The age-herald., 1900-11-04
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revived by Henry Mills Alden, that prince of writers, whose thirty years career as editor and literary adviser to the house make him especially fitted for the task.
 Major Pond, the-veteran manager of the lecture platform, in recent New York edi- torial pays beautiful tribute to MT. S. l.. Clemens, our own Mark Twain,'' who, with his wife and family have just landed in New York after tour around the world to pay his debts." The recital of this her culean effort of the great writer to pay off the enormous debt incurred through no per sonal mismanagement at time when his health was almost gone Is one of the most pitiable things in the history of men of let ters, full though this history may be of heroic efforts and sacrifices. Major Pond says that he offered MT. Clemens $0,0O0 if he would deliver ten lectures on his return home this autumn. "He replied that no terms could offer would remove his preju- dice against the platform He had lectured once In Vienna and once in Buda-Pesth for fun-not for money; that he liked to talk Tor nothing about twice year; but talking for money was work, and that takes the pleasure out of it." In conclusion Major Pond says: Mark Twain,' printers ap- prentice in small Missouri river town, then 'tramping jour- printer, a Missouri river roustabout, guarding freight piles all night on the levee for pocket money; a riv- CT pirate, o rebel guerrilla, a reporter in a Nevada mining town, then suddenly the most famous author of the age, man of society, and the most aristocratic clubs of America and all around the civilized globe flung open to him."
 Undoubtedly Mark Twain Is one of the greatest geniuses of our time. and 1t Is an enviable homecoming that our most popu- lar writer is enjoying.
 The elections for Parliament in England r. the past few months, and the surprise to many was that so many of England's pop ular and busy authors should desire seat in the House. However, 1t now turns out that they are not to have so many author candidates after all. MT Alden, the Lon don correspondent, writes that MT. Antho- ny Hope has withdrawn by the advice of his physician, who authorizes the unwel- come announcement that Mr. Hopes health is not such as to warrant him in undergo ing the excitement of a Parliamentary con- test It Is also announced that MT. Barrie has no intention of becoming candidate. So that the only two novelists of promi- hence who are anxious. to enter the new Parliament are Dr. Conan Doyle and MT. Gilbert Parker.
 It is said that MT Kipling Is at his Rot ting-dean home, where an American friend recently found him hard at work upon some new animal stories. They are what the author calls his "Just-so Stories," three of which were published In the Ladies' Home Journal
 T have finished two already" said MT. Kipling, land in a month I'll send over third" The author then explained that one of the stories was In reply to a little boy in the west who liked his other "Just- so" stories, and told MT Kipling that he had a pussy of which he was very fond, and would MT. Kiping tell him something about pussy?" That rather tickled me-" said the author, land so I'm going to tell the little chap in one of the stories How Pussy Got Her Purr.'" The new stories begin in the January number of the Ladies' Home Journal.
 Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of forthcoming autumn publications will be the number of books that will appear with colored illustrations. Heretofore this kind of illustration has been confined chiefly to children's books, but this year many new and promising novels will appear with pie lures in color. This will add materially to the cost of manufacturing books, and Is of course an evidence of the enterprise of American publishers; but whether it adds