Show t i t NOTES I I 1 The Tho memory of General Low Val ValMo al allice for man nen Hui Hu has ha never lice Mo who e its Hs moment been displaced from In popular favor since the 2 25 first brought it out nearly Harpers ago hali been further distin I b by the placing of a statue In Inthe Inthe In Wash the Capitol Halt Hall of Fame I Present at the tho exercises its unveiling by the au aul Vallace Jr thors grandson j citizens citizen tho many l ere vere of Indiana who tho governor Whit statue for tim tho state and James IUle who read a specially pre poem There was a notable re reunion reunion j union too of the Eleventh the old It l ras pointed out by certain veteran 1 comrades that the of tho g general In uniform showed him bare bareheaded bareheaded headed whereas theress Gen Wallace was nI at nII I 4 as careful about wearing the tho hat thor could tome some of them quite regard head headgear tho iha statue as with no ge gear tr to be Eten t Justin ll n II C McCarthy h found in the title fur The God of Ji his hin latest t Jl el which tells II a fictitIous of oC th the lo love dt df Wanto and Beatrice lu those con of the exerted b by the tho upon the choice I II Is IsI I inot without a I tIn ln The Tho Knights rale look lookIn In down upon uvon PaLmon and Arcite in the garden these I ne wordes all on bight j The god or of love u a I How and how grote a lord Is I lies Again his thoro non ob obstacles He Be may be 00 a God for his mir mirL lit L For he Can enn maken at hIs owen gIBe giso O of everich horto herto as that hIm list du de O 0 Henry and Carolyn Wells aro to ta taI I on the tho Harper list of latest re ret reprints prints O 0 Henrys Henrs Options having t gone bOno Into another edition and Miss of Bridge Blidge j t The point has boon been made by an ant t Reviewer writing wilting In the wn Len Lendon don Telegraph that American novels noYel tend Lond to have hoyo at least ono one superiority oVer the tho authors bor ber that thai tho stor story Is the tho thing and 1 that the tho reader does not want a ser sermon non mon on a theory wrapped up In It unless It Is unfolded by the tho characters In doIngs The particular American novel noyel cIted In illustration I which tho crItic did not attempt to was a n tae thio of Georgia by a novelist Will ViII N Harben n Tho Redemption of Gait Galt i t To the British mind Ir Er Harben O os 4 f sentimentality In iii his account I or of the re redemption of his hero through Instinct and the tho reader Is 18 deply In spite of oC oCI I thIs Is 15 the tho true English r It all happens In an un unknown known part of tho world Josephine Bacons Ion to the authorship or of tho th I Soul has como I practically at the same moment that f the Harp Harpers rs announced her newest i hook book The Tho Biography of ef I 8 Boy BoyMore More ore than ono one reader reador remaIns almost Incredulous of a sIngle authorship for fort forI t I e two books they are aro so utterly 1 unlike Tho Biography of a Bo Boy In Intact tact fact Is i just a household story full ot of tho humor that naturally natural con cen conI cenI I tera about a healthy health 6 with I such luch a name namo as Binks It Is clear however oven from this apparent cen cenI I In stories that Mrs Bacons b lIet In the tho home ns as the tho II r happiness is 18 nt at the tho heart henrt or of nil au her herl l expression n 11 G Wells whose novel Ann now on the thc Harper press II r Soother another edition has been beon so 80 en Judged or misjudged b by the tho uary journalists of two continents PaId aid to he i at work upon the drama druna to lion tio of er ono ori of at his books When the tho POr PCr akes is III the more In SUn when Mr Yells Wells r ther with Mr III Hard Hardy Mr 11 James Barrie and others was asked ro re I I Ur ty his opinion or of tho effect crIed of at the Censorship upon authors author h he The Censorship with the tho wanton ranton power of 1 been one of the reasons J I entered On hopes that the dramatis g r hIs novel may result In Inter lag Mr Wells In tho drama to lead hIm as Mr its led tf to addre address s himself nt at least lice to the stage A story I Is repeated b by Marcel Provost of Francois OO the gifted wrIter whoso inimitable volume ot of stories entitled simply Ton Ten