The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-10

lists, though it probably would not. The
Englishman whose books are selling
well in this country has the kindliest
feeling for his American cousins and
this feeling is not disturbed by strong
competition in the market of literary
wares in England. OF all the fields OF
trade which the Americans are invad-
ing, that of books has been thus far ,
least trampled on. Neither is there
much prospect Of a sudden change in
this regard.
The Bishop of Limerick has decided
that Thackeray's Henry Esmond' is
not a good book for the young to read,
and has advised teachers generally to
discourage it's reading. No more effec-
tive way of stimulating interest in
Thackeray could be devised, for
the Irish youth who learns of the
bishops dictum. A year or so ago
Methodist Sunday-school official ruled
Kipling out of the library. Within u
few days not a single copy of Kipling
was left In the book stores of that
town. Now and then a library puts out
a black list and the prohibited books
receive a deal of gratuitous advertis-
ing thereby. In many cases, of course,
the rulings of librarians are just and
right, but is deplorable fact that the
OIL SuCn DldCk IlSIS l6lpS
instead OF Injuries the sale of books on
them. There is a large public which is
attracted by the very prohibition, and.
there are always some publishers who
are eager to take advantage of this
fact.
Nearly everyone who reads is now
ard then struck by the seeming uncon-
scious meter and poetic swing of a
piece of prose. One experiences thrill
Of delight in noting this fact in Dick
ems. Little Nell led her grandfather
away from London through the viii
lagos Aand country and though the two
were most pathetic characters, the au-
thor often told of their travels and
described some of the places they pass
ed through in almost pure verse.
Doubtless, If one were careful in
search of this kind, he could find many
similar cases in present day writing.
few lines of Ernest Thompson Seton's
story of the Kootenay Ram and with
out changing the order of words In the
least, has made fairly good blank verse
Of the passage.
80 In this land of long. long winter
night,
| Where Nature stints her joys for six
hard months,
Then owns her debt and pays it all
at once,
The Spring is glorious compensation
for
The Past. Six months arrears of joy
are paid
In one vast lavish outpour."
Kipling's much heralded story
| Wireless" has come and is going
| through the mill of criticism. Some
/ hail the a eli Of = no t,fh 20
return to power; others see nothing re-
markable in it. AT any rate Wire
less" as applied to telegraphy has lit
tie to do with the tale, save that it
furnishes a convenient physical anal
| ogy to the idea of psychical waves
with which the story is mainly con-
cerned. One might paint out some in.
accuracies in Kiplings description of a
| coherer and its action, but what's the
use. The story deals with a consump-
| tive apothecary who, being placed in
| circumstances identical with those
which Keats experienced, reproduces
one of Keats poems.
1t Is in this connection that Kipling
| puts himself on record as an literary
| critic, when he says:
my throat dried, but 1 dared not
| gUlp to moisten 1t lest 1 should break
the spell that was drawing him nearer
and nearer to the high water mark,
but two OF the sons of Adam have
reached. Remember that in all the mil
lions permitted there are no more than
fve-five little lines-of which one can
say: These are the Magic. These are
the Vision. The rest is only poetry"
The five lines are
"A savage spot as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath waning moon was
haunted
BY woman wailing for her demon
lover.
Our magic windows fronting on the
sea,
The dangerous foam OF desolate seas
for aye"