Show I l t Ir 1 THE ONE WITH A SONO SONG The cloud maker tells us the world is le wrong And Is hound in an nn evil utter fetter nut But the man cornea comes c mes bringing briDGing a n song songor lion Of ot hope that shall 1 make It ft better And the tho toilers hollers hearing his hla voice be lie behold hold rhe The aign of ot a IL glad clod tomorrow Whoso hands are heaped with the pur purest est elt sold gold Of Ot which each hert borrow TO KNOW ALA ALL IS IS TO FORGIVE ALL If It I t knew kne you ou and you knew me melt If lt both of at u us UI could clearly tee see And with an on Inner sight Bight divino The rhe meaning of at your heart and mine Im sure suro that we would differ less leas And clasp our hands In friendliness Our thoughts would pleasantly pl agree If It t I knew you and you knew know me once olce or ce In a while T Twill 1 will make your heart seem acom lighter Smile once in ft n while T will make your pathway brighter briehler Lute Life Lites e a mirror If It we smile amnia Smiles come bade back to grout greet us It If we were re frowning all nil the while Frowns forever meet m t us If It you ou have words of at strength and cheer With which to all 1111 lifes cup Why speak them now and anI here bere But Dut otherwise shut up The way Ill Is III never naver very VeTY long It If measured with a II smile and ami song lIong The heaven seekers who know Just how Can almost find It here and now Oh brothers ou are ure a you 3 OU asking how bow The hills of ot happiness to Then know they lie behind this vow God helping me rn I will bo be kind It If you Ou love and me and I love love you Then heaven lies all around us ua two Selected NOn The autograph edition of or Mrs Humphry Hum lIum Humphry J Lady Roses Hoses s Daughter which was limited to HO numbered sets and told sold out by the In two tW days has hn gone to a 11 premium within two weeks after publication The sets were sold at 01 Jive five dollars dollar and several copies coNes have already sold gold tor for ten dollars In New York Such Huch a 11 speedy and fond large larga rise In value lIlue while not so BO unusual In the case of ot serious Wood Woodrow Woodrow Woodrow row Wilsons History of at the tho American People tor for Instance which achieved a I arise rise of ot ninety per ller l er cent In six weeks Is le very ver extraordinary In the tho case of or a 11 work of ot fiction e Smith Elder Co the English pub Ushers of or Lady Hoses Daughter an on announce flounce that the novel has hus passed Into its un II impression in m London w where the general verdict even een of or conserva I tive critics seems to be bo Unit that It Is the most entertaining story glory Mr Mrs Ward has ever written wrt n The home of or J J Bell Dell the tho author ot or the th latest Scottish success Wee Wile Mac Is 18 not Clot In Glasgow Itself but Jut twenty miles from tram there on Loch Long Robert Hobert Burr Darr writes to the Harj Harpers ers from England that Four months ago Mr Hell married one of ot the prettiest girls In nit 1111 Scotland Miss h lien Ellen Robertson Geddes Mr Barr Darr adds that Mr Hell has bas a clear smoothly shaven face When ho he speaks It Is la with slow alow deliberation and ond he speaks peaks very ery rarely in manner ho reminded me much of or J M Barrie a n silent thoughtful deep deepened eyed ened cd roan man not given to the gab Such Is 18 the writer who will I think be ho ac nc ns as great the world over before many years have passed That historical novels have VO not lost their vogue Id is apparent from rom an Rn ex ox examination of or the spring list Hit of or fiction Upwards of at forty titles fall tall under this head toad there being romances of the old world orld stories of or good old Colonial days Revolutionary War stories novels which have bave the tho War ilar of ot 1812 1612 for a his hili background and romans romances s of ot tho Civil War Some Home like hike Wm Vm 11 IL A Wilsons A Hose Kosc of ot Normandy con concern concern cern Bern both bold France and Canada In the time of or Louis Louie XIV The War of ot 1811 in however appears to be bo almost slighted that but one romance rep representing representing resenting hat Important event Lovo Thrives In War by Jy Mary Catherine Crowley Crowle le whose A Daughter o of ot New France of France and The Heroine of ot the have made her name a It familiar one ono with readers of at historical fiction action Will N the the tho author had an amusing experience with a I detective while he was writing The Tile Substitute One of ot the maids of ot his household l had hod ha II been and coIncidently with her departure some of at Mrs Mn ens jewelry disappeared A detective was summoned and after utter a II prolonged Inter Interview Interview view with the maid he reported report ell that he h could discover no evidence of or the crime He HI so promptly exonerated the girl In tact fact that It seemed strange and Mr become more Interested than ever as ns he and the tho detective talked I 1 guess the th Jewels Jewell II 11 turn up UI all nil allright allright right rl ht the detective said laid looking sig sigg significantly nt lit the tho author What do you mean said Mr Oh particular The girl says you got any regular occupation occupation tion Mr Horben stared Was ho ha suspect ed cd of ot stealing hl hit own