Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-22

idii' as recorded in the entertaining
balzac en- PantOuiles.' Gozlan met the
novelist one afternoon on the Boule-
wards. hungry for dejeuner. Balzac
TOOK him into an English confectioners
IN the Rue Royale. Having ordered
some macarOni pates. he laid down on
the table some volumes he was carry
ing. DO you know what that book is?'
he asked GOZlan. NO, my dear Bal
lac! Hearing Balzac's name, the
English girl behind the counter started
as If fascinated by it. Balzac did not
notice her. but said, 1t Is the Path
nnder' of Fenimore Cooper And he
poured out an enthusiastic apprecia.
| ton of the American novelist
forgetting his hunger, forgetting
where he was, and everything but
his subject. But you are not eating
said GOzlan. True replied BalZac;
| and in three or four gargantuan
| mouthfuls. eating, laughing and prais-
| ing Cooper at the same time, while he
| walked up and down the shop, he COB
bled up four macarOni pates, to the
immense astonishment of the girl, who
was amazed that a man who as she
mad thought. would feed upon flowers.
air, and perfumes, should eat so greed
| lily. What do / owe YOU madcmoi-
selle?' said Balzac, at length satisfied.
'Nothink, Monsieur de Balzac!' an
swered the girl, in a tone which adj
| mittcd no contradiction. BalZac looked
at his friend. hardly knowing how to
! reply to this delicate attention. And
! then. after moments pause, he pre-
scented her with Cooper's romance,
saying: L have never so much re-
GREETED. mademoiselle. that I am not
the author of it, We do not know
whether BalZac ever saw the girl
| again. He was not of the nature of
Sterne. This incident reminds one of
| the buffet scene in the first act of
| 'CyranO de Bergerac.' with this one i'm
mense difference, that Cyrano refused
to accept more than a grape and a ma
caroon, While BalZac-iEtendinS to
pay, however-had eaten his fill"
The old house occupied for over a
quarter of a century by the late Rich
ard Henry Stoddard on East Fifteenth
street near Stuyvesant Square, New
York. has recently been destroyed to
make room for new buildings. The
house which. as Indicated in the poets
"RecOllectiOns." recently published, was
a meeting place for the most prominent
writers OF Mr. Stoddard'S generation,
was one of the literary landmarks Of
New York. and it would seem that its
site. like the site of Washington Irv-
ing's birthplace in William Street
might be aptly indicated 10y a tablet.
The Century Magazine: OF course
| ~,
and dissipation. a habit to be corrected.
| Also. it is very evident that many great,
reSoluto natures have been built up
with little reading. or by much reading
of few books, and much pondering-
much reading of men. of opinions. of
events, rather than Of the printed page.
Men like Cromwell and Lincoln, and
others who have changed the course of
modern history. have been SO nurtured.
We could even point u very great
and effective modern scientific genius
who, with an apparent aversion to
scientific literature, g"ts his learning
not so much from books. as from eX-
poriments and from he twenty ques-
ton system intclligently applied to
friendly experts.
Jeanette l.. Glider. editor of the
Critic. has an interesting article in
Leslie's Magazine for May on "Does 1t
Pay to be n Literary Woman?" The
article contains letters from a number
| of prominent literary women. most of
| whom say they have nothing to regret
in their careers, emphasizing the sat
isfactiOn which they get from the
| work rather than the return in dollars
and cents necessarily. Speaking for
herself, Miss Glider says:
81 began journalistic life when l was
i'm my teens because it seemed to me
the most attractive life in the world.
1 was singularly fortunate in my sur
roundings. I enjoyed every minute of
it. From daily journalism. l graduate
ed into editorial work and free lane
ing. l would not give up the life that
lead, but / should not want to lead
the life I used to lead. 1t was too
strenuous. Now it is comparatively
easy. The life that have chosen has
paid me i'm many ways. and 1 would
not turn my back upon it if I should
suddenly inherit the wealth of the In
dies, any more than I would turn my
back upon an old friend
Henry c. Rowland. whose new novel,
"The Wanderers" has just been pub
lishcd by A. ). Barnes & Co.. has been
exploring the Dismal Swamp i'm a 30
foot cabin slOOp. After week i'm the
lonely waterways of the swamp DR..
Rowland cruised on the Warwick
river and up the James. At one time
he was caught i'm a heavy storm and
was obliged to remain constantly at
the tiller from half past six in the
morning until half past five at night.
New and interesting side-lights on
the Civil War are promised i'm the
June Century: "What n Boy Saw OF
the Civil War" by the Rev. Leighton
Parks, rector of st. Bartholomew
New York city. with glimpses Of Rob-
ert E. Lee: curious and surprising
article on "Boys in the Union Army.
by George Langdon kilmer; "A Pupil S
Recollections of 'Stonewall Jackson;
and "Recollections of Jubal Early
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