The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-04
NOTES o4ND NEWS.

We are indebted to The Literary Re-
view. Boston, for the three masks here
given, which represent NJ de Regnier,
Stuart Merrill and Viele-Griffin. These
gentlemen, says Vance Thompson. are the
new poets of France. OF De Regnier he
adds You may read his poems by the
hour. They are pearls cunningly strung
Un a silver thread. They are daintiiy and
knowingly made. They recall all that Is
most charming in the anthologies Of sew
enteenth century verse. AT once
coquettish and erudite, NJ. de Regnier Is
type of the poet who is made He Is a
poet as he might have been a courtier or
a gentleman rider. With perfect
self-possession and the society accent he
sings OF dawn, and sad waters OF dusk
and scented ladies and asphodels. Of gold
and death"
President Hadiey. Of Yale. has brought
the New York Sun about his ears by his
advice to ostracize the man who makes
his money by sweating systems and
questionable practices. The simultaneous
editorial comment In every prominent
newspaper shows how close the question
is to our everyday life. II might perhaps
be difficult TO carry on many OF our larger
educational institutions IL President Had
ley's advice were followed. This whole
SUBJECT mas oeen treated IN very Strik-
ing way by Margaret Sherwood In her
last novel, Henry Worthington Idealist"
She has made a university in an Eastern
city the scene of her story, and has drawn
a picture OF conditions In which the ostra-
cism works the other way, as the New
York Sun suggests that 1t is likely to do.
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With its February number The Critic
inaugurates new department made W
of reports from the public libraries. free
and subscription, in the principal cities of
the United States and Canada. Each H.
brary sends list. prepared by its libra
risn. OF the ten most caned-for books
other than Notion Though one novel Is
admittedp during the month past. The
librarians have entered into the scheme
with enthusiasm, and IL Is believed that
the reports VIII be interesting to the gem
eral reader as well as TO the specialist.
Certainly no other means could SO well
show the taste OF the reading public OF
this country.
The career OF Mr.. Eden Philpotts. whose
recent book Of short stories. THE Human
Boy" is attracting much attention. Is OF
interest, az proving that a young man
seldom finds his true vocation on first
trial. Mr.. Philpotts was born In India
and was destined for the church. He
early abandoned this idea. owing to per-
sonal views, and went to London, where
he entered a fire insurance office. He
subsequently tried both acting and art.
but. making no great success OF either.
turned to literature, with the result that
his books are among the most popular
from English writer's.
The English author. Mr.. Tighe Hopkins.
Is to begin novel, and indeed unique.
series OF stories In McCiure's Magazine
with the February number. They are
stories depicting prison life--not prison life
from the rather matter-of-fact standpoint
of the social reformer and the economist.
but prison life as 1t affects in all their
human emotions and relations. specific
typical people who are themselves person.
ally involved In IT. Each story IL entirely
complete in itself; but still the series will
have a certain continuous interest.
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In accord with the expressed desire OF
Mr.. Moody his biography Is now being
prepared by his son. william r, Moody,
and viii be published by subscription from
the press of Fleming II. Revell Company.
Mr.. Moody was particularly anxious that
the errors and Misrepresentation of
former unauthorized works and mislead-
ing newspaper reports should be corrected
in an authentic work prepared by his son.
thus obviating the multiplication OF par
tial and inharmonious biographical
sketches.
The veteran geoioglst. Prof. Joseph lie
conte, of the University OF California. has
the first OF two papers telling the story OF
what the nineteenth century has done In
advancing geological science in the Feb
ruary number of Appleton's Popular Sci
ence Monthly. Prof lie Conte rs the au-
thor OF one of the most popular geoloeies
ever written, and owing to hts simple ana
easy style, the present history win he
found very interesting and readable 10y
the general reader as well as the geol-
ogist.
NJ. Henri de Regnier. the French poet.
debut as lecturer in America this spring.
modern French poets. which he will de-
liver nifty times during March and April
at Harvard. Yale, Princeton, Columbia,
Cornell, Chicago and san Francisco uni
versities, and at Bryn Mawr and Vassar
colleges. My plan" he said TO a Paris
representative OF The Critic, lis TO speak
OF the poets who write verse and Of those
who CHANGED to write prose, as Chateau
BRAND and Paul Adam I SHAH deyots
one lecture to each OF the leaders Paul
Neraine. Stephane Mallarme. I.econte dc
fAsle, called 'decaaent' untustly since they
have given a vigorous Impulse TO verse
and OF Baudelaire, viilisrs de Isle Adam,
Francois Coppee and all the most recent
poets I shah talk IN the remaining lee
lures. I am anxious TO see America. and