| Show r OTE 1 Who are arc the American poets of ot to toto to Q Is a often oCten asked by bo are to Ing to 10 estimate the reputations of 01 10 hence An answer ansler Is by William Morton lorton Payne Iano In the 1 number of ot Dial In III nn an ahle article on American Verse Ho 11 divides the laurels between George Ed lard urd Woodberry And Mood weighing the scales In favor f or of at latter poet If u II verdict Is IR to be bo boarded warded on alone The Mas W qUI of oC Judgment An Ode In Time of oC Hesitation arc the two Mr 1 r opinion Tie The Masque of ot Judgment IB 19 by b tho the tha volumes of a I the Promethean legend Tho ent volume The Fire Is III Just published M Frederick k llaMO la 18 one of ot the roost literary figures of ot Frane Ills His formal reception Into tho company lomp n of or the Immortals not Ion lone I tp IrO wai wu a notable occasion UOn represents the extreme limit limiti h i intimate Inti malo biography may ba bl He Is what Dos well was WUI to toJ J what Miss Strickland WM to certain British h worthies what whitt Hous Mm leaa was wa to If I himself and more Mr 1011 Masion holds hOlls not only ex pelle but tut from the Hie boot bO Jt tho sock lock yen tb Ibe ot his hero ho auld derive o n man M tf t hut but nevertheless truthful wh n in 11 hl hili In reply to the new nev member lio 10 addressed him thiu You Vou have hallI followed hint Napoleon not only in Ms iii and marches marchesI I OM Europe in tho Ihu soirees at lIon Ion an I the at Itt th hut but also In 11 his Intimacy In hh private bedrooms and You have hlo his nuh 35 nine doz In n white of ot nt II francs but 69 G francs when tHy wm Ill all hollanda twelve dozen doxen n three dozen fold old I tOwels which you regret that ti have not Rained 11 further mation merino III r but i na OU say It these fIre rc sark Argonaut Albert Albrt n of Deep w Se recently put pul In a II situation by n 01 I or In nn an about prints 1 widely In n tho Iho pa pl other things tho Inter M that thAI he ho found Mr un lal cigars which his Fill FillS S Ino 1111 Ul m to 1 VP Mr K n 1 him a aw 1 w thIs Ir wro rot h M th 1 hili 80 hi 1 nt confided ry m nf oC Deep Hc i I IH hour cach ln la IIO ow h hl t I ho Is no nol nd Ih n r of lir 10 fl rol l iiI r Instead of ot Tn hI lC work of 01 ofin mien in 81 rl w I Jh th or f The Deliver I e mn nt 1 mW te Un t II authors she lias H 01 Work Iho day rss e Mi 1 Ho 1 clock In tho morning works until 3 1 and then she rests or 01 walks during the afternoon After Atter dinner In the evening she ehe her work and works three or lour four hours I always lock my door when I 1 work I 1 cant work when I realize that 1 can be Interrupted The first draft of 01 every chanter that M Gins ROW has written writ ton has las been hoen wilt Itten ten In pencil She usually writes this seated In ft a large with Ith her pad In her lap The Deliverance was ten three times Many cf or the chapters were written five fIe or six 81 times one chapter written no less than 10 times Miss Glasgow never uses UBell a n typewriter and never neer dictates Her lIer final drafts of oC her hor novels lire are all 1111 In her I own handwriting which h Is large and very ver legible The publication of C Onoto now lOW novel was unavoidably postponed until AI 13 Daughters of ot Is Isto Islo to lo be a n beautiful volume with lIh many II and decorations by b clil Saito Sallo who the tho pictures for tor forthe the tho name Iame authors last Heart of at Hyacinth Mr Rebecca according to reports In tho Iho American l Ing ng stood among the or 01 four best Belling books during the tho month of ot February in the United States and Scotland The publishers state that they Ih 1 VP just had to send tho book bo k to press for the tenth I milking making the total number of ot copies i COO 4 Everett 1 elett on author of ot A Lieutenant t under Washington and other popular for tor boys bO II hall hai just lK been cn given another Ie Imprisonment na member of ot ho Now Jersey Jorse State Stale library Com Commission mission by 00 Murphy hl ph Dr son lectured last week on Heroes and Heroines of oC tho American Involution before the tho cadets of or tho Mil Military Academy Will tho author of ot Songs of or Two Centuries when a 1 boy ho took tooka a II long from fro III his homo home to tho ho nearest town In order to hoar Cn HiiR II Clay ClItY the make mako maken n It speech On i caching the tho lair fair fairgrounds