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Literary Notes.

The name Du Chaillu Is very commonly
pronounced i'm the continental fashion
''Shai-u." The explorer once at a private
dinner corrected this. Madam" he said.
SAY to me. emphatically Shall you, Shall
you, and you have my name"
Mr.. Anthony Hope calls his forthcoming
novel Double Harness"-an- excellent title
from the pen of a newly married man.
Other English stories which are on the way
TO publication are Mr.. lie Quex's Secrets
of the Foreign Office;" the late Mr.. Far
geon's GAMBLERS" and 1.-The House of the
White Shadows" and Mr.. Frankfort
Moore's 'Shipmates I'm Sunshine" Lucas
Malets new novel is nearly ready.
Mr.. w. z. Henley, who was ever a busy
writer and editor, left an estate of some
thing under 5000. He left everything TO
his wife. and directed her to be guided in
all matters relating to his literary prop
erty by the counsel of his longtime friend.
Charles whitley Mr.. whitley. by thu WAY
is clever man Of letters and the brother
in-iaw of the late James MCNEIL Whistler.
The private papers of the late James Nc
Neil Whistler are to be intrusted to. Mrs.
Elzabet Robins Pennell for the purpose
of an authorized biography. Contrary TO a
common impression Mr.. Whistler was
writer of abundant and racy letters ether
than those designed for the public eye.
Mrs. Pennell. who was long a friend or
the artist, seems likely TO be particularly
fortunate i'm her materials.
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Record-Herald.

Chicago Record-Herald.
The Chinese have published the greatest
books in existence. Among their most vo-
luminous are the Yuan Chien-lei-han," an
encyclopedia of 40 volumes: the "Pei-wen-
yin fu," Chinese dictionary OF over 100
volumes, and the eta Using Hui tien shin
lieh," history of the twenty -four dynas-
ties of the Chinese empire beginning 200
B. C. and coming down to 1914. This his
tory is in 900 volumes, was originally print
ed from engraved blocks, but an edition
was printed with movable type at Marking
between 1875 and 1885. The only set in the
United States is in the library of Columbia
University, New York. There is another
copy in the British Museum.
The '.Ku Chin tn shu chi cheng." or "A
Collection of Books Ancient and Modern. -
which contains the sacred works of the
Buddhiets, comprises more than thousand
graved blocks. not only In the Chinese Ian
guage. but in Manchu Monaghan and
Thibetan. 1t is a compilation OF Buddhist
history. theology and the writings and
sayings of the great teachers and sages OF
the Buddhist faith.
The greatest book ever written was the
"Yung-lo Ta-tein" Encyclopaedia
Maxima," which was destroyed during the
wonderful work and its destruction IL the
most appalling literary catastrophe the
world has ever seen. Ii contained the best
selections from all the classical, historical,
philosophical and literary works ever pub
lished in China. embracing astronomy. as
trology, geography, the occult sciences.
medicine. religion, history, biography and
the arts. Every literary production of per-
manent importance was included in this
marvellous collection. which consisted Of p.
S17 books, bound into Il, 100 volumes. Ii was
prepared by order OF Yung 10. the second
Emperor of the Ming dynasty, under the d.
yection Of Hsieh Chin. the leading schoiaS
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PONDS and
SWAMPS
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to deposit her eggs in the sand somewhere.
so / decided not to interrupt her. Instead,
1 retired to a distance and climbed a tree,
whence / had a good view of the meadow
and the surrounding country. The old lady
snapper continued on her way, lurcbing
through the grass like tramp steamer in
a heavy sea. and stopping now and then
TO raise her head and look around. In the
course of time she came out Of the meadow
and INTO old road with a sandbank rum
ming along one side of it. This bank
seemed TO be her destination. for on the
side of it she halted. and began scraping
a hole with her big, behaved front feet.
She seemed to be i'm no particular hurry
and as / was, | slipped down the tree and
left her to take her own time. BY and by
/ returned, and there she was still scratch
ing in the bank. But this time she was
raking the sand into the hole, and the task
was nearly done. | waited until she had
completed the work, and soon as she
waddled away, began to do some digging
myself. Under some twelve inches of sand
/ came upon the eggs, twenty-five of them.
pure white and as round as marbles. In
fact, they looked more like large white
alleys than anything else | know Of
covered them up again. and if they are
rot discovered by skunk or some other
animal which is fond of such dainties. they
will probably hatch some time late in the
fall
Muskrats are among the most interesting
permanent residents Of the pond. Ali the
year round they busy with something.
and never interfering with any one. One
never tires of watching these industrious
creatures at their work. Now one may be
seen sitting upon a stone near the bank,
with the tender green root of some aquatic
plant in his little fists and again he may
be squs tting top of a pile of drift
wood, wrestling with the shell of a fresh
water mussel. At other times several may
be seen well out in the water; some lying
fiat upon the surface, others diving from
others still chasing each other playfully
as in some friendly game. 1t is interesting
too, to see muskrat gathering grass for
her nest in the bank. She comes ashore
probably at some landing place we'll known
to her. and with the water dripping from
her shining coat she walks about amongst
the grass, biting off tuft after tuft, until
her mouth will hold no more. Then back to
the pond and in she plunges, swimming
along with her burden until she nears her
burrow, the entrance of which is below the
surface. Then she dives gently, and if you
run to the nearest spot on the bank you
may hear her enter her underground home
But 1t is in the fall that the muskrats seem
to have the most work on hand, when they
begin to build their large dome-shaped
houses in the shallow water. The work is
done chiefly at night. several rats working
on one house. Beaver-like they carry their
material in their mouths, now a stick, now
a bunch Of leaves moss until the struc-
ture rises perhaps four feet above the wa
ter. In a small chamber in the middle Of
this mass, the muskrats live until spring.
when they return to their burrows in the
banks.
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What the Publishers Say.
Boston TRANSCRIPT.

