The morning times., 1896-08-09

ed. Such is the composition OF the Old South
Historical Society, and II row numbers, IN
winners or pfiZe essays since 1881, about
100 members.-The BookmaD.
Aubrey De We're is paying his annual visit
to London, ami his venerable figure. ac-
cording 10 writer in the London Chron-
icle. Is 10 be seen each ate IN the
Athenaeum Club. Though eghty-two years
OF age, Mr.. De We're still taxes a keen in
teresL in current literature and life He
is one OF the very few men still living
who walked and talked with Wordsworth.
Among the contributors to the August
Forum are jules simon; on : French
College sixty Years Ago" Senator Cullom.
on biuDders OF IA Democratic AdmiEistra-
ion W. H.. Mallock, on "Aitruism "a
yer Epidemic" Juins H. Ward, on ''Har-
riet Beecher Stowe andseveraI others. II
will he seen that the standard is high, DIS
csuai, IN subjects and writer's.
The publication OF Du Maurier's new
series, 1.-THE Marian" will Legin in the
October Dumoer OF Hsrpers- ALI the
manuscript and illustrations are here
1t will lie completed in ten parts Like his
earlier stories, ii has its cores OF pSyCholoSi-
cal mystery, and its title was suggested by
IA resent talk bout the possible inhabitants
OF Mars. But NJ DuMaurier does rot lay
his scene in Mars: antwerp, Paris ami
London afford his characters their widest
range
Mr.. Gladstone likes medfocrty to those
spirits IN Dante whom heaven could not.
and he'll would not, receive. He presses
Horace into his service as bard-coo-
demDing spirit. Gods and men and the
stalls OF booksellers alike refuse place TO
the rniddliDg-in poetry "Woeis met the
poor minor bard may say on reading this,
but has not Mr. u. himself written mid
ding poetry? And didn't Mfr. Ruskin write
the worst poetry that ever came from a
great mans pcn?
A writer in the Saturday Review de-
srrthas Mr. "a This ma
OF apt, entertaining aliusion, knowledge,
extensive reading. chopped fine. perhaps.
nut certainly NOT uigesucd. a SIND OF law
yef's knowledge OF literary precedent. And
nothing further. save only more knowl-
edge and still more knowledge In the
same article Mr.. ). R. Crockett is spoken
Of as creature OF s,ireds and patches. who
ranks with Stevenson in the minds of the
academic schools
Thomas Hardy was thirty-one before he
began To turn his attention TO storytelling.
George Eliot was forty before she wrote
five before he thought OF writing verse
Jules Verne was thirt y-five before he wrote
his first story. Rider EagEard started at
tweDty-seyen; Grant Allen a twenty nine.
aud Sir Walter Resant ana & Aanville
Fem at thirty. George Meredith was
nearly thirty-three when he began TO write
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says tina; she used
to write poetry 70 pay household bills
Ito buy carpet for mothers room. Tor
example-and one night after a party she
wrote four bad poems to buy herself
some new slippers and a pair OF gloves.
Her circumstances nowadays do not war
rant her writing except when the spirit
moves. for a publisher of her verses sa.I
some time ago that her Income from Der
published works last year was greater
than that of any other living American
poet.
The fondncss Of John Ruskin for fanciful
titles to his books and headings 10 MS
mo- -h..rn h.aff shawn fhEn
in his Seven Lamps OF Architecture In
some respects this work en- what,may lie
called the ethics OF architecture is his test
performance, having fIt shnesS that does
not appear in several CT his other prcduc
tons The work is divided INTO seven
chapters or LaTpsssaeTitiee sr THU NH
dience-each OF these being ella borately treat
ell with reference TO its manifestation In tile
work of the builder.
Tine Ecox1nan for August is most in
teresting number; A portrait OK William
is the fIontiSpiece. followed by an inter
esting article on the celebrated American
critic and poet English as She Is Jap.
some extracts from the Official guide
hook To Kyeto aud the three prefectureS
Nietzsche and his philosophy and ,he late
william Hamilton Gibson are subjects oil
Rambler are up to their usual excellent
standard
Mr.. Brander Matthews receives many
letters commenting upon his article upon
The Poetry of l1ace Names. published
in the July Scribner. AMI furnishing addi-
tional scraps of Information. One man IN
Tacoma sends him railroad time tahie
showing the name of the station "Eno.
MA" which was originally "Heli-to-pay,
and states that the modification OF the
name was m a ie by Mr. II. W. Fairweather,
now of Spokane, when division slpefiutend-
ent OF the N p. R-'R. Another correspond
emf SAWS that it Is Placerviiie. not Marys-
Vile, which was formerly Hangtown. Cal:
and that the original name or Marysvile
was Nye's Ranch.
The Unioue Italo-A meicana Is the name
of weekly newspaper, priptal IN itailan,
to be first issued at the beginning OF the
month of September next, in this CITY. THIS
weekly paper has for its aim the estab-
lishment OF helpful relations and union
between the labor and mutual italian as
sociations, as well as the clubs. schools
and chu riches in the United states. The
members Of these associations will be in
.dIced to become law-aDiding American cit
izcns and afforded the means OF profiting
nv the advantages Offered by thus great
republic Out OF about COO Italo-Amsr
lean societies xistinS III the United states
over leo of them have already gwen adj
hesicn To this publication. which no doubt
will prove SO useful to Italian immigra-
ton. The publishers are the nm OF A
Trpisi & Co, formerly editors or La voce
d'Italia, of San Francisco. Cal, and OF
ii Corriere Itaiianu of Galveston. Tex.
So