St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-29
AUTHORS AND ACTORS.
Men and Women of Note Who Are
Attracting Attention Across
The Atlantic.
Julian HawthOrne's Hated Book
Comparison Between the Author
and Hugh Conway.
Helen Mathers and Her New Success, "Found
Out,"-A Delightful Souvenir Sent
to Henry Irving.
Gossip About Mary Anderson and the Rivalry
Between Her and Miss Bateman
Art and Artists.

Art and Artists.
LONDON, March. 1S.-My clerical reader:
and those who are interested in church he.
roes will find much to entertain them in
The Memoirs of Mark Pattison, a volume
which all the critics are writing about at the
moment. He was the rector of Lincoln and
an Oxford Don. When he was at college,
Newman, Wilberforce and Froude were tu-
tors. He has much to say of these three in
tellectual giants, mixing up his life and ex-
perences with theirs. The volume is prosy
and egotistical, but it is of great biographical
value. The Oxford Don had a very good
opinion of himself. He confesses to have
been very stupid as youth, but that soon
after 20 he began to emerge, to develop,
to conquer as it were in the realm of ideas.
sit was all growth, development, and I have
never ceased to grow, to develop, to discover
up to the very last, while my contemporaries,
who started so far ahead of me, fixed their
mental horizon before they were 35, mine
has been ever charging and expanding.
There seems to have fulfilled itself for ME
that adage of Goethe, 'Of that which man
desires in youth. of that he shall have in age
| as much as he will.'''
| Julian Hawthorne's novel, Miss Cadogan,
| is just out in London, and should add to this
industrious novelist's reputation. The hero
is an artist who sets up his studio in ruin
Gus old house that is endowed with ghostly
! legend. The description of the finding of the
| little Venetian book in the old cabinet is very
real. 1.-THE book, moreover, in addition to
being an heirloom, was evidently of DO small
intrinsic value. The covers were of ebony,
| inlaid with filigree of gold. and richly chased
| in low relief. The four jewels in the corners
an amethyst, topaz, carbuncle and an
emerald-were each fine specimens of their
kind; and the gold clasps were designed in
the shape of little bands, holding the covers
together.'' This volume contains romantic
story of the life of one Andrea Cadogan
del Morosini, of the fifteenth century,
and it was very ingeniously linked with Miss
Cadogan of the nineteenth. The dialogue is
racy, the description fresh and bright; the
story is naturally told and well worth reading.
But conclude you know all about it. seeing
that the work will no doubt have been pub
lished simulta neously in the two countries.
| wonder if Julian makes as much money as
some other novelists who have not half his
ability-no reflection on our new writer, Mr..
Hugh Conway, of Called Back fame, who is
in great request everywhere; no reflection on
Helen Mathers (author of COMM Thro' the
Rye), who has just made success with
story called Found Out, printed and pub
lished in the Called Back fashion and sold for
% cents Instead of SIS. Helen Mathers is
regarded by the critics as an imitator and
rival of Rhoda Broughton, author of Cometh
up as Flower. Miss BroughtOn, by the way,
lives at Oxford, and is not in what they call
''society'' there, though she lives in good
style and is of good family; but it is said she
has rather ''taken off, Oxford society in a
recent novel. and that classic city resents
Miss Broughton's lively pen. Miss Mathers
lives in London and is handsome, stout,
English blondeI"red as rose is she."
II.
Last Christmas Henry Irving had a de-
lightful art souvenir sent to him from Lon
don. By this time his friend, Lawrence Bar
rett, has received a more remarkable but
not more interesting gift. The treasure
which has been sent to Barrett is uniquely
illustrated volume of Austin Dobson's A
Worlds Idylls. Mr.. E. A. Abbey began to
illustrate by making a pen-and-ink sketch
on one Of the blank pages. Mr.. Alfred Par
sons added border of flowers to another
poem Mr.. George Fl. Boughton sketched
in a lovely female figure, Mr.. H. Alma Ia
deIna did the same. And so the little book
was passed along from studio to studio, gath
ering toll by the way, until it now contains
sketches. illustrative of Mr. Dobson's poems,
by Sir Frederick Leighton, Mr.. Milais, Mr..
Linley Sanbourne. Mr. Randolph Caldecott
and Mr.. G. Du Maurier, and many another.
As final note to the harmony, Mr. Dobson
wrote iedu on the fly leaf, which in part
reads thus:
When Burbadge played, the stage was bare
or fount and temple, tower and stair;
Two backswords eked O battle out,
Two supers made a rabble-out,
The Throne of Denmark was a chair!
And yet no less the audience there
Thrilled through all changes Of despair,
Hope, ger. fear, delight and doubt,
When Burbadge played,
This is the actors gift; to share
All moods, all passions, to care
One whit for scene; so he without
Can lead mems minds the roundabout"
word as to other illustrators. Abbey Is
your own genus-the most facile OF black
and white artists. Boughton is more Ameri-
can than English, though he was really born
on this side of the Atlantic. Tadema is an
Anglo-Belgian and a Royal Academician.
Sir Frederick Leighton shares with Millais
the supreme honor of English art, and is
president of the Royal academy. saubourne
is a Punch artist. Caldecott began
10 illustrate nursery tales in the man
ner of Grace Greenway, before
Grace Greenwsy; and in manner is
au Anglo French master of English black
and white. Mr.. Barrett may indeed feel
very proud of this tribute of poet and paint
ers, not only to himself as man, but to bis
art self as an actor. The Age says Barrett
is coming to spend the summer in England
this year, or next, and that he will live in the
vale OF Evesham, pastoral bit Of Worces-
tershire, but not patch on ''the happy
valley" previously described. If you have
read Cruel London lin Lovell's cheap library
YOU may care to know that the village where
the American heroine OF the story awoke to
her sad aud miserable position is located in
the vale of Evesham. When Mr.. Barrett
takes up his abode there he will be puzzled at