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Literary Notes.

Richard Whiteing. of mo. 8 John Street
fame, some time ago buried himself i'm the
country, there to work upon the new story
which is being looked forward TO by his
admirers with eagerness. From his retreat
Mr.. Whteing writes that he is deeply i'm
mersed'' in his task but gives hint to
when ii Will be finished.
Donovan Pasha" will be the first book
published with the name of Sir Gilbert
Parker on its title page. He had finished
it Just before he was knighted. In this
story he breaks new ground for him, but
il must be hoped that he has not perma-
nently abandoned the Canadian field, where
he has done such good work.
The latest form of the endless chain Is
that devised by contributor TO the English
newspapers, who incOses with his articles
a polite letter and two dozen stamps. If
the article is found to be unsuitable he
wishes the editor TO use one OF the stamps
in forwarding il, with the letter and re-
naming stamps, to the next on list OF
twenty-four other editors, who Is requested
to do the same. and on until stamps and
editors are equally exhausted.
Emile Zola was asked the other day by a
French journalist TO give his ideas regard
ing education. He replied: II was educated
at the municipal college at AK and the
Lycee ST. Louis in Paris. 1 lost my father
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Mr.. Harrington Victimized.

Harpers Weekly.
Mr.. Booth Harrington is suffering the
penalty of greatness. He has taken his
place among the leading writers of this
country; he has begun work as an eminent
ly successful playwright; he is practically
a prominent political factor in Indiana
politics; and he has just been married.
All this makes it worth the while of the
daily journals of this country to interview
him, and set before the American public
what he has TO say on literature, drama,
politics, the life of the home. And if
the newspaper cannot get at him for the
interview, then the newspaper makes up
the interview. That is just as interesting
TO the public, and it irritates one but
Mr. Harrington. So 1t was done, and we
read not only of the young authors views
on society, that he was tired of people, and
was going out a farm to weed his
vegetable garden and think great thoughts,
but that he going to propose in the
Legislature a bill to offer prizes on the
part of the State for the best HoOSier
poems and essays. That may amuse the
newspaper reader, but it does irritate the
private citizen named Harrington. The
whole thing is untrue. Mr.. Harrington is
not going to weed gardens, and while we
have no doubt that he will think great
thoughts because he is one of the COM
ing men of our day, he certainly does not
say so himself. Furthermore, he never had
and such ridiculous idea as to propose a
measure for State prizes of the sort men
toned Indeed that looks a little as if
some friend had been interviewed-some
friend with genius for practical joking.
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the style easy and flowing, and the narra-
tive perhaps more than that of any other
historian reads as if IL had been dictated
without an effort.
Volumes l and were published in Eng
land in December. lS4S, and Immediately
afterwards in America. In 1919 new and
revised edition OF these volumes was pub
lished in England, but the corrections are
generally unimpOrtant. such as renowned
for great abilities for talents, 'capac-
ity' for abilities. etc Sometimes, indeed,
the author alters a sentence or adds one,
but in his final revision he makes many
changes, even in this edition already re-
vised. Volumes and appeared in Eng
land and America in 1856. The last edition
of the first four volumes was published IN
1851 with the authors final corrections, and,
since his death in 1883. has been often re
printed. together with a part of Volume D.
left by Macaulay in manuscript, and edited
by his sister. 1t is this edition that Is now
generally read. though many publishers
have printed Volume 3 with the text OF the
first four volumes that had not received
the last revision. Neither the LenoX nor
the Aston library contains a single copy
of the latest edition. and even within the
last few months an edition of the five vol
umes has been published containing Vol
umes l and as they appeared in lS4S. and
Volumes and 1 as they appeared In 800,
the public generally being apparently un-
aware OF the existence or a more correct
and complete edition"
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theatrical, yet with what a masculine grip
he seizes on his subject, and with what
mastery ease he sweeps over his ground,
bearing his readers along without a pause
and without effort! 1t is all big and
strong and spacious; and beside it Romola
seems small and stuffy. like a back-parlOr
as compared with a great, breezy stretch
Of heath and forest.
The quality of largeness and the sense of
ii are distinctly characteristic of mascu-
Unity in literature. They may almost be
viewed as physical in their last analysis.
woman has the brain TO form a fine con-
ception of something that shall be truly
epic; but in the execution her strength or
buoyancy or whatever it is, gives out.
There are in the completed task gaps and
patches where the uplifting power failed
her, while in man of equal genius it would
have held out to the end. Hence, shall
probably never see a great historical ro-
nance indicted by a woman, or a vast
social drama such as BalZac wrought.
Women in literature, as in other forms of
art, are workers in mosaic, gem engravers,
miniaturists, fashioners of figurines; while
to men belong the execution of heroic
groups, of battle pictures, of vast fres-
Goes, and gigantic efforts of geography
like the Waverly novels or the Coincide
Humane" or the interviewer life-strands of
lies ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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Old Encyclopedias.
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle.
Are old cyclopedias valueless? Far from
it; some of them are of more real service
than those of the present day, not except
ing the overloaded Encyclopedia Britain
MICA. While the old cyclopedias are truly
enough obsolete and unsa tisfactory as re-
CARDS many things, such, for instance, as
chemistry, electricity, political geography,
comparative philology. etc, they contain
a vast amount of useful and interesting
knowledge not easily found anywhere else.
What should we do, therefore, with our
Anticipated cyclopedias-Rees forty-five
volumes, for instance? Cut them up, select
from them whatever is of living and en-
during interest, such as those exhaustive
articles on botany, the various schools of
painting and engraving, sculpture herald
~, important biographies omitted in recent
cyclopedias to make room for less impor-
tant ones in order to be up to date, etc
This accomplished and the refuse having
been thrown away, have the excerpts
bound in their alphabetical order and fur
nished with new title pages or lettered on
the back Selections FROM" etc, so as to
show that the eliminated matter has been
eliminated by intention and not by acct
dent. what is left being all of the original
work that is valuable and worthy of pres
erVatiOn.
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CosmopOIitanism of Fiction.

