The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-11


dered by Mr., Campbell
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Our heading this week Is taken from the
Impressionist, one of the newest appli-
cants for public favor among the maya
zines 1t is a dignified journal, admir-
ably gotten UP. and especially notable for
its crisp black-and-white sketches. which
are few but clever Clement Scott and
Julien Gordon are among the contributors
to the current number.
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Mr.. W. E. Henley. the poet-critic. who is
so favorably known to the readers of the
North American Review through the col
lection of his songs and madrigals pub
lshed in that periodical two or three
months ago. writes in the February num-
Der of Some Novels of 1899" Mr.. Henley
reviews some fifteen or sixteen works OF
fiction. including "A Double Thread"
RED Pottage." mo. 5 John Street." The
Market Place." "Stalky & Co, and other
popular books Of the year.
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At dinner In rockingham, not long
ago. a Royal Academician stated to the
company the alleged fact that sugar
and sumac are the only two words in
English where "su" is pronounced as
"shu." There was much interest shown
in the discovery when Rudyard Kipling
But are you quite sureg
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The care and fastidiousness which our
grandmothe-s and great-grandmothers
gave to what they would call the epis-
tolary art" are made the subject of a
tender. humorous sketch of old New En-
gland, written for the Youths Companion
by Miss Mary E. wilkins.
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On G. p. Putnam's Sons list OF forth
coming fiction are linda Wade" the last
novel written by Grant Allen: The
Priests Marriage" by Nora Vynne, and
knight Tompkins, whose pretty story of
Her Majesty" was SO well received
couple of years ago.
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ITO Have and To Hold" the stirring
novel OF the jamestown settlement, by
Mary johnson, whose prisoners OF Hope"
won such unstinted praise from the critics.
and such wide attention from the reading
public. will be published in the middle of
February by Houghton. Mifflin & Co. The
story has appeared serially in the Atlantic
Monthly. and In the first three months its
publication greatly increased the sales OF
the magazine over the same period of the
preceding year. Nothing since THE Auto
crat of the Breakfast Table" has had so
marked an effect on the circulation of the
Atlantic.
The Macmillan Company publish a book
on Henry Irving which should be OF in
terest to his American admirers at this
time. 1t IL a record and review of his life
by Charles Hiatt. who wrote also similar
book on Ellen Terry. The portrait by MIL
lais and many others from photographs
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and work.
THE decade which Is now nearing its end
will be found. think. when looked at retro
spectively to have been the most sterile
decade Of the whole century whose close 1t
marks" writes Harry Thurston Peck. in
Ainslee's for February. 1T Is a decade
in which some eminent authors have finish
ed their careers. and in which other emil
nent authors have deteriorated and sunk
to the level OF the commonplace, but In
which scarcely one author has arisen to do
original and splendid work imbued with a
vitality that is sure TO make 1t live through
out the years that are to come.
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A. Henry Savage Lander. the artist
traveller. the story OF whose adventures in
Thibet attracted much attention some time
since. IS now lecturing in this country.
Mr.. Landor's fondness for travel dates
from his boyhood. At the age OF sixteen
he made journey to Morocco, selling
sketches and drawings to pay his way.
Later, In London. he took up portrait
painting and silver-pont work with some
success. Some of his best portraits were
done in this country. He visited almost all
explored parts of the world. and In 1897
determined to make attempt to enter
the unknown land OF Tibet, where no white
man had ever succeeded In penetrating.
What his sufferings were, and TO what
tortures he was subjected. he tells In his
book, I'm the Forbidden Land" one Of the
most remarkable narratives OF travel that
has ever appeared 1t is interesting TO
know that Mr.. Lander is slight Of physique
and rather under average height
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The Boston Transcript has made a
rather interesting discovery concerning
Mr.. Eden Philpotts, the author OF THE
Human Boy"
at is amusing to note" says the Tran
script. that Mr.. Phillpotts began with
The End Of Life and through philoso-
pliers. prophets and devils--to quote from
some OF his titles-has worked youthfuliy
down TO Children of the Mist and The
Human Boy the latter being his elev-
euth book"
The Review Of Reviews for February
contains character sketch Of Dwight l..
Moody by George Perry Morris. which
will be Of universal interest. A striking
article In another line Is Baron Pierre de
Coubertin's "A French View of the Ger
man Empire"