The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-22
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brated At 6trstford-on-Avon to-morrovvitl
moro than usual pomp and circumstsnos
Townsfolk will 70 In procession To the
church and lay laurel wreathes upon thu
bards tomb. The usual RELIGIOUS oere.
monies will be held and there win b q
public luncheon At the town hall, wbers
Sir Oliver Lodge viii propose Shake.
speares Immortal Memory Beerbohm
Tree will respond for The Drama. and
Marie Corelli for Literature -.
"A Winters Tale will be performed
In the Memorial Theatre.
One New York publishing house will
! celebrate the day. Doubleday, Pare d Co.
have selected the date for the publication
OF the first volume Of the Elizabethan
Shakespeare. which 10 ready after four
years OF continuous preparation.
Freedom from fine scruples distinguishes
the woman who has proposed a series OF
books to the publishers Of MRS. Wigs. :
This literary aspirant 10 an admirer OF
the Cabbage Patch dame and Ia willing to
CLEAN the burrows reaped by Mrs Hogan
Rice.
She announces that she intends to write
a number Of stories with the children Of
Mrs. Wigs for central figures, and that
the first book, already in course Of prepare
ton. will deal with the amiable and youthful
Asia
Apropos OF offences against literary
etiquette comes the story OF a young girl
who has recently made a hit with certain
short stories, and who, through sheer ig-
norance Of publishing methods. gave sew
eral publishers wrathful quarter hours.
She had never written anything. None
Of her family was literary; but she had
burning ambition TO write short stories,
and not long ago she tried one When It
was finished she gave herself to 'uppish
thought
She had heard tales OF the weary waiting
time endured by authors while their manu-
scripts went the slow round. Sometimes,
30 she underttood. months passed before
one publisher read and returned story.
Her nerves wouldn't stand that sort OF
suspense. There wasn't one chance In
a million that any one would accept her
story. Certainly there was no chance
whatever that 1t would find favor with
two readers.
Moved by enthusiasm and self-depre-
citation. she ordered four typewriter copies
OF the story and sent them to four prom
inent magazines. Then she waited. breath
leesly.
One halcyon day came a note from an
august editor-also q check. The story
was accepted. The editor wanted more.
The young woman celebrated and told
her relatives that she was a successful
author. But hard upon the heels Of the
first letter came one from another editor
He accepted her story and asked her to
come to see him In reference to more work
third acceptance followed. The fourth
editor regretted, &c.
The author was nattered. but not APP
palled. She wrote sweet notes to two
editors explaining that she was awfully
hattered by their appreciation. but that
the story was already sold.
Then editorial wrath burst forth The
successful young person
received letters that reduced her to tears
and despair-that left nothing to be said
in regard to her interruptions literary
and that made her wish she had
never learned the alphabet.
She dared fate and went to $50 the Of
Tended deities, and her youth. her ignor ance
and her abject humility won her absolu-
ton: but she still speaks with bated breath
Of her literary debut.
Justin Huntly Mccarthy has dedicated
his new romance, Marjorie. to his good
friend Anthony Hope.
A German translation OF Mr.. McCarthy's
II We're King is to be produced at the
Lessing Theatre in Berlin.
Francis H. Nicholas Through Hidden !
shensi' has found great favor In China. !
The North China Herald, the great English |
OF the East. accepts it as stand |
Ird OF unprejudiccd observation and fair |
peaking, and adds:
1T would be boon IL Mr.. Nichols could
" induced 10 write similar book on each
" the provinces OF this still little-known
'mpire."
Mr.. Nichols was. 1t will be remembered,
ent to China to supervise the distribution
4 fund raised here for the relief OF suf-
ers in the shensi famine.
Wolf Won Sutherland, whose tranela-
ion Of the Kaiser's speeches has just been
by Harper 4 Bros. 10 the only
american press correspondent who ever
nterviewed Bismarck. and he accom-
lished the feat four times.
Ralp Henry Barbour. q Boston man
rho has had q picturesque newspaper
areer In the West, but 10 now living once
,ore In Boston, has written many stories
nd verses for magazines over the pen
anne Of Richard Stllman Powell, but Ia
est known through his exceedingly popu-
II school and college stories for boys.
low he has written The Land OF JOY
10 first novel. q delightful love story with
background OF college life.
Virginia reviewers have amused them.
elves by Identifying the town Of Melville
curt House. near which much Of the action
the tale occurs, a. Leesburg. q sleepy
illage thirty-five miles from Washington
'hich occupies . unique place in American
istory, although the fact has been gen.
rally forgotten.
When Washington was occupied BY
10 British forces In the War Of 1872 the
overnment archives were secretly re-
oved to Leesburg and stored In the only
lult In that part Of the country. They
manned there only forty-eight hours;
Ut during that time q Cabinet meeting
I'd been held. and Leesburg had won the
Of being temporarily the seat
government.
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