| Show Story of Or o Mow 1101 Gladstone Marked His UlIs Books OVi LONDON LONiON LO DON Special Correspondence T 1 ONDON March Match lIt lIl that LONDON I tho ho th Into late W iJ I Glad atone was waa one ons L I t of ot those thosa book boole lovers lovera who delight In marking sentences that pleasa them and scribbling comments op oJ the tha text In time the margin ot or volumes read road An anonymous writer In tho time Book Monthly Montilly who recently paid a I visit to tho time Grand Old Mans library at Hawarden Ul den says that almost every evely book bool there thore therein in contains profuse penciled annotations In ill Mr own hand Ills His fa tn works are filled Oiled with them Vcr Ver Vertical or or double lube Hues says tho the mark writer or a II small email call attention anti and generally Imply ap LIP approval dissent Is la signified by a L erase cron cronN N 13 D and query or a IL note noto of ot Interrogation gation are frequent Even Mr novels are Ire Oiled filled with comments In pencil especially when these works bear boar on religious rellIous questions Wetter I think than some others ot of those novels that play tricks with nature W IV Yo B E I O U Is the time Judgment at al the tho end of or ono one In Iii a certain political work says the time writer on lIn allegation of at a IL certain dl di diplomatic and parliamentary transaction with Russia In under Mr Ir Glad stones leadership evokes the tho straight comment Untrue repented repeated In lit Inthe Inthe the space of ot four toUl lines hues We scarcely think with Mr Gladstone writes the late Walter Wolter that this style stylo lit If oratory Is III tho the very highest Against this Mr Gladstone He never nevor thought flo so Naturally a work with his hU groat rival Disraeli Maw drew comments in to profusion from froni the great grent Liberal In his hili account of ot the tho famous maiden In the house of or commons common the tM theauthor theauthor author of ot this timis book tells how time tho young youn Disraeli Lord Melbourne a as flourishing in one hand tho ho keys of or St Ht Peter Ieter In lii the other says nays the mi nu thor he won understood to be going to say any the lie cop city of ot liberty bul the close of ut the tue sentence was drowned In derisive shouts I hoard It testIfieR Mr r Glad stones clones pencil TIm Tile writer of ot this essay says nays that tha the tho hooks books read react In closing years are aro an ns fully tully marked and Indexed as nR If Ir he yet lied had a 11 In which to U use e them S Thomas Hardy at nl his home homo In iii Par for Dorchester chester which in his novels ho lie called Is IB now working m on Oil a now floW volume of at poems his third which ho lie h hopes to publish In tho tIme spring Ho lie Is 18 also enga cd In working over ocr to ma material for the tile second and third volumes of ot his Napoleonic drama Tho The Dy Ho Jle says It Is I quite Impossible to tell toll when these two volumes or overt even one of at them will bo be ready S S SIs Is It Il true that thal T W SV II Crosland Is violently averse to taking his own VII medicine or can It Il be bens beau as WM Will hinted In Inthe the tho kings bench boneh court the other othor day that tho time author of ot The fhe Unspeakable Scot Is U bringing a series ot of libel stilts lilts for tor advertising purposes 7 Not long ago Mr dr wrote a 11 book called Lovely Woman In which ho roasted tho the fair SOX sex good anti II nil plenty as 11 used to bo ho saul said at nt home baltic Among othir r things he observed When I look took upon Ufo lila In my lay calmer moments I am pm prann prito to wish that tha t nil all women were wore In reviewing the tho book n a London critic remarked that It 1 certain time the th would un be a moro more peaceable In which to live If one olle woman nt nl out east were a widow This imie remark so FO o offended Mr Cropland ro that he brought suit ault for tor libel the newspaper lull hili tho the judge judg nIti the um WIlli Justi Justified fled fied O I A little l 0 n E K Farrow larrow I arrow pub tithed II a 1 reply to Lovely Woman which hn lie h called Lovely tan Man and In which ho he too made a 11 remark that If II all married men were like unto Mr II Crosland Cr widowhood would undoubtedly be he fur far time the happier stole state for tor their wives who whoA A few tew days ago ogo Crosland sued Furrow Farrow I on oil the tue that the latter taut had at attacked tacked his private character Again h im ho lOll o t lute bin hl suit Bult mid and no wonder for tor In view I of ot such Huch extracts from Lovely Woman an 1111 were read In court Mr Mc r complaints eem Indeed n a ease case cn c of ot tha th pot pol the kettle of or It Is not nut In 10 womans watery water bloom blood to tobe t the be he loyal wrote Mr ir frosland It you want loyalty anti and honor you ou will never Deler goto ICO to a L woman for tor them thorn no nat mat mattor tor or how old she sime may mB bs he b Ho lie also paId laid laidA A 4 Kin girl ot or 10 is Ii I greedy mercIless unruly anti and Illogical and LM at Rl 20 to sue she he l II the same girl Irl ony ormy moro more cunning and ani a II more corn com commercial mercial l Time The book hook abounded In deli delicate delicate cate comments nf or this sort ort A man uan can carry carr a n skin full of ot liquor like ilkI a H lien en A never temer gels drunk runk Ilk like a it I lady And Atit Mr Ir ab Lb abhorrence abhorrence of ot Conies the themore Ih themore more gracefully III from him In view of 01 this comment from rum his boo bool book nn en MImi Mils whom wheat the theauthor theauthor theauthor author said he wished had never nv r been born How an any ny thinking being c can canwick n with wick to rend read her passes pae ones anes snapped Cropland Crosland Hut But of ot course courM It must mut IM he remember ell Cd d that silo she writes for tor women wom n end d that possIbly her only Ini two 1110 m male le readers are arc Dr I r antI and tier her pat papa the RIght sir Henry whom I r rhUl last hUl theM beheld nn on n a ale III Ia boat bont eating citing buns out of ot a n aThis biK baK TIll This npr tir Mr Crosland Croland had brought lila hit action nellon merely for tor the tIme purpose of ot selling soiling his hiM book bool antI and that whenever the theauthor theauthor author of ot Tile Tho Unspeakable Sent wanted a n little enjoyment ho popped round to time tho law courts with a n little ready money and took action He lie nl itt HO pointed out that Mr Crosland had hadnot not n paid the tho cost of ot appeal In his hIe other othor libel 1 Hull nult and anti that bitt the writer had an unsatisfied county court judgment against him and a n bill ot of sale saleS S S S SOwing Owing to 10 the tile death of ot the Rev Rich nich ard Lovett a book has been abandon bandon abandoned n ed ott C which promised to be he n mm most blo ble addition n to the tie bibliography ot of the tha Bible The Tho book hook In question was to have been entitled Tho Printed Eng Emig lieu Hull BIble and It Is aimed nt ol placing Its Us as aR nearly as 1111 1 blo bio In Ia tho of ot cue orme who hall had access to every volume of ot the tho Scrip lures turcs tUI published between those dates Such finch Is I the rarity raM of many of ot tho limo early editions of or the time English I Bible that U it IliA IliAn Is Isa Isa a n matter to lo get lIel even a II sight of ot many of ot the mot most Important copies facsimiles which wore score to have havo been Jeen the ho chief feature of or Mr Ir Lovett costly cosily work worle would have rendered re To recourse course COurs to the tha orIgInate originals unnecessary scholars who hind had been heon look ing InA forward to the publication of or the tho volume with great Interest deeply re gret rot tho the announcement made by fay tho the Oxford Tress that owing to the tue authors death the tho work will wilt Pint not be ho Issued II A CHURCH |
