Show w w wJ wl J Raring l l n Jibe at al King in Edward EdwardS EdV w t LONDON ll S Correspondence I I Dec Wilfred LONDON L the lb of ot temper temperance I ance and reform In con comm conjunction junction with F Gould Gouhl the ha hu just Juit issued u a vol ol 01 um urns of Illustrated varies entitled Cur I ur or toone toon tn to Rhyme and Line It I tl Is dedi dedicated dedicated to the best belt of ot wives troll from the wont worst of jests oOt 80 10 tar far a as the t hi poetry etry u is concerned It selfless tn to la say ny that Sir Wilfred lives live Ih up to 10 time the reputation which he give rivet himself lf But he ho doe certainly put gall lI and Into his hll dog dul doggerel geniI gerel nl And he ht dos does do not lIot care tare a IL bit whom he h stings Of ot that the best ex cx example example ample U is this quatrain headed From Lord Durton to the time ICing King tw beer br your Majesty Majenty faJt strong beer Which aa as you OU know mud goad me ins m a peer It If you wilt will learn to brew God Clod knows know what at It will make of ot you ou The Tit point of ot this if ference UN use In the tact feet thaL tbt when hi his hll majesty Lord berth recently he Sue h turned a switch that set net It UN in motion the machinery which brewed a lot of ot sic ale al The Th Tb lines Unel are M ii dining daring a reference to the th king kill killat aa at anything I have havi ever seen In Sn print In Sir Wilfrid Inherited a baronetcy and anti will well content with hi hll slit seat III In parliament evidently hoa tie no itt to be hi elevated to tha tim house hot ot of loida dL have been conferred on several rich brewers Out flut there Is II IIno no Instance on re where whre any man attained to that lofty loti honor hOllor by the time ad RII advocacy id of II Richard of No Nu 0 G John sheet tamp feint ha hll has confided to an mum I Inter Interviewer viewer tome some Int opinion m olm current fiction This I Is II not nil Rn Augus Augustin Augustan tin tan ago 10 of oC literature he h says any UI but butIn III In all our art rt there thre l II a far tal higher standard of DC mediocrity than Inca there over ever ha been In th the past pant Our novel tovel la is better titan than the time old uld ul novel our lUt time lIme show a II s marked ex excellence 1 p In average Time The sheet sheer force Core of competition has haa com pel Id novelists novelist to I mike make a serious study of oC technique and timers there are sro many moderns Ino who show a II mastery mattery of ot it paver never attained by hy writ en ore 11 of DC the time past lUll I t more especial ly iY I thud that direct study of nature anti ami an char character hal acter resulting in the time perfect convert lion which you rOil In tn our best beet novel for Por downright of oC character drawing for Cor forcible to na M nature n times ture you would find And It hard to three or lout four modern novelist novelists whom In certain other l I l cannot al sit always ways lIa admire Of ot course coune we w are plagued with titled tilled heroes ho and social snobbery and Irritating conventionalities which there la is I no rid rl of oC The realistic ha hl has succeeded the romantic ago 10 We W have hUll been brought closer to ci nature Dickens himself was WUI not HO so 0 cIoe ciMO to nature n ture aa as Pitt RIdge for I 1 serious study of oC technique w a have a it 1 good ii from the time French means that lust III th i novel novelist lit II la a better novella noeliA he ht la Is more workmanlike Im hll Is II I better all round rotund than ho h used UI to be he But he h adds ad l 1 think that hero here In is one alma defect In our wants want anti bit big themes theme It II wants rout subjects It a wants lifting mUng Into a 1 I finer atmosphere I 01 With lOk excelling aa as before In It would teem litem strange at thought to no sic 1 count lot for th time decadence of oC on which tunny UlM muan declare to be among time lost lott art arts aria nut lInt on thought though p pr pcr r hope haps that Is time tha very vory ery thing timing h most accounts for fur It s contain BUI stuck h excellent conversation that we ie no or go to 10 our friends for Cor or It And nut 11 I I hoi H themselves reserve their witty nh I t RIll aral biting epigrams for tor or books Thoy Iho dont domit give g ve their tint hut away Vay for tor or nothing t I I Carmen Sylva has half found that one Oil nf of the tho penalties t of at II lit III Is too heavy hea to pay par providing time the theauthor author happens also abo to be a ft quern utti a lot of ot state stat duties to look utter sitter ho tto she lia ties hu sent sont out oot a circular soaking asking young oung authors althor to atop sending Bending lI their lIS gg to her for tor criticism Her ma Ino Bys the circular though working from 8 In the morning until an all advanced hour of ot time the cannot c discharge nil alt the tho tasks tanks that devolve upon uin UI 1 her In her hor capacity a an i sovereign as 18 philanthropist and iw mm i I woman of ot loiters loUerl books ar are far less len widely read rond than timan they the were 20 years yearn ago but interest In tn the tho man maun himself and thu the things he hue h said continue unabated I Some delightful glimpses of oC him are contained In a I volume of ot Retro s by b Prof William Knight which hat has just juit been published pu ll hod What for tor In iii stance could be b more characteristic of the most Intolerant of or sages pages than this He Ito was once about Darwin In III the broad road Scottish h dialect Into which he often relapsed when conversing with a Scotsman He lie II said i iI 1 I think that they men man must I it God GOll Almighty to come como to them I Home Ono flab and glo clo gb them a I pat I I ent eat to tn make malte a 0 world warM they the seem Beem so 10 cu curious i rious to know how this one was Will mastic made j I I humbly ventured to say that I J thought him unjust to Darwin anti and was wai WI trying to explain what whit I considered the time I that th t thin there might be bt soother another tide Id to he time Ih question he said Th n In IR Inno a aad no ad other othur Its 1 that he ht ius UI It m mide de Oliver and th re never I wa was 11 a 11 greater hero than liman Oliver It II Is III that he b entertained a II poor opinion p of r both blI D anti Gladstone to a as well wen a AI of or most mOlt contemporary poll poli politicians though It has h been observed oJ that ha ht never spoke poke disrespectfully of ot the former Cler ter r he lie h hud hail d hUn him tl a t title Prof ProC Knight quotes quote hint him u s sAY gay sa saIn Inc mi In I 1 dont know that Dizzy DillY huts hns titS not Hot nota u a 1 llady liady haa ha a 1 but hut h he just jut turn turns It say any In way h he hart hAIl u ti stomach to und immediately think It Ita Ita a call tall from kit kI What Wh t mi sLim pity It II Is that le never lIever luul limit u a Hm well wehl A containing an an answer u r 1 to tl i ear ur lyle sneer neer agaInst him these their ions made by b to the author a are worth quoting People talk of uC A II change In opinion a III as If It It 1 tiers ere ele H i disgrace Tn T r me 01 it la Is I a 1 sign llIn of ot lit If It you are alls alive I you ou must Inuit hang It Is I only the th clear deml who re no remain matt malt the lb same and d of nil all Irle brought against a man or Ar that of ot Inconsistency because of or opinion lending to A R change of ot front frontI I II time the most Inept inapt A As 1 trumped up III a political opponent It I is III ly Iy a lucre mor party Part trick I huu hll lIl ngel my lilY point of or view on tt u score of at subjects and my a u Al to 0 very many of o thorn thom Evidently the a G o 0 M 1 would have hav agreed Ird with Emerson Con Consistency on li is the hobgoblin ho of oC it i I minds I |