The morning times., 1896-10-04

"WalkiDg past the door Of the old besrax
woman, tue young ladies' heard a piercinR
cry. Tue elder OF the two at orce rushed
Into the cottage to the assistance OF its In
mate. Her sister followed, exclaiming.
Poor creature! am sure she is fami shiug.'
Most certainly the elder sister replied:
her chambermaid has just told me so.' ~
In the fall and winter tn e A tlaDtic Month
ly will make study of contemporaneous
writer's OF America. These papers Will be
critical and biographical, the aim being
Systematically TO interpret the present ten
dencies In our literary production. Among
the writer's who will be taken up in the
early numbers are Henry Il. Fuller, Harold
Frederic Woodrow Wilson and James Lane
Allen.
Hermann Lundernann is The most pop
ular of living German authors. not evan ex-
cepting Paul Heyse. Lundermann lives
opposite the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial
Church. In Berlin, but spends much time
at the Press Club. OF which he is president.
Robert W Chambers father was a one
time chum of President Arthur His
forthcoming story is called, The Maker
OF MOONS"
Lloyd, the London publisher has boughta
hundred square miles OF forest in Norway
and will convert The wood into pulp for
his paper. II 1t is like most OF the wood
1t Will be leftin fifty years. The chemicals
used In it cause il to rot and crumble. But
IL Is pleasant 10 see that a number of the
bookmakers OF today are going Jack to
honest paper, that will last until The buyer
gets his volume home.
The Magpie is a little "sHp-into-me
pocket" published in the claSs.c GiCy OF
CharlUttes vile in the historic common
wealth next to the South OF LIS. 1t calls
of liz Inn fha
fact that 1t is four months Old. not TO
speak OF the worthy quality of its con-
tents, challenges this modest intimntion.
The Magpie has many good -tings be-
tween its close covers and deserves 10 chirp
from its perch to a good old age.
A visitor to wessex, SO the story goes,
on iDquirlug of an old man If he knew
Thomas Hardy, received the following an
swer: "Oh, the written n chap. I've read
some OF his works. They say It's a gift.
Seems to me It's Just writen'-just sitten'
down an written and not doen nothen' at
ALL What do e do, 1 ask ZEE? Here be
doen' more proper work than Hardy ever
did, an they don't talk about /, au' say,
'Therr'sa "a great chap. like the o. about 'e.''
'Cats?" repeated Marie Louise Pool 20
an interviewer recently; Il never cared
for cats Since as child was made TO be-
lieye that they would suck the breath of
sleeping children. I Cherish a grudge to
This day against the person who told such
tale TO fanciful child. Not that
expected our Maltese to suck my breath.
Oh, no; | could take care of myself asleep
| or rawake, but from the moment knew that
feline proclIvity 1 suffered tortures lest
the cat should get to my little sister, five
years my junior. / never told anyone why
l behaved so about kitty. but 1 kept her
shut under the sink among the kettles while
/ washed dishes. i had a cat-prOof place
In the barn where imprisoned her or sat
with her on my lap. / always knew where
she was; only thus could be sure she could
not get TO my sister when she had gone to
bed or when she had her daily maps. thus
acquired a reputation as lover of cats bus
/ didn't love them. was only afraid