The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-01
hooks AND AUTHORS.

II il always interesting to know how men
Of mental ability manage TO accomplish
so much work with a machine at once so
delicate and so erratio IA literary genius.
Ernst Haeckel, author OF The Wonders OF
Life. gives an account Of the daily routine
which has enabled him 70 labor indefatiga-
bly, for years and still to keep strong and
vigorous. He says that he Ia always an
early riser. beginning work at in summer
and in winter, after tho customary foreign
breakfast OF coffee and rolls, He does not
take the second breakfast at IL. az 40 many
Germans do, but works on continuously
until /, when he has the one hearty meal
Of the day. After this midday dinner be
takes half hour nap. reads the newspapers.
chats with his family and takes long walk.
At4, like all good Germans. he has his coffee,
and then. having enjoyed three full hours
OF rest, he accomplishos four hours more
Of work eating light supper at s and de-
voting tho remainder Of the evening TO
recreation He does not retire until late,
as he requires only five or six hours OF sleep.
Harper a Bros. have received request
for permission TO reprint Mrs. Mary Z.
wilkins Freemans stories ]Lucy' ana
e Discovered Pearl In an English reader
to be used in teaching English iii German
schools. Her story entitled Gold IL
also about to be translated into Norwegian
Danish and Swedish.
Tho late Cen Lew Wallace served as
First Lieutenant in an Indiana regiment
during the Mexican War. although he was
but 10 wears Of age He gained little mill
tary experience, as his regiment was never
in action, but his imagination was kindled
by seeing about him the evidences OF
peculiar civilization long passed away,
and the result of this his first campaign
was the conception of his first novel, The
Fair Cod He commenced the book
soon after no returned to Indiana, b~e
owing to the civil war and TO his regular
law business the story was not completed
until 1873. when 1t oasised great sensation
SO sustained has been the interest In the
book that a holiday edition was brought
out In 1893 by Houghton, Mifiiin d Co.
Miss Ali Caroline Sykes finds the original
Of Mrs. Humphry Wards latest heroine
Lady Kitty Ashe. in Lady Caroline Lailb,
and likens the relations OF the fictitious
llaIV hlllY anu ptOuItf NiANo ia ~
Marriage OF William Ashe' 10 those OF
the real Lady Caroline and Lord Byron
Lady Caroline Lamb was the wife Of Will
lam Lamb lafterward Lord Melbournej
and was involved In intrigues with Byron
who left her In 1913. Three years later
she wrote "Glenarvon containing cartca-
ture OF her poet-lover quite worthy Of Lady
Kitty. The facts OF the case present sufll-
Gent similarity to the novel to make the
deduction interesting
The divorce question Is certainly tho
leading motif In literature just at present.
and even the Critic publishes an article
on this sub ect In the March number under
The Views OF a Wife and Mother It
seems rather startling departure but.
as the writer remarks, the subject is now
becoming 40 common that IL bids fair 70
rank as the conversational topic with the
weather, children and servants. The
limited contract marriage of Mr.. Meredith.
and other distasteiul alternatives receive
wei aimed rebuke written with logica!
and restrained clearness and humor by
-the Wife and Mother who resents new
innovations In old and established trRdi-
lions.
Authors have small need Of the titles
conferred upon them by royalty. since they
rule by right divine Of genius; and they
are particularly courteous about using theee
titles in their dealing with the plain demo-
cratic world Of letters in America. Sir
Gilbert Parker. by his own wish, in answer
to cable from his publisher. appears as
plain Gilbert Parker on his Ladder OF
Swords. the first novel published since his
knighthood; and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
when asked if be desired the Sir to appear
on his title pages. said; when the American
reople ike me as | am why should thrust
a title in their democratic faces
On Saturday Houghton, Mifilin 6Co.
published the first Of their spring novels
under the title Of The Opal 1t is short
story Of modern society life, written by an