Evening journal., 1888-06-05
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
MARY KYLE DALLAS TELLS ABOUT
WRITERS, ACTORS AND ARTISTS.

New York Is Now the Literary and Artis-
tic Center of the Continent aud Boston
Has Taken Back seat-A saturday
Afternoon stroll.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YoEK June 5.--lt does not need the
aid Of Asmodeus to see professional New
York upon any Saturday afternoon.
In fact that satlical demon might take his
way over the roofs and peep in at studio sky
lights without result, for lie would find
scarcely anybody at home Let US so abroad
and look
Twenty-thlrd street is great place for
meeting people
Sometimes one secs Ella Wheeler Wilcox
there, Her bright, eager face ard striking
costume ale ST.. 10 at....,t a5tcntion.
Lately she las wept over the dead face OF
little baby, who came near taking it's mother
AWAY with il, and now she has young
poetess under her wing-a girl named Edith
Thomas, who must have been cnterpr.siHg,
for in her teens she constituted herself au-
thor, publisher. book binder and news com
pany, and issued little artistic edition Of
her own poems. which sold in Chicago. As
yet. however, Miss Thomas has not learned
that even great poets draw line when
they take in the passionate style, and that
merely TO overstop that line does not atone
for want Of merit in the verses.
How the papers, magazines, pamphlets and
periodicals Of all sorts heap themselves up on
the newsstands
Last year one might have fancied there
was a greater supply than there could he
demand for, but the cry is, still they come.
There is, ! believe, one literary paper pub
lished in Washington It is clever paper
too, but know some one who tried In vain
to get a copy in its birthplace, and coming to
New York found one on the first news stand.
New York is, today, the great American
market for all things literary and artistic;
Boston merely holds the place Of queen dow
ager Saucy, Triumphant New York is on
the throne, ard tho reason is plain She is
a city Of merchant princes and men Of many
millions. They make it the most expensive
city in the world, but Mt Che samo time they
patronizo the professional folk. They buy
anything they want at any price That
tickets for an entertainment are $40 or $50 a
seat only fills house TO overfowing in New
York, as many a foreign star knows well as
Wallack's testimonial proved, the higher
the prices the greater the jam.
1t IS this knowledge that draws literary
people, actors and artists here and keeps
them here, despite their lamentations over
"cultured Boston, 'well born Philadel-
phian and "high toned Baltimore
En- passant, what a number Of editresses
there are here. Miss Mary L. Booth, Of
Harper's Ba9ar; Mrs. Dodge. one of the few
pretty women ia literature, who edits ST.
Nicholas; Miss Van Tyne, not long ago Of
"Our Young People," Mrs David Croly
tJennie June, who, after thirty years of lit
erary labor and the editorship Of Demorest's
Monthly, has a petite figure of sixteen and
unhounded energy.
Here dwells also Nine Demorest, handsome
and tall, one Of the first women to go into the
Publishing business, and Mrs. Frank Leslie,
who is said, after much experience in the
ways Of this wicked world, to average four
offers Of marriage day and reject them by
filing up printed form, as an editor do
clines "unsuitable MSS.n And how many
authoressesl Marion Harland comes over
from Brooklyn. She is Mrs. Terhune, and
/ just the charming, lady like southern matron
one might fancy her from her work
am net sure that Marietta Holly Is at
that hotel in Lafayette place where she usu-
ally stays when here, but should she come
this way you would hardly believe that you
saw Josiah Aliens wife and Samanthy, who
went to Saratoga.
She is tail, dark reserved and intellectual
in appearance, and very religious. DO you
know, people who write genuine fun are
seldom jolly and often melancholy in real
rfel
Mrs Martha Lamb. the historian, a small,
ftf.f,
house.
Yonder is Horatio Alger a small man with
blue eyes and fair hair. He writes for boys.
All over the continent there are boys who
worship him. | have seen him in the midst
of an adoring baud, who sat at his feet and
stood behind his chair and trotted after hin
for hours, and this happens constantly.
The secret is that he not only writes stories
they love, but loves them truly. To be a boy
is a letter Of recommendation 20 Mr. Alger
and YOU know how most men detest boys
and how plainly they show it, | am told
however, that Mr.. Alger rather dislike!
grown up girls.
The children believe Of Olive Thorn, whC
writes OF birds and bees AMI butterflies, ant
all woodland things, that she lives among
the trees and climbs them, and sets snares foi
rabbits.
That is she crossing the street A gray
haired lady, with somethngof Of the Quakeres
about her, and little seni-satirical smile
all her own.
There is q great deal OF art in New Yorl
Just now. Rosa Bonheur has a rival in th'
person Of Mrs. Lakey, who has studed il
Paris for many years, and is exhibiting
splendid cattle piece called the Right o
Way"
The critics called this springs exhibition
at the Academy OF Design the best that ha
ever been held. Assuredly, there were som
J good pictures there.
I There was much excellent, almost perfect
r material painting and some specimens Of III
new "fadn in brush work.
cannot say | like those pictures in pal
tints, that look as though they were done il
lSalsomime. They are merely revivals Of
style abandoned when painters began Z
know the secrets of art. As decorations the
are available, but l hope that they win nc
lead young artists away from the homes
work Of holding the mirror up to nature
! Perfection will be arrived at when an arts
can paint beautiful girl as truly and q
} palpably as j. McCloskey has painted thos
"1angerine Oranges which are real TO til
sight, 50 that one fGrcies they might L
lifted from the canvas.
Talking Of artists. Hillary Bell, VIII
painted Ada Rehnn's portrait, the one tina
hangs in the vestibule Of Daly's theatre, is {
e be married on the 9th Of June TO Miss MAJ