The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-16
LITERARY GOSSIP.

thing is finding it in the wrong place
The other quarter is the finding it for
oneself What is left after this is the
joke; that is, as much joke-pure joke
as there ever is, in world like this, to
the man who sees a thing the way it IS
(heaven preserve usD, and from all
sides a once.
We have only commenced to be hu-
norous. 1t takes railroads. Railroads
are opening up the Imagination. The
fixed law of the modern era is change
lfumor is the soul of it. Whether to
the modern man or to the modern ma
ton, life is the moving onward cease
lessly of a point of view 1t is get
ting truer every day. GIVE me The
Hottentot Herald, the London clubman
shall say to the waiter that brings him
Punch, in no far-off day. The New
York laugh shall break from over the
seas. The little square girls of Hol-
land, in their snug, shy seriousness
shall be the joke Of the Gibson girl
Robert Elsmere" shall be Don Qui-
xote" to the Japanese and the little
lady Of the Orient, peeping from cad
dies Of tea into the wonder of this west
ern world, shall be the humor Of the
Chicago clubs.-Gerald Stanley Lee in
The Critic.
Ian Maclaren will go on a six weeks
| featuring tour on the Pacific coast next
spring, engineered by the interchangeable
Major Pond.
1t is said on good authority that Hall
Game has been offered for the Eng
| fish and American rights in his I'M
written novel, the largest sum of money
ever offered for a work of fiction. 1t
may be remembered that Mr. Heine-
mann paid him $4,000 for the English
and American rights in THE Chris
tian," consequently the offer for the
new story will have to be greater than
that to break his own record. 1t may
| be two years before the new novel is
completed
| Harold Frederick has had a stroke
of paralysis.
| Beginning with the January number,
| McClures Magazine will publish new
| style of serial by Rudyard Kipling
The subject will be schoolboy life in
! England, and 1t will consist of six
numbers. each complete in itself, but
with the same characters running
| through all
Miss Grace Kings new book, de
| Soto and His Men in the Land Of Flor
ida" will be published Immediately by
! The Macmillan Company. The period
of adventure in the history of our coun~
| try with which this book deals, Is in
a line with the authors study of the
early Spanish and French settlement
| of New Orleans.
Some Of the additional autumn an
| nouncements of D. Appleton and Com
pany are Cannon and Camera" Sea
and Land Battles of the Spanish-Amer
lean War in Cuba, Camp Life and the
| Return of the Soldiers, by John c.
Hemment, war artist at the front, with
over fifty Illustrations from photo
graphs taken by the author; Puerto
Rico" an illustrated handbook for
! travellers, investors and others, by
| Frederick A. Ober; Latitude 10 de-
grees," romance of the West Indies
in 1921, by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield;
| ''Paleface and Redsl1in," and other sto-
ries for boys and girls, by r. Anstey,
| author of 'Vice Versa" illustrated:
| 'Pharos," the Egyptian, by Guy Booth
by; "Belinda-And Some Others: For
tunes Ny Foe" by G. B. Burton; and
THE Knight of ths GolGan Chain" by
r. d. Chetwode
! York announce ftr ely publication,
In Natures Imag," ~t7.9ters on Pic
torial Photograph, ~ Y. e. Lincoln
| Adams; "A Purit.1l sYoo'a5''; a tale
| of the Great AwakraiI4 I'm New Eng
land, by Frank SMITH Child; Jefferson
! Wildrides," by ELIZABETH Glover; THE
| Gentle Art of Pleasing" 5y Elizabeth
I
novel, by Jeanette II. Walworth Life
/ of George Mueller" with an appendix
| containing a collection of sayings and
| utterances of Mr.. Mueller by Rev Ar
thur T. Pierson. d. ID.
| The Regent Publishing Company OF
Bellport, N. Y, has just published a
| short story, entitled Rita de Garthez
the Beautiful Reconcentrado, by Mrs
Isabella M. Witherspoon The plot
hinges on the destruction Of the battle
| ship Maine, and deals with the effect
Of Spanish tyranny on the Cuban mind
Wordsworths Grasmere Home, Dove
! Cottage, has recently been presented
to the British nation, through the eff
! forts of Prof Knight of st. Andrews
Besides the cottage the gift includes
portraits, manuscripts. and about two
| thousand letters. In making the gift
Prof. Knight stipulated that the place
should be properly cared for, and it was
accepted with that condition, says the
Critic Wordsworth lived in Dove Cot.
tage from 1900 to 1903. 1t was originally
an inn, called the Dove and Olive
Bough, and when Wordsworth took II
he took down the sign board and re-
christened it Dove Cottage. Little
| change has been made since his time
and the principal room is still as de.
scribed by De Quincy in 1907: Ar
oblong square not above eight and 9
half feet high. sixteen feet long and
twelve broad very prettiiy wainscoted
from floor to ceiling with dark polish
oak slightly embellished with carving
One window there was a perfect anG
unpretending cottage window, with lit
tie diamond panes EMPOWERED at al
most every season of the year with 6
profusion Of jasmine and other shruba'
The Chance Of the Unknown Writer
is discussed in "The Writer Boston,
for October by Ruth Hall. who relates