The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-04-25

Rolf Roldrewood-who is in reality
Police Magistrate Tom Brown. of Vic
toria-has written a new novel. which
he calls sphinx of %Eaglehawk.'
Augusta Nacquerie. the dramatist,
poet and journalist, who died in Paris
on Feb. ID. was born in 1919. and was
one of the founders of L'Evenement
uS4S) and lie Rappel C1SG0.
NJ. Victorien SardOu is engaged on n
new historical drama entitled Louis
NVII.." of which the unfortunate
young monarch Of a 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 an unpublish-
ed essay on ''The Octoroons of Louis
lana" and the manuscript of a long
novel translated from the Spanish of
Quevedo. These papers are to be edited
by Miss Grace King, who has become
their owner.
George Rodenbach is to publish a
novel Oh maternal love. 1t is the anal
ysiS of the sentiments Of a mother who.
having only one son, tries to keep him
from marriage, and leads him into a
mOnastic life. She begins her struggle
again on the other extreme when he
decides to become Il priest.
Goring Thomas cantata, The Swan
and the S%hylark," which has just been
brought out at birmingham, has a
strangely constructed libretto. 1t con-
sists of a poem by Mrs. Hemans. to
which has been added a stanza of
Keats, Il stanza of Shelley. and four
stanZas of Mr.. Julian Sturgis.
lbsen writes very slowly and care
fully, and never takes Il real vacation.
Every day he devotes five hours to lit
erary ~wOrk-from 8 a. IN. 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. T~hackeray
nce said to him. it appears, that he
thought Cooper a 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
Il time, says the London Literary
World, not SO far back, when Mr.. Kip
ling could hardly find Il 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 Il
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 Endc," which produced
such Il sensation when performed in
Berlin some time ago. is a fortunate
man. inasmuch as he is the only one of
the little circle of young German play
wrights who has had Il work of his
produced on an open French stage
VGerhardt Hauptman's ''Einsame Men
schen" having been given at one of the
semi private theaters kept up by sub
scription) and brought out by so great
an actress as Nine. Sarah Bcrnhardt.
The New York Suns 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 IL scheme for establishing Il lii.
erary order of merit for the recOgni-
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
twenty-fOur knights of the Grand
Cross, the second of one hundrc
knights Commanders. and the third Of
two hundred and fifty Companions.
British literature and journalism are
pretty poor just now in great men. and
one shudders to think of the mediocre
ties who will get the new decorations
if the three classes are eve half iilled.'
Two Grades of Composers.