The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-13

ABSOLUTELY PURE

tanS domains since the present occupant as
cended the throne, must be sent to the Inn
perial Palace, and one copy to the library of
the Sublime Porte. Books that are out of
print will thus have to be reprinted in many
cases. And it is said that certain authors
who think their works nave been too adj
vanced have thought best to leave the do
minion before they are compelled to account
to the Sultan for their writing.
The book of the year in northern Europe
is said to be the new romance of Jonas Lie,
entitled "Niobe,n published at Christiana,
Sweden. 1t is a tale of Norwegian life.
But Jonas Lie is not q young man, though
English speaking people are just beginning
to hear about him, He is sixty years old,
just one year younger than Bjornson, and
has been a more or less prolific novelist.
Arrangements nave been made, it is said, to
produce a set of his works in English.
In Boston they ave been getting up a
poem, of which each poet of fame will pro-
luce one line. 1t has not yet been published.
but Mr.. Nathan Haskell Dole has seen it, and
| applies to it the genuine mellitiuous Greek
word, epadotemachoselaeho
Observation-Disclosures :
Observation-Disclosures uphophattoperi
eralektruonoptokephalli
neutrality-suspicious., Translated into
English this word means hash,
Blackmore, when requested to write a
New Years message for America, bluntly
declined on the ground that every American
magazine had declined his new novel, per
~lycross," and he was disipclined to duck his
head to Americans.
Rider Haggard's ssMontezuma's Daugh-
ter is said to have sold more largely than
any of his previous novels SO far, in Eng
land.
A ladyin writing of the English poets of
today says bluntly; "Of our young men
there is scarce one whose poetry is nc fem
mime, had not better in a sense been the pro-
duction of a woman, and. she of not nobler
masculine qualities in intellect or heart.
Browning was the last great masculine
mind in poetry"
1t is whispered that Paul Bourget is
partial to the great and literary game of
poker, says a BoStonian.
1t is said that the sales of one of the lead
ing publishing houses of Boston have fallen
off the past year 800, 900, and another Bos-
ton house has done less business by $50, 600 or
$4,000. The leading New York jobber,
however, says he has done a larger business
thar ever before, and the reports from his
retail customers in various parts of the coun-
try indicates a poor Christmas business.
George Egerto1, the author of "Key-
notes. a book of studies is the nom-de-guerre
of Mrs. Clairemont, an English lady. Tai
colt Williams, however, in speaking of the
book said:-s'They read as if a new man of
weight were trying his first crude powers of
an old enigma
Professor Mommsen, the great historian of
Rome, is said to be SO absent minded that
the story is told ON the authority, of his
daughter-in-law that he once met one of his
many children on the street, patted him on
the head, and asked his name, whereupon
the boy replied, why, I am your little
Carl, 4" much to his fathers surprise and the
amusement of the spectators. On another
occasion he put away one of his babies i'll his
boob case, whence it was only rescued by the
nurse who heard its cries.
1t is said there are rumors in London of
the coming of a great continental dramatist
who is to take the pedestal from which Ibsen
has been thrust Town by the attacks of var
ious critics. His name is Gerhart Haupt-
mann, the Ibsen of Berlin. He is not yet
over thirty, and his literary career has con-
tinued only for about eight years, during
which time he has written fiction,
poetry and the drama, but has
The most notable of his plays is Before
Sunset and his work is said to be charac-
terized by extreme gloom, unrelieved by any
shaft of humor. He deals principally, say
Arthur Waugh, in genre sketches of life in
the mines and among the laboring popula-
ton, and he has not escaped the domestic
problem of domestic married happiness.
Anything beyond these facts, and that he
was born in Silesia in 1852, is not yet known
to the writer. But we live in expectancy.
Some unusually interesting interviews in
the Boston Journal, over the signature of
Jonathan Pen, are by Walter Blackburn
Harte. He is one of the few writers who
understand the art of interviewing in its
legitimate and useful phase, and it would not
be surprising if Mr.. Harte became the Ameri-
can Raymond Blathwayt.
ALPHEUs SHERwIN CODY.
New York, Jan. 9, 1894.