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Show 1nthe literaworld! TqENIUS OLOWS. .- Int rating discussion which n ,n t toil since the ithrr commenced, sas c" ,t r of the Atlanta ' I the ona raised " i m n U what tlmo nf M i" n moat successful - e K In explanation of " ,, l i ma) ho "aid that the r"', mi ppIIck I" the llter- 11 , th '" k nn not llle i r iu i liy hlch ue nio no , , t time to gauge the ' i it i i pioductlons hoino ' i i tl u mo! t of the groat "J? ,1 ted fime between .1? ni 1 n others say that It ' i tn " "' th0 " ot Z.u..on the follow Inf. doll innj J wi rest Hickman flint (treat .me with ' l'lekwlck," when "1 i Th kerns b nt l. with Mr ncorRC HlloCn at 40. tW, , lc and Mott'H nt 13. 1 ,;. n Inqulrs Into the 1 nt inporary notetlsts ' ",,, n t h mo inpulnr gins "iP r nt suns Helen Slnth-' Slnth-' ,. i mln Thro' the ll)e' K ,, Mpllng ' I'laln Tales ',, hi - nt the imc nga: Mrs. V "m 1 nntlnns '""' n Moial." , iM Mi ' 1 i olilon. "I.ndy Ami- ; ret n' Mr. Anmoy wrote 'At out I nl r Two Hags" nt 27. .tin Hoili'im Huriiclt Hint l.nss ,J nl Zangwlllhls Children Sfili't! at 1 Mr. Itnothbya ..ibesin i llh ' lr Mckola" when ... 3 on ' it the sntno nge Miss ISA n hi i I a success with MUlls tilth ' 1 he Tlmo Machine .mwcwfol authors between 30 and ,dc j h J rome. with "Ihtcc ,irI!oil W hntd I.e Gatllonno, The Qu 11 of the Oolden C.lrl'. nn II r th ' The l'rlsoner of i J M I I' with "lho Little m, Fir t on in I)nlo with rock Holme- S II Crockett, with .ciuklt Minim i ' W W. Jucobs. i Man) nrgoei'. Hall Cnlno, with nt m't r vr Gilbert l'nrker, . it- of the Mighty"; Lucas Jin. ilth The Worcs of Sin." and at 41 Mxlarcn came out with "Hosldc D nnle Hrlcr Hush," and J. II. ttioira nchlned hi" first pernn-iuc pernn-iuc i!3 Willi John Ingltsunt" tit 0MB WAlt KEMINISCENCES. tr-e iciri on Ihe lllocknde"hy I. till I' m Interesting addition to re-iln ii nc(i of the tltll war hlu b n nccumiilitliiK for the thlrt) fl i )cais na the chief nc- lunjttm opportunity or incllnn-it incllnn-it nrltc the title Indicates, luthirs experience was In the r Ilo in a MaKiachusetts boy, (Etirfl th r rlco as a pamas. i trt a little more than a month rthe drink' on l'ort Humter. Ills rlencH exfn 1 d oer most of the ml i t nn I while not especially irV.it lc n o Int nstliiR ns details Jiior) (New lork: Tho Abbey i) HE EVOLUTION OF MUSIC. TStor of the Art of Music." by trick J frowest Is the latest 1- la the pilotnis- 'Llhrnry of Uk-S Uk-S irlcs I.Ike Its predt cessors. It itlny lionk mill! tn u wnlsleont ttu anl enntnlns a Rood denl of ul information ciy closely packed. eUm tr hi tor j of muslo In brief, i the f.irlU t times to the present Willi Illustrations of musical In to-U and of the music of different it an I nations Nuturnlly the I'riart of the book Is tnkon up a the prlmlilxo and medical forms nuili an I contains Information a nill li nbiiilutely new to the frrart of the n aillns public. Tho Hrl of Ui book enntnlns brief raitilc nr famous iinislclns. Alia Al-ia r It n a ramt useful llttlo ref-timk ref-timk cV w York: D, Apple HASN'T A DEOIIEE. l i fir n his been lnltcd by l ' "J . r in iiolUir n scries of I '-r, p KlRiiiiicant l'luses of ir 1 t r-iinr, lurlntr ill Mini .nor tin i nit r-ltj of Chlrnho. Mr. - lilinsilf in bo tin onlj 7.1 .. ,hl onlinsltt who ima . r ti. r ' ,s :'' '0,' " ny kind 'of Sir nnrliinds sill.Jerls will lit r "i. "."','1 ln 1'Oaiit, tliojier 1 1 rn I'l'n'nt.nf the llnllntl. ' Im f l Whittle r and l-oo lis nki, ""fanirn of Uemoerncy, ,",h'w ,.llio Modern Novel" te'r.1.'''