The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-18


Whose Name Is Associated with That
Of Byron--Rook Of EpIgrams About
Love.
Somebody, according to the New York
Times Saturday Review. has been look
ing beneath the masks Of the characters
OF The Marriage Of William Ashe'' to
discover the originals from which they
were drawn. Lady Kitty has been by
this somebody identified as Lady Caro-
line Ponsonby, who was mixed up in
romance with Lord Byron. Perhaps
that is making it too strong. Lady
Kitty of the present story, it is this
somebody's idea, is modelled after Lady
Caroline. Says the Times:
Lady Caroline and William Lamb were from
the first IN ill-assorted couple, and Mr.. Lamb
bore with unaccustomed patience the affiction
OF his young wife's temper and other inhrnities
of character. When, eight years after their
marriage, they were publicly separated, Lady
Byron was the hero, and had published her
first book, "Glenarvon, still dimly remembered
for Its portrayal of Byron. The cynical poet
admitted that he sat, briefly, for the portrait.
The troubles between Lamb and his wife were
adjusted after this and they lived together
ftfully dozen years longer. She wrote other
novels and poems, and her later books were
| full of moralizing. In 1925 she and Lamb were
legally separated again, but he travelled a long
distance to see her once more before she died, in
| 1928. & -.. -, -
There can be no serious criticism of
Mrs. Wards using such character as
model for her Lady Kitty, tho it might
! be said that her having done so would
indicate some lack Of originality on her
part in the art Of character making.
One would expect to find all about the
greatest thing in the world' from a
book bearing the title, Phases, Mazes
and Crazes of Love. The author, Minna
Thomas Antrim, has, no doubt, been
studying the subject-at first hand, one
would say, from some Of her deductions
But there is still some room for re-
search among those not satisfied with
the authors conclusions, for it is only
with conclusions briefly stated that the
little book in hand deals. In fact, it is
a book of epigrams, some containing
much wisdom, some little and some pos
sibly none at all. Some, on the other
hand, are compact with cynicism. The
book is bound in stiff boards, decorated
in colors. The pages are decorated II
green and black-the green, perhaps, tt
suggest youth and spring, when "a young
mans fancy lightly turns loveward. The
decorations are by Clara Elsene Peck
Conclusions as to so weighty a matter
as love are worth a glimpse at least
Here are few phases, mazes ant
crazes'':
1t matters little after ten years whether s
Wife's face is lovely, but it matters mucl
whether her soul is
Men are stern moralists where one woman ant
other men are concerned.
Scratch beauty and you are apt to find ,
| tartar. = q.
Yield nothing to love that is denied nv discre
ton. ;"
Marriage is the art of learning to do withou
Illusions. .I.
During loves battles, men lie and women or,
when cornered..
EVEN AS THESE.
troubling of the sacred pool breeze
That cannot break the silence of the trees:
The light when falls a star; even as these,
Even as these, is Love.
A rain-gust blown athwart the August heat,
The vanishing turmoil where two rivulets meet
The little sob where music is most sweet:
} Lo, Pain is even as these.
A cloud that bringeth never forth its rain;
: childs laugh, sped when lies dear on
Even as, these the life that knows not Pain :.
,, Or hath forgotten Love. - a "
4 ELLEN Gray Barbour, in October Lippincott's.
A story that may put romantic NJ
lions" into the heads Of children is TIL
Flower Princess, by Abbie Farwe
Brown. But children will get romanti
> notions in any event, so they are tn
: better off to get wholesome notions suc]
: as 1.-THE Flower Princess might create
:, The book is one of several short storie
for young folk, the first being the on
which gives the name to the book. ]
is the story of a princess who refuse
to give her heart to any princely suite
= who cannot choose from her beautifr
Y flower garden her favorite flower. A
, length along comes a youth who has nc
s won a title, but who wins the princess
n favor, and after a while something bet
S ter. - -... D. -
. The Watchers Of the Campfire is a stor
:: of a panther, a. doe and a man by hi
campfire at night. The watchers are tn
panther and the doe The panther plot
the mans death, and-what happens
g The author is Charles G. D. Roberts.
Q .-... The Uneasy Chair.