Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-03-17
FINDS BEAUTY IN EVERYTHING
Richard Le GaIlienne, Arthur
of a Strange Book.


of a Strange Book.
THE QUEST Of THE GOLDEN GIRL |
Blithesome Bab's Description
of the Writer.
His Supersenaitive Mouth His Greateat Pc
culiarity Il She Were Stone Deal, She
Says, She Could Tell What He SAID From
the Motion of His Lips.
Special Correspondence OF ttnzctte and journal
New York, March lit 10 u good
| thing to be endowed at ones birth
with enthusiasm. Perhaps those people
who are stolid and do not allow their
fancies TO get the advantage of them
go through life in a more even manner.
hut | doubt il they get one half of the
| pleasure out of everyth ing that comes
to thsm as does the enthusiastic
woman. say enthusiastic woman"
because enthusiasm W man is apt to
degenerate into silliu ii unless it grows
into hearty likes anu nialikeH about the
time he is 81. But that is another story.
When | first read the "Prose Fan
cies" of Richard LIE Gallienne, | said
TO myself, Here ia man who knows
how to find beauty in everything, and
here is a man who isn't ashamed 20
have intense likes and deeply strong
dislikes, and here's man who con
trolls the best English | have mot since
| was introduced TO the essays Of
Stevenson. - ..s=.
Then from here anu there would come
poem with the somewhat romantic
signature of Richard Le Gallieune, anu
after awhile the newspapers began to
tell, not Of his great ganius-that isn't
the way of newspapeTs-but of his
peculiarities and distinctive likings.
OF course nobody amounts to anything
who has not decided likes and dislikes,
and as we are all so fond OF saying this
world ia free and people can do as they
please in it | fail to see why, il man
prefers wearing a lace tie or his hair u
little longer than ordinary or inclines
to knee brooches or finds loose jacket
, more comfortable, no should not follow
his fancy.
A week or two ago l took into my
/ hands that most strange book, The
Quest OF the Golden Girl" say
J "Inost arrange" A great many other
people put different adjective to it,
i but there must be something else in
this world except milk for babes, and
/ RH it ia already in its ninth edition
there must be other people who, like
q me, found in it much that waH interest
. ing. Perhaps. indeed certainly, l did
not approve of everything. Perhaps,
4 indeed most certainly, / disagree with
the author about SONS things, and moi
q perhaps and very certainly there are
/ some of the most delicate touches.
/ some of the most exquisite poetry. il
|. this book that were ever written.
a Therefore when l saw small an
q nouncement in one corner of the papel
q that Mr.. Richard lie Gallienne would
read at a certain time ut a certair
n place presented myself at the box officl
d Of that theatre and bought the frs
"a ticket that was sold, since when hea
d people read | like to be near them.
q There came the day and the hour
a later on the man. The curtains partsC
q and showed stage SGT after the fashion
i. of a simple English interior. Their,
v were few books TN the table in th
!, centre and beside them big bunch o
la violets In second a slender younl
"a man, dressed in the most conventions
4 afternoon dress and wearing perfectl
r. fitting frock coat. made polite bow +
~ his audience. The face was classic b
ii degree. 1t was the face that Maclis
n drew SO many years ago when Charlie
l. Dickens was his sitter and whe
"a Charles Dickens was just about th
Ar age that this man is. The eyes ar
Il peculiarly clear, and the hair, which
10 oddly enough. you would firat thin
10 was long, is in reality tremenduousl
70 thick, inclined to wave, very blsck
Iy and, though worn longer than tn
!. average man wears his locks, still 1t
,, thickness impresses one much NOR
,e than its length. There were word o
le two of introduction and simple speec
ar to the effect that American people, lik
n English people. were probably intersste
TO in simple things and liked tn hen
A. about everyday affairH, as springtime
IA the moon, the hearc beata of the worl
% and the world itself
IN The greatest peculiarly of Mr.. L
d Gallienne to me is his supersensitiv
rs mouth. If / were stone deaf, | coul
nj tell what he said from the motion 1
an his lips. lie absolutely caresses hi
,e words, although he is entirely free frol
10 gestures and has no tricks of elocutior
of He ia yet pleasant reader, but, oh
an what writer! Truly he can make
as silk purse out Of sow's ear, since or
ID of his most charming descriptions {
G. spring makes peotical tina antics OF
at matronly pig, followed by her ten litt
es piglets.
ss 1t is easy to understand his great at
be- miration for golden haired women, fl
at he is a perfect brunette, and yet tt
lady pointed out as his wife was dar
ed haired. In "The Quest of the Golde
he Girl" he finds that the woman whoI
ed he loves and whose hair ia golden hi
of gained this golden tinge through tt
IT. agency OF little vial marked PeroziG
II, of Hydrogen, " so he asks her to let h,
,rs hair go back to its natural color, az
nd she promises 10 do it, saying at I'll
he same time, with that wonderful for,
re sight that comes only to women, "a
ed right, dear, but something tells n
ir- that when my locks are all brown agai
our happiness will be at an end. :"
He asks her now long it will tai
for this wonderful hair, which reach
almost to her feet, to lose its artiici
10 color, and she tells him about tv
at years. He speaks of cutting a lock
les it-that is. one-half golden and on
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