Show S T LONDON LITERARY LETTER l f I J thru W L L i 1 1 S I I Special Correspondence n o nI i ON iON DON March LONION L I poet Rostand has hal rather a n practical mind anti and ane time the neighbors near Cant Cam Cambo Cal Calbo bo ns as well wel no as 11 tho the dwellers d lers In several other rural districts of Prance France are blessing him for tor or nn an eminently Innovation that thatIs Is about Abou to be b Introduced In these thell de lIe departments through hl his Influence Ever I ver ho he has hal hIved on en hut secluded estate In tho the heart of the Lower Pyre lyre ly Rostand has haB been beel maddened by bythe bythe bythe the slowness 1 get gen general eral enl badness of ot the time postal service In Inthe inthe the Iho district The author of ot Cyrano do 10 ti In is a a motorist and not notIon long iong Ion ngo he asked himself why In his Ils neighborhood as well wll as In other chateau districts dl whore ur lire are distant from rain the tho railway stations tho ho mails could riot not ha ho collected and die dis distributed 1118 by b means of automobiles Shortly after conceiving this Idea lea Ro Itt Rostand Il stand sounded the tite French secretary for tor pastes amad on ott Oi tho subject and that tins lana hOI been beau so IO taken with wih not only tho tine the tho Idea Iden that next spring nt lower lh Pyrenees but mit seven sven other French departments will be furnished with auto mall mali cars wi In Iii the tho ho case o ot of Ro Ito Io stands 11 mol district this will mean macan a 0 gain of ot nearly hours houN In com coon communication with witla wih Paris Meanwhile the poet declines to 10 be bo drawn to the tho capi caiti capital tal tab even to attend tend the meetings of the thu academy to which ho he 11 elected n t year He lie Is in l hard at 0 t work on n it 1 new play for tor but hut says cays aYI that another piece which he Inc h has hal In hand w wi will be bo completed COl pie tel first Orli firstS S Rider Hitler Haggard whale Stella Stelia Iel ellus chlus has hns mist lust been published In book bok form and und whose story of ot the tho Crusades Crusade Is tM now IO running as lS a 1 serial says 11 h hI hs work vork wants to forget all al about literary anul agricultural problems too loa for tor n in f while the better to do cia FO in F Mr Mi 11 Haggard left London a 1 tIny day or two to lef maKe bound for Egypt 1 Tho The daughter Miss ol Angela Aniela Haggard U is I with him on au this trip trl ninth after staying 01 wih In the tho land of ot the tho Pharaohs for or 01 a n hlo they mean to visit Spain I 5 I English journalIsts delight In III t tell tellIng Ing hg about a 1 probably mythical Amen Ameri American can reviewer who noticed Pilgrims mits Progress as A new work hut hul oven osen that thaL thaLis IH is not much mich worse wane worE than Urn tbs th real blun biumi blunder blunIer II who mien der of ot n it 1 book Coopers Path laUt Pathfinder Ith finder In time tho sante all way a last week This Thin Ingenuous scribe whose deliver ancee are aro publIshed In a 1 weekly usher paper of nf nomo popularity the Cooper book with wih perfect gravity In Informing II the of forming his retailers renders that 11 scene tim the romance l Is s America that thai lh th Lbs characters of the Pathfinder r and 1111 Ma Mabel Mabel In bel LeI are well neIl drawn adding Lbs tha hook book Is II equal 11 to cm any alY front from the pen men of this popular author a I S American book hook collectors should he ho hewell well soli represented nt nl tine the coming BRIe of Qt the thu tl 01 library of tho the late Ille W g E Henley on 01 am March MacIl H 14 as lS nearly IMI nil of 0 the tine many vol 01 i tunes to ho bo disposed of ot are of unusual Interest Most of or th ni were presented to 10 the tho veteran writer by his bin now