The age-herald., 1901-03-03

nature survives on an ideal formula of law, as 1t does now. As matter of fact men and women do not change much ex- cept their clothes and their manners; the current of family pride and passion flows on from century to century, disappearing sometimes under mountains of conYen- uonality, and bursting out again, further on, as full as ever, like that river in Greece"
 Of the unique personality and work of MT. Frank Stockton, Pendennis says that MT. Edmund Gosse recently described his outlook on life and people as "a literary squint" No man with two such eyes 'squints at anything, although the oriSl- nality of his work has made his readers 'squint,' which was, no doubt, the trou- ble with MT. Gosse," seays Pendennis. This personal description of the person aality of men we have grown to love In their books Is very refreshing and de- Hghtful, and allows one to discover the true senses of his nature. MT. Stockton speaking of his method of work, sald' Actually, literally, I don't write al ail' I dictate everything that I sign. l pre- pare every page of my stories mentally even to dialogue, and my secretary, nav ing taken 1t down in shorthand, reads her notes to me, then reads the page when II is typewriter, and I never look at the words till l receive the proof rom the printers" Yet this method of work mas its disadvantages, for the author com plains that new secretaries are apsorpeo in looking at him, and old ones are so indifferent to what Is written that the author is discouraged. MT. Stockton Is one of the very few authors who hold that the love interest in noVel IS not an essential quality. Most certainly MT. Stockton's tales will bear out his theory but there are not many writers hke Stockton. In conclusion Pendennis says of him: His satire is always consider ate, and his humor Is of America, TOT Americans"
 Speaking of the lamentable fact that MT. Crockett has broken down from over work and has been ordered by his pnysl- clan to do no more work Tor some eilie to come, and also of MT. Gilbert Parker similar condition, MT. Alden proceeds to prescribe for people In this state Tie says: Tn Egypt of all places In the world is the place to rest, provided man keeps out of Cairo, with It's cease less round of social festivities. If you want to rest go six or eight hundred miles up the Nile before the season opens ana occupy a hotel alone. You will find each day at least forty eight hours long, ana you will think of nothing except Egyp- tian antiquities and Arabs, both or WHICH are wonderfully soothing to the tired mind" What pity that Egypt Is so very far away!
 A book that ought to be of great inter est to a large class of readers Is com piled from a series of articles that ap- peared during 1900 in the columns of the London Times The articles were written by a correspondent who visited this coun- try for the purpose, and treated or the extent to which the United States had excelled England in the making and out put of machines, engines and implements manufactured from iron and steel. They have now been collected in book form under the title of American Engineer ins Competition" and were published the past week The work Is said to throw much light upon great American en- terprises and large business firms and their methods.
 The Cardinals Rose" by Van Tassel Sutphen, recently published, has gone in to its sixth edition. new volume of golf stories by the same author will shortly be published under the title of .Trhe Nineteenth Hole" This "hole," 1t Is perhaps needful to say, Is the smok- ing room of the golf club.
 PAUL PRY.