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cessful drama into fiction. as for in
stance Victor SardOu did with his
Mime. Sans Gene Dumas with his
"Corsicau Brothers" Charles Reade
with his "Peg Wellington" u Is the
new fashion 10 turn successful fiction
into drama, as for instance-but why
give instances where the fact Is so well
know2 From "Trilby' to "Sapho' we
have had a succession OF dramaiized
novels. Wilson Barrett merges the Two
| plans He and Elwyn Barron have
been collaborating on the simultaneous
production VI play and novel on
| titled In old New York The book
/ Us just out. The play viii Dee produced
shortly. The plot tells Of young
| Dutchman who. after q life Of noble
/ sef-sacrlnce. is slain In a duel by the
young man he has done most TO be-
| friend There are. indeed three duels
| In the book, besides horse race, where
the favorite Is shot dead a few yards
from the winning post
A critic in an eastern exchange has
this 10 say # Pre-, Hartes forthcoming
! book.
Il Is rumored that Bret Harte con-
templates the publication Of second
series OF Condensed Novels" which
will do for present-day fiction what
the first series, did for that popular
! novelist I'm his youth-that is turn Il
| into good-natured ridlcule VIII he
| find IL possible 10 burlesQue Sarah
| Grand or Marie COrelli? one asks with
bated breath. And win the burlesque
really be funnier than the originate
What a change a happy marriage, @
| landed estate, a seat I'm parliament and
| an increase Of years and waistband viii
make In a mani Here is Rider Hag-
| gard who o few years ago was writ
] ing Of war, adventure and romance In
| South Africa. now, az the very time
| when the land OF which he wrote Is
| filed with war and excitement and
| King Solomon's mines have been dis
| covered publishing a book about his
| years farming. Think Of the magniii-
cent description Of the battle In king
| SOl0mOn's Mines" when the impls
! clashed their shields and spears and
shouted "Koom" and then read this:
/ Most people unaCcustOmed 10 the rou-
tine OF a farm have a notion that his
Othe farmersl duties are Of the simplest
description. To these ! would say, let
them try. any one Of them even the
easiest. such az drawing ditch, and
| / think that they viii change their
views. In truth. there Is no single
| operation on the land that does not re-
luire a very considerable amount Of
skill to perform It properly, and this
SKIN, acquired by years Of practice,
he agricultural laborer puts at the
service OF any one who VIII pay him
thirteen shlllings a week. Moreover,
there Us no nonsense about eight hours
a day with him With brief intervals
for food, he labOrs from 6 90 g. or more,
and In winter from daylight to dark"
People in England Just now are in
/ terestCd more IN carnage than cab
bages. and Haggard's earlier books are
selling well while "A Farmers Year
Is not In great demand
Oulda IS again lifting her pen In i'm
pulsiye wrath az everything as 10 Is.
There never was a time she says I'm
I her new novel when there was SO little
freedom and so little justice as In ours.
| Two gigantic dOmlnons now rule the
| human race, they are the armies and
the money makers. Science serves
them Dy turn, and receives from each
its wage The historian Mommsen has
written that we are probably inferior
both In intelligence and In humanity, In
prosperity and In civilization at the
close Of this century 10 what the hui
man race was under Severus Anto-
minus; and it is true"
Jeanette Glider in the current num-
Der OF Harper's Bazaar gives US some in
teresting information concerning Miss
Mary Cholmondeley. the author OF the
much talked-of Red Pottage'
A. "st. d..
Glider. belongs 10 the younger branch
OF the Marquis OF Cholmondeley's fam,
ily. which has been established In
Cholmondeley castle since the reign OF
William the ConQueror. We In America
are, however more interested in the
fact that Miss Cholmondeley is a great
niece of Bishop Heber, and IL was IN
The house where he lived as rector Of
Hodnet that she was born Miss Chol-
mOndeley was brought up on a solid
foundation OF English literature In the
very library whore her great-uncle the
bishop used 90 write his sermons and
no doubt the very volumes that she
read were those whose pages had beer
turned by that poets fingers Miss
| Cholmondeley has great popularity hi
America where The Danvers Jewels
was first published anonymously IN
serial as well as In book FORM
Red Pottage," by the way, IS SIN
maintaining its popularity against all
corners. In the B00kmans reports on
the best selling books for the past
month Red Pottage' stands second on
the list. having passed such books as
Richard Caryel Janice Meredith
and when Knighthood was In Fower'
In England It still maintains the first
position on the list
Rudyard Kipling whose South African
cable In a recent number OF Harper
Weekly, has aroused such general CON-
ment. contributes poem en- General
Ioubert 20 the current number OF that
paper
Mr. Kipllng's verse has much OF the
swing and vigor that marks his work IN
THE Seven Seas" and his tribute e
the dead soldier is In every way a
worthy one and untouched by national
prejudice. The final stanza is al
follows:
He shall not meet the onsweep OF oul
van,
In the doomed city when we close tn,
score,
Yet DER his grave that holds man
Our deep-tongued guns shall answer
his once more
The editorial enterprise shown In OBJ
tanning Mr. Kipling's poem by cable
from South Africa is certainly worthy
OF commentator
BY a curious coincidence John Ken
drick Bangs The Household on the
Styx' has been made the subject OF H.
ustration by two OF the carnival So
cieties Of New Orleans. 1t is the first
time In the history Of the carnival that
an author has been so honOred His
book was chosen By the Comus society
aud by that OF the High Priests OF
Mlthras. Much bitterness between the
two societies has naturally resulted
The question as 10 which has the prior
right 20 the selection Is now agitatng
New orleans society Both presenta-
tons OF THE Houseboat were so elab-
crate and unusual In their character
that the curious coincidence is regarded
By outsiders as most happy.
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