The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-03-04
AuTAoas LIkEs ANp DISLIKE.
Tastes Of Some w~n Known Writers -
Seen fium Their AvowaIa.


Tastes Of some wsn Known writers -
Seen FROM Their Avowals.
The Book Buyer has been sending out
to Literary people some blanks which
they are required to fill out, telling who
are their fdVorite prose authors. poets
painters, etc, their favoiite books, heroes
Of fiction, whit they most enjoy anG
most detest, and 50 on. Some Of the re-
suits are amusing--nonei isvery instruct
i've, II would he more amusing than
anything else, for instance, to see Mr.
Brander Matthews attempt to reconcile
his favorite prose writer, Hawthorne
and his favoite poet, Dohson. with his
favorite musical composer, Wagner; out
when, opposite the sentence, "Where
should like 10 live, he writes New York
Of course" we begin to comprehend ~
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 II is consistent
and significant that he should write down
"The People" rs his favorite 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 Sterue,
Sir Thomas Browne; his poets, Shake
speare, Heine; his painters, VelasqueL,
Rembrandt; his composers" Dinner
and Sleep, which is "goal1;" his favor
ite play is "Othello," and his favorite
heroes in fiction are Mephistopheles and
dArtagnan his favorite heroines in hc-
ton, Juliet and Beatrix Esmond; his
favorite heroines In real hfe, "Ths Un-
complaining Poor" He mostly enjoys
travel, and most detests an electric
street car, while the "historic event at
which he should like most to have been
present" was the interview between Eve
and the serpent!
Miss Agnes Repplier's answers are H.
Illuminating as to the character of that
gifted lady. Naturally Scott is one of
her favorite prose writer's, and Keats
goes with Shakespeare in poetry, while
her favorite composers are Gounod and
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 sanguinary tastes
in literature. The exquisite civilization
Of "Marius" seems very far away from
the silly barbarism OF "Ivanhoe." But
whether it is she who is inconsistent or
whether they are, each party probably
would not leave it to the other to de
eide. OF course Miss Repplier's heroine
in real life is Mary Stuart, and the his
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 ont.
The literary ladies. by the way. who
have such an unwomanly taste for gore,
aud who pour ont so much tardy ink in
the praise Of thirsty sword, illustrate
anew the tendency of their sex to come
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
avOwB that she would rather live in
London than anywhere else, and de-
clares that the sift of nature she would
most like to have is health. which is az
much as to say that she has it not, and
illness, and life in Philadelphia, and q
liking for London will account for a
| great many backward and morbid thingu
in ones understanding. Boston Tran
/ script.