Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-22

dreary surely no one could wish or feel it.
 desira ble to find themselves iu Cecil Con-
 stable's position. And is her position so.
 very prevalenf .,.
 doubtings and questionings abroad in the.
 air, but after all is it not far more in many instances a language of the mouth than the feelings Of the heart? And poor Cecil ncst forget, in sooth, all the mercies and beue-i fits of her God, all the grandeur and bsau- ties of nature. As the red republican CT 1793 told good peasant of La Vendee: "We are going to pull down your churches and your steeples, all that recalls the superstitions of past ages, and all that.
 brings to your mind the idea of God.'' "Citizen, - replied the good Vendeean,
 "pull down the stars then.'' So we might say of Cecil. Is it possible to pure, vir;u- ous girl on the verge of life of benehcence
 and Christian beauty to so worry over the thirty nine articles as to end in utter dark
 unbelef and forget all the voices of the
 world about her that tell her in rythmical
 music or the creator and preserver of all. We miss the prayer and aspirations that we have a right to expect in one of her spiritual standing, as with the bishop. Wou one submit to such trials as they sluod without seeking comfort and conso. ever leads his children beside the still waters and green pastures of sweet conso-. lation and peace, who will only bring their burden to Him and simply rest-rest in His all-protecilng care.
 We read with somewhat of interest that Mrs. Langtry is writing novel. But the late Edmond Yates is author ty for the statement that Mrs. Langtry's novel Is good one. He was called in from time to time to consult upon various incidents, and Mrs. Langtry frequently reads extracts and anecdotes from it to her friends. The book has become passion with her, her friends say. She will not allow any publisher to l,o lrtx tlri int nd c herself.
 MT. F. Marion Crawford, who, as the readers oft The Witch of Prageno oknow, has tributes to "Book Reviews' an article
 called, A Modern View of Mysticism. His discussion of the subject is somewhat to
 credulous to be taken very seriously. Some of the friends and admirers of Walt Whitman, who have for some time met annually at Philadelphia on the occasion of his birthday, inangurated at their last meeting, in May, Walt Whitman fellow. ship, which is intended to be international | in Character. The purpose of the assoca- tion is not only literary, but for human advancement according to Whitman's ideas.
 title of "The Stack Monroe Letters," and will be the autobiography of young phy- sician, a doctor who knows as much as a detective, end possibly will prove as inter- esting.
 It is interesting to hear what Miss Beatrice Harraden tells of the publishers. ''I had piles of rejected manuscripts, ' she says. .'I wrote story after story for Blackwood's, and all of them came back to me, though the editor always sent a
 note, begging me to try again. After while met Mrs. Linn Linton and Mrs. William Blackwood. They gave me the benefit of intelligence and sympathetic criticism, and then my stories began to get into print"
 "There is place and enough for the pains of prose;
 But wherever a soft glance softer grows, And tho light hours dance to the trysting time,
 wAnd the secret is told" that no one knows''- Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme! z
 In the workaday world-for its needs and woes,
 There is place and enough for the pains of prose;
 But whenever the May bells clash and chime, Then heyi for the ripple of laughing rhyme"
 PAUL PRY.