Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-10-28

welcome to which am not asked since
Babs made her appearance. And won't
be asked either for two or three years
not until the daughters are all safely
married! People do not often like the
truth or any one who trieste tell 1t. But
If they would not accuse me of sins l
never dreamed Of committing l should
be grateful
There is Lady Jeune, for instance.
She was giving luncheon one day
when poor 'Babs' had just been pub
lished. Somebody mentioned her, where
upon Lady Jeune exclaimed:
"That woman meaning me-
doesn't know what she wants. She
doesn't know what she is talking about.
She is in favor of free love!
1.-THE guests did me the justice to
burst into shout of laughter. 1t was
as If she had said that advocated cur
ried babies for luncheon. But she's
very amiable person generally; so is
Mrs. Humphry Ward, who is another
of my enemies.
"She declines to meet me, but l seem
" uuNC Il ldoClAALiOh AVA hSAs
and when we are in the same room
see her little black eyes following me
as if she We're expecting me to become
violent at almost any moment. l be-
lieve she thinks write badly. That
does not prevent my thinking that she
writes with great skill and power.
read everything she writes as soon as
it is published"
To understand how great compli-
ment this Is one must know that Nine.
Grand reads comparatively little mod
ern fiction.
II don't read much rubbish besides
my own" she said. "One has to do
that, you know. in going over the
proofs. Anthony Hope? | don't think
l ever read one of his books through,
though like him exceedingly. Barrie?
Yes, | have read two or three OF his
books, and | think he bas a very deli
cate humor, but you seem to know him
better than we do. I've heard more
about Barrie in the two days | have
been in America than had heard in
England in two years."
us there any new literary movement
In England? asked the reporter.
IF there is, should like to hear of
it."
"How about the problem novel? Does
it still have SUGGEST"
1.-THE problem novel that is well writ
ten will always be successful"
do English writers recognize an
American school in literature"
II hope not. think it is here as it
is in England. There are many schools.
There is the school of which Howells
is an example; there are Bret Harte.
Mark Twain, Mary wilkins, Frank
Stockton, each representing distinct
type of fiction and each distinctly
American. To my mind. Mr.. Stock
tons humor is especially interesting
because, while it is not in any sense
local, it is nevertheless essentially
American. No Englishman could DOS
,sibly have written The Casting Away
IIof Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine' or
'Rudder Grange In the most subtle
way he is typically American"
"Apropos of things American, do you
have anything to say about the Ameri
Fan man in your lecture on Mere
MANI"
mo. 1t Is simply about man in gen.
fral. But / could say very pleasant
things about the American gentleman.
! could say. for instance. that consid-
er him the most perfect of gentlemen.
Our Englishmen are kind and good and
of course well bred, but the American
man thinks of so many delicate little
courtesies which are very grateful to
woman and which never occur to the
average Englishman.
II suppose our men are rather spoil