?. ' l'U.cnlln lie lo-u , t t hi .N' w i:i Inra.ln llret ,','. .Kiln Miller. Tim Cosmic 'I I r .Nat ire, Bl.lney linlcr. anJ ar u mm on lho Juja of tho ALAN DALE'S NOVEL. "Dale Jr ninth Lrltlc nnd special i ,T" '"'' ,,1" I- '"to his in -Ji ' " '1 n"ul ","1 1U n"H fnhii. ' ,rl w '"' Wrote." As iw't '" "" 'M.Cteil. It Is 11 ."ew ,(., .joiiou journalism. and f '" ' an of thoso ueit.ipapLr j..," "- "'nn theli work. It ho,"" ,,ut t'K,t ofo moro peo in ,". '.r K'""' fc""11 "tuft than niiir n.' '" "'"' ca" "rl, t-"01' im .- .'Iml '" ull" '" 'otter -much inoic innney thnn tho to. ..J 'oll yellow Joiirnnllsni 11. i?,"V "' w,mt "wy Iw called ""T itrltliiR whl.h Molntes ."' t unothei iiteiy known ,' r" and which. et, has ra it,., '." "itlnicnt one enn- -r." ,'i", " w.l,U.h ""'"""' lo ,l hlrh ,"; , ll ,a "" I1"1 " II fr i ,? 'VI'.5 ,,"" m,,, '"""" m!i V. n"h '"'Ktiot. "ml Alan tuff i., ,i ." IHInlcHwme of rooI ttain """ II '" Kailsh, It Is 'Inn . ' . -"U'lir In spots, It Is tut j ' " 'ent itnjH than any-' any-' nm " ''oorIii ctir dJled -L1 'i Is i Intel Bluff, nnd utter .o3i,!1nBBn,,ehI,r 1 with her iiinniiRliiR editor and s Inen l nsrertnlns that his cousin to ttiiom he Is en(,nRed Is ot, the point of Wt 3 dl.cntered In an IntrlKue with n nit"" rled netor This cousin , a dBn It '"eProncliiMc social co.mertlon, im"' slbly that Is the kind of New lork rtr who Be s heiself Into that kind of s. rape hut It took Alan Hale to nml" nit It souiids more like the I his )i, ilV 7r.nu" C0UI,""y l'ple hate of the life ot the inetiopolls thnn like the representations of un Vetv Tork not ellst of recoKnl-ed position At nut rate, that Is the situation nnd the heio-inc heio-inc at once sets almut sating It bv smotherlnir the scandal at the expense of her own reputation It Is rather a staKey thing to nn. but nit en the sltua- !tn!li,7'!;Lll,c,Kl.1 """'I'lnB theatrical ttoulil he llkelj to happen The- stioiiRrst i lenient In the book Is the chaincter nf the heiolne 11111 St denhani despite her mint ,ei pontile, pont-ile, her exnccratlons, nnd her cxlrnt-aRnnceB. cxlrnt-aRnnceB. 1 a distinct nil litlou to m, , can R.nro tlctlon Almost In si Ite of herself, the author Ins nmlc her both rnselnatlnir nnd Int able She Is not leallsllc In detail, hut theie Is n core of lenllty In the chnrncler As for tho other newspaper women In the bonk theie are seteral and the- are dlsRust-Ins dlsRust-Ins caricatures probably meant to bo so tnshlni,ton Times THE BIDLE AND WINE. " !- Thesl' on ruble t, Ines." hi r I-ward I-ward It I.merson Is the nrKiiment of n man who iloes not b. Mew tint there Is nnj siKh tliln as the unfermentert wine or the Illble. He Is n ttlnemnkcr. and the IhiolOKlans nre not. thonili pe-rh ip tho tntter mlKht sny thnt Mr I.merson s stale, ments nro not ilimeult tn understand or Jiroto If ant one cared to do so Klnre tho temperance ORltntlon Iicr in 10 Insist on total altlaence for cterMme the fre-eiuenl fre-eiuenl mention of wine In the