The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-18
THE LITERARY OUTLOOK.
ANOTHER NAPOLEONIC REMINIS-
CENCE.


ences in AN Island Cabin"-Mar-
eonrs story of Wireless TeIegra-
phy and the Coming of n New
WOrd-New Books.
New York, May 16.-Of the Napol-
comic legend there seems to be no end.
Scarcely a book season passes during
which a life of Napolean or of some
great parsonage of his time does not
appear. Four eye witnesses of his
Imprisonment at st. Helena have writ
ten their "reminiscences, or rather the
"reminiscences of four eye witnesses
have been published thus far. With
in the next few weeks another account
of this account will be brought out.
This last is taken from the Memoirs
of DR.. John Stokoe, a naval surgeon
who was on the flag ship Conquer
or" at st. Helena 1t is said that af-
ter DR.. C'Meara was banished Ma
poleon was very anxious to have DR..
Stokoe as his personal medical attend
ant The book gives thorough ex-
pose to the system of Imprisonment
adopted by Sir Hudon Lowe and it in
cludes many hitherto unpublished let
tiers and documents, many of which
are printed in fac-simile. Miss Edith
Stokoe. a great-grand- niece of the sur
geon has done the work of translating
and editing in preparation for the
English edition.
The practice of writing under more
than one name is a more common
method of literary puffery than is at
all necessary. This is well known pro-
lessor not far from New York who
writes occasional essays and criticisms
under one name and then. under his
own name he writes reviews of his
other self There are great POSSIBLE
tiles in plan of this kind-until some
one discovers the duplicity, but a story
which comes from Paris illustrates
what even a harmless use of more than
one pen name may lead to. 1t is said
that the famous French critic, Antole
France, has been writing a series of
articles for the Temps over the sigma
ture, Pierre Noziere." In one of these
articles, "Noziere" wrote a very harsh
criticism of Rostand's poem on Her
nani," whereupon Rostand sat down
and indited a very scathing letter to
pierre Noziere" for daring to criticise
a Rostand piece. The secret was too
SOOQ 10 keep. A0lOle SHOWeu
Rostand's letter to a number of his
friends, who in turn found great
amusement out of the dramatist.
France has been a member of the acad-
envy for several years, and Rostand is
one of the recently elected members.
Doubtless. hereafter. Rostand will at
tempt to discover the identity of his
critic before he exposes himself to the
ridicule of his friends.
One of the most delightful books for
the present season is IAN Island Cabin
by Arthur Henry. One summer not
long ago Mr.. Henry discovered a small
island far out toward the end of Long
Island that was not inhabited, and
which apparently had no owner. 1t
seemed an uninviting place for most
people. but to Mr.. Henry and his wife,
it became a pleasant summer resort.
The author took possession of the ISL
and. built a cabin on it and proceeded
TO live upon the bit of unclaimed prop
erty. With a boat fashioned by his
own hands he made trips to the MAIN
land whenever necessary to get sup
plies but as fish were plentiful he
found that, for days at a time. these
trips could be omitted The book tells
the story of his experiences. of the Wis
its of his friends, of his fishing and of
his writing. He did not seem to lack
for occupation and the tale that he
tells is attractive enough to make one
wish that he, too, could find an unin-
habited island where he could go for a
summers season. Mr.. Henry is still
a young man, whose work has been for
the most part on various newspapers.
He proposes now, however, to drop the
routine of this sort of writing, and de-
vote himself for a year to the labor
of writing a novel.
1t would scarcely seem that a man
who had spent life times labor in
bringing a great invention into the
realm of commercial possibility as
Marconi has done with his system of
wireless telegra ply, would find time to
write a book, but that Marconi has
written his story of the invention and
progress of wireless biography is al
ready known. The book was to have
appeared this spring, but owing to the
need Of certain changes and revisions
occasi6ned by the transatlantic sue
cess which Marconi met with late in
the winter. the volume will not be
ready before September. When it does
appear, the inventor-author hopes that
his account will put at rest the many
claims which have been made by rival
claimants for the scientific and COM
mercial honors of wireless telegraphy
If he succeeds in this, he will have ac-
complished a task, for there are now
before the public claims by Slaby,
Tesla, Fessenden, Lodge and several
others. 1t is a significant fact that in
a pamphlet published in '97 that Prof.
Slaby writes of his experiments with
"Marconi telegraphy' and in the same
year, Prof Lodge puts forth his first
claim for the scientific honors which
have fallen to the Italian. Prof Fes-
sender has been working for the past
two or three years, but as Marconi be-
gan his work in "a and within two
years had attained as great a success
as most of his rivals have up to the
present time, his claims should stand
first.
Probably Prof. Slaby's reference to
Marconi biography was the father to
the thought which coined a new word
shortly after AIarconi succeeded in get
ting signals across the Atlantic. 1t
was evident that some word should be
coined which SHOULD express a wire
less telegraphy message across the At
1antic, or even any kind of a wireless
telegraph message. Not long ago
friend of the inventor suggested Mar
conigram" and almost at once the word
was adopted. Now it is proposed to
add still another word TO our language.
If Marconigram shall mean a wireless
telegraph message, why not have
verb to "Marconi" which shall express
the action, being or state of being
necessary to effect a Marconigram.
One needs not to read far into the
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