The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-18

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are being brought out by two publishers
this year, had but one rival In the act Of
diary writing-hts friend and contem-
porary, Samuel Pepys. They sat at the
same table, watched tho same Incidents,
served the same masters and recorded IL all.
each In his " way. Evelyn wrote AZ the
scholar with In genious and ample reference,
as the gentleman with abundant leisure
and habit Of reflection and allusion. The
world has long since judged between them,
but II Evelyn had TO yield the palm to his
rival for genius Evelyn had talent which
makes the new presentation Of his work Of
interest to the scholar. He yas skilled in
gardening as well as in book lore, a patron
Of the fine arts. al enthusiastic disco verer
Of Grinling Gibbons, the friend OF Christie
pher Wren. and Of his rival Pepys under
all circumstances.
Mrs, Cunninghame Graham has done
into English a masterpiece Of mystical
writing from the Spanish under the title Of
THE Dark Night OF the Soul-By the
Blessed Father San Juan de Ia Cruz st.
John Of the Cross vas born in 1542 in Old
CASTLE, entered the order of the existing
Carmelites, died at the age Of 10 and was
canonized In l72e, Mrs. Graham IL not the
frat expounder of the doctrines of the
Spanish saint, MIR the first translator of
his work, but abe Ia a sympathetic one.
herself q mystic, as she reveals In the pref
ace. Thu theme Of the doctrine Mrs.
Graham supports and presents she sums
up In a single sentence. For the mystics
knew, what modern Thought Is now feebly
and In the dark beginning to grasp. that the
soul, being q spark Of the universal soul
body or soul substance, existed long before
the creation OF the world, immortal in the
temporary tenement Of clay she Eliminates
by her presence; knows no age. no passage
Of time, no limitations of space; shall be
immortal for all time; that she never was
because she always has been and like wise
shall never end"
Herbert M. Hopkins. the author Of "The
Mayor OF WARWICK which is agitating the
good people Of Hartford just now because
OF Its photographiopiotures Of Christ Church,
Trinity College and other familiar scenes,
together with reproductions OF disturbing
local incidents and individual portraits,
will be remembered as the author of "The
Fighting Bishop" He Is a graduate Of
Columbia apd Of Harvard and at present he
Ia a member Of the staf of Grace Church.
Mr.. Hopkins's wife Is Pauline Bradford
Mackie, known 10 readers Of fiction az tho
author Of -The washingtonians,' "The
Voice Of the Desert 30,
Guy Thorne. who wrote "When II Was
Dark manages TO secure an amount Of
free advertising that must be the envy Of
his fellow novelists and the delight OF his
ntihliahara IL Ia m "a thol 49, 49, - nao
copies Of his book were sold In England
alone as the result Of the reference made to
it by the Bishop Of London In a sermon de-
livered at Westminster Abbey. 1t has been
decided by the Union Society Of Oxford
that all Of Thorne's works in the library Of
the famous university shall be elected \
therefrom and publicly burned The
burning Of books Is an old custom in times
Of revolution and reformation, but since
the middle Of the last century 1t has been
given up. The last book to be ~destroyedin
this fashion was Froude's Nemesis Or
Faith which, according TO an official state
Q published March 10. ls4e, was publicly
burned by the authorities in the college hail.
Eben Phillpotts will bring out his next
novel In collaboration with another well
hiioWh VaaeVi oid Dtlilttt. IL Will DO
called 'The Sinews Of War and Is to be a
romance Of Lopdon and the sea, opening
oheerfully with a murder,
The Contributors Club Of the current
Atlantic gives a new formula for the simple
life in the emancipation Of people from
things. A woman who, with six young
children and only one servant, keeps a
spotless house and a soul serene originated
the scheme. 'onoe a month"; she said,
u give away every single thing in the house
that we do not imperatively need. 1t
sounds wasteful, but / don't believe 1t really
Is. Sometimes Jeremiah mourns over miss
ing old clothes or back numbers of the maya
zines. but I tell him II he doesn't want
to be mated to a gibbering maniac he will
let me do as ! like
The City Of Conversation is the title
bestowed upon Washington by Henry
James in the North American Rev. Wash-
ington has been considered somewhat
generally as the scat Of government Of a
nation, but IL one is deft at disentangling
intricaoies and clever at translating subtle
ties and catching elusive suggestion one