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The morning times., 1896-05-10
LITERARY NOTES.

Sir Walter Besant is editor Of the London
Author.
zangwill is the most popular reviewer in
London.
Edward Arnold, the English publisher
is in New York.
A brother of Andrew Long died recently
in New Zealand.
Blgelow Papers was one of Tom Hughes
favorite books.
Miss Phelps new story is referred to as "a
novel of emotion"
1t is estimated that new Illustrator
becomes famous every year.
Gladstone is persistent letter writer and
always writes with pencil.
They still sell degrees in London from
spurious American universities.
Rochefort's Memoirs brings a new on
slaught on Marie Antoinette.
A life Of Stepniak, the Russian, is about
to be published by his widow.
Columbia College recently celebrated the
occupancy OF its new buildings.
Miss Worme!ey is the most successful
translator of Balzac into English.
Maeterlinckis spreparinga q volume ofessays
on the literature of the English symbolists.
The translation of Schiller's Song of
the Bell'' was made by the late DR.. Furn ess.
The history of the Pre-Raphaelte Bro
therbood is life OF Dante Gabriel Ros-
The morning times., 1896-05-10
THE PRETTY PRINCESSES.

DEAUTY is shown to be no more or less
ID regarded in princess than in an or
dinary Mortal when matrimony comes
to the front.
The marriage of the third daughter OF
the Duke OF SaXe-CobUrg recently was a
case in point. This pretty girl was only
seventeen when size became bride and her
two elder sisters were likewise very young
when married This is merely pointed out
as u contrast 10 fhe manner in which the
daughters Of the Prince of Salcs have chung
tothe parentstem, although now the Princess
Maud has become enga ged and the only one
already married went outside the rOyal
houses for n husband But then the chill
dren of the Duke OF Edinburgh are all
remarkably handsome, while those Of the
hcir-apparcnt tu England'S throne are as
nOticeably ugly.
Their heavy. thick-fe atureG faces. with
bad teeth and duh cGmpIexlons. are the
greatest contrast to the bright, well set up
young girls on their uncle's side Of the
house. And the pretty princesses. like the
pretty cOmmoncrS, have been the ones to
marry young.
The morning times., 1896-05-10

is only one point / should like TO EN-
phasiZe in these six types of modern wo-
nlanhood," says. the autEor, wLo is Gee
brated for her literary criticisms, and the
beauty of her style, .'aud that is the mani
festation of their womanly. feeling
want TO show how il asserts itself in
spite of everything-in spite of The theo-
ries OH which they built their lives: in spite
of the opinions OF which they were the
teachers; III spite of The success which
crowned their efforts and bound them I'm
stronger chains than if their lives had been
passed in ohscurity A woman
who seeks freedom by Ineans of the Tod-
ern method of independence is generally
one who wishes TO escape from woman's
suffering
''She is anxious to avoid subjcction, also
motherhood, and the dependence and i'm.
personality of an ordinary woman's life;
but in so doing she unconSciouSly depriyeS
herself of her womanliness. For them all
for Marie Bashkirtseff as much as the
otlfers-the day came when they found
themselves standing AT the door of the
hearts innermost sanctuary. and realized
tisat they were excluded. Some of them
burst open the door, entered and became
mans once more. Others remained out
sideanddedthere." ItisscarceIy necessary
after these few words with Frau Hanson
that her translation should tell us that in
all her writings she looks at life through
the Spcctacles OF a happy marriage; she
believes that Il matured thought and n
wiiencd view can-in a woman's case-be
only the direct result of marriage. and con
sequently she considers marriage to he ab
solutely Indispensable To every woman, and
that without II she is mentally and morally
undevcloped.
This Is leturi then TO early standards.
HFN tltnl
of six great representatives OF her sex. and
finds them women first and unhappy only
IN thelack of the appurtenances CT womanly
character. The line OF thought is not
parallel with that pursued by other women
OF radical expression, but finds sustain
ment in her seQuential logic and in the
heart OF men.
The morning times., 1896-05-10
ABOUT THINGS LITERARY
Robert Barr COmposes His
Novels on the Typewriter.
RELATING TO NEW BOOKS
Some Authors Pin Their Affections
TO a Particular Work from
Their Pen.
TO NEW BOOKS