Tales is hr Perhaps the ono one Americans know hORt heit M Provost Prevost Is saying writing in inthe 1 the January Harpers Boxer If I had hod the honor of beIng professor of French to youn young American girls I would bo bogin gin with tho truthful anecdote A compatriot of theirs Speaking to oe asked Do you ou speak English Monsieur And Coppee answered modestly Non Madame I am 8 still learning French In support of the tho contention made malIc by Henry Landor tho Tibetan explorer author of In the tho Forbidden whIch the tho Harpers l In this country years ago that the tho word sord rediscoveries rathor than discoveries should bo be applied to many of the tho findings of Even HedIn during tho recent journey through Tibet it is 18 fair tair to note that in the Royal Geographical Journal or of London Jan let 1st and April 1 1st t 1 09 serious scientific exception is taken to DrEven Dr Even claim ot of discovery not only of the lIle sources of the tra and the hut also of the tho discovery of oC the tho source I of the tho Indus anti and the rivers William Watson Vatson once oneo lied had the tho good fortune to bo mentioned in III a written by Hoarn Hearn that puzzlinG big inG seer of the tho Orient anti tho tropics whose stories even the tho simple Chits whIch recently the Harpers printed agaIn tamp themselves so abl ably The Tho letter printed In the tho Atlan Atlantic Atlantic tic runs Why do we VO feel that a poet like Uko Watson has no rIght to bo be a mocker sa say cruel things to his fellow fellowman man We Vo feel tho same In reading sons terrible satire saUre on Bulwer rJ and Brownings brutal anger at Edward Fitzgerald I thInk we regard it as nn an obscuro poem b by a priest or In other words a sort lort of sacrilege to self Wo have not yes eb learned as I think wo we shall some somo day dayto dayto to confess corness aloud that Urn tho highest poetry is religIon and it Its world priests the truo prophets and teachers But we feel IL we wc are arc shocked and when these betray nn any sign of those paltry or er ermean mean passions above whIch their art at other times up In her Recollections of oC Andrew Johnson In the tho recent Harpers Mrs Harriet Hurlet S Turner gIves an in picture of 01 this able ablo brusque American who was a tailor before ho presIdent Ho once told Mrs Turner Tuner that ho was able ble to think better belter when ho was wal on hIs tailors bench and that he thought worn ons needlework for tim tho same lamo reason was wa wann nn an advantage to them Some Sarno of Johnsons earl early education was acquired ac acquIred by stud study of his school schoolbooks schoolbooks books the they wore were married and nd he self confirmed this fact to Mrs Tuner Mrs Turner Is a granddaughter ot of George T Campbell of Tennessee who was successively representative and Senator secre secretary or of tho treasury trea ury under Madison and Minister to Rus Russin sin sla under Monroe Her remembrances of President Johnson are aro vivid and of hIstoric Interest In London tho have havo been boen trying to find out whether the tho novelists be that the ChrIstmas spirIt Is the same as when Dickens wrote about It or less naturally joyous less full of simple cheer To the question an answer written b by Max Pemberton the tho novelist whoso hook Sir Richard RIch RIchard ard b by the Harpers once contended with ono one of Mrs Freemans for tor a prize Is appended append as follows I do not at ali lI agree with the pessimists Perhaps I should have lone dono so 0 had I continued to live IIvo In London but I have found and Old village e of where I think that Christmas is much muchas Ill as DIckens described It In this part of the world Nature does her bet best to bless us wIth a element clement which puts the Christmas card carll tal to shame Dickens DIcken wrote as an of course but I find a world of hindu kIndliness ness floss and goodwill quito In keeping with his teachIng and I nm am sure that man many of these village folks do know It ft real joy of Christmas whIch even oen the superIor person might find Infectious Infectious The old traditions live wen well In Inthe inthe the village of whIch I em am speaking there lire are at midnight and childrens voices In the early earb morn mornIn morning In ing |