property properly He Ile took tacit the man Into his library and showed Mowed him Abner Daniel and other novels Including a II detective story tory At sight of at the latter the mans eyes light lighted ed td up Oh 0 UFa I I see he be said KaILl youre a n writing man and you Jut Just wanted anted copy fur for a 11 anew now noV detective story so 10 y yu u just Jutt that thatIs is to say nay hid the Jewelry Well Rood Nod day sir And nd Mr was Wal Wallett left lett standing aghast In his library He Ito never Mover recovered the tho property and he us h hand usand and anil his hili family have havo wondered ever since what tint Becky Decky Sharp of ot a II maid could have said to 0 the tho the detective The Tho house C G Wino Wine Court Fleet which once was WIlB the home hOlne of ot Oliver Ol 01 Oliver iver Goldsmith who died years ago was QI sold Bolli at auction recently for 1275 The house next door doer to It on I the Fleet street side Aide was WOI demolished hed hedd d d months ago and Goldsmiths house as os asIt asit It Is le called had to be propped up on that side Its it wall foll being covered with huge hUie tarpaulins held In place by ropes rope which gave the place a I most funereal tune real aspect No 9 a 11 corner house fetched retched showing that sentimental considerations lions had hind no weight In determining prices The housebreaker will soon get to work on the old home of ot the th creator of f the Vicar of ot Wakefield and another Interesting relic of ot eighteenth century London will be known no more The Old Cheshire Cheese Chees backs on Wine Court almost opposite No NoC NoG C G and doubtless Dr Johnron John on made madl many n D trip between the tilt chophouse still standing and the home of his gentle friend e Delving In th the tiles Hies of ot a I London news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper of the year 1810 a 1 correspondent of ot the thc Westminster Gazette Oa lItte discovered discovered ered an nn account of or how hoc they brought the good news of at Waterloo rem from rom Ghent to Stock Exchange that con conflicts conflicts somewhat radically with the ver version er cr erslon sion slon of ot the story furnished to the Lon London London London don Journalists last laet week by Mr de Rothschild a grandson of at the banker to 10 whom the news was brought 1 Many 1 an authors find It more difficult to name their woks looks than to write rile them In Merry Merl Mood n II Book Dook of at Cheerful Nixon Watermans recent popular work was entirely printed with the exception of at the tho title page before the versatile poet or hU his publish publishers ers erg could rould determine upon a II title for tor It Then the authors wife came cante to the rescue with the very nry appropriate title and further contributed to the of ot the lire volume by designing the beautiful cover The legatee which Is la published this month Is the tho first novel nOl 1 by J Mrs Alice Prescott Smith Although of ot New I England ancestry Mrs Irs Smith was na born bornat nt ot St laul Minn In 1869 When she ahe was 11 years old her father tather a Congre Congro Rational clergyman went nent as nil missionary to o a Q lumber village 0 In the northeastern ir of lit Wisconsin Fifty miles from Com any railroad and connected with the th he outside world only by steamers and miles of mud and corduroy road roo It was wasa a country countr remote and wild enough to I capture any known Imagination to a II child chilli who hn had known only ani the tho prairie of ot the tho Mississippi valley It wits WAS lIs full tull of or wonder omler and romance Her tier fathers Parish troy cov covered lO ered erell a II wide district and In his long drives drive from fram farm tarm to farm tarm he made a n comrade of at his daughter There Them was Ores not nota a u village she ehe did not Dot know kIlOW and for tor weeks the she often otten stayed with friends on the forest tor t farms torms There In the tho even een evenIngs evenings Ings Ing around the kitchen stove she ehe heard the stories of the tho dread of ot October 1871 1811 a observed ob red a All as a ri time of at mourning for tor years afterward and learned what of ot heart beart and Slid endurance It meant to 10 conquer n a new flew land The half cleared forest farms supplied necessities ties nothing more In one ono district there was but one rocking which woe was carried from house to house In cases cases of or sickness It was waa this pioneer life lite that has given Mrs In Smith the background for tor her novel 1011 although the details of at the tho story 1101 and setting are fictitious and Md apply appl equally equall well to scores corti of orts and bays ba through all all the tho northern country Mrs Mr Smith was wan edu educated catro at home and In private schools echo and taught school herself henelt for tor a II short time For the tho rant past 13 years rears she has hns lived Inti on en the th coast conal She was wag married In and in alD Aa tto h hAm nm I has had been In San pan Francisco o Several of ot other her short stories have appeared in van vari various vanous orl magazines ous OUI I IJ e I J h Frank Baum Haum tho the famous author 01 of 0 fairy tales declares children o h Mild have no suggestion of ot love lot or In their literature r therefore In all ail lil hl hip stories