The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-29

finish, and deals with the infatuation
of young European prince for beau
tiful American girl; with his desperate
adventures in pursuit of her. his mys-
terious disappearance, and the crime
of his equerry. The story has all the
elements that go to make popular tic-
ton.
Alfred Henry Lewis contributes an
historical story-article, entitled zone
Eighteenth-Century Day"
When Mrs. Ward wrote Eleanor"
it was feared by her numerous appre-
ciative readers that 1t perhaps repre-
scented, in it's great beauty and finish
of treatment, the best and last book
Of fiction she would produce. The
Harpers state, on the contrary. that
her new work, which they will pub
fish in 1902, is even finer in conception
and workmanship than Eleanor" and
is the browning effort Of Mrs. Wards
career AS in the former book, the
CHIEF character Of the new story is a
woman. The novel will run serially in
Harper's Magazine beginning in early
spring.
Thackeray's second visit to the Unit
ed States 1S55-56) will be the subject
of James Grant Wilson's second pa
per on the nevelist's relations with
America, in the January Century.
Like the previous budget of reminis-
cences, it will be profusely illustrated
with rare portraits of Thackeray and
sketches from his own humorous pen.
From some of his letters to his friends
on this side of the water it would APP
pear that the distinguished author was
not averse to investments in American
securities, some of which failed to
prove Immediately profitable. General
Wilson's list of Thackeray manu-
scripts in this country includes the
Brookfield letters, in two volumes, for
which Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan paid
$1,000 at the Augustin DAILY sale.
Mr.. Edwin A. Abbey has not parted
with the copyright in his wonderful
new mural paintings, 1.-The Holy Grail"
which he has made for the Boston
Public Library, and for very good rea-
sons. 1t Is not generally known that
the copyright, or right of reproduction,
of the pictures of eminent artists pos
sesses enormous value sometimes
amounting to the sum of $4,000. These
pictures of THE Holy Grail have re-
Gently been on view at the Guildhall
Art Gallery, London, and Mr.. Abbey
has the distinction of being the only
American ever invited to exhibit his
work at this municipal institution.
THE Holy Grail" is now on exhibition
at the American Art Galleries, New
York. Inclusive of its various sections
it covers 1870 feet of canvas. Mr.. Abb
hey is now in New York, superintend-
ing the placing of his paintings. Har-
per & Brothers have the distinction of
sharing with the British government
Mr.. Abbey's exclusive work for the
year 1902.
1t is had on excellent authority that
Henry Clay McDowells, who was APP
pointed a United States judge by
President Roosevelt few weeks ago,
appears as a character in John Fox S
new Kentucky book, bluegrass and
Rhododendron." He has been rec
ognized beyond question in the char
acter of "Macfarlan." Judge McDow-
ell is, by the way, a grandson of Hen
ry Clay.
Edith Wharton, whose writings in
prose and verse have attracted the
highest communication of critics here
and abroad, will begin in the January
Scribner's a series of brief artistic i'm
pressions of Italy. PeiXotto will illus
trate all of these.
It is not the boy who is surrounded
with great laboratories and elaborate
apparatus, but some Michael Faraday,
who make the greatest discoveries.
experiments with a can of water and
an old syringe, who becomes eminent"
Success.
1t is not the modern astronomer who
is educated and trained in scientific in
stitutions and great observatories, but
enthusiasts like the boy Calico, who
made a telescope out of pieces of glass,
who make the greatest discoveries,
With this homemade telescope he dis
covered the rings of Saturn.-Success.
1t is not the boy who is surrounded
by the best implements and tools that
ingenuity can manufacture, but an Eli
Whitney making a cotton gin in a cell
lar in the South with the simplest
tools, or a Cunard whiting the model
of a ship with jackknife, that makes
great industrial iscoveries.-Success
A dispatch from Indianapolis con-
Veys the information that Mr.. Booth
Harrington, author of two of the most
successful stories of the day, proposes
to become a candidate for the Legisla-
ture. Mr.. TarkingtOn's announcement
has caused quite a fiutter in political
circles, which should not be surprising.
When men of his ability go in for pub
lie offices they are likely to make it
exceedingly interesting for the ordinary
political plug whose knowledge of
geogra ply is confined to the limits of
his own ward and whose code of eth
les extends the length of the polished
rail in front of the bar and no farther.
1t is but natural that these public ser
wants should view the advent of such
a man as Mr.. Harrington with alarm.
perhaps they can beat him, and they
may know they can. Still, the bare
fact that he has expressed a desire to
win political honors must be dfscon-
certing to them.
Only in service does a man find his
life and save 1t. The idler joins the
procession Of the perishing. He is the
degenerate, the parasite among men
kindred to the fruitless mistletoe of the
forest, the eyeless fish Of the cave
January Success.
It is a canon of biology that the I'M
used organ perishes, that the parasite
shrivels to a quaking pulp or fab
by shell. The parasite declines to
work, declines to take its place in the
world order preferring to forage upon
its more thrifty fellows.-Success.
Emerson Hough's third paper on
"The Settlement Of the West," to ap-
pear in the January Century, will deal
with the movement, not down stream,
with the current, nor up stream, by
steam power, but across the waters"
by rail and caravan. One of Reming
toms illustrations for this number-a
six-horse stage by moonlight-is print
ed in tints as the magazines frontis-
piece.
Eliot Gregory's recent article on "Our
Foolish Virgins" Will be offset to a GER
tain extent by the opening paper in