The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-10
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ther literary wares from ~
nee 20 office, and suffer revtsio,.,
ehd rejection, just as if they were quite m
known. For instance, could name a ,,o,,r-,
woman of gifts far from ordinarT, ~
mas written a number of stories that M,
century Magazine was glad to publish an.I
coAecGlon of which the Century conora,'-.
afterwards published i'm a book who -
very wei known TO publishers and edl-
tors, and who is not afraid 10 urge H.
9ln ''' on their attention, and who VET is
compelled to live in the scantest NAME
afiG 10 has in her work no easier va,
except that II is now a way perfectly fa
mlIiar to her in all its thorns and tur7s
tnal she had the day she reached New
orS [ could name several poets oa,t
OF whom has published a number Of vi
nmeS that have been we'll received and
have established the author in a certain
Iame from the Atlantic to the Pacific. ana
VINO, nevertheless, has about as large a
postage ON returned manuscripts as he had
al the outset. In short, an assured nlaca
for the average author is very like beay~
er; ne can attain 1t only by wearing his
lit out, and there is no certainty of his at
tanning 1t then.
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, has taken
a cottage for the summer at Newnort
Her ordinary home is in the heart of the
city, down near Washington square. in
the quarter that has been commemorated
by Mr.. Richard Watson Glider in a SON
net opening:
This is the part of the town that love
the best"
The fondest friend of Washington square
or OF Mr.. Glider would find il difficult 10
see any poetry in this line, but any one
VINO knows New York must acknowledge
that 1t has a justification in its senti-
ment. Most of the houses in this Quarter
nave an attraction of their own through
beng IN the architecture distinctly ante
rior to the present mode and it is in one
of these that Mrs. Van Rensselaer, lives.
She is happily relieved of the ordinary
stress of the writer's calling; she can take
her time to her work, and il does nor
run into a matter of brea kfasts or din
ners when she fails to place any of il.
She works with great conscience, though.
ana seeks acceptance only on the merit
OF what she presents. She gives much
time TO charitable work and is the found
er of a club for girls that is doing good
service among the young girls of the East
side.
Miss Gertrude Hall is translating
"Cyrano de Bergerac," the heroic com
edy, which has had this last season. such
notable triumph in Paris, for Richard
Mansfield, and he expects to produce il
here next winter. Miss Halls translation
IS a literary event. however, quite as much
as 1t is theatrical. An occasional story
and an occasional poem in a magazine, a
small book of stories and a small book of
poems have not brought Miss Hall. per
haps, into the widest notoriety; but who
ever has remarked these quaint ventures
OF hers must have been struck with their
very unusual quality. They have never
failed to show originality and delicacy of
conception and finish and aptness in the
expression. You gather at once from them
a is "a
from the author you are won't to fall in
with along ordinary ways on ordinary
days Her translation of "Cyrano de Rer-
gerac," 1 know from persons who have
read parts of 1t, will lack none of the dis
tnction of her previous work. and It is
to be issued in book form by a well-known
publishing house even before or at latest.
about the time OF its first presentation on
the stage.
Miss Hall is one of a variously and highly
gifted family. Her mother, who died about
a year ago, was successful musician. She
has two sisters, one of whom is musi-
clan and the other an artist They all
live together in Boston
Prof George Adam Smith Is busily at
work on life of Prof. Henry Drummond.
which is TO be published this fail For
the life of man like Drummond, in whose
career the personal element counted for so
trst Importance that there should have
been special personal intimacy between
btographer and subject, and in this there
was between Prof. Smith and Prof Drum
mond. They We're contemporaries in the
theological school of New College Edin-
burg, and Smith was a member of that ia
nous "Gaety Club which Drummond and
his particular friends organized in New
College about 1876. The organization be-
gan in a series of Sunday evening meetings
of a special character, held in the Gaiety
theater, Edinburg. 1t consisted of about 10
members, and grew, by natural processes,
into what one of its members has descrlb-
ed as brotherhood, faithful in criticism
loyal in affection, and tender in trouble"
The intimacy thus fostered never lapsed,
so far as Drummond and Smith were con-
cerned; they knew each other perfectly,
and remained the closest friends until
Drummonds death.
For the personal side of the man, there
fore, no better biographer of Drummond
than Prof Smith could have been chosen.
Thus far Prof Smiths writings have been
rather exclusively theological, but he has
shown In them that he was not without
literary and popular quality He is at
present professor of Hebrew and Old Tes-
lament EXegesis in the very college where
he and Drummond sealed their friendship
e. C. Martin
They were very, very young; also, very.
very dirty-two little lads of the street.
One had been absent from school, and
the other was writing his excuse for him.
'SaV Jimmie - said one eff YER wants