| Show OTiS NOTES An n English paper the thu narrates this of ot the tia of 01 a v who It Is 18 i not hot thought nio nue nioM M marv arv to 10 hint was an un Amei lean I H lie il nas wu tall loll and thin und alert nm on his ard BO so quickly biddY that lai br Ian nn had barely IY time to lo rend I It Ii Miltor was In the tho room roar I h the Je spoke as liS follows My imin li It Elijah K J and on I nm ant a 1 bus bUSY run man Tou You ar or abo busy end and mayo have m nc no Hint thre to 10 fool 1001 a II atay n Four days Is nil nfl I Ican I Ican can gIve to 10 the th I totted Kingdom nod ond 1 I sM to tu shake hands with you ou U Good 1 bye I am sni off orr to lie He loft lof tb the room mom swiftly but hut the tho novella ht him at tho tue front door om Asked KM It if te e knew where 1 was Gum Theis I to dO replied r Mr Ir Oo Got OoIke Oat the Ike rot in n my pocket locket l tr from m N it 11 0 Gorki s real roul name Is Allie ski tiel Ho lie mus must animal bHe bave a i disposition to tobo bo be titus thus In la using a II i pseudonym The literary agent IH is fighting for Cor or his lib lilt lift The k Is Fut but up UI tf to date te the agent appears with hair fair cw wa to 10 hate he his own exist tae In I London extreme bitterness II beIng Wit manifested manlIeR led riot not only In III the tue taimon but bUI in till the tm actual Inter litter MUll wie of 01 publishers and literary agents Or Ore editor eltor there had this ux lib ift a lIell eil ei known knowlI author of ot whom he II a tor Vt tJI course said sohl tho time welt well known abor ber jou yuu OU in an at have a short Ig J tom to m ray age it and arrange toyota tellus n edItor back I nover naver deal Ji A ent a nt 1 l I consider It wrong In III Wit lp le e An Alt author r ought to be IJO table able to n do his own business without I the In wn ion of o an tim Tho Thu author 01 RItti wrote Iole that he Ito der the w new wan Willi to sr ar Monday Is so RO soh Ih the h editor What or of It Th replied the author only t your about dealing Sith ag nl I shah decline p no to 10 or order el flom time the newts and Villi buy It t you it If you ou b waning Vs tor or r moo me on lilY any tep stout bout t tm teat 0 i next Monday londay n ra Mary e re ye h letter the Sr r inquiring Ing about Cf I fit rt urno of or t the e b ot of Wll Xa XaI I with time the Ih lost Ion 1 IIan to 10 t k know knoll tt morEl more about hint him Writes II mn r As All i r a lur lIon It lUll doubt lets Usa lion al pd 1 the time ln ot of solO eia sM but so h hn other l 1 things timings I NaK 1 aM called to tn the HA blem m h by I timo ohi 1 ula article a Id nd l vl Mt We It a bon Among Us UH VH i lb n He e th the i i nl interest t he In m msp In l hll ht SUM d H sp al H of or nOt Il OUr mutual noel tells IW e with lIlt of ta II a of r t time Iho i exiled king which liati Into iI Po como tamo u p ars nf ago ngo tt II t lady lly 1111 who tho land od n r en BIlY in g her younger aYI ys r f the gave ia e mil n a hook Si The rhe Sermons nt Mn IV it lk S i sn P Wilson Alison vol 01 g 1 to kAAA Increased nt It an all rate each cadi week The girl who ho Is tho the heroine of time the book Is ai ama Ull inspIring young creature youthful beautiful ardent full Cull tail of or youth l exquisite full ull too oi or of of at th itt stuff martyrs rH an are mailo happily Ins WilkIns would not permit her to I a of or any uny length Mark Twains humor It Is a not quite un by tho time Andrew In III a 1 current magazine article tells how lmos lie he discovery It f that he hat had loaned 1011 lied u ii 1 copy of ot Ivanhoe to the who Iio duly duI returned It with th time he candid remark that he ho time timeto timeto to read It II through because there were so RO nan 1 ho he her er nil alt He lie then offered to 10 lend Air tir Lung a II book hook which he Ime said ho was ns sure stare