The Washington herald., 1907-08-11
By HECTOR FULLER.

AAiE nun a AiNN44Ag ldAiIbDlAts Uuk are
valuable addition to books on the drama.
The authoy is contemporary Of Rachael.
Dumas. George Sand. Daudet, Lamartine.
and other celebrities of that time. and
writes most charmingly Of them. There
is a critical analysis in the book of sew
eTal Of the famous plays IN which Nine.
Ristori appeared, Mary Stuart" Me
dea, Macbeth" 'Myrrha," 'Phaedra, ="
SC. There are also biographical reminis-
cences by L. D. Venture.
The news from Copenhagen that a
hitherto unknown play by Henrik Ibsen
has been unearthed in that city naturally
arouses the keenest and Iveliest curiosity
among readers and students of the Nor
wegian dTamatist. 1t appears that in
1908. Danish man OF letters looking over
a boOk-stall at Rome. was lucky enough
TO find a manuscript that had apparently
been Unwittingly disposed of by Ibsen
with other accumulated literary material
He bought II, as a matter Of course, and
when he died in 1900, he bequeathed il
TO the Royal Library at Copenhagen on
condition that it's publication should take
place through the medium of a certain
Danish writer, a friend Of his. Ibsen
was evidently never informed Of the fact
that the manuscript had been found The
matter was also kept from Ibsens wife
and son, and nothing was said about it
until after his death.
Longmans. Green & Co. announce for
publication early in the autumn the third
part Of Sir George Trevelyan's work on
''The American Revolution" The first
part was originally published eight years
ago; the second appeared four years later.
The new part deals with Saratoga and
Brandywine,' Valley Forge" and Eng
land and France at War
In What purports to be a discussion Of
English style" writer for a recent num-
Der of the North American Review con-
Germs himself chiefly with certain slips in
Prof. Barrett Wendelfs textbook on
composition and rhetoric. It seems that
Prof. Wendell has ended some SEN
tences with what not" and "and SO on"
without completing his thought, has con-
structed others carelessly and has used
such expressions as the matter in hand. q"
THE business in hand" and pitching
upon a word" Not for the world would
we defend these things, says a writer IN
the August issue Of The Bookman. They
are, from the proofreader's point OF view
enormities. Il is by detecting them that
a certain class of men gain a pleasing
sense Of superiority over others who are
not correspondngly cast down, so the net
result Is an increase of human happiness.
They offer the means of winning easy YER
bal victories over writers who are thought
well of to writer's who are not thought Of
at all, and thus serve I'm a way to redress
the inequalities Of fortune There is
chance for some one TO view with alarm"
the growing laXity in the use Of our com
mon tongue and 10 deplore especially that
IN these days of slovenly writing a man
in such high standing as So-and-So should
fan into these gross blunders. The blunders
are then pillOried I'm italics or marched
to jail behind exclamation points. looking
very guilty, indeed. and the newspapers
copy, and an editorial writer, topheavy
with sudden physiological dignity, com
ments on IT with splendid scorn. Finally.
II the weather IS warm, "Typicus" and
"PhilOlOgus" write letters ending either
with "Quis custodes custodiet" or yer
bum sat" ana others follow. and all con-
cerned are soon debating whether YOU
can be a perfect gentleman and end a sen
tence with proposition. II Is a scene Of
great and cheerful activity, and no man
with his heart in the right place viii be-
grudge the participants any of their self
satisfaction. The only question is that of
its relative importance.
Doubleday, Page & Co win publish dur
ing the month of August "The Lone
Star" a historical romance Of Texas by
Eugene P. Lyle, jr.; The Road to Hap
piness," by Mrs. Van Koert Schuyler;
TO Him that Hath" a story Of the New
York BOwery. by Leroy Scott; The Me-
moirS of Nine. RistOri," and "Dafodils.
Narcissuses, and How to Grow Them"
by A. NJ. Kirby.
Magazine readers are looking forward
with interest TO the fftieth anniversary
number Of the Atlantic Monthly. due this
fall Among Americans, the Atlantic, by
right Of its long standing, and by virtue
of its broad policy of appealing to all
classes of readers, holds a notable posi-
ton. Important leading articles on poll
tics, literature, labor, education, art, and
the topics of the day, written in every
case by prominent men, appear in each
issue. The Atlantic pictures to its read
eTs the real forces which make up Ameri-
can life, and both here and in Europe il
Is regarded as the best expression of our
national character.
In the August II issue Of Harper's
Weekly will begin the publication Of
new serial Of rather remarkable charac-
ter. It is entitled Money Magic" and
the author IS HamlIn Garland. whose orig
nal and singularly powerful novel. THE
tyranny or the Dark" ran through the
pages OF the Weekly a few years ago.
The London Public Opinion reprints
from a Canadian newspaper a letter writ
ten by Rudyard Kipllng 10 a correspond
ent who complained because Newfo,fnd-
land was not mