The age-herald., 1898-11-13
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 >s>->BY PAUL FRY. "A N - >~>> N@1~

CTS who were unable to find hero in Mir. Weyman's shrewsbury" will be amply re- paid by finding two in "Castle Inn" We are also told that it possesses a heroine, whose charms recall Mile. de Cocheforet in Under the Red Robe"
 Tn a recent number of "Literature" ". D. Howells says in an article on American literary criticism: Principles, have said to them, not preferences, must be your guides. That you like book is no proof that 1t is good; still less 1t is a proof that 1t is bad because you dislike It. Seek the authors point of view, and be sure that you understand him before you correct him. If you cannot be modest, at least be kind; be even respectful" This is the first paper contributed by MT. Howells. and he promises some very charming and edifying reflections upon the art of criticism If we judge by the initial paper.
 
 pr. Moritz Busch has earned the title of "Bismarck's Boswell" and is considered an honor with which the biographer might well be content Though the comparison Is hardly just, as 1t is stated that the per- sonal contribution to the contents of his famous book by Boswell Is of considerably greater value than pr. Buschs to his: "In the quality of admiring loyalty, in the hab 1t of intelligent testimony. and in the fac ulty Of retentive memory, the two biog- raphers may not unfitly be placed side by side" There has been very great de- mand for Dr. Busch's Bismarck" in Paris and in Berlin. As the book Is printed only in English and is published in London, the enterprising firm has been doing enor- nous continental business. It Is under stood that copy was bound especially for presentation to the German emperor, but on reflection it was thought best not to send 1t.
 Tn a letter in yr hu VUaf Mitchell, upon finishing MT. Crawford's new book, Ave Roma Immortalis," we find him saying: "I have not for long while read a book which pleased me more , than MT. Crawford's Roma. It is cast in a form original and so available that 1t l must surely take the place of all other books about Rome which are needed to help one to understand it's story and it's archaeology"
 A recent reviewer comments upon the liberty Stevenson took with Dr. Samuel Johnston when, in his "Ars Tripex,' he wrote of the Photographer: Already an old man, he (Dr Johnston) ventured on his Highland tour, and his heart, bound with triple brass, did not recoi before twenty-seven individual cups of tea!' It has become a matter of history that Dr. Johnston never took more than twenty four cups of tea at one sitting" so this exaggeration is inexcusable Dr. Johnston said one time people who did not think of their stomachs hardly minded anything else" If you have ever tasted "tea in merrie England, it will be hard to recon cile this sentiment with the above "his- toric" statement.
 Rev. George r. Candler has been writing some very interesting and readable articles on Chinese Fiction for "The Open Court" The stolid and apatehtic John Chinaman, he says, is blessed with a mar velous imagination. as rich and nimble, if not as beautiful, as that of the ancient Creek Their works of literary fiction are abundant, and embrace the mythical the historical and the sentimental, but they contain none of the modern realisticl In conclusion. pr. Candler says: These peo- pie also are richly endowed with that mys- terious creative power of magina ton which gives to genius its light and to love it's glory. Across their hearts also have swept the rush of enthusiasm for brave deeds and the sweetness of kind thoughts, trembling tenderness, discursive fancy, soft breathings of pity, and the rain of tears" The conventional idea that these people are altogether whimsical and do not possess the ordinary qualities of human nature seems to be a mistake, for Dr. Candler answers us that we have not been able to look beyond their cold, material exterior to see the deicacy of feeling and f1neness of taste within.