The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
LITERARY NOTES.
The "London Glohen sars.

{ lungs nhe, and then whenever you want to
give me birthday present (my birthday comes
( once every seven years on the fifth Tuesday in
APTh) you viii know what to give me- Well |
like, very much indeed, a little mustard with
lat Of beef spread thinly under it; and | like
brown sugar-oniy 1t should have some apple
/ pudding mixed with it to keep it from being 100
sweet; but perhaps what | like best OF ali is
salt, with some soup poured over it. The use OF
the soup is to hinder the salt from being too
dry, and it helps to melt it."
OF course, it is possible to do that sort OF
thing deliberately, sitting down to it with
model before one; but with Lewis Carroll it was
: natural and spontaneous.
one Of the best instances Of this kind Of humor,
outside Of Lewis Carroll, Is in a story Of the great
Dumas Arriving one sitting hot day at his sons
I house, he subsidized in a chair in the garden, in
/ the hope Of catching a little breeze But none
came Alexandra, Alexandre! he called to his
/ son in the house, "open the windows. / besccch
you, and let little air into the garden
Some old friends OF Booth Harrington,
the talented young Indiana novelist, have
/ been telling tales of his personal appear
| ance in his college days. This Mr.. Tark-
| ington does not like, and in a letter TO
a friend he says: Nice way to talk about
/ a man-tell how ugly he used 20 be! You
ought to see me now. | wasn't beautiful
/ at twenty-that much / grant-but oh, a
/ wondrous grace has descended upon my
1 flower face with the advance Of middle
/ years. My nose is no longer Cyranesque
/ and I'm in demand as a model by such
/ painters as Tadema, who desire to study
/ the pure Greek type as softened and
/ glorifed by transplanting TO Indiana
! 1t is not often that a writer Of fiction
( displays such power of realism as to sue
( coed in convincing the reading public that
I his fables are facts. In the case of III.
Lukeman" however, who wrote a short
story for last October's "McClure's" en-
titled The Killing of the Mammoth" his
tale was taken not as the result OF fer
tile imagination, but as a contribution to
natural history. II is on record that ever
since the appearance of the story in the
magazine the authorities of the Smithson-
ian Institution. in which Mr.. Lukeman To-
Gated the remains of the beast Of his fancy
have been beseged with visitors to see the
stuffed mammoth, while the editors Of
'McClure'sP have received numerous let
ters filed with enquiries for more informa-
tion and for requests to settle wagers as
to whether it was a true story or not.
Trusts and the Public is the title of
VI. George Gunton's important new book,
which is to be published Immediately BY
D. Appleton & Co.
That the verse of Edward Rowland Sill
has taken a foremost and permanent place
in American poetry now seems certain.
Every anthology of American metrical
composition includes specimens Of his
verses, the Fools Prayer being notably
a favorite for this use. Since the poets
death in 1887 the volumes of his verse have !
had a sale which constitutes a dispToof Of
the frequently heard assertion, that inter- |
est in poetry is declining. 1t is probably |
more correct to say that taste in verse is |
rising. and that the "boudoir poet" is no |
longer in favor, while the virile singer is |
in demand HoughtOn, Mifflin & Co. will |
soon publish a volume of the dead singers !
prose and letters.
by the Marshes of Minas'' is collec- |,
ton of magazine stories by Charles G. d. |
Roberts, the scene of all of them being |
laid in old Acadia, when the French and |
English were struggling for the mastery |
Of North America and the English were |
pushing the French out of Nova Scotia
The notorious Father lie Carne the BLACK
Able" with his band of savage Micmacs,
figure in nearly all the stories.
The author Of knights in Fustian," a
story Of "Copperhead" plotting in Indiana |
during the war for the Union, is a young
woman, native to the scenes of which she
writes Caroline Brown is one of the |
names frequently seen in the lists OF con-
tributora to periodical literature. but
knights in Fustian" is her first large es-
say in fiction.
The initial volumes of a series of Brief
Memoirs Of Eminent Englishmen,' to be
called the Westminster Biographies will |
shortly be issued in this country and in
England, the first to appear being a DE
Foe" by WilfTed Written; a Wesley,
by Frank Banfield, and a Browning" by
Arthur Waugh.
The "Conversationings" of Diedrich Dim
kelspiei are to be published in book form.
They will be issued most appropriately, by
the New Amsterdam Book Company. OF
the Libraries OF Best Literature, now so
common, Mr.. Dinkelspiel says: "Lidera-
ture und milk dey vas a resemblance to
each odder desc days, because skience has
discofered how to condensation them
BOTH
"The Secret of Kyriels," by E. Nesbit,
is an English novel in which there is
country house with mystery yillaiHOus
plotting. crimes of various kinds misery. |
and suffering, and in the end everything
cleared up and happiness coming when
ruin and more misery impended.
C. P. Putnam's Sons have discovered,
much to their disgust, that they have pub
lished a stolen novel.
It is Aboard the American Duchess"
by George L. Myers. It was stolen from
The Queen Of Night" by Headon Hill, |
published by Ward, Lock & Co, 10 London,
two years ago
The manuscript was accepted by C. P.
Putnam's Sons after it had been approved
by four readers. None had read the work
Of HeadOn Hill. A week after the pub
LEGATION of Aboard the American Duchess"
several friends of G. p. Putnam's Sons
sent to them copies OF HeadOn HIS The
Queen Of Night
They did not have to mark passages.
Myers copied almost textualIy everything
plot, incidents, style. He changed the title
OF the plagiarized book and the names OF
the personages; he transferred the scene
from London to New York and he made
Of a New York detective London de-
tectiye-then he copied the rest.
E. S Van Zile, author of 4 novel, else
where reviewed in our columns says
This tale had its origin in a half page Of
Francis Parkman's La Sale" l had
never written historical romance, ard
while / felt the inspiration of an incident
lightly touched upon by Parkman, l real
lied that a large amount of drudgery was
necessary to give the story l had in mind
its reassemblance. began Investigations
connected with the Mississippi survivor
shipers-the Natchez Indians-and as l
pursued my studies my tale developed It
self Historically and ethnolOgically the
data used in my story are absolutely ac-u-
rate unless the accepted authorities a G
at fault.
"Parkman will prove to be gold mine
to the American story-tellers OF the fu-