The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25
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Much has been written about Maurice
sens view Mr.. Hewlett's style is at
any rate his own; it is part eff his very
skin and bone. as completely a part of
his nature as were the styles of Carlyle
or Macaulay- There is no trace of trick
or irritation about it. It is a style of
singular terseness. of bold ina gerry, of
keen stroke. It admits phrases artificial.
harsh. obscure; if you please-foreed
ed words not a few. 7 cannot deny
that this constitutes mannerisn; and
as have said, loath mannerism asI do
the reek OF stale tobacco. But that
naannerisn which is real part of the
mans brain. bred from a laconic tenn
per. a native turn for imagery, and a
personal SAVIOUR in the toothsone phrase
this we have to take as we find it,
even as we take the epfgrams Of Tao
titus the euDhuisn Of Sir Thomas Browne
or the troDese and nieknames of Carlyle.
/ do not pretend that Maurice Hewlett
has earned the right Of these great
masters of language to force upon us
his linguistic fancies: but find, even
in many CT them which I frankly regret.
and almost personally resent being ask
to unriddle. a scholarship. q wealth of
diction, and a picturesque personality. 1
which I am forced to admit are extern
of an average jury with conventional
canons of English prose.
When the manuscript of Maurice
Thompson's new novel first came to the
publishers there was much uncertainty
as to whether the title should be Alice
Roussillon' or Alice of Old Nincennes.
The determining factor was the belief
that Nh1cennes is more easily pronounced
than Roussillon- But now. to the pub
lisherss surprise. there comes from the
east, where everybody seems to be read
ing the story, many inquiries how TO pro-
nounce the name Of the old Indiana
town.
The beautiful color pictures in Pa
troon Van Xolkenberg. one of the Bow
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oil PAINTINGS by the celebrated New York I
artist, C NJ RelTea-
Lonis How. the Young man who waote