Walter Sichel. in Fortnighty Review.
Another phase of a kindred nature is the
lack of finality in our recent novels. 1t is
considered artistic TO leave endings to the
readers imagination This is not only the
case with the "married-and-lived- happily
ever-afterwards' conclusion, which is fast
disappearing. and is perhaps not much re-
grettable. 1t applies TO the characters
themselves. However long the recital-and
modern novels are short compared with
their precursors-we gain only a peep at
their dramatis personae. We are left TO fill
in the details of the outline at will. This
habit has its defects. 1t springs from the
haste with which we travel on the road of
observation. 1t leaves a feeling of vague
ness, and sometimes almost of requiring us
to be part-authors of the story. But IL has
also its merits. The old assumption of
thorough comprehension is untrue to life.
In the image of mixed motives, often per-
pleXity TO the very beings which they ami
mate, how few natures stand out clear and
unmistakable, how few understand each
other still less themselves. That an au
thor should as il were, be advocate and
leave us to be judges is a stimulating pro-
cess, If only we will brace ourselves to the
effort which he declines. But it has its
dangers, and especially that which attends
ors for a chance-effect To be workmanlike
the artist must be a consummate draughts-
man, as well as a powerful coorist 1t is
only where the details are drawn first and
rubbed out afterwards that a lack of finish
cOnVinCeS
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Furniture, Carpets
Stoves
W. III. ME- SSENGEH
FOL East Washington So.

