The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19

stood by a child. il is also such a selec-
ton as TO be cream OF desirable infor-
nation and thus valuable TO adults who
have no time nor need to make fuller
study OF more elaborate works. The
volume is 44a pages and has thirty
three Illustrations. This ostrich-egg
story culled from IL is rather surpris-
ing.
An ostrich egg is equal TO two dozen
hens eggs. One would suppose a slice
Of one esq would make a mans meal
but the Hottentots are so fond OF them
that two natives have been known to
eat i've of these big eggs in an after
noon. together with a large portion
OF -four and fat
(silver, Burdett & Co.. New York.
72 cents)
The admirers Of Mile Julie de Lispi-
nasse. who IL Is generally considered,
is the original of Lady Roses Daugh-
ter" Will be interested TO know that a
new biography OF the fascinating
woman has been written by the Mar
quis de segur. The author has discov-
cred many new sources OF information.
chief among WHICH are the original
autographs of the famous love letters.
containing numerous passages exeised
by Guibert's widow as Injurious to her
husbands reputation. and large num-
Der of his replies. suppressed for the
same reason.
Owing to his discoveries. NJ. de Segur
believes that he has cleared up the
mystery OF Julie de Lespinasse's origin
In his opinion her father was Gaspard
de vichy, who.. when she was seven
years old, married her elder and legiti-
mate half-sister. and. fearing the
diminution of Ms wife's portion. in
sisted that his daughter should be left
almost unprovided for by her mothers
will Julie wrote long afterward to
her friend Condorcet: II have had
nothing but the most atrocious treat
ment from the very people who owed
me most consideration."-Ind
News.
The idea that the Poet, as a species
of dormouse. stores nuts OF joy against
a chilly day. Is common to the optimism
of modern literature. Ibsen. pre-
eminently. is not the dupe of it. and IL
is to youth OF dependency and pri-
walton that he felt he owed manhood
OF independent vigor. His childhood
oppressed by poverty and the absence
of affection. his youth by vain strug-
gle for recognition and the burden Of
debts. his manhood by solitude in exile
and bitter detraction at home-the lot
of Ibsen seems at first sight one of the
least enviabie In literary history. But
all these deadly troubles proved merely
cordiaIs and elixirs upon which his
genius nourished. spreading through
their darkness into the light and air.
1t Is an instance which may well cause
a determinist to question the wisdom
of his formula. since If ever there were
presented to US a character which
throve in unceasing resistance TO the
motives acting upon it. it was surely
that Of Ibsen.-Edmund Gosse, in the
July Atlantic.
one can trace the tnnuence or Georg6
Meredith's style on later writers; it Is
not so easy to find it's origin. 1t is
possible that Carlyle had some infiu-
ence. but 1t is not apparent. easily as
one might apply some part of what ne
has written OF Cariyle-"a style re-
sembling either early architecture or
other dilapidation. so loose and rough
il seemed; wind n-the-orchard style,
that tumbled down here and there an
appreciabls fruit with uneouth blusters
sentences without commandments run
ming TO abrupt endings and smoke. like
waves against a sea wall. learned die
tionary words giving a hand TO street
slang, and accents falling on them hap
hazard. like slant rays from driving
clouds; all the pages in a breeze. the
whole book producing a kind Of cleo
trical agitation in the mind and joints"
Mr.. Meredith is one of the most high
ly cultivated of writer's; he has drawn
from many sources, passed many sim
pies through his elaborate stillateFy.
but some Of his phrases. slant rays"
pages in a breeze electrical agita-
tion." suggest that Carlyle may have
been among the forces that stimulated
his literary eativeness.-Springhel
Republican.
TO MARGARET DELAND.