Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-12-07
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"whcre Highways Cross" is in the
Iris Library. The author Is Mr.. ]. 8.
Fletcher, whose Thorcau-llke work,
"The Wonderful Wapentakc,' and q
stirring romance. entitled "wheu
Charles the First Was King" have In.
troduced him to American readers.
A very beautiful book soon to be pub.
lishcd Is the Tonga waited Book about
Fans" comprising the history of fans
and fan painting, by NJ. A. Flory, to-
gethcr with chapter on fan collecting
by Mary Cadwaladcr Jones. The Nus.
trations are photographs of the finest
specimens Of the art, reproduced for
the most part from originals.
Since the copyright law has been pass.
cd. the enormous American sale re.
sulting from the protection given to
British authors has made reputation
and fortune for such authors as Rud.
yard Kipllng. Anthony Hope HAWKING.
Rider Haggard. 4. X. Crockett, J. NJ.
Barrie, etc. A. Z. Watt, the English
literary agent" who has built up q
splendid business for himself by plac.
Ing to the best advantage the produc-
lions Of the leading English writer's.
and whose opinion Is consequently en-
titled TO respect, recently got back to
London from a visit to the United
States, where he had been looking over
the field, and expresses himself as "lm.
mensely impressed by the market he
found there for British literary
wares"
The Saturday Review says that the
queen has been pressed to make W. L.
Henley the poet laureate, and adds:
''T'he appointment would not he UNIT II
william Morris ana Mr.. Swinburnc and
Coventry Patmore had previously re.
fused the post" As for Sir Edwin
Arnold, the Saturday administers this
little dose: "He II past master Of
clhptrap, Of the turgid. the bombastic.
and the rhetorical; and we are at Q
loss whether to envy him more tho
knowledge OF languages which enables
him to translate lndiffcrently from so
many tongues. or the superb assurance
with which he dubs his execrablc verso
poems" Lord Salisbury's accession to
power, in the opinion of most people.
made the selection OF Sir Edwin secure.
for he Is one of the editors OF the Daily
Telegraph, the most influential Liberal.
Cnionist paper supporting the govern
mcnt. Recently Sir Edwin Lawson.
proprietor OF the Daily Telegraph. had
been canvasslng vigorously In Sir Ed.
win Arnold's behalf The New York
Suns correspondent recently cabled
that ut Is rumOred that Sir Edwin has
actually received the appointment. and
that an announcement to this effect will
appear in an carly issue of the Official
Gazette.
| A question that Is agitntlng the Eng
llsh press Just now Is, "What II a lit.
crary blackleg" A recent paragraph
says: According to Robert Sherard.
1t Is n reviewer, n man who IL hired by
newspaper proprictors 10 write down
'innovators.' A literary blacklcg' II
| also a successful author who reads
manuscripts for a publisher. 'These
literary blacklegs. says Mr.. Sherard.
ARE so-called men Of letters. and
should he with us. but prefer to be Ish.
maels, with one hand against the an.
thors and the other hand extended for
the coppers Of those who are not the
friends of men of letters From this
It appears that you cannot be review.
err without being an Ishmacl, that no
newspaper proprietor ever befriends
men Of letters, that successful author
say. George Meredith or James Payn
who reads for publisher Is black.
leg and Also In the elegant dictlon Of
Mr.. Shcrard, n public spittoon.' Tho
'blacklegs' stalk untarred and unfcath.
ercd.' and Mr.. Shcrard proposes that q
black book containing their names
and addresses, should be carried by
every honest author. who will then
know the company he ought to kick.
And, II anybody thinks all this Is rath-
or extravagant. Mr.. Sherard Ia prepar.
ed to give him satisfaction"