New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-14

| Colonel Sellers's cheerful experiment with me
stove was based actual incident an0
original of the character lived IN HlilliLoi- ~
| where Mark Twain born, and TINS stoty,
| quoted in The Century, Is told ABOUT hi'A
| there:
Two neighbors. having called at the home OF
this character very cold day. notlCeu' %
they passed along. that there was only one SnaiI
stick of wood where the 'woodpiIe' shoutG hdso
been and this remarked upon as they err
tered the house. Why. gentlemen. said ne, .
am glad YOU referred to the circumstance 1rb
sunnIv of wood is abundant for the winter rs
fact is this house is warmly and coInIlCtiiSS
buiIt that one small silver of that STICK "oult
| make the building hot IN every room -
~. - b,Ia family would be compelled 10 seen
| the oper air for comfort. In fact we nAsS
e-o ont of doors and remain for hours III p qiI5
| 70 cooI off l am perfectinS q plan 10 49, 49,
houses which Will need no fire, not eve" Ioi ''
ing nor the coolest weather.
| Tho late George Douglas Brown. author OF tns
clever "House with the Green Shutters lel' Oh
| unfinished book behind him - 81 q
| His death was caused by the rupture OF
| b,nnd vessel and that it is believed came from
| overta King himself in n course OF alhlt'lo
ercise Ii was not thought that ne "dS t,'7 7lCa
ousIy ILL., and he in good Spirits l'ilu NV
tive up to the moment in when Ne su
became unconscious and died
T, ,s reported that there are evidences OF a
change in literary taste IN France. - Vic
much less read than he was ten years u.s. INTO
tor Hugo and the elder Dumas have come - ~
a new popularity; and there seems to De w
mand for more serious literature
Mr. IT G. Wells thinks that the effect OF the
recent war upon English literature viii De ~
make il less frivolous and more Serious 10
entific and philosophical Mt IhoihdS ~ ~
believes that the attention OF MTlttLS "" +L,, ~
he turned to works of action" rather tn,ln n y,
reflection Both men are apparently tl iitara,
only of novels constituting houeIH
ture.
Among the new novels which are on the wa, way
are Miss Slberrad's The success OF Go
Wyngate" Miss Katherine lyman ne sC.stIs
of Sisters MIR F. Frankfort MOores Casd
Omeragh" THE Star Gazers by Agnes S ~
Egerton Castle and THE Private f3pe-'
Henry Ryecroft" by George GiSslhs-
In paper contributed by Mr. hugh CIiI 20
to "BlackWOod's Magazine in WHICH He
Iates some of his experiences in attehuIuS - -
Malayan royalties. find this aihuSIli i3a2 OF
sage about the literary taste OF the Hu
Perak: - 10. If
..When his nephew related to him the plot
Mr. Stephen PhilIips's 'PaOlO and Frances" .ba
performance OF which ne had "ltI: VIII - Of a
Sultan shook his head: That Is an eN ~, 20. - not
very degrading character he said II - - loss
fitting that such story should be tuld' L |5ias'
acted, more especially in the presthtS % irci5ent
And when he was informed that the - 10
was historically accurate, that only sc That
increase the gravity of his disapprovaL cry
such a thing should have happened Is liter
shameful. he said. and surely II o1-;ta these
to suffer it to be forgotten why le r nity be
ancient scandals? And why should cNi f
asked for folk utterly depraseu'
1t is possible that the diary kept oy Eu vas
Williams the friend OF Shelley .W.nnrosting
drowned with him. may have some in Nv rata,
references to the poet. That diary, at any TO-
Is soon to be published