nible Ins caused no enl nf dleusslnn It bus been tmos-lhle to eet around the fart that thrlt ill 1 npnrove tho uso of tvlne so fnr ns the records show nnd thnt tho biteraae ttns In common use In Old Tis. tninent times, nml was neter condenined except when Its use became excesslte Some theorists hate hence lncenlon"l constructed n two-win nrgutmnt ass, -t-Iiik that there wns n wine known In Illble times which wns unfrrmentcl nnd harm-less, harm-less, and thnt It Is to this Hut nil Ihe Indorsements In-dorsements refer, whlla the wine which Noah mode nnd which Is condemned when It causes drunkenness was of nn cntlrelt dlltirent sort This notion Is the one which Mr. I.merson dcclnrc unten. able A STORY OF DUMAS. Apropos nf the comloR centennr of the birth of Alexnndru Dumns pere, on Jub Sf th, a story Is ti Id of the Rrcat romane, r and a I'arls halter Tho two men met one ilat. nnd though his ncrunlntnnen with tho author was ter shRht. tho hatter sail to Humus M hnte a Krent nml Itlon to no to tour repetition this etinliiR I Into notnlnR left but a fautcul! and 1 promised that to a critic whoso Roml will I nm do slrous of retaining, ' replied tho drnmnt!t The tradesman insisted so Dunns rum-innRed rum-innRed In his pockets nnd he found a tick et fnr a hndly-plnccil snt In tho Ringwnt, which Is one of tho methoU to get moro rpnee la a l'nrls theater Tho halter was tert stout and tint small fol ling up sent could not Into titen nf much use to him Next day Humas sent n nolo to ihe hatter rntlng he wns keenl anxious to hnte a silk hnt, ' nnd that the man tvojld please Bend him one Tho hatter, not to be outdone, out-done, sent Damns the smallest bat he could find In the shop about large enough for the hend nf n child nf 5 tears U Dleito the tlsliors will have an opportunity opportu-nity of taking In the relel rations Tin ro will bo a banquet prodded bl a rr pre-.entallon pre-.entallon of tnthont," nnd tho but of the not ellst In the theater will bo cruwncd with much ceremonl OOSSIP OF BOOKS. Tho publication of Tho Phnraoh nnd nnd tho I'rlest" the historical notcl of ancient l'Rpt, translated from tho original l'ollsh nf Alexander Olotatskl, hj Jtrtinlnh furtln, has been postponed post-poned by Little, llrown &. Co until September. The homes of tho authors of Utile, Drown & Co's spring nnd summer novels extend from Maine tn California. Califor-nia. Maine Is represents! by Florence llrooks Whltehouse, author of ' Tho (Jod nf Things, nn I Henrietta 0 Itotto, author of "A Maid of liar Harbor.' Ohio by Mary Deteieux. nuthor nf ' MllUe of Lnuial-inn,' Mankind by Lucy M. Thurston, nuthor of "A Olrl of Virginia." Michigan by Mnry Cnth-crlno Cnth-crlno Crow let. author of "The Heroine of tho Strait, ' Missouri by hheppird Metcns, nuthor of 'In tho I.irIos l.alon," nnd California b tho promising promis-ing oung hui rrnnclsco .nuthor. rrnncis chiiilf author of "In tho Country find Turcot " Accordlne tn 11 letter Just recelted fioni in Anlerlran nrtlst 111 I'm Is, Ann Howmnn Holds "The Amerlenn litis, band In I'nils ' Is ono of tho moat op. nl ir books purchased by American tourists In that city It Is also one of the best summer notcls fnr salo in this countri. Another of Mrs Hodd 8 books which enjoys n similar trnns-Atlnntlo