The herald., 1898-03-06
(Editcd by Enoch Knight.)

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(Editcd by Enoch Knight.)
JOHN BULL AND HIS "IMMORTELS
The dear John Bull we love so well
Would have, he vowed, his Immortels.
The same as France-why shouldn't hep
No matter what the cost might be.
Our neighbors hunted everywhere
For Forty who deserved a Chair;
And one found Dickens, Byron one,
And still another, AvonS Swan.
So then, to make the Forty even.
Were wanted merely thirty-seven;
Yet, after Byron, Shakespeare was,
They knew, alone the peer OF BOZ.
A million pounds would John nave paid
To see his Forty on parade;
'"There's Dickens - L. reflected he,
"And Byron : 2, and Shakespeare -S,
But they're the best'-he scratched his
-- head.
"And they, corfound it all! are dead"
'- The Paris Gaulois.
new poet has arisen in England
Stephen Phillips. Mr.. Richard Gallienne
who has been residing there lately, pro-
nounces Mr. Phillips tho most promising OF
49,
him a great career. But we do not think
he has yet produced anything that chal-
lenges comparison with Mr.. 1\iplinS's best
work Indeed. the latter appears to be all
the time gaining in favor. y recent Lon
don letter thus refers to this:
"Mr Rudyard Kiping's Captains Cour-
ageous has reached its twentieth edition
here. The subjec. is hardly one which ap-
peals to the British public, which might
ho tO little about YAM
kee fishermen, but Mr.. Kipling can make
anything interesting. and he can well be
proud of the success which his last book
has obtained here. There are those who
think that Mr. Kipling will live as a poet
rather than a story writer, though it is diff
ficult to conceive of n posterity that will
forget the Drums of the Fore and Aft and
the Men Who Would Be Kings and still
have the capacity to admire the Recession
al Hymn and the 'Barrack Room Ballads
Whether Mr.. Kipling lives as poet or a
story teller, he will assuredly live among
the Builders of the Empire. No English
man, alive or dead has done as much as
Rudyard Kipling to bind together the
Englshmen of Australia and Canada and
India and Britain"
Sienkewicz, the polish writer, Father
Barabasz said, is very simple in his man.
ners and is rather silent when in society,
but he is a good listener to a good story.
He is of medium size, rather dark, and is
inclined to badness, with hint of gray
over the temples. The name is pronounced
Chenkayveetch, with the accent on the
second syllable, and the ''ch'' pronounced
as in child His home now is at Warsaw,
though much of his time is spent in trav-
cling and in getting material for his lit
erary work, He has been married twice.
Il mi 70 sod l. at,
he was writing "Pan Michael and it's
somber tone is traced back to that event.
He was born in 1915 in Lithuania. of an
old and noble family. AS a student at War
saw he had a near view of the crises in
Polish history. When a little more than
20 he began Il long period of world wander
ing through Poland, in various parts of
Europe, and finally America. One of his
short tales, 1.-The Lamplighter," deals with
American life. The letters written during
his journeys We're afterward collected and
published in book form. They have never
been translated.
Eight years were occupied in writing the
trilogy, with Fire and Sword 1.-The
Deluge,' and Pan Michael" Like the
"Ouo Vadis." they appeared originally as
serials. without Dogma an analytical
highly wrought psychological novel. pre-
ceded "Quo Vadis.'
At present Mr.. Sienkiewicz is publishing
serally new novel, whose Polish name,
"KryyZacy," means the Gross Men" 1t
is q story of q German religious order,
charged with the mission of Outstanding
the people among whom their lives were
spent They went to Poland, but abused
their mission. AS the story is not yet fin
ished. it is impossible to give details, but
in this, as in his other novels, Mr.. Sien-
kiewicz places his readers in the times of
which he writes. Concerning the pronun-
citation of the name, Il POLE writing to
the New York Times, has this interesting
thing to say: "Frst-In Polish the name
Is pronounced in three syllabes. Second
the first syllable (antepenulO is not pro-
nounced as sin in English. The Polish
pronunciation may be phonetically indi
Gated thus: 'Syen-kya-vitch.' The first
syllable is pronounced very nearly as
'Sien' in Sienna. There is a slight Y
sound in both the first and second syllables.
The accent is on the second, and the whole
should be pronounced in three syllables."
THE KING OF THE TOWN, a novel, by
Ellen Mackubn. 16mo; cloth; 81
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
A fresh and stirring story of army and
frontier life by one who is intimately ac-
quainted with it. and who tells story very
familiar to dwellers upon our frontier
though hardly unders TODD by our eastern
friends. Fort Ludlows new commander,
Major Cornish, went with some other Off
GERS of the garrison to the new town of
Silverton to hear Mr.. Dare preach to the
rough denizens of that mushroom min
ing town. This man Dare was known as
the king of the Town" in all the region
around. being storekeeper, preacher and
all-around leader. During the discourse
which was full of strange eloquence, the
moon fell full upon the face of Dare when
Cornish discovered him to be q friend of
his youth who had afterward run away