The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-01
A CHILD's BOOKPIATE.

A CHILD's BoOKPIATE
from her publishers a check for good
round sum. Her delight may be mag
tned, for this was the first money of
any account which she had ever earn
ed. 'It is a fairy tale come true" she
said. Whether she buys the island or
! not is another matter.
The youngsters Of today are certain
~ becoming sophisticated. Children's
bookplates Is the newest development
Of this state. When the grownups Of
today were girls and boys, they were
glad enough, many of them, to have
books to read. The child Of today has
his own special library, in which the
books, like those In the big library,
must be marked with bookplates.
All lovers of books take delight in
the fashion of marking their volumes
with an individual design, and when
the book owner can devise his or her
own bookplate its value is greatly in
creased. What clever work the girls
and boys of the land can do along this
comparatively new and novel line is
shown by the bookplates published in
the February st. Nicholas, the prize
winners in a bookplate design contest
announced in November. The design
here shown, by courtesy of the Cen
fury company, is one of the best three
out of over fifty designs sent in to the
st. Nicholas Office by girls and boys
from abroad as well as from all over
ed it, is seventeen years old and lives
In Los Angeles, Cal. This offers a sug-
gestion for pleasant and profitable
work for other girls and boys.
News comes from England that a
massive and costly monument to mark
the last resting place of Bret Harte
has just been erected in. FIRMLY
churchyard. Surrey. His grave is in
the northeastern part Of the church
yard, and around it have been planted
q number Of young fir trees. .--:
The monument consists Of massive
slab Of white granite, weighing two
block Of Aberdeen granite sloping up
ward in the form Of cross. Simple
ity itself Is the inscription, Bret
Harte, Aug. Is, 1887; May 5, 1902;
Death Shall Reap No Drawer Harvest"
A movement has been started in Lon
don to erect a memorial to the author
In the metropolis, and from the rate
that subscriptions are coming in 1t
Will not be very long before a sufficient
sum is raised, .--
Ellen Glasgow, who is spending the
winter in New York, says that she, In
roundabout way, owes the publication
Of her first published novel to Harold
Frederic. She had already brought one
novel in manuscript to New York and
failed to place it. She went home,
wrote another book and brought 1t
here. History repeated itself. Pub
fishers were stony hearted. At last In
sheer despair she sent the manuscript
anonymously to well known firm. It
was accepted, because the reader into
whose hands it fell was sure that he
had book by Harold Frederic and
that the firm couldn't afford to miss it.
This was the beginning of the very
successful career Of the author Of ''The
Voice OF the People"
Mrs. Humphry Ward has had an en-
vtable experience IN life in the respect
of a continual domestic association
with brilliant men. She is daughter
Of Thomas Arnold, editor and author;
a granddaughter Of the famous DR.. Ar
mold of Rugby and niece of Matthew
Arnold. Her husband. Thomas Hum
phry Ward, is an Oxford man, best
known perhaps for his edition of 1.-THE
English Poets.
RICHARD UPPER.