New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-23
THE BUSY MAN.
FURTHER ATTEMPTS TO AID THIS MUCH
CODDLED INDIVIDUAL.

and compressions stop when they reach The domain
OF imaginative literature, and he Is left stranded
this bank and shoal OF time, filled with politics, sta
tistcs and religious opinion. lie Is too busy to read
the current poems and stories I'm the asuidy drawn
out form which the authors put them-clcarly they
must be compressed for his lusy eye. III he con
take his thought dried. II were, and reduced TO
the smallest compass, and thrive on II, so should
imaginative literature. carefully prepared ana con-
densed. agree with Him. The Tribune Is goiig 10 DO
what II can for him. We begin With :" The Monthly
SnOrc.'
The snore, besides the insalment OF It's serial.
every Like Whale" contains three short stories,
five poems and pastel I'm prose. one OF the stories
Is romantic, realistic, while the third is I'm dialect.
The romantic story contains 5000 words 600 eAcla-
nation points and Is emhelshcd with Gy" pictures.
The authorizes is that young genius, Eureka Ltemos.
the new Eastern Oklahoma writer. who Is SAID to b.
very beautiful and only seventeen years and four
months OF age. Title Of story, Bjoristad and
Elnnga." Hero, Ejorjstad; heroine. Elanga. Scene,
torn and jagged coast Of Norway. Time about A. ID.
900. Hero the point OF leaving to discover
America. Heroine implores him to take her along.
EjOrstad place In the boat. open boat
rows of oars on each side like picket fence. Fine.
impassionated parting scene between Boris'ad and
Elanga occupying two pages. Alter much agony
secret marriage between lovers at last moment.
Borstad rows Jway into the tempest. Tcmpcsts
much more severe in eco than now. Eianea pcr,e-
Cutcd by father ana cheap lONer sore GhtltsS.
Very dark for lady. About to he forced TO marry
cheap lover when BjOrjstad comes back. Got turned
around ard thinks he has discovered America Furious
when he secs his mistake AMI finds how Elanga has
been treated. Slashe5 f.thor. kills cheap lover,
slaughtcrs lovers family and hloodes up the whole
nelghborhood. Lives happy ever after. The local
color IS good-rcd, which the busy will under.
stand IS only our condensed iOke-Dut the plot lacks
mystery Neither Is there any ghost, without Which
no romantic STORY can be said to be- complete.
The realistic story IS entitled BILL aud WAS
written or rather dictated, by ;. Beelnsbrow, the
weIl.known reasi. Twelve thousand words. Illus
tratcd from photographs by author y" hero or
heroine, OF Man slightly implicated. Bu
saith: woman SEEN Hcphzibah Tubbs. One COW,
four hens plymouth Rocks and barbed wc fence
also appear Weigh, Of cow, LOO pounds Smith,
100 pounds: Mss Tubbs, Ii. pounds. W. HeetIlnS
brow explains In footnoe that he could not get The
weight Of hem. story takes up sixteen pages IL
The Snore." Fonr pages devoted to DESCRIPTION OF
Bill smith. four to description and explanation OF
IIcphzbah Tubbs. four 10 the anulyz'nG 81 uer
motive, for living at all and four TO general In
,clliccncc such Is statistics, weather report. hints
on milking and so forth. Both the man and won.in
are planlooking. especially the woman, and they use
bad grammar and are poor. Eli has wooden leg
and Ieplzibah glass eye. The COW seems To De
In declining health. and We conIectnr" That II We
could have been favored with three or four more
page, of the story he would have died MI
l}eetln gbrow however, hires h stenocraphcr By the
hour. and the hour being up he conld not continue
beyond The sixteenth page. Much valuable inlornia'
ton Is given IA the story about milking and the set
ting OF hens A. the hens stu on the nest wiep
the story Closes may reasonably hope "r sequel.
Incidental reference j. made To the Tact that t'r"
scarlet fever and hog cholera in the ncichborhood.
