The sun., 1905-12-13


beak nosed Whitebushes played chess
behind drawn landscape shades He
thought it was only a vision. and he wrote
it in book which he called a romance, be-
cause it wasn't really true. Recently he
met an old lady in Elizabeth who assured
him that she had rolled hoops on Cort-
landt street in 1924, and that one of her play
mates had been a Caroline Of Cortlandt
street who afterward married an English
man. Surely you must have heard of her,
she told the author, for you have her story
in your book" But as Mr., Mills had never
know of Caroline, her appearance in the
confusion of Cortlandt street of to-day must
be accounted for by the psyChics.
In the December Norh American Rerier
Henry James tells of an evening spent in
the Iiddish qrartor under the guidance
of a high public functionary domciled
on the spot, who though not mentioned
by name was undoubtedly William Travers
Jerome Mr.. jerome proved to be one of
the most luminous and inspiring of guides,
as Mr.. James attests gracefully. Il can
scarce help it, he writes, IF this brilliant
personality on that occasion, the very
medium itself through which the whole
spectacle showed, so colors my impress
sions that if ] speak by intention of the
facts that played with them I may really
but reflect the rich talk and the general
privilege Of the hour"
NJ. Jaures the author of studies in So
calism, which has been translated from
the French by Miss Mildred Minturn, be-
longs to that group Of French statesmen
who are arresting public attention by
applying first principles to politics and
substituting ethics for tactics. That is,
according to the English Speaker, the rea-
son why the personality of NJ. Jaures serves
at the present moment as the point on which
all the political controversy of to-day in
France appears to concentrate itself. His
socialism is religion and he presents the
inspiring spectacle of good man working
out his own salvation in the face OF in
Vulnerable difficulties
Vaughan Kester. the author, is student
of negro character and has a fund of negro
aneCdote and tradition and story surpassed
only by that of Joel Chandler Harris The
two authors are friends and their friend
ship is based largely upon their mutual
interest in negro character and ability
to swap" negro stories Mr.. kester says
that one of his most common experiences
is to have negro in some part of the country
relate tale that he has previously heard
from Mr. Harris in Atlanta-a good proof
of the genuineness of the folklore in Mr..
Harris's Uncle Remus Tales"
The experience of Mr.. and Mrs. William
son in having their story misconstrued
as an advertisement has been notably
preceded in the case of no less famous an
offender that Robert Louis Stevenson.
In story of his that came ont serially he
mentioned as a sort Of Joke Pink Pills for
Pale People" whereupon other advertisers
in the magazine in which the story was ap-
pearing demanded similar privileges of
mention in Mr.. Stevenson's text, Mrs.
l.. p. Meade an English authoress, fell
into the same sort of trouble in one OF her
stories and had as difficult a time in COM
batting the misrepresentation as Mr.. and Mrs
Williamson are having at present. Mrs
Williamson says she is little nerpleXed
a. to whether in future they should alto
gether omit the names of motor cars and
motor boats or should give them fictitious
titles. or tell the truth and face the con-
sequences,
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