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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-06
A Woman's Protest.

Ella w. Peattie, in Chicago Tribune.
In Mr.. Henry Alden's letter. published in
the Tribune's literary supplement, appear
these words concerning the work of George
Eliot:
Look for a moment at the men of her
novels. No one except a woman could pos
sibly have created such impossible men and
deliberately admired them. From the tire
some Adam Bede to that u~nspeakable prig
Deronda, her heroes were uniformly of the
sort that the feminine intellect conceives
and the feminine taste admires."
That Mr.. Alden means to speak opprobri-
oUsly there can be little question. The
words convey the impression that the
feminine intellect and the feminine taste
are the faulty intellect and the faulty taste.
And there is half the text
The other half is in the remarks made by
Mr.. Hamlin Garland at the University of
Chicago, when talking upon the subject of
The First of the American Balladists."
Mr.. Garland cannot be quoted with exact
ness because his words are not written. but
merely remembered as having been spoken
by him. He said something to the effect
that "LOngfellow was the poet of the
also spoke with opprobrium though with
mildness.
There is the remainder of the text
In regard to George Eliot and her fem
mime conception. it may be granted to Mr..
Alden at once that she was not masculine
and that she probably had no desire so to
be. She was essentially feminine, and she
was, moreover, an artist, and much more of
an artist than her recent biographer, Mr..
Leslie stephen, or than Mr.. Alden appears
to recognize.
She made tiresome and priggish, weak
and feminine male characters, 1t is true.
But did she do it because she believed IN
them2 Did she not depict them because
they were probable-because she had seen
the originals, or at least persons who sug-
gested them? Did she not also create Lyd-
gate. a human man Of much forbearance
and unquestionable dignity? Is Adam
Bede's stern stupidity outside the realm of
probability? Or is it in any way an offense
for a woman to imagine that a nan may be
a prig, or foolish Of her TO admire him for
qualities over and above his priggishness.
1t is frankly admitted that with the ex-
ception OF Christy, in Weir of Hermiston,"
Robert Louis Stevenson's women were abb
Stevenson because Of that. He drew be-
lievable men. He had ideals. He stood for
courage, and laughter, and adventure, and
much is forgiven him. Eliot saw the world
with a woman's eyes, made women her
chief characters, and included men in her
tales chiefly for their effect upon women.
II the men were not so well depicted as the
women, does she therefore incur wrath?
She drew men as a woman sees them, and
1t may be that men who like to be thought
better OF resent the delineations. One may
easily forgive them for that. Women often
resent mems estimate of them. That is. in
fact, precisely what the writer of this arti-
Gle is doing at present.
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Whacking Our Literary Gods.

