The San Francisco call., 1897-08-15
HERE AND THERE.
The Chicago Chapbook is now going in for
politics. What a fall, my countrymen!

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Macmillans Magazine.
CindereIla's glass slipper was given her, no. t.
by the original teller of the French tale. but
by the English translator, who mistook slip
pers OF yair, or fur, for slippers of yerre, or
glass.
Professor Max Muller in his latest edition of
Chips from German Workshop, holds that
mythology is tie result of a period of moral
decay and falling away from high moral and
spiritual views.
During his lifetime the ordinary reader
wends his way through 1000 miles of print
The average novel of 800 pages contains one
mile OF reading; that is, the eyes travel over
1760 yards while reading the book
Mrs. Felicia Hemans, who discovered "the
stern and rock bound coast" of Plymouth, and
who is the only writer of imaginative litera-
ture produced by Liverpool, is TO have monu-
ment there, if the money can be raised
The father OF Anthony Hope. the novelist, is
Rev. E. C. Hawkins, vicar of historic London
church-St. Bride's-on Fleet street. In this
church are buried Richardson, the novelist |;
Lovelace, the cavalier poet; tho Earl OF Dor
set, Dryden's patron; Wynken de Worde, the
printer; Flaxman. the sculptor, and other
men OF note.
Frank Mathew, whose "The Wood of the
Brambles," published last year, was received
as the great Irish novel, has finished new
S tory 10 which he has given TIE title "a Child
in the Temple" This will be published in q
few days by John Lane. All Mr.. Mathew S
work is distinguished by strength and deli
cacy of style which is full of charm.
Count Tolstoi is reported by the London
Daily Mail to be writing new novel, the scene
of which opens in a law court. A young
| woman, tried for theft, is sentenced to exile
in Siberia. One of the jurymen recognizes
her as victim of his own, with the result
that he accompanies her to Siberia and shares
her hardships, thus doing penance for his
early sin.
| The Century Magazine will offer twelve
prizes Of $3.50 each, three year, for four sue
cessive years, to college graduates receiving
the degree of bachelor of arts, for the best
| poem, the best essay and the best short story.
| Graduates must submit their work before June
of the year succeeding grad uation, and the
| young men and women who came out OF col
lege in June, 1897, are to have first chance at
| the prizes.
! Miss Elizabeth Lowe, who died recently in
| London had been the editor of the London
Queen for thirty-three years. Her brother
| trained mis- sister in journalistic work at a
period when the woman journalist had scarce
! appeared on the scene When Miss Lowe took
the editorship of the Queen, the paper con-
| tanned sixteen pages; now 1t numbers from
! 100 to nearly $50, and is the most important
of English papers devoted 10 feminine in
| terests.
The English Echo says that Marion Craw-
ford is one of the ''least psragraphed" of mod
| ern literary men. and that personally he is
| alt Cnn IN a U
| he is about 40 years OF age and was born in
| Italy, of American parents. He was educated
at Concord. n. H., Trinity College, Cambridge,
| England, and Heidelberg, Germany He is a
convert to Romanism. He is said to be "a
handsome man, with handsome wife and a
| clever sister"
In these days, when popular books run
through so many editions, many persons are
puzz ed over what an edition really is. Tech
nically it is known that an edition consists OF
| 1000 books, yet here, for Instance, is "Senti-
| mental Tommy" in its fifth edition and thirty
! fifth thousand and dozens of other books in
the same situation, and publisher win send
out an edition of 500 books of verse and 1000
! if the book is prose, each man following his
| own sweet will
Dresden, the capital of Saxony, owns sim
| gular piece of property-a morning newspaper,
death of its last proprietor, was bequeathed to
the city upon the condition that all profits
arising therefrom should be spent upon the
public parks, as has been steadily done.
The paper continues to hold the respect OF all
citizens, for the trust has been carried out in
its broadest spirit, and the power has never
been employed TO foster any school Of opinions
social, poll teal or religious
There are various ways of facing calamities.
| A correspondent of the Bombay Gazette
voucnes for the following incident concerning
the recent earthquake in India: son asking
| our head babu what he did when he felt the
earthquake he replied: well, sir, ran into
the room where my wife and old mother
were, to find them so frightened that they
could not run, so l commended them to God
and ran outside myself" philosophc
spirit is one of the best of the gifts OF the
gods in lif.'s tribulations; but, TO the Western
mind at all events, philosophy such as this
goes little too far.
An interesting cri cket match was played in
England lately between two elevens. in which
Mr.. Barrie and Conan Doyle figured as cap
tains. There were several artists in the game
and among them Alfred Parsons, Herk omel
and F. D. Millet Artists never are such m uffs
al ball as are the writer's and Mr.. Herkomel
quite distinguished himself, though Conan
Doyle showed himself to be q tireless bowler
Which side won is rather obscure. Mr.. Barrie
having argued it out quite conciusively tha
his men had made the most runs, 1t may bt
inferred that they were the losers. Where
was Andrew Lang? At golf, or fishing, or fin
ishing up h is book on ghosts :?
A translation of modern Greek novel will
| be issued from The Bodley Head within
the next week or two. 1t is the work o
Gregory Xenopoulous, who is perhaps the
| leading figure in the not very large group o.
present time Greek noyelists. In Greece
the people as a rule marry early, anc
here a certain study is made on that text. The
title of the novel is "The Stepmother," and II
has been translated by Mrs. Edmonds, whC
| thoroughly knows the Greek kingdom and its
language. In mapy of his writings Xenopo
lous has taken Zola rs q master, but "The
Stepmother" is hardly Zolaesque.
1t has been discovered that the rhythmic
curse over the grave of Shakespeare to the
effect that he who disturbs those bones will
be pursued by malignant fate is identical II
idea with that which King Ashmanezer, ruler
of the Sidonians, caused TO be engraved on hi,
intended sarcophagus. which was removed
from Sidon to Paris. The curse, thousands o
years o der than that of Shakespeare. did no
avail, and the excayating spokesman bravet