The morning times., 1896-05-31

and remarkable authorization of Mr. Ruskins
The King OF the Golden River" Mr..
RuSkln has read the story aud pronounCes
1t finer than his own.
Quiller Couchc's first story was called
la his latest is Ton We beg to warn
Mr.. CouChe IN time against the OvermaSter
ing growth IN the length of his titles. Cut
'em down.
Keats once wrote a letter expressing
il as his fondest prayer. next to the health
OF his brother Tom. that some child OF
his brother George should be the nrSt
American poet
F. j. Stimsou II. s OF DaleJ has finished
King Noanett, on which he has been e
work for five years. 1T is written with
the old flavor OF Lorna Doone, butts d tale
OF colonial life.
The London Daily Telegraph speaks Of
George Du Mauricr as THE author OF
Peter Robertson" Who accused him of
prophetic claims that honor is with
held III his own CoGntry.
Between three corner chats in the Play
ers' Library with John Keudrick Bangs
and Lawrence Hutton, Brander Matthews
has found time To write some clever
Stories OF Phautasy and Fact.
Prof. Roberts ''Earth's Enigmas'' has
been such a suco ess that ne has no trouble
in getting his publishers to print his Ills
tory OF Canada" and poems under the
title The Book of The Native"
Thomas Hughes WIS once commissioned
to write the life fof Peter sCoopgr>~IYNAaa
who strai ghtway locked ii up Hu0heS :. Is
tooinsuiar to understand the American ""'
Vincent o'Sulivan gives in ona sentepce
vivid description or the modus di;a,e Mi
OF the morbid decadentE, and he is die
OF them. They go out into tie black night
to follow their own wlto'-the wisrs.''
R. S. Chiffon. United States consul at
Goderich. Ontario. has an original Keats
manuscript, which the poet S brother George
gave to John Howard Payne. They EN-
brace the first two stanZaS OF the ode to
melancholy.
stephen Cranes new novel s ready To be
put on the market tomorrow. II is called
Georges Mother" 1t is to be hoped he
hasn't sent her through such agonies as
We're endured by the Youth Who Won the
Red Badge. y
| lier Graham are the two latest writers OF
California tales. The formers story is
calculated TO check emigration to the coast.
but the latter VIII make sympathy for the
American Italy.
The English nomenclature makes Brtons
humorous in spite OF their efforts to be
| witty. For instance. Dict;ens would never
| have dared invent Capt. Younghusbaud
! for a fictitious character. 1t sayors Of pei
petual honeymoon.
1t is believed that the lost city of Cissa,
| familiar to readers OF Pliny, had been
| found off the peninsula Of Istria in the
Adriatic- 1t Is found at a depth of ninety
| feet AT present all il has to recommend
| 1t is its water supply.
Biornson speaks OF Alexander Kiclland
as the most manly character in Norwe-
| gian literature. The two giants first met
| at President Marshal MacMahon's ball ia
Versailles in 1878. kielland is the au-
| thor Of >ihe Morse national hymn.
| A most unfortunate accident for H. G.
| Wells. author OF The Time Machine aud
| other imaginative stories, was most for
| tnnHfe for thr reading public. He was
diligently studying and teaching scien-
| tific branches, w.en violent hem0rrha ge
I-stfh inta
| self with a more sedcntary work He is
| only twenty-eight years old