New York Sun.
Poor Mr.. Longfellow! The University of
Chicago has sworn TO put him out of the
choir. Prof. Oscar Lowell Triggs gave him
notice months ago. Nov the Hon. Ham
lin Garland, the Badger Tolstoi, lecturing
at DIR. Harper's school, leaves Longfellow
to women" Not a bad fate for him, after
all, or for the women, who are poets them
selves. Mr.. Garland speaks with the ma
tural superiority of man TO woman and Of
the illustrious and world-famous men Of
letters to an obscure Cambridge professor
1t must be admitted hat there are grave
reasons for the dislike which so many of
the young gods of American literature have
for Mr.. LOngfellow. He could read and
write, accomplishments very offensive to
the young gods. He was an artist and a
scholar, ineligible and therefore not a
thinker. He wrote too much, while the
Triggesss and GarlandS write too little.
Evidently they leave him to women. They
Judge him by his baldest school speaker
verse and forget what women and chill
dren and we old fogies find of noble in his
work, his sea poems, his fine sonnets and
so on. Besides. whack a good. old. nom
ored white head and folks will think you're
doing something smart" Mr.. Garland
and Mr.. Triggs deserve grateful mention
at the hands of the historians of adver-
Using.
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of "Melomaniacs," by James Hunneker.
The Melomaniacs," a humorous sketch.
was written in lS41 by Joseph c. Nealy.
Sir Edwin Arnold received many birth
day congratulations on June 10. when he
completed mis- SEVENTEEN year. He is one
Of the few men who. having won the New
digate prize for poetry at Oxford, have
achieved a reputation as poet in later life
For the past forty years he has been con-
nected with the editorial staff OF the Lon
don Daily Telegraph. 70 which paper he
stll contributes.
Gabrielle D'Annunzio. the italian writer,
has been receiving. during the past few
months, so many requests for his auto
graph from collectors and admirers, not
only in Italy but throughout Europe, that
he has at last grown tired OF signing his
name and has adopted a novel method OF
Notifying the public that he is unable 10
comply with any such requests I'm future.
In the hotel at Bologna. where he is stay
ms, THIS notice may now be read; Ca.
briele DAnnunziOs right hand Is Injured
and therefore he regrets TO say that he
cannot write his name in albums or on
postal cards, etc"
When Mark Twain was beginning his
career as a humorous lecturer he one day
arranged with a charming female ~acquaiat-
ance that she should sit in a box and start
the applause when he stroked his mus
tache. The Lecturer started OF so well
that he did not need any such help. how
ever, for he caught the audience from the
start BY and by. when not saying any
thing worthy OF particular notice, he hap
ened 10 pull his mustache. and HIS anxious
ally in the box at once broke into applause
Mark was all but broken up by the mis-
adventure and ever afterward carefully
avoided employing such help 20 success.
The New York Post says: 1T is the
privilege OF creative writer's whose work
is based on actual social conditions 10 be-
come for pOsterity the historians or those
conditions. No future historian OF the
State OF California. however serious. can
hope 10 discredit Bret Harte. Already
Jack Hamlin, that lonely calculator or
chances. Miggles, Colonel Starbottle. Yuoa
Bin and Miss. daughter OF old Smith.
old Bummer Smith. are historical person
ages. In time their story Will probably
crystalline into a legend-the Legend 81
the torty-niners-pOssessing authority lad
prestige, forever true. as is ats remote
! classical p~rogenitor. the Legend of the
Cai1ss S@S-A~"
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Shot at Colonel Harvey.
London Mail.

AOAlQOA "a
Colonel Harvey, controller of the famous
publishing firm of Messrs. Harper & Bros,
was recently for a short while in this coun-
try, and in an interview on his return to
New York he is reported to have expressed
rather forcible opinions about modern Eng
lish books and bookmen. He finds de
terioration" in most OF our authors ex-
cept in Mr.. Meredith and Mrs. Humphrey
Ward. The selection of the undeteriorated
is curious. Few of his critics would rate
Mr.. Meredith's last work his best, and
Mrs. Mumphry Ward is perhaps hardly a
writer of whom many native critics would
agree with Colonel Harvey in saying the
finest of her work had never been ex-
celled.
Further, Colonel Harvey is reputed to
have expressed the opinion that the mass
of English readers regard sherlock
Holmes as the highest form of literary
art. OF course, that is a figure of speech.
Large numbers of persons in England
quite properly regard Sherlock Holmes
as excellent entertainment; but neither
they nor DR.. Conan Doyle talk of literary
art" in connection with it. 1t is interest
of THE Hound of the Baskervilles" have
ders. too, if there is much pretension to
literary art in the rOmances that sell
their half million copies in the American
market. The artistic American move
lists Of the kind of Mr.. w. D. HOwells
and Mr.. Henry James probably have quite
as many readers on this side of the At
lantic as on the other.
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NOVELS NOT LITERATURE.
Some Rather S~plenetic Remarks by
an Ohio Contemporary.

Columbus Journal.
The Indianians have broken loose on the
question of literary excellence We are
not impressed with the names they present.
Novels have ceased to be literature, and
the only really literary person whom they
present in the whole sixteen they put forth
is James Whitcomb Riley. Riley will be
read as long as English literature exists.
His fame will grow with time. But those
gentlemen who have written a perfect
wilderness of prose tales will not read their
own stuff twenty years from now, nor Will
anybody else read it. The men and women
who are at the present day writing itera-
ture are not writing novels. 1t is an easy
lump from sensational Journalism to novel
writing. Plenty of newspaper men have
made a hit with a novel. That only shows
that the relationship of the novel is not
with permanent letters, but with the ephem-
eral phases of art. With a publishing
firm in Columbus at all equal TO the one
which has made the reputation of nearly
all these Indiana writer's, Ohio might have
made a ten-strike in novel writing, too,
though the Ohio tendency. on the whole.
has been away from that sort OF thing and
in the direction of what may be called
foundation work. On that foundation a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-06
Read What You Like.