that ancient Idea Idro of ot the tho marrying th the prince to live r rand and dlo die hUPPY Is IR conscientiously dim and a I plot riot of or simple thought stirring adventure Is in relied upon to hold kohl the attention of ot the Ute childish reader ronder Love Iove us ue depIcted depleted in says Mr Baum Haum Is 18 u thread baro and un topic which children can comprehend neither In Its lis nor exoteric meaning Therefore It hUll hue no place In III their storybooks Another curious thins thing about Baums stories Is that no person Is II ever eer killed or oven painfully In any allY of them t lem and only III pleasantly J exulting culling themes nr ore utilized The row new Baum book tar for tits thin jear car Is to bo be oc coiled called The Tho l lland is III land of ot Yew land l I e e e f Early Karly orly next month tho lino com Jinny lany will publish Miss Gwendolen OW tons new flew story Tho jho Crucible life Tho book was of at t called The Tl e Mirth right until it ll transpired that tho the name hud had already been ben used The name of the tho heroine was II then thought of ot but bat the title finally selected Is la particularly ull U fit nt The Tho Th Interest t of or the tho story centers In lu luthe Inthe Inthe the struggle of If f a brother and sister r rI v u hose haRt strong nod and vigorous natures the birthright ot or their race enable them thom to 10 II overcome their powerful passions The scene ceno Is II laid in a Canadian village and we ore are credibly Informed that the book promises to be one of ot the most remark remarkable remarkable remarkable able novels of ot recent years from the psychological point of ot view Miss Overton scored a genuine sue suc success cess ceas with her first book Tho The Heritage of ot Unrest For many years she had written clever cloer short stories and her har book showed tho the results of or rigorous training In the best beet school She writes tritely tersely forcible and very cry brightly each sentence carries plenty of ot ballast fhe Is 18 one of or the 1111 really clever writers writer of ot fiction among the tho younger authors Andrew I 1 D White White who has ha beer beep resting quietly In Italy since his release from the cares carell of ot the German embassy at Berlin DelIn has lias just sent rent to the Century Magazine the first part of ot a n manuscript upon which he has long been I en engaged consisting of at reminiscences of ot his dip diplomatic life lire The Tho present part rovers covers his recollections of at the thel l William I 1 and end red ls marck Drowning and other famous European statesmen and writers Fur Further Further Further ther papers will Include recollections of at athis his Ills recent to Berlin Dr White Whitt who Is n a 1 graduate of ot the tite famous Yale Yalo class of ot 63 53 has hus filled tilled many diplomatic positions p beginning with un an of ot the United States State lega legation lion tion In St Petersburg when he won was avery a II avery very et young man He lie was special com commissioner missioner to Santo Domingo In 1871 c loner to 10 the Paris exposition of ot 1878 1818 minister to Germany lt his hl first mission n to Germany minister to Russia 18 MI member of the Venezuelan lan Ian commission of ot member of ot the pM peace ce commission at nt The Hague ague ond III ambassador to Germany Germy his hll sec second II second ond mission from 1897 until mill his recent resignation and retirement The fhe recollections of or such a tI life lite nr are sure to be 00 of at very vel great Interest The papers will begin to appear In an nn early rl number ot of The Century Jospeh Conrad Conral the author of ot Youth who ha hM has recognized n as n a writer for the tho classes can cuu now slick another feather In his hl cap and anda call himself n writer for tor the masses Tim story has ha already been told of at how howa hown a n ward w rd heeler hetler In Chicago astonished n rome literary men by b declaring had tend read Conrads Lord Jim IN Ice a n nar aa year ar for tor years It Is II no lets leu sur rl ng to tru New York American dei In and Journal In a 11 recent edition l devoting a long editorial to Mr Ir Conrad Conra l and his hi work under tile tho caption of ot Conrad the thi New Nl Great O at Figure In Literature Among other things pings the editorial says In In the till early earh of ot his hl work York Conrad was compared to Kipling and Brt Hart HP UP U greater 1 than either and It closes with lIh his hie admonition The Tho American has ha this word Ord of or advice to ilK ItH it readers whenever you rou see ee a 11 booK by b Conrad get iet It c Praise of such sueh n a kind from such a It quarter ought to bo bu sure proof that l hat Hr Mr fr Conrad writes is III not for tor a cultured portion of 0 humanity but for the whole of or It Studios In Contemporary Biography Is the title of ot Mr Ir James new lIew book Instead d of ot Sketches Sketcher as announced The book contains 20 0 Studies In Contemporary orar Biography the Lord is the first study and tho the volume con can concludes eludes with a study of or Mr Ir Gladstone The Tho others Include men meet so 50 o diverse as nil asDean Dean Denn Stanley and Anthony Anthon Stafford Northcote and Mr Ir Parnell Archbishop Toil TaU and Cardinal Manning with scholars statesmen and divines |