The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-09

were perhaps three Of them in all-and was
written most cfeverly In Biblical language.
1t was extraordinarily keen, and by all
readers who could appreciate the points
of it was greatly relshed 1t was issued
anonymously and the authorship of it, I
think, was not known to the public until
long afterwards, when the work itself had
lost most of its interest. The other was
Robert H. Newell, whose "Orpheus c.
Kerr (off1ce-seeker) papers burlesqued all
the public affairs of the time in a manner
broad enough to be within everybodys
comprehension. I think the successive pa
pers were first written, like the Dooley
papers, in the regular course of the au-
thors work for some newspaper. But the
country at large made acquaintance with
them in book form; and before the relish
for them wore out four goodly volumes of
them had appeared. 1t is the inevitable fate
of such writings to be short-lived. And
when they are dead, they are very dead,
indeed. fancy nothing could be stupder
than to try TO read either THE New Cos
pei of Peace" or "Orpheus c. Kerr" to-
day.
Literary work, like all other, runs these
days very much into specialties. If you
want an article or a book on a certain
subject, you resort to a certain man. He
will construct it for you very much as if
it was a steam engine or a yacht Among
the literary specialists there is none who
occupies more definite place and occupies
1t more exclusively than Mr.. Charles Hen
ry Hart. Almost any month you will find
Mr.. Harris name among the contributors
of one or another of the leading magazines
and almost invariably 1t will be signed to
a paper that has to do with some subject
of art in connection with American history
Mr. Hart was educated to the law, but he
resigned it some year ago and has since
devoted himself to his special interest
pictures, medals, books and whatever is
curious in relation, particularly, to Amer
lean history. If you want to know any,
thing about the portraits of the several
fathers or saviors of your country. he ba-
fore all others. is the man to applv IN
If you mant to determine the genuineness
or ascertain the whereabout of anv of the
works OF the early American painters.
again Mr. Hart is your only man. To me
there is something peculiarly attractive a.
this kind of an interest. II is adopted in
the first place, so exclusively from natur-
al preference; and whatever commercial
considerations the pursuit of Il rnhv nit
mately acquire, IL remains to the end 60
pre-eminenuy a fondness, an enthusiasm,
that ordinary vocations have no nictn'
resqueness in comparison. Mr.. Hart is
you with some newly-acquired raritv he
CLOVIS with an ardors that you cannot at All
keep up with unless you chance to he vour-
self somewhat in his line; but at worst va,
will allow that IL is fine to find a man 80
middle age so gloriously interested in anv-
thing.
Mr.. Harris speciality is, In a way, a birth.
right; ne was born under the shadow OF
Independence Hall. and he has passed he
whole life there. He is often in NJ,
York; indeed, he is in any part Of ne
country where the pictures ana noedais
and old books he is always in search of are
TO be found; but he is positively AZ bos,ao
nowhere else than In Philadelphia re-
began collecting as mere boy; he baga',
70 write on his special subjects before he
was 3D. His list of writings is alrea5,,
hong one, but he is hardy, and onIv 20
discovering something new every day ana
we may hope, therefore, that the Iist ~
sun good length 20 run. F. c. Martin
How do YOU manage 10 6ra 49,.