when / quite young, and as my mother
was very weak I'm her attitude towards me-
1 was able TO develop IN my own way. did
not learn TO read till / was eight years old.
l may say that / educated myself. and I
think that is the best way. do not believe
in school education"
Major Herbert Darling. lately appointed
commissioner OF police i'm Bloemfontein.
is only twenty-three years old At eighteen
he managed a mine I'm western Australia
At twenty he was captain OF West Aus
tralian contingent In South Africa and he
is now perhaps the youngest major in the
forces. regular or Irregular or the empire
He looks younger than he really is, and
GOODNESS and bravery were recognized. he
was known among his associates as Baby
Darling"
There is a report that Bret Harte left in
condition for publication not only the forth
coming volume OF condensed novels" but
divers manuscript poems and a collection
OF short stories Harte IL is understood
denied 10 Mark Twain the character or a
great humorist on the ground that in such
greatness there must be the element or
pathos-which Twain has not: Cervantes.
Thackeray and Dickens he reckoned among
the great in this field. but. strangely
enough. excluded Shakespeare as too sub
lime for humor."
II is remarkable how considerable and
constant Is the demand among book-buyers
OF almost every class for the novels Of
Charles Reade, says a London paper. IL
adds: Hard Cash" Peg wellington"
It's Never Too Late to Mend" and the
far more literary .Cloister and the
Hearth" retain III they do not Increase their
popularity and IL Is impossible not 10 DC
struck by the piles OF sixpenny editions
OF them on almost every bookstai. Moth
ing sells better In cheap editions. said the
bookstall-ke at one OF the large LONDON
termini in a conversation the other day.
Mr. owen Wisters delightful ''Virginien
is making the practical success which It's
high qualities fully justify. The Bookman
quotes him as saying: What I most deep
~ value are the many letters that have
come TO me from strangers IN the West.
assuring me that L have represented IL
faithfully. No one. / suppose. can escape
inaccuracies Anyhow. / have not. once
/ spoke OF Indians screaming like vultures.
and vultures don't scream. But as my
story did not turn on this point. and as
IL brought me a commencing letter from
stranger living I'm the region where my
events were supposed 10 take place, am
bold enough 10 hope that my plumbers were
on the surface.
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Woman's Home Companion.
To write successfully means to serve
long and hard apprenticeship; it means to
do many things badly in order to learn to
do a few things well; to read many authors.
and good ones; TO live with words till one
knows their value, and il means, too, that
one must know something about the reality
of life. In snort writing is a trade Just
like bookbinding or typesetting. 1t is diff
ferent, of course; it has a higher side, we
believe. but TO think only of the higher
side and ignore the trade part of it is to
prepare ones self for a great disappoint-
ment. Decidedly the novice should not ex-
pect to earn pin money by setting down
her day dreams, when successful authors
are Obliged to slog daytime and night
time in order to learn the mechanics of the
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SIACAULAY's METHODS.
The Infinite Pains He Took in Writ
ing History.
Harper's Magazine.

Harper's Magazine
After the first four volumes were printed
after they had been received with a well
come more enthusiastic than had ever been
given TO any serious literary work; after
hfty-six tons OF Vols. 3 and 4 had failed
TO meet the first demand in England; after
the fiercest criticism had failed TO lessen
the popularity OF the work; after the purity
and clearness OF the English had been uni
versally recognizable sat down 10 under
take complete and thorough revision OF
the four volumes making a thousand cor
rections In spelling, grammar. punctuation.
the OF capitals. arrangement of words
in sentences emitting words in some places.
Inserting them I'm others, adding sentences
and whole paragraphs. and making some
alteration in small details.
In spite. however. OF the herculean labor
expended on it, the history never smells OF
the lamp. the language is always simple,
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leans Times-Democrat-

