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Breyity Desired.

Philadelphia Record.
Padding doesn't pay" remarked writ
er. II mean from the literary standpoint,
of course. The best newspapers insist upon
short. straightforward narrative much
abbreviated as is consistent with a correct
explanation of the facts. Those of us who
like TO embroider with our pens are indeed
cut short on every side. Only the other day
i was speaking with writer scientific
subjects and he declared he was through
with every sort OF writing for periodicals.
The magazines are bad as the news
papers,. said he, and here's article /
have just demanded sent home. In order
to make IL acceptable to all L inserted a
few more or less amusing little anecdotes.
received a letter from the editor of the
magazine saying he was delighted with my
contribution. but that il would have to be
cut to a certain number of words, but that
i was on no account to cut the anecdotes.
This L found, meant writing a few words
OF introduction and adding enough to carry
the illustrations. Naturally l couldn t
stand for such nonsense, so / threw the
manuscript into a drawer, and there it will
STAY
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writers Who Cling to Facts.

Richard lie Gallienne. in Success.
The number of capable writers who are
telling the various truths Of life in the form
of fiction is much greater than contempt
rary pessimists realize. There is, indeed,
no corner of human experience which can
not produce its able, entertaining repre-
sentative. Let US take some traditional
forms of the NOVELETTE, sea story. say. Cap
tain Marryat was indeed q master, and yet
w. Clarke Russell and Conrad and Jacobs!
In the work of all these men one has TO
acknowledge that romantic fidelity TO the
facts rather than the fancies of the sea
which / have spoken of as the note OF the
modern romantic realism. In the case of
Conrad we have also q writer Of the first
literary importance-a novelist OF action
and serious vivid detail, who does not scorn
to write good English, but who, more than
that. Pole as he Island there is an addi-
tional marvel-writeS English of a quality
so English that, incredible as it may sound,
his words are no less exciting than his adj
ventures. 1t may almost be said that the
fact of his being a foreigner using our
English tongue has possessed him with a
regard for classical English which fostered
in him the journalistic impression of such a
vociferous English writer as. say, Mr.. Kip
ling-Mr. Kipling. who is patriotic in every
thing but his language.
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Mr.. kipIing's Power.

Harry Thurston Peck in the Bookman.
And most remarkable of all, perhaps, is
the range and infinite variety of his Ian
guage. Whether it be the crude speech of
the untaught soldier in his barrack, or the
rapid, cracking, resonant rush of modern
phrase and sharp colloquialism, or whether
it be lofty and majestic diction colored with
something of the Oriental imagery of the
Hebrew prophets. it is all the same in be-
ing absolutely perfect and inevitable, reach
ing its mark without an effort and with
never mistake. Pathos. humor. exuta-
ton and indignant wrath, or reverence,
tenderness, haughtiness and contempt-the
whole gamut of the emotions, in fact, is
made to sound under the touch of this ex-
traordinary man who uses with swift mas
terry whatever medium he prefers; so that
some of his most wonderful effects are pro-
duced in material which the conventional
poet would regard as hopeless. Long ago
roughly divided the whole human race into
two classes. To the first belong those who
feel in "Mandalay," running through all
the common soldiers unlettered speech ex-
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Literary Notes.

