The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-13
AUTHORS, LIKES AND DiSLlKE5.
Tastes Of Some Wen Known Writers ~
Seen from Their A.NuMal..

Seen from Their Ayo"al-.
The Book Buyer has been sending out
to literary people some blanks which
they are required to FIJI out, telling who
are their fayorite prose authors. poets.
painters, etc. their fayorito ooks. heroes
of fiction. what they most enjoy ana
most detest. and SO on. SOME of the re-
suits are amusing-none Is very INSTRUCT
i've. 1t would be more amusing than
ANYTHING else, for instance. to see Mr..
Brander Matthews attempt to reconcile
his favorite prose writer. Hawthorne.
and his ~favorite poet. Dobson, with his
favorite musical composer. Wagner: but
when. opposite the sentence, Where
should like { o live,"h writes New York
of course" we begin to comprehend as
we'll as to be amused. MIR. Joel Chandler
Harris makes a very frank and cheerful
avowal of his preferences: it is odd to see
Uncle Remus including Lander among
his favorite authors of prose; but II
would expect Shakespeare and Burns to
he his favorite poets. and it is consistent
and significant that he should write down
1.-THE People" as his favorite musical COM
posers.
Mr.. T. Russell Sullivan writes the best
lot of answers H. the lot-which is as
much as to say, Of course, that the Lis
tener is most in sympathy with them.
His favorite aut nors of prose are Sterne.
Sir Thomas Browne; his poets. Shake
speafe. Heine: his painters. Nelasquez.
Rembrandt; his composers" Dinner
and Sleep, which is IA .'goak:" his favor
ite play is "Othello." and his f~avorite
heroes in fiction are Mephistopheles and
d'Artagnan: his favorite heroines in fic-
ton, Juliet and Beatrix Esmond; his
favorite heroines in real life, The I'm
complaining Poor" He mostly enjoys
travel. and most detests an electric
street car. while the historic event a.
which he should like most to have beel
present" was the interview between Eve
and the serpent!
Miss Agnes Repplier's answers are il.
Illuminating as TO the character of tina,
gifted lady. Naturally Scott is one OF
her favorite prose writers. and Keats
goes with Shakespeare in poetry, Will.
her favorite composers are Gounod and
Verdi. That .Marius the Epicurean'
should be her f~avorite book is rather AZ
odd thing to some warm admirer of Mr.
Pater, who doesn't share Miss Repplier':
general romantic and sanguinary tastes
in literature. The exquisite civilization
of ''Marius" seems very far away from
the silly barbariSm of 'Ivanhoe." But
whether it is she who is inconsistent o,
whether they are. each party probabl,
would not leave it to the other to de
eide. OF course Miss Repplier's heroine
in real life is Mary Stuart, and the his
toric event at which she would most like
to have been present was the battle o!
Agincourt. No circular need come from
the mails to find that out.
The literary ladies, by the way, who
have such an unwomanly taste for gore
and who pour out so much tardy ink il
the praise of thirsty sword, illustrate
anew the tendency of their sex to com
briskly in expressing mems thought'
just after men have ceased to thinl
them. All, well. at the same time tina
Miss Repplier avows these things sht
avows that she would rather live il
London than anywhere else, and de
clares that the gift of nature she woult
most like to have is health. which is a.
much as to say that she has it not. ant
illness, and life in Philadelphia, and {
liking for London will account for {
great many backward and morbid thing!
in ones understanding. Boston Tran
script.