Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-05-28

The habit of observation and the
sense of form that all artists must cul-
tivate to be at all successful are of
great assistance to them in expressing
themselves well when they drop into lit
erature. The announcement that Rose
Cecil O'Ncill. the illustrator has writ
ten Il novel, entitled THE Loves of Ed
wy" which the Lothrop Publishing
Company will issue in August. will at
once awaken interest in those who have
enjoyed her clever drawings in puck :"
The author is the wife of Harry Leon
Wilson. who wrote The Splendurs"
and "Thc Lions of the Lord AS the
practice of writing is unfortunately of
no aid to the acquiring of skill i'm pic
torial art, Mrs. Wilson, who illustrated
her husbands books, will have to illus
tratc her own novel, too.
CarlySles letter declining to give Il
valedictory address as Lord Rector of
Edinburgh University, has just been
placed in Dundee Museum. 1t is a
mournful, lindly letter of little general
interest except perhaps in it's some-
what conventional advice to the stu
dents:
Bid them, in my name, if they still
love me, fight the good fight, and quit
themselves like men, in the warfare TO
winch they are as if conscript and con-
secrated, and which lies ahead. Tell
them to consult the eternal oracIes
tnot yet inaudible, nor ever to become
50, when W0rthily inquired of, and to
disregard, nearly altogether in conlpar-
lson, the temporary noises, menacings
and deliriums. May they love wisdom,
as wisdom, if she is to yield her treas
uros. must be loved-riously, valiantly,
humbly, beyond life itself or the prizes
of life, with all ones heart and all ones
soul. In that case U Will say again)
ana not i'll any other case it shall be
well with them. AGicu, my young
friends, Il long adicu.
The autograph manuscript of BurnS's
ballad THE Whistle" with the letter
to the Duke of Quccnsbcrry which ac-
companicl it. has just been sold at the
amazing price of STE. 1t is supposed
that the manuscript will como to Amer
lea. The ballad is one of about eigh-
teen stanzas, and begins thus:
] SlnS tI 4 NlnStlc, Il WnlStIr 0t WOrin
sing of n whistle. the pride of the North
Was brought to the Court OF our good
Scottish King.
And long with this whistle all Scotland
shall ring.
Another Burns manuscript, that of
''Thc Cotter's Saturday Night" is to be
sold next month.
Mr. G.. X. Chestcrton, i'll his recently
I'll ~
Frederick Watts tells this anccdotc Of
Tcnny*on: The poet with that queer,
:ullly humoT which gave him, perhaps,
more breadth than Watts, but lcss
strength, said. after reading somc ariL
and unjust criticisms. 1 wish | had
never written Il line Come said
Watts. You wouldn't like King Arthur
to talk Ike that Tcnnyson paused Il
moment and then spread out his fin
gers. Well he said. what do you cx-
poet? It's all the GOut.' Z"
Mr.. J. NJ. Barrie. the novelist is de
scrihrh rs wearing the appearance of
an unnSSuninC AMI II rather untidy
man with Il secret Sn"row. Those who
assume says The i;y;;tauder, "thIt
any SVntrdIUan must have Celtic blood,
might set Kim down as suffering fr0m
the chronic Glonm which is understood
TO "''ti"t persons of thnt strain or
wh1t",trr origin. it is 1T Icrst q very
s"und ana pure article Of melancholy
which looks out Of the eyes Of this
ch3rMingly humorous writer"
l!aElin Garland is not entirely the
Western ploUTh-boy. His father. Il. II.
Garland. was born in Maine and once
lived in Boston, and his oft-rcpcatc.i
memories of the elder Iiooth, Charlie
Thornc, and WilinIn Warren gave
both his sons 4 longing for the stage.
IIamlin went to Boston in 1882 for Il
trip, ana liked it 50 well that he rc.
turned in 1884, ANA made his home
thore till 1898. Franklin. the younger
brother, joined him in 1856, and went
on "the Kerosene Circuit" as the ono
ni@ht-Stand tours Wcr" called, in 1873.
They met Mr.. Hnd Mrs. James 4.
iicruc in 1889, and through them came
to know many nf the most dstin-
guiShcd actors and actresses of the day.
Helen McrivaI, the heroine of Mr. Gar,
lands new story, nh" Light Of the
Star" is q fictitious character. but is
louild"t on his experiences with real
women Of the stage. This charming
character is said to resemble strongly
several famous actresses Of today.
The notable feature Gf tho May 2Sth
issue of llarpcr's Weekly is aIThu;hnr-
itativc article by Prince Esper Oukh-
tonsky. editor of the St. Pc;ersburg-
:ailya Wiedomcsti, in which he puts for
ward tn" claims OF Russia an American
sympathy. Robert Dunn sends from
thc!nulpo. Korea. q graphic account IF
tho capture Hnd execution of Il SPY in
the service o! Russia; there are three
pages o: photographs showing scenes
Of action in Japan and Korea: SydI.ry
i'roohs writes cntcrtainincly about
Punch and lis remarkable hold on the
English Public, and there i.' fiction l,v
Gilbert X. Ch"stcTtou and a. l.. w. Ma
son, in addition to til" usual cdit}.idi.
literary, ard news features.