k lOW the interviewer OF literary folk
N has a new query TO fire at his
subject or object. 1t has come in
with the rush OF the inevitable, and
is just as fashionable in its own sphere
as certain other forms of mild idioCy in their
pre-enpted fields. IL Csed TO De tie Gus
tom for The timid interviewer 10 slip out of
his goloShes and into the easy chair, prop
his knees very near his nose, take
long pull and a strong pull al the sharpened
end of his pencil, if II were d briar-
wood, then coyly suggest that the dis
TmguIshcd gentleman voucbSaie an account
of his earliest effort. Other glittenng
and Ecintillating iDterrogatories, such as
''Wnat is your favorile poct?" and DO
you compose better before breakfast or
after dinner" were given voice, while
The furIIve eye OF the scribe made invoice
of the desks litter and the embroidery on
the Shpp rs. Blt al JuiS ls SuDserVIenJ now
10 the new and enG-of-ihe-century query,
DO YOU use a typewriter No inter
viewer, with any prelensions 10 auJhen-
ucity or completeness, omitS this fashion
able item. II lurns out that many Of the
popular fiction grinders DO use The machine,
and frequent contributors To periodicals
find II quite necessary.
Robert Barr has passed tie five finger
exercises stage in his association with
the iu>i umcnt, and quite recently he
spent several months ON The banks of tie
picturesque NOSelle in a moldy German
castle ,hegun in tie year 1900 producing
fourteenth century romance. with Il Ccle-
bratcd seiEe of that castle fer a back
ground. on an American type writer! Charles
Dudley warner. however. who adorcS the
how kuCt in ant and took so arGently to
the pink tea movement ia modem acstheti-
CiSm. tahoCS tie type writer. He'll have
none or il. He iS very severe upon this
inteTlopcr upon the grand old pen and
The trU>ty ink-bOtt!c. Gladstone is of
the same mind as Warner. hut he keeps
his temper. The Younger American au-
thOrS take kindly 10 The new helpmatc,
aud sill lcforc their Instruments drumming
out word poems instead of noise poems.
and ticking by the hour symphonic love
stories as heart reaching as tie passages
Mozart and RubcnSten tapped out of
their SpinetS every morning after break
fast. Some EngliShmen CCnCede the in
HrumCut TO their amanEenSeS, but the
French are set against the innovation They
squelchii with an argumentwhichA Americans
would transpOse. The G@ul shrieks. Was
not the pen MADE fiT>t?' The Yankee re-
plies wilh another question, conclusive
To him Wasn't the typewriter made
laSt?"
The morning times., 1896-05-10
4 lot another day in the history of Ameri-
~ can literature, perhaps, has the
same double significance as last

4 lot another day in the history of Ameri-
~ can literature, perhaps, has the
same double significance as last
Monday. This was the centennial
of the birthday Of Americas great
est historian and Americas greatest edu-
Gator. May 4, 1896. was the birthday of
William Henry Prescott and Horace Mann.
Both men ovcrcame serious obstacles in
their supreme attainment Mann was the
son Of a poor Massachusetts farmer, and
labored to buy the books from which he
learned bis letters. His progression was
characteriStically American throughout,
parallel with Lincoln and Garfield in expan-
sion from ohScUrty and poverty to emnence
PresCOtt's sad affliction had visited many
men in literature before him. His light went
out when he was yet a boy in Harvard
He was consumed with i desire to write
n great history of Ferdinand and Isabella.
He had sent abroad for precious works and
in the midst of them nc found himself s one
pininS with hunger in the midst of abund-
ancc. As has been pointed out, his achieve
ment was much more significant than Mil
tons. Poets drew their melody from within
them. Their affliction could not dry up
the sources of their inspiration. An his
torian'S S materials lie without him. He must
obtain his facts from books and documen nts
For nne-haIf of his work he must depend on
o1h1iS- 81 'iIuItlN tiu Nhtoh iedbEe liiiS
that he gave up his idea of writing q history
of England. This cxanple OF Milton was
an impetus to Prescott. His account of him.
self is familiar to many readers.
II resolved to make the ear. if-poSsble,
do the work OF the eye. / procured the
services of secretary. who read to mo the
va rious authorities. and in time / be-
came so familiar with the sounds Of the
different foreign languages Ito some OF
which, indeed, had become previously
accustomed by n residence. ,abrcad) that
could comp rehepd his reading without
much difficulty. AS the reader progressed
] dictated copious notes. and when these
had swelied to a considerable amount they
The morning times., 1896-05-10

