The morning times., 1896-05-10

deep impression, has gone back to the apOs-
tolic era for the story or her forthC onI!ng
novel, John. Tale or King Messiah
This work has occupied Miss Wood five
years.
Lafcadio Hearn, whose Kokoro was men
toned last Sunday. 1t may interest readers
10 know, is a native of Smyrna. his father
was an Engiishman. his mother Il Greek.
lie pursued a Journalistic career in Amer
ica. but went to Japan and took Japan
csc wife. He is sufficiently cosmopolitan.
marble statue 10 Lord Byron has been
unveiled a / Athens, presented to the city
by Mr.. Demetrius StefanoviC SChCyliZZl.
the suggestion has been made that a min
iature of the work might appropriately be
presented TO anyone who can pronounce
the donors name without sneeZing.-EX.
All this time the Baconites say we have
been worshiplns false god. and now comes
eminent authority, Furnlvall, who says
we have Leen miSpronouncing the idoi's
name. Shakcspeare's name, he says, was
pronounced ShahkSpair. the having tie
sound OF in father and the care sound
ing as ait"
Chaplain Clark. of the New York flag
ship mas Ilnisned new Joe Bentley book.
The late Tom Hughes entered Rugby,
which he immOrtallZeu, IN 1888 In South
ern Virginia there Is an old colony OF
English settlers. whom he induced 10
come over to America. The village Is
called Rugby.
Harvard is the Oldest of the American
universities. II was founded IN 1888.
william and Mary, now known as Wash
ingtOn and Lee, was founded in 1893,
Yale in 1901; Princeton in 1746; the
University of nnsylvania in 174s' and
Kings College, now Columbia, of New
York city, i'll 1904.
An energetic inquirer who lately asked
Mr.. Andrew Lang to write down the
names of the hymns that have helped
me-" says the Bookman, did not find much
in Mr.. Langs choice to advertise a hymn
/ book, for he replied that the Homerlc hymns
had helped him most, especially those to
Demeter and Aphrodite.
The latest mongrel to SCamper into jour
nalism is the Wet Dog, a paper for people
lished in Boston. 1t barks alike at the
Just and unjust, merely for amusement; it
kicks up funny antics, and bites all the
unjust within easy reach" Boston has
infinite capacity.
Paul yerlaine was to q certain set, es-
pecally the younger poets, OF Paris
vertaDie literary sovereign. They have
elected as his successor Stephane Nal
| larme, who is in way famlllaT TO AIncr-
| cans as the man who translated Poe. An
| American artist, Whistler, made mas
! terpiece of his portrait.
There is a breath of sensationalism in
the announcement that the memoirs OF
| Bertrand Barcre are to he translated.
| Macauley called this man the greatest
i liar, debauchee, coward and brute that
ever lived Why go to another language
| FOR them WnSl our own Is So TlCu
| this caliber of degenerateS?
Palmer Cox drew his first Brownie pie
! lures to Illustrate story called The Bat
| tie of the Type" by Arthur Gilman. The
| usual heIter skelter scramble of the little
| people is represented as they HE away with
| the types, but the idea of nationality and
| individuality had not yet been introduced.
| They were all drawn from the same mind
| model. The first picture was published
| in SS1.
E. F. Benson. of Dodo fame, who has a
| story of Cambridge life running in the
| Granta, is now in Egypt. He is writing
| a romance, the scenes OF which are lad
! dependence, and filling up his spare time
| by excavating ruined temples. Mr.. Benson
| has been doing archaeological work in
| Greece under the auspices OF the British
School of Archaeology.
1t seems to be the fashion to change the
| titles of serial stories when they appear in
/ book form. The latest trick OF this sort
| is the rechristening of James Lane Aliens
| butterflies which was recently con-
cuded in the Cosmopolitan. MacMillen will
| call it Summer in Already Mr.. Aliens
aftermath and "A Kentucky Cardinal
| in Cambridge, Mass, is making the trans
lation.
Longfellow's advice to Mary Anderson
| was charged with that direct and simple
truth which we love in him so much: Sc,
some good picture-in nature. If possible
or on canvas-hear a page of the best
| music, or read great poem daily. You
will always find free half hour for ont
| or the other, and t the end or the yeal
your mind will shine with such an accu
| mutation of Jewels as TO aStOnish ever
yourself,
With the immense amount OF current
Information. every day ope ming ne W issues
| D roblems, positions and possibilities III