The morning times., 1896-07-12

x1oIness aoI .s PuI !cseh are: I'D Xuest p Yh.,, o.s
tales Of contemporary French life developed
| into plots of unflagging interest, and free
from the stain Of realism.
John Ruskin's publisher says that since
1871 there has never been a loss on any
OF that authors works. For good many
years Ruskin received over $26 900 am
nuaily 10 royalties. Strange as it 4nay
seem none or Ruskin's books have ever been
translated Into foreign language.
Yale announces new prize To be offered
Tor poem having for Its subject some
| tnlng pertaihIng To history or art. The
competition Is to be open to all members
or the university, ana Will thus lie unique
in TINS country, aiJnOugh the custom HAS
been long established abroad. especially
at oxford.
Jonas Lie. the Norwegian novelist, was
born az Eker, Norway, in 1888. His work
In flcuon mas becOme widely known "a nd
adm1redof late. Among hsown cOuntrymen
lisnoyels have long beenextremely popular.
Lie has lived much in Paris, and his work
over the Norwegian.
Mne: Sarah Grand was born in Ireland,
OF Enghsh parentage. She married early-aJ
sixteen and left Tor the east with her hus-
Band, an OFFICER IN the British army, liv-
and Malta. She returned after rev
years 10 Eng gland and began writing. Much
or her talent is SAID TO have been inherited
from her mother. Her literary success mas
been remarkable. Mme Grand lives ID an
apartment u IN London, anu rather snuns nan
seeks society. She Is a writer or earnest
COnvictlOOs. 4.5UaI'-i fistl4 }
..--e.a. Iiterary talent has mostly SUE
cunbeu 10 the expressions nj suppresslOns
or autocracy. A writer in Ippincotts
says uiaL lnc Russian literature UI .ouly Is
worse than none. The Russian govern
meht has nObouy To fear; the field IL clear,
the CLARION notes OF genius are 0uInb, au-
tocracy has successfully swept from It's
path aiithat was honest, gifted and mighty.
1t has only ,pygniies To light with, a degc IL
Grated, degraded nation Of mediocrity and
mental poverty The great nrihus Oi thirty
years ago are either III their graves or be-
hind iron bars" $50 1l7s urt.t
Three thousand vloumes of wordsworths
library were sold in 1859 A further pur-
ton Is to be sold in London next month.
Nordswortil was SO Iree IN lending his books
that Ryual Mount became almost a circulat-
ing library for the surrounding district;
perhaps this fact accounts for the criticism
passo>. upon lIe preseIIU assor.I.lchS-,nao
tney seem TO have been poorly cared for.
AT any rate, choice books like the follow
ing Will attract buyers: presentation copy
or MatJnew Arnoiu's '-strayeu heveller,
1S49 lin itself a very rare book; q copy
OF Mrs. Browning's Poems Of S44, IN
scriDed TO William " Noruswortn, from the
author, In afrectionate remembrance" aud
volumes containing the autographs or Cole
ridge, Lamb band Keats.
Another controversial novel of recent issue
is Ernest f. Russells The Reason Why"
York city. The hero is a young man who
belonged 10 what he calls 1.-THE great ma
JOrity, the men who are afraid to know
and afraid to think" But Paul Granger
begins TO think, and, by Galley, began 10
progress, for, In Festus, it is read that ''un-
I'll doubt began, progress was impossible"
Paul Is tne autHors iueai or AN honest
doubter. In some respects The Reason
Nny resembles - Robert EIsif cre.' but Ar.
Granger isa layman. Mr.. Russell displaysa
remarkable earnesnesS and a Compass in
reaGing and study. How far mis- vie wS con-
form TO staHd rds depends entirely uponth
standards, which are individual TO each
man.
The youngest author in the world is
Myra Brauwcii Heiiner. She is DutsiX years
old, and her BOOK, The uID OF the Authors
Years. contains SIX stores, and Tor her
sake ner grandfather turned publisher.
These quotations are unique: THE fairies
were SICK and a doctor summoned. he
told the iaIry gOdinother all ABOUT microbes
and germs. and tot. her to boii the water.
The fairy godDother asked If IA hair was a
fairy siue walk Tor a mlCIobe. He SAID:
on, no, They are much smaller rne
fairy godmotner SAID sne didn I uHuerstanL
fever, which killed the boys and girls, kill
the germ, and II the germ didn't nave The
fever, no W could il give the fever, how could
a thing give thing il didn't have? The
doctor said: Nobody knows but God! "
n iInIis = idIIuNl Il liui Ss-soI u ait III
Lahore institute. inaia.