Mr.. George Meredith's health is said to
be much improved but he is not doing any
literary work
Mr.. Conrad has just written in collabora-
ton with Mr.. F. NJ Hueffer a new volume
entitled Romance; A Novel,"
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, author of "Curfew
Shall Not Ring Tonight is living at pres
ent in Lajolla, Cal. She was born in In
in the Detroit Commercial Advertiser in
1870.
John Lane will bring out before the end
of the autumn a posthumous volume by
Aubrey Beardsley. 1t will contain essays
in prose and verse; including the unfinished
story, Under the HILL from which the
book will take its title. There will be a
number of illustrations.
The Rev. DIR. Edward Walpole Warren,
late rector of st. James's Episcopal
Church, New York, who recently died in
that city, left the original manuscript of
Samuel Warren's novel, Ten Thousand a
Year. which he owned, to his son, A. Ken
nedy Warren, as an heirloom.
Has any one any knowledge of the earli-
est use made of that beautiful word, PAN
jandrum?' DR.. Murray, the editor of the
New English Dictionary will be infinitely
obliged if some one will tell him in just
what work one 'Fitzgerald'' wrote the
phrase, HE was the great Panjandrum
of the place.
Henry w. Lucy, "Uncle Toby, NJ. P.,'' of
Punch, and for many years the parlia-
mentary writer for the London Daily
News, who is now on q visit to New York.
is diminutive physically that he appears
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those whom they invited to their houses"
Is not every word applicable here? The
duchess of So-and-So writes verses; the
countess of Blank novels: and every young
barred from the stage takes to scribbling.
Thus culture and the peerage are supposed
TO join hands. How Horace Walpole would
have derided the fashion, But we would
also have liked Swift's views the sub
Ject. To-day is the day of the amateur.
1t Is no longer republic Of letters. since
recognition is obtained by spurious means
and to be hailed as great literary figure
when (or 10 you publish volume. Pub
licity here, in France (and we may min
gle our tears in mid-channeD is disastrous
10 competence and merit, much more to
genius. At least, then, we have the comfort
OF companionship in misfortune. for this is
one OF the things they do not do better in
France, il NJ. Uzanne is correct.
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The weekly cost OF living in 100 was $50.
In 1soe IL had risen to slo.T2. In 1905 1t is
5000. or practically s11 per week.
INCREASES NOT UNIFORM.
The increases in the various items of
family expenses have not been uniform, as
shown BY the foregoing figures. For exam
pie. during the first two years the cost OF
food increased IS per cent. This made an
increase In the total cost OF living of 60
per cent Rent. which has undergone an ad-
vance OF about 10 per cent. on the average
during the past three years. furnishes per
cent OF the total increase in the cost OF
living. The higher price of fuel has added
about per cent. to the total living ex-
penses- The increase in the miscellaneous
expenses OF a family has added less than
per cent. to the total cost.
Miscellaneous expenses" is a rather
broad term. In this item is figured car fare.
extra food. fuel. lighting expenses and va
rious ether items which are not specified in
any of these tables. No provision is made
In these tables for sickness. for entertain
ment OF any kind. for books, for maya
zines or newspapers. Neither does the mis-
cellaneous expense item include any al
lowance for charity or for the church, or
for any one of the hundred and one other
little things that constantly drain the
Family pocketbook
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LIES LABOR OVER.
Cambridge Scholar Found Dead on
His Wife's Grave.

Boston Herald.
MY life's effort. my book. finished. fesl
that my life's labors are over" was one or
the closing sentences of a note found on
the BODY OF Francis Ellingwood Abbot. who
was discovered dead in the Central Gene
terry on Hale street, Beverly. Friday after
noon.
Just ten years ago Friday his wife. who
was Katherine Fearing Loring. OF Concord
passed away. and taken TO Beverly
and buried in the Central Cemetery. on the
shady side Of a knoll in one of the most
beautiful places I'm the old burying ground.
With a bunch OF carnations placed on
the grave was found the body Of the
Cambridge man. lying face downward. with
his hat pressed close to his forehead. end
dead. supposedly by some swift poison.
Some time Thursday afternoon Mr. Alb
bot left his Cambridge home at ~ Larch
road, and probably went 10 Beverly. When,
Friday morning. his bed was found unoccu-
pied. his son, DIR. Edward Stanley Abbot
of the Boston City Hospital became
alarmed and sent a friend. Harvard law
student, TO Beverly, hoping to find his
father.
When the messenger arrived In Beverly
he went TO 6 a. Gentlee who had previous
ly done work for the Abbots. and he had
no difficulty In finding the grave and the
missing mans body.
Mr. Abbot was deeply affected by the
death OF his wife, and for years had gone
10 Beverly with floral tributes. His favor
lite place was on the top of a pine-dotted
knoll where. on a spot overlooking his wife's
grave. he would SIT and read for hours.
lie had been at work on his book on philos-
ophy for forty-four years.
Inscribed on his wifes erayestone was
this tender sentiment: ,"she made her
home happy and was all the world to her
os-@.''
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The Day of the Amateur.

