New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-17

The ArgOnaut." Later he became Washington cor
respondent OF The Examiner; and three years ago
he joined the STAFF OF esteemed contemporary.
the "New-York sun" and has ever since displayed
brilliant ability In dealing with picturesque phases
OF city life and especially with the Bowery types
The young writers who think II easy 70 dash On
A newspaper story and wonder why the articles
they prepare by the midnight Of! from their seeming
brains are not better appreciated might leara 4
lesson from Mr. Townsend Nearly every one o.
the short stories OF 'Chmmie" which are READ II
fifteen minutes represented three or four mornings
spent not over his desk but in the Bowery or the
Fourth Ward studying the character OF the people
about whom ne wanted to write.
There was one little fellow" he says. down AT
one Of the slips He was the mos, perfect b" ~
boy I have seen. and used 10 60 down al
pretend to sit reading a paper or TO be waiting FOR
somebody. Just to be near him and hear him talk
| studied haDl three things In particular-the
d!om. the slang and the dialect The las u the
least important and the easiest - get. Anybody
can get it, II rather hurts than helps the stories
in my opinion. What care most for is the sang
and ldom They were modified as went along ard
learned more about them. Ii was hard TO get mem
we'll for the people will not talk the same way WIN
a stranger as among themselves. Their most char-
acteristic expressions are put of for more iorihH
words.
NO | didn't start out 10 write series AZ all
ono story lei 10 another Il began with an attempt
10 write a Sunday special was put on the Track
by a lttle incident | had seen a fe" days before
I went up 10 mission where some lanieS We
giving A dinner tenement-house children anu l
was TO report IT, one little fellow near ME noticed
sulpine down a piece OF pie In about two bites.
The young lady In charge, who seemed 70 p' ."
very good terms with the boys ana assume
pretty air Of comradeshp. was standing oy anu "a"
the pie disappear She leaned over ana SAID WIN
a biz OF the boys manner for good feho"ship.
Would YOU Ike another piece II | can sneak l'r
pis eyes Frightened She brought ine PIE ana
nlaceI il before him with little conhdentia WIS
per as though II were special td'or, VI WINCH
ne was not 10 tell As she did so the ~: 'eH -
over and kissed her hand II mus' haNc 'e ~
in-a,e gentleman No one could nave 'ausI' mn
MAYBE he had seen a courter do IL on some no"e'y
80, I'm, think 1t was just his own ha'urai
,rihu.e That was my first insight into the Do"ety
character II set thinking ana "heh wan"
"a writ. a special | used the people hStu See"
there. making up my own story. Inc N'o'ue''' "''
all fictitious
How often do the Minor Poets echo one another
and bigger poets. too-in their easy verse ''"s'
Mr. Bliss Carman in The Atlantic
There paused TO shut the door
4 fellow called the Vino.
With mystery before,
And reticence behind
Fair srs didst not catch the trick OF It from MIS-
tress Dickinson? And where heard we oeeo
strain family sounding again in Mr.. h ). STOCK
.. "car,urv,, sonnet LAS some mysterious wan-
derer OF the skies?
The lectures by Mr. John La Fargo "ni'h nc
Are, delivered I'm New-YOrk at the Metropolis"
Museum, OF Art and has since read in Boston anu
Philadelphia said 10 be in preparation 'o' ''N
press This viii assure an addition 10 inc 49,
ture OF art which will be cordially recelNV"' anu
must prove OF lasting value. Mr. La fars' Az
criticism Is subtle and imaginative. IL mas '''
ness and the hexibility which would be eNpece'
,o,o a professional man OF letters. rather than
from n PAINTER OF especially meditatiVe temper%
mont The book will be closely revised ana wheh
,ssued IL will probably possess more unity 'hah
commonly goes with an artists talk. sueh 'aik
IL dIscursve a rule. ana luii Vi co"0'u''"' az
rived at through Jumps
The late NJ. Darmesteter the eminent Orien,a.ist,
ohio married Miss Robinson. the English verse
writer was the author OF many notable essays A
rr,,ber OF these essays. translated into English
,,,II All n volume which Houghton Mfiin Co. are
about to publish
II Is to be conjectured that the volume OF Lite
Stories About Women" announced in London as oy
George Fleming is the work OF Miss Dudu re
cher-uness some other writer has borrowed ner
pseudonyme.
Another volume OF short stories by Mr.. Henry
James is to be brought out soon.
The latest number of The Chap-Book" is tresome
and pretentious outside a little paper on the .a''
Mr. Stevenson. Most people are aweary OF reter-
ences 70 this Scotchman who certainly was the
subject of many unreasonable Mysteries on he part
OF his worshppers; this little sketch Is 50 ACUTE
SO frank and so cbarmlngly put that one torse'S
to remember that he is rather tired OF the sis"'
and sound OF Stevenson's name.
A new publication which is apparently intended 70
emulate the foolshness o. The Chap-booS' ~
coming out in Philadelphia. This is MOODS.
Journal Intime," 10 be conducted by Youns Men 0.
Promise. Alas why don't the clever youths VI
Chicago and Philadelphia and Boston drop me-
Alterations OF Beardsleyism. Ibsenisn ana ''e
"tonrnaI intme-all Of which are sily-And do some