Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-01
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English reviewers have suggested both
Herbert Spencer and James Bryce rs
the possible authors of the anonymous
reply to Max Nordau, entitled "Regen-
Grafton"
Stephen Crane now announces that
his first book, Maggie, a Girl of the
Streets" was not refused by long list
of publishers, for the reason that he
never offered it to any Of them, but
published it himself.
Clinton Scotland has resigned his pro-
fessorship of English literature at Ham
ilton College, and intends to devote
more time to writing. He has written
an epic of the American Indian, which
will be printed in the autumn.
The fact that DR.. Conan Doyle is 60
ing to the Soudan for a London jour
nal has astonished many people. Conan
Doyle, however, says that the delights
of newspaper work are equal to any
thing that successful novel writing be-
gets.
George w. Cable explains that his
story, Madame Delphine," was written
in response to request from quad
room who had read "'Tite Roulette"
that he would present the case of quad
room women more clearly, and tell the
whole truth
AS sister volume to the handsome
''Song Of Songs Gilbert Hubbard,
of the Philistine and the Roycroft
printing shop in East Aurora, N. Y, is
bringing out "The Journal of Kobe
leth: Being Reprint of the Book OF
Ecclesiastes With an Essay"
The London Times is suing the Cen
trail News Company, charging that the
dispatches regarding the japanese war
which were supplied by the Central
News were in some cases entirely fab
ricated, and in other cases largely al
tered and expanded, and that by pub
fishing them the Times suffered in rep
utation.
The Soclete DIES Gems de Lettres has
made with an advertising agent a con-
tract, by the terms of which French
books are to contain several leaves of
advertisements of all sorts. These will
be bound in the back covers of every
volume. the money earned from this
contract by the society is to be applied
to it's authors pension fund.
John Bonner gives this as the Ian
guage of a British officer lately return
ed from India: "Kipling? Oh, yes,
know him very well. Dirty little black
guard! Used to go up to Simla when it
was full Of army men and officials of
the civil service, and used to hang
round the billiard tables and verandas
to listen to everything that was said,
and printed 1t all In a dirty little paper
of which he was a repOrter-a sneak
and an eavesdropper; dirty little
blnckguard You never could tell Sc
cret among his friends that he did not
ferret ii out and print it, And he drew
us so that the portraits were unmistak-
able, 10y Jove. A dirty little backyard,
sir; a chee-chee."
Tho London Chronicle prints the fol
lowing extraordinary statement: 1--WE
had not thought that it would ever be
our unpleasant duty TO deal with MI
Robert Buchanan personally in these
columns. A letter, however which he
addressed recently to the Star concern
ing this paper compels us to make one
brief, but, we think, sufficient comment.
Mr., Ruchanan's letter, so far as it re.
lates 10 cur criticism of Jude the Oh
scure,' Is a lie from beginning TO end.
Having characterized Mr.. Buchanan's
letter, we beg him TO understand that our
columns are not open to him for an ex.
preston of opinion upon this or any
other matter. The OILY method of COM
munlcation in future between ourselves
and this gentleman will be through om
solicitors"
or Mrs, Gertrude Atherton's "a
Whirl Asunder," the Critic says: THE
author brings together a strong, manly,
well-poised young Englishman. who is
engaged to homely English girl, and
capricious Californian, whose will is
her law, and who has never been cross
ed in her wishes and whims. She falls
in love with the Englishman, of course.
and he with her; but loyalty survives,
and the girl lacks, at the last moment,
the courage to win him by the means
which Arabella employed to win Jude
All this happens under the Californian
redwoods, and more or less under the
auspices of the Bohemian Club of San
Francisco, which we do not hold re-
sponsible, however, for this whirl
asunder, and still less for the whirl
together that preceded it,"
Not Worth a Rush.
When one says of anything that it is
mot worth a straw" one means TO
imply that it is worthless. The older
saying was mot worth a rush." and
this brings out the origin of the phrase.