Hamilton w. Mabie, in Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
In reading, as in everything else, honesty
is the best policy. 1t is better to be sincere
than TO get the reputation of knowing all
the books. A good many people seem to
feel that it is not quite respectable 10 be
ignorant of the book everybody is talking
about; and a good many people, 1t is to be
feared. assume a knowledge they do not
possess simply because they have not the
courage 10 be frank. " " y good many
people read books for which they do not
care simply because other people are read
ing those books, which is a waste of time
and a good many more read reviews of
books, instead Of reading the books them
selves, to be able 20 talk about them, which
is not quite honest.
Reading is pre-eminently an individual
matter TO be determined solely by what
we need and by what we like If a man
finds, after faithful endeayor 10 understand
and enjoy certain great writers or certain
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an of-color in horsehesh among horsemen,
yet 1t seems to suit the fancy Of the So
ciety people. For it is now fashionable in
driving a team, instead OF having them
match as formerly. TO have one a sorrel
and the other a gray. The bay horse is
always IN demand, and a bay of that pc
culiar dark color known as the blood-bay
is always a great favorite. These colors
to the beginner are somewhat confusing,
but to the practiced eye they are easily
distinguishable.
1t is often said that If you drive a saddle
horse to a buggy his gait will be ruined.
but this is not true. A well-trained saddle
horse is like a man who learns to swim in
his yOUth-he never forgets it. The way
the saddle horse is spoiled is in letting it
be ridden by more than one person. IL
thirty different people should ride a horse
il will be found that there are no two who
ride alike. and each one has his own meth
DDS OF giving the signals to the horse for
the changing of his gait. BY the time the
horse is returned to the original rider it
will have a mixed gait consisting of all the
others. Sportsmen say that the saddle
horse in this respect is like the hunting
dog whose owner lends him to his friends
who all have different methods of going
over a field. BY the time the first man
gets the dog again it will be so confused
that IL won't know what to do. It is said
that it is easier to break in a green horse
than one that has lost its gait in this man
ner. A true saddle horse does not even
have to be kept in practice, for he can al
way easily fan into the movements he
learned when he was "a colt.
OF course. it is no small thing to break a
riding horse, for it requires a great amount
OF patience. The horse. though. in the
first place must be intelligent, for the sue
cess of his training largely lies in this.
He must also be built not too long in the
back and with legs and thighs shapely. but
stout and strong. Trainers all use similar
methods. so that the same signals can be
given to all saddle horses and they will re-
spond by changing their gait. They must
be broken so that they will not change
unless told to, for this ruins them. To
make a horse trot the rider should throw
himself well forward in the saddle and at
the same time press lightly but firmly down
on the horses neck. For the horse to
change into a canter the rider should wave
his right nan slowly up and down so that
it IS visible to the horse, and draw the
bride rein slightly tighter than is used in
the trot. To have him go in the single
foot rack the bride rein should be drawn
still tighter. the bit should be slightly
shaken, and at the same time the horse
should be touched with the left heel. All
thorough horsemen know these rules and,
therefore. nave little trouble in riding a
horse they never saw before.
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classes of books. that he feels no Inward
drawing TO those writers let him honestly
face the fact and confess ii If necessary.
All the classics are not for all readers, and
the tyranny which would impose them all
on all readers without reference TO differ
ences of taste, culture and mental aptitude
ought to be resisted.
The mature reader who cannot become
interested in THE Divine Comedy" loses a
great deal, but ii is better to lose honestly
than to pretend to gain that which you DO
not value. AS a rule the "Faerie Queene"
must be read in youth to be enjoyed and
understood, but there are many who feel
compelled 10 admire it when they come to
it in later life simply because it is a classic.
Ii is better to be honest and be ignorant
OF the classics than 20 profess a liking for
them because it is good intellectual form
to know them. What men have agreed to
accept as great art will not cease to be
great art because We do not happen TO like
it; but we shall at least keep ourselves
clear of affectation and pretenSe. Duty to
our highest growth does not compel us TO
like all great books or any one class of
great books; 1t demands of us that we select
the besr of the kind toward which we are
attracted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-06
Mary McLane's Future.

