New-York tribune., 1903-07-06

the amount Of the gift be pledged for annual
maintenance. Analysis of the gifts shows that
the North Atlantic division Of states rec Tecelved
South Central $467, 900, the North Central ST.
756,5O0 and the Western $3l7 300
Jacob A Riis is engaged at present in gather
ing material for book on the President which
he will call Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen"
1t will b published by the Outlook" Company.
To friend who recently asked for information
concerning the work Mr.. Riis wrote: What
can I say about the Roosevelt material, except
that it will deal with Mr.. Roosevelt a citizen,
and as a friend from the standpoint of a friend?
I am busy gathering the material now, but 1t is
| not easy, because Of the people want to reach
being scattered here and there However, I
shall get what want. 1t will be my summer
work I shall do nothing else except keep up
the war to reform the House of Refuge"
owen wister is the hero of a little tempest
in teapot which followed the recent lynching
in Delaware He received a criticism from
man in Virginia, taking MIN to task for what
is said about lynching in his novel, The Vir-
ginian," and attempting to refute the position
taken by the example of disorder north of
Mason and Dixon's line Mr.. Wister's reply
was so short and pointed that it makes the cor
! respondence worth a passing notice, though his
honors We're easily won and the measure of his
antagonist is by no means representative OF
Richmond.
My Dear Sir: In your otherwise very charming
book. The Firglnian, you took occasion to
go out of your way insert a TRADE against
the South in regard to lynching, stating that
lynchlng a man in Wyoming was a sign that
the West was becoming civilized. whereas in
the South il a token that the South
barbarous hope you have read the press dis
| patches giving account of the lynching of a
negro in Wilmington, Del. I understand you
a Philadelphian and Wilmington being only a
110uS in
You showing marked degeneracy and bar
balism of your own people. Very truly yours
Richmond Va, June %, 1913.
My Dear Sir: Certainly in the Delaware lynch
ing we have caught a moral pestilence from the
South as we have at times caught yellow fever,
and 1 am more ashamed and concerned over
the disgrace near my home than you seem to
be over the same disgrace ir yours. Yours truly.
There seems to be a perennial interest in the
! question of whether author writes by night
or by day. Ever since the classic case of
Schiller and Goethe we have had this sort Of
information detailed. 1t should be classified and
tabuated. In the case Of the two Germans
the matter complicated by the fact that
Schiller. who composed by night, while Goethe
composed by day, had habit of keeping apples
of somewhat mellow condition in his drawer.
The odor he found something of a subconscious
inspiration. Now along comes Morgan Robert
son. author of Sinful Peck" and cOnfesSes
that his favorite time for work is the dead of
night Here is another complication, for he
| composes on a typewriter. At the dead of night
in a neighboring room, one might even prefer
the apples to the typewriter. But there is an
other thing about Mr.. Robertson's methods that
is interesting. He never revises. He may write
a whole story if. in his opinion it is unsuc-
cessful. That is a question of the Matching of
the chicken; there is no meddling with the eggs.
Sentence by sentence must come out satisfac-
torily or be consigned later to the trash basket;
it will never have second opportunity
Katherine lyman. the author OF "A Red, Red
Rose" novel which the ]. B. Lippincott Com
pany has issued, is in real life Mrs Katherine
lyman Hinkson She lives at Ealing and was
published a volume OF verse when she was
old and rare china.
Arnold Bennett affords a contrast in working
time in the composition Of two Of his books,
ANNA Of the Five Towns" which Mcclure.
Phillips & Co. lately issued. and the earlier
story, The Great Babylon Hotel" In this
earlier book he worked at rapid speed. While at
luncheon in a large London hotel the idea for
the story came TO him, and IN less than three
weeks Il was finished. Work of that kind"
says the author, takes time at all It's
light nonsense and is practically all done when
one has worked out the plot" AS for Anna of
the Five Towns" he gave her year for each
town in muling II over and spent another year
IN making the first draft.