The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-02-22
AUTHORS LIKES AND OlSLi&cS.
Tastes of some Wei Known Writers -
Seen frnm Their AN:.MaIs.

Seen trom Their Avswais.
The Book BUYER has been sending cat
to literary people some blanks which
they are required to I'll out. telling who
are their tavorite prose authors. poets.
painters. etc. their favoiite books. heroes
Of fiction. what they most enJcr ami
most detest. and So on. Some of the re-
suits are amUsing-noGe Is very ilst,"t"t.
i've. IL would lie more amusing tl:.o
anything else. for instance. TO see NJ.
Br:ndcr Matthew's attempt 10 rcconcl."
his favOrite prose writer. Hawthorne.
and his favorite poet. Dolson. with his
favorite musical composer. Wagner: but
when. opposite the sentence. Where !
should like to live" he writes New York
Of course" We begin to comprehend as
well as to Ire amused. Mr.. Joel Chandler
Harris makes ii very frank and cheerful
avowal of his preferences il Is odd to see
Uncle Remus including Lander among
his favorite authors of prose; but one
would expect Shakespeare and Burns to
be his favorite poets. and it is consistent
and significant that he should write down
The People" as his favorite musical com-
posers.
Mr.. 7. Russell Sullivan writes the best
lot of in the lot-which is as
much rs 10 say. of course. that the Lis
tener is most III sympathy with them.
His favorite authors of prose are Srernc.
Sir Thomas Browne: his poets. Shake
speare. Heine: his painters. N~elasIuez.
Rembrandt: his composers. Dinner
owl Sl,.,, y-li,i, j., :, ..r,,l-." his fny-ny-
lite play is "Othello." and his favorite
heroes in fiction are Mephistopheles and
d'Artagnan: his favorite heroines III !ic-
ton. Juliet and Beatrix Es,nond: hi.
favorite heroines in real life. The UH-
complaining Poor He mostly enjoy.
travel, and most detests an electri
street car. while the historic event Il
which he should like most TO have beel
present" vas the interview between Eve
and the serpent!
Miss Agnes Rerrlier's answers are il.
Eliminating as to the character Of that
gifted lady. Naturally Scott is one OF
her favo,ite prose writers. and keat
goes with Shakespeare iii poetry. Will:
her ~favOrite composers are Gounod and
Verdi. That "Marius the Epicurean'
should be her ~favorite book is rather az
odd thing to some warm adlnirer of Mr.
Pater. who doesn't share Miss Repplier's
general romantic and sa%nguinary 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 OF
whether they are, each party probably
would not leave it to the other to dc.
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 OF
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 in
the praise Of thirsty sword. illustrate
new the tendency of their sex TO conc
brisHly in expressing mems thoughts
just after men have ceased to think
them. All. well, at the same time that
Miss Repplier avows these things she
avows that she would rather live in
London than anywhere else. and de.
clares that the gift of II she would
most like to have is health. which is as
much as to say that she has it not. and
illness. and life in Philadelphia. and {
t.,-ing for London will account for &
great many backward ana morbid things
i'll ones Observation-Disclosures Tran
script.