The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-09

comes sometimes I'm summer the feeling
that / would like again TO dangle my legs
out OF the door OF 'side-door Pullman
and see the landscape pass by.
such a confusing variance in the pro-
nunciation of 'Hiawatha' exists both in die
tionaries and In the speech OF educated
men and women" writes Elizabeth A.
Whitney, in the Ladies Home Journal, that
L have asked Miss Longfellow how the
word is pronounced by the poets famliy-
She says the pronunciation which she al
ways heard from the poet himself Is Hi-a-
va-tha. the i pronounced as It is in ma
chine or 'pique, the second "a pronounced
as il is in far or in farther.
In connection with Mr.. George Meredith's
birthday. it may be observed. says the Lon
don Mail, that few great romancers have
lived as long as he Samuel Richardson
and Victor Hugo both reached the eighties;
George Sand died at seventy-tWo ana
Charles Reade at seventy. Walter Scott
and George Eliot both died at slxty-one
Gustave Flaubert at ffty-nine, charles
Dickens at fifty-eight, William Makepeace
BLACKBERRY at fifty-two and Honore de Bar
FAC at ffty-one. Henry Fielding only hyed
TO be forty-eight. Guy de Mauspassant cleo
at forty-three, Jane Austen at forty-t"o
and Charlotte BrOnte at thirty-nine.
Maurus Jokai. the aged Hungarian novel
ist-laureate, who startled his friends a
while ago by marrying a young girl has
just got into a lively fight in Buda-Pesth.
1t seems that he is not only chief editor Of
one newspaper in that city, but was also a
regular contributor to a rival paper, whlch;
furthermore was running MS latest mover
serially. Regardless of his own interests the
old editor fiercely attacked the other paper
on some matter of local politics. The rlVai
journal has now cut him on its pay roll:
and also stopped short in the publication or
his serial The Buda-Pesth Society OF Au-
thors has taken up the subject and come TO
the decision that the editor who thus re
venged himself has acted in an unprofes-
slOnal manner.
While in Detroit last week Mr.. Charles
Major told reporter that his new book,
Dorothy Vernon" would not be issued
until May, but added: II am now on my
way to New York to revise the final proofs.
I believe that this work viii be more sue
cessful than When Knighthood Was IN
Flower and I believe that when IL is
dramatized it Will make a better play.
The story centers around Dorothy Vernon
daughter of Sir John Vernon OF Haddon
Hall, England. The time is the sixteenth
century. Dorothy Vernon eloped with SIT
John Manners, who was her father S Dltter
enemy The present Duke of Rutland, the
richest man in England to-day, Is oeScenu-
ed from these two. Mr.. Major says the sale
Of ''Knighthood' UP 10 this time Is ABOUT
$4,000 copies
This, from the Bookn1an, will be of inter
est to the Indianapolis club people who are
expecting a visit from Mrs. Meynell: Mrs
Alice Thompson Meynell, who was married
twenty-five years ago to another essayist
Mr. Wilfrd Meynell, has come somewhat
late to her full recognition. Her first vol
ume of poems won Ruskin's word OF praise,
but il was not until Mr.. George Meredith
wrote on her twin volumes of essays, the
"Colors of Life and the Rhythm OF Life.
that she was seen TO be one OF those few
who write TO live longer than the passing
day and earn the bread of remembrance.
Later Poems is thin small volume OF
thirty-seven pages but in this delicate
spare-sOn and fen and slender landscape
and austere are lines of a SURPRISING
beauty, the reserve, the restraint and the
attachments of form 1t is idle to talk OF
these things. Few read. Few appreciate.
But here is a bud two Of the consum-
mate flower of verse"