grounds whore where Clay was to speak ho found such a crowd assembled that ho he could not nol see eO anything of the do elo eloQuent quent southerner At last b crawling between peoples taking lAking other of ot making s I ho M gained a friendly tree not nol f r tram from tho ho 1 and climbed up IU branches All went well un till until til the weaker speaker to 10 Illustrate te thu tho Ignorance ance ot oC some of ot his political opponents exclaimed with an nn emphatic They dont know any more about It Il than boy lio there In tho ol A thousand eyes nt lit once levelled 1 up upon on the urchin who hall had so sud suddenly denly been made an ol laid Mr II Carleton In toIling telling tho tory story was as Cry ery much as nil If II somo were being poured down my back 1 tried to myself among tho branches br but hUI that would not work and I 1 was not long lanK In shinning down malting myself scarce At AI home I hall had no sympathy they told mo me I 1 should have stayed It Il out not knowing that my m at that time positively abnormal My Iy father called mo for n 1 year utter tons new novel Rul of or Kings will tie he published by per this The rhe book deals lien Is with lito among certain high cir clr circles rles cles of ot European nobility inn Oil people of wealth and Its lis hUH haa been boen gathered by Mrs In Vienna und other foreign cities Tho of ot tho real nal Rudolf the Ill 11 fated crown prince of ot Austria whoso career the nt III hand Is woven lOen Into Inlo tho story stor Among the tho many man men mell nf ot foreign birth 1110 Imo havo naturalized citizens of ot tho United States 1111 won In their adopted country few It have hILe md a 1 more oro aid than Henry me mo will bear benr the HIe Imprint of H ton tOil fc Co o Landing lIng In Now No York In 1853 and trying tryl In divers ways to earn cam n 1 livelihood 1 Mr Ir finally worked ork his way Into Inlo Journalism ami achieved distinction na nil n 1 field corres correspondent of 01 N New w York papers during the Civil devoting to railroad construction tion and finance e ho founded In Oregon Orgon tho railway and steamship team hlll companies which gave gILe illicit nn Impetus to tho de of that and car to completion tho Northern railroad Mr has recounted frankly his achievement has hUR given ell of at the lend lenel lendIng Ing public men of or his hl with most of ot whom ho he Into contact Notable among these Lincoln i Chase ChA e and Of or tho great grent of oC tho Will war of oC which he WAil waa a witness Mr has hUR given HIen extremely full and valuable descriptions of or Hull Dull Hun HUll Shiloh Chin lesion Harbor 11 II or orand and as well as of oC mauga Tho fhe new no life lito of or Danto Gain lei Iloa Hi which the company will publish this week la by Mr Ar Arthin thin who Is III Known 0 I n chic I through his life liCe of or hla hi the lato Archbishop of oC Canterbury and through several volumes of or distinctly fine poetry He lie la Is u Cambridge man mall has hn been beell nt nl mOil since IbS He lit la a 0 bi other of 01 U B K I Denson the of or Dodo Shan F I new lIew book to bo he brought out this spring by McClure Phillips will be entitled The Hed nC nCI Leaguers I A new edition of William Allen Whites delightful storIes of or boys In their natural haunts Tho Court of ot has hils been put On tho press by On Feb 22 the University of Penn Pennsylvania sylvania honored the poet poel with the of or Doctor of 0 Literature Tho Iho occasion Inspires Inspire thu Iho poet of or lao tho Hart Hartford ford Courant with the following effort Now Its Doctor Say Sil James how does It cl To bo a It doctor Doan noan It you ou sort o teel Icel JIB think way wa back to old Jamo when you ou was sl nl And 1111 the melody of or bluebirds kind a n In our lines II II e think In them old times James to happy BO 80 poor i That fomo day duy be other ellers I I 1 unite Jos js wat lo 10 do O f r lots 0 stuff to 10 doctor an nn jou may be wont ont through stuff rolls In like tho lea ua uaIn In to a It word worl or two t WI for common folks like me IIII Youve got Kol your Ita Ils likely to Doan Donn waste your OUI Now James youve olle been beel n a roul the thc country ninny a I day dayI I 1 spose of course jour OUr grammar lInK lias Improved along tho way wn And the proud ones like to know yes c It may nn not do yu 0 harm But member Jamas your bout b ul How Quit the thu Farm Fann You 1011 may iliA go to sec tho ha