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The Washington times., 1903-09-13
EANOUS CARTOON.

The story of a famous cartoon told in
the latest number Of The Bookman" is
as follows:
I'm connection with this campaign of
1892 there was no cartoon OF more in
terast than that entitled, Where Am /
Atg which Bernard Gillian drew for
Judge and this interest lies less in
the cartoon itself than in the amusing
story OF its conception and execution.
Right up TO election day not only Gillian
but the entire staff Of Judge" were per-
fectIy confident of Republican success
at the polls. To them the election
seemed 10 be a mere formality which
had to be gone through with. in order
that General Harrison might remain in
the White House for four years more.
So a conference was held, after which
Mr.. Gillian began work on the cartoon
which was 10 commemorate the Repub-
lican victory. The idea used was that Of
general smash-up. with Mr.. Cleveland
In the middle of the debacle. and the
Republican elephant marching trium-
phantly over the ruins.
Along these lines a double-page car
toon was drawn with an immense va
Tiety OF detail. reproduced. and made
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When Critics DISAGREE.

IT WO views of Howard Pyle's Re
jeeted of Men" are TO be found in
'Zion's Herald" publication which is
religious. and THE Bookman," one
which. TO put ii mildly, is not. One is:
"Of all the multiplied presentations of
the life OF Jesus, from, it might be
thought. every conceivable angle. this
is unique. There was a place for it.
Why should 1t not have been done be-
fore? A strong book with the
substance of many sermons in it,"
The other is:
We deplore the publication of any
and all books of the nature OF Howard
Pyle's Rejected of Men We do not
see any reason whatever why anyone
should want TO read this book. .
In the first place. it is downright bias
phemous."
You may not think il, but the first OF
these criticisms is 'the religious view"
and the second 1.-The non-religious In
the ancient phrase. You pays your
money and takes your choce"
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l. X Friedman, whose first humorous
book. The Autobiography Of a Beggar. -
has recently been published by Messrs.
Small. Maynard & Co, after hay-
Ing attracted most favorable attention
during its serial publication In the
Saturday Evening Post" of PhfIadel
phia, was born in Chicago in 1853. He
attended the public schools there. and
completed his education az the Universi-
ty OF Michigan. from which he was
graduated in 1893. For a period of five
years after graduation Mr.. Friedman
was associated with his brother in the
floral business in Chicago Since then he
has been employed in newspaper work
of various kinds. but for the last few
years he has devoted his time and at
tention TO literary work exclusively. The
authors first book. The Lucky Num-
ber." a series OF short stories. was pub
lished in 1895. These stories dealt with
the lowest phases OF slum life. and were
tragic for the most part. In 1900 appear
ed his first novel, Poor People" which
was faithful record of tenement house
life. In 1901 appeared by Bread Alone"
an industrial novel. mapped out on a
larger canvas than any of the authors
earlier work. and dealing with the ques-
tions of capital and labor. The new
volumes, while genuine contribution to
a new field of American humor, is yet
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the name of Molbuzzer. and these stories
have recently been published by Small.
Maynard & Co.. under the title OF This
Autobiography of a r bggar." Several CT
them were first published serially in the
Saturday Evening Post" OF Phiiadel-
phia
The beggars," said Mr.. Friedman.
have a habit OF taking up collection
of coppers and buying a can of beer in
common. No liquors were ever served
in separate glasses. One night a friend
and 1 entered a beggars' saloon, kept by
a burly Italian. When the collection
was taken up. we contributed our pen
aies TO the fund, but, when the can went
IT'S rounds. we made our polite excuses
and passed it on. This aroused the an
ger Of one OF the hobos, and he made
lunge for US. and before we knew il
the whole mob followed suit in anger.
Luckily, the proprietor of the saloon
knew US, and he made short work of the
disturbers, flinging the ringleaders ont
into the street and bowling some OF the
others on the floor. In less time than
it takes TO tell quiet was restored, the
evicted ones came back. and the songs
and the stories started, the can circu-
lated freely again, and, although il was
not offered 10 us, there was a sarcastic
grin on the faces OF those who took
our turns and our shares"
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Found by Accident.

