The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-28
The Literary Outlook.

(By Herbert Brewster.)
The organization of another literary
club is not an astonishing bit of news,
but the. recent establishment of THE
Boswell Club" in New York City is note
worthy because of the men who make up
its membership. Truly Sam Johnsonian
is the club in two particulars the regu
lar occupations cf the members are edit
ing and writing, and their diversion in
q body is eating. There are no rules,
except the understanding that member
ship is limited to thirty the club meets
once month, and three consecutive alb
scenes of a number mean dismissal.
Five or six magazine editors are mem
bers Among the writer's are Jas. L.
Ford, Alfred Henry Lewis, David Graham
Phillips, j. w. Fielder, Samuel Hopkins
Adams, o. X. Davis and Archer Hunting
ton.
1t is a curiosity in the book world to
find a Shakesperean play among the
best selling books. This, however, seems
to be the condition just at present.
Julius Caesar" is in healthy demand at
all the shops owing to the tremendously
popular and critical success of Richard
Mansfelds presentation of the noble
tragedy He has made Shakespeares
Julius Caesar" the triumph of the year
on Broadway, where only a few seasons
ago he was the subject of that cartoon,
"A stranger in New York Two new,
and no doubt unique, editions of Julius
Caesar are under way. One is to be
called the Richard Mansfield Edition,
and will embody the great actors notes
on the acting version The other is to be
less ambitious from scholarly
standpoint; but It will be high
~ ornate in establishment from
drawings of Mansfield as Brutus in
several scenes and the remarkable crush
of rioters in the Forum. The booksellers
declare that they are cleaned out of their
paper copies and preparing large addi-
tional editions to cover the orders now
coming in from the cities which anticipate
visits from Richard Mansfield in Julius
Caesar" at the end of his New York run.
Not bad for Shakes peare.
J. Fennimore Cooper himself could have
wanted nothing more romantic for an
incident in one of his novels, than the
meeting of Charles A. Eastman. the full
blood Sioux author of Indian Boyhood"
and his wife-then Miss Elaine Coodale.
The thing, as it happened in real life,
was quite as adventurous as anything
Cooper's imagination ever produced.
Miss Goodale was one of the "Sky
Farm noets. Her name has been spread
by her book of apple Blossom" verses
and a great literary career had been pre-
dicted for her. Nevertheless, she had
deserted her literary career because,
having become interested in the Indians.
she felt that the work of her life lay
among them She roughed it for some
years in the Dakotas, as supervisor OF
the Indian schools and at Christmas time,
1890. found herself at the Pine Ridge
agency. preparing to spend her holidays
there. With the other young women at
the post she was helping decorate the
little Episcopal church of the agency for
tho Xmas services, when the Joyous pre-
rarations were interrupted by the Indian
outbreak and the battle of Wounded
Knee. The little church, half ready for
the Xmas celebration. was turned into a
hospital and into it with scores of wound
ed Indians came DR.. Eastman. The young
Indian educator and poetess worked be-
eide the swarthy native minstering to
his patients and helping at operations. In
very few months after their first meet
ing. DR.. Eastman and Miss Goodale were
married.
And the last chapter Of the story is
Just such as Cooper would have delighted
to make it. They are ideally happy.