The Washington herald., 1907-10-13
In the World of Books
LITERARY GLEANINcs AND GOSSIP

editor vet '.breezes' his horses. works them "ou
I the fat lifts" them over the timber His
puglisis are as Of Old time giuttous for punish
meHt and their blsHs' viii not be denied All
sensible persons must yeafn Tor the time when the
yellow metal VIII have disappeared. when the
"hery element win be quenched. and the '-palatiai
hostelrieS closed when the specified beauties VIII
have vanished with the other members Of the fnny
/ tribe, and the "kings Of cotton, lumber and
wheat VIII have gone with the merchant princes
] 10 their own place.
Mrs. Michael Davitt solicits from the
friends of her late husband the loan of
any letters OF documents that they may
have received from him. Mrs. Davitt viii
undertake to return all such c0mmunica-
tions, without delay, 10 their owners.
Another volume of memoirs from Lady
Dorothy Nevill-or rather a volume Of
extracts from the notebooks Of that en-
tertaining Observers in preparation.
Lady Dorothy Nevfl had passion for
collecting scraps and squibs.- and had
many a book crammed with than. Turn
! ing them over occasionally, there were
/ recalled to her mind memories OF many
interesting or amusing incidents which
otherwise would have been forgotten
Thus leaf Of an old broadside of 1899,
entitled The Great Battle for Reform,
recalled to LadS Dorothy the following
incident: Long before the days Of ad-
vanced female politicians. in that year.
an elderly couple, peacefully sleeping In
their four-poster, were one morning
roughly aroused at an early hour by
their excited maid servant, who, burst
ing into the bedroom, bawled out; It's
passed. It's passed" Extremely annoyed,
the old lady called out from inside the
bed-curtains: What's passed, you fool?
The Reform bill, shouted the girl, and
We're al equal now; after which she
marched out OF the room, purposely leav-
ing the door wide open to show her
equality"
Charles Batten Loomis author of "A
Bath in an English Tub Minerva's
ManeuveFs.' &C, puslished by a. S.
Barnes & Co. has spent the summer Ia
a tour OF Scotland as a result of which
his publishers hope that there viii be
enough material to authorize a possible
Bath in a Scotch Tub
Duffield & Co. announce that the publi-
cation of Meth Boyce's new novel, The
Bond" has been postponed until Janu-
airy. Early this month will be published
Painters and ScuIptors," book Of art
criticism by Kenyon Cox; Historic
Churches of America" by Nellie Urner
Wallington. with an introduction by Ed-
ward Everett Hale; plays Of Our Fore
fathers" by Prof Charles Mills Gayley;
The Holy Grail and Other Fragments,
by Richard Hovey; Gypsy Verses" by
Helen Hay Whitney; an illustrated edi-
ton OF Stories from the Old Testament
for Children by Harriet 5. Blaine Beale
and Childhood. by Millicent and Girha
Sowerby. a volume Of verses and PIC
lures by two sisters whose work has
attracted great attention in England.
Alice Williamson writes from her homo
in England tlht the story Of the bullnght
introduced as a main feature an the "Car
of Destiny" in which girl comes into
the bull ring 20 pardon the bu1. is
founded on an actual scene which she
herself witnessed while on her Spanish
tour. Every ten years or SD. siie states
Il is the custom 20 pardon a bull n ac-
count of it bravery. In the actual ecse
Of this kind which she Witnessed in
Spain, j. was boy, however, ard nc.
girl, as described il tAe bP9k. wto
brought the pardon into the ring.
Elmer Glyn, who IL private life is
Mrs. Clayton Glyn, lf Harlo~. Essex,
England, and a sister Of Lady DUFF Cor
don. arrived on the Cedric recently.
This is Mrs. Gyms hrsJ visit ID Amer
lea. While here size expects to- visit
friends in tins city and Newpo.t.
The Rome Of to-day is in strange con
trast even 10 the city that Page and
Hawthorne knew, in the comparatively
recent past; and the Rome Of de ancients
is traced only in the churches and the
ruins" says Lillian Whiting in her new
book. Italy, the Magic Land. 1T is a
mot ;hat one hears every language spoken I
in Rome except the Italian. SO largely
has the seven-hilled city become the
pleasure ground of foreign residents, the
contrast between the ordinary breakfast
table talk in Rome and iu-Boston, for
instance or Washington, is amusing. In
the Puritan capital it usually includes
the topic Of weather predictions and the
news in the morning paper, with whatever /
other Of local or personal matters OF
interest
'In Washington, where the very actors
and the events that make the nations /
history are fairly before ones eyes, the |
breakfast-table conversation is apt TO turn /
on matters that have not yet got into /
the papers-the evening session of the /
previous night. perhaps, when toe long /
prolonged under the vast dome to admit /
OF ts having been noted in the morning /
press. But in Rome the breakfast-table /
talk is apt TO be Of the new excavations |
just taken from the bed of the Tiber; /
the question as TO whether the head of I
st. Paul could have touched Cat the tragic /
scene of his execution at three places so /
far apart as the tri-fontanes; or dis /
cussion of the marvellous freshness Of the /
mosaics in the interior of the Palace of +
the Caesars; or. again. of the last nights 4
balls or dinners, and matters most frankly 4
mondaine, ana OF contemporary life
The career OF Roy Hartman. whose /
latest novel. Lord Cammarleigh's Sc
cret," has just been issued IN this coun- /
try by Little. Brown & Co, possesses /
many points of eventfuI interest. He is 4
the son Of a British naval officer. and /
his childhood was consequently spent 1
in various parts Of the world. At the /
age if thirteen he is said to have written 1
novel entitled "Corinne," but he has 4
never been able to recover the manu- /
script from his mother. who eonhscated /
IL when she discovered its erotic nature /
He completed his education IN England. /
aspired 10 be an actor, made a failure 4
as a clerk In an Office, and then sought 4
his first love. the stage. He attained 1
considerable success in the companies OF /
Forbes Robertson and Mrs. Patrick /
Campbell. OF his previous novels, the 4
,.,r+ s,,oooeef.r1 = sslo1Iov,rr ~.