New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-24


The auiho. OF the phrase. "A conspiracy Of ST.
l,nce" which has been used In politics in Parlia-
ment and out for the last six years. was Mrs
Colmore Dunn. 1t the title Of one of her
novels.
Mr. Howe.ls's first experience with realism was
not altogether happy one. The young man. while
paying his FIRST visit his Boston publishers. was
paid In gold for a poem he had contributed 70
The Atlantic" and was permitted to look at the
proof sheets which had just from the printer.
1T was The Pilots Story" he says in the July
Harper" which. suppose. has had as much ac-
ceptance as anything Of mine in verse Il do not
boast u acceptance for 10. and had at
tempted . treat tn phase OF the National tragedy
OF slavery. as had imagined 1t on Mississippi
steamboat. 4 young planter has gambled away
the slave girl who is the mother Of his child and
when he tells her she breaks out upon him with
the demand
"'what will you say to our boy when he cries for
me. there In Saint Louis
Il had thought this very well and natural and
simple. but fatal proofreader had not thought
It well enough or simple and natural enough. and
he had made the line read:
"'What will you cay TO our boy when he cries for
Ma there In saint Louis?
"He had even had the inspiration to quote the
word he preferred TO the 1 had written.
that there was no mercifu possibility Of mistakng
1. for a msprin,. and my blood froze in my veins
at sight OF g. Mr.. Fields had given me the sheets
TO read while he looked over some letters. and he
either felt the chill OF my horror. | made some
sign or sound OF dlsmay that caught hts notice.
for he looked round at could only show him
the passage with a gas dare say he might
have liked 10 laugh for It cruelty funny but
he did not: he concerned for the magazine. as
well as for me- lie declared that when he first
read the line he had thought | could not have
Ia Will that IL
KIN the poem II 1t came out in that shape. lie in
stantly set about repairing the mischief far
could be. lie found that the whole edition Of
that sheet had been printed. and the air black
cnel round me again. lighted up here and there
with baeful flashes OF the newspaper wit at my
cost which prevlsoned In my misery; | knew
what I should have said OF such thing myself
II It had been another's. But the publisher at once
decided that the sheet must be reprinted. and
went away weak. as II I'm the escape from some
deadly peril Aftervarl II appeared that the line
had passed the first proofreader as / wrote II.
but that the final reader had entered so sympa-.
theticay into the realistic intention Of my poem
as TO contribute the modification which had nearly
been my end"
Mr. Anthony Hope Hanklns-the Anthony Hope"
whose name appears on the title pages OF The
Prisoner OF Zenda" and MIR. Wits Widow"
London barrster. lie is a tall. thin. dark man.
with luminous dark eyes and "A clean-shaven face.
which would. It IS said. be ascetic II It were not
bubbllng with humor.
Miss Kate Sanborn has written another book
about her abandoned Farm" This time she tells
the story of Abandoning Adopted Farm"
The only literary debt which Charlotte Bronte
owe ed to her father has been discovered the phrase
ITO the finest fibre OF my nature" This is what
Jane Eyre says to Rochester when he asks her II
he quits her and 1t appears In an early poem OF
the Rev. Patrick Bronte
Alphonse Daudet IS quoted In "McClure's Maya
zine" as saying that since 1878 he has never made
less than a hundred thousand francs year from
his pays and novels. He is a feverish and spas
modic worker but when In the mood can work very
hard when the 1T is upon me-" he says, Il allow
nothing to interrupt me- not even leaving my writ
ing table for meals. / have my food brought 10 my
desk eat hurrledly and SET to work before digestion
begins" 1t is not be wondered at that NJ.
Daudet IL now a sick man. and does not often
have what he calls chose periods OF splendid
ergy"
Mr. George w. smal'ey's adventures in Europe
and America are to be narrated In a paper which
viii appear In Tie August Harper"
Professor Skea, has found what he Is is
unknown "Baa le' by Chaucer lie discovered II in
a MS IN the British Museum. and has just printed
Il for the first time Internal evidence" he de-
cares assigns 1t to Chaucer beyond doubt. 1t Is
the most complete example that exists OF his mas
terry over the technlcallties OF rhythm. II COM
prlses three sanzas. each OF nine lines. in the diff
hcult metre OF a part OF 'Anellda and Arctic. But
a. snrnassaa ANYTHING found In that poem. because