Boston Transcript.
Among the interesting things heard i'm
the company OF publishers and their en-
ployes at the Aldine Club are such as these
which may convey a hint of their atti-
tude to the world and to literature
In the first place. they report that the
outlook is for a very good fall trade. The
travelling statesmen are taking good orders
Everybody knows, of course, that books are
sold before they are printed. A salesman
takes dummy volume. which may con-
tain the title page, the table of contents
and one chapter of the book-to-be; and,
while the printer is still at work on it, the
salesman is taking orders for it from job
bers and booksellers everywhere. From
these advance sales the publishers report
the outlook for prosperous season COM
ing-which is to say, that you and I will
buy more books this fall than we bought
last spring. How they know that We shall,
passes comprehension: but the important
fact Is. they do really know.
Another interesting fact is that we are
sure to buy considerable number of books
and attractive volume about anything in
the outdoor world now finds many readers
AT what point the fad" ends and a real
growu8 Of popular culture begins in this
popularity OF nature-books, II would be in
teresting to know. But among new books
these now rank next TO novels in popu-
larity.
1t is interesting to hear among the pub
fishing talk an increasing contempt Chat
Is not too strong a word) for the compare
lively new policy of open and direct drum
ming" for authors who have already estab-
Iished relations with publishers. The good
old traditions OF the publishing world of
course forbade such enterprise" IL an
author selected publisher, the other pub
fishers let him alone. 1t was as improper
TO "drum up" writers II is for a physi-
clan to drum up" pa.ients-or to entice
patients from other physicians.
But this dignifid and decent custom was
broken down by two or three enterprising
publishers. They considered every writer
fair prey. More than that they sent lit
erary solicitors to see authors. These some
times even carried blank checks with them
whatever sums they would. This form Of en-
terprise apparently has not been profitable;
or, even II profitable. IL has not commended
itself to the best publishing opinion. There
is a decided reaction against IL. Ii not
only did not succeed with the best class Of
writer's: IL left distinct prejudice in their
minds against those publishers that tried IL.
Now and then they weaned away an un-
successful or half-successful author. But IL
drove away from them the better class.
The story Is told OF a writer OF a success
Usher. not his own. with the promise of a
payment of $4,000 on the delivery of his
next manuscript. and $4,000 advance on
each of two subsequent novels. The story
got out that such an offer had been made;
and the opinion expressed by the other pub
fishers. by their statesmen. and by the whole
book trade that heard IL. was that 1t was q
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indorsers of this story add that Trumbells
face and the cut of his clothing were those
OF the current symbolic caricature OF
Uncle Sam
Will you tell me something about the
kaf1rs? Especially are they the same as,
or included in, the Hottentots or Bush
men?-H.
They take of the tribes of negroes of the
southeastern African coast The men are
warriors, the women the drudges, caring
for the cattle and raising crops. In in
telligence and stature they are superior to
the Observation-Disclosures tribes, against
whom they were, i'm the early occupancy of
their borders, in constant war.
Is there a sort Of fish that has four
eyes?-M 0. c.
There is a sort that, at least, comes very
near it. 1t is the anableps, a small fish
found in the shallow waters of American
tropics. Each eye is divided in two by
the growth of. the iris horizontally across
the pupil. 1t is the habit of the fish to
swim On the surface, with the upper part
of the eye in the air. Thus it can at the
face.
Do persons locating in widely different
climates to those in which they were born
and reared make themselves open to ac-
quiring organic diseases? Or, are their
troubles limited to complaints of the class
Of malaria and fevers?-F. l..
Physicians recognize diseases of the
organs due to acclimatization. Thus, per-
sons from temperate zones living in the
tropics are subject to disorders of the
liver, and natives of the tropics suffer
much from lung troubles when living to-
ward the north.
Was Buchanan's administration a sue
cess or a failure financially Nv. III.
1t hardly was notable as either, though
during it the national debt doubled, and
within few months of his inaugural ton
there began a financial panic that was felt
all over the world, the depression from
which was not recovered in this country
until after the civil war. Because his ad-
ministration came just before the latter
struggle. questions OF national finance were
Oyershadowed
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in THE LITERARY FIELD
TWO UNFAMILIAR POEMS WRITTEN
By MIR. JAMES wHITCOMB RILEY.
Publishers Pleased with Trade Pros
pects-Literary Blunders-Chinese
BOOks-Literary Notes.