Margaret Sutton Briscoe's new volume
OF love stories. The Change of Heart, -
is just OFF the presses. Mrs Briscoe Hop
kins is well known as the author Of
''Fimty" and The Sixth Sense" both
books having aroused unusually favora-
bic and interested comment at the time
of publication. Their author began her
literary career in q quite accidental
manner. She had at that time studio
In Baltimore, where she worked, with
much success, as an illuminator on vel
lum. One day, on her return from a few
days rest at an old back country farm
house, she desired to JOt down, for her
own benefit, story told her by the
farmer. She began in the evening. and
wrote and wrote, not needing the time.
until as she penned the final word she
PUT out her lamp in broad daylight. The
result was the story How the Spirit
Moved Cynthia" which was soon print
ed in magazine. From this moment she
realized that she had found her voca-
ton
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written from viewpC.nt OF full ac-
quaintance with those picturesque no
mads OF our everyday life-the profess
sional beggars-and gives in many ways
a better understanding of their charac-
ter than most books which are ayowedIv
sociological. 1t has been we'll character
lied as ''irresistibly funny and full Of
genial human nature IN rags" The pub
fishers announce that the book is
already in its sixth thousand.
Several years ago when I. K. Fried
man was engaged in touring the sluus
for the purpose OF collecting material
for his first book os short stories. The
Lucky Number" he often found his way
into the saloons devoted exclusively 10
the patronage of beggars. What struck
him most forcibly at that time was the
humor Of the stories the beCgars told
and the mirth of the funny incidents
they related about their experiences ard
lives. He made notes OF all that ne
thought was most odd and fantastic and
put them away carefully for future use.
After finishing two serious novels, "By
Bread Alone" and Poor People" he
thought he would like TO try his hand
at pure humOr. and he turned TO the
material he had collected about beg
gars. Combining the facts he had gath
cred with his own fancies. he united
them in the droll life of a beggav by
The Washington times., 1903-09-13
OUR GOVERNMENT

IS A dERICAN GOVERNMENT" by
Roscoe Lewis Ashley. is a work
intended for textbook for secondary
schools. but in these days of clubs and
movements" II may prove useful to a
good many readers besides school chill
dren. OF late numerous people have
been discussing, and even trying TO
solve, the problems of municipal and
State government without any very clear
idea OF the construction of the machin-
cry which they are attempting to set in
order. and this little work may serve
to crystallize their ideas on the subject.
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Maeterlinck.

Maurice Maeterlinck's great play,
Monna Wanna produced in London
and condemned by the censOr-many
think most absurdly-as immoral, is
soon to be published. The translator is
Alexis Irene du Pont Coleman, of the
College OF the City OF New York. In
recent description OF Maeterlinck he is
said TO resemble one of those mirthful
Flemings seated at the bounteous ia
bles painted by Jordaens in his Dutch
interiors" But this, 1t seems. is only
an outside appearance. There is an
indefinite gravity, elaboration and re-
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4n Ankograbh Copy.