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
1t seems impossible that in the range OF
a single life 10000 volumes could be read.
and yet Lord Acton not only read his vol
umes, but made copious marginal notes in
them To the ordinary reader the assimi-
latiOn OF six thousand volumes would be
more than life's work. But Lord Acton
could read half dozen volumes in day.
and remembered the contents of a book
after simply glancing at il. These books
whatever may be their final destination,
will never find so omniyorous a reader
again. Most of them will molder on the
shelves, as BELTS works that are "caviare
to the general" But of all the gifts of Mr.
Carnegie none is more fitting than this
munihcent presentation OF a great library
TO a distinguished man Of letters and a
learned historian
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Philadelphia Record.
suppose said the bibliophile to the
mere lover of reading, that you were to
be transported by a magician to the sump-
tuous and admirable library of George G.
Thomas or William II. Lambert. You
would see a lot of books there in magnifi-
cent bindings of leather. with the names
on them in gold, but If you should go 10
take down one of these books you would
find that it was not book at ALL but only
a box a fake. That would surprise you.
wouldn't it, But on examination you
would find that the boxes were made beau
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tifully, with tooling and gold decorations.
and you would also find that they were
heavy Inside them, indeed. are the vol
umes whose names are on the outside
little, plain Volumes a rule bound in
cheap cloth, or, it may be, only bound in
paper-very different from their cases OF
fine leather lined with watered silk. These
books are first editions-first editions OF
Dickens and Scott and Lamb and Thack-
to be exposed like ordinary volumes, and
so they are put in magnificent leather
boxes for protection. But the value of the
boxes is nothing beside the value of the
books they guard"
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n Gentle Hint.

II were you, and you were 1,
Mamma.
You'd be allowed the crust of pie,
Mamma,
And sugar. too And IL hlgh-spy
You liked to play, kites TO fly.
Ia like them, or at least I'd try;
And lessons should be by and by,
I'm sure you wouldn't even cry
If L you and you We're L.
Mamma.
II YOU were 1. and I you.
Mamma.
I'd ask you what you wished to do,
Mamma;
And IL your game was not quite through
When bedtime concluded. it's true
Ia let You wait. EaCl day a few
Nice toys I'd give you, bright and new.
/ think you'd think II peasant. too,
II you were / and l We're you,
Mamma.
Caroline Mccormick. in Harper's Magazine.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-30
FORMER DETECTIVE CHIEF.
Minneapolis Policeman Aided in Con-
 cealing Stolen Property.

MlnneapOllS Policeman Aided in Con-
 cealing Stolen Property.
 Minneapolis, Minn, June BOA yer dict of guilty was returned last night ip the case of Detective Nathaniel w. king who had been indicted on charges of being accessory after the fact to a felony. Another indictment alleging larceny still is pending against the prisoner. King stands convicted of having guilty knowledge of the theft of diamond from John w. Hooper, in that he knew the thief and aided him to escape justice.
 It is charged in the other bill that the detective retained the stolen gem for his use when it was turned over to him by the original culprit for restora- tion to the rightful owner. King was chief of detectives under Mayor Ames i'll a former administration. His con viction has 3 depressing effect on the other indicted officials ,as the evidence against him was not so strong as that which confrontS most of those await ing trial or indictment. Police Super intendent Ames is expected to go on trial on Monday. All the indicted off cials continue to draw salaries from the city.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-30
MRS CHAPMAN WINS.
Judge Decides Her Late Husband Was
 Competent to Make Will.

Judge Decides Her Late Husband Was
 Competent to Make Will.
 The first round in the fight for the $114, GOO left by the late Daniel h.. Chipman was decided this morning by Judge Huntington of Woodbury. The contestants are the widow Sarah, and the nephews of NIr Chipman, who claimed that when he made the will giving them a few thousand dollars each and the balance to the widow, and the codicil that revoked their leg acieS and left all to the widow, ex- cepting about $25,000 which he divid- ed between several Methodist church. es and a few relatives, he was of un- sound mind and unable to make d le-
 gal will. Judge Huntington decided that Mir Chipman was of sound and disposing mind when he drew up the documents, or at least had them drawn up by Attorney Marsh, clerk of the SUI iperlor court, whom he appointed ex- ecutor without bond. Judge Hunt- ington decided also that under the con- tentlon It would be advisable, while not necessary, to require a bond of Attorney Marsh, and there being no opposition to this a bond of S3.OOO
 was imposed. Attorney Cole, counsel with Attorney Williams of Derby for
 the will, went surety. Christian Haul
 ser and Q. $. Northrop were appoint ed appraisers. An appeal will be
 taken to the superior court.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-30
SOLD ALL LINES
Big Transfer of Electric and Railway
 Property.