Sometimes She Doesn't Get Presents.
A bride does not have near as much run
during the honeymoon Rs is generally be-
teved; she is kept so busy writing notes
acknowledging presents.-At tohiSon Globe.
The morning times., 1896-05-10

were read to me repeatedly till / had
mastered their contents sufficiently for the
purposes of composition. The same Eotcs
furnished an easy means OF reference to
sustain the text. Still another difficulty
occurred in the mechan scal labor of writ
ing, which found severe trial to the eye.
This was remedied by means of a writing
case. such as is used by the blind. The
characters thus formed made a near ap-
proach to hieroglyphics but my secretary
becameeXpertint the art tofdecipheringthem,
and fair copy-with liberal allowance
for unavoidable blunders TRANSCRIPT
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The morning times., 1896-05-10
- CHARACTERISTIC dignity was in the
long interim which Mary Ander
son npermittedtoelaps between the red

days of enthusiasm for the artist in lier
frcshhaloand the gray days ofmemory.
Her few memories which the Harpers re cent
ly gave forth are mellow with perspective.
AS autobiography the most delightful re-
citals are the unfolding of the early days
before publicity claimed her. There is mo-
notonous commonpaceness in the sustained
elevation OF great careers which does not
feast the appetite. and 1t was this tina iaded
the loyeliest of women and drove her from
tinSel gowns and smeared canvas to love
and quiet life.' Tales of Pater Anton
and his rustic parish produce deeply emotion
al Sensations one can applaud the nut
brown slavey herself for the applause of
her soapy, steamy hands, bestowed on the
new Pauline's debut in the realistic Kitchen
setting: the red and gold volume of Shake
speare ana the bust OF the bard. which
was the Claude and Romeo and Colonna
tO.the unset star of the whtewashed upper
chamber. are vivdly real; it is all per-
soually intimate and dissociate from the
conventionality of career progression.
With melancholy pleasure, one follows
the train of the sweet woman's achieve
nents. IL is sad 10 contemplate that at
time when the stage, in the green embrace
of commercial stagnation most needs the
clarifying purity Of Andcrson's sincerity
and art love, it is removed beyond having.
yet tantaliZingly possible. The book of me-
moirs is Il blessed alternative. 1t is fra
grant OF her gentle character and secure In
telligenCe, the calm wOmanly dignity that
gave her the strength TO step from tie pin
aclc of the mountain OF glory beyond into
the valley where the satisfaction or the
soul is the companion ship OF best beloved
and the repoSe of silence. 1t would be lIii-
possible for the actress forever to remain
delight TO the eye, for In the ma ture or things
acting is only a mantle which gifted ones
wear i'll brief scene nd others take up to
force their predecessors to the shade OF men,
ory But by transmitting herself so faith
fully to the enduring pages OF literature she
gives permanency to our ideal.
The autohGgrapher says she Is without
literary skill. She probably means she Is
without experience as u writer. But evl-
dences a disCernment which is TIE gift of
all really fine writers. NOyiCes fancy the
gst of things to he in the words. and that
the words build the ideas. The first sub
stantHl trial lesson of literary tyrO is
that the choice of the idea. of the fact, of
she thing, is the test OF capacity, and Will
surely suggest the words, because by some
convertible mind trick it already is the
word. Miss Anderson, or Nine. Navarro
as she probably prefers 10 be called, seems
fundamental accomplishment diSCenment
in priority and fine judgment in selection
and arrangement OF incident. In simplicity
and dircctneSS her discretion Is almost
model OF narrative style.
The morning times., 1896-05-10