Elliott Flower, author of "The Spoils-
men" tells this story of an autograph:
"A friend was Iollying me about The
Spoilsmen.'
Why don't you send me a copy?'
he as'-Ad
why don't you buy one?' 1 de-
manded.
" I want an autograph copy said he.
" You get the book and I'll give you
the autograph said I.
"rhereupon bright idea came to him.
OF course an author never would give
up good money for a copy OF bis own
book
III buy one IL you WILL said he.
Come on said. l.
II took him by the arm, and led him
gently TO a bookshop. where we each
bought a copy.
Well. it's a good joke. anyway
said my friend. and he went about telling
people that he had made Flower buy a
copy of his own book. When he brought
IL TO me for my autograph, I wrote in IL:
Mr.. - was frogged out of this by the
author, who herewith passes IL on to him
with his compliments This passed for
such good joke that a fellow who was
present at the time remarked: BY
George. I'll go right out and buy a copy
myself. II you'll write that same thing
in IL for me-
II sell you this copy said I, pro-
ducing the one had Just bought
Thereupon the man who had forced
me to buy the copy looked at me re-
proachfully and somewhat disgustedly.
His joke was spoiled.
You ought not TO waste your time
writing books he said. IF your pub
Usher knows his business he'll put yoi
on the road selling them
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! her cousin. had already identified that
patronymic with the gentle art of let
ters, smiling bitterly at the thought that
under that new name she had sprung
into being as an artist as naturally and
as miraculously as the goddess Minerva
herself"
An Obvious Allusion.
The reader familiar with recent fic-
tion Will probably be able 10 figure out
the allusion without much trouble.
The book is clean, as has been said:
il has a sparkle and a vigor which are
refreshing. and the author possesses the
gift of description. OF the English some
here and there are evidences of gross
carelessness.
For instance, here Is this:
Each time the wings of his admira-
tion were about to unfold. the stroke of
some little banality sent him tumbling
down TO earth again"
Slightly Mixed Metaphor.
1t is curious that any creature could
get very far above the earth without
unfolding wings There are also mixed
metaphors and sentences without pre-
dicates. and in this day and generation
the use of "authoress" and "poetess" is
hardly preferable to the simpler fashion
author" and poet" But for all that,
the style of the book is attractive
enough to make UP even for a split in
fnf ffxra 70 &c he ~ xrr,.o L.,
New York and the journalism thereof.
One of the cleverest touches is the
prefacing of each chapter with two
quotations, one from The Silver Pop
py'' and one from some poem by John
Hartley, the hero. These brief but
brilliant fragments are as good as any
thing in the book. Here are a few of
them:
"A husbands jealousies. my dear. are
the mushrooms on the beefsteak of
matrimony. The Silver Poppy
Deep in its ancient center we
Had dreamed its aging heart should be;
Yet there. where should have slept its soul,
Was only darkness and followed bolel'
John Hartley, The Old Yew at Iffley."
Society. my dear. is like salt water;
The Silver Poppy
IT'S in the lulls OF life that great
things are lost and won. You struggle
against the tides that beset you, and
you hold your own; but those tides
never rest. and in the hour that you
wait to call for peace-then the waters
shall carry you back. The Silver
Poppy"
She dreamed not Of the fight be fought,
Till. lOl he crept again
To her. with all his forgot
Then. then she knew his pain
John Hartley, The Broken Knight"
This is the sort of novel that the
mythical Arthur Stirling might have
written. II gives the Impression of cur
rent history behind it. New York: u.
Appleton & Coz
The Washington times., 1903-09-13
"MONSIGNY."
Il Fra@eO-EngAs Lo0e Story from lie Pen efa brilliant
Writer.

TUSTUS MILES FoRMAN's latest
romance is entitled "Monsigny. "
1t is quite proper TO place the
authors name first, for to the average
reader of current literature the import
ant feature of this statement is not the
name OF the book, but the fact that Mr..
Fcrman wrote 1t. This brilliant young
man is doing work so uniformly good
that It is quite safe 20 recommend any
readers in search of amusing, not too
heavy. fiction.
Healthy and Charming.
Moreover. Mr.. Forman invariably
keeps good company in his rambles of
the imagination One may become we'll
acquainted with the people of his fancy
without holding the nose. In short.
he is taking the place which Richard
Harding Davis once held IN the heart Of
the matinee girl. lie roi est mort. vive
lie roi.
IL Is not 10 De lnIeTfeu LIOu lniS
that Mr.. Forman's hero is merely
tailor's dummy with talkative eyes. His
art is delicate and individual. and
Tony" the English hero OF this his
latest novel. is not at all like the sim
le-minded EngIishman of Journeys
End" except in a certain high-minded
and almost quixotic chivalry.
Tony" is made Of sterner stuff. and
he knows more The plot of the book
lies deeper. and there is something
really fine about it.
Next TO the hero. dividing honors
with him is the heroine, Isabeau de
McnsigIy, last daughter of an old
French house and of an English father
Isabeau's delicate strength, her strange
silvery pale hair, her deep eyes and
fragrant personality, make her Just a
little different from any other heroine
Of contemporary fiction. Best of all, she
The Washington times., 1903-09-13
Helen KeLzer'S Blosrabhy.

