The age-herald., 1900-04-08

9S6G>Go6f96966 1Gss6SGeSS>69S99 as profession seemed to pay and pay well, Professor Brander Matthews contrib utes article in the current number of | "The Forum" upon the subject which will certainly disllusion many readers. In his article Literature as a Profession" Pro- | lessor Matthews points out how few Amer jeans there are who make their livings out of literature. While Professor Matthews admits that 1t is not so gloomy as it used to be, still it is so gloomy that the friends of young person who aspires to live by | literature are justified in regarding that young persons as either genius or some- what demented.
 The "Lounger" in the Critic facetiously remarks that some writers achieve fame with their first novel, some with their sec ond some with their last, and others there are who do not achieve 1t at all. However, Miss Cholmondeley is living example of one who achieved fame on her fourth book. For while her third book, Diana Tenn pest" made reputation for its author, it remained for Red Pottage" to bring her fame. It is said that the Messrs Appleton Tempest" which will contain a short sketch of Miss Cholmondeley, together with her portrait and a picture of the house in which she was born.
 
 David D. Wells, the novelist, was born April 1868, and graduated from Harvard university with honorable mention in Eng fish literature in 1893. For the last few years MT. Wells has been engaged in liter ary work, and his novel, Her Ladyship's Elephant" which appeared in 1898, has reached it's tenth printing. It is said that the story was founded on an actual incl dent. His Lordshil)'s Leopard is the title nf nTr Nn11C .fo 1ai.- i41 reflection printed recently in Life, headed, Animals the Only Heroes Left for f1ction." Such titles seem to substantiate the truthfulness of the assertion The pres ent popularity of fiction in which animals are the heroes-"The Sand-Hill Stag" Bob, Son of Battle" "Diomed," numerous Jungle Books," etc, suggests that in an age of realism the only ideal characters are found among the brutes
 Miss Lillian Bell is we'll known to large circle of admirng readers Her en- gagement to MT. Arthur Hoyt Rogue is an- nounced. The date of their wedding Is not set but will take place in May, so rumor says, and then MT. and Mrs. Bogue will travel in Europe during the summer and later will reside in New York.
 Winston Churchill of St Louis, author of "Richard Carvel" will spend part of the
 
 for new novel. The plot of his new work will be laid in the civil war times, and, through the courtesy of the university, he will have access to the material relative to the period in the Pierson civil war collec- tion in the university library.
 The late Grant Aliens "TIilda Wade' was published serially in the Strand Mag azine before the author had finished the last chapters. It Is said that as he lay up- on his death bed, and only partly con- scious. the fact that the story was unfin- ished worried him. His friend and neigh bor Dr. Conan Doyle, hearing of his trouble, went to see him. and sitting by his bedside, heard the dying man tell what he had proposed to do with his last chapters Dr. Doyle made notes, and when he went home wrote the story out as MT. Allen would have written it had he lived to finish his work. This is not new where the un- finished work of an author is completed by another author. One of the most notable examples was Robert Louis Stevenson's work, which was so splendidly completed by A. T. Quiller-Couch that 1t is impossible to tell where the one leaves off and the other begins Of course in Dr. Doyle's case he had the advantage in hearing from Mr. Aliens own lips the plan OS tDe conclusion of the story. However, the credit is very great in either case
 There has been quite a good1y amount of discussion going on recently in the corre- spondence columns of the New York Times literary review, in answer to a statement made by some masculine writer to the effect that women did not like Iit- erature, or, he said, if they did, 1t was be- cause they were stimulated in their lik- ing for 1t by some masculine friend The communications pro and con have been amusing, as well as interesting and final proof on the matter seems to be summed In lat e{r adds, "don't print my name." He says: Do women like literature? We'll Judging from my city, I should say they do, but this town being a university town, may make it an exception. We have no less than twenty womens clubs here, and all of them doing literary work. All classes of women are interested, from the girls to the old women. s% I only wish the men were as literary as the women, but alas! money-making is too exciting a game to be given up for the harmless pursuit of the study of literature" Some friendly old bachelor should likewise quote Birming- ham in evidence that women do love liter ature.
 The Bookman contains one of the latest poems from Professor Harry Thurston Peck-so pr tty that quote it.
 Charm, like the fragrance of some won-
 drous wine,
 Not Wit, not Grace, not Beauty so en-
 thrall-
 Blended of these, yet greater than them
 all.
 For Grace and Beauty ravish the eyes; Wit stirs the mind and then it's newness
 dies,
 But Charm, unique, rare and radiant
 whole,
 Witches alike the senses and the soul.