An authors edition" of Mr.. Jane;
Whitcomb Riley's THE Book of Joyous
Children" just issued by the publishers
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, for Mr.
Riley's personal use, includes in it's page
several poems not found in the original edi
ton. The new volume is not on sale, bu
Guided in the next volume added to the uni
form edition OF the poets works. Mean
while the Journal. fortunate enough to hav'
access to the new book, takes the libert,
of quoting the following poems:
TWILIGHT STORIES.
Neither daylight. starlight. moonlight,
But sad, sweet turn Of some light
BY the sanity name of Twilight
The Grandma Twilight stories. Silly,
childish listener. hear
The katydid ami whippoorwill
In deepening atmosphere
OF velvet dust, blent with the low,
Soft music of the voice that sings
And tells me tales of long ago
And old. enchanted things.
While far fails the last dim daylight.
And the freflies in the twilight
Drift about like flakes of starlight.
go READ YOUR BOoKr
How many times that grim old phrase
Has silenced me in childish days.
And now-as then il did
The phantom admonition. clear
And dominant rings-and | hear
And do am bid.
Go read your book my good old sire
Commanded. in affected ire.
When /. with querying look
And speech, dared vex his studious mind
With idle words of any kind
And so / read my book.
Though seldom, in that wisest age,
Did discern on Wisdom's page
More than the task. That leo
AT least to thinking. and at last
TC reading less and not so fast,
And longing as 1 read.
And, lo! in gracious time grew
To love a book all through and through!
With yearning eyes look
On any volume-old. maybe,
Or new-'tis meat and drink to me
And so / read my book.
old dog scared Readers. SCARED and inlaid
With schoolboy hatred. long extinct;
Old histories that bored
The worst of all the school-old, worn
Arithmetics. frayed, ripped and torn
Now ye all adored.
And likewise / revere and praise
Ny sire, as now, with vainest gaze
And hearing, still l look
For the old face. grave yet dear
Nay. still see, and still / hear!
And so / read my book.
Next even to my nearest kin
Ny wife-my children romping In
From school to ride my knee
1 love a book, and dispossess
My lap of ii with loathfulness,
For all their love of me.
For, grave or gay the book, 1t takes
Me as an equal-calms or makes
Me, laughing. overlook
My little self-forgetful all
or being exceeding rail-.
And so I read my book.
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The Arrow Head.

