The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-29
Which in due season. he though with rea.

Which In due season, he though with rea-
son,
Might well be known to fame,
Like all the rest he wrote as u test
A most imposing pile
OF poetical works. with quibs and quirks
In the Austin Dobson style;
He blithely sang Uike Andrew Lang)
In ballade and willamette.
But he found in time that these forms Of
Are not the forms that sell.
Lowell. Thoreaus. Disraeli. Poe,
He copied them all in turn;
Tried Anthony Hope. turned back to Pope,
Lamb. Addison. Swift and Sterne;
The styles that he priced he plagiarizcd
With an infinite deal of toll,
And, being no laggard, he grated Hag-
On Du Maurier. Kipling Doyle.
But each poem or tale he would write and
The mark contrived to miss.
TIL in dull despair he rumpled his hair.
And wrote him a rhyme like this!
THE MORAL
Is. then, that it's not the pen
OF another that brings one pelf,
But the simple truth an original youth
Has the sense to write himself!
Guy Wetmore Carryl. in Munsey's.
Ill
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS:
Bret Harte has just completed new
story entitled Two Americans" and
he will soon publish a new volume Of
poems.
Mary Anderson Navarro's "A Few
Memories" will be published soon by the
Harpers.
Hall Gaines new novel, upon which he is
now engaged. will be published first in the
Windsor Magazine.
Robert Bars new novel, "A Woman
1ntervenes," portrays modern life at high
pressure In London and New York and
will be Illustrated with 20 full-page. half
tone engravings after original designs by
Hurst, the English artist: Frederick A.
Stokes company will publish it in New
York.
Ian Maclaren, who Is plain Rev. John
Watson, whose stories are SO widely read
in this country, as emanating from a
Scottish brain. Is not Scotsman at an
but was born at Manningtree, Essex coun-
ty, England He went TO school In Scot
land and was pastor Of a church there.
ana for twenty years past he has been
a Presbyterian pastor In England.
Colonel John Hay, Lincoln's private sec
retary and biographer will contribute to
McClure's Magazine for March, paper
on Ellsworth, the young colonel or the
Ellsworth Iouaves. who was shot down, at
the beginning of the war, by an AeXan-
death, Ellsworth had had very roman
tic career; and Colonel Hay. having been
especially intimate with him, knows all
the details of It. His paper will embrace
extended passages from very interesting
journal left by Ellsworth; and 1t Will be
Illustrated with several portraits and other
pictures.
Readers of the Cosmopolitan may re-
member a story entitled "Jim Lancy's
Waterloo" by Ella w. Peattie. which ap..
peared several years ago. 1t IL powerful
bit of realism founded In fact and ct
tracted much attention to the magazine,
and to the state of Nebraska, In which the
scene Is laid. The author, who Is an edi-
torial writer on the Omaha World-Herald,
Is widely known in the middle west as a
writer of a number of tales of western
life, full Of local color. and characterized
by much finish and charm. A collection or
these tales. with the title "a Mountain
Woman" is announced by Way < Will
Jams (Chicago) for publication in April.
1.-THE Lamp of Gold sonnet sequence
composed of forty-nine sonnets divided
into seven parts of seven sOnnets each. Is
announced for publication in April by
Way & Williams. Chicago. The idea of
in Hawthorne's Marble Faun" to the
seven -branched golden candlestick uhe
holy candlestick of the Jews. which was
lost at the Ponte Molle In Constantine's
time). The author of the present sequence
is Miss Florence l.. Snow. the president
of the Kansas Academy Of Languages and
Literature. The book will be exceedingly
dainty, the entire edition being on hand
made paper. with the sonnets printed on
the right-hand pages. and with symbolic
decorations by Mr.. Edmund ii. Garrett.