London Mail
Are we in a worse case than our neigh
bors? That is 10 say. have our literary
ideals become vulgarized. while France
maintains the glorious traditions OF Racine
and voltarc and Balzac: 1t is customary.
particularly among superior people, to
reflect upon our insular ideas OF literature
and to exalt French thought and style and
fiction at the expense OF our own. Is there
any justification for this?
Certain authoritative philosophers have
Iamented our literary decadence and attrib-
uted IL 10 cheap books. II is, therefore, in
teresting. If not consoling TO find that SO
distinguished critic as NJ. Octave Uzanne.
I'm the "Fortnightly," makes similar COM
plant about French literature to-day He
declares that contcmporary literature is
commercialized; that public taste has no
definite trend" that ''the literary event is
a thing OF the past. Indifference in lit
erary matters" he asserts, lis daily in
creasing and affecting every class. The
bookshops are on the eve of being de-
serted"
our grievance on this side OF the channel
Is that literary criticism has decayed. We
have pointed that out in this column. 1t
has been flooded out by the tide of books
and writer's. In France apparently the de-
velopment has been parallel. Mere adver-
tisement takes precedence in the press of
criticism" Why, il might have been writ
ten of us poor islanders. Nobody reads
Who takes few successful books on his
holiday, Tho conceit OF writing has
spread TO every class; men OF letters hav-
ing become men OF the world people IA So
ciety, men and women alike. took IL into
their heads one tine day 10 compete with
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CANNED CORN SCARCE.
Crop Was Almost n Total Failure
Prices Soaring skyward.
Milwaukee Sentinel.


People who have been depending upon
their grocers to provide them with canned
goods during the coming winter may find
themselves disappointed in some particulars
For example, the housewife who delights to
place before her liege a steaming dish of
sweet corn when the meadows are covered
with snow and the air is resonant with the
merry music or the sleighbells, may not be
able to do so. or IL she does she will make a
tremendous inroad on the expense account.
Not only has the crop OF coarse corn been
sadly curtailed, but the sugar corn which is
put up in cans for the table has proved al
most a total failure, and prices have al
ready advanced from 40 to 50 per cent. with
no stock in sight from which dealers are to
replenish their supplies. The choicest
brands or canned corn have heretofore come
from Maine. but between the unfavorable
season and the e f, frosts the crop of
en- total failure, and the packing cOmpa-
MES have closed down.
The crop of sugar corn in Wisconsin was
also failure, and there has been a short
age In the crops la other sections of the
country. And these conditions come upon a
market that was practically sold out. there
being little IL any of last years supply car
Canned peaches Is another article that is
soaring skyward so far as prices are con-
cerncd- or course. the California peaches.
which always command the highest prices,
will probably remain al about the same or
II may be little higher price. The cheaper
grades. however. have already gone up 10
conditions affecting the market are pecu-
liar. For the first time in the knowledge OF
the oldest dealers, Eastern agents have in
vaded the fruit region in Michigan. where
there was en- abundant crop OF peaches. aud
have purchased all they could get hold OF
and shipped them tO New York and even
Maryland and Delaware. the peach crop
having proven n failure I'm those States
There Is abundant supply of apples in
first hands. but the greatest difficulty il be-
ing experienced I'm getting barrels I'm which
TO send them TO market. Milwaukee coopers
are overstocked with orders for apple bar
rels. which are being sent 10 New York
fruit growers and buyers. The ruling price
for barrels is 10 cents each. although as high
as GO cents has been paid I'm cases OF emer-
gency The freight is 5 cents a barrel TO
points I'm New York State which makes the
barrel an important item I'm the transaction.
The foreign demand for apples Is something
unprecedented.
The supply OF canned peas is abundant.
ard IN this particular line Wisconsin leads
the world. Formerly. the Milwaukee iobbers
placed orders with the Maine Gamers. but
of late years not can has been shipped into
the State from that quarter. Canned tOna-
toes will also be abundant, contrary TO ex-
pcctafions early I'm the season. The cold
summer retarded the growth. bat the hold
Ing off OF the frost allowed them To ripen.
with the result that there Will be an abund-
ant supply
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a Glimpse of Mr.. Swinburne.

