The Lake Charles echo., 1893-03-03
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Tastes Of Some Well known Writers %
seen from Their Ayowals
The Book Buyer has been sending out
to literary people some blanks which
they are required to fill out, telling who
are their fayorite prose authors, poets,
painters, ETC., their favorite boolSs heroes
Of fiction, what they most enjoy and
most detest, and so on. Some of the re-
suits are amusing -noneisvery instruct
i've. 1t would be more amusing than
ANYTHING else, for instance, to see Mr..
Bfander Matthews attempt to reconcile
his fayorite prose writer, Hawthorne,
and his favorite poet, Dohson, with his
fayorite musical composer, Wagneri but
when, opposite the sentence, "Where !
should like to live, " he writes ''New York
Of course we begin to comprehend as
we'll as to be amused, Mr.. Joel Chandler
Harris makes very frank and cheerful
avowal Of his preferences;it 1t Is odd to see
Uncle Remus including Landor among
his faYorite authors Of prosei 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 faYorite musical COM
posers.
Mr.. 4, Russell Sullivan writes the best
lot of answers in the lpt-which is as
much as to say, of course, thab the Lis
tener Is most in sympathy with them,
His fayorite authors Of prose are Sterne,
Sir Thomas Brownei his poets, Shake
speare, Heine; his painters, Velasquez,
Rembrandt; his "composersN Dinner
and Sleep, which Is 'goakI" his favor
ite play ia "Othello," and his favorite
heroes In fiction are Mephistopheles and
d'Artagnan; his faYorite heroines in iic'
ton, Juliet and Beatrix Esnondi his
favorite heroines in real life, 1.-THE Un
complaining Poor" He mostly enjoys
| travel, and most detests an electric
street car, while the "historio event a
which he should like most to have beer
present" was the interview between Eve
and the serpentl
Miss Agnes Repplier's answers are II
Illuminating as to the character of tha'
gifted lady Naturally Scott ID one q
her fayorite prose writers, and Keati
goes with Shakespeare in poetry, whilt
her fayorite composers are Gounod an(
Verdi. That GMarius the Epiourean'
should be her favorite book is rather az
odd thing to some warm admirer of Mr.
Pater, who doesn't share Miss Repplier'
general romantic and sanguiuary taste
in literature, The exquisite civilization
i of "Blariush seems vefy far away fror
the silly barbarism of "IVanhoe," Blu
whether it is she who is inconsistent 0
whether they are, each party prnbabl
would not leave it to the other to de
eide. OF course Miss Rapplierls heroin
in real life is Mary Stuart, and the his
toric event at which she would most lik
to have been present was the battle g
Agincourt. No circular need come fron
the mails to find that out
The literary ladies, by the way, VIII
have such an unwomanly taste for gore
and who pour out SO much tardy ink i
the praise of thirsty sword, illustrat
anew the tendency of their sex to com
briskly in expressing mems thought
Just after men have Nceased to thin
them. All, we'll, at the same time tina
Miss Repplier ayows these things sh
ayows that she would rather live j
London than anywhere else, and Dc
clares that the gift Of nature she woul
most like to have is health, which " q
much as to say that she has 1t not, an
illness, and life in Philadelphia, and
liking for London will account for
great many backward and morbid thing
in ones understanding. Boston TraI
script.