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own Symposium, and will devote all
of his tirle .Aat is not given TO original
work to the New York periodical. Be
side editing the la,ter, he will carry on
a special department in it. The char
acter of this department has not been
announced.
New York Post: The Stevenson Mem
orial project goes slowly on, assisted
after a fashion by the frequent discus
siOns among the novehst's friends On
the whole, they think Edinburgh should
be chosen as the place in which to erect
the memorial. The movement was set
on foot by Lord RCse'oery in and for
Edinburgh says Mr.. Colvin, -
and it is in Edinburgh that the memo
rial will be raised Mr. Colvin has
himself fondness for the idea of erect
ing what our ancestors called a belve-
dere-a sort of developed summer house
or little classical temple at the end of a
walk, and commanding a view There
he would assemble 'reHefs in marble,
bronze or terra Gotta, illustrating Incl
dents in his writings"-and portrait of
the author But how the portrait shall
be compassed is causing the projectors
of the memorial great trouble. He was
not the kind of man, says Mr.. Lang, to
go we'll into statue. Perhaps not. But
he made a fine model for bass-ralief,
as the portrait by St Gaudens shows.
We wonder if this portrait, by the way,
is known in England. We have noticed
no allusion to it in all the numerous
writings relating to the memorial.
4
In the controversy in Congress over
the adoption of the Draper bill, which
eventually became the copyright law,
the statement was made that there are
j, GOO theaters and opera houses in the
United States, representing a cost of
from $4,000 to 81 O00, 900 each. These
theaters employ 30, 600 persons, eXclu
sive of actors and actresses. Upward
of 400 manuscript Plays written or
owned by citizens of the United States
are played nightly. They give employ
ment to from 5000 to 5000 actors. The
cost of producing these manuscript
plays ranges from $1,000 to SO, 900
each, and the purpose of the new statute
is to give Judges of the United States
courts full jurisdiction over the matter,
and TO make the pealty imposed in one
circuit operative anywhere through
out the country for unauthorized per-
formances.
In Paris Hamerton met Thackerays
mother, Mrs. Carmichael Smith who
talked about her son, but did not say
anything of sufficient interest for him to
write it down. He also met the IA
NOUS Nine. Mohl who was the 'oddest
looking little figure" he had ever seen.
1t was in Paris that Hamerton met
some one VINO made greater impress
sion upon him than either Tha ckerays
mother or Nine. Mohl. Ii was she who
was destined long afterward to become
his wife. AT that time she was only
Is years old, but wonderfully matured
for her years. 'Hamerton went back to
England without declaring himself
Indeed. he seems almost to have for
goJten her, for he proposed marriage to
two other young women, neither of
whom gave him yes" probably be
cause they felt the half -hea edness of
his proposals. Without knowing it. he
was really in love with the little French
girl, and went over TO Paris and told her
81. SIe DIS not dt all surprised Tor
| she more than suspected his feelings
toward her when he vert away Nor
was she slow 10 acknowledge that she
had not forgotten the young English
man.
A notable and most commendable
feature of book making of to-day is
the reprintiEg of standard works in
compact but elegant form-volumes
that can be comfortably held in the
hand as one lounges in an easy chair
We rejoice 10 see added to this class of
handy editions Boswell's Life of John
son" in six dainty volumes, edited by
Augustine Birrell. He contributes a
| good introduction, and adds a few notes
of his own to the abundant supply from
Malone and others of his predecessors.
He tells, us in the preface, that he had
made many notes. but on reflection
struck most of them out-feeling con-