The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-06

did much tor the un1hcatlOn OF CnflS-
tan effort over the world.-The Metho-
dist Magazine.
''Mr. Doo1ey' has explained in Lon
don how he came to write his lightsome
papers. Il was talking" he said, zone
day with an esteemed saloon keeper OF
Chicago, McGarry by name, about Jay
Goulds death, which had just occurred
He used the lingo and followed the line
of philosophy which might be expect
ed from all of us having ancestral
homes in Queens County or elsewhere
in Ireland. His observations struck
me as good human nature, and when
spare hour found me with little en-
ergy set them down. They appeared
in print and were liked by the editor
of our Sunday paper, and by myself
we being our public"
Miss Marie Corelli has allowed an
awestruck and impatient world to
know that she is writing a long novel
as well as short one. Many of her
novels, it is gravely announced, have
been planned in the rose garden at
Court Farm, near Worcester, the home
of Mary Anderson de Navarro, the nov
elist and the retired actress being de-
voted friends.
Tennyson was very dear to his friend
Jowett, as the following letter adj
dressed to another friend by the Mas
ter of Balliol testifies: It paid my
annual visit to Tennyson last week.
Shall I tell you about him? This year
he has written but a short piece, called
'Boadicea,' in. a very wild, peculiar
metre, with long lines and innumerable
short syllables. 1t is very fine, but too
strange to be popular. He had been
i'll, and greatly suffering and depressed,
| fear. The more see of him the more
l respect his character, notwithstand-
ing a .superfcial irritability and uneas-
mess about all things. I have a
pleasure in repeating this about him,
because I find he is SO greatly mis-
taken by those who don't know him or
only know him a little. No one is
more honest, truthful, manly or
warmer friend, but he is as open as the
day, and like child tells to any chance
conner what is passing in his mind. He
sometimes talks of going on with King
Arthur For my own part 1 hope he
won't; he has made as much of it as
the subject admits. Twenty years ago
he formed a scheme for an epic poem
on King Arthur in ten books: it is
perhaps fortunate for himself that cir
cumstances have prevented the compile
ton of it. He dislikes Byron, but
speaks very generously and warmly OF
Wordsworth
no 10 10 o1,o
of Carlyle's dearest friends, and he and
his wife were often in the sages house.
1t was accordingly with all the knowl-
edge of long intimacy that Mrs. Aliing
ham painted the hitherto unpublished
portrait which was reproduced from the
pages of 1.-The Magazine of Art The
AllinghamS We're among those who
thought their atrabilious hero could do
no wrong. The geniality of the artists
feeling toward her sitter is reflected in
her work.
Hall Game is writing new book and
proposes to finish it in Rome, where he
has taken a. house for next winter.
That veteran and versatile journalist
and author, Justin Mccarthy, has just
published an interesting volume of
"reminiscences" With the United
States Mr. Mccarthy is well acquaint-
ed, and he enjoyed the intimacy of sew
eral of the most distinguished writer's
of the age just passed. Here are some
words he has to say about Doctor
Holmes:
Oliver Wendell Holmes seemed to
have stepped into existence out of his
own book, 1.-THE Autocrat of the Break
fast Table,; or 1.-The Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table" seemed to have
formed the very being and soul of Oil
Iver Wendell Holmes. I never knew an
author and book so thoroughly iden-
titled with-one another. To hear Wen
dell Holmes talking, one might have
thought he was spinning new fanciful
passages for his delightful book; and
he could talk away upon any subject
on the spur. of the moment, and spin
fancies about it and around it dream
| lily, as if-he were an improvisatore play
| ing with some congenial subject for
the joy Of an erraptured audience
| Anything could set him talking if he
was in a mood for talk: and yet he al
ways seemed to be Inspiring the talk
of others rather than carrying on the
discourse himself I have met num-
bers of dull men who seemed to mo-
nopolize the conversation in a way
| that Wendell Holmes never did; and
yet I have never heard a. man who
seemed more capable of holding a COM
pany in fascination by his talk. He
| did not seem to me to be- so closely
| identified with any other of his books
as with 1.-The Autocrat of the Break
| fast Table, t@
| Small Boy Philosophers.
| "It's a funny world said the small