Show by with some ex acts f om the I 1 shed wo k of the a e wa er n harte coper 1906 by jo eph bow es there can be no pleasure in the work which makes man his J own interior f i love Is never apropos A A love talk Is always apropos of S nothing but love biye whimsy a fair field and outlaw none of our illusions f delusions and heresies and lo 10 ji v t i you have the toleration of toler w ance the of mind i civilization Is a poor sort of A J makeshift yet I 1 suppose we 1 Y should be thankful that people ti are tame even it they are not ery humane i our work which takes so A ij much of us and should be the best ex presson of us Is actually ff of our real lives a thing apart A ai a concession to the belly i i life in a civilized state begins with the sensation that there are M cents in a dollar we seek the society of those x who flatter us and we like the f flattery but we despise the flat j fr don t go back to the places endeared to you by childhood for then ou lose your illusions and gain only a new pain heartiness effects more than ajl humility in the affairs of life A great many men and worn en too mistake stupidity tor common sense so many people have opinions a without having convictions we all profess to think well A of humanity because we like to be well thought of WALTER BLACKBURN HARTE ft there Is talk we hear of forming the association of deans of ameri can letters a most interesting brotherhood which should have been installed long since in a clubhouse of its own the plans at besent are in definite but there is promise of a large formal dinner annually with smaller and informal spreads when ever mr howells or mr clemens or dr hale or any other dean has a birthday there Is some talk of in creasing the membership of the asso elation by electing 50 or vice deans of american letters thus james riley would be the vice dean from indiana edwin markham from staten island and so on no au thor will be eligible tor a deanship un der the age of 60 nor tor a vice dean ship under 45 of interest to bibliophiles A very rare first edition of the world s almanac tor 1901 sold at abc tion in brooklyn for barring a loose cover and a few torn pages it was in excellent condition bugg the well known collector of evanston announces another find of great value mark twain s sketches chatto windus piccadilly cocoa and pill ads on fly leaves and bear s soup on rear cover the back of the book Is unglued and the front cover is detached A mag acquisition lovers of alne books will welcome the sumptuous volume which josh gosh co are issuing for the bibliophile trade a de edition of roget s thesaurus with by howard chandler christy and henry hutt these famous ll lustra tors have never done anything more beautifully irrelevant or less in keep ing with the text A unique copy of marle corelli s romance of two worlds fetched 93 at auction in london the book had once been read by the late a and contained nearly a hundred mar ginal notes in pencil such as how true my own sentiments etc vie toria was very fond of corelli s books and read little else the author of the comedy coming through the rye proceeded on the theory that the original rye was a field of waving grain probably not two authors out of three are better in formed the golden goose which herr con ried of the metropolitan opera house came into possession of not long ago has been laying two eggs a day right along and six when herr conried has a benefit it Is feared that the goose will expire from overwork and the attention of the S P A has been called to the matter Mau passant a current author braver talked about literature there as so many other things ot so g eater interest to talk about he to say but this was pure after everybody knows that there Is nothing so interesting as literature and the persons who manufacture it |