Deep Graded In the forest clay,
Long lost, IL snugly slept away
While winter. summer, passed IL Ger
Through twice q hundred years or more:
While sapiinxs Into oaks upreared
While rood by rood the land was cleared;
It'll glancing from the paieface plow
IL walked TO meet the world of Now.
And on my study desk II lies,
A derelict In mute surprise.
Where vanished Is the en- raid shade?
The aisles OF the primeval glade7
The deer's shrill snort. the turkeys call!
The Indians meausred cultural?
The moccasn. the copper face,
The war-wAoop. and the striped grimace!
Perchance. could but thy tale be told.
Some wrinkled arrowmaker old,
Another Minnehaha's sire,
Close crouching by his wigwam fire.
With patient labor, chip by chip
Slow wrought thee-barb, and edge. and tip;
Ard striding over trunk and brook
A Hiawatha came-and took.
The mind may paint. but cannot give
The breath 10 make its figure live
Gone the hands that shaped thee so;
Gone IL the warrior and his bow;
Gone IL the quarry and the oak:
Gene are the wild, red forest-folk-
Like their own bolts forever sped:
Gone all thy world. O arrowhead.
Edwin i. sabin. In Youths Commander
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The Casual Poet.
Philadslphia Record.

The unbidden poet is a source of much
wonderment in every newspaper Office. As
a general thing he possesses not the slight
est knowledge of the rules of governing
metrical composition. His spelling is bad.
his. punctuation is defective, and he has
no soul above the commonplace. And yet
he deludes himself into the idea that he is
a poet. No amount of discouragement Will
turn him from his mistaken course. He per-
sists with logged determination which, IL
directed into some more practical channel.
would be altogether admirable. The yawn-
ing waste basket seems TO have no terrors
for him. He is generally most prolific In
the spring. when we are told, the young
mans fancy lightly turns 10 thoughts OF
love: but any public event of more than
ordinary Importance will stir his muse and
cause il TO ferment. During the interna-
tional yacht races, for instance. the Rec
ord was i'm receipt of over 100 alleged poems
on the subject, and this state OF affairs
PROBABLY prevailed in other newspaper Of
fees. During the last five years one OF
these would-be poets has contributed fully
500 verses TO the Record without ever hav-
ing one published. And yet he Is not dis
couraged.
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A Knock at the Door.

BE still, my heart. for thy alarm betrays
The resting place to those who at the door,
With Ill report. would take forevermore
Thy peaceful nights and dear, delightful days.
And should they knock warn thee not to raise
The drowsy latch that they may thus explore
Thy habitation. Just space give DER
Such pulsings wild and substitute the ways
That will deceive, they will pass thee by;
For 1t were better thus to play a part
And let deception Natures rule supply,
Sc that you may take up an actors art
Again in sunshine They may not come nigh
Another age. BE still! They knock dear heart.
Waldron, Ind. -Alonzo Rice
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PHILADELPHIA Ledger.

PhiIadeIphia Ledger.
A newspaper writer. who has recently
come to this city from the West, was made
a member o! the Pen and Pencil Club. He
is a bright chap. and is known to be sue
cessful as a writer. His financial success
Is also acknowledged. An old member who
seldom visits the club dropped in the other
night, just as the new member was leav-
ing.
''Who Is that?" he asked Of one Of his
friends.
.'Oh. he's all right" replied the other;
makes heaps OF money writing"
SOL said the other. What does he
write-verses. novels. plays?"
Cad. What do you take him for-an
amateur? No, sir, he writes advertise
ments"
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Literary Bulletin.

