The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-30
The Literary Outlook.
(Bv 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
It's membership. Truly Sam Johnsonian
is the club in two particulars; the regu-
lar occupations Ct 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 a month, and three consecutive alb
scenes Of a number mean dismissal.
Five or six magazine. editors are men,
bers. Among the writer's are Jas. l..
Ford, Alfred Henry Lewis, David GrahaDl
Phillips, ]. W. Fielder, Samuel Hopkins
Adams, o. K. 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 he 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
Mansfeld's presentation of the noble
tragedy. lie has made Shakespeare's
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 embCdy the great actors notes
on the acting version. The other is to be
less ambitious from a scholarly
standpoint, but It Will be high
~ ornate in embellishments from
drawings of Mansfield as Brutus il
several scenes and the remarkable crush
Of rioters in the Forum. The booksellers
declare that they are leaned 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 Shakespeare.
!. Fennimores 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 autho of Indian" Boyhood'
and his wife-then Miss Elaine Goodale.
The thing, as it happened in real lifc,
was quite as adventurous as anything
Coopcr's imagination ever produced.
Miss Goodale was one of the "Skt
Farm" nocts. Her namc has been spread
DE nor DOCK O1 Apple DlO5SOln vel Stcj
and a great literary career had been pre-
Gicted for her. Nevertheless, she had
deserted her literary career because,
having become interested in II. Indians,
she felt that the work of her life lay
among them. She rOughed it for some
years in the Dakotas, as supervisor CT
the Indian schools and at Christmas time
1900, found herself at the Pine Ridge
gencE preparing to spend her holiday
there. With the other young women al
the post she was helping decorate the
little Episcopal church Of the agency fCl
the Xmas services, when the joyous pre-
rarations were interrupted by the Indiaf
outbreak and the battle of Wounds
Kn"o. The little church, half ready fol
the Xmas celebration, wa3 turned into I
hospital. and into it with scores Of wound
ed Indians came DR.. eastman. The youne
Indian educator and poetesS worked be.
side the swarthy native ministering It
his patients and helping at operations. II
n very few months after their first meet
ing, Dr.. Eastman and Miss Goodale wer,
married.
and the last chapter Of the story j
Just such rs Cooper would have de1ightcr
to make it. They are ideally happy