- ELDOM is the secret Of an authors IA
yorite work OF all his own creating
solved for orcyery ear Sometimes, per
hapS, because Jney ha re no favorite and
each stands a brain child with equal
claim 10 The alicCtIondIc regard II lis cIca-
tive parent. Or there is Il Iayorite. but the
secret OF discrimination Is kept a locked
secret in uniathUmabie heart depths, for
Aathor ANA 10, Is father ana children. must
not know the green uf Jealousy But the
unlocking thereof, Dlten think would re-
veal unguessed ties. Likely il is the
first work, the lonG-tDiled child, thatope ned
the way. Maybe it is the pet of all its
readers, The child whose fame brou ght the
laurel TO its fathers brow. Or whynotmore
probably the unknown and obscure fle dgling
that was buffeted at birth and called d
cripple for defects the critics sa W and was
cast 10 The rejected cast away of others
but taken tcndcrly of one and loved in
ohscuHty rs the fabled little heroine Of the
Cindcrs aud crystal slippers?
very daring person has put the ques-
tion point blank 10 u number OF authors,
and. while The replies Were not unusual,
they are interesting in denotcment. Marie
Correli likes best Rarrabas.' because it
was received with Il storm OF Indignation:
but she had worked al il with her whole
hearts love. she never expects again 10
lind subject of such Fascination TO her
uilnu OF one ludl VIII Drlng so much hap
pineSS into her life. combined with such
triumph and inward consolation. William
Dean Howels likes best his Indian Sum
mer'' and April Hopes" Anthony Hope
is divided between A Prisoner of Zenda''
and The God in thc Car" Anna Katha-
rine Green prefers one might suppose, the
inimitabe Detective Grvce IN The Leav-
enswoTth Case but they are Giovanni in
"RiSifi's Daughter and Beaufort in THE
Defense of The Bride which most appeal
10 her Capt. King. a a gallant, is very
fond Of all his young women. but CON
fesSes 10 an especial love for Marion San
ford. Three strangely similar answers in
This symposium OF preference were given
by the authors OF -" The Manxman," Little
Lord Fauntlcroy.'' and The Religion OF
q Literary Man" Hall Calne SAYS:
My favorite among my literary children
is always my youngest. or perhaps, to drop
the figure. might say with more truth that
my fayorite among my own books is always
the book that is 10 be wRtten next" Mrs.
Francis Hodgson Burnett cares most for the
hook that is on the point of publication
and Richard L. Galliene always likes best
the book lie is writing.
The morning times., 1896-05-10
i IT'S SAID that art is long. Robert Cham

/ T is Salh that art is long. Robert Cham
bers probably found it so when he
went to Paris number of years
ago, FOR he reiinquiShed the brush
presently for the pen. He has found
the path to fame shorter through the
valley OF letters. Three OF the compara-
lively young mans stories have been well
received. a fourth is in press. he is a
young American of ready wit and prolific
imagination. ana is as well known person
ally, To many Washington people as through
his king in Yellow" or "Thc Red RepUb-
lic. Chambers is a democratic Bohemian
but. as q dreamer who sends hiSmind to soar
among the stars he associates only with
royalty and an occasional negro. His IA
miliarity with the titled class is displayed
in his careless way OF throwing "A King
and n few Dukes into the title of his
last book from the Putnam presses And
there are more kings and mobiles in the
story than in the title albeit he begins
il in n sequCstered game preserve in
the heart of the Caspian Mountains. alone
with Obediah l am not secure enough in
geography to feel any more sure about
the kin edom of Bosnovia than was about
RuTitania, before ii was generally admitted
that Zenda was the capital of purely lima gi-
nary kingdom. But these tipsy monarchs
of spurious realms in Southern Europe are
capital chaps and inspire capital story
tellers.
The morning times., 1896-05-10

~ RANDER MATTHEW'S once said tl:at il
n il the function OF slang 10 feed the
s vocabulary. 50 1T Is. Some of the
most peculiarly expressive words and
phrases IN the language were once in
Gi>iavGr aS slang. Recognizing the value of
slang and iis practical relation 10 philolOgy
the American Dialect Society is ma KING a
thorough study and cumpila ton Of the ir
regular modes of expression in variO OUs parts
oi the country. and hope indeed, to have n
complete and accurate dictionary ready 10y
1900. Particular altenI ion is being devoted
to ihr slang of tie colleges and universities,
e. most likely TO endure. Ne reason j. given
for this. but the inference is that pride in
tie heTcdity OF succeeding class genera tiOnS
and the natural graft of student indiom into
concurrent literature suggests a degree OF
pcrmauanCy To this claSS OF slang. This
work may he classified by some as are The
lahorS Of the bibliologistS ana numSmatistS
~. collect ur genus generally vas curious and
useless Speed the curious and useless:
there is enough that IS useful and tediOuSly
uuintercSinC. II is only the ImFraCiiCablc
that finds variety and relief.
The morning times., 1896-05-10

