The times., 1899-10-29

one OF your most promising traits that
you do not take your powers TOO seriously
me Little Minister ought TO have ended
Dadiy We all know il did: and We are in
Hhltely grateful to you for the grace and
good feeling with which you lied about il
II you had tod the truth. l for one co,,ld
never have forgiven you. As YOU had con
ceived and written the earlier parts the
truth about the end, though indisputabIy
true 10 TACT. would have been a lie or
What is worse, discord in art. If vcu
are going to make book end badly it
must end badly from the beginning. Now
your book began to end well. You Iet
yourself fall in love with. and fcpdIe ana
smile at your puppets Once YOU had done
that your honor was committed-at the
cost of truth TO life you were bound to
save them"
A good story is told of the wife of GER
tain lord mayor in England II wo.Id not
DO TO give her name or her city. bacaus,
she is good woman and was unconscious
OF her mistake. 1t so happened that during
Queen NiCtoTia's last visit to London Her
Majesty, with her favorite daughter. vi itai
the training school for nurses, accompanie
by the lady mayoress" The goyernor. OF
the institution, as they We're depart ng. re-
quested them to write their names in the
visitors book. The Queen removed her
glove, took the pen and wrote Victoria
at the top Of new page. The Princess
followed her mother, and inscribed her
name Beatrice" The governor then
handed the pen to her ladyship the wife
of the lord mayor. She took it and sim
pered and on the third line wrote Emma"
The feature of 'McClures" for Novem-
Der is naturally Kiplings latest poem,
The King, part of which has already
been printed by the newspaper syndicates
in the usual tantaliZing and fragmentdrv
way. The rest of the magazine is packed
with interesting matter The frOntispiece
is fine portrait of Henry Irving. one of
the illustrations of an article about that
great actor, by H. J. w. Dam. The article
is fully illustrated with portraits of Irving
in all of his more famous characters. Mr..
Dam is also represented by a. clever story
with the enigmatical title, Monsieur Bibis
Boom Boom" The longest OF the descrip-
tive articles is Two Thousand Miles IN
the Antarctic Ice" by Dr. Frederick "A.
Cook, surgeon of the Belgian Antarctic
expedition. 1t is illustrated from photo
graphs by the author. There are two pO-
itico-historical articles. The first is BLACK
Friday-September "a 1859" BY George
:. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury
second is Decatur and the Philadelphia"
by Rev Cyrus Townsend Brady. The
Chinese Eastern Railway is a particularly
interesting paper by Alexander Hume
Ford. The fiction is of exceptionally high
merit Shan F. Bullock contributes an
Irish love story, entitled The Planters"
Sarah Barnwell Elliotts little study,
Progress" is a pathetically truthful sketch
Of two old Southerners of the middle class
W fai1pd ba nh Sc
keep up with the procession" THE Revolt
of the Blackfoot' is story by that very
clever Canadian, w. A. Fraser, and there
is an epilogue to William Allen Whites
'Boyville" stories under the name The
Herb Called Hearts Ease" The most
original bit of fiction in the number as
well as one of the daintiest conceptions
in recent literature is Helen Watterson
Moody's "A Child's Letters to Her Hus-
hov