The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-16
METZGER s. BRUNSON,
20 West Broughfon Street.

what he tried to write about artists
and paintings.
1t would be interesting to trace Haz-
Fits career down through the years
of his lecturing, editing, writing,
fighting, even to his death in 1880. He
wrote grammars, edited Womens pa
pers, taught and lectured. John VIII
son christopher North, of Black
woods Magazine, was a constant enc
my. Some of the best essays Hazlitt
ever wrote were inspired by such at
lacks as Wilson made on him.
Henley calls Charles Lamb the best
tallIer and Hazlitt the next. IF L
could break the grave" he writes,
land call the great ghosts back to
earth for a spell of their mortal fury,
l would begin and end with Lamb and
Hazlitt; Lamb as he always was;
Hazlitt in one of his high and mighty
moods, sweeping life and letters and
the art of painting and the nature of
man, and the curious case of woman,
into a high rapture of fire, and take
a night-long series of achievements in
consummate speech"
HaZlitt was d man who would walk
forty or fifty miles a day when the
mood took him, but his usual custom
was to lie abed until two in the after
noon, breakfast, until o'clock with
out moving from his teapot and chair,
and then go to a theater or to some
chop house, where he talked until two
in the morning. 1t was at these times
that he was doubtless more brilliant
than in his writings. The complete edi-
ton will be welcomed heartily.
One of the ceremonies in connection
with the celebration in Paris of Vic
tor Hugo's centenary was a perform
ance of Les BurgraveS" at the Com
edie Franchise. A day or so before the
event an old man called on the mana
ger of the affair and asked for card
of admission. He was told that there
was not single seat left.
What right have you to make such
a request?' asked the manager.
The old man pulled faded docu-
ment out of his pocket, which read:
"Piere a Monsieur administrator
du Theater- Francois de bien vouioll'
ent mot, une bonnie place pour une
DIES Drochaines representations des
Burgraves. V. Hugo"
"12 mars 1S43.'
Il thought" he said chat as was
not able to use it at the time, it might
be good now"
The publication of H. G. Wells,
"Anticipations," recalls to my mind
the announcement made several years
ago of a novel to be written in part
by Thomas A. Edison, which was to
have treated of the period A. D. $500
OF course, Mr.. Wells does not take
us six centuries ahead, as was the
plan of Mr.. Edison and his colabora-
tor. The latter work, however never
cnnn1Fa0. dO1Ihf1pCc tho inn
found time to work on the matter
Ages Away was to have been the
title Of Mr.. Edison's story.
Did Shakespeare write the Psalms +?
An Englishman has worked out a
cypher, by means of which he proves
the matter to his satisfaction. an
the name Shakespeare, he says, there
are four vowels and six consonants. If
you write down the figure 4 and then
follow it with the figure you have
&C. Very well-turn to Psalm As and
you will find that in it, the 46th word
from the beginning is shake, while the
46th word from the end is spear
Therefore" concludes this ingenious
person, Shakespeare wrote the
Psalms"
Controversies of this kind are getting
to be so numerous that it is exceed
ingly difficult to keep track of all of
them. Just when we begin to believe
the fame of an author is secure for all
time-that he has become a classic of
our age-some iconcolast comes
along and skaters our world Of be-
liefs into bits, but he does not remOld
If to our hearts desire. A Scottish
naner has recently raised the question
of authenticity in regard to Burns. Did
Robert Burns write Burns? they ask.
If the world has been deceived about