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Mar,on Crs~foei ea-- plasns-i . --rs--
~ novel- Witch we've ~ 10 hi- ms-, am
h,ina. vark tnsl.v the ram. u The
HntvsA - The Swori' h. vs= - tell The
.arts- ~ sixtv - tho rno-' fauiugs char
ac,.r- ~ history and -aeh ~ 'h- chsrs~,sr-
vas to furui-h the theul- foe a compl.,s
novel
The work Wa form,slablr and ahsr q
time the author asked h,. publishers 80
r~leass him
I, vas In IN. co,lr-e uf his work urun ore
n th~-- pruJect~i novels that he met
dentaliy -,udisNi tho story ~ frar c-'-ca ia
Riutiui ard oGi uf thr wreck ~ hls plan
that dramaii ic history cams with hum
lic had always wanted to ~ril" plav
ard had made several experiments N hat
iire la, had always given up oisCuUrag.d
Now h. d,cit,,,l to pu' his itarcv.ca
material ttn play. AMI th" -'lc,"ss of his
-fran,-ca da Rim,i. n plsy~,i hy Bern
hart has given The author a keeher pleas
urr than any other ~ his MANY suc,~-~~.
Joaquin Miller has hscn lsmen'ins over
h,s title. .Th. Poet ~ tho Sierra- lie
saws he doesn't like IL first, -b.s'stI-e u -
misprnno,incrd half the time and h. IL
in,roducpd inpart iallv a. The Poe, ~
IN. Sarah-- the -Sshora-- OF the Serious
and. second. because the Sierra po~ms
are not his best work
WV songs of the Pacific ara better in
every wny than nv soner of he mountains
insists the hard who 10 called out Of his
name
Rudyard Kipling has illustrated his just
so Stories In addition 10 writing them,
and has shown himself a worthy son 81 his
father, who made the il,is' rations for
Kim and dcei igned several Of the Kipllng
book covers
Maxim Gorki has written another play,
which emhodie- his ideas on th" subject Of
journalism and literary men aud women.
T. i fair 10 presume that they will repre-
zen, quite the reverse Of the views of Frey
tags cheerful comedy. Die Journali-'en
The Russian writer Is TO call his drama
The Newspaper
Nine de Maupa ssAnt. mother 81 the late
novelist. Iives a. Nic>' in a large. quiet hou-e
surrounded by a garden She dwalls In
grea, rot ir.ment and has about her por-
traits Of her son at all ages and in all att
t,dc- She rarely receves any visitors.
but recently expressed her willingness 20
make an except ion in the case Of Eleanora
Dus.,. who was a great admirer OF her sons
work
A. the two women separated. Nine. de
vaupasSant said to the ACTRESS:
You have everything in tho world
genius and fame. What il thers left for
me to wish you'-
Rest. was the answer Of Signora Duse.
who NAV have felt especially a, that time
n" burden Of attempting 20 make the
world Accept the dramas 81 Gabriel le Il An
nunzio lie IL To write two more playp.
winch. with Francesca da Rmini, will
form trilogy of dramas Of unholy love
Next 10 the aitrar' lvcne~s Of titles there
IL nothing else that has so much 10 do With
the demand for books n tic nane- or tho
characters Of course. no poor book Ia
going TO 10 made popular mernlv t"causo
tho characters have euphonious and easily
remembered narna-. hui a good story with
unfortunate names for its characters will
no. far. 80 well a. one tha, il supplied
Ni'h the popular kind
Ono writer whose hooks might have
y greater vogue were II not for the names
Nv which his IsOp!e arc called. has never
iy,cn appreciated at his real worth l@caus"
II - next To impp--ihl- for readers to re-
member which of the characters IL which
until they have half finished the book
The Slavic titles make absolutely no i'm
preston on American r~aders and are q
be remembered only with tho g-ea'et I
Difficulty
ono 80 IN" results Of this difficulty IL 20
- observed In the forthcoming transla-
non - II novel from foreign source. In
order not 20 prcj Idice IA" chances ~ the
hook'- success. the names will Ia rendered
into English equivalents
Tn. cfyect of ,rRnslating partially works
in foreign language il to - noticed ~
the version ~ The Jansen Family that
Hadden Chambers made for Julia Mar
lowe. who handed l. over 90 Amelia Birg
ham In that play h" transferred IA"
sc-ue 10 Harlem although It belonged
plainly 20 a smaller provincial community.
and ha called tho principal figures in II
the Jones family He retained the heroiues
name. ka;inks. ~ II that we're a. common
a name in Harlem a. u - IN Denmark
l. will 10 n relief To- rad 81 ano'her Kind
- social experience than that which London
snci"'v offer, to the American girl who
breaks into ~ or Otherwise learns enough
about It TO puJ her Impressions into book
The thing va. 80 we'll don. in An American