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could get along, he said. without quoting
Dickens. as, in the Pickwickfan seiase
i, WASH; the wine. j; was lie salmon
sweIlir' w.ssbly;. Y wants so make "a ,, yer
gerald added. have engendersd 80 many
other books. or have had sucn varied
ard extraordinary. Influence on every DE- o.
sarrEzeHt Of social life. Pickwlrk mas
been produced in 3 volume OF shortn2ao
ard III raised characters FOR the bind
The title of the rev book which Mr. w.
u. Mallock viii publish through me A a..
milan company, in the course On : Nv
weeks, will b. "Aristocracy and Essoiu-
fion.'' Its aim Is 10 demonstrate that the
chief progressive movement OF society IS
due 10 a minority. the part PLAYED py re
majority being altogether suDoldinase.
alike IL the sphere Of thought. government
and wealth production This part now
ever although subordinate. Is sn0Bh 10 pc
real and essential ard an asfenp. = 'If ,s,,,
10 prove precisely what IL Is 'ro now
largely its nature has been nisEeprsssh'-
ed hitherto by soci0Ioglst- ana pon,aeaa
thinkers. particularly by those MO Eau al
Or Sympati5.ze with what is cdiiSu VIC
labor movement.
IL Is said. says tho Longer in the critic.
that when Nine. Patti obtained divorce
from the Marquis de t'aux. the parents OF
Nicolin humble innkeepers near Dinard-
objected 10 their sons marrying the
prima-lonna. Patti found q means o,
vanqaishIng their resistance. She applied
for and obtsined. a place IS servant IN
the inn and for some time served wagon
srS and travellers. who Gid not suspect.
any more than did kicoIsnts parents, thas
this unknown girl Vas the wEnan VINO
had been fe,ed and noaored all over En-
rope. Consent to the marriage was finaf-
~ obtained. the incognito revealed. and
A9s.ina Patti scored one more success
this time due only to her grace and
charm. 4 very pretty tale. even II untrue.
Those who know Henryk S.enkiewicz
So y that he would Rather so shooting or
tramping over the mountains, any DAY.
than write. lie writes his serials from
week 10 week. and sometimes in tie mfd-
Ole Of one, when the most exciting situa-
ton is reached he takes his gun ana dis
appears. His publishers tear their h3ir.
but his readers have 10 restrain their curl
Gsity till he returns: when he takes up the
thread of his narrative and carries II
through 10 the end. unless another NJ OF
rsstlessness seizes him. Before quo
tadis' was written. SenkiewicZ was sup
posed TO have made 500 CO. by his pen: AS
that book has sold into the hundreds OF
thousands after running a. serial. he
must be- good m--.iy thousands oil dollars
richer today.
1t Is amusing to observe the way In
which the reviews Of the Celebrity are eX-
ercislng their minds over the Identity OF
Winston Churchill on. the ore band and
that OF the Celebrity on the other. 1t Is
only fair to the author 10 say shat he
writes under his own name, although that
is also the name of Lord Randolph Church
mrs eldest son, who is soon TO publish
book through the Longman's Mr.. WIN,
ston Churchill was graduate OF the navai
academy at Annapolis. and after giving up
4 naval career he spent some Tune IN Jour
nalistic work in New York city. lie II at
present living in st. Louis. IL has been
limited by several reviewers who know the
author that a we'll known living writer
has been satirzed under cover of the Gel
ebrity. The portraiture is daring enough,
but on this point Mr.. Winston Churchill
haS not taken his publishers into his con-
idence.
The magazines are again showing their
usefulness to the historians. this tune IN
regard 10 the kiondike. says the New York
tury have any difficulty In treating the
exploitation of this region as one OF the
salient episodes in our history In our
opinion he will have 10 take no trouble III
the matter at all. Both n The Century
and Mctiure's for this month there are
brilliantly illustrated ard highly interest
Ing articles on the gold region, anu these
are only fragments OF he huge body or
descriptive and statistical literature beng
produced on the subject. The writer ana
the camera are in the van nowadays and
so far as research goes the authors of
the future Will have comparatively little TO
do. all their material having been sathered
together for them If they have to labor
at All ii will be in selecting what they want
from the colossal libraries We are indus
triously forming.
Something has recently happened In
Paris which will give TO industrious novel
lists. ever in search of original types d
new hero in an old frame. says the New
York Mail and Express The Old frame IS
the remorseiess Seine. where il flows Shiny
and yellow under the Pont Courbevoie; the
new hero is Alphonse Pont. barber by
trade. The other morning "a beautiful
young lady OF nineteen years. according
TO the Pathological style of the Partisan
upon the parapet OF the bridge and
jumped into the river Alphonse the bar
Der was passing He also stepped upon
fall was about fifty feet. but the woman
not only clutched tightly TO her child but
with desperation born of a better cause.
fought her resCuer. Alphonse finally did
the thing that was most natural for him TO
do, he siezed the woman by the noir and
finally brought her with the child TO the
bank He tried TO sneak off through the
crowd but the people pulled him back.
He must go to the prefecture'and he ques-
toned. As they were marched along by
the policemen the hero turned TO the wo-
man and said: 'Canaille, you bit me. and
now | am arrested. ! shall be too late 10
shave NJ Lehon. and Monsieur IL Cure
said he would have his hair cut THIS morn
stick | would beat you" Truly an orig
inai character. which might be developed
under skillful pen.
From the days of Aristotle down through
Pope ana intending these WORTHLESS. there
have always been erudite gentlemen i'll
letters who have believed that criticism of
art should be done by rule in the same
way. and with with as little emotion as
one solves problem in mathematics. says
the New York Tribune. They brtieVe that
the principles of criticism were unalteTahle
and therefore capable of being CodifiRd
Macaulay WIS the last English critic Of
any consequence to tTN to crIticiSe accoii-
Ing 10 rule. Iiut he was not always con-
SistcnI. and his admiration or disgust of
the work before him often led hin, to let
slip the pollen OF his own individuality
from his uuiil point. Under the influence
of the British reviews this school OF crit
iCism gained certain weight il the Amer
lean rnonthlies of forty years ago. and If
IL had not been turned into contempt by
Edgar Allan Poe many of our literary
magazines might sill he wallowiEg in
Is qu8em,res Of rote. Poe could not. how
ey"F entirely shake OF the faint; he did
not Cr!tlclSe by rule. but he did by analogy
the standard OF comparison being the
s,laSsir deal 81 perfection III his own mind
Sainte- BsuXe employed the same method
and 50 d.d Matthew Arnold. Specimens nf
it are often met win III the columns Of
The Atlantic Monthly. For Il long while IT
held uUdisputed sway over dramatic crit
ic!sm. And these critics constantly com
planned that they could not do good work
n the jime allowed them. They wanted 10
pondsr over the play and write ieiSureiy
and logically. hey wanted 10 educate their
mItUC. and anal conclusions; they never
4tst4tf in :nluFe$~t oDs. for impressions are