he ho would like This proved to be bo beIt It II volume of ot alleged Wit Sit anti and Humor which HO so tilt far mom from fromam amusing him coos cau ed el ed Mr Air Lang to feel fee sad all anil ami dims diM counted Mr lair Lang In ut his turn then thell read aloud to 10 I 0 the time U what lit Itu m considered u II ery choice extract Cram mm remit one onu of or Mark Twains best looks books But flut ut thy the smiled In u a win vin tr try ry perfunctory way and Mr Ir Long know Knew that time the man whom ho he pitied 1 him So they parted In ira mutual se rat In n view lov of ot time tho recent S publication by b bythe II the he Harpers of oC W V 13 I Henley Henleys a new volume of tC erso Hawthorn and I IA hay av time the following letter from ruin Hob Itoh Hobert ert all Louis Stevenson to Mr 1111 Henley written from Samoa In III 1892 to o an nil earlier group croup of or Henleys lyrics lyric Is IH a of ot peculiar and timely Interest In Incidentally It to remind us again lIow mv mo and filIal with what rich ind generous appreciation Stevenson the tho literary achievements of his ils friends Samoa August 1 I My M Pear Deur Henley It Is Impossible to let lei your new volume pass lass In silencE I not received the same motion thrill of ot poetry poet 1 since 0 U Ot Ms Ma Joy of or Earth l and Love Loo In a 1 Valley and I do tb not know now that even that was vaa go so Intimate and und deep doell Again Maln nail attain I take tim tho book down own and aTari J lId camel anti my blood I la tit tired fired as It used to be 10 In youth I silt did not guest guess you were vere so great grent a II magician these ore ure new tunes this H Is on an under undertone undertone undertone tone of tho true truo Apollo those thoRe nio nae not erses they thoy arc alc poetry Inventions creations In language I you for Cor or tho the Joy jar jou OU hove have given me and lIn re 10 remain remain main your old all friend and resent present 1 huge admirer LOUIS STEVENSON S John Strange Winter who ho has lias 11 9 been living for or the last lust six years In Dieppe has hns returned to 10 England Mrs Stan SInn nard amard Is III the author of or novels anti and two hundred mattel fifty short stories She Is a n voluble with witha a I passion for tor old china chinaS S It will viii be difficult difficult for tor a 1 while to think of or the author of Tho The Portion of at Labor abor J and of ot a Il dozen ozen other delightful hooks of Now England life lire as Mrs 1111 even cven though Iho gh the happy huppy event which made her such has Imas been 1 I for Cor several months Miss Wilkins hn i urea boon married ma to Dr Charles and has hu gone gono to 10 n nN N J 3 to live Dr Freeman Is II l ft wealthy we business man Although he was Willi a from J Medical i scene ceno for or that story was not In tin the hoosier state at nt all nil time the village described bing In reality the time town ol Illinois Of or historical historic romances Mr Mm remarks I think th authors art aie b It by thoughts of ot trat subs sales to II a write which they ther think thank wilt will iii tickle tha public palate In III disregard to art Jhn vogue OllIe of at the romance novel Is hard to explain e unless It to resolved Into tho the simple proposition Mint time the public likes love stories and Continually all ally we wo are arc apparently compe competent tent persons declare tl tho limo popularity of time the romantic novel Is nt lit an end aid nad tho than next week another romance IB Is pUb puo lishes and to 10 tho thu three hundred thousand It has hils him always been po so II since hooks books wore were published and I will continue continUa no IJO Ot until human nature changes Now Nov and again somebody writes wiltes a u masterly problem story which distracts attention for time tho time Urns irom moot time the romantic tiM taLk This