~ JORTHY of consideration is the new
N ! Publishing house which puts at the
G0 head ana top of it, first announce
mcnt "WeEave not admitted TO our
lists any publication that tends to
CoGtiugc The morbid craze for moral lm-
purity in literatue.' That is the first word
TO its pruspec, I'VE public from the New
Amsterdam Book Company. one Of the
pioneer publications Of this house is re-
cent novel by Give Holland. who is al
ready known 10 readers for My japanese
Wife" The present story. The Lure Of
Fame. : is a story told IN the first person. by
Pastor Eric PrOhSt, of the love of Nor
wegian lad. Hans and Norwegian lass,
Ulrica. The girl developcS a fine voice
aud goes frGm her home to the South to
study with the great cacherS. After
diva'S riBmpllS Size comes back 10 make
conquest OF her own country. The old
lovers meet. The change is felt but is
Unsrokcn. Too late Ulrica finds that.
victim of the lure OF fame. She had broken
the heart OF her dead Hans, and had cast
from herself the one She had loved best Of
ali. The story is gracefully ana Sympathcti-
CGlly told in Ihe direct 81 Vie one associates
with the severe character OF the Mortimer.
George Wharton Edwards furnishes the IL
iuStrationS.
The morning times., 1896-05-10

ONE is only con vinced of William Dean
| Howells' mortality after reading his
0 products The advertisements which
are made of his prodigious out
put capacity suggest preternatural
powers. lie must talk into phon o,
graph. Human hand surely could not
tranScribe all he thinks out. Here
is the Howells program: 1.-The Day of
Their Wedding is still fresh in ink; the
Century will in July begin the publication
of a new story by him: in the Harper's
Weekly for the same month will begin a
story Of his construction to be called The
Landlord of the Lions Head" and Scrib-
ner's announces his The Story of Play"
Go to Marion era wford, Dick Davis, Tony
Hone! Snails!
The morning times., 1896-05-10

- IE reason in the study of "slx Mod
em Women iRoberts Bros, Bos-
tom cannot be better given than
in the words OF the author, Frau
Hanson, and OF the woman herself
who has given the Tomanly interpretations
20 her sisters lives an insight is given
by the sympathetic translator. There
The morning times., 1896-05-10

A/0U have heard of TIE sweet singer of
Michigan. Perhaps you think he's
only one twangcr of the poets Tyre.
You're mistaken. He is not composite,
but he is multiple. He is a REGULAR
genus of litterateur- In Cne sense he is Il
Robert Bucannan. He dCeSn't wait for a
publisher TO seek him: lie doesn't seek the
publisher; he Snatctes Inspiration from the
Clouds. or any other old things. toSScs off
his poetry; secretes IL in stocking, and
when he has enough To make volume Of
Heart Throbs," or ''Life's LAYS" or
Soul Sayings" he has them painted him
self He is solt of annual. self-selected
poet laureate Ia the peach ana celery com
mou wealth between the two big lakes.
The latest sweet singer of Michigan is
one Lyman Wetherbee of Adrian. LYMAN
calls this tribute to Pegasus The Home
on the Hillside" In a preface the eager
reader is informed that Lyman published
his verses be cause like politician he found
himself in the hands of many warm
friends" and they egged him on. He wrote
''in woodland pastures, sitting on u huge
fallen tree, surrounded by my flock of
Shropshires, with their playful lambs jump
Ing on and off the old charred tree" or
an the lonely hours Of night when the
cold world was not frownIng on me-" Ly-
man hopes he hasn't. woundc anyone.
1t is bard to make a beginning On the
sweet soulful stanzas Ly has framed for
his many warm friends and the outside
world His bucolic advice would doubtless
he 'Jst plunge, and be d--d!' Here's
for plunge 1t is from an ode on liars:
'TiS sweet TO live. but sad TO die:
Though sadder TO tell wilful lie
The thief on the cross aud the everyday liar
May reasonably expect TO heaven to aspire.
But the winful. malicious, deccitful liar
Deserves reward of everlasting hell fire.
An ode TO Niagara. that has inspired so
many sweet singers, runs:
Sublime Niagara. we wonder. we adore;
Thy Splendor all Will herald
Every land aud nation orer;
Could we hush thee TO silence.
God would encore
No poet has ever before to my kno " ledge.
apuStrophiZed the tCothache Lyman was
brave; he not only had the disturbing
member extracted. but he records IT IN
numbers. sic:
With Il hole in the side
That tainted my breath,
And tasted as smells
woodpeckers nest.
Once you gave me pIeaSur
And often pain,
But I'm thankful to know
You'll not ache again.
Gallantry takes "A back seat for the
following eight lines in which he describes
the rich old wife of "dcod:'
But be could have liked her if he tried,
Though not for her good locks.
For she could drive sCme pictures mad
I've seen IN comic books
Her faultlcss form ana dress so red,
And curls that dangled from her head,
But such a face would strike u dread
And make 4 husband wish he was ad