The morning times., 1896-06-21

L
Bliss Carmen is glad to be home He doe
not IKE TO trdsel. ,,se fcnna Lnbaon ponuer
GUS aud massiye, New York makes him rest
less nnd uneasy and In Boston only il b,
| perfectly at home.
Louise Stockton. who writes for the
magazines, Is Il sister OF Frank r. Stock
ton. Katharine Pyle is making the be
| ginnings OF a reputation which may riva
brother Howar1s.
French revolutions still have q fascina
| uon tor .he novelist. The Reds Of th,
Midi. 'The Red RepubIic'' and ..Wher
Greek Meets Creek are the three last K
| illumine the subject
| George Moore is quoted as sa ying that hI.
next novel Will not be ready for twelve
month. Whereat- there is no complaint
Decency and cheerrnlness are popular II
literature at present.
land tnat Robert Barr had been committed
to an inebriate yasylum, which his pub
fishers. denying. reply that Robert Bar
does not drink drop.
William Osborne Ssoddard. the author a
Little Smoke" .YThe Windfall' and otheI
stories. was ut oaee time President LIN. Lin.
coins private secretary. His bound vol
umcs number thirty three.
Nine; Blanc contribntes thirty-page arti
Gle on Octave Thanet to recentnuniber ol
American woman"a little masterpiece ol
honest ana piquant Iealisni.'
Tie Pocket Magazine has among its con-
tributors to the July number Mrs. Burton
Harrison, mary 2. wilkins, Eugene Field
and HamliD Garland. A creaitahle lis.
is this for this lhtle periodical.
Mr.. W. n Meredith, son OF Mr.. George
Mered1th, is now q partner in the publish
Ing house or MesSrs. Archibald Constable &
Company. Mr.. George Meredith's books
nave been Issued by this firm for some little
time.
Peterson's this.montll gives US the third
1nstallrnent of the Life of Gen. Robert
Z. Lee Frank Carpenters "reminiscences
o. Lincoln and j. II. Browns American
Naval Heroes" are two other patriotic
papers.
Some of the friends of Thomas Hardy.
the author OF Jude; the Obscure" say
thas the hero of the book is u portrait OF
the author--DOt in the story of his career,
hut in characteristics, especially ia his
dislikes.
Mrs. OlIpiant has moved into her new
home in Wimbledon Common. 1t is called
Inc hermitage, and is anything but pic
turesque, but there is a pIofusit,i Of flow
ers on the window si.lS, and the garden is
delightful.
II. Philip Whitinarsh, author OF 1.-The
|. Meeting on the Jimmy Hitken." in a
current magazine, is u Boston wholesale
DRUGGIST He has been In turn sailor,
pearl diver, electrician, business man and
iitterateur.
Another story on Richard Harding Davis
Is 70 the effect that he said to a stranger:
you think OF reason?" II can think of
seven, was the answer, and Davis never
asked them.
When Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge enter
tanned at dinner Mark Twain, W. ID. How
ellis, Richard Watson Glider and Rudyard
kipilng, the conversation took Il turn which
resulted III the publication OF the Rikki-
tikkftavi stories.
1t will be surprise to many who
thougnr tnat the author OF "Festus,'
punished IN 1888, had died long ago, TO
hear that Philip James Bailey celebrated
his eigbtieth birthday on April 22 at his
birthplace, Nottingham.
A st. Louis man has written "A Boy
Called Checkers Chicago firm pub
fishes 1t. and there has been no explosion.
Has the lion come to lie down by the lamb
that Chicago should credit st. Louis with
anything worth publishing?
An expurgated edition of tom Jones'
is In course OF preparation by Mrs. j. n.
Fielding, the wife of the novelist's grand
son. and the book will soon be pubiished in
London. A biographical sketch OF Field
ing Will accompany the story.
Charles A. Dana ascribes his uuinter-
ruptedly good health during fifty years
of literary and journalistic iabors to the
inahurry. And he lived in New York. which
makes the marvellous Of the wonderful.
Geogre W. Cable was born in the South
hut lives IN Northampton. Mass. II is
said that though Il Southerner by tradition
and rearing. he is 1nstinctively a Puritan,
and no one could be more rigidly CON
scientious or severely orthodox than he.
The Scots Observer gave Kenneth Graham
his first full ll.'frank and free hearing. He Is
a London bachelor arrfster. and his ad-
nlirers Call his Sketches .unrhymed Poems 4"
He says he writes for living. That must
shock the girls VINO read his productions
Talk OF Yankeeyshre wdness! An English
firm advertises the publication OF "A List
OF Ten Thousand Charitable Persons ~
Fancy the mail Offhe charitable Ten Thou
sand when the unciiaritable millions have
this book in hand and begin their begging
letters.
The prolixity oeMr. Blackmore is so pro-
nounce'i that he ac.in spread the simplest
plot over the pages Of the most volurninous
novel. This is anfnrtistic defect not wholly
excused even bys,the shrewd humor and
kindly human feeling always characteristic
or his work.-Dial.
Stowe" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps opens
the June McClure'A- There is a Jungle story
by KipliHg, sketclr and numerous inter
esting pictu res Of Mark Twain. sketches by
of Anthony Hopes story.
Recent Joan OF Arc literature. of which
there is a raft. includes Mark Twain's Rec
elections Andrew Lang's monk OF
Fife Francis c. L0well's Life of JOAN
nS Mrs Mrs Hrlsa9ry OF Ia pnSee
tn" tale of the heroine OF Domremy will be
out.
Guy Rose illustrates Bishop Doane's ad-
mirable article on Athens in the June Har
lures particularly appeal. One is de-
scription by q. F. B. Lynch of curious
settlement by Russian sect in A Armenia,
the other Howard Pyle's delightfully."- il
Through Inland Waters"
Frederick Stokes has gathered together
number OF short stories OF humorist James
L. Ford. and has chrstened the volnn.e
'Bohemia INVADED after the first of
them The thirteen tales are equally good
nave rGa seen tse luther appreeate that much
of his fun is at the expense OF himself
Mr.. Rudyard Kipl!ng is Just finishing
new serial story which promises to
rival the Mowgi stories in interest and
fisheries. and is described by the author
as beirg marine. special, technical, and
adventurous Altl gether 1t promises to
he one of the most important works which
Mr.. Kip!ir e has yet written.
Criticism is a function in England that
differs widely from Criticism here" says
Bliss Carmen. There. critics are not on
the lookout for new things that are good
They discuss the Sccepted authors with Win
into their hands. they review 1t methodi-
caIly and conscicntiously. The criticism
is a finished literary production, but 1T
Toes not stimulate the imagination ind
provoke a desire ior the lock. That is DOT
what it is designed to do"
Mr.. Andrew Tuers forthcoming His
tory Of the Horn Book" from which in early
ays our ancestors learned their A b c, is
dedicated by command to the Queen of
England, and is the third book written by
an author thus distinguished. He has been
able to discover about $50 examples of
horn books still in existence, which are all
described in his pages. The work will be
in two Quarto volumes, illustrat ted with two
copperplatc frOn,ispieces, and 800 other
Recessed iD tie inside covers