New York Post.
1t is announced that the young woman
in the West who prays TO the devil and
writes damn" with such cheerful fire.
quency that she is therefore described by
enthusiasts as having laid bare a human
SOUL has accumulated profits from the
sale of her book which will enable her to
attend a woman's college. The young wom-
an is said to be an amiable and respect
able individual when she is washing the
windows and setting the table and not
bothering at all about the soul, and there
fore her good fortune may be considered
as a happy event. But il is TO be hoped
that her example will not be followed gen
orally. More books of this kind. we are
sure, would not do the public any good.
and. besides. think of the collegesi No
doubt whatever college the Western young
woman favors with her patronage will be
able to assimilate her. but if there were
too many like her al institution where
they c~ongregated might be in some danger
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-06
Faifh-Cure Tale
New York Times.

DIR. Herbert w. Spencer tells the follow
ing story of his attempt to corner a Chris
tian Scientist:
Every time we met this Scientist took
occasion to scon at medical science and to
dwell upon the wonders which could be
performed through faith. You are con-
vinced that through faith you can do any
thing?' / said to him one day.
YES he replied, faith will move noun
tains.'
"A week later he was in my office with
a swollen jaw due to a ~toothache. What,
you here! exclaimed, with feigned aston
ishment.
oh. DOCTOR he said, L have suffered
agony all through the night. l simply cam
stand this pain any longer
"'Have you tried faith? 1 said to him.
You know you told me the other day that
faith could move mountains
But this is a cavity, DOCTOR; this is a
cavity"
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Philadelphia Telegraph.

Philadelphia Telegraph
Bridget is an excellent cook; but, like
most women Of her profession. she is opin-
donated and insists upon making all her
dishes strictly according to her own re-
ceipts. Her mistress gives her very full
swing, not only as to cooking, but as to
the purchase of supplies. The other day
her mistress said to her:
Bridget. the coffee you are giving us is
very good. What kline is it?"
TITS no kin at all, num-" said Bridget;
its a mixter."
How do you mix it?"
Il make IL -one-quarter Mocha, and one
quarter Java and ~one-quarter Rio"
But that's only three quarters. What
do you put in for the other quarter?'
Il put in no other quarter at all, mum.
That's where so many sphiles the coffee,
mum-by putting in a fourth quarter"
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'ru write a book the author said,
las full of problems as the sea;
For polemics are all the rage,
And tales of human mystery"
But ere he'd written Chapter Five"
The library and stall and store
Were flooded with the problem books
The tickle public called IA bore"
"Tll write adventure stories bold"
The buoyant writer cried. Tor tales
OF wondrous deeds are all the go,
And leading now with wondrous sales
But ere his hero battled twice
With pirates on his ship Of gold,
The public took its eve away
And wild adventure lost its hold.
'+I'u write a happy lover tale"
Then sighed the literary snail;
And so he crawled into his heart
To hear IL WOO and wish and wall.
But ere his lover won a bride,
Or he had scrubbed down The End,
The public had discarded love
And publishers wrote back: Don't send"
Historic novels swept along
From Ethelred to Charles the First,
And that one had the largest sale
Which proved the wickedest and worst;
Till. wearied with the lightning change,
The literary snail. perplexed,
Resigned his pen, and, sitting down,
He waited. whispering: What nextg'
-Aioysius Coll.
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Historic novels
"


The literary editor of the New York
Tribune quotes the phrase unprecedented
music" Probably the passage ne had in
mind was Shelley's line: In profuse
strains of unprecedented art"
William NJ. Thackeray wrote THE Vir-
ginians;" and now comes forward owen
Wistar with THE Virginian." ApropOs
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I know a place where the sun Is like gold,
And the cherry blooms burst with snow,
And down underneath is the lovehest nook
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.
One leaf is for hope. and one is for faith.
And one is for love, you know;
And God put another one in for luck
II you search you will find where they grow.
But you must have hope, and you must have
faith.
You must love and be strong; and so,
II you work, If you wait. you will find the place
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.
Ella Higpinson-
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of a sort of emotional indigestion. AS for
the particular young woman In question,
she NAV be forgiven her book. She will be
as much ashamed of ii as any one directly.
Her desire TO use her profits to secure for
herself a college education is too whole
some. Her devil" as she calls him, can
hardly survive it long.
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II Is curious now important a part color
plays IN the selection OF a saddle horse.
Perhaps IL is because Of some old saying.
perhaps because OF some fancled unsuita-
bisness. perhaps because OF no reason. but
the gray saddle horse is unpopular unless
pa u an exceptionally fine one. Gray Is
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-28
SHE SHOT At 1 M RGLtR.
Mrs. stewart OF Greenwich Thinks She
Wounded an Intruder.

