The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-02


win brilliant criticisms and noble sent
~. s al sp:te or Ms Talents ara sne.
dhsns IA response 30 ssae enthusasac ca
80, of.ss Box long ago Ne ssssfshsS n-
10 -sFhee IT seems 10 me taat pslsaie men
s are apRleadsd AID feied nowadays Tor
.~s3s iae1r mere iGty."
TIE editor OF the American Monthly Re-
NseN O SeTtews. n ire January EnansE
- IA periodical. discusses TIE aswshan
me Ethical Question ''Ths Cunss;
,lonal I.roblera'' The Strategic Bsarsngs
40 Tae Eeonornic Aspects TIE Re-
ssews attitude has al along been IN favor
g annexation. fa- strategic reasons cut
lars are expressed lest the enthusiastic
IT, Ct the American bee; slgar INDUS
~ WI! fore All adverse decssoa Tor the
sase OF an incidental gain.
Madame Sarah Grand spent many hours
81 ken enjoyment, IT Is said. IN ne WITT,
ssl15s el Ter latest story. the Estn hook
&c &c = 81 fortunate a. 20 regard penman,
SIP aImost wholly as a pleasure instead
or feeatrg often the dull distsste Tor work
when aflscts most modern authors. Mad
1 eslas Grand never writes en- any subject or
PCT not perfectly sympathetic 10 her. and
WEN IN search OF recreation generaliy
.4Fhs 70 the piano. OF contrives 70 listen
outdoor country life. and is vsee-prtsident
9! cycling association She was married
a. TIE early age Of e. and wrote that sue
cessa9i novel. "Ideala." when she was u
M. Emile Zola has terminated his tri,ogy.
Louraes. Rome. Paris by the last.
during the next three months. and COM
pete IN volume early next February. NJ.
which led him to undertake this latest
production off bis pen. While visiting the
Pyrenees with Nine. Zola he was. struck
WIN he ardent and sincere enthusiasm OF
the pilgrims 10 Tsourles. contrasting so
STRANGELY with present-tiay civilization and
modern science. tits attention WAS 50
him that he resolved TO make It the sub
leet OF romance. Next year he revisited
L.ourdes.. stayed there a month. and wrote
his novel.
literary talks in Paris You must not ex-
pect the text TO mean just what It reads
to mean The takers do not intend that
# ths snf Be ezPsstesa Nine G Ss in
ing ideas for the pleasure. hygiene. So
lace. of the act. and doing so before an au-
a an. waom every in5silec,uaI aa a
Grant. All this talk ends by making a
density, IN the air which Is almost to be
reis, , sslmost. yoa might say. visible and and
envelopes both the arrived and the strug-
gIers in common medium. and has the
erect OF making other literary atmos-
chilly insubstaat5ality.'
Miss Anna L. Rieknell writes an. article
on FRENCH Wives and Mothers" for the
January Century. She says: In the fam
lilies where the father conducts any bust
ness the wife becomes the best clerk. and
usually hks cashier. The wives are ex-
ceedingly Intelligent and acute, extremely
sharp at driving bargains. and accurate in
keeping accounts. They are their hus-
bands partners I'm every sense OF the word
and II is wonderful TO see how they acaiit
themselves of such a multiplicity, OF du-
ties. Self Is completely annihilated: and IL
weak-health is mentioned. it Is never an
impeachment for what they, may have to
n fnr &|Af- zfs 1I~z.- gE,TR chny, n
but Is men toned only as a dissgreeable ae
compartment to necessary fatigue. with
out an idea OF using II As an excuse Tor
shortcomings.
literature. says j. Firman Coar in the jan
uary Atlantic. Is IN many ways similar to
the storm and Stress period Of the sew
fury. Out OF that movement was evolved
the great classic period OF German litera-
ture. with Goethe and Schiller as its lead
bids fair to come a second period OF rare
literary producdveness, in which. accord
ing to all present indications Widen.
take first rank Whatever position pos
tertty may assign these three writer's in
the literature of their country. their posi-
is assured: for in the drama. wherein they
have achieved their grandsst successes,
they stand head. and shoulders above all
pleasure that the lover of good literature
sees the younger generation IN Germany
fulfilling the hopes to which Ibsen gave
rise.
Mr.. Anthony Hope. IN his childhood and
early youth, was chiefly remarkable for
those things which he did not do. He did
not learn to read as early as most chill
on his mind, he was no cricketer. never
wrote poetry and seldom read Il, did no
boating. and made no especial friends. He
did indeed excel as a football player and
was one of those Flooding students to
whom success come. for from the age CT
i 10 that OF 20 he supported himself by
"a he was called to the bar; but. getting
little work during. the next two years. be-
gan to write a Man of Mark" This he
anyone 10 take risk for 1T. The book was
not a financial success. Then he sent out
numerous short stories, nearly all Of which
many reflections. was bought out by Messrs
Cassell; and was also a failure nor did
"Mr Wits Widow" improve the authors
tales TO the ST. James Gazette. Neither "A
Change OF Air nor Half a Hero" brought
HIN HIN fame. bur his was finally won by
oils Edmund Gosse has another article on
Current French Literature" The last
paper on this fascinating subject APP
duction Gosse opens with the following:
az we are asked What Is the most en-
tertaining Intelligence AZ this moment
working in the world OF lettersT I do not
see that we can escape from replying.
That Of NJ. Autole France Nor il II
merely that he is sprightly and amusing
in himself: he is much more than that.
He indicates direction Of European feel
ing: he expresses A mood OF European
thought. Excessively weary OF all the
moral effort which was applied 10 iitera-
ture in the eighties. all the ssarchings In
TO theories and proclai innings OF gospels.
all the fuss ard strain Of thsen and Toll
stoi and Zcla. that the better kind OF read
er should make a ''volts-Taca'' was inev-
fable. This general consequence might
have been foreseen. but hardly that n. An
ato'e France. IN his quiet beginnings, was
preparing 20 take the position OF leader
In letters He obviously has dreamed OF
no such thing: he has c1erely gone on de-
Weeping and emancipating his Ind;vidu-
growing popularity 10 he more and more
courag eously himself: and doubtless ne is
surprised. we are 70 find that he has