| Show n n Fairy Tale Dinner Is London s Literary Novelty Our 0 LeacIe L I e I Nov No 14 Anderson II I L 1 I and the Brothers Brother Grimm went 11 among the Ue guests t at a t fairy fairytale irl tale lal dinner this t week which 11 proved prot on III on of ot lb hoe moM moet novel and nd enjoyable feasts given a In ht the metropolis for tor many manya III a lung long day I Anyhow these theM threw three renowned tellers II of 01 fairy tales tale were wen said to be present though none non at ef f tIM the theether oUr other guests guest actually sew saw II them anU a private u teat neat t to tD lk the tafU la laone one was wa set t apart for th them m and anti oc oe a courier cans cama In and D I floured what wt ws Watt dema by b the distinguished trio Irlo as a their nit next course cours our hll the Ibe door lIr or of tale was wu left ajar so to that the th author of f The Now N lathes It and lid lb hear r the Iba tales talc of or fairies that thaI were wen tire ba Ite hid I I tag lag air told loM lu th the big bis b r M by I r i I I Hun Clayton i Marie H the Ih story nary teller and ani other Ta Tile stew of this Ihl fairy Mry tat tale dinner was wu the Rumens lumens dub club sod ana Id it n wag wu all al a the thu Idea Id i ot of f Him Smedley il loy ley that thu girl sll who li lIu founded the club un 1111 said l 1 IU its staler elsler In Berlin cud III Part Parma slid and wile nho U Is I known In lu Amer u mi rn mithat that account and a ar aa the t lb author ut of wv see v vI era ral I lit 11 r nuvel notably Condi i and url a fairy ui tul Miss Mia Hi K U is I paying her hr dot Aral Mit Mitt v t to the tb soon but that is as another u nary ry Certainly none nest of ot the Ike II iu Royal t i arranged by y bet hei MI III in Ih the Ium l ha has been I luul than this weeks week fairy dine din dinner ner 11 though the 4 guests of honor bettor played iU 1 rd 1 at t the lite last t min mill minute ute Mid I I It AUK f 1 HUt HIM Tl l wan ass author of 01 Ta I Ag Age A who bo after seer J M II Harris Rania i I the l a authority on ona fairies a ui 4 wt i It wa ways II 1 and who wa wu down wa f I lip II i Mii 1 or ur i rather at her herfor for lor the I r i t f 1 Ii fat r v tale that took cult Ih i t i Lj t f ih Unary ullar afir dinner 8 sr i i An i nij ow vr UY Ibs shin h hr iv i t v Iii hl to h 11 is I luxuriously lit Ik t a II fairy fat ti halt ak Il c d Itself It lo to their for tor 11 r coinage f fur ri Wok ok him tutu at th the eleventh hour bour sod mi ale t UI Kr m trot frum j I him him had to t be read To 10 ray NY that he was 11 not no I missed would woul Ix br h neither Ither complimentary n 11 nor i true I ru alto tit our disappointment was soon noon for fr forgotten gotten Kullen In a feast teul that really rell hive have been hn arranged arran by the s them Ibm I veal Along Alon the lb Ih tables brown bronn ur pathways pathway were multi I out with they sign signposts posts bearing tine tin II words rd To the tho I hr Pep Pepper p per r er To T the tb Ml Mistress trees of the Ih C ern r monies and nd a so nn m and nd along alone these th Ih patha paths were ranged il little tin addler and white rabbit rabbits and white and nd him black k mice mil and old women wOlDen with broomsticks and all the Ibe other curious creatures that from time lime to time Immemorial have hae dwelt In fairyland DRANK HOWAN WINK WIND The health hUh of ot the king was waa drank In tn rowan wine otter after which maids ohonor o ohonor honor went nt round and decked kel Mil alt II the women with rowan rown berries and de orated all the men mell with green anti ana na blue Ulue a with a quaint gold rabbit attached And then after atler we had d been beell regaled on gold Esh and ro r roast t goose goo Kno e with Ices Ic from an Illuminated l 1 palace pal such urh as fl the Snow Queen Quen must mu hue have h lived In the telling of ot the fairy fairytales tales till began bean When hn idles Mies M medley Smedley gets get to America a perhaps she he will wilt Introduce the Innovation innovation tion lion of ot stories about sprite Intel Instead of ot toasts loa anyhow It proved prod a most happy