The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-10
working together for the good Of all.

Book Ne1ns for March takes the form Of a
Mrs. Browning centenary number and
contains reproductions Of the various por-
traits of the poet, besides pictures of places
CONNIE cted with her life and literary career.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson contributes
"reminiscences of the days when Mrs.
Browning was living and writing, and there
are papers on Mrs. Browning in Poetry
To-day "The Brownings in Florence n
a biographical sketch OF the woman poet'
Mrs. John Lane, herself an American
by birth and a resident Of England, has
compared the customs and manners, social
and domestic, Of the two countries In
ber book %The Champa gne Standard
The title may be explained by the fact that
while fifty years g champa gne was seldom
to be seen except at wedding breakfasts
and important festivities now a host or
hostess seldom ente rtains without pro-
ducina this wine. The moral of this par
ticular essay may be summed up in the
words addressed to a mother who COM
plains that her daughter 'hangs on hand
Maria, what struggler would dare to ask
a champagne standard girl to keep his
'hatP's Mrs. Lane writes from a trans
planted American standpoint and writes
OF the idiosyncrasies and characteristics OF
both England and America with vivacity
and good humor.
The sartorial sins OF authors are manifold
and amusing to the reader OF observation.
Book Clothes" is the title Of a recent tabu-
lation Of these faults in small matters, from
which even Thackeray was not gulltless'
He talks OF the gown of satin that had been
turned" when short Of velvet. He could
not nave selected q more unturnable fabric.
The author who resists the temptation TO
describe the heroine's attire is a master
| craftsman. Jane Austen was most clever
at giving undatable descriptions to dress,
though she writes Of an ugly bonnet which
WAS quite ~tolerable" after it had been re-
trimmed. But how many ingenious men
writer's persist in talking about bonnets
and shawls for years after no woman wore
them. and how many historical story tellers
dress their heroines in Chiffon which is a
purely modern invention. Even pearls
go out" and "clinging draperies' are often
mt out Of commission between the writing
and the pu blishing of a story. Ouida's
method OF writing Of velvets, eables and
turquoise Rirdles, and leaving the making
up to the readers imagination, is safest.
A BASQUE or a "crinoline" worn out OF
season would spoil the CONTINGENCIES"
Of the best story ever written.
"If Youth but Knew by Kappa is an
attack upon the English system OF educa-
ton of boys. The severest indictment
which he brings against the public
schools lie that they seem to set them
selves to produce the nil ddmirdr1 habit in a
boy, to make all boys Of one conventional
pattern, which would receive the entire ap-
proval of the drill sergeant king. Frederick
William, father Of Frederick the Great.
Who Kappa" is no one seems to know;
the ~pseudonym shelters a writer Of broad
views and distinctive style.
The outcome Of the first Plato lecture
in Mayfair was a discussion as to whether
the education Of children was better placed
in the hands of men or of women. And
almost simultaneously with this discussi on
has appeared the biography OF DR.. Temple.