The morning times., 1896-06-07

ration even for local color in short
stories A Harvard man, born in Massa-
chusetts, be went TO Ohio in 1882; and
California-the 3,5O6-mile trip described
in his Tramp Across the Continent"
Col. John a Cockerill was a native Of
| ONO and was only fiffy-one at the time
or his death.
a short story is a one-act play" said
F HopkusOn Smith recently To an inter
viewer. "A novel is a siX-aCt play. with
china Xcs instead OF curtains. a short story
is one-stranded yarn, novel is a SIN
stranded yarn. To put the art OF short
story writing into single sentence You
Ia ke Il bit OF !lre; you make II btt OF lItera-
turc, ana then you make 1t work OF art
The June Forum has the continuation
OF BiurueSterneS BlurnsunS article on Nor
wegian literature: Thomas Went worth HiE-
gibson has an article on \. Keats manu-
script, d'ij Senator John Mitchell dis
cusses election II Senators bY popular vote
Ouida contributes u study liz royalty. AMI
WalnO Pratt discusses the Isolation OF music.
There is a beautiful fTOntlSDieCc in CulUrS.
TIE largest book in the world is the won
dcrfui kuth Daw. II consists OF T2S
parts. III the shape of white marble plates,
covered with inscriptions, eacf plate built
over with temple OF brick. II Is written
III Pail, ana rests III the city of Mandaidy, in
BurmaH The Old Testament contains 90
493 words and 2,72s 100 letters. The
( kuth DaW contains 2i0,20o StanZas and
$500, 900 syllables.
authors, has an expose of a carefully
planned scheme for making money through
a literary agency, which advertised FOR
manuscripts, aud having got them pro-
Ceeded 20 offer to buy them, but first
wanted cash fee for revising them and
then a cash fee for membership A uumhcr
of Washington parties complain OF having
/ been TIE victims to the scheme.
''Inthe March Mcclure S Mrs Phelps Ward.
III her Chapters From Life, ma kes the
remarkable statement that she practically
/ IF hgafx
! after tea-time and O'Clock the next morn
ing. This is at The rate or about thirty
nine pages an hour. says correspond,
( ent, and asks: docs not this break all
previous records. and would not type
/ writer be j hindrance TO such rapid
| writer?'
Sir Edwin Arnold is said-to have ore Of
| the most remarkable memories in Eng!an nj.
| A frenI OF the poets CHANGED tn read
| TO him the opening line of one of Whit
! mans poems the other day, wheTeurun
| Arnold interrupted him and repeated the
| entire poem from memory. Arnold then
recited every poem i'll the book, which hap
| pened to he the Leaves Of Grass; and
| succeeded i'll recalling every word OF even
J the most obscure poems.
! one of the most famous testers in his
| tory was TribOulet. at the court of fran
| els |. A great noblcman who had sur
rcrga from TrhOulet'S ihcS threatened Ia
| have him tagged. The Jester complained
! to the king. Have no fear Francis
| SAID for if any one were bold enough to
Kill YOU ! should have him hanged in an
| Triboulet would it not please YOUR ma
! icstv to have him hanged an hour before?
The Englishman." SAYS Mr.. Kipling.
will die for liberty. but he doesn't care
! a straw for equality. The Frenchman. on
| the other hand. doesn't really know what
! liberty means. but he must have equality.
! As for the American, he is indifferent TO
both liberty and equality. and goes in heart
| and soul for fraternity. This is really the
| hane of the American nation; so long as n
! man is a good Fellow he can do ANYTHING
| and people Will approve. or, at least, viii
| tolerate il.
! There are cases in evidence which give
| the lie to the complaint of English I'M
| willingness to publish American offerings.
| Marion era wford' first book, Mr.. ISaaCS.'
was taken by the Macmillan London house
| Logan Pearsall Smith is credited with the
| finest sketch of Oxford life yet given. Capt.
Mahan Is more popular abroad than at
home Mr.. Gladstone aud all England
| have taken up Mr.. Frederic's strange new
hook The first enthusiasm over the Rec
! Badge of Courage came from over the
/ sea.
Israel Zanauill does most of his writing
! away from London, but when in the city
he works at study table covered foot
deep with letters. Each page or S SCRIPT
! entaiIing search at the end of each sit
ting His brother works at tie other end
| of this table, and is scrupui0usly orderly
| But as work progresses Israel hens HIM Ill
| more and more. until halt is called, and
reconstruction is ordered The popular
! time OF work for these two is from 10
p. ~. to 3 a. m.
The following interesting facts are gath
| cred from the report of the State library
commission in Massachusetts. There are 25t
towns and cities in Massachusetts in which
| the rights are owned and controlled by the
| municipalities, aud are free for circulation
| to all the people. In three years the NUM-
Der of bound volumes in free public libra RES
of the State have been Increased from p
759.4OO to 3.139,637. MASSACHUSETTS,
has spent in one year the sum of S437 .395
upon these various libraries. 1t is the
| most generous State in the Union in its
| libraries.
Steps are already being taken To cele
brate the 4O0th anniversary of Melanc-
thon's birth on February 16, 1897, at his
birthplace, Brettin, in Baden. The grand
duke of Baden has consented To act as pa
tron of the enterprise. which was started
and is being actively promoted by DR..
Nicholas Muller, professor of theology in
Berlin. The foundation of MelancthOn
| Museum on the site OF the house in which
he was born, which is now occupied by a
building of modest pretensions, Is pro-
posed. The site belongs to The Protestant
community of Brettin.
While John Bright was uttering his ap-
! neal against the continuance OF the Crimean
! war to a hostile House of Commons his pc ro-
ration. in which his oratory took its highest
! flight was listened to in a silence which
BETRAYED that the House, though impressed.
said the orator, has been abroad through
out the land: Won may almost hear the
beating OF his wings" "The beating of
the wings might have been audible could
it have occurred; but so alive was the criti-
| cal sense of the House that Bright'S friend
Richa rd Golden. who was present. re-
| ma rked: ''If he had said Tapping we should
have laughed at once"