ono one as na tried at the Lyceum um And though comparisons are n odious It II must mut be said that the moat Inot success successful successful ful rul of ot tb the storytellers storyteller wa va was Miss Minn Sh Shed il lock whose rendering of The If and nd the Ute Seven Sven Little must have hav ha hail delighted il the Brothers Grimm if they the th really rally wile were w In the next room They and d Mans Hans Andersen Anden were sold Mid to have hate ha driven away in a I motor car jut Just b the tho th dinner party pan broke up and th the touting tooting of their horn In Piccadilly brought to an en n end a feast fast which would have delighted the heart bt of or Peter Pont Pons PM s creator and that the author of ot The Golden Age A must now be Ia very uy sorry lIOn to have OK OF 0 LEIGH HUNT Some Home Interesting letters Itt of ot Leigh Hunt HUllt have ha jut come me to light In a coun country country country try newspaper to whose founder they were w re written Borne Koine of ot them tell how he h made a fairyland out of Newgate prison where he nad read been bIn sent nt for tOt two I WO years yeara 11 because he had called Icing Wil wn William liam llam IV a coxcomb lie obtained two vacant ward wards of ot the thi prison Infirmary The larger ward he says say I turned Into a noble room I papered the Ibe walls wall I with Ith trellis f t roses r I had the cell Ill IllIng Ing lug covered with cloud and ky sky k the barred windows I with Vene Venetian tiara tian blinds blind and when nay tny bookcases book were wre set et up with their buts busta and flow flowers flowen ers era slid and pianoforte made their appear appearance appearance ance n f perhaps there them was wa not a handsomer hand handsomer somer room on that Ihl side of the water Charles Char Lamb declared dared there was wall no other such room except In a fairy tale But Bul prison life was ws not all al so roo carefree H Hearing that thaI Jil hie 1110 family had bad been force fon ed to go So down to 10 Brighton fur for their health balth he writes I felt Frady to dash duh dohnt m nt head against the wall II at t not nOI being able to 10 follow toll ow them I f would sometimes sometime sit lilt It In my chair with this thought upon me m till the agony of my Impatience burst burat out at t every pore POOR IOOR D AUSTIN Poor 1001 Alfred Austin As All A If It wet not enough In itself for tor a poet post laureate to 10 have hae to accommodate hl his feet teet to the empty shoes shoe of f a poet post like Uke Ten Tennyson Vor 01 11 II years year be has het been Men j Jr jeer er erd d ai at e metaphorically speaking pe his hie feet reet were ware not nearly nearl big blK enough nough And A nd now he be writes pathetically In the h Times Some of f us U have 11 from time tim timeto to time ought Nought to rouse rou the slumbering MI of ot the nation naUn by verse vena But the th notion wilt will 11 not be roused the nation slumbers lumbers on and so doe bt bl his verse ve William Watson SaU n says y that the oft ott repeated assertion that thaI he was wu dm cv red t LS by Alfred Austin the poet lu 1 U la a II pure pu table fable and nothing more eon 1110 HI His own father discovered dlo d him he end and paid the expenses expense of or h hi ht b first rei two books of or poems pOllin of f which not 10 SO copies cople reached ched the world orld out outside outside side the circle of 01 his family and friends friend But Mr Watson utson I has bas had bad no reason n to 10 blame lam the tha public publio almo those Ih early erly day da for to Wordsworth Grave and Other Poems has bas passed pa d nearly early i U JIt editions and I is II till still as u great greatly ly Ir I In demand a ever e I 1 nine have ha e allowed myself to b for tor once onre n provoked Mr Lr fro Wilson x ii ta I i these I he mere mer entile r et I noel n I I J take lake I no great pleasure In III ii loins doing so now by the per luat and aud wearisome that there are no readers de of contemporary poetry Mr Watson perhaps might have slid eald Id that the asser auer assertion lion tion just jus alluded to discovered d Alfred AlfredA Austin A HARLEM I |