t greatest Folks l at III be And en want to In write Ille nn or a II classic Course there thero aint no use lie I but hUl well tako moro stock stolk In the Is on 01 tho and tho fodders In III tha tho shook But Doctor Dodor may jou long be bl known to lo And the future your Oll songs and jour May Mil your OUr life bo ho sweet merry your tong of ot Little And 1 the never full to buy mid 1111 read mill your OUI little book i It H Durant I a 1 5 mi UK lawyer of oC Waterbury tonn has his N N story In the April McClures under 8 A recently had n II story accepted by h ono one of oC the lesser magazines and was Inclined to gloat over oer the fact to that ho could a 1 tory and have haveIt It accepted by b ono one of or the he t Tho bet was WOR taken lullen ote n story star of 01 n prizefight and nent It 11 to 10 It wan nt It once accept accepted ed and won Its writers bet as all well as nit tho editors 1 approval The rho story the amateur jet ct bears henrs signs of or ability It a In It evidently written con amore that t gives a IL diM dis distinction grip to thu tho such UH 1111 IH Is not of tun found oven In thu work of more experienced writers David has now no a It record of copies printed nold Of Ot this number copies were ero from a single set of ot plates Tho theatrical edition of ot Mr Ir WIs novel The Tho Virginian has hiI Just appeared with Hi 16 Illustrations of scenes cenes and In from the Iho piny Seldom do 10 tho people who a IL boolton holc on un th stage carry out co 80 well ones 01 OlOS of II thu tho I B IS ISA A Little to the thc South Mr lr tyrus now OW novel for Its tK an ni attempt to the of oC the H blockading Charleston Charle lon In 11 the Civil CI war Wil Two TIl rK sought Hought tho de lIe tail tal which must have la e more mort courage than It I token In these 1111 la of IC modern submarines Such a 1 boat hoat In the til of oC could POI per hII be bl nt will hut but expert that down she usually stayed down with wih all 11 on Oi board Neither man Is that the tho 1 of or the they tlc both love loc depends upon tho Iho failure of or the th In con of her desperate th oilier falls to report as lS or del oil tho boat hoat goes without him under tho command of tho Iho other Thu TIl whom 1101 slip ran Ian only clear himself of ot charges of or CO 1 11 co bv b charges against her What lnell Hi Ih docs doea to both Is 18 an ItI Interesting development of at the tho well constituted plot Dr Samuel McConnell tho author of ot The Involution I of ot Immortality tho rector of at All Al Souls church New NewYork Nol York City has hns written n a now nel hook book I which tho company compan hl published under the title tite of ot Dr Or thesis U Is the tho Idea of ot Christ In the tho modern mOller mind Is cry cr confused and he has hus nought Hought to bring order out Olt of oth thin confusion and nd to ure pr enl cent the thA real tt with thi th of oC theological fiction ns ni the foundation of ot Tho Praise of or Shakespeare Is I tho thu title of an English anthology of trost tite verse ers which has Just Ju 1 been published tho company Tho by compiler 1 of or the volume Is 11 Mr lr C C C I Hughes Huhes and Mr Lee Ice has writ written ten a D preface for It I It Is an nn outgrowth of ot tho controversy Many Ha 10 have nf oC and more skeptics that tho facts recorded record el of by h his contemporaries arc and that his career corCH Is clothed In a mystery that wild wid at ai attempts 11 tempts at solution To 0 show tho I falseness s of this conception Mr Ir Hughes the tho notices of or Shakespeare collected l nil n penned In early er days I n I then en enlarged the scope of ot hla hl understanding 1 form a 0 continuous his hiR history m 0 It I might tory of ot Shakespearean homage mASo down lo 10 our times The rhe proof Is 18 conclusive we know l ow almost as 81 much about life re ns we do about dramatist t of or nn other J Interesting In Itself tho IH II nn ni Important contribution ton to a discussion Dr r 0 of t biographical und critical l ou 01 Modern In rs with through whom tho experimental factor hiu been Illen hol Ie to modern preaching closes with Spurgeon the those two Between pastoral elaborated tho development tho mo 1 the tho I qualities nr quai the jd of It Robertson no Brooks Newman Thomas The volume Id If n a con contribution to practical theology but It ItIs Is II more likely to attract attention as 18 a l of ot essays In li biography t |