\ good map ought accompany the story and u the
facts and statistics on cow and hen growing eouio
Ic tahulaied II would be much more Interesting 10
the confirmed realistic story reader. Mr. B"ilngbrcw
should not Try tie ratieice Of his pubic too Tar N
these matters.
The dialect story +, very interesting. particularly
because It shows marked adv ance I'm the manier
of II, author Charles Peer kilgalon shorthorsc.
The dialect story was losing It's popularity when Nr'
,horthorse entered the arena few years ago. lie
introduced the marked improN OF having man
with one dialect tell the story of characters who used
another dialect. Thu, w got a dialect OF dialect,
or NN dialect, n, may cali It, In this story,
entitled H. Tc,N WatcImiDn % Xxi Z'kibcIry or
Zklvn," the daring young author has gone step
further lie gives MN Galcct. III i a Hcorsa
negro story told by Cape Cod Yankee Is ne GOT II
from "A CanaGian Frcnclndn. There are d,cDo Vorus'
.2.0oO apostrophcs and LOO hyphefs. Nine hundred
words are explained in foolunc,. The three Different
strata OF dialect are easily d,crrnibe. II the IN
sonio,s author could be persuaded 10 arrange the
words III his story alphabetically it would make an
excellent dialect dictionary and thoroughly cover the
ground We commend particularly strong passage
on the last page. where til" apcsrouhcs shoot up cut
OF the word, like spgrhs out OF Roman candle Tie
benefit Of idea 10 the busy man II nowhere 80
well Ilu,tratcd a. In This story, since IL takes good
student Of dialect four hours TO read the original,
whereas our condensation can be disposed OF IL rs
many minutes or less. and without Tie wear ana
tear on the sight incident dragging The eyes over
the apcstrophe,. Being dialect story. need not
trouble Ourselves about the plot or characters.
Inc poetry In this number Of The cnore' Is
especially strong. consisting OF long poem on
Despair" by ID. J. X. G.. two shorter ones on
"Gloom' and The Grave" 10y Homer B.odGett-
Blcdgctt and Birdie loungihins respectively
sonnet on Death" by Charles Peter killsaon short
horse. the author OF "Zc PeSky wateimillon o. Zkl
Zk1b,rry OF 'Z'klyil'," condensed above. and two
line verse on Buried Memories" 10y B. Ills last
Is III. best thing in the lot and regret that the
copyright prevents rel reducing H. The basy nlan
Will that the and the other usual pe''I
mstic dcbri, is pretty thoroughly disposed Of The
long poem on "pcepir." 10y ID. J. X. C., Is strong
production The author finds despair Il good tlins
and really has nsdcralle sport With Il. We
neglected to sag above that in TIE nstalinent OK
VERY Like Whale" nothing IS done except IL hold
post noricm examinations the past motives OF the
characters. % I, need net detaln the busy man.
Passing over the weighty articles. which the busy
man will find suitably cyarcratod in other pullica-
tions find that nothing remains for Us in The
Snore" hut the pastel in prose. Ii f. 10y Horny
Bloodcood jacobs and contains 131 words. By special
arrangcmcnt with /" Tie snore" enabled ID
give It In full. liberty which. trust. con 'dcrns
its brcNity. the busy man viii not resent II Is US
follows:
"A banana peel lay on the sidewalk. The rsa
stepped II and fell. hut he again. His foot
clipped the banana peel. hut hc got up. The man
went down the BAHAMA peel and struck
the Sidewalk. but he soon rcganci his feet.
The banana peel brought the man down. but
he got up again by his own efforts. The banfna
peel, which had been thoughtcssy lrft on the side
walk. made the man slip and fall heavily but II did
keep him from getting up once more.
"Thc banana peel lay the sidewalk. The man
stepped on II. lie smote the walk. But he get up
again.
After he was up he looked around Nobody saw
him. 'Yes.' murmured the man. Il slipped on the