The morning times., 1896-11-22

Frank R. Stockton was born in Phila-
delphia In l S34.
Brown University lis In Is one hundred and
thirt y-second year.
Stevenson is well called sthe champion
OF classicism in prose"
The expected recession OF the Scot nov
eilsts refuses to take place.
late portrait OF Harold Frederic ina kes
him resemble Conan Doyle.
A two-v volume book to be issued in New
York this winter will cost 500.
A Vassar professor has prepared a scien-
ufic study of the servant question.
Biography has a conspicuous place among
Dodd, Mead " Co.'S rall publications.
Reports from London of Louise Chandler
Moulton's health are not at all encouraging.
There are Sc, 14I students in A merican
private schools; a52,93I in High Scbc OILS.
An edition of Moiere involving fifteen
wears preparation was last month published
in France.
Mr.. Barrie expresses greaeadmlration
for II G. Wells, the author Of The Wheels
of Chance.''
Marie Corelli recently declined to edit
London magazine and give the period
ical her name.
Ian Maclaren said recently that Harold
Frederic is the most widely read American
writer in England.
commemorative slab was recently
placed on Remains birth house in TreguIer-
He was born in 1928.
discussion is on in the literary jour
mails whether it is possible for real merit
10 escape reco ognition.
W Pett Ridge is young English writer
who is pointed to as reproducing Dickens
brisk. cheerful manner
Two new editions of walter Scott
are on HE market III fnrty-cight and twenty
five volumes respectively
Now that Simon and Saint-Hilaire are
dead. Erhrst Lcgorye Remains the only OC-
togenarian man OF letters.
Sir Edwin Arnold, who would fain have
been laureate, now sells pOeiry for adyer-
tsing. Deities and fishes!
Few people know that the official posi-
ton OF Tepys, "the diary man." was clerk
or the acts OF the navy board.
A magazine of authoritative standard
defines deCadcnce in literature willful
departure from normal standard.
Kate Douglas Wiggin is musician as we'll
as writer. She has set to music songs
by prominent contemporary poets.
The portrait OF Alexandra Dumas the
elder, painted by Meissonier in 1877, is TO
find place in the gallery of the Louvre.
Mr. Crockett has finished "LOchinvar,'
which is sequel TO The Men Of Moss
Hags." and Is now at work on The Red
AK
Brander Matthews makes plea for the
signed book review. There is Satisfac
ton in not having the blow corne out of the
dark.
The daughter of the late Charles Kings
with The Log OF a Naturalist i'll West
Africa
The French town OF Alais broke the rec
ord for unveiling statues by performing TINS
ceremony for three artistic reproductions
recently.
Thackery left positive instructions that
no biography OF him should he published
His letters. with notes, supply the meth
cd OF evasion.
Coppee. with real French galantry, ad-
sit.
cars visitation. Did lie forget She is a
German by birth?
Though Marie Corelli is resented by the
critics. her books are the most widely
sold, and heEce read, OF any OF thcprcscnt
writing wOnens.
The boom of Phil May is Icing worked
in 4 judicious way, that Promises his pro
motion to Du Maurier's vacant chair in
the Punch circle
''Gaston de Latour," an unfinished TO
nance. by the late Walter Fatcr. Is to hc
gwen the public. II is a story OF the st.
bartholomew period.
"Gyp,'' the lively French author, has
paused in her otherwise clever work 10
take an unw warr3nted fling at the Jews
a vicious as Drdmont's.
There are in the High schools of America
1UO,313 pupils studying Latin. 2.,t6O
studying German. li.g5s studying French
aud 1922 studying Greek.
-Quilcotc." the country home of Kate
Douglas Wiggin. where she does all 4er
teen miles from Portland.
Dean swift seems to retain a certain
measure OF popular,y; AZ Least sufficient M f,
prominent publishing house
i new novel is soon TO te published. in
which the inhabitants uf ars are de-
Scribed as coming to war with the IN
la bitants OF this mundane sphere.
The Gilders have prepared an Interesting
and unusual LITTLE book. II is called ''Trll-
byaEa,' and illustrates. the rise and prog
reSs OF the popular Du Maurirr book.
The English scientific authorities are
'eginning TO dispute the claim of Prof
Garner tnat he acquired the Language Of
the gorillas while living i'll Il cage i'll AfriCd.
A French writer on American customs
vouchsafes the astonishing Inform atIon tnai
AL American women chew. hence the
spittoOn is an ornament of every American
home
Tie undoubtcd interest taken in Vir-
gina literature Is cvidchccd by the m
stood among the test six selling looks
last month.
The London Bodey Head housr will pub
lish King Noanett' shortly after the h"ii-
days. This is undoubtedly the novel of the
season. such we proclaimed 1t when
first it appeared.
Agnes Repplicr has very satirical and
humorous attack on sunday schoel htera-
lure of prevalent kind in the Christ mas
scrihner's. She calls it Little Phari-
sees in Fiction
Marie Corclli's manuscript is thing Of !
beauty. She writes in small. but studi-
ouSly clear, black script. even as a plumb
line, and productive of as handsome a page
as type might produce.
There is in evidence a pronounced fad
for republishing in book form the random
sketches OF newspaper writers. The prac-
tice is open to a discussion, in which much
may be said on both sides.
The Harpers will publish Immediately n
new editionof Under the iTr,c.'
thus completing the uniform library edition
OF Mr. Hardy'S novels. Ii has been wise
enterprise. carriedout withadmirablet taste.
Jewish literature is to be given a thor
ough eXemplification in new series OF
books containing the best IN Jewish thought
1urary,'' ana the Macmllan's VIII puG-
Iish it.
Literary London has been in fever of
dscgsSon, over ne e,,s authM3rsmR OF whiIe wLhe
the book has been published for over a
month with Mr.. Anstey's name bold on the
title page.
The following sentence appeared re-
Gently in the Londo. Spectator: Another
cat which was watching SparrowS slipped
behind row ofpaving stones recently tax
en- up as soon as 1t saw the writer ap-
proaching and secured one driven over its
head"
Bliss Carmen. who la st year made a bril-
liant demonstration of his pOetical gifts,
and the ada ptability of his countenancc for
carCature. has reCcded to prose, and is con
Quoting discussions with himself in
Boston evening paper oyer the nom de phIne
"A Modern Atncnlan-
George Bernard shaw, the London novel
iSt, who has been a vegetarian for fifteen
years, says that the enurInity of eating
the scorched corpses of animals cannibal
ism with its heroic dish onhttei-becomes
impossible the moment il becomes CON
sciously instead of thoughtlessy habitual."
When Thoreau was locked up in the
Concord jail he refused to pay his tax,