The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-09
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A new book on Haddon Hall by Mr.. q.
10 Blanc Smith 10 announced for immediate
publication under the title Of 'Haddon; the
Manor, tha Hall; It's Lords and Traditions"
The book will contain the only existing
letter Of Dorothy Vernon. with a facsimile
Of her signature, and II Is dedicated TO the
Duke Of Rutland, by whose permissi ion 1t
haa bean complied.
The late Louis r. Austin, author OF
sPolnts OF View was considered one Of the
best after dinner speakers In London.
He hsd nothing In book form except a
'Life OF living written twenty-five years
ago under the nom dc plume Of Frederick
DAILY, and o little volume OF essays en-
titled sAt Random until his friend Mr..
Rock collected the recently published
volume from the journals In which they
were printed. But II Is interesting TO read
what this popular and witty after dinner
speaker has 10 say OF his art. eta the
deuce Of a job he said after one Of his
triumphs. sYou noe, 1t 10 on my mind for
days. I prepare IL In the sire OF mostly.
When you notice motor oars pulled up
short and policemen wildly waving their
arms you may guess that ! have thought
Of o capital phrase In the middle OF Q cross.
ing. Then I spout II twenty times over
In my BEDROOM. Then, II ones nerves
are not quite the ticket, there's the risk
Of dropping a sentence and upsetting the
whole blessed eaboodle. Oh, it's the deuce
of q job, and 81! the Seward Ia the art Of it's
A MusdA Guatave Flsubert was inaug-
uratad recently at Croisseti near Rouen,
where Flsuhent passed q part OF his life
and composed all his more important works,
from sMadame Boyary' TO la Tentation dc
Saint AntoinS,'
'The Lion and the Mouse having been
produced "a q play and published az o serial
In q literary magazine will be brought out
In book form In August, The large adj
vance orders for the novel have practically
disposed Of the first edition. Next season
four dramatic companies will be presenting
the play In different parts OF the United
States, and It u said that 1t will probably
run another year In New York.
Monoure D. Conway has been appro-
prately appointed president Of the newly
organized Thomas Palma Club. Mr.. Conway
Ia the author OF the defnitive life Of Painei
and the editor OF his works an well as an
ardent admirsr OF the great thinker and
writer,
Mr.. Werner Laurie will soon publish in
his Cathedral Series' the third volume on
England and Wales by Mr.. T. Francis
Bumpus, which volume completes the
British set. Mr.. Bumpus is now in Italy
preparing a volume on Italian oathedrals
TOR the series.
A little pieoo Of literary gossip furnished
by the Bookloper concerns Harry ~Stoggles,
the original OF David In -The Reign Of
Law" and how he received his name.
Harry stoggles. the young hemp farmer
who went 10 college burning with tho de-
sire to preach the gospel and fell under the
influence OF the apostles OF tho New Thought,
Is we'll known In the University Of Ken
tucly "a william Benjamin Smith, the
euthor OF @The Color Line; a Brief for the
Unborn He was both a debatsr and an
athlete and earned the title Of Aristotle
among the learned only to have it oor-
yuptsd into Harry Stoggles by his adj
mirers on the athletic field. James Lane
Allen and w, B. Smith were the closest
friends for many years.
The anonymous authors OF 'The Kings
English have subjected the everyday
| writing Of English to a rigorous analysis
and found it wanting. They have also
called forth an interesting defence for the
working model" in Epglish-the COM
promise between -full dress and undress'
writing essential to those whose business
1t 70 to write rapidly from no less an author
ity than TAe Spectator. Good Journalism
ought to have many points Of kinship with
good talk, ann soms OF the looseness and
| oolloquialism OF our common speech is not
out Of place. argues The Spectator, and
+the truth Is that without a blYpder now
and then there can be no good writing.
A man should endeavor to write English
as a master, not as q sohoolmaster, and it
10 only the sohoolmaster who never slips.
Again, every member in good standing Of
the great Guild Merchant OF Literature
should remember Dryden's magnificent
boast; 4 trade both with the living and