Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-24

dealt only with books. In this 1t differs
interesting to1ic connected with literature
or the arts. In tAking over The Literary
World. The cfithf expects to hold the at
tention Of thai petiodicafs old subscribers.
while at the same time appealing to a
wider audience The. title or the Boston
magazine will be preserved on the cover of
The Critic. which will hereafter read The
Critic and Library World This conbina-
ton gives The Critic the advantage of con-
nection with an increasing group Of New
England writer's whose productions are of
interest and falue throughout the entire
country.
The officers and workers of the Macmii-
Ian somp pan; a this country are naturally
figured out of a, .recent government pub
LEGATION, the new American Library As
ISOLATION Catalogue for 1904, issued by the
of the New York State Library and the Ii
brary of Congress, which have Joined forces
in selecting out of the whole range of
American and English literature the books
that should go to make up an ideally good
small public library for the general reader,
which would also serve the needs of most
special students. OF the 1890 volumes de-
clared by these authorities the best for the
purposes OF the library and the general
reader. 1851, OF a little more than IS per
cent, are published by the Macmillan Com
pany.
knowing Guy Wetmore Carryl, author of
Far From the Maddening Girls" declare
that that book, clever and amusing as it is,
was only promise of greater achievement.
The fire which, destroyed Mr.. CarryIs
house. Single B1essedness, at Swampscott,
and which was largely responsible for his
death, burnt up several important manu-
scripts, including four or five short stories
and long book which was called THE
Little Marquis" This was somewhat in
the vein of TX Marvers ''Reveries of Bach
elor." and was considered by those who had
heard 1t as by far the best thing Mr..
Carryl had ever done.
John Fox. jr.. the Kentucky novelist, tells
some good stories of southern hospitality
IN his introduction to The Blue Grass
Cook Book" compiled by Minnie C. Fox
and recently published by Fox Dufffeld &.
co. Il have heard" he says 'of man
stopping to spend the night on Georgia
plantation and staying on for twenty years.
l. nave heard of an old major in Virginia,
the guest of the father of a friend of mine,
VINO every spring had his horse saddled
and brought to the fence. when the fol-
lowing annual colloquy took place:
" oh, you'd better stay a while longer,
major. the host would say.
" No the major would say: I reckon I'd
better be goin''"
After every mint julep this Interchange
would take place. At the end of the third
the major invariably weakened.
Well he would say. reckon I'll stay a
little longer And he would stay-another
year. This went on for a decade.
These things l have heard-what fol-
lows | know There was a famous place
near Lexington once. which I will call Sill
yer Springs, and there was a guest there
of twenty years standing. One morning
he went over to the home of his hosts son,
liked 1t over there and stayed ten years
until he died But there Is yet a better
story of Silver Springs. So many guests
actually died there that the host provided
them with graveyard. Some fifteen years
ago the church near by was torn down, The
graveyard was sold. and all the bodies had
to be removed. The son of the master
of Silver Springs wrote to what relatives
of the dead guests he could find No an
swer came. and the daughter of the son,
who has been "a lifelong friend of mine,
TOOK the seven guests. sang Nearer My
COD. to Thee over them. and buried them
in the family plot There the seven rest
today" .yre
The clerk inothe shipping department of
Mcclure. Phillips & Co. wondered if
his firm had BEEN taken for wholesale gro
GERS when he read the other day a telegram
saying: Ship1today Wabash-Lackaw wanna
100 cabbages all kinds" 1t dawned on
him In few moments that he was wanted
to furnish one ohundred copies Of O. Hen
rvs humorous novel of South American
politics, Cabbage and Kings"