Shan f. Bulock's Loncon Letter
Lately I have seen something of Swim
burne-from a distance and as a mere OBJ
server. Happening to be in the neighbor-
hood Of Wimbledon (Which is a well-known
suburb of South London. lying near Putney
along the Thames). / came into the High
street and-with malice aforethought-went
on toward Putney. The day was fine. Few
people were stirring. 1t was about noon
tide. Presently uphill 1 saw figure ap-
preaching, and at sight of it my pulse
quickened. Not that there was anything
striking about the figure, not that I ex-
pected from 1t either word or glance: that
fredericksburg was merely sign of my
homage to genius.
i saw man Of medium size and we'll adj
vanced in years. He wore a lounge suit.
somewhat furnished and untidy. About
his throat was a red tie. On his head was a
felt hat with a high crown. and about 1t a
breeze. He walked steadily, straight on
without glancing right or left, and his gait
was that of portly man pressing uphill
pushed out. Coming nearer I saw that the
mans face was sallow, was lined and
scanned; that his hair hung somewhat long
and grizzled; that his eyees were pensive
beneath a wide brow; that his mouth was
large and mobile; that his nose was big
and high. and that the expression of his
race was one IN WHICH, metnOugnI, the
qualities of the. poet and the fighter were
clearly mirrored. And ct sight of the man
l stood doing homage. He was Swim
burne. Straight on he went uphill, and
after him went /. Soon he came to way
side inn called, 1 think, THE Rose and
Crown" there entered, and. in a little
room facing the bar, was served with a
ing by the table and slipping his ale; and
while he sat / gathered from an attendant
that for many years, the poet has been
a regular customer of the house. Comes
from Putney way" said the man, Elves
down there with another chap as calls
himself Watts Dunton. Writes poetry or
sutthink; don't know much about that kind
o. thing myself. Oh, yes-he's all right.
No trouble here, sir. Just walk in reg lar
every day. mods. an has his drink in the
never more an no less, an as regular
in his habits as the clock. But, my word,
can't he just talk IL so be he's not served
quick or the ale is bit off. An swear
The man held up his hands in mute admi-
ration: and before l could ask further
Swinburne came from the parlor, nodded,
and went out.
A little farther up the High street stands
little stationer's shop and here the poet
bought a newspaper, folded it carefully.
put it in his pocket and turned back home
ward. I watched him go. He marched
steadily, with the determined tread OF a
man who, in spite Of wind or weather, will
have his constitutional. He regarded no
one. Few did more than glance OF him. He
seemed unknown. So for many years, every
day, almost without fail. England's great
est living poet has walked his two miles
! bought his newspaper and walked his two
miles back. He does 1t. not because he likes
IL but because he must. For even poek.
must exercise their fleshly bodies.
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Literary Man rs an Advertisement.