trnns-Atlnntlo onlo Is "ralalse, tho Town o" lho Conqueror. ' Mary Hotereu:, the author of "La-fltte "La-fltte of Lnulslann." Is spcndlne tho Kiimincr at Marblehead. Mass. where her ancestors settled In 1030. Sho has been accused of maklnf- i gentlemnn nut of n notorious pirate. Join Lnllttc. In "Uilllto of lnulslann " something which hlstorj does not ttarrint It must ho admitted, linnet or, that there is nothing; ln her plat whlilt Is not pos slble, Clnrcneo M. Tnlt, lho authoi of the hook of ballnds of nioucestcr Usher men, entitled "Wharf and 1'Krt." Ins ?. ..Ln.,.'lu?.MrM1" Starting out In "re with the I lea of becoming nn nctor he ntu 1 himself at the Itoston school of oratorj and the Ne ork ncadeni) of dramatli arts and appeared at the age of is with such mil-know 11 ni lists ns Mnr Anderson Lint trim "arrptt, Joseph l'rortor Hut,' saa Jir Ir alt, 1 something I could note, understand and hate not :,et soiled thwarte-d this career and llrmls strengthened my llterur taste He has twen 1 IHor up his lltemrj wares ami some of tin poems ln ' Wharf and Meet just published lit Utile llrown ti 1 "" ,u"" 0" ,n H'teen enrs old 11c has written a llloucester not el a .'. V?r'';.a' ""inonee In terse, unet some thhty-llte sonnets In Amerlinn mmments on Sir Salter lesnnts autoblogrni h sas the N'( w tork l.tcnliiR I'ost considerable nnthe lias been taken of but protest against he ullra-eiileslnstl, i iitniospliete of . I'i" ,.,coll'Kt lnndon A slgnlllcant mitigation of this eonrertntl-m Is now lenorted Ihe college council has do cile.1 by tttent-tno lotos to two tint as soin ns mi be ctciy roll Eloiis test us a qinllilcnlloii fnr ofllce losltlon or membership In or under the council or college othtr than professorships professor-ships 01 lutureshlps In the fnculty of theologj, shall ceoso tn exist," Mr lang s Cornhlll paper on "Ulbll-pnianla" "Ulbll-pnianla" starts out b rc udlatlng all oh tlcws of the collectors high lulling lull-ing Ilook-eolleetlnii has bun described de-scribed ns the nielancholj phusuie nf the poor" Wo might, of louisi ns well describe golf ns tho last refuge of the senile.' Ol 1 mi n can play golf, after a fashion, an I afler n fashion poor men (b which term I mean men with less than 16 000 u ear) can collect books Hut leal golf demands outli and strength, a keen ec, n stuid bol a wrlt ot steel In the same wn genuine gen-uine book-collecting, the accumulation of hooks of sterling lerm incut alue requires wealth On tho other hand, Just ns the duffer can foozle round the course 'In n mnnnei pleasing to himself, him-self, but disgusting to otheis,' (as I lorn lo-rn Jotus S.1J8 of tho dancing of Hippo cleldes), so the poor man mn iKitter about bookstalls and contrite to Intent In-tent new chenp objects nf desire, and dltert lilmelf nmong his twopenny treasures " Sixpenny editions of famous nnteU and other hooks In ntant departments of llterntun outside of Helton arc tery lopular In London now, Tho price which In exchange would bo about l.1 cents In American mono teifll cor responds to our dime. It la nnnounccd tint mother huge slxpcnn edition of ' Lorun Doone Is to I c Issued, together with editions ot lllackmore h other notels nt the same price bonie iais ago a lSOOoO edition of "Lorna