The St. Louis Republic., 1904-06-25
LITERARY NOTES AND GOSSIP.

man much IN the public eye Just now
Is Baron Kentaro Kaneko, Bachelor Of
Laws and Doctor of Laws. Harvard Uni
versity. member OF the Japanese House Of
Peers. formerly Minister of State for
Agriculture and Commerce, one OF the
four authors of the Japanese Constitu-
ton. and Special Envoy to America Of
the japanese Emperor. He has made
many friends and aroused much interest
by his addresses at Harvard. where he
has been guest Of the Japan Club, and
elsewhere, and by his published articles
on Japan's law and constitution. and on
the war in the far East. The July Cen
tury announces an article from his pen,
THE Magma Charta of Japan"
onoto watanna, the author Of the new
japanese novel, Daughters OF Nijo,"
wrote recently to friend who inquired
about her methods Of work: 'I have no
particular study, or even desk. When l
write 1 pick up a pad and go into any
room where can be alone I sometimes
think there is a trail OF papers all over
the house, from the parlor to the baby's
nursery-for 1 have even written there
when he was asleep and the nurse had
her day or 1 am always making up my
mind to flne new rules whereby will
write only in one place and keep all my
papers there. And start out well. with
the tidiest looking desk, and then in a
week or SO it gets so piled up that move
somewhere else. When there are half
a dozen desks or tables covered with
pads, typewriter sheets, letters. envel-
opes. papers. ETC., then I resort to a
chair"
A valuable reference book upon art and
artists, has just been issued by Messrs.
Herbert s. Stone & Co., under the title
Painters Since Leonardo" The book is
written by James William Pattison, who
has been for many years class lecturer
at the Art Institute OF Chicago, and art
critic of the Chicago Evening Journal
Would there be SO many marriage
wrecks II the secret Of generosity were
learnedT' asks Lille Hamilton French
aptly in the July Dellneator. This author.
who. Of course, writes her thoughtful ar
ticles on THE Joy OF Living from the
woman's standpoint. goes on to tell of
two women who found their husbands ex-
acting. and Of the happy results brought
about by the generous yielding of the
wife In one Of these cases. The writer
concludes: But the generous are al
ways imposed upon. They end by being
robbed the little soul exclains. ePeope
drain US when we give too much. and
then when they have all they want they
throw US over The little soul can never
understand that the generous soul is never
robbed. It Is like the sun itself-it radi-
ates. Its business is to add to life the
JOY OF its cheer
Some famous and some obscure Amer
lean satires in verse are the subject of
an articie by Professor Brander Matthews
In Harpers Magazine for July. Among
them he gives an extract from a remark
able satire in pentameter verse by VIII
liam Cullen Bryant at the age of Il. In
which the youthful poet struck right ana
left and did not mince words. To Jeeeer-
son he addressed the lines:
Go. wretch. resign the presidential chair
Disclose thy secret measures. foul ~
FAIR" etc,
and was profoundly ashamed Of Il In HE
maturity and annoyed II It was men
TONED. To LoweiPs 'tBigelow Papers.
Professor Matthews awards the title ~
best OF American political satires. hut
there are numbers of others less known
which the author Of the article has now
happily brought to light.
J. Adam Bede is the humorIst a, tba
House OF Representatives. and his genial
comparison OF Speaker Cannon ana yobn
Sharp Williams in Leslie.s Monthly Maga-
zine for July IS one Of the keenest and