The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
LITERARY NOTES,
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! Lewis CarrolPs special gift for humorous IN.
versions was never better illustrated than in one
OF the letters to little girls printed in The
Lewis Carroll Picture Book
! II may as well just tell you a few of the
| thlnes hike, and then, whenever you want to
I give me birthday present (my birthday comes
/ once every seven years on the fifth Tuesday in
7 AprlD you Will know what TO give n.e Well /
like, very much indeed, a little mustard with
! tat o. beef spread thinly under it; and | like
brown sugar-only it should have some apple
pudding mixed with it to keep it from being TOO
B sweet but perhaps what | like best OF all is
{ SAT-, with some soup poured over it, The use OF
the soup is to hinder the salt from being too
/ dry, and 1t helps to melt it,
OF course, IL is possible to do that sort of
thing deliberately, sitting down TO it with
model before one; but with Lewis Carroll it was
I natural and spontaneous.
One of the best instances of this kind Of hurnor,
outside 0; Lewis Carroll, is in story of the great
| Dumas. Arriving sitting no: day his sons
I house, he subsidized in chair in the gsrden, in
| the hope of catching 4 little breeze but none
| came. Alexandra, Alexandre!'' he cclled to his
| son in the house, "open the Window. l beseech
you, and let little air into the gardeli.'
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 10 be, You
I
! at twenty-that much / grant-but oh,
wondrous grace has descended upon my
| flower face with the advance OF middle
| years. My nose is no longer Cyranes4ue
and I'm in demand as model by such
painters as Tadema. who desire 10 study
the pure Greek type as softened and
gloried 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
his fables are facts. In the case of III.
Lukeman,' however, who wrote short
story for last October's "McCluTe'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. 1t is on record that ever
since the appearance of the story in the
magazine the authorities of the Smithson-
ian Institution. in which Mr.. L1keman To-
Gated the remains of the beast of his fancy
have been besieged with visitors to see the
stuffed mammoth, while the editors of
"McCluresP have received numerous let
tiers filled with enquiries for more informa-
tion and for requests to settle wagers as
to whether it was true story or not
Trusts and the Public" is the tile of
N. 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 sale which constitutes disproof 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 volume of the dead singers !
prose and letters.
by the Marshes of Minas'' is 4 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 Comprehend" 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-
tributorS to periodical literature, but |
knights in Fustian" is her first large es-
say n 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 |
IL hafr nj
Foe" by Wilfred Written; Wesley,
by Frank Banfield, and Browning" by
Arthur Waugh.
The "Conversationings" of Diedrich Din
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 cdder desc days, because skience has |
discofered how to condensation them
both"
1.-THE Secret of Kyriels'' by E. Nesbit, |
is an English novel in which there is
country house with a mystery. villainous
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.
1t is Aboard the American Duchess"
by George L. Myers. 1t was stolen from
The Queen of Night" by Headon Hill,
published by Ward. Lock & Co., in London,
two years ago.
The manuscript was accepted by G. 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
licstion of Aboard the American Duchess"
several friends of G. p Putnam's Sans
sent to them copies of Headon Hills The
Queen Of Night
They did not have to mark passages.
Myers copied almost textually 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 a London de-
tective-then he copied the rest.
E S. Van Zile, author of a novel, else
where reviewed in our columns, says:
This tale had its origin in a half page Of
Francis Parkman's La Sale | had
never written historical romance, ard
while / felt the inspiration cf al incident
lightly touched upon by Parkman, l real
lied that a large amount OF drudgery was
necessary to give the story | had in mind
it's reassembiance. | began Investigations
connected with the Mississippi SURVIVOR
shipers-the Natchez Indians-and as !
pursued my studies my tale developed It
self Historically and ethuologically the
data used in my story are absolutely accu-
,,nIo tln Cd NH los |