Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-21
THE CRITICS REVIEW.

Ward, Preacher" and of "Florida Days,
and who has a serial story now running it,
course in the atlantic Monthly, is thus de-
scribed in paragraph from The Epoch.
''She is the owner of one of the largest ant
| handsomest mastfs in the city (Boston), who
accompanies his fond mistress on all her walk.
| and rambles. Bayard is his name and he i:
! said to be as magnanimous as his namesake e
the Chevalier. He is noted for his politeness tc
smaller and inferior dogs, frequently giving up
some choice morsel to mongrel ours. Mrs
Delands home is cozy house in one of the
oldest but most pleasant streets Of
the city, where a glimp.e of the blue
waters of the Charles river may be
obtained from bay window over the
front door. The hall leads into a charming
study, where great logs burn and crackle. max
ing the little den ever SO attractive. Mrs.
Deland is very artistic, as well as poetic the
carvings and decorations of the fireplace hav-
ing heen executed by her own hands. She is
now busy writing, to which she devotes the
entire morning. Whether volume of poems
or new novel is to be announced, is not yet
whispered in literary circles"
So
Mr.. KEENAN,, in the May Century, will show
up the workings of literary censorships
in Russia. In his article entitled "Blocked
Out" he Will reproduce two pages of the maga-
ziue for August, 1889, showing the shape in
which it came into the hands of Russian sub
scribers.
~"
HE NeW York Saturday Euening Gazette,
of which the initial number appeared last
Saturday, has Some new features. The news
of the day is reported up to o'clock, the COM
mercial departments are fully written up, and
the rest of the paper-from IL to 16 pages is
the plan-consists of reviews stories and short
sketches. George Edgar Montgomery is the
editor.
{ HARLEs X. BALLARD, in the Literary
World. is quoted in The Critic as the dis
coverer of curious rythmic movement in
Blackmore's novels. Blackmore was so thor
oughly poet, with SO pronounced gift for
rhyme and meter that, like Mr.. Wegg. he was
continually dropping into poetry, even when he
imagined himself to be writing prose. Take this
sentence from Lorna Doone," which Mr..
Ballard quotes: This good nobleman kept
ms money IN handsome pewter box.
with MS coat of arms upon it, and double lid
and locks J! That is meter and rhyme to-
Eetner- Iaik1ng not long ago with a visitor to
the Ames Library in North Easton-a lady who
Is reporter for one of the Boston newspapers
asked her whether she had read Lorna
Doone. and If SO, how she liked it. She re-
pied: oh, yes; have read it twice. and like
1t greatly" added: "You of course enjoy
the trochalc movement so common in it." 1
saw at once that she did not comprehend my
question. After had explained what meant
and shown her several examples, she said: II
never noticed that before! 1 must read it
again just for that" Mr.. Ballard recommends
that we should all of us read 1t again, just for
PROF. JOHN FIsKE in the Popular Science
Monthly for May, will give an account of the
life of Edward l. Youmens the founder of
that magazine. The article will describe Mr.
foumens' association with Herbert Spencer and
the work which he did IN popularizng the evo-
luton philosophy in this county. secondary
School Programmes, French and American" will
also appear in the same number. Mr. George
w. Braman, the author maintains that if our
nigh and preparatory schools are to compare
well with those of France, the pupils must not
only do more work. but they must also work on
more distinctly specialized lines" But the
boys and girls go home now with their arms
tull OF books. For ''more' work substitute
better or more thorough work, and that will
state the need better SO it appears to us.
at HE Characteristics of Volcanoes" by Prof.
James d. Dana, of Yale; miss Mordeck's
Father" a novel by FAM Pusey Gooch, and
History of the United States,n in
four volumes. are Just from the press of Messrs.
Dodd, Mead & Co.
MR.. STANLEY says of the scope of his new
Scribner's Sons have in press: You know that
all the stretch of country from Yambuya to
this place was an absolutely new country, ex-
cept what may be measured by five ordinary
marches. First, there is that dead white of the
map now changed to dead black; I mean that
darkest region Of the earth confined between
+. long, 25o and E. long. 29o 4J, one great COM
pact, remorselessly sullen forest, the growth of
an untold number of ages, swarming at stated
intervals with numbers of vicious man-eating
sayages and crafty understood men, who were
unceasing in their annoyance. Then there is |
that belt of grassland lying between it and |
Albert Nyanza, whose people contested every |
mile OF advance with spirit and made us think |
tnat they were guardians of some priceless |
treasure hidden on the Nyanza Shores Dis |
covery after discovery in that wonderful region |
was made the snowy range of Ruevenzoni the |
CLOUD King" or CLOUD Creator" the Semliki |
river, the Albert Edward Nyanza, the plains of |
Usongora, the salt lakes of Kative; the new |
peoples, Wakoniu, of the Great Mountains; the |
lwellers OF the rich forest region, the Awarr-
ba; the fine featured Wasongora the Wan
9oro bandits. and then the Lake Albert Ed |
ward tribe and the shepherd race of Che east |
ern uplands: the Wanyankori, besides the |
W Wanya-ru-wamba and:the Wazinja, until at |
ast we came to church whose cross domina-
ted Christian settlement, and we knew that
we had reached the outskirts of blessed civili.
sation."
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