Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-23
NO SUCH WORK PUBLISHED
II Would be Of Very Great Use to
Writers and Students.
FAULTS OF MODERN NovELIsTs.
A Tyrnnt Has Arisen in the Republic
of Letters-Iiow Dnudet Writes
His Novels.

Ing Of books OF reference. II Wpulu |
.eem that during the past fifty years !
Inc sum of human learning had been
aggregated and indexed. From Pools
wonderful Index" TO the Century ,
-ompany's curious "Cyclopedia of {
Names" the bookworms have left lit /
lie in the way of reference books un-
made. The mine. in other words, has
been about worked out.
II is unlikely. however, II book OF
comparisons has ever been made.
have been unable to learn of any such
hook. and If there was such one. 1t
could not unlikely be found on the
shelves of every book store. So here
Is A chance for some prying collector
In busy himself with, and at the same
time hand his name down to posterity
in shining letters OF gold. Such
hook would be OF use to every man or
woman who does any writing what
ever.
II is quite remarkable the number OF
mt comparisons that are in general
ACCOMMODATIONS that are used in gem
eru conversation by most everybody,
and which are found in every book you
look into. A few of those IN general
use are as follows: Nimble as a
monkey, playful as n kitten, brilliant |
as a butterfly, fit as a fiddle, slick as |
an eel. as silvery as the sweetest
voiced bird, red as u boiled lobster, |
feeble as lambs bleats, thirsty as |
fish, gay as a lark, happy as SunV
bug, meek as lamb, lively as a crlck- |
ct, old as the hills, clear as crystal
dark as Erebus. fierce as ten turtles, as |
esteemed as virtue, coarse as lustlin' |
white as alabaster, pretty as a picture
agile as a goat, benign as SAINT |
ItrrE.f tVafr
bright as FURNISHED silver, black as
iet cold as ice, wise as Solomon, wide
as a church door busy as bee, obso-
lete as Selah and Amen, fimsy as
gauze, as gauzy and airy as a drifting
snow cloud, blue as the corn Hover IN
early summer, tempting as baked
apple, common as boiled cabbage hat
as a pancake, straight as string, hot
as Dutch love, common as back
fence cat, blind as bat, as romantic
as physic. still as a mouse, as unalter-
able as the spots on a leopard, fair as
a malden's dream, crazy as loon
lonely as a winters night, proud as "A
peacock, cool as cucumber, eNacuhB
as woman, true as steel, common
place as mud, mad as a March hare,
crazy as a bedbug, poor as Jobs tur-
key, cold as Greeland. sober as an owl,
dead as door nail green as gourd,
defunct as Hans Brelttman's "barty,
Straight as pendant strands or Whlp-
cora, as right as II tflNtls uIy US a.
bone, as full of meat as an egg, as
rotten as punk. hungry as wolf,
crafty as q fox, sharp as Il razor, beau
tlful as angels, sharp as tack, and
scarce as hens teeth.
These are but few comparisons
that come to mind without any pro-
tracted search. In every book you
read you will find many that are orig
inal and quaint-especlally in the old
books Of the Elizabethian age, and
even farther back. Take Chaucer. for
Instance. In his "House of Fame there
Is a beautiful comparison:
Full eek of windowes as flakes falle
In CRETE snowes."
Here is a chance for some aspiring
bibliomaniac TO distinguish himself.
II would take a lifetime to go through
the works quoted by Bartlett in his
Familiar Quotations. yet the result
would be interesting and of worth. II
band of bibllomaniacs should form
themselves into n club of comparison
hunters, the labor being divided up
systematically, II would not take a
long time to turn out satisfactorily
complete volume.
Miss Helen NJ. Gardener. associate
editor of the Arena and author of rs
This Your Son, My Lord and AN
Unofficial Patriot has been on lee
turing tour of the West, and was
greeted with large houses wherever
she appeared The subject of her lee
lure was woman as an Annex and
was pronounced brilliant at all points.
AZ one place somebody propounded
the following interrogatory; "oppo-
nents OF cemale suffrage urge that
women do not want the ballct what Is
your answer?'' 81 repudlate the term
female replied Mrs. Gardner. lin this
connection. a cow or hen is fe-
male. But as referring TO woman
sunrage,' and the speaker placed
marked emphasis on the term
"wcman."
There seems to be a general revolt
against the modern novelist, in so Tar
as he attempts to solve all social and
scientific questions. The novelist Is
able by weaving his theories into a
story, to reach n larger audience than
..he purely speculative writer, Hence
The man who has the gift of story
telling is able to launch himself as q
social reformer with one bound. Grant
Aliens The Woman Who Dld' is an
Example. No writer would dare TO sci
forth In q series OF essays the Ideas
found in MIR. Grant Aliens daring
work Even should a writer do So mt
would have a difficult time hnding O
publisher who would dare put them u
print. But II these Ideas are woven int
story, 1t is quite different matter
All of Dickens novels were writer
with purpose and they did mucl
good. beyond doubt. Yet Dickens books
tie social. not semi-rellgious nor scien
TIC, In a late number OF the Wett
ianstcr Review MIR. D. +. HannisaI
had some pertinent words TO say OF
ans subject:
"a tyrant has arisen in the republic
y letters. This tyrant Is tue moderl
novel The poet, the historian eNsi
me philosopher. must obey Wen de
hned laws. Not SO the novelist II
tor she) disregards all conventions
sud having got rid of all restraining
Influences, has drifted into literary an
erehy. Time was when fiction wa
e9hhned within certain limits, ina
TINE ia past. The latter-day noYehs
eebblcs IN every controversy, pretend
y solve every problem. airs ever.
nd and poses as an omniscient phil
esqpher OF course, something may ,
eAld for noyeiists ike N. lola and tn
Il 2hool Of ''naurallsts" which he ha
tyandcd. Such works as Il Asson1
4 mott "Germnal" and La Bette Hu
.l2lne.' revolving though they be, hay
he merit OF adhering. or at least prc
,sssins TO adhere. TO facts In so fai
however. as 81. Xoln and his follower