GREENWICH. Conn. Nov Mrs Samuel
Stewart. fought a burglar singlehanded
last night al her home at Byram Shore.
Her husband is painter by occupation
Last night he went out TO sit up with
sick member of the painters union, leav-
ing his wife and children alone in the house
which is next the residence Of Constable
Medley
Shortly after / o'clock this morning Mrs
Stewart was aroused by "A noise on the
back piazza. Selling her husbands re-
volver, she went downstairs Standin z
inside the door, she heard a man on the
piazza who was evidently trying to break
in the door bv the use of some instrument
She called out -Who is there?" At that in.
slant Constable Nedloys dog ran up on
the stoOp and began barking
The man uttered an oath as he kicked at
the dog Mrs. Stewart thereupon walked
to the window and fired the revolver through
the glass. She thinks she hit the burglar
because he cried out "Oh !" then jumped
over he railing and ran away groaning.
The noise aroused the const able and he
and several others searched the vicinity,
but could not find the burglar.
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Y.N.C 4. M IIDING LOSES SEQ. OyO
Praise for the Police and Eirenien From
the Artists Who Live l'DstaIrs.

The fire which burned out a shoe store
Oh the ground floor of the old y. NJ &. A.
Building al Fourth avenue and Twenty
third street early Yesterday morning did
little or no harm 70 the floors above The
whole damage in the building was placed
az $50 900.
On the upper floors are artists studios
Several artists and their families, includ-
ing Mr. and Mrs Percivsl De Luce, VI Sey-
mour Bloodgood. r.. VI Bicknell } T.. Jack
son. j B. Bristol. Arthur Hoeber and Mr.
and Mrs. W Granville Smith. lived there.
They all got ont safely. though thicl;
smoke filed the building. The police.
tiremcn and Janitor Marion aroused them
and helped them downstairs
Policeman Hutchinson and Fireman
Wood assisted Mr. and Mrs. W Granville
Smith and their daughter from the fin
floor. Hutchinson carried the little girl
in his arms and did not put her down until
he had taken her To the Bartholdi Hotel,
block away. All the artists had nothing
but praise for the fremcn and polio. Yes
tCrday. No damage was done to paintings
in the upstairs studies
On their way tn the fire Chief Croker
and Capt Oswald We're thrown from the
Chiefs automobile at Tvert y--econd street
and Fourth avenue A cab got in The way
and to escape a collision the machine was
run against the curb. Neither was hurt.
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DEEPENING AMBROSE CHiNNEK.
Gen. G,.lc spic Suggests Means to Expedite
the Work.

WAsHING ron. Nov - IL order 10 cN-
pe,litc Va" work of improving Ambrose
Channel, he deep waterway IL New York
hlrbor. which IL 70 accommodate vessels Of
tie create dgaughi, Brig Gen. Gillespie.
Chief Of T. lg'nccr,. mas recommended to
the Secretary OF War that Tie army trans
port Mcclellan be converted into a sea
going hydraulic dreige for Use in IA. work
The MCt ielan j. eNpactcd 10 reach New
York from tn" Philippines Within q few
days
Gen Gillespie has certified that the con
tractor j. meeting all the requirements
of his contract and I've believes thai II tho
work Is 10 l." expedited to meet the cX-
pressed wishes of he New York shipping
interests, the Governments should lend
hand. lrp officers of the Quar- crmaster-
Generals Department are said 80 be Cp-
posed ~ the withdrawal of the Met lellnn
from III" transport service. Secretary
Roo, viii lake Up the matter when he re-
turns from New York and j. expected to
give a prompt decision ON Gen. Gillesrio's
recommended ion.