The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-17

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miles an hour. but having made nearly,
+ twice that speed In an automobile with
out accident, his ideas about space-kiiling
nave undergone a reformation. This
means great deal for s1ow-going Persia $
future.
Maeterlinck has risen materially in the
estimation of his scientific readers through
an article he has Just published In Eng
land entitled. ..Foretelling the Future.
The drama fist argues with logic worthy
of German professor, that 1t should be
possible OF link the future. as well as the
past, with the present by the develop
ment of kind of memory. THE future, =
he says. .'must be an outcome of a train
of causes now in progress, but not record
ed IN our consciousness"
Seeking for illustrations, Maeterlinck
interviewed a number of SYPHILIS, each Of
whom, while in trance. showed start
ling acquaintance with her visitors Sc
cret thoughts. and even with ideas that
had lain buried In his mind so long that
memory. until this sudden revival. had
never had a grasp of them.
Maeterlinck argues that If we trained
our memories to more carefully record the
jin1pr essions that go toward the develop
ment of our character. and therefore Of
our whole lives. our insight into the rl-'
ture would become correspondingly clear
err.
An immense revival Of interest IN Leigh
Hunt is predicted for an early date. The
prediction is based on renewed interest
in this picturesquely charming author
manifested in the United States. where
a set of his works was recently sold for
$1,000. and on the growing impression in
both countries that Leigh Hunt was gross
ly ma!igned in his lifetime.
Most people are familiar with the fact
that Dickens used a current conception
OF. Hunts character as a model for a
despicahle creation in BLEAK House." and
with Frouders statement that Carlyle
kept a sovereign on his mantel t'for Hunt
to drop in and borrow which indicates
that Harold Skimpole was pretty nearly
as real to Carlyle as to the author of
BLEAK House,
But recent light shed on Hunts domes-
tic life shows that he was a martyr if
ever there was one; that neither Dickens
nor Carlyle would have been capable of
Hunts heroisn in battling vigorously to
keep the secret of his wife's drunkenness
from the world.
This wife, it has lately appeared,
forged innumerable letters in Hunts
name. begging all sorts Of people for
money. while the sensitive husband bore
without a word til! his death the stigma
Of having written them
This reputation, to which Leigh Hunt
submitted, stultifed his genius while he
lived. and has obscured the Judgment of
his readers ever since. But now that the
truth is coming out, the booksellers note
remarkable increase in the demand for
his works.
Paris reports that the great but eccen-
trio American painter Whistler Is al
most entirely recovered from his late
serious Illness. He was able few days
ago to receive an American millionaire
so says my Paris correspondent. who in
spected profusion of Whistler's sym
phonies" and asked the artist:
How much for the lot?'
-Four Millions" said the artist.
"WhatI' gasped the owner of half a
dozen gold mines
my posthumous price" explained
Whistler Good morning" And he
showed the millionaire the door.