Scrlbner's Magazine.
A certain American man of letters likes
to believe that he is modest, even if he is
forced 10 admit to himself that his modesty
may be due to the unfortunate fact that
no one of his works of fiction has attained
a sale of a quarter of a million copies.
Whatever the cause of his modesty, he
cherishes It carefully; but it had a rude
shock last summer, which it survived only
with great difficulty. He received a letter
from firm in Milwaukee stating that his
name and books are now so widely known
trait on cigar-box label" Here was fame
suddenly thrust upon him in its most OBJ
vious form-or If not fame. its illegitimate
brother, notoriety. The joy which q prima
donna feels when the horses are taken
from her carriage and her admirers insist
on dragging her themselves from the opera
house to the hotel cannot be as acute as
that which fills the soul of modest man of
letters when he is besought to lend his
name and his portrait to a box of cigars.
For brief moment he perceived that ne
had a chance for once to be lin everybody s
mouth, as the phrase is. He beheld his
name attached to the Cigar That Made
Milwaukee Famous. He looked forward and
foresaw that bold letters in primary colorS
might soon declare him to be either An
After-Dinner favorite or Generously Good.
Surprising that they had not been
courteous gentlemen; supposing that they
had been unscrpuIors hustlers: surprising
that they had gone ahead without his ad-
vice and consent; supposing that they had
thrust his name and portrait on their
cigar boxes; supposng that they had in
sisted on pointing out his Generous Good
ness in letters ten feet tall; supposing they
had chosen to disregard his wishes and to
outrage his cherished modesty-what re
dress had he? Had he any exclusive right
20 his own name and portrait?' His
name was his trademark serving TO iden-
tify his books; could they attach this
trademark TO their cigar boxes without
his consent? His portrait was a part of
himself: could they violate this privacy
and paint the portrait on the house-top
his protest? In other words, did he own
himself. or could anybody Jump the
claim?"
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to one as nothing more than little pair
of legs. So he was described once by his
friend, David Christie Murray, the Scot
fish writer.
The untimely death of Mrs. Elizabeth
Cherry Waltz will bring regret to many
readers of the Century. She first attracted
the attention of the editors of that maya
zine by story called 1.-The Praying Match"
which was accepted and published in the
Century for July, 1900. After this followed
others in the remarkably original Pa
GLADDEN. series, just appearing in book
form, her first book. Mrs. Waltz has had
three Christmas stories accepted for three
succeeding years of the Century, beginning
in 1901. Mrs. Waltz was connected with the
Louisville Dispatch and later with the
Louisville Courier-Journal. She was a
woman of indomitable courage and energy,
and there were elements of the heroic in
the story of her devoted life.
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lie GaIIienue's "Haffz."
New York Times.

New YORK Times.
Richard LIE Gallienne, the English poet,
returned to this country to-day on the
steamship Arabic, of the White Star line,
after a three months visit to England.
Mr. lie Gallienne finds the climate of this
country better suited to him than that OF
England, and practically makes his home
here. while I was away" he said to-
day, 81 prepared English version of
''Hafiz,' which will be published next year
"a first edition for collectors and q second
edition for popular sale.
MY version is made from literal trans
lation prepared for me by the Indian SER
want of Colonel Clark. who was in the
English civil service in India ten years
ago. / had another made by John Payne.
Both translations We're word for word. but
the Persian meter has so many peculiar-
ties that to transpose it in English would
make only jingle and nonsense. / threw
the translations overheard. 1 have adopted
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On the second floor are four good bed
rooms and a bath. Also storage space
over the kitchen. which could be made into
a room by raising the roof. In n great
many places this would come within the
estimated cost. The closets are con-
venient and of good size. and boxed stairs
lead to the attic, where there are two
rooms.
Cellar under the whole house: hot-air
heating. Finish of whitewood stained. and
n. c. pine flooring. First story, feet
high: second. feet inches: width, II feet;
depth over all, IS feet.
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presslve and yet at times erotesque. the
wonder of the East. its fascination, its per-
fumc and melody ard color, and the mys-
terry OF its love which can move even the
arse-grained unromantic British infantry
man to a pathos that is infinitely real. To
the other class belong those men and wom-
en- OF whatever rank or station who read
those lines and grin and Singer over them
in the belief that "Mandalay' is a comic
poem. The former class comprises the en-
lightened. The other class is made up or
those who (perhaps for their ancestral sins)
are fated to humble and gibber and squeak
in the f0gs Of philistinism forever and ever.
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staircase. This is q wide hall. and has a
corner seat and space for tables and other
furniture At the right are the parlor and
dining room. separated by sliding doors.
These are well-lighted rooms. and the din
ing room has glass corner cupboard.
TIC the left is Office or den. sewing
room, as YOU may please. The house could
be adapted for a physician by making the
porch back of the office into a private con-
sulting room, thus forming a suite There
is an excellent pantry and a good kitchen,
with closets, sink, etc.
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The Alarm.

Clang,
A rush in the street.
A swift tumult and noise
OF hurrying feet.
The enginesi
Good men, stout and brave
To fight good fight gainst Destruction,
To rescue. 10 save,
Fire.
Shouting and criesi-
The horses, with broad. mighty chests straining
forward,
with broad. calm. intelligent eyes
a hurting and tllundeTous vision.-
The roar and the beat
OF galioping hoofs dying down in the distance
A hush in the street
s. H. Kemper. In November Everybodys.