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discussion. : The writer VINO wishes to

study the 1eisurely style than to
strive for that nervous quality which
the modern magazine reader is sup
posed to require.
AS matteroof fact, the desiderated
styie Tor the times has had pretty
thorough triad. The late G. w.
Steevens certainly wrote it; Mr.. Kip
ing writes It and produces six distinct
electrical discharges in the space in
which the leisurely writer would
grudge hinlselfoone; Mr.. Maurice Hew-
lett, although he is still caviare to the
general, has all the nervousness and
plcturesquehesS' that any editor could
desire. But, these examples of the mod
ern style hardly encourage us to be-
lleve that progress lies that way. 1t
seems to us, in short, that Mr.. Pages
conception of deliberate attack upon
the larger reading public of a general
attempt to measure up or down to the
standards of those who have learned
to read only between pictures is fun
damentally erroneous. We do not be-
l1eve that the style which the great
unframed public wants is a good style.
The fact is that, while the intellectual
contributor is often a dull person, the
writer's of today are less at fault than
the public. 1t is the public that needs
to be converted to intellectual leisure
iiiiSs'S, iiol the WT1leI VIII HeSOS "
catch the fever of modern life"
Sir Walter Scott's Letters.
A collection of unpublished letters of
Sir Walter SCOTS has been discovered
by an enterprising publisher, and they
Will be brought out shortly in book
form. The letters are all written to
Mrs. Hughes, the grandmother of
Thomas Hughes, the author of tom
Brownies Schooldays.'' Mrs. Hughes,
the recipient, was well known woman
in her day, and if her letters to Sir
Walter could be recovered compan-
ion volume might well be issued.
Mention was recently made Of a
newly discovered manuscript of Rob-
ert Southey's. A limited edition Of
this work is to be brought out in this
country under the title journal of a
Tour in the Netherlands" The jour-
ney was one Southey made two or
three months after the battle of Wa
terloo, and the account was carefully
kept by the Southey family until 1854,
when it passed into the hands of the
Pease family Its existence was for
gotten until, not long ago, one of the
latter family discovered it while 60
ing over a lot of musty papers and
allowed 1t to be reproduced in England
and America. D
MlSS ftSIlSS Sc u Ldul, WIlOSc III SL
book, Lords of the North was gen.
orally believed to be the work of a
man, because she signs her name A. c.
Laut, is following the same line Of
writing with considerable success. She
expects to-. bring out 1.-THE Story of
the Trapper" in a few weeks, work
which gives an account of the various
early fighters s-jiof the wilderness
throughout. the North and West.
Offers, Kruger $4,000.
It is said that London publisher
has agreed, to- pay Mr.. Kruger $4,000
for his memoirs. This price is for
the English rights alone, and Mr..
Krugers agent had asked a consider
ably larger sum. So far arrangements
have not been completed for the rights
of publication In America, but when
they are made no such sum will be
paid. An agreement has been made
whereby Krugers book will appear be-
fore those Of the Boer generals who
We're recently trying to make contracts
for book publication In London. Gen.
DeWet'S book is to come second, but
as he has not completed the work of
writing it, probably it will not be is
sued before next spring.
The German critics, for years jeal-
Gus Of Tolstoi and now of Gorky, are
giving free expression of their opinions
Of these writer's. They claim that these
two particularly and the lesser novel,
lists of the same school, are exercising
on Western thought IAN enervating
Oriental influence" In view of the fact
that DR.. E. J. Dillon has just written
a book on the life and works Of Gorky,
which is to be published here this fall,
it is inter esting to learn what some oi
the Germans have. to say about the
Russian writers. Hans Fisher calls a
halt in the following manner:
"Tolstoi and Gorky are probably the
most read of the modern Russian writ
ers on the continent, although the in
fluence of Dostoyevski. the greatest
and most Russian of these three, is the
most powerful on the thinking portion
of the younger class of readers. 1t
is high time to protest against the
conditions Of affairs. Just think who
and what these men are and were.
Dostoyevski is subject to epilepsy,
Tolstoi is old and decrepit and Gorky
comes from the lowest ranks of the
proletarist. All three are thorough rep
resentativesg of barbarian type Of
thought. oAll three come from a
church that has as little connection
with true culture as has a Persian
mosque. All three try to force the
yoke of Slavic morality and ethics
on Western civilization. 1t is to be
lamented that the Germans have not
been able to resist the immortal in
fluence Of this literature. How much
havoc has Tolstoi alone created in this
respect! In Christian circles we hear
many warnings against the poison of
NietZsche's teachings, but this poison
is not half as dangerous as the insid-
ious, f1attering, weakening poison of
the Russian, notwithstanding its Chris
tan scent"
"Taes of Mean Street."
When Arthur Morrison's "Tales Of
Mean Street We're published in Eng
land the publishers did not consider
it worth while to copyright the book
in America. In short time, however,
they were selling edition after edition
in England, and no less than thirteen
different firms in this country were
pirating the stories. Now Mr.. Morri-
son has written a novel, 1.-THE Hole in
the WALL" which will be brought out
simultaneously in London and New
York, and the author is likely to receive
more profit from his American adj
mirers than from his first book. For
years Mr. Morrison made his home
among the poor people of London. He
worked in the interests of a charity
organization, and in order to get ac-
quainted with the people he started a
little match box factory, working at
the trade himself 1t took him a long
time, but he was finally successful in
gaining admission to the quarters Of
the thieves, their societies and clubs
1.-THE Hole in the Wall" takes it's name
from a resort of thieves on the bank
of the river. The place is kept by the
grandfather Of the boy who tells most
of the story. The book rings true; one
feels that the author must have lived
among it all, for he writes with Won
derful clearness and strength.
The Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty
fifth President of the United States