousted here h of rI u ls mer tx because It I was th tho fir fr Hi t part par ot the foregoing i ni iv bo IJo true though one hopes hOll It Itt t u t the Ih point at Il Ismie i III IH nent writers his haH 11 liim to bleve believe that II n American w rk ni I i whether or lie liel Il l u wi ll be b im 11 such luh by byJ h hIU IU J nut of 10 reviewers lul hen un 11 bool is I bait well then t I think there ther I a tendency nn I hl part ot literary lerry critics to make lako u 4 of ul lt IM ori origin rt gin 11 Or Dr I nm whoM ho book hk e Amoni Aron Xi lions to have hn Iru 1 n 1 wood II deal Ifal ot or In Mates just n I It I has over oer here is a I smooth fie Ie et U Ian Isn who hai the Rift of t nn n almost degree Hn le lehl hl his been a course coure of 01 university In London this Ihl Reason on Oi A range of ot topics packed with wih all alli 11 i rt of ot facts tade and yet el with will never nove no 10 much as al s a to look lok at It Hit Ill Is I of Dr the that t somehow enable him to 10 tell tel sti au composed NIPO of Knit I n lah thAt a al a rule he women are a I tame laMe lot not at lt nil 11 comparable with their sis sister ter In II for tor example There Is II it bout 11 liln I t luKi i Ih out ut 11 or the Ihl words t b i HP II dearly loves to 10 bo In on n tho Iho other Hide of 01 an argument and 1 I suspect tile 11 U for hl that I one Oi lu hIl women attitude regarding Ho le chuckled Joyously tho other day In II the tho presence when an In American nt lt him tho following comment You may lived In America 10 Dr but you evidently Raw IW only ono O kind YOI of 01 American woman the kind that rushed rl up II to you yuu after I i lecture ami carried you OL off or triumphantly to din dinner dinner ner for tor w Ik ke ot nr getting n I hit bit o prestige You YOI got among hers and 1111 and among em the tho whole five t years new knew there BM another ort frt of or woman 1 made a n hasty In II oilier words orl Thu doctors answer to 10 gallant on nf My Iy boy he hI come ore and h ha vc a 1 drink Thu h wife Is II a H French lady In and theli home hom la li Indeed The coming of or Cr 1 le him hR out nut Ih fact will wil surprise moot that some lome of or the work sti unpublished Thene Thele writings which now are likely Ikel to see e the tho light oC or day Ilay Include two 1118 named hl Man III With Wih the Marionettes and mid several fragments of novels Of or the most Interesting In Is of oC J which begun ny oy leor Q Band tn II 1863 1868 was a Intended by h the Ith url to 10 bo b the of or an nn Imaginary ary of It wan 1 ol I iI given up I however when Kami Uncovered that the same Idea Ilen had been heon used by h Claude lu Le 11 n do ti th Ihn other othor Is The n of or the Ino which Its Il x seems len to have hwE In Intended o tended much un Iha ho lines line oi o Christmas Dlo Il Bo 10 tar fur as 1 known Mr T P 1 OConnor nho ho ban I just charl ot 01 the de t of at lie he weekly w ekly periodical Chic l hie Is II nUl American woman Ci Ciller Ill ller She bus hii ot or course already had 1 literary experience to burn Mitt with the In America and lat later I t tIr er Ir as her most a lS here hernot not to mention menton written two Iwo or three thre plays phAI Mark Twain that no ono onn can CRI l b more morl riol than IhAn a I t when wIlen so wo I nt ns Mrs Irl Clump would woul I Il B and Jerome Irom K 1 Jerome JeNI Is III another Of 01 late Ille th tl humorist hurt been IJen pitching In to the In a I lavage wax It I may la be he re r rm m ii d too that TIrolo Wn Today foa he ho w nl for tor the Sul Sultan Sil tan of nf Turkey Turley so 10 viciously that thu tl I I olce haJ tn to warn urn him hll lo 10 loso so ft IMI his hil tone Ami the author of or rh Men once o aull inured a A il liiK hll of 01 voters that If Ir they Ih sent him t I Ithe which they the lie h would l be RS 11 in 18 the por portentous 01 M P 11 known U I was U not so 10 long that I wro about a Jr poet who ho let ht letters tr proved up an M ana Ma a cobbler ami now word reaches me le that Herr Richard n 1 Oer lr dramatist who haw Homo lan 11 gained little r Is II to Abandon and take the man management i of or a t 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