The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-10
striking character sketches, Hanna
Bryan" and Croker"

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'If 1 were on an art jury" says MT
James William Pattison, the art critic
Il would gladly vote to accept the re-
lief poster of Lazarre for exhibition.
Mrs. Margaret West Kinney has mod
eled for the Bowen-Merrill Company d
statuette of Mrs. Mary HartweH Cath-
erwood's hero, Lazarre, and has FOL
| lowed very closely the first OF the
books Observation-Disclosures Castaignes
conception of the French Dauphtn.
! Book posters in plaster are entirely
new to me, and their number must
necessarily be limited, because good
ones are hard to get"
"An Elementary History of Eng
| land by Katharine Conan, professor
of history and political economy IN
Wellesley College; and Elizabeth Kim
ball Kendall, associate professor of his
tory in Wellesley College, is on the press
for immediate publication by The Mac
milan Company.
The Scribners announce the publica-
ton early in November of 'Mahomet
and Mahometanism," by P. De Lacy
tombstone, and "Origen and Greek Pa
| tristic Theology" by the Rev. w. Fair
weather, NJ A. These are this seasons
additions to The Worlds Epoch Max
ers" series.
A third edition of the pastel pic
lures of the Men Of the Army and
Navy" by Howard Chandler Christy,
is now announced by the Scribners and
a second edition of tho set of pastels
of THE American Girl" There have
now been published three portfolios of
pastels by Mr. Christy, including, be-
side the above. set of eight pastel
Portraits from the Romantic Drama
Mr. Christy is at present at work on
a new set, to be published at later
date by the Scribners, who also have
in preparation a set of pictures In col
ors Of Henry HUT.
Sophie Cramp Taylor, the author of
the new and popular juvenile, STORY Of
a Little Poet" wrote the story for
her three children, who appear as three
of the principal characters, with no
idea of publishing it. Many of the say
ings and incidents are true, and some
of the competitions OF Paul, the little
9-years-oId poet, are remarkable, con-
sidering his years Here are his verses
on 'BridSets Wedding Day"
Ring, We bells, pour forth your lay,
For this is Bridget's wedding Gay,
Beat, We drum, and loot, We horn,
For this is net day to mourn.
Dance, We people and laugh with
glee,
And be as happy as the bumble-bee
If it's only for the night, be bright
For we don't have weddings every
night.
May she always happy be.
And with Mike never disagree.
I hope she will ne'er again
Wish she was Bridget Flanagan"
There are but two sorts of women
in the world-those who take the
strength out of a man and those who
put it back.-Kim.
ANY man who's got a woman wrap
ped round his finger has also got her
wrapped round his throat.-The Cava-
lier
Miss Julia Marlowe, writing in the
Dramatic Number of Golfers Weekly,
says that she was once asked if an
actress did not sacrifice her finer ma
ture by permitting stage embraces
In reply she declares with some spirit
such a question demands the appli-
cation OF only a fair degree of common
sense to ensure a negative answer"
Mr.. George Bernard Shaw, who is
nothing if not ingenious, is doing a new
thing in the publication of "Cashel By
rons Profession" through his regular
publishers, Messrs. Herbert S. Stone &
Co. He has revised the novel and add
ed to it one of his characteristic pref
aces, and cheerful essay on the noble
art Of Drize-fghting. The volume also
includes the play which Mr.. Shaw made
out of the novel, a few months ago.
Lanes translation of THE Arabian
Nights" which has just been newly
published in six volumes by The Mac
milan Company contains 100 photo
gravure illustrations by Stanley Wood
and an introduction by Joseph Jacobs
of fairy tale fame. They are handy
volumes, light in weight, and well
printed, with handsome covers.
The man who hesitates may be lost,
but the woman who hesitates is surely
won.-The Spinster Book.
Jarvis of Harvard.
The good word of a plain fisherman
or hunter is worth more than a degree
OF doctor of divinity from a learned
university.-The Ruling Passion,
In order to be happy a woman needs
only good digestion. a satisfactory
complexion, and q lover.-The Spinster
Book.
Clyde Fitch, who is probably the
most successful living dramatist, re-
ceiving, it is said, an average of $1,000
a week in royalties from his plays, dis
cusses in the Dramatic Number of Col
lier's Weekly the subject of AN En-
dowed Theatre" Mr. Fitch has great
sympathy with such an institution, but
he fears that 1t would not be practical
BILE Let us assume" he says, that
we could have such theatre in Amer
lea. Where would we get any person,
or set of persons, who could and would
run it? There are, of course, plenty of
those people who pose as being intelli-
gent, and clever and literary, and who
are in consequence fatuous and self
satisfied; but they could not run a the
atre. Because a man edits a magazine
/ and because a woman writes novel,
or because some other woman is inter-
ested in the question of helping women
, in journalistic or ether careers, it does
not follow that they know anything
about the drama"
Miss May Robson, who has made
reputation. not merely as an actress of
remarkable cleverness and versatility,
but as an artist in the skill with which
she completely changes her identity in
every part she assumes, publishes in
the Dramatic Number Of Golfers
Weekly an interesting article on THE
! Art Of Make Up
The Last of the Knickerbockers" is
the title of a new novel by Herman K.
Viele, who wrote THE Inn of the Silver
Noon and it indicates that he has