Show Lady Randy s Tact Pleases leases Her English Readers ONDON Nov Nev 4 Lidy s sH LODO H with which you ou me are familiar Cam I I in II the United States have h vo made their ap appearance hero heio In book hool form un under 1 der tho title Ute Reminiscences of oC Lady Randolph ana ll h Churchill Thu hc h Is or less familiar with wih its public 0 famIlar contents through quotations In II the tho English press from the tho magazine In which it came ame out In the tha United Stales s hut but its appearance between stiff stif covers has excited frosh comment up upon upon ld by b the thc on tho wonderful tact displayed famous lean society wo woman woman man in steering st an ex complicated lot of situa situations which In loss less diplomatic hands might hue have called down a IL host of troubles on the tho head had ot of the writer No ko wonder l in 11 ed that Lady recollections should have ap appealed pealed when she very velY evidently el If the tho hopes and prayers of her many weil w l wishers me are fulfilled has ha many 1111 moia mor years ears lo I live and Shu he Is but following fol a I fashion ot oC lato cars to In Iho summer Hummel instead of in I the autumn of f ones so 0 youthful an nn author m mG I G K Chesterton has made his hi ap as a and the tho lS 1 ane is too long Ion to tl hear bear quotation in full ful thoc tho e who ho thought thon ht they the tolerably familiar with wilI the tho life Ifo and times tIIS of Mrs frs Geor c West Yest find fhle cause for fO e that sho should bo able a bl lo to w 10 many m n of tho tH dis distinguished ls of f tho tho comparatively 11 long long ago UgO It hardly hall seems pos possible sible that sin Ill was ever CV I on Intimate the tho Abbe Gen Bou Boulanger BOl langer and amI others other who appear in II her pages EYE BY lOU BUDDING GENIUSES Mrs Georgo West Test still sti wields a very ct strong Influence In Mho he Intellectual 1 of England despite the tho fact that her hal comings and Ild goings are arc not followed as closely closel or 0 as asCar Car as us In gone no by In her homo honio near nell Mai bio Arch in tho West WestEnd End gid of London she still tl presides s over overa a regular salon ono one may m moot meet if ono one is foi fortunate enough to bo com commanded in attendance aten ance most of the notables not of QC the day a Intellectuality Intel in lil her hel guests gu BI is an nn Indispensable i attribute tl bute in III the eyes C CS of Lady LI Randy Hund and sho certainly has a moie talent for Cor bringing out budding budding es c of every sort than any un other society woman other of time Ume the bring bringing brn ing out of budding geniuses N will wi be bc i 1 as a blessing or 01 not It is I an open olm question neston but ut nevertheless many a I promising genius would noel never havo hl budded much less blossomed without Lads Randolph kindly en enthusiasm n It I is 1 a I rather sad sud on these times that books aio almost as as aH certain mem members bers ot of the thc insect kingdom It I must l st not bo ho Imagined at all l t that th thon I Iun any un between und in insects sects Far Fal be it from us u to 10 say so sU but buL tho lito Hio of If tho book buk in times i ia II a I showy and one ont Indeed It f has lias been beon said Id by h Mr 11 president dent oC the f education in III England that the th death nio of modern Is II something appalling After Acel careful study lut of fC this thu question sta ta points of o view ho cun to tho Conclusion lulI that tho ho life ICo of tho modern model novel is limited to about thle w Mr II with wih a n ol cynicism c which only a minister of edu education ell cation ulon could adopt ul pt of fact fael with olaton Ho went Into gre somo particulars and anc gloated oer 01 daughter of can wo Innocents LIFE Il E OF 01 AVERAGE NOVEL The avenge novel has Ia a 1 life I Co of about throe weeks said Mr III man lan while only two novels arc aio wilt ten len by h women and the tle books are aio some sometimes times Ims such dead H a I selling London book point of or view that many will wI not stock them at all Then we e got get tho author or author authol O S has hal written one book and then wiltes TIrs potboilers that thatIs Is lurns out out fiction Is 11 mere lerO rub rubbish bish and which the tho has no Il do to lead So Ho great IH Is the tie amount of fiction now no turned out that even cv n lle best authors circulation tion ton for fo their books I IToi Toi Innately til minister of education Hon tion would wind up Ills thado by b holding hol out ont a t amount of hope to the thc ical author He Ho ald al It I Is my opinion however that the tho supply of really good readable novels Is getting shorter and atI shorter every year cur This then Own leaves n a loophole for the good author to come Cle along Ilon and make his fortune to tho Iho economic laws th the sU the tho higher tho pries for jr the author So pel haIls in tho we wo shall se Kee fewer owel and moie il IC millionaires among ln the literary rs I INFANT IFA MORTALITY In discussing this position lon with a awell well wel known London bookseller he ho said that tho among novels by b amateur was duo duoto duoto to tho of tho of plot and their and Now N that we e know ow why books live 10 sueh a short time having Mr h nun word ord for fOl it there will willbe w be he no difficulty for authors to avoid the tho and ant out with wih striking plots seeth seething seethIng ing Ing lovo scones scenes Mr III by h the way has re recently centy distinguished himself for an attack of what might be bu called now as IlS lie he says ha s that all al the tho Eng English lish aio alO full rul of or unreadable lt lY piffle which is I a I to the century A writer In III tho Star Stal points out that a laigo lalo amount ot of space in the Is IH devoted to tho speeches of cabinet ministers and 1111 that Mr al always always ways has a IL column or 01 two of matter in II the t pi press ess Men like 11 G n Shaw A AB AB B and Clement Shorter all al on 01 tho staff of o the th London newspapers pers pOIS at ono one time and so al 10 o were T M Banle Hall Calno and ant Jerome K It I is doubtful under the tho cir clr whether Mr 1 charge on the literary windmill would bo no more morl effective than his early carl typos 1 the Don Quixote HOUSE lOUS OF O COMMONS COlINS LIBRARY FIe bundled hUll d new I W volumes have just jUHt been added to tho of oC the l ouo of It I Is n rather speculation as to the kind of books oj which the tho M I IV Ps rc d and I asked the thc Ian the tho other day IY about thU dining a brief visit to the house Somo of the tho members hu ho said Ia 1 aio 11 51 cat renders and ald the tho new n volumes have Just been added to our li library 1 brar mo um made madl up mostly ot of history biography and modern together er tl with a n lew ft volumes ot oC poetry It I is not generally known that tUt the hou of or commons library I hl l Is tho most mOlt complete completo political In tho world with thi IJ exception of the British museum lu cum There Tho aro alO volume Perhaps this Iuar Is ono one of thu most singular In tho world from the th fact that It dries not contain a novel noel Hosts r pub puh publishers puhl lishers l hers send their novels to tn tho but they the aio 11 never accepted 1 The TI at the thE house hOl o of or commons con continued Is principally the used by b the tho members In 11 catching up each others mistakes All Al the tho speeches JI are Lm hero recorded and when a I member wishes to floor another he sends ael s for a be lIe made on Of a pio vlon occasion and woe betide tha un unhappy happy member who hl due does not lot recollect his utterances s oil 01 occasion 0 11 Very CI the Ule books in the me mt used by I to prolong debates I material when they aia L CHARLES CES ai a a loss for |