The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-12
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The Book Euyrr his been sending Or:
TO literary people some blanks wine.
they are required 10 FL ont. TELLING who
are their favorite prose authors. r., A
printers. etc. their f..vUrite books. ie-1,s
OF fiction. what they most enjoy ahl
most detcst. and SO on. Some Of the ~
suits are amuSins-noue is very instruct
i've. 1t would be more amusinG ta..u
anything else, for Instance. to see ..r.
Brander Matthew'S attempt to reconcile
bis tavorite prose writer. Hawthorne.
and his favorite poet. Dobson. with his
favo,ite musical composer. Wagner: bot
when, opposite the sentence. Where !
should like to live" he writes New ioGl;
of course" we begin to comprehend as
well as to be amused. Mr.. joel Chandler
Harris makes II very frank and cheerful
avowal of his preferences: it is odd to see
Uncle Relnus including Lander among
his favorite authors of prose: but one
would expect Shakespeare and Burns 10
be 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 tie best
lot of answer in the lot-which is ;s
much as to say. Of course. that the Lis
tener is mos in sympathy with them.
His ~favorite authors of prose are Sterne.
Sir Thomas Browne: his poets. Shake
speare. Heine: his painters. Ve.asguaz.
Rembrandt: his composers" Dinner
and Sleep. which is Il ''goal1:" his favor
lite play is .Othello." and his f~avori.e
heroes in fiction are Mephistolheles and
dArtagnan: his favcrite heroines IN flo
ton. Juliet and Beatriy Eslnond: his
favorite leroines in real life, '.The W.
complaining Poor" tie mostly enjoy
travel, and most ,ietests an eiectri
street ear. while the historic event :;
which lie should ike mos; 10 have bee
present was the interview between Ev
and the serpent!
Miss Agnes Reprlier's answers are il.
Illuminating as to the character OF that
gifted lady. Naturally Scott is one OF
her favorite prose writers. and kc:.s:
goes with Shakespeare III poetry. Will:
her favorite composers are Gounoi AMI
Verdi. That ''Marius the Epicurean-
should be her favorite book is rather an
odd thing to some warm admirer of Mr.
Pater. who doesn't share Miss Repplier's
general romantic and %sanyuinary tastes
i'll literature. The exquisite civilization
OF "Marius" seems very far away from
the silly barbarism of ''lvanhoe." But
whether it is she who is inconsistent on
whether they are, each party probably
would not leave ii To the other to de.
eide. OF course Miss Reprlier's heroine
i'll real life is Mary Stuart. and TIE hi.
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. v,hc
sue an urwomanly taste for gore.
and who pogr out so much tardy ink in
the praise Of thirsty sword. illustrate
the tendency of their sex to core
briskly 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
that she would rather live in
London than anywhere else. and de
clares that the gift of nature she would
most like to have is health. which is as
much as to say that she has it not. and
and life III PHILADELPHIA, and
liking for London will account for 8
great many backward and morbid things
ones understandiny.-Bosto Tran