The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-25

rigid investigation by special experts Of the
business Of packing and selling condemned
meat at Chicago.
The publishers OF Emmy Lou recently
received an order for a copy Of that book from
China, and from a Chinaman who painted his
letter with a punk on a piece Of paper like
a laundry ticket. The letter itself was
written ip good English, and not in hero
glyphic characters, which 1t might have
puzzled the receiver to decipher.
Senator Antonio Fogazzaro's latest book,
II Santo," has made a decided sensation
in Italy. Editions OF the novel are now
in preparation in Madrid, Paris and Leipsic,
and English TRANSACTIONS are being pub
lished in London and in New York. The
story gives a vivid picture of religious
conditions in Italy and of the conflict be-
tween the Church and State. The Ameri-
can edition has an introduction by Prof.
William r. Thayer of Harvard. Senator
Fogazzaro Is one OF the most popular Of
Italian writer's. Some twenty volumes
of prose and verse stand to his credit in
Italy, of which @Daniele Cortis" probably
reveals his finest qualities. To foreigners
unfamiliar with Italian he is best known
through translations Of his "Piocolc Monde
Antico" and -Piccolo Monde Modemo."
The ultimate American Is the subject
of some interesting reflections in the cur
rent Scribner's Point Of View" The
lack of style in our literature the writer
| asoribes to a direct need for "dry, pebbly
particles Of pure knowledge, undiluted and
%uninfated, to give tone to a system in
judiciously fed upon desserts during it's
infancy. To speak seriously, We generalized
before We specialized, and it should have
been the other way around. We are now
specializing prior to again generalizing,
and the last state will be the unification OF
composite and conflicting branches Of
knowledge in what may be called a 'sym-
pathetic oulture'-a culture, that is, which
NAV include a special line Of work without
excluding a sympathetic relation to mental
| activities in different directions. 1t is only
thus, of course, that a large suggestiveness
can be brought into our writings, and it is
| this amplitude Of suggestion that makes
them literature
One OF the articles announced for the
June Country Life will be of special interest
to the large class Of people to whom the
summer vacation Is an unsettled and an
nually recurring problem. 1t deals wit h
the experiment Of a group Of city men who
nave secured title to a number Of aban-
doned farms in the berkshire Hills and
have there established a summer community
that pays for itself.
There is much speculation over the au-
thorship OF "A Woman's Heart" "Olive
Ransom the name given on the title page
of the book, belonged to a Colonial an
cestor Of the author, who Is O New York
woman, the writer Of several books under
another name, and now living in seclusion
in the city. She says Of herself in the book
that she is IAN American Of old stock
Aoatholica according to your distinctions
and has been brought up in the freedom
and liberality that inform the best people
of the country, and also with the faith that
there are no difficulties which Justice
truth and good purpose may not over.
COME
Irving Bachelors first venture into the
field of fiction came about from his a~ssocia'
ton with the Lantern Club, a society Of
newspaper men, who used to meet about
fifteen years ago on the roof Of an old build.
ing in New York. They called themselves
the Lantern Club not only because Of the
symbolical meaning Of the word but also
because lanterns furnished the sole illumi'
nation at the meetings. Among the diver
sions OF the club was the custom Of writing
and reading stories aloud forfrank criticism
The criticism was sometimes brutally free
but the quality Of the literary training re
ceived may be judged by the success O.
both Irving Bachelor and Stephen Crane
who began to do serious work as the direc
result of those meetings.
Ernest Poole, whose first novel "The Voic'
Of the Street" is announced for publication
graduated from Princeton only four year