| Show England Beats France in Great Race Our London Literary Letter SpecIAl Corre Correspondence ONDON ODON Sept 2 11 unknown L to the tho public a 11 great gl at race raco has hils been to In progress prole 9 for or some time In Inthe the literary world It las been and France gaud I II brt between nil that England has understand I 1111 walk In alone sonic nail will ally nil won ahead of France 00 years This race hits been beon between the Oxford Ox anti Clarendon press ford University llY are oro this tho Academy of France I IL a dictionary which Is to ho honl nl absolutely the latest anti and up to six dIe bank In existence there me aro now ht which are ale reckon tally tI 1 wants nut tho French dl de declared academy and Oxford university In favor of later I and an f over oer 30 years ago ngo Oxford It its gigantic task This gave the of France Francen n chance to hurtle and the they did UlI for tor before a n year ear was nut they also were I have hao nl at work on em their dictionary from Loth holh jU just t received official reports sIdes dr The Orford people have Rot got IU gas 10 1 I to 0 10 11 tar Land rot rel nil all q c all 1 It H to The N will hc be 18 Is Issued sued next 1 the report r Fratic tr Is 18 n lIot of Po P good Pine immortals have on ached rL the Iho letter C and do 10 not ex t to complete that until 1905 Ox Oxford Oxford ford expects to havo hao their task corn com completed by b 1014 Sonic Some figures o of the Iho Oxford dictionary diction dictionary ary ate arc interesting Iii n lI tiro Iho figures M gas compared with previous diction dictionaries aries Oxford Johnsons 1533 Cassells 6 U Cell tUr fury and Funks Standard 9 0 30 th tin beginning of volume 1 to the word Infer excludIng from graded to tf the end of C 0 there are col column each 1 0 Inches long and 2 inches wide it Ie these were stoat Oil end tile y w acid hI be U H times limes as high gas as the Iho Eiffel Clerel tower tOWel Thorn Thero are aro iZ 72 mules miltI ot of hues comprising jO letters rho Immortals will hate halo to todo do clo II a heap of work to over ever catch up upon upon on this record At the present rate or If progress the tho lb dictionary will bo be completed In iii years or per laps OO It If the Iho new official spelling of tho United Slates Is Ignored rho II rat edition edillon of the Iho was begun In and In I In 1691 The last edition up to Ih the nee IIO ilow In progress occupied 12 years and was s begun Jn III 1835 rue slow progress of the tho Immor hula brings to 10 mind tho ho stony of But Dur Durton ton fort the naturalist The wiseacre wb or of his hili day puzzled el how to d the crab cra In their IlC dictionary 1 They v to describe the tho n ns na a 1 ns fish h whIch 1111 8 was sent rill for and his opinion naked Thu forty much when holl the entails replied Well except for Cor the Iho that rho crab is 3 nut lIot n a lh and tines lolS not walk sideways It Is n 11 very good description descriptions s e e Van nn warts recent death nt at has Ina sj Ill rd In both and literary circles and yet et the brings bring up 1111 delightful memories Mr Vac 1111 II II of lr the family which gave cao Irving a home nt at Birmingham Irving and Ih the lIn an Vart art w ero cro It WM seas nl at the house o of the Iho hatter the gifted suffering under ilIUm 1 trouble sal MI down clown ant tn evening to write all as a I collet I to his hili the his hili pen sans n never t when next morning ho he joined the Cant family II at breakfast face fac was mull tint with d and Ids his hands score full tull ot of the Iho sheets containing the tho first part of In an Ba lo Is I It a lucky luck woman Treasure ot of Heaven Is nn an announced gas liS having reached the mark In stiles MINI At the ro re cent and ho hers hilon held here heru ono one ot of the was her latest bound In cand candy The fhe cover was made ado of green errant cream with earner corner designs ot of coffee cortee and gilt anal the tho title In pink and sugar The Mole Jol has hns been semi to Miss Corelli and alto sho wIll perhaps perform the task 1111 of elI eat rug I her own novel S e eA A famous bookseller has been kind enough to 10 the Iho ludica to announce that five of the Iho leading women writers have hae this year eal beaten by II coplen the sales Fales of the live leading tattle authors Maria Marlo Mends the tho lilt Ile with then comes romes lira Ir Ward ivard with Mrs Mary and John Oliver Olivet with each The men arc given ghen the tho following CRIM Caine 4 Kipling 40 W w W 14 Jacobs Jacob F Marlon Crawford anti Maurice each Hilt But the bonk bookseller 11 I out that women authors are either a wry very great reat success or n II dismal failure while men lII n such as If COllon Doyle Hyne It 11 G C Wells and Thomas have average sales Alles or of right along So that It if the tho leading dozen n writers or of the two sexes In ht England were sum summed mod up the inen anen he the tho whiners willner s s s Philibert the Ion lone I stir of the last of at famous Parisian writers has just juat neared cd away lit at time the ago ot of Ol H at his hili little house nt Montmartre lie He was the doyen ot of French journalists Ife He dramatized many or of hits his stories n collaboration with Henry do Kock JI II was the personal friend or gat Victor Ictor lingo Du rame Ill JuB i uart II I i and Thet hIi a hall the or his own it o The were h mistake e on each lon when hen a 11 mall main mallor or of his hll died 1 Thus The celebrated old olt journalist dIed In harness for or by hi huts was wal found an unfinished or nr tlde s s s Two years ago 1110 the I French academy awarded the prize to Mad arne ame do for her work Contes which she he published under the Iho pseudonym ot of with n a preface b by Dm Several other books have halo been published publish ell by bythe the author who belongs to nn an old Nor Norman 01 man family and amI w who lun Is n 11 of the Cornier minister of oC justice lime tie Ill who has hils also written vernl dramatic pieces which have hav met seith Ith success last week appealed against n a of at six months month Imprisonment for tor th theft tt of nn an ancient Egyptian rung ring ant and see IOV oral frol antiques belonging to Dr DI Pozzi to whom sho ha tins lIel acted d as secretary Tito ho court increased sed the to 13 months Imprisonment It Is n a way the Iho French court or of appeal has lane do 10 is III 40 years old olt A poll loin In her hor favor I Is now being hated In lit ern 11 circles |
