The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-07
PLAY furnish one Of the most remarkable

Play, furnish one OF the most remarkaole
literary condolences on record.
If the comparative merits 81 Rider Hag-
CARDS books were put to a popular vote II Is
probable that an overwhelming majority
would be returned In favor Of King
Mines" II Is a genuinely great story OF ad-
venture and Andrew Lang has predicted mat
nifty years hence IL will be as much OF a boys
classic as Robinson Crusoe. one OF the
most dramatic incidents In the volume IS the
successful attempt TO convince the dlsaiiected
chieftains Of Twnla, King Of hukuanaland
that the white mon nre visitors from the stars
To prove supernatural powers they assert an
ability Ia darken the sun at midday, CApt.
Goode. RI n. having previously calculated that
an eclipse was due. A. nominations Quater-
main %recites reams OF the "lngoldshy Legends
while Goode. being naval enlts n string OF
oaths that would have caused the features OF n
Death Valley mule-driver to become sioklied
DER with the pale cast Of envy, Fifteen or
twenty years before the appearance Of King
solomon's Mines" Sir Samuel Baker wrote and
published a boys book called Cast Up by the
Sea /" In which this same eclipse incident Is
used In almost identically the same way for the
accomplishment ~ the same purpose.
There IRE not lacking those who find resem-
blances between page after page OF Conan
Doyle's White Company" and Lawrence's
shakespeare Be that as II may, there Ia a
tournament scene In The White Company"
which differs not a penny's worth from the
tournament or shby-de-la-Zouche IN SCOTS
-Ivanhoe In + lIopkinson Smiths de-
servedly popular Colonel Carter Of Carriers
VILE, IL n story Of a carpet-bagger who was
made postmaster, refused 10 trust a temper
arily embarrassed but undismayed Southron
- 49, -. .lr,,,.k tie roe
oflco window-'an' do YOU know, sub, IL took
almos' III entiah innoocnoe Of III Yerger family
sub. 70 prevent. M obviate. a prosecution,
sub, " or words 70 that effect There Is no telling
where this yarn originated but it was q
favorite In Dixieland ~ early as 1870 and by
1878 had attained that rich golden color OF
chestnut to which MI good stories come
One Of the most frequently quoted aphorisms
Of David Harum" Is There are no pockets
in the shroud Many years ago when the
funeral Of the elder Vanderbilt passed along
broadway Secretary Bolknap and n par y ~
friends we're in Delmonicu's Among them
was John 4 joyce. now Of Washington, and
moro or less celebrated on account Of his con
~troversy with Ella Wheeler Wilcox ms TO which
! one Of them wrote Laugh and the World Laughs
With You " After the procession had vanished,
the conversation turning to the vast possessions
/ lClt ny inc OfHu HlhlbIldlTf' J'N'F NIoie AZ
a tahle a short poem called"There Are 30 Pockets
In the Shroud " It Is not known whether IL
was then published or not 1t was published,
however, In the Washington Post In 1909. under
its original title and this was five years before
TO the appearance OF the Westcott move.
Not long ago there died In Ohio a man who
had something more than a local reputation
a. a poet. His fame, II 4, might be called such,
was based almost wholly upon a set of tender
graveyard stanzas, beginning:
one night when old ST Peter slept
And left the door Of Heaven aIar
There through a little angel crept
And came dorno on = falling star
This poem, the obituaries stated, was written
and printed late In the 'eOs. II is TO be found
entire on the tombstone Of an infant that died
in central Iouisianain 1857.
The errors Of authors are almost az frequent
as their analogues and more amusing. In
one Of her books "ouida" has somebody talk
ing 10 her usual unconversattonal hero. This
hero. in a nonchalant and graceful manner.
lights q cigarette, ten lines further on puts
meditatively Mt his cigar. and two paragraphs
afterward knocks the ashes from his pipe. In
Charles Reads Never Too Late to Mend" a
commissioners from the Home ONCE has conn
down to investigate chars es by Chaplain Eden
that barbarous cruelties were common In the
Jail I Eden's request. and 20 convince the
commissioners. Robinson, the jailbird. enters
one OF the internal contrivances In which Gov.
Halves was used 20 strap the prisoners until
they Choked and tainted. So for as Mr.. Read
lie concerned, Robinson Ia still In the machine
He reappears, strong and res o~urceful, in the
next chapter. but the reader Is left to imagine
how he got out. Here is a passage from An
thony Hope HGwkins's "Prison-r Of Zenda. &"
edition authorized by Henry Holt 4 Co. Amerl-
can publishers: Chapter XIV. A Night Out
side the Castle . . Sapt and Fritz
wers waiting for mo with three men and the
horses. Making a circuit, We avoided the
town and In an hour found ourselves slowly
mounting the hill that led 70 the castle OF zenda.
When we came 20 a thick clump we babe orr
three friends hide there with the horses.
. Concealmsnt being no longer pos
sible. ve fung them lcorpses Of foemenl into
the moat. and. drawing together In a COM
pact body, rode OF down the hill. And In our
midst went the bodies Of four gallant gentle
men" As neither sapt nor Fritz was s ain
and Rudolf Rassendyll Is doing the writing,
itmight puzzle even Mr.. Hope toe AZ plain whence
he got that fourth body that was in our midst. "
In Soldiers Of Fortune" Richard Harding Davis
gives n thrilling night adventure. The musical
and indomitable McWilliams Ia doing guard
duty on the hurricane deck OF a carriage. All
about are revolutionists. MoWlliams. cool,
calm. coldly brave, watches i~ntentlv, his
thumb on the trigger" What his thumb was
doing on the trigger people are left 10 guess.
BE would as we'll have had his toe on the muzzle.