Show h Some Breezy r Gossip OF Or European Authors OUR LONDON LONnON LITERACY SpecIal Correspondence T ONDON Oct Max In Nordau LONDON I the author of ot Degeneration Is I about the last lut man In th the world orld one would to find busying himself with fairy atones Morles In the midst of or a 8 life lit crowded to the uttermost with science literature and anti Zionism not net to mention political correspondence Y Vat VatI t 1 I received a it letter from tom mom the versatile doctor yesterday In lit II which he ays MY I Iam am now a II book which la is I to stand alone III lit my mr m life lite work namely a Volume of oC fairy aIry stories mostly numer hurner I I ous OU but some lome also allo pathetic ns liS a I J told tolt them to 10 my Iny little daughter Maxa tram front her hr fourth to her lter seventh year which eh she h accomplished In 1901 1801 The doctor writes write from tram the Island blAnd of at Jersey Jr e he lie has baa gone trout from hi hl his home In the Hue Rue Leonie Leonle for Cor or a bit bitof bItof bitof of vacation which lie hi I ii enjoying In Inthe inthe the th fashion prescribed by the good old proverb A change of ot work It Is I rest relt Since Degeneration made to so mu h talk lalk In the United States stat Dr Nordau has written no other book of ot this Ihl sort turning his hie hand instead to the writing of at novels of which time the translation or at orthe orthe atthe the latest Morganatic Is I about to bo ho published In England l and the States StAt lint nut It can ran be stated slAted here on the strength of the doctors cwi on 0 clear cut nervous hand writing In the In Inevitable Inevitable I evitable purple ink without which I sun sue pec pert t h hi would consider himself quite h he II Is about to begin writ writIng writing I Ing a ma big oel on which he lies been meditating for tor the tile last Jat six years yean ears It may nay be bf said In a general way that It will deal with modern tendencies of ot mankind as manifested In the unrest of or our alit time Dr work la Is II usually I itt Ill n German J nan ht hi seems equally at teL home III In English French Ills latest novel which I understand 1 hu Imus wn all an American hero was Val translated by IJ Ml Miss MII Elisabeth Let Leo sister of ot Sidney Lee Let the Shakespearian scholar Dr Emil Reich teich whose Industry vor ver cr and fiery seal remind one of nr Dr 1 r Is I alto also spending his hIli va un 0 his hll favorite France working as II hard bard as u when h hI I IIa stays stay Ia at nt home hOlne He lie ho hit In hand han a 1 hUle heign nun scheme to bring hi his native Hungary more prominently before the world nt at largo large Is II editing a 0 series Irlee of ot render readers of ot philosophy theology theolo natural arid and political economy for tor a new lIew London publishIng house hou I II putting some tin fin hIt lah touches on his hla hi Universal nut and amusing himself between whiles with magazIne onslaught on nn the cri critics 11 tics lie of ot his latest book Success Among Nations Nation The stands manfully man Cully to his hi guns gutia In III what chat was considered by some ome of or the Ih American papers a RI an 1111 at attack attack tack on Oil American women lie He nys cays It lt Is II absurd to Interpret his hi appreciative lalle comment ns nl an on attack nut But he ha has a definite Impression lon that there urn arc tines lines along RID which American womanhood could develop to 10 greater usefulness u and An AnAt at met last lut accounts account he h watt wan w setting totting down don thon thos Impre with hIs hl usual vigor Igor and ami enthusiasm for tor Immediate publication tion In the United States t There are ore three thre facts of especial ee tIRI In Interest terest III t about two Imposing volumes en entitled entitled titled Time Live of James and Wil William liam him Ward Vont which are Aill to be I published here next month On One One ID is II that thet t t tile he work la Is to 10 cost COlt 30 guinea which Is a 1 trifle more macre than 10 another I is II that the LI entire edition WM WU sold before fort 1 IL copy COP van I u ac printed prill I th time the full tull number being subscribed lot for within a tell few cut days of the fit first t announcement that the work was to t be undertaken n Th The third fact teet Is I that the tex JI I r kluthe real roal name minnie of ot i jl VII J ln In J and alit the united I States State under the p of Frank D Daubs au on author thor Ihor of that surprising novel hovel Pig Pigs In Clover lover which wan one on of or th the Iud cud sudden cudden den successes of or hut year ear Very Vr few on either aide of or th Atlantic A hays haw been aware RW that the dIstinguished hd writer ant and editor of ot Art work works and an anthe the tho popular novelist are one And the p person on Mrs ha has JaR a II charming and work room lit iii her hr home honie In III street Just oft off Piccadilly and the characteristics of this work room roam reflect the qualities of It II Its mistress Mrs 1 last Iut previous nuN ous book hook The Th Life rM of or John Raphael n Smith was wan a companion volume to 10 the Ward book books and I believe bellev t lIef equally ter In price owing oln to 10 the tile quality of the engraving On Oil her Fruk Dan Danby hy by 1 side Ido Mrs 1 Frankau has hAIl lately fin nn finished finished a series serle of short stories and Is III Isnow now hOW planning out a it 1 successor to 10 Pigs In Clover iver for far which arrangements al already already ready have hae been made madeS S SI what That entertaining American book Th The Heart nIt of ot Japan by h C L f Brown Brownell ell eli ha hl has gone through three Ih editions In lii England and th the Italian translation rights were purchased last week by n a publishing house In Milan which ex Ix expect to produce the work in Italian this autumn Th fh the author of ot The Tile Heart of at Japan after two or litre years residence In III London ms 01 to have re returned 11 turned J to Am for Cor or good i a i iThe 0 The long and painful Mat lilt nf of futile attempts to 10 rate raise ral money for noble nohle monuments In stone and ond brass to the memory In mor of dead authors author ha hu has had list ltd its salutary leason lesson on the Ibe friends of the tho Ih late lal Edwin Arnold who nho headed by b Lord fArd are now itow IIO asking for tor funds not for tablet nr or statue hut hill butto hutto to found Arnold Arno fl at 11 Ox Oxford C ford for tor proficiency In oriental Iltem lure a memorial far fir more Inore appropriate and useful th thin in anything that could bo b carved In stone Iton with lIh the Ih funds funda likely kely to 10 b be raised Incidentally the sum raided will probably be much mitch larger than could have luau been Hn obtained for tor any carved n of a kindly kind poet not who was wag taken lens hIss erlo iy a as a limn of Utter IEtt than im as a R sympathetic Iii I hIli I Interpreter ter of at tho 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