The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-09

very anxious to meet her." she said
to the maid who took her card.
Inc caller had scarcely seated her
self before loud voice called out
above:
II won't see her. Tell her I don't
like Americans"
The American woman stalked to the
stairway and called OUT
We'll you ought to like them. They
are the only people who read your
nasty books" ~
Whereupon Ouida came down, well
coined her visitori and the two became
good friends at once
The episode might have happened in
! connection with many English nov
elists, though it probably would not.
The Englishman whose books are SELL
ing we'll in this country has the kind
Hest feeling for his American cousins
and this feeling is not disturbed by
strong competition in the market OF
literary wares in England. OF all the
f1elds of trade which the Americans
are invading, that Of books has been
thus far least tRampled on. Neither
is there much prospect of a sudden
change in this regard.
Henry Esmond' Bad Book.
The Bishop of Limerick has decided
that Thackeray's Henry Esmond" is
not good book for the young to read
ana has advised teachers generally
to discourage it's reading. No more
effective way of stimulating interest
IN Thackeray could be devised for the
irish youth who learns of the bishops
dlctum. A year or SO ago Methodist
Sunday school official ruled Kipling
out OF the library. Within a few DAYS
not a single copy Of Kipling was left
In the book stores of that town. Now
ana then a library puts out black list
and the prohibited books receive a deal
OF gratuitous advertising thereby. In
many cases, of course, the rulings of
librarians are just and right, but it is
a deplorable fact that the publication
OF such black lists helps instead of in
jures the sale Of books on them. There
is large public which is attracted
by the very prohibition and there are
always some publishers who are eager
10 take advantage of this fact.
Poetry in Prose.
Nearly everyone who reads is now
and then struck by the seeming I'M
conscious meter and poetic swing of a
piece of prose. One experiences a
thrill of delight in noting this fact in
Dickens. Little Nell led her grand
father away from London through
the villages and country and though
the two were most pathetic characters,
the author often stoldlof their travels
and described some of the places they
passed through in almost pure verse
Doubtless, If one We're careful in a
search of this kind, hercould find many
similar cases in present day writing
Indeed someone has taken the first few
lines Of Ernest Thompson Seton's story
of the Kootenay Ram and, without
changing the order OF words in the
least, has made fairly good blank
verses of the passage.
| $50 IN this land of long, long winter night,
Where go natpre stints her joys for six hard
Then owns her debt and pays it all at
The spring is glorious compensation for
| The past. Six months arrears of joy are
paid
In one vast, lavish outpouf"
| Rudyard kfpIing's Wireless"
Kipling's much heralded story wire
less" has come, and is going through the
mill of criticism. Some hail the story as
| a sign of the authors return to power,
others see nothing remarkable in it. AT
/ any rate Wireless as applied to telegra-
\ ply has little to do with the tale, save
that it furnishes convenient physical an
alogy to the idea of psychical waves with
| which the story is mainly concerned. One
might point out some inaccuracies in Kip