fa In famous ii monte young men Par For Instant there thore therein Is in l IOS Little White ed ell briefly IW W K H l H from rum rain J M 1 II It I Nov 1 02 and and Rudyard Impart mental Ditties similarly 1 ut l 1 not nt to mention m a 89 21 edition l d rl of the same lame writers work II are also 1110 lo 10 volumes of o Meredith 11 Ith Ithan an nn autograph letter Ite from rota th iii auth authur r Justin H McCarthys book bOlk on ama Villon and Justn also 1180 the Edinburgh edition m S 2 21 vol volumes vol ol times umes of Robert Louts Louis Iou Js works work II with n this dedication To WIN WI Innest J Henley anti and Anna Anni his hil wife IBm 0 o HUM filial 0 o flue nila aur olal Vale ale Among lon the tho many a r prizes are Whistlers Gentle Art Mt of or Making Enemies Rind volumes by b Andrew I Lang LanS Conan RO Doyle R II I le Ie and Ild 5 Edmund Gosse nil all ni Interestingly In Inscribed f J I scribed S I S It 11 A good deal of comment has been f y f aroused mere hero by Madame ra ro roo l cent rent action In altering the title tte of ot her l I uncommonly successful novel Myel Susan Susannah nah nab and ami Ono Onto published several i months ago ngo Tho The ono one Ol elder lider was M not nt 1 Intended by the Iho authoress to refer to any an tf pillar piar of ot tine tho to a n char character character W acter older oher than Ihan her heroine heroin but hut tho the t title proved to 10 have misled so 10 many J readers that tho the publishers strongly i l urged tinged Madame Albanesi 1 II to 10 change It I I TJ as she ho now pw Inns has done lone to 10 Susannah A 11 1 fl antI One Other which Is I more moro definite s sit It If less striking This authoress genor gener generally ii ally has hal found odd titles for her nov novels no noole J ole els witness 1110 ove and Louisa and I Peter Peler a f Parasite Apropos h titles seem to 10 be bo coming In again on 1 this side of ot tho the water waler Florence Warden It having Just published a 0 novel called What Ought She to Do while another 1 I forthcoming romance Is named Ho 10 1 That Had ln 1 Received The Five Fire Talents I S S I J JIt II j U It 1 Is in l doubtful If 11 ati novel published within the last tony few months lion has been beema ben a 1 reviewed more moro than A l f 1 Husband which appeared In London about a fortnight ago In Incase Inease f rue ease the tho he romance has hns not nl yet et been pub 1 Isled at lt n homo home It I may ho lJ said that Its Is 1 f i author Is III Vincent In Brown Irown who seems emB to tobo toI tobe bo be I a newcomer The Tue story lon II Is simple I t I but hut powerful In Iii II IM its ls simplicity Tho The scene Is ii I an country village 1 il time tho Magdalen a woman who at nt first I went tent wrong hut but who has han come coma back to 10 her old home determined to 10 live 10 t t down her offenses ani who ho has baa mar married t 1 ned ried a I rather customer of oln a tar far farmer tar J men mer He lie 1 tren Is her bier not for fat any ani nn fault tault i S of oC hers hut lait to 10 satisfy the tho Ih rancour which occasionally seizes him hll when he I Il realizes her hat moral morl superiority to 10 him lilian hll 1 self elf Rut But the woman h is t loved loed by a 1 lionhearted l countryman 1 when Item her 11 dually I n II Insults instills I 1 Ilien lien her by b bringing lien her early earil erh betrayer j home hOlM to 10 time the night this Ihl country countryman i man IRn mon it kills Ic ii Is him it lie I I l e h I s not suspected tei of oft o f fit the t it crime everything to 1 point to tIme the heroines betrayer as ns tie 1110 lie guilty gull I I I moan man but hut the avenger finally gives gUen gh him himself hll 1 self up and ond lien dies for tor his hiM attempt to an anticipate In anticipate divine justice ot HA 0 CHURCH I L I |