Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-04-26

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Rolf Boldrewood-who is In reality
Police Magistrate Tom Brown, of Vic
tOria-has written q new novel, which
he calls 'Sphinx of Eaglehawk."
Auguste vacquerie, the dramatist.
poet and journalist, who died in Paris
on Feb. 10, was born in 1919, and was
n of the founders of L'Evenement
uS4S) and lie Rappel (1S69).
NJ. Victorien Sardou is engaged On n
new historical drama entitled Louis
NVII.," Of which the unfortunate
young monarch of u day, the question
of whose mysterious death was lately
revived, is to be the hero.
The late Charles Gayarre. the his
torian, of Louisiana, left m unpublish-
ed essay on ''Thc Octoroons Of Louis
lana" and the manuscript of n long
move translated from the Spanish Of
Quevedo. These papers are to be edited
by Miss Grace King, who has become
their wne
George Rodenbach is to publish q
novel on maternal love. 1t is the anal
ysis of the sentiments of Il mother who.
having only one son tries to keep him
from marriage, and leads him into Il
monastic life. She begins her struggle
again OH the other extreme when he
decides to become IL priest.
Goring Thomas cantata, "The Swan
and the %Shylark," which has just been
brought out at Birmingham, has a
strangely constructed llbretto. 1t con
sists of IL poem by Mrs. Hemans, to
which has been added a stanza Of
Keats. q stanza of Shelley. and four
stanzas of Mr.. Julian Sturgis.
Ibsen writes very slowly and care
fully, and never takes n real vacation.
Every day he devotes five hours to lit
erary work-from s a. m. till 1. 1t takes
him about five minths to write a drama,
and after completing one he devotes
six or seven months to mental prepara-
ton for a new one. He rewrites each
play three times, it is said.
Some N rushed into print the other
day with the observation that Of all
American writer's of fiction, Hawthorne
was the only n who possessed gen.
ius. Charles A. Dana neatly capped
that sweeping statement. Thackeray
once said to him, it appears, "that he
thought Cooper u greater genius than
Walter Scott, and an immortal story
teller"
Rudyard Kipling, says the Spectator,
is almost beyond dispute the character
istic voice of the decade! Yet there was
a time, says the London Literary
World, not so far back, when Mr.. Kip
ling could hardly find a market for his
stories. We have heard that the little
shilling books which were his first ven
ture here, and which contained some
of his finest work. brought him not a
farthing, the copyright having been
parted with to an Indian publisher.
Herr Hermann Suderman, the author
of that violent satire on German socie-
ty, "Sodoms Ende," which produced
such a sensation when performed in
Berlin some time ago. is q fortunate
man. inasmuch as he is the only one of
the little circle Of young German play
wrights who has had q work Of his
produced on an open French stage
(Gerhardt Hauptman's "Einsame Men
schen' having been given ut one OF the
semi-private theaters kept up by sub
scription) and brought out by SO great
an actress us Nine. Sarah Bernhardt.
The New York SUMS correspondent
sends the following paragraph from
London: ''Fleet street and Grub street
are in a state Of pleasurable emotion
upon the apparently ~well-founded an
nouncement that the queen is elaborat-
ing a scheme for establishing a lit.
erary order of merit for the recoeni-
ton of those who, as journalists or
writer's of books, have done good work.
There are to be three grades, as is most
other orders, the first consisting OF
t%wenty-four knights of the Grand
Cross, the second of one kindred
knights Commanders, and the third Of
two hundred and fifty Companions.
British literature and journalism are
pretty poor just now in great men, and
M shudders to think Of the mediocri-
ties who will get the new decorations
II the three classes are even half filed.