The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13

novelist of some fame was asked what he
thought of Kipling Haven't read him. Am
far too busy writing my own stories.
In the unfinished work left by Daudet
there are some short stories, "reminiscences,
and a novel entitled "Quinze Ans de
Marriage" There is also an account of his
personal sufferings during recent years, en-
titled Ma Douleur." His first biographer
will undoubtedly be his son. NJ. Leon Dau-
Diet. Concerning the influence of Dickens
on Daudet, Mr.. Jules Claretiel says: Singh
lar as it may seem, Alphonse Daudet. who
has been so often compared with the illus
triOuS author of David Copperfield.' fire.
quently declared That he had read nothing.
or very little, of Charles Dickens. So he
often told me, and / expressed to him my
surprise at hearing it. His favorite read
ing was Chateaubriand
Father Barabasz, of Baltimore who Wis
tied his countryman, Henry Sienkiewicz.
not long ago, says in the Baltimore Sun
that the Polish novelist is very simple in
his manners and is rather silent when in
society, but he is q good listener to a good
story. He is of medium size, rather dark,
and is inclined to badness. with hint of
nounced -kay-vcetch, with the accent
on the second syllable and the CHI pro-
nounced as in child. His home is now at
Warsaw, though much of his time IS spent
in travelling and getting material for his
literary work He has been married twice.
The death Of his first wife occurred when
somber tone is traced back TO that event.
The Westminster Gazette finds humor in
the thought of Mark Twain under Metho-
dist patronage. The Gazette says Mr.
Clemens himself would probably be sur
prised to find his name figuring in list
of authors recommended to the study of To-
cal preachers, yet this honor is conferred
upon him by "A correspondent of the Metho-
dist Times who sandwiches his New Pill
grim's Progress between John Ashworths
Walks in Canaan and the lives of the
Methodist worthless. The warning is given,
however, that Mark Twain is to be admin
istered only to the reader who understands
the difference between American humor and
lying If he has this essential quality of
the critic he will find beneath the extrava-
CANT drollery the mind of a cute, obser-
want nd-yeS-reVerent traveller in the
Holy Land"
George w. Gable recently wrote the fol-
lowing humorousy indignant letter to the
editor OF a periodical which had printed
one of his poems, sent in by thieving con-
tributor who signed himself George Coop
err II have an impression that it was Coop
cred by quite another George. My impress
sion Is that 1T was written by myself TWEEN
ty-seven years ago, the Occa-
sion of the birth of my first child. If
you can't take my word for it, can show
you the child. | am not a frequent versitier,
and never should have priced this bit If it
had not Immediately, upon its first publica-
ton lin the New Orleans Picayune), begun
a mad career of getting stolen-like Helen
of Troy and others. 1t is only three days
since wrote to Chicago publishing house
to say that it not written by Mortimer
M. Thompson. as accredited in volume
called The Humber Poets. Let me tell
you, even the humblest poet will turn. And
/ wish my conscious or unconscious tres
passers would give this much-stolen trifle
a respite. POUNDS man, have / done moth
ing else worth stealing? It's notifying"