Literary Bulletin.
A friend of old DR.. James. OF Harvard,
recalls conversation in which the veteran
teacher spoke thoughtfully Of the entrance
of his son Henry into literature. He has
gone just so far in his art work. was the
thought of Dr. James. and the result OF
this change mas not yet justified its wisdom
To-day Henry James stands In the front
rank Of writers-many speak OF him as the
foremost living English noyelist-and Few
know that he began as painter. snd al
tered his course with hesitation some
critics of an analytical turn OF mind, now
ever, may find in this latest novel OF MS.
THE Ambassadors" appearing In the
North American Review, evidences OF tnst
early training with the brush. There, Is
a power i'm his pen OF presenting perfect
pictures-his mind holds so clearly their
essential details. Furthermore, Henry
James is almost as great a psychologist
as his brother. So many separate clements.
any one of which, by itseif, might mean
success in another line of work, combine TO
make up one successful novelist.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat.
There are some novelists who seem to
know only how a man loves a woman: anu
others who seem TO know only how wom-
an loves a man. IL Is very limited knowi-
edge i'm view OF the many other interests
OF humankind. yet IL IL essential 10 nov
elist that he should possess this. az least.
be a writer of treatises or tracts. In the
form OF novels: but he can never produce
a work of fiction I'm which the characters
win be 10 Us as friends or sncmles
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"YES!" WE SELL
Garland Stoves and Ranges
WILLIG'S FURNITURE STORE,
All West Washington st.

mean trick. Well. the author did not suc-
cumb. His second book has been published
by the publishers of his first one. And the
whole publishing and book-selling trade
take a much keener interest in the success
of the second book.
The conclusion gradually steals into ones
mind who hears the gossip OF the publishing
world that somehow. after ALL IL is pub
fishers and their statesmen and the book
sellers and their clerks who determine the
success of a book. 1.-The trade took no in
terest i'm it, ''The dealers like IL" THE
publishers had no enthusiasm for It,
Phrases like these are used I'm summing up
the fortunes OF books. You ask yourself:
What about literary values? Do they
count for little, or, perhaps, for nothingg'
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New York Mail and Express.
Many there be to whom the historical
novel. through much repetition. has be-
come a vexation OF the spirit. Among
them are counted a goodly number OF
reviewers. who. hapiess beings. have been
Obliged by their calling to read the whole
output OF the last six years and more.
They have come to know all the tricks
OF character and costume and sword-plsy,
all the devices for the exploitation OF the
past and its great figures for the sake on
fictitious ones. They have learned 10
diagnose the results of q duel IN a dark
cuI-de-sac and the consequences of a con-
yersatibn IN a tavern, with an unobtrusive
stranger apparently sleeping In a corner:
archaic bits of speech are as signposts To
them on the road to the thick of IL. The
possible combinations OF the historical
novel are comparatively few. and nearly
all of them have been used over and over
again. The reviewers are a little weary
OF IL ALL and have become hard 10 please.
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Reproduced from the September st. Nicholas by
courtesy Of the Century Company. Copyright,
1905. All rights reserved.
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and would grant to no one more than would
be given to his rivals. There has been
constant intermingling of influences which
has resulted in perhaps the most compli-
Gated situation that has ever been known in
the relations of the powers.
The proposal for division is the result of
two forces: The unwillingness Of the Euro
rean powers to give to any country the inn
mense influence that would result from
possessing ConstantinOple, and also from the
feeling on the part OF the different powers
that the different religious communities of
Turkey should not be swallowed up by a
power antagonistic to their creed. 1t is not
merely politics that makes England oppose
Russia There is sentiment against the
Greek Church strangling a sister Christian
Church. such as the Armenian. Then again
another element appears.
The eyes of the Christian peoples turn
toward Jerusalem. Ii Is the one city held
sacred by all. Who is TO control Jerusalem?
A well posted man I'm matters I'm the East
said not long since that were the Car to
allow another power-France or Germany
, for example-to hold Jerusalem. his people
would rise and tear him from his throne.
I'm Meeopotamia the Roman Catholic
priests have strong missions. To give Rus
sia power over that valley would meet with
determined opposition from France. And
again the Kaiser has TO be reckoned with.
not only on account OF his weIi-known hab-
IL OF meddling with anything and every
thing. but because: First. he In a personal
friend OF the Sultan. and again because, IL
IL comes to dividing up Turkey, he may
for II.
calls himrelf protector of both Catholics
and Protestanfs in Palestine. owns a church
n Jerusalem saS has . large following
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What was the Pharos OF Alexandria?
-B. l..
A lighthouse on the Island of Pharos, at
he entrance of the port of Alexandria. 1t
was built in the third century, b. c., was
If white marble, was said to be 400 feet
nigh and was accounted as one of the
seven wonders of the ancient world.