Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-07-27


found some old books that d friend
yesterday had been looking over with
view to taking them away with him
on a camping trip. Now, there was
Gilbert Whites ''Selborne," Isaac
Waluon's Complete Angler" books
OF Thoreau's and Celia Tbaxter's.
People who use their brain cells as
implements for bread winning are very
apt to select their recreations for
some logical reason. For man or
woman who thinks in these days, liv-
ing is COMPLICATED affair and tho best
vacation is an absolute change. There
fore, camp life strongly appeals to them
and it is wise man of the woods
who furnishes the aesthetic element in
the wilderness with hook or two in
his pack; but even the wisest of them
are apt to choose the worst literature
when they 60 to the woods. Nothing
| is more amusing than to come across
doctor of divinity in camp trying to
be worldly by reading Dora Thorne's
hooks or Mrs. May Agnes Flemming's.
But believe more satisfactory
pleasure will come to the man or
woman who tries to associate each va
cation with one or two works of fiction
or adventure that are real literature.
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woods to read, but there are rainy days
when few pages of a well-written
book chime in with ones mood. There
is no pleasanter way to pass lazy
hour in camp than by reading Nan
sens "Fartherest North" and the
hotter the day the better. But what
sane man wants to lug along ten
pounds of literature and risk up
setting his canoes and though 1 advo.
cate polzing in ones kit one or two
little lightweight volumes, | frankly
think that the man or woman who
reads in trees and in the brooks with
out the aid of printed type will stimu-
late his mind better than the one who
sticks to the calf bound Volumes AND
no doubt the best time to read bulky
books of travel and adventure is il
midwinter, when you are heartsick fol
the sun and the air. One can have {
rare days sport fishing with Henr,
Van Dyke along his Little Rivers
on bleak March day, sitting in from
of an open fire. One may build de
ligbtful camp with George Bird Grin
: nell or take 'Travel with Donkey
and have as your companion Rober
Louis Stevenson or take a sea tril
where the joy of travel permeates al
| IIt SlcIltS WIFI huD}uTd ~
his last book of travels, From Sea t,
Sea-" The 81 letters, which are in th
, two volumes, were written to tn
9 Pioneer during 1853, from March t
? September. They begin with Cal
$ cutta and end with a visit to Mar
Twain in Elmira, N. Y. l once asKe,
+, lover of the sea to name the five bes
!, sea stories written in English and h
y told me Cooper's 1.-Two Admirals,
Clarke Russel's 1.-THE Wreck of tn
Grosvenor, Trelawney's "Adventur
of Younger Son." Stevenson's eth
= wrecker,'' and Cuprle's 1.-THE Gree
Hand"
q However for few weeks in cam
. . take Van Dykes advice and let you
mind run slow and the wheels stan
!, still and even rust little il they will
. My mornings mail brought me in
;, great budget of news from the world {
y letters, but Beth is not here to talk
~ over with me and ] am only going
=, u pick out the kernels to tell you.
n KERNELS.
It What is said to be the only good al
count of Mr.. Kiping's life is write
by Charles Elliott Norton in Mcclure
Magazine for July.
I'd Charles Kingsley's daughter, Mr.
BY Harrison, better known by her pr
l5 name of Lucas Malet, has been r
Of ceived into the Roman Catholic churcl
I'd At the recent dinner of the Londt
D. Authors Club. Sir Walter Besant pr
I'd posed toast to Mark TWAIN, who w
es the clubs guest. MIR. Clemens @
5. tertaining answer was said to be one
ne the cleverest after-dinner speech
r | han ri ~, tIa oI,,I, III lo1 x.,s
KY pun: "Since England and Ameri
Mt have been Joined together by Kiplin
ed may they never be severed in Twain.
The New Orleans Times Democ
published last week very entertai
ing letter by Lillian Whiting of Be
lis ton, who tells Of q day spent at Fo
~ tainebleau, last autumn, with Ro
nj Bonheur. She goes on to say th
nd although in her 10th year, there W
~ about here no suggestion of old as
IL She was dressed in mans attire a
Sc looked like very refined and port
n old gentleman. Her garb was bla
10 and she wore little patent leather shot
black tie, and her abundant VIII
hair was parted on one side, while b
h eyes sparkled with the keenness
n9 youth. She wore no glasses, her ma
~ ner was alert with an indescribal
Nv grace and courtesy and her dignity "
y; impressive without being oppressi'
~ Her adoption of male attire had in
' h no element of eccentricity. 1t wa
10 means to an end. Her trend of gem
TO- was to paint animal life, and Il
~ necessitated study in horse fairs a
in market places where q woma
presence was considered indecoro
nit With her brother Auguste, dress
in boys attire, she excited no CO
In. ment, SO the French government G;
m. W Ml1: hohneur PerMission W w
G. LiascuiIne costume. ihe WINDOWS
L. ner stuoio command pictuIese