The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17

| thus establishing a downtown home
| for the hundreds of women in Lon
| don who earn their living by contri-
buttons to magazines and newspapers.
Miss Alice Stronaeh, prominent mem
| Der of the Writers, and one of the
most successful OF. English journalists,
| recently visited New York, and the
| Margaret Louisa home there. She
urges that the proposed club house
| be run on Margaret Lonisa principles.
| Miss Stronach says, 1--WE haven't an
inexpensive club. in England which
| compares with the Margaret Louisa
! home for comfort or for cost" John
| Oliver Hobbies, who is member of
the Writers, has promised to give
any assistance she can in the future,
| but is prevented from cooperating at
present by illness. She has left Lon
don for Steephill castle, her place on
| the Isle of Wight.
There is also talk of putting the new
club house scheme into the hands of
Mrs. G. A. Dur as, whose expert abili-
| 4ty asa club promoter has just been
shown to advantage in the success
full organization of the Ladies' Army
| and Navy club. Mrs. Dundas has been
ask ed to start a great Womans 1elub
in New York
Rustieatine the Files.
The British museum has nearly fin
| fShed tits eccentric annex away out
lin the country at Hendon,a where the
prodigious accumulation. of old files
of provincial newspapers is to be kept.
IF your want to see one YOU will have
to send word to the museum twenty
four hours in advance, Whereupon the
| museum authorities send out to their
distant storef1ouseeEand get it. AS
back files of provincial newspapers are
so rarely in demand, and as the proc
| ess of getting them is now so cumb
rous, the. museum annex can be ex-
pected to be the most restful place
in all the restful British isles.
faOf course, it was unofficialiy known
some time ago that Laurence Hous-
| man was the smart literary workman
who fooled the British and American
| public Withz"An Englishwenan's Love
Letters but the authorship was never
acknowledged until now, when 1t is
| claimed by Mr.. aHousman on the title
| page of his latest work, "The Blue
Moon and other Fairy Tales"
Another little literary mystery is the
authorship of the Letters to a Young
| Writer which appear in this months
Cornhill. They contain the sound
est and most. sympathetic and broad
minded advice to aspirants for honors
| in fiction that have ever seen in print
| and no one who yearns to put his soul
| on paper can fail to get help from
! them. Although it would be a be-
trayal of confidence to tell who wrote
| those letters and who, received them,
| no harm would be done to attest their
| genuineness. They were written by a
| fairly well known author now dead
to a novelist whose work is now as
| widely read in America as it is in
| England.
| Mrs. Humphry Ward has just
opened the second season of her ''Va-
cation School, in London with every
promise of the success that usually at
| tends her efforts, thanks to a better
| head for business and for the planning
of details than most novelists are
blessed with. Last year nearly 400 chill
| dren of the poorest poor received free
| lessons in all kinds of entertaining
work and play-swimming cookery,
dancing, nursing, nature studies and
the like. This year there are fifteen
! teachers, and accommodations for 700
children, but the number of applicants
has been over 1900.
No Copyright on News.
All newspaper writer's will be inter-
| ested in case that came into court last
| week. A free lance journalist sent a
little item to the Mail and got $3.50 for
it, although the item was almost en-
tirely rewritten. The Evening Stand
ard reprinted the item and the au-
| thor sent in bill for it. After some
| correspondence the Standard sent him
to cents, but being a member of the
| Institute of Journalists he decided to
| make test case of it, and sued for in
fringement of copyright The Judge
t-decided that there was no copyright in
news. though there might be in the
language in which it was conveyed
Ihey language of the paragraph, how
ever, was chiefly thatsof the blue-pen-
ciller on the Mail So the Standard
won the case with costs.
4 DR.. Alfred Russell Wallace. who dis
covered the DarWinian theory of nat
ural selection at the same time OAR
win discovered it, delivered to his pub
fishers last week the final manuscript
of work that is likely to cause almost
as much discussion as Darwin's theory
when 1t was first propounded. Some
lnkl1ngs OF Dr. Wallace's surprising
new doctrine We're given recently in :
magazine article published simultane.
ously IN England and America. emit.
tied Mans Place in the Universe" b11
the main body OF the argument will an.
pear for the first time in the bool
which the aged scientist promises t.
have ready for thefall His theory is
IN brief, that the earth is in the exac
center of the universe, and that al
creation was made for the express re
suit of producing man-just as tn,
theologians used to- tell us. DIR. Wal
lace's views, however, are built up en-.
tirely without reference to theology
The interest in the Forthcoming work il
indicated by the fact that publishers il
America, Germany. France and RuSSi;
have already arranged to publish /
simultaneously in October-rather re
markable record for man in hi
eighty-frst year. &C. B.