New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
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SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1905.

Writing about the late John Hays WORK as an
author Mr.. HoweIls has some interesting tnlnss
49, 60 IN .sIne North American Review. he
,y.s assistant editor Of the Atlantic wnen
rov cont tn that periodical from Madrid the
first Of the papers which he afterwaru ei'-
bodied in ~Castilian Days" 1t was the KIND OF
Offering which IN editor rejoices to receive
written with . c1tAin veJ instructed GULL
mand of the facts, N wen rs with a hterary
charm which had the freshness OF SURPRISE
sfr Hovvells pays IN engaging tribute 10 ene
Spanish book. but We are especially lntefesuu
in his reference to bis friends wor1 upon uio
staff of The Tribune. Il doubt, remarks M.-
HowelIs, "if he felt this descent rom ene LIZ
erary heights which some OF us Ike 70 linisLil1
overlooking the newspaper Levels
would have been the last to let any one ense
distinouish between his journalism and bis LIB
erat,1re." Decidedly, he would have been tne
last One of the most delightful of the memo
r;es Of John Hay cherished by those VINO
worked with him on this Journal Is the memory
of the complete abandonment to its fasc1nauon
with which he threw himself upon MS worK-
He WAS never the man OF letters Temporarily en-
ea,,,d in Journalism, or the journalist tngeo
with the ar1or Of letters In him both charaor
tiers were so intertwined that it would not na's
been possible for him to have said when the az
tivities of the one ceased and those Of the other
began His example to writing men wills IN
nothing finer than IN its constant enforcement
of the ;dea that there Is DO kind OF legitimate
authorship UPON which an author should WraK
less than the best that Is In him
c,,.tIn, NJ journalism an Illustration At
what can be made Of Il by the wrong hamls
turns I'D most amusingiy IN "RlackWoodR
wherein Journalism, as such. s comi7lV
scorned In the department Of Musings WIZ
ont Method" we are treated to some minttaone
observations ON what the writer calls ~Ino
Fare of Portsmouth," Speaking OF the Jap-
anese and Russian plenipotentnrtes, THIS ama-
able Tory says: Their decision. had fhey o7ssoeo
at one would have affected the lives and fnrD-
unes Of many thousands, and one might naSo
thought that dignity and sincerity should naSe
been the essence Of their proceedings WY
did the conference end IN tragic failuref Be-
canse NJ. Witte seemed to regard II TN the spirit
of farce; because he kissed a railway guard
soon after his arrival; and because, above al
things. there were 100 special correspondents
thereto tell the tale The -Blackwoods' husef
cannot get over those correspondents, and hs
goes on to say. with passionate Keeling, that
there Is one warning which an nations may
take from the proceedings at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; never hold congress upon AmerF
can soil country which cannot protect two
august plenipotentiarics from the unweicome at
tention Of 120 Representatives Of the press Is
TO place for diplomatic conference" Heav-
pnIyi We wonder what the dear little man who
muses. SO uffishty IN 'BIackwood's" did when he
read his sovereign's dispatch Of congratulation
10 President ROOSEVELT Did he go of and get
some Draw bonny Scotchnan to discipline him
is he deserved. or did he cease upon the mid
hight with no pain. Of his own delicious alb
surdity7 For the finest brand Of yellow jour
naIism we have yet encountered commend us to
"Blackwood's Magazine"
The remarks quoted in another column from
The London Speaker" on "PoSthumous Phi
vacy" deal with no new subject but we never
tire of emphasizing the question involved The
literary body snatcher is an ever recurrent pest
and his offences cannot be too often or too Sc
yerey condemned We have never had much
hope that remonstrance would drive him to
utter rout So long men want money, num-
beers of them are no doubt bound to show their
willingness to get it by practices which the ordi-
nary code Of good feeling. to say nothing Of
honesty, Enthusiastically condemns. But there is
always the possibility that by widening the area
of nubJic disgust for the violation of literary