theme Is fol followed lowed lowe d until It U 18 1 worn then Ihen back goes gocs the time public nubile to the thu romance S 0 Mr Paul Taul Leicester Ford Is one of ot the tho few tow of ot the time younger living novelists who ho were sere born horn with means mea liS though lie he has tot out of o the tho sales of or hili hooks bought bou hl land IlInd and built a 1 house In New C ew York and furnished It Mrs Elizabeth Latimer at lit tho time rage of or ninety years lana has ridded to her remarkable labors In translation the wilting of a u historical novel novella to be entitled Prince This 1 I Ibe I bo he an nn nod Inspiration to who fancy fanc that lifes lites labors chances for Cor Improvement must end with the tho formidable sounding three thre threescore threescore score years and und ten lon Mr en eat tire tiro lifts life has hns been full Cull of or effort ant achievement S S Perhaps It H is an on Inevitable outcome of at time the tremendous popularity of ot The ol cit Omar Khayyam that there should be he as Doubleday Page lole Co now no announce a n i rand and Definitive Edition Edillon of ot the time verse versa and I prose works of at Edward Elt At i ril nii on time tho pago In Imi hl lila hll own Oln In J I l Williams Chuen Hay If Umi IH in known knowis to have hn 0 hud u II large larKo and Ihl I library mummy by h i 1 mch loyalists and anda a 1 number I of ot them by br I the do tb O S While ull nil of or Miss naomI most sue BUC hooks have storks of oC New 1 there has lion not nut been heon any ono all allor of or them timena which hus hats met amiet with time the same gaino OH oil hot hOI now 1101 rao book houle The Ilie Portion of at Lubor Lobor In time the ginio samo period 1 of ot time Tills this was ras published on bor her 8 and tho timo first demand to III tobo tobe bo be counted upon after tafter Iho time publication of f iv it popular work ork lana has steadily with high honors ho lie loci does nut medicine Tim Iho two I mm lOst t On oil an nil occasion When M I ail Wilkins wu was a mt at tat the th home of Mr Mv M Alden Aldon tho thu editor of ot Harpers Magazine Mu Mae first vas A Humbo and amid Oth l H itA i i i iWi Wi thin wits was c e p In rumon followed two ut ur short hort N Non NIJI w Man Mun n and Tho 1110 lot of or lulal wit ii longor hot e A Poor loui Man Mun Mud elon Jane Held and Thu Tho Portion of ur Labor Thin year lIr Mis nley a n series of t Mr Winston Iii Is m a u tall lull fellow w with vl t it iv n anua fare hut hilt hutra rather ra t star In III I ii build He lie I I C linn bait been IlIIn staying much antich of oC late Into at his bin In ira New near Windsor In 1 or Ver Vor Vermont 11 mont for time the heatS to 10 ciOLI a state line In Ira golm to tho tiu Mr Mi II Churchill hlll line has a II way nay ay of or rewrIting u a l story star tor In time tint list pi 0 Booth lana has a 0 fancy for tor nudities and mann fancy Mr sti h mends leads very ver tent Int lotion flet iota erring Dickens and In he Iro is w tar IHO in tm his Imis opinion tho than rl n Icat I cat Ht In lit fiction IP Its nM Diak II sv h I The rhe author alit hiom of ot The 1110 Geitt lii man luau from ruin Indiana confesses se that tho lie AJ kILAS Laity any tate tato Ill to production will wll bo be 10 an 1111 cia elaborate born tt affair In m seven Haven huge tim it JI fa complain bibliography and atH latter and literary lit nary notes by Iry a bt h Kd J ll GOBeO i S 5 The lite rare are fruitful of nr startling de M for rOI om n Ilig to If 4 n w To Jn tho tire plans us tit ot orr for fat correct at tat I au thois arm of 01 o t vol i tig upon time beau hOma beauty ti titi ty Iy ti of ur f various of ot atarI and of Ut id tha lats 1 beet hl l a att I to t III hal ply y n to ng II r nn ala tm ti journot has hall the lime QUo tio of Ut holding a ma over lIel the ut an lilt serial |