The age-herald., 1900-07-01

day may be presented in book form There is novel, too, the scenes of which are in London and South America, which will no doubt be published in the autumn.
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 Another edition of Stephen Cranes Red Badge of Courage" will be published this summer with portrait and biographical sketch. In this sketch will appear fer the first time the true story of how "The Red Badge of Courage" came to be published. The author of the sketch who knew MT. Crane intimately writes: Tn December, 1884, MT. Crane came to the editorial office of D. Appleton & Co.,, bringing two short stories as examples of the work which he was then doing for the newspapers. The impression made by the stories was so strong that MT. Crane was asked if he had a story long enough for publication in book form. He replied hesitatingly that he had written one rather long story which was appearing In Philadelphia newspa- per, and some of the boys in the office seemed to like it He was asked to send the story at once, and presently there ap- peared a package of newspaper cuttings containing The Red Badge of Courage which was promptly accepted for publica- tion."
 The recent death of this promising young author was deplorabe. He had done some of the best and the worst work written in years, but his best work gave full prom ise of a successful and brilliant literary career Mir Cranes last story, This Ma jestic Lie' is now running as serial ln the Sunday New York Herald.
 In the July Metropolitan" is very breezy article about the 'Many-Sided Hop kinson Smith," Good pictures are given of | him and his "den," where books are writ | ten, pictures furnished, lighthouses plan ned, and friends of the writer-p -painter-en- l gineer-lecturer foregather.' The inter- | viewer says: "In house on Thlrty-fourth | street, New York, lives and works this l man of many talents, surrounded by curios | picked up in many lands. I cannot work | in garret with bare walls, a deal table, | and a three-legged stool, as Anthony Trol- | lope did. I must be conscious of physical comfort and luxurious environment, else my mind refuses to go says MT. smith AS an artist, I feel the necessity for sur roundings that are beautiful and repose- full" Just how beautiful these surround ings are the accompanying illustrations prove.
 In this magazine is portrait giving the sad delicate features of poor Edmond Ros- tan, the author of "Cyrano de Bergerac,
 now in a French insane asylum, so short ly hopelessly bereft of reason after achiev- ing one ot the most notable literary and dramatic successes of the era. The writer of the little sketch says: Strange, indeed, that so many of Frances literary geniuses
  insane pavilionw This afliction does not alone apply to the geniuses of France; for recent news comes that Amelie Rives, our own Virginia author and genius, is at pres ent the inmate of an insane asylum as well as her former talented husband MT. Cham | Ter. Truly it was said-"Madness in great | ones must not unwatched go."
 | In the current Cosmopolitan is splendid illustrated article by Mrs. Burton Harri- l son entitled Henley Week." The pictures l give an excellent idea of this premier row | ing regatta of the world although no mere l photograph could adequately represent the unique beauty and charm of the scene Richanrd Harding Davis, in Our English l Cousins" describes the Henley royal re- gatta very minutely and with a great deal of sentiment and enthusiasm, but no word painting can give an idea of the pie l turesque beauty of the scene, it opens like a panorama of varied, brilliant color | ing before the eyes of the visitor. The | scene stretches for miles down the Thames l or up, as the English would call it. the | lovely summer homes the myriads of gaily ! shifting pUnts, makes merry scene indeed thrown into strong lief by the dark green foliage and pastures of the banks. Ah those were happy days, among the sweetest in mem- ory, when the brave Cornell boys won the "Grand Challenge Cup" from the Lean- ders but without the glory of real race. 1 The regatta of '95 was one of the most in- tensely interesting that has ever taken place. The present writer in the Cosmo- politan evidently remembers with equal tenderness and pleasure the race between Yale and the Leanders in g..
 In Frank Lesle's is a chatty little ar- ticle about the New England favorite, Mary p. Wilkins, by Katharine Hill Among
 other good things the author says: ITO t1e nxyat. fn tho and original personality of Mary Wilkins, would require a pen as magically endowed as her own. The portrait accompanying
 these notes is considered a fairly good likeness by friends who are personally ac- quainted with Miss Wilkins. But then they have the delightful advantage of knowing the reality behind the counter felt presentment It is only by meeting our authoress in an unlterary way that one can become truly acquainted with her. for she is ust the reverse of that species of writing people who save all their good things to put into books. Only the other day, while discussing with a friend some disagreeable newspaper comments upon Ad- miral Dewey, she said: Well, it goes to prove that a pedestal is dangerous perch for anything but an inanimate figure"
 The contents of the summer magazines are without exception characterized by lightness, ariness and sprightlness which make them very dellghtful reading ror the summer days The effort of the editors IS no doubt crystalized in the little poem in one of them to the author of Curses Not Loud But Deep" by Y. B. Dapoe.
 'Why, forsooth. must a verse be deep Or a rollicking rhyme assume a shroud Of subtle meaning: or, bent and bowed In Wisdom's cloak, should a couplet keep The murky depths where reasons creep? I ask you, sir with sense endowed
 Why, forsooth, must a verse be deep,
 Or rollicking rhyme assume a shroud?" Nay leave us, I pray, the songs that leap To the gay huzzas of the thoughtless
 crowd.
 There's many a heart that cries aloud For Jack and Jill and Little Bopeep-
 Why, forsooth, must a verse be deep?"
 PAUL PRY.
 A TRIBUTE TO WHEELER