Evening journal., 1893-02-01
AuTHoas, LIkgs ANo oIsLIkEs.
Tastes OF Some Wen known writers as
Seen from Their AVowals.

Tastes OF Some Wen known writers as
Seen from Their AVowals.
The Book Buyer has been sending out
70 literary people some blanks which
they are required TO fiji out telling who
are their favorite prose authors, poets,
painters, etc, their favorite books, heroes
Of fiction, what they most enjoy and
most dotest, and so on. Some Of the re-
suits are amusing-noneis isvery 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 1
should like TO lives he writes New York
Of course we begin TO comprehend as
well as 10 be amused. Mr. Joel Chandler
Harris makes a very frank and cheerful
avowal of his preferences; It is odd TO see
Uncle Remus including Landor 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 fa~rite musical COM
! posers.
Mr.. 7. Russell Sullivan writes the best
lot Of answers in the lot-which is as
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; bis poets, Shake
speare, Heine; his painters, Velasquez,
Rembrandt; his composers" Dinner
and Sleep, which Is "goall;" his favor
ite play is "Othollo," and his favorite
heroes in fiction are Mephistopheles and
d'Artagnan; his favorite heroines in iic-
ti0n, Juliet and Beatrix Esmond; his
favorite heroines in real life, ''rhe Un-
complaining Poor" He mostly enjoys
travel, and most detests an electric
street car, while the historic event at
which he should ike most TO have been
present was the interview between Eve
and the serpentl
Miss Agnes Repplier's answers are IL
Illuminating as TO the character Of that
gifted lady. Naturally Scott is one oI
her favorite prose writers, and Keats
goes with Shakespeare in poetry, while
her favorite composers are Gounod ant
Verdi That "Marius the Epicurean'
should be her favorite book is rather az
odd thing to some warm admirr OF Mr.
r pater, who doesn't share Miss Repphor'
general romantic and sanguinary taste
, in literature. The exquisite civilization
Z Of "Marius' seems very far away fron
2 the silly barbarism of '1vanhoe." Blu
c whether it is she who is inconsistent o
whether they are, each party prohabl
1 would not leave it to the other 20 dc
3 eide. OF course Miss Reppliers horoin
, in real life is Mary Stuart, and the his
a toric event at which she would most lik
? to have been present was the battle {
a Agincourt. No circular need come froI
o the mails TO find that out.
s The literary ladies, by tho way, wh
have such an unwomanly taste for gor
h and who pour out 80 much tardy ink
n tho praise Of thirsty sword, jllustrai
Il anew the tendency of their sex to con
x briskly in expressing mems though
p just after men have ceased TO thir
d them. All, well, at the same time tn
e Miss Repplier avows these things 81
a avows that she would rather live
it London than anywhere else, and q
r clares that the gift of nature sho wou
3. most like to have is health, which is
it much as TO say that she has it not, al
IT illness, and life in Philadelphia, and
n liking for London viii account for
l. great many backward and morbid thin
in ones understanding. Boston Ira
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