New-York tribune., 1905-06-17


write verse when not occupied with his duties
as librarian of the Newberry Library. Chicago.
has published no fewer than three hundred
poems in various magazines during the last
twentv-eight years From the best of these ne
has now made a selection which Will De pun
lished in the autumn by Houghton, M1ffiln d 90.
Mr. Cheney will spend six weeks vacation this
summer on the Pacific Coast.
The president and council of the Royal Acao-
envy have given their sanction to the prepara-
ton and publication of work by Alsernoi
Graves, F. S. A, the nature of which Is suili-
ciently described in its title, 1.-The Royal Acao-
emy of Arts: Complete Dictionary Of Con-
tributors and Their Works from Its Founda-
ton. in 1860. to 1904" There will he at least
twelve volumes. the first of which has just
been issued here by the Macmillan Company
AT the conclusion of the section devoted to each
letter several blank pages inserted In order
that those who SO desire may keep the list up to
date.
John Kilby. quarter gunner, VINO serVeo
under Paul Jones in the fight between tho
Scraps and the Bon Homme Richard "rote
long afterward a full account Of the engage
ment which came into the hands of Augustus
c. Buell. after he had written and published his
life of the famous captain. The story will ap-
near in the July number of -Scribners Maga-
zine" Especial interest will attach to khby S
account of the sword incident. when Pearson
surrendered, as the author stood close to MS
commanding officer at the time.
Do all the really good stories get publsheo! j!
Many discouraged young writer may doubt It,
but William Dean Howells thinks that tney
do So many stories that not really good are
published that it is likely he is right-proVided
ALWAYS of course that the authors of all really
good stories are persistent in their efforts to dis
pose of their literary wares. There is room Ior
a good story of any kind Mr. Howells salo re-
Gently Although an editor governs his Juds-
ment by what his readers have liked before,
often rejecting something they would like mucn
better no good thing in a story ever remains
unpublished Some one will read 1t, feel 1ls
truth and print it. if it is true" He takes pains
to fortify his position however, by adding that
he does not believe any one write a really
good novel until he has lived at least thirty
| Ave years in experience with the world, al
though he admits that there are rare excep
| +ions How rare? No doubt most authors VIII
do their best work after they are thirty-lve, put
| If must be that few of them whose stories are
| worth reading have not done really good WORK
| before they reached the halfway post on life $
| journey.
Soma <now-it-all has started paragraph
| which has been going the rounds of the news
| papers saying that Booth Harrington expanded
bic latest story THE Beautiful Lady" from a
| n.v,r item This is not strictly true. Mr.. Tark-
| inqton was himself a witness of the incident
| which inspired both the newspaper item and his
| Glory He thus describes his experience:
| . ,n PARIS last July, and saw a crowd, one
| aftnrnoon on the pavement in 'front.' OF the CaIt
| laTp everybody
| tba boulerard was laughing The American Bal
| sround the corner doing no business; patrons
a. Ga nr,aroed TO stare. | worked through the cToWc
| and saw my fellow, the man with the palntee
bned (which might been the title of the story
| He was nice looking person. exceedingly wei
| dressed and immensely unhappy. A1terward ne
| haunted me What could have induced mar
| nS his type to do such thing? Gradually th'
ot toti came to me- and wrote it. That's ali there
| Is ito it'-except to read II!
| Major Martin Hume's Spanish Influence or
Epelish Literature" has just been published II
| +b,S country by the Lippincotts The author:
| aim has been to provide for English reader:
| what NAV be called comparative study o.
cnarish literature in special relation to its points
| of contact with the literature of their own Ian
| suaee and to stimulate the reading of the origi
! nal Spanish texts. Major Hume is the editor O
| Spanish State Papers In the Public Record
| Office examiner in Spanish and lecturer in tn,
| University of London and the author of "Th'
| courtshfps of Queen Elizabeth"