Huntington, ". Va, June 30.-The Camden Interstate Railway Co of this city sold to-day to a Pennsylvania syn, dicate all their electric lines in this city, Central City, Seredo and kenoya, W. Va, CaItelsburg and Ashland, Ky, and Ironton, 0. The deal also will embrace electric light plants in Iron ton, Ashland and Huntington. The consideration is about $2,00U,000. John Graham and Edmund -IcCandish of NeWyille, and John J. Henry and Will liam North of Philadelphia are the leaders in the syndicate. Senator Cam den of West Virginia was the chief stockholder i'll the old company. It is rumored that this syndicate has in view the purchase of electric railways
 i'll other Ohio valley cities, the ultimate aim being to have q continuous line between Cincinnati and Pittsburg. John Graham was elected president of the new company.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-30
STREET FIGHTING STOPPED.


turn 10 the Snlp.
 Cape Haytian, Hayti, Sune o0.--The street fighting here yesterday between the patrisanS of M Firmin, the former minister of Hayti at Paris, and General Alexis Nord, the minister of war of the provisional government, both of whom are candidates for the presidency of the republic, ceased at o'clock yester- day evening, Admiral Killick, who had supported NJ. Firmin by landing ma. lines and firing on General Nord's fol- lowers, yesterday, ordered the marines to return to their ship, whie.ss they did. They were accompanied on board by the patrisans of NJ. Firmin. The ad- miral, who only used his small rapid fire guns yesterday, threatens to bonn bard Cape Haytian in earnest. Little damage was done by the bombardment of yesterday. The Firmin residence and the houses of his relatives have been completely wrecked.
 The Haytian Warship Crete-a- Pierrot, on which the foreign cOnsuls, under the protection of their respective flags, and M. firmin sought refuge yesterday, is still in the roadstead. She is seeking to obtain supply of coal so as to en- able her to go to Port Au Prince.
 M. Firmin has been elected to rep. resent Gonaives in the chamber of deputies.
 The inhabitants of the department of Artibonite and the majority of the people belonging to the northern and northwestern departments are protest ing against the disturbances here, which are attributed to the followers of Seneque Montplaisirpierre as well as to the adherents of General Nord.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-30
THE EMPERoR's YACHT
The Skipper Says William Should Put
 a Motor In It

KieI, June 30-Emperor William steered his American built schooner yacht Meteor across the finish line at l 80 this morning, two hours behind the Indune. the Empress yacht. which in the lightest of airs, between Flat Calns passed from the tail end to head of the deet. The Lasca came in second.
 The sailing committee got in at 4 ! o'clock and it's members went to their khomes without announcing the results.
 Ben" Parker, skipper of the Meteor avs: '"They ought to pull the masts ut of the Meteor and put in motor.' .'' : The emperor, Admiral. von Eisen- recher, thinks verw well of the Me seor.
 Emperor William presided to-day at the annual dinner of the Imperial acht club. Among the $50 guests were George von L. Meyer. the United States ambassador to Italy. Comman- der William N. Beehler. the United states naval attache at Berlin, George Barclay Riyes, third secretary of the United States embassy, F. A. E. Wid- lener's party from his yacht Josephine, Allison Aromur and I. Hopkins Smith.
 Absorbing to the imperial order pre- cisely forty-five minutes elapsed from the soup to the cigars. His majesty often says that is time enough for any man to spend in-eating.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-30
CONFERENCE OPENED.

London, June 30.-The colonial con- ference opened this morning in the secretary of states room in the colon ial office. The premiers of the self governing colonies were present and the colonial secretary, Joseph Cham berlain, presided at the sitting, which was purely of preliminary character.
 The proceedings were private. After two hours session the conference ad- journed to July A.
 The sitting was mostly occupied with MT Chamberlain's statement enunci- ating his views on commercial and poli- tical relations and impartial defence. No definite program has yet been ar ranged.