New-York tribune., 1906-07-28


which Mr.. Rudyard Kipling has prepared for
the September number Of 'McClure's Magazine"
1t is the tale of a woman who lent her sons,
one blind and the other dumb, to ferry the
fairies out Of England.
Another contribution to that number Of the
magazine is paper entitled "A Royal RO-
nance" The hero and heroine of the romance
are the young King and Queen Of Spain. AL
fOnso is quoted saying Il want to be happy.
and then 1 shall know how to make others
happy; and his betrothed said of him: HE
thinks Of everything would like without being
told perhaps that's because when he was small
he was SO constantly with his mother. It's made
him thoughtful and considerate of women
The little temporary eating houses which
sprang up amid the ashes Of San Francisco ac-
quired in some cases names Of literary favor.
One of these. taken from the title Of Octave
Thanet's latest novel. was called THE Man Of
the Hour" Other names. borrowed from Miss
Geraldine Bonner's California stories, were
Hard Pan" and The Pioneer.
The discussion Of ''the Kings English" which
has been raging in Great Britain has called
forth many ancient instances. One indignant
wrestler with precision says Of one carper that
he would have enjoyed scoring MiIton's manu-
scripts with a blue pencil. for he constantly
wrote from whence and from thence Milton
was not without some classical scholarship
and nobody suppose, win accuse him Of being
a careless writer If then he deliberately used
these expressions. it is probable that he con-
sidered them to be idiomatic. like some other
redundancies"
Mr. Grover Cleveland's book Of fishing and
shooting sketches will appear on August 10 1t
is described volume Of calm, genial philos-
ophy"
A biography of MoIiere is in prospect. the au-
thor thereof being Mr.. H. c. Chatfeld Taylor.
who has been lecturing in recent years on the
French dramattst.
Everybody who writes about Admiral Togo
dwells upon the great mans Inodesty. There is
a characteristic story of this trait in Mrs. Craw-
ford's sketch of him published in the August
number of The Worlds Work" Last autumn
she says, the admiraIs humility led him into
what ne considered a terrible piece of extrava-
gance:
The court photographer, Maruzi, had once taken
dows. and was very much troubled. He walked
Of the firm who arrived with smiles and he bevT o "a
welcome his flIustrious client, but the admira1's
wrong that thev sBoud s5ed m9ne o Il G Is Tery Very
trait Of such stupid person. 1 wish to have the
negative; so that you may print no more copies,
ing fine harvest of the picture. and had desire
IT.
for the negative" he explained 81 know the ad-
nrai replied sadly what do you for ask it?''
twenty ven Togo sighed That is EreaP sum
for poor man ike me to pay-but I must have
the negative" So he counted out the money and
You ought to have presented it to him. cried
Business is business Mr.. Garukrs curt
reply.
In London Town" is the title of forthcom-
ing book by Mr.. F. Berkeley Smith. whose de-
scriptive writings have heretofore had Paris as
a subject.
A curious note concerning DR.. S. Weir Mitch
ellis novel Constance Trescott'' is contributed
by the author to the August Century" Several
of his reviewers, he says, and some who have
written to him, have doubted the possibility of
vengeance like that which he described in Con
stance Trescott." He adds:
I at liberty to say that somewhat similar
as like to add was not drawn. as certain Of my
critics haye ventured TO snggesf; from any ex-
The wish of the injured woman to place her
to some Of y readers aogeher @
The kindness of an officer of the army enables me
a desire. The following epitaph is to be found on
a tombstone in Colonial Park, Savannah disused
cemetery. One would like hear the whole story
so briefly summed Up in this tragic record:
Humble Stone
records the flial pety, fraternaI affection
JAMES WILDE ESQUIRE
late District Paymaster in the army of the L. s.
He fell in Duel
the 18th OF January, 1915, by the hand of a
who a short time before
would have been friendless but for him:
and expired instantly in his 22d year:
dying he had lived
with mistaken courage q unbemshed reputation
By his untimey death the prop of a mothers age
is broken:
The hope and consolation of sister is destroyed:
The pride of a brother humbled in the dust:
And a whole family happy until then
overwhelmed with afiction
Mr.. A. E. W. Mason's new story in "The Cen
tury' opens effectively with search for two
lost Alpine climbers at Chamounix. The tragic
scene is described with u moving simplicity
which seems to send a chill as of the glacier ice
upon the reader.
Turkey is said to have a vast literature some
of it being of splendid quality. Most of it is
anonymous are told by Mr.. F. W Won Her
bert in The Book Monthly
The author receives his remuneration from the
scribe, who in most simply buys the orig
inal manuscript for fixed sum- and makes three