Show The he Odd Career C leer of or o an in Irish II sh Poet 08 J I Years Y eals A L Ago o oo 01 LONDON lN ON n Special f Correspondence enee T T July TUI Is la rather I I doubtful If IC there n s I another poet I I who van boast of ot 01 ILO n a acar 1 car career arr r ns as that of ot Colun Wallace 11 I cc who isho at itt th the age of If lOls is now mien living and flint writing In II u ii I modest cottage colace In Ough I In County Gain halwa ay Ireland Probably Column Colun Colln Wallace Is unknown In iii II the United States Blat he Is practically eo LO 1 In II this lila In iii I his hit own land his reputation as ni a it 1 verse I writer riter Is la no rio 10 mean one anti and Olt a I new col collection ol lection of ot his itis iI poems line has Just been bee I pub hub published by the Iha Gaelic in to Dublin Wallace was born bor In 1790 1100 and for tor or al almost 11 almost most a hundred years made his hla living hiving us as 1 a I furl and Ild a 1 sawyer In III various parts pf pt poetry In spare pare moments Ho married twice but hut about three years milO ago 11 his second wife died lell nail and afterwards Wallaces lark lack In of menna obliged him him to enter the tho poor poorhouse house bouse at It IL was WI Home months betone e tile the poets poeta readers dis discovered la covered whore liero he ho was nl but when they the did ld a 1 found Cound was ovum raised for his benefit blen ns as a n result of oC which Wallace was pro liro provided vided sIded with wih a cottage which he now oc occupies as ns well as 1 money enough to help h lp him hIm hll through his lila declining lie He HeIs lieis lieIs Is now how In splendid health he lh and spirits spiris amid wrote an al Introductory poem the tho theother other day for the thi new volume of ot his verse some erle Perhaps the tho tibet most striking Item lel of oC tithe this collection Is a n poem which Writ Wal Wallace lace In e calls Tho Thu Song Hong of or Too Tea TCo It I Is IB a dialogue spoken by a n husband and wife while 1 they are arc picking potatoes ns no to the tho lie relative merits merit lerl of at tobacco and auth ten tea to 10 the tho use uee of ot which they the theore are ore respectively addicted A friend who recently has bias been beon seeing something of zio furnishes me with a I little Incident of at what the lie Scotch cail canniness on 01 onlie the lie poets part Like other writers of uC renown dAnnunzIo receives requests for or his autograph by almost every mall audi mal Ills His Hs reply to those Is I Invariably thin the same caine that ho 1 Im will ivill wi bo ito le delighted to fur furnish nish tush lila his hil autograph but only upon a n copy of ot one erie of his lila works anti and Signor dAnnunzIo Implied to my friend that BO so tar far tho the results of at this little expedient enl eat of OC his had bath hilt been Ion highly gratifying American readers of at Lorna Doone Doole amid 01 other oUter novels noela who sub to tho the memorial recently un unveiled veiled In III Cathedral Cathedral will 11 be In Interested on hearing that thai there thero remain remained ed cd after the tho completion of at the tho whole holl business a n balance of ot 00 This has 11 been b en handed over oer to the thu Society of or Authors Author of at which was wa a n moat enthusiastic member m I A rather r d ovi ov over r th I ti body hody of oC George tho thin j novelist ho tHud cited In iii 1878 1117 In is II now going on between his hil widow ihlow wilow und alt the VI hits his hiI only 11 child chill Mrs I rs Is la petitioning the I consistory court for tor or the lie I Imie IDue Mil of fC a 1 faculty this the disinterment tl t tull ull of IC the remains ot of her late Inte husband In order artier that they rutty may bo ho I In II the parish churchyard of ot Suffolk with tho time other oIlier wilI members ot or lila hiM family The rite I Is IA pro talty against the Is In manc III of lit lt this lila faculty acuity her hor objections however not being especially clear Why Ie el v I e of course coure mot met his death through an aim 11 accident In the hunt huntIng huntIng Ing lug which played pl 11 so 10 1 prominent a apart f ii part art III In practically every ono one of hU hits hI novels That an au Oi American author If It only olly theme them U lIe lio quality In II his hlA or her M Li suite nitre of ot an au al audience tn In II this country Is he II being constantly rho Ih latest Idlest In lest ot or this hits ls Is the uce 1 of nf Miss Allen books holu The first of them thel published almost without any an worn praised Iced umi by reviewers of oC Miss latest volume High Noon Noon kindly things are luring being said on mu 01 almost sIde I Tho American Is la still All another rather prominent figure figuro In tho tl London Iandol literary world Is II it making nn no enviable reputation with her pen This Is 18 Mrs Mr John Lane Lame LUle whose husband Is ot of courses course couro one ole of ot the tho lie best beat bet known of oC London pub 1111 11 The rho really NolY good stuff In Mrs Irs Lanes Lones story Ilor led lell to 10 Its being widely praised Mr Mra oem articles on nodal rind and domestic are being heinl paid pall tho the compliment of at publication III In tho the Fortnightly l He Ito HI view The Tue latest ot or them hemmi which deals amusingly with tho lie question Is 18 called Temporary Power Oddly enough London hns line now no 10 comic comb printed In II colors on 01 oh thin tho lines moe 1 ot or Puck lu le ind t 11 ltd Judge go goat nt at I home and In consequence much In Iii Interest terest line has hn been d by h the Iho lent ment that lint such a 1 periodical partly com coin composed comO posed O Cd of oC American humor hummer Is about to 10 tobo toito bo ito 0 Thoro litoro Is I plenty of ot room for Cor It I for tor Punch appeals IIA only slightly to 10 tho the man nian In the street whereas the th English l comics such ns us Ally AlY Scraps so Ff I forth rely for tor support upon much pOI boys hOR At present ono alto of or tIme the biggest l In lit the way wn of ot n a comic weekly weck IB Is a I lIttle called Snapshots which sells Bells for two to cents amid Is up lP entirely from coIn ad advance vance once sheets sheet of oC the tIme principal American comic weeklies Its 18 perhaps most mORt popular 1011 lar feature ore arc reproductions of or the tho cartoons of ot Charles Dana Gibson Ohlon who Is utmost ns as well ivoti wel known lucre hero h rn as nA af nt home HAYDEN 1 HUmI |