The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-17
AUTHORS LIKES AND O.SllkES.
Tastes of Some Well Known Writers n
Seen from Their ANuMaIs.

Tastes of Some Well Known Writers ~
seen from Their Asowais.
The Book Buyer has been sending ont
TO literary people some blanks which
they are required to fill out. telling who
are their favorite prose authors. poets.
painters, etc. their favorite books, heroes
of fiction, what they most enjoy and
most detest. and SO on. Some of the re-
suits are amusing-nonc 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 to live."h e writes New York
of course" WE begin TO comprehend as
well rs to lie amused. Mr.. Joel Chandler
Harris makes a very frank and cheerful
ayowal II his preferences: it is odd to see
Uncle Eemus including Landor among
his favorite authors of prose; but one
wonld 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 answers in the l~ot-which is az
much as TO say. of Course. that the Lis
tener is most in sympathy with them.
His favorite authors of prose are Sterne,
Sir Thomas Browne: his poets. Shake
speare. Heine: his painters. Velasqrez.
Rembrandt; his composers" Dinner
and Sleep, which is "A ''goak;" his favor
lite play is 'Othelio," and his favorite
heroes in fiction are Mephistopheles and
dArtagnan: his favorite heroines in fic-
ton. Juliet and Beatrix Esmond: his
favorite heroines in real life, THE Tn
complaining Poor" He mostly enjoys
travel. and most detests an electric
street car. while III. historic event IL
which he should Ike most to have beel
present was the interview between Eve
and the serpent.
Miss Agnes Repilier's " are il.
Illuminating as to the character of that
gifted lady. Naturally Scott is one OF
her tavori,e prose writers. and keats
goes with Shakespeare iii poetry. while
her favoritc COMPOSERS are Gounod and
Verdi. That .Marius the Epicnrean'
should be her favorite book is rather an
odd thing 10 some warm a,lIGirer of Mr.
pater, who doesn't share Miss Repplicrs
general romantic and sanguinary taste.
III literature. The exquisite civilization
of "Alarlus' Seem very far away from
the silly barharism If .Ivanhoc.' But
whether it Is she who is inconsistent el
whether they are. each party probably
would not leave il - the other to de.
eide. OF course Nl,, l:cppller's heroine
ia real life is Mary STUART. and the hi
toric event at which she would most like
10 have been pre-ent WAS the battle OF
Agincourt. No circular need come from
the mails 10 find that out.
The literary ladies, by the way. who
have such al uuwoinanly taste for gore.
and who pour out so much tardv ink in
the praise of thirsty sword. illustrate
anew the tendency of their sex to corne
briskiy III expressing mems thought:
just after mel have ceased to think
them. All, well, at the same time that
Miss Reppiier ayows these things she
rows that she would rather live in
London than anywhere else. and de
clares that the gift Of nature she would
most like To have j. health. which i, az
much a. to say that she has it not. and
Illness, and life IL Philadelphia, and
liking for London will account for 8
great many backward and morbid things
IL ones Observation-Disclosures Tran.
script.