r TELEN KELLER'S book. The
Story OF Ny Life" is to he
translated into the Magyar or
native Hungarian language Prof. Boros.
of the University of Koloszvar. Transyi-
vania. wrote to DR.. Everett Hale about
the book. and DR.. Hale, in a letter TO the
publishers. made this characteristic
comment:
Prof. Boros says: L had a copy of
one OF the year books of Miss KelIer's
school containing a most touching ac-
count OF her marvellous life, and / wished
TO make a public lecture on it. but did
not find 1t quite sufficient for the pur-
pose. II I could ger this book I could
do some good service for our very young
and yet very poor institute OF the blind,
which is connected with an older one
OF the deaf and dumb in Koloszvar.'
You see. they think they are behind US
in such things in Hungary. II you like
you may repeat wha. Baron Orban, one
of these Transylyania gentlemen. said 10
men in 1872. He said IL in Latin: DO
you know what we were doing In the
eighteenth century when western Europe
was surprising US in her achievements
OF the higher civilization2' And then in
English he said: We are keeping the
Turk of your back This is exactly
true. and 1t IS TO me interesting that
the people who kept the Turk OF our
back in 1880 should now be studying
our benevolent institutions <n the hope
OF improving their own
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| is not merely an individuality. bur a
most IovabIe girl
Mrs. NARROW. the adventures, is
also OF different type from. the COZ
ventional despoiler OF homes, and while
one cannot sympathize with her. ons
cannot but pity her. The fault OF many
rovelists lies IN making the viiiainous
woman too sagacious. too shrewd. 700
attractive. 1t is just as we'll to point
out the fact. as Mr.. Forman has dcr e.
that II 10 not cnly good women who arc
liable 10 attacks of uEreason. Inconsc-
quenee, illogical perversity.
The Earl of Strope is rather improba-
bic, but amusing, and his son is Of little
importance
A Dramatic Plot.
The interest OF the story centers In
the three principal characters The book
has dramatic qualities, and ought %
make a fairly good play. Il that Is ever
possible in the case of a dramatized
novel. Mr.. Forman has the dramatic
instinct and might make even a better
playwright than novelist, IL he were TO
concentrate his attention on that
The style of the book. like that of its
predecessors. is particularly attractite
The descriptions of the old Chateau de
Monsigny are charming. The dialogue Is
good Whether one finds Isabeau among
her roses in large white hat, which be-
comes convenient at critical moments in
the conversation. or kneeling by her
mothers grave in the old chapel, or
clinging with undated faith TO her lover.
IL is all thoroughly natural and charm
ing. She is. when all Is said. the most
attractive figure yet drawn by Mr.. For
man. Moreover, the main situation of
me plot is original and good. Mr.. For
man has reason 20 be quite proud Of
himself over ''Monsigny." The story ap-
peared in THE Smart Set" about a year
ago. and many people will remember
reading il then. New York: Doubleday,
Page Coz
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sion from well known poet TO give one
of his poems a musical setting When
the song was published and he had re-
ceived copy, he wrote me as follows:
My Dear FELLOW: Many thanks
You've exactly caught the swing of my
words. Now the song is out, I'll tell
you something. It's been set TO music
several times before. but never success
fully. because in each case the composer
was a woman. Now you've proved what
I've always felt. that only a man would
dig deep enough to find the true ring OF
the Words"
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church entertainment in which Artie
was the spokesman. That was in 1895.
| heard from that story so much that
Artie was given a show once a week.
In 1855 ran up against the fable of the
old serio-comie form. l had learned from
writing my department that all people.
and especially women. are more or less
fond OF pariOr slang. In cold blood I
began writing the fables TO make my
department go. but I had no idea that
those fantastic things would catch on
as they have. My first one was entitled:
The Blonde Girl Who Married Bucket
Shop Man. Soon other papers asked per-
mission 70 copy the fables. and then TO
share them with the Record and by
and by publisher collected them ana
made up a copyrighted book. There you
have the whole thing in q nutshell"
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Piles grown up to civilization. Lord
Beaconsfield once, in a famous speech,
ascribed most of the troubles of Ire
land TO the fact that the island is sur
rounded by a melancholy ocean. Like
many OF Beaconsfelds saying, which at
first seemed TO be merely fantastic this
had in it something of appropriateness
But Beaconsield might have added that
the legends and stories. the poetry and
music of early Ireland played an impor-
tant part, along with the melancholy
ocean. in forming the character which
has always belonged to the Celtic inhabi-
tants of Ireland. They help us to un-
derstand the story of Ireland Wherever
the Irishman. II he be a genuine Celt.
wanders OF settles. he never wholly loses
his characteristics. and in Lancashire.
in Illinois, in France. in South Africa. or,
in Australasia. he remains an Irishman
still, and never quite assimilates him
self to the habits of the people with
whom he has had to cast in his lot
Those who are not familiar with the
history of Ireland will perhaps be sur
prised to find it as fascinating as that
of any other land the sun shines on.
The stories of Brian Boru and the Danes.
of ''MacMurragh. who brought the Nor
man DER" Of Tyrconnel and Tyrone. are
as full of interest as the better-known
careers of Occur de Lien, Raleigh or che
Bruce, while the later struggles of Ire
land with the ruling power furnish an
impressive example of the inability of a
governing race to understand a subject
race of different temperament and ira
dition. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls.)
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such an origin. The ways of the Irish
peasantry are still such as might be-
long 10 race whose progenitors lived
under skies more favorable to outdoor
life than those usual in the misty and
melancholy climate of Ireland. The
Irish peasant lives as much as he can
In the open air. using his cottage chiefly
as sleeping place, and thereby sug
gests the conditions of a people origi-
nally accustomed to a very different ar
mosphere.
Legendary Lore.
The most cherished legends of the
Irish people also suggest this theory of
Eastern or Southern origin. For the
Irish people the kingdom of the ghosts
is easily ripped open-to adopt the
phrase Schiller applies to a different
people, also claiming a far foreign
origin. All the ballads and stories
popular in Ireland seem TO tell OF a
land where the supernatural and the
magical make part of everyday life. The
fairies are still reality in Irish imag
inings; the soil is peopled by goblins
and wizards and fantastic creatures of
all kinds who have nothing TO do with
the common laws of existence. Every
stream. well. and cavern. every indenta-
tion of the seashore. every valley and
peak. has its own stories and
of beings who do not belong
to this earth
Melancholy and Imaginative.
"a They hear tcstiuon1, 70 .ao
growth OF people essentially imag-
NATIVE and endowed with qualities not
to the ordinary ways of peo-
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Mr.. Ashley Is the author OF ''The Amer
lean Federal State"
Two suggestions made by him are
worth particular attention He says that
classroom study of the principles %
government should never lead the pu-
pills to imagine that they are solving
or can solve the problems of govern
ment, but should enable them 10 learn
and understand the truth about each
one which they consider" He also sug>
gests that mock trials and legislative
sessions are useful as giving the pupils
a practical insight into the workings CT
the principles which they study (ssew
York: The Macmillan Company)
The Washington times., 1903-09-13
NEW YORK LIFE.
y Personal illusions Gi0e an Impression o,
Current History.
Obviously Personal
ClTHE SILVER POPPY"

