| Show English Homes or of Famous Americans Am ricans Made the tLe Subject of New N ev Book Our London Literary Lefer I Special Correspondence Aug 27 American visitors tors lor to 10 tale take so much interest In II searching out liter literary ary 11 1 and artistic associations ssu nd looking up places pI acts identified with heir own on country that now Alfred 1 Story SIO has como cOle forward ll arid and do a n whole book to what ho calls cals American Shrines in England Most A melean know 1011 In II a I vague sort norl of wa vay that thaI England is I their Country some ole gay a Stepmother but bul row aro wal of the homes hOIN in England of many of thu tho founders oC 0 he the American of tho lh earl arty Americans come cUle from f what aru al tora oday known as tS the tho or English EIJI h counties principally hlo and Yorkshire Tho portion porton of this new book is de lle to tl ancestry of Washington and nd then Ihen several chapters are arc given fo o Penn Such a I book b ok aa this should mako feol eol very VII much at al homo homon In n England probably It will wf do dolot doa a lot toward the tho establishment of or tho sund entente ent which ic peace makers talk so much bout about American visitors to tu London are ro always alwa B asking to be bo shown places In n which distinguished Americano Iv od d while in this country so much so HO son HOIn In n fact that th new Seeing London aro ato making a Il speciality of or out places and Ind objects In he which have peculiar Ain JI associations NEW E COLLABORATION A very vory novel nn experience in thu book hu le lne no In England Just now is for authors II o got INt artists aIU IH to 10 supply sketches o of I the tho principal heroines and ami heroes of books Instead of leaving iho illus t of o a novel to 0 the whim of fus an engaged by hy tho publisher at ni so much per drawing tho author tl comes in II direct contact with wih tho artist corel and all describes s to latter tho sort of hero ines he II wishes delineated When o hen helo tho personal appearance of the th creature of hl 01 his Imagination suits the author si a real portrait of iho tho character goes into III ook This collaboration of author and au artist has been successful ly h achieved r In the tho case of Curtis recently published and also in that of Carlton Carlon Dawes Con of Of O course tho great In such a C plan is to a sympathetic artist artis Few Fe art Isis will wi allow themselves to be b pd to III by b a n mere author und and on tho contrary there are arc n a few fc great grent au all thors thol and most of them ale aro great nowadays who will 1 permit tho artist to do ro what he le likes with a I character SUMMER LITERATURE U I Is rather r curious psychological In II matters tu I note that In summer time in or 01 during cUrll the holiday easm books 1101 of or ofu u had character Hood tho ho I hook book stalls though at III other times lmos bound is Js much In demand In to n IL well known London bookseller lok lI recently 01 t tl led him It Ie ho know tho reason In for fOl tills this curious d In ol mor mOI morality A TRIFLE 1 OIl OFF At AI the holiday wn 11 hi people look IOl k for a t to I If I they Ihl In II tho of or reading standard hEbl literature they want a n 1111 off or something that will w shock hole 11 H Just a I hit hi f J know onu breut reader read who ww devours in 10 or 01 12 l of tins th 11 kind of n novels In Inq II q n li I sojourn at nt tho H ah y ar I r havo ho landing order dr from him during August t tn t soad him kinds I ds of or hok only ll After el Jiu W has hus rend it t lot lo of t these j his III for 1 OU literature lule returns to lo him Jt i is curious but there aro III ji 1 lot of or theae literary Dr 1 and nd 11 H tle about I T do not 1101 that there is nn culpable In II the t HI 0 I F especially IC indulged 1 In by h tho th ll Thel hj old oh ItaW nW fays s A A nonsense o now 11 W and Js Is bj h tho wisest IFt men m and Hint Iha will wi Account r cI nl for 1 or tho matter as ns well wel as nJ any In other reason CI HG H EXCUSE This demand for fl books of or this de description do does not naL itself wholly ly I to novels novell h w I as II th 3 ph 1111 11 sale sak of a 1 work entitled Seven S proves This hi deals Ihas wili th lives vl and ud passions lon lono of o women in history and It is much In demand It U Is romand rather curious to toco see co this book bool displayed cd on 01 the rail railway way Wl book bool stalls stul y In the Ih Irtle sedate ltd and I English l seaside resorts by bythe the lh ul fraternity lt T I suppose UPp tJ however even cn eh lg ln n must read books boi in 11 order tg form onil an nn In lu Intelligent opinion of their contents At t least lf t Is the which hl h a young clergyman to his bishop when caught reading a 1 book of or thu trashy description r HOO IX A phase of o literary pro 10 during the lust last year or O so Is I II I h largi number of works on Budd hiIm Four large Jrr tomes on this sub suh subject have hlLl In 11 Eng land and this Ihl coupled with th Ih ad advent ar vent of r a Buddhist pi 11 lest li il London to 10 convert the 11 Chr very ol Publishers are fn not nota as a a rule mere men philanthropists and a 11 when books are brought out nul it I goes without saying that they H arc Intended Io 10 meet n a public demand That public wants to 10 rend about Buddhism is II therefore quite IU I I evident four OUI books are Ile by h distinguished scholars their thol Uv authors being Prof Pr Rh R David of Calcutta the Hm A Lloyd and ul another author Who ho preserves anonymity H 1 Is rath pr that Buddhism should shou bo hO meeting With a I big revival In II days df s In England r especially In II this century I n I I CHARLES S |
