The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-22

thors would one day walk in and an
nounce themselves by their pen names.
Miss Martin and Miss Somerville are
great-granddaughter of Charles Ken
dalt Bushe, formerly chief Justice of
ireland and great wit and orator in
his day. He must have been a man of
extraordinary literary and artistic
tastes. because all of his descendants
nave been more or less imbued with.
one or The other talent Among the
! pest Known of these are w. G. Wills.
the dramatist; the Hon. Mrs. Greene. a
writer of short stories: Mr.. Plunket
Greene. the singer, and Robert Mar
TIN, poet of no mean ability.
me two girl cousins had written a
little separately before they met One
DAY they CHANGED upon a curious old
mousse, Which suggested the plot of
story. A sprained knee of one of them
started the work together, They de-
cided to write Shilling Shocker."
what We in America would call a "yel-
low back. Before they had gone far,
however, the shocker element dropped
out, and An Irish Cousin" was the re-
! suit OF their joint laborS Since then
the two have made several tours to-
gether, each of which has been follow
ed by book which relates their ex-
perlences. Probably the Irish R. M"
story is the best known and best ex-
ecuted story they have written 1t is
understood that another book will come
from them this fall.
Within a short time a complete edi-
ton of the works of John Ruskin will
be issued, and strange as it may seem.
II Will contain more matter than such
an edltion would have contained had
MI: Ruskin been living. The present
EDITORS and publishers are of the opin-
ION that Mr.. Ruskin was too careful
and too exacting with his own work
Take the case of "The Seven Lamps.
me manuscript as it now stands ready
Tor publication has had restored to il
some good words which Mr.. Ruskin
had cut out. There are also numer-
Gus notes from diaries which the edi-
tors declare are not personal chronicle,
but are pages Of set literature.
Mr.. Ruskin had peculiar methods of
writing, and as we have noted, he held
nlmselt rlgidly to standard of per-
lection. Nothing was too much for
MN, says Mr.. George Allen, his pub
Usher, land nothing could be too well
done. He would get up in the night,
II an idea occurred to him, in order
forthwith to put it on record. He once
SAID, what was very true, that he new
er wrote line for money He wrote
because he had something to say. If
he had not been a rapid as we'll as a
careful writer. he could never have got
through so much work I am think
ing not only of his books, but of the
many letters which he was in the habit
of writing. I think l have myself a
thousand letters from him, and most
interesting they are"
Two of the best historical novels of
the present season locate the scenes of
their actions mainly in the Mississippi
valley. THE Mississippi Bubble" is
fairly we'll known. and in spite of the
fact that it is a popular book, it is
piece of fiction which does credit TO
the author, Mr.. Emerson Hough. 1t is
said that the publishers have delegated
to representative the task of making
the book the best selling volume in
twenty cities. No reasonable expense
is to be spared in this plan. Just what
effect these methods will have on the
book trade is not clear. At
to be congratulated, provided
his contract calls for a royalty on
every copy of his book sold, regard
less of the expense of it's selling. The
other Mississippi novel in mind is I'm
the Eagles Talon" a story OF the
Louisiana Purchase The author
Mrs. Sheppard Stevens, is not un-
known to the book world, but 1t is
doubtful If she has done so good a
book as this last. The eagle in the
title is the great Napolean, who has
become infatuated with a cousin of the
hero. This young man, Louis Lee
freniere, leaves the wild country.
where st. Louis now stands, and goes