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OF Literary London. BY William IL
Queux, Author of Whose Findeth a
Wife, Zoraida, etc. Three hundred and
six Pages; limo; $l.25. New York;
Dodd, Mead * CO.
For sale by the j. +. Bell Company.
Mr.. lie Queux has for the moment
abandoned impossible fiction and has
written a story of Bohemian life in Paris
| and in London. In this unwOnted field
ne has done well. Scribes and Phari-
sees is so far ahead of his former works
that it will surprise even those who
| have had most confidence in his ability.
| Mr.. lie Queux. who was born in London
| Of French parents, began his literary
| career as correspondent for GalignanPs
| Messenger. After a rather checkered
career as journalistic free lance, he
made something of a hit with some Rus
sian articles which were printed in the
London Times. These, he followed up
with Russian stories, Of which Guilty
Bonds" was the most successful. Not
long after the appearance OF this book,
official Of the Press Bureau, in st. Peters
burg, and notified that his books
could not be circulated in Russia, a COM
pliment which has been paid to no other
English author, although many of them
have been blocked out" without receiv-
ing the notice.
Scribes and Pharisees is dedicated, ITO
My Brother 'Vagabonds,' those merry
Bohemians who write and paint, / In
scribe this story of literary and Journal
forgive any criticism and not seek to
discover the originals OF certain charac-
tiers l have herein attempted to draw"
The book has the reach, the force, and
the vitality of great novel writing, and IL
has the first hand contact with life. the
varied skill, and the ease and fulness
of genuine art. The aspirations, dreams,
devotions, and sacrifices of men are as
real as their response TO self-interest or
their tendency TO the conventional and
the commonplace, and they are, in the
long run, a great deal more influential.
They have wider play; they are more
compelling, and they are Of the very
highest significance because they spring
out of that which is deepest and most
distinctive in human nature. Achieve
ment and adventure, action and expe-
rience are not only as great a part Of
human life as ever, but they cast as
deep a spell on the imagination. They
are real and enduring in fiction because
they are real and enduring in life We
shall always have the fact with us, and
the more clearly we see and comprehend
it, the sounder will be our life and our
art. But we shall always have in our
selves the need of what Matthew Arnold
calls ''the revolt against the tyranny of
the fact"
Two things men have always craved- |
to come to close quarters with life, and |
to do something positive and substantial. |
Self-expression is the prime need of |
human nature; it must know, act, and |
suffer by virtue Of its deepest instincts. |
The greater and richer that nature, the |
deeper will be its need Of seeing life on |
many sides, Of sharing in many kinds of |
experience, Of contending with multiform |
To drink deeply of the cup 1
of fife at whatever cost appears 10 be
the Unsuitable desire of the most richly
mer and women, and with such
natures the impulse is TO seek not TO
shun, experience. And that which, to the
elect men and women of the race Is neces-
sary and possible, is not only comprehen-
sible to those who cannot possess it, it
Is powerfully and permanently attractive
PAIL MALL MAGAZINE. October. 1885,
Edited by Lord Frederic Hamilton.
The Smoker, original etching by 3.
Schumacher, frontisplece; "Dum Spiro
Spero," Alice A. Pitman-illustrated by
Abbey Alison; Cousin Flora, Edwin
Pugh-with Illustrations by A. B. j. Sal
mon: How the Dukes OF Coburg Hunted
Three Hundred Years Ago, W. A. Baillie-
Grohman-illustrated from old prints by
Wolff Pirkner; With All Powders of the
Merchant, chapters ga, tx. with IL
by Arthur H. auckland; Bri-
ish Army Types: XVII. the Lieutenant
Colonel Royal Irish Fusiliers, drawn from
life by Arthur julie Goodman; A Picture.
Wilfred raycott-illustrated by Fl. Cole;
Holland House the Hon. Caroline
Roche-illustrated from special photo
graphs; Autumn. full-page illustration by
!. j. Guthrie; Daniel Moss's Wife, Ethel
VI. Alpe-illustrated by L. Raven Hill;
The Land of the Lord White Elephant
Tohn Foster Fraser-ilustrated from pho
ographs; To Dead Rosebud, VIII Hill;
me Reformation Of Mau. Ice Calvin,
.ewis Mcnamara; Wheel and Stream,
'harles Kenneth Burrow; America and
he English Language. William Archer;
~, j. Holt Schooling-with
diagrams, etc, by the author; The Silver
'kull-Part J., chapters rs, S. r. Crock
tt-with illustrations by G. Grenville
ianton The Six Forces, Mark Warren
With diagrams. etc, from drawings by
he author; South London-VII.. In the
eighteenth (N0pffirv NNol.ar