The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-12
Car.0f Literary eossi2.


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| The Two Maw.cse' IL sne rather strange
| name O. Lr. Henry James forthcoming
1 rsvei-
'eMerssf." by ArneiIe Rives. g novel
] 3sss. saaouncei By London FIRM os pub
| ihsslsTz-
Miss Mary wilkins novsi. .MaseIon. .
1 has been drans.ized By rte Hen stsphea
| coiersdgr.
| The San Francisco firm ~ Cgb~ry &
| Co. anro9rc4 for pgsS1scafEcn early this
| month novel entizsd The American
| King"
/ Mr.. walsszewski. Ere nuthor o. the s5e-
! cessful work On Peter the Great puh-
| lished IN this country last year. Is about
/ TO bring out q new book. IL ~ entitled.
'M2ryrlsnska. Queen OK Poland. Wife of
| sohieslsL''
| A special War Edition OF Prof. James
| a. Harrison's notable book on the Span
| isA peninsula from the earliest times TO
| the present critical hour. il announced for
| immediate publication by the Werner Com
| pany. Akron. o.
| W. z. Henley has been awarded fe--
eson by tire queen for HE services TO En-
| gslsh literature. IL loyalty counts for any
| thing Mr.. Henley deserved a pension on
| that score alone. for he 10. 70 Use q COM
| mon phrase. more loyal than the queen ;"
The London Daily Chronicle announces
| thar their Is q prospect OF NJ. Munkacsy's
| being removed 10 Hungary from his pres
en; asylum at Endenicn. His wife takes
!! long drives with him In the country. and
! he seems thoroughly TO enjoy them, but
| the artistic spirit is dead within him.
The article on John Jacob Aston. the
| founder OF the Astor fortunes. which Ar.
William Waldorf Aston has written for the
July number OF the Pail Mall Magazine.
| Is 10 contain much matter hitherto unpub-
| iishsd. 1t is complied from documents
and letters in the possession OF the author.
| ard is to have many fllustratsons-anong
them a copy Of Gilbert Stuart's portrait
| OF the first American Aston.
Among. the movements OF the day is enc
based on good sense and permeaied with
the spiritual principle common to all types
and sects CT religion-trust in the Unseen:
Its drift being indicated by the familiar
| phrase. don't worry" The best thoughts
| OF the best thinkers have always been for
serenity. and not for anxiety. Miss Jeanne
| G. Pennington has complied selection OF
suggestive passages which viii De shortly
published by Fords. Howard & Hubert.
OF New York. under the title Of Don,
Worry Nuggets; bits Of ora gathered from
rich minds"
Mr.. Oscar s. Ssraus, formerly minister
| TO Turkey has been reappointed 10 that
| pest In which ne made an excellent record.
| by President Mckinley. His appointment
Is made noteworthy by the fact that he Is
Democrat. Like so many other OF Mr..
| McKiniey's chief diplomatic appointees.
| Mr.. Straas is "a man of letters being the
| author OF 1.-THE Origin OF the Republican
| Form OF Government in the United States"
| life Of Roger Williams. The Develop
| ment OF Religious Liberty In the United
| States various periodical articles, a
| treatise on THE Reform of the Diplomatic
| Service" and another dealing with the
| Venezuelan controversy. He Ia president
| OF the American Jewish Historical Asso-
| citation.
| George w. Gable is having a delightful
| time IN England. He is the guest of j..
| M. Barrie. and Incidentally Of various lit
| erary clubs. He Is also giving readings in
| drawing rooms, which the London public
| gladly pay 10 shill!ngs to attend. This 10
| Mr.. Cables first visit TO England. and I
| imagine that 1t viii not be his last. II he
| wants to make a great hit. / should ad-
| wise him to sing some OF those Creole
songs that he used TO sing before he be-
| came a public speaker. and 10 sing them
! as he sang them then, simply and without
| any attempt at tina singers art. lie VAS
best when untutored. 1 heard him In g
| friends house In New York. before he had
| any thought of appearing In public. and
| he was charming: but later he took les
sons and his singing lost much Of its
| unique quality.
| The Werner Company has secured the
| copyright privileges OF Prof. Schenk's
| book on the Determination OF Sex" both
| In the United States and England. The
| work has been vigorously pushed and is
now ready for distribution. DIR. Leopold
| Schenk. the author. Is a professor at the
| Imperial and Royal university. and direct
/ or Of the Embryologicai institute In Wen
| m. He has devoted twenty years 10 the
| investigation OF this subject. The trans
| laton has been supervised by DR.. MIC
| kellar, the weli-known English medical
| literary authority. In view Of the fact.
| says no less an authority than the British
| Medical Journal. that Prof Schenk's con-
| illusions as 10 the power OF artIfciaily de-
| tsrmining the sex OF offspring have served
| as n nine days wonder. IL seems advisable
| 10 lag before our readers tthe medical pro-
| .ession Of England. Australia and India)
| plain statement OF his arguments.
| Mr.. Qui.ler-Couch. in the Pail Mall Mag
| azine. TO which every month he contrib
| utes n chapter OF literary speculation and
| talk. deserves praise for his courage. says
| the New York Tribune He gives scholar
| ship a blow where iatter-day scholarship
| 20 wrap themselves in A professional and
| esoteric vanity. and fatter themselves and
| each other that for them only did the great
poets write. Too often when Mr. So-and-
| So Is said 30 have made this or that au-
| thor his own the phrase implies tina; Mr..
| So-and-So has done his best TO make him
| nobody elses." The purpose OF poetry.
| fer example IS 20 be poetlcai. not phi!o-
| logical. philosophical scientific, or any,
| thing else that the commentator thinks Il
| ought 10 be. It is pleasant 10 be ahls 20
| record simultaneously with this protest OF
| Mr.. QuiNcr-Couch' the appearance OF a
| book ike Nj Wyndham's edition 81 Shake
spe3re's poems. which is reviewed on the
! opposite page. THIS editor should be az
| ter our Cornishman's OWN nsart. He seeks
| The poetry IN Shakespeare's poems. and re
! auds u
| Mas Maria louise Pool, a writer OF
| come exceedingly clever stories OF New
| Easlani life. died a her home Roekland
| Mass. or May ~. Miss Pool was educated
| g. her natiys town. where she died, and
! after her graduation became a teacher.