Donne was Issued at sixpence nnd was ctulck 1 absorbed. It Is stated that tho enormous corres-pnndenco corres-pnndenco which will form part of Mr. Morlej'n llfo of Gladstone will bo arranged ar-ranged In n somewhnt notcl wa, under inrlous headings political, iccleslao-tlcal, iccleslao-tlcal, theologlcjl and liter irj. It will bo Interesting to observo Mr Morley'a disci Imluatlon In deciding what shill bo placvJ in the theological and what In tho eccleslnstlcal categor. No one la better nuallllcd than Mr. Moiley for tho colossal tusk of preparing 11 Life ' of Gladstone, and ct, will ll be possl hie for an) one to wilte a satisfactory biography of that great man bo soon after his remotul from caith'B actltl- A ter funny story of James Anthony Troude, the historian, Is told b CleorRC Douglas, tho author of tho "Houso with the On en Shutters " Douelas once happened to meet l'roude In the house of an Oxford Hon, " 'It 8 astonishing,' ho said to me. 'It's nstonlshlng! louro tho lltlng Image of my dear friend, tho Inte John Con-InKton Con-InKton ' I nald that I was glad to hear that I was bo llko tho great iiuthnrit) nn Virgil Tor a moment tho old man thoughta seemed bus) with tho sacred past. Conlngtnn,' ho said, dreamily, 'was tho ugliest man I ever clapped an cyo on ' " I'rof. George I'rcdcrlck Wright's Im-lortunt Im-lortunt work on "Asiatic ltussla" 13 now lscued In two handsome tolumcs, fully Illustrated, hy McClure, l'lilllps Co. Tho material for this surtey was gathered In n Journey made two )cara ago, a description of which wns communicated In letteiM tu the Utcning Tost. llrct Hnrto left an unpublished short, jtort called "Tho Contnlesccnce or Jack Ilnmlyn " It is to appear In a Christmas periodical. Iu the matter of a signature. To Mr. Swlnburno hn been accorded tho honor or preparing lho flirt signed nrtlcle which tho Quarterly Hewlett has oter printed, It Is a paper on Charles Hick cno Another piece of work, ono which lis author, a well-known notellst, prefers pre-fers not to slRn, Is lho Introduction to tho forthcoming abridged translation of tho memoirs of Casanotn. Portions of 1'iof. J. II McMnstcra blogiuphy of Daniel Webster hate been published In tho Centur) tho whblu of tho book will soon bo brought out In book foim Mr. 1Jinunl Clarcnco Stedmnn Inn written nn Intioductlon for lho Thumb Nail edition of In Memorlnm," n ocm Iu which as Mi. Htodman Ins reminded remind-ed us, Tenn)flon Idealized the full advance ad-vance of lho Nineteenth lentury speculation, spec-ulation, ethical and scientific Hmcrsons slight ixpeilentes ns a mlstlonaiy are tho subjict of un article arti-cle by Mr O. W Cooke In the Christian Itefilster It wns In 1827 that tho gentle, gen-tle, reserted )oulh, then In feeblo health, was sent out by tho Unitarian association lo preach In dltirs country coun-try pulpits It was work for which ho was III adapted, and ho did not rontlnuo 111 It long "I hato been much dlsapiiolntcd," ho wrote to his olllclal superior, ' ln being nbllged tn lead it tiiRraut life, ns you know I camo hither hith-er with different expectations ami hoped for hlsuro and retliement for study, which I needed much Hut It would not do for n missionary to b) Bllffneckcd, nnd o I hnte been n shut-tl shut-tl ' |