CSTHE SILVER POPPY" by Ar
thur Stringer. is clever
story of New York life which
is likely TO attract some attention for
reasons quite aside from its intrinsic
merit The heroine is young Kentucky
author who might briefly be described
as yellow girl but for the re-
stricted use of that term in common par
lance. for she has yellow hair. yellow
eyes. creamy skin, and usually a yell
low gown; also she works in a yellow
study. Her temperament is also some
what yellow. for she has won her fame
by sort of vampire process, publishing
a novel written by a clever man of the
world, once her lover, now dead. and
taking the credit of It herself.
The hero is John Hartley, an English
man of talent almost amounting to
genius. and the story is made up of his
relations with Cordelia Vaughan, the
lovely cheat in question. and her en-
tanglement of him in much the same
mesh as that which enwrapped her first
lover. 1t will be seen that the author
has happened upon an extremely good
motion"
There is another reason, however, for
supposing that the book will make talk
The author has plainly indicated that
the character of Cordelia was drawn
from life, and made his allusion to a
certain young Kentucky writer so point
ed that IL almost amounts to material
for lawsuit. This is the passage which
clinches the readers suspicion:
Tempted Too Far.
'She remembered her weeks of secret
toll, her long, strange first journey to
New York, her trembling visit TO the
publisher; how later he had sent for
her and made her his dazzling offer-so
unconsciously bewildering. so uncon-
sciously tragicsl-on condition that she
discard the masculine nom de plume,
which he imagined a shrinking timidity
had forced her TO adopt; how he had en-
larged on the advantages of the woman's
name on the title page; how he had un-
thinkngly paved the way for that first
duplicity; how he was prepared TO push
the book, and, in the end. he believed,
make both her name and her fortune.
''She realized that brief and most Bit
ter struggle which took place within
her; how she had gone back TO her pub
Usher, still vacillating; how she had |
learned, when he thrust his crisp, new |
check into her hand. how narrow ones |
ethical Rubicon can be. and how much |
one can suffer when once that narrow
stream is crossed. She remembered the /
day she had discarded her own name: |
how one morning she was Frances Rice /
or often plain Fanny Rice-and the /
next morning Cordelia Vaughan. She /
took the name from the Virginia branch .
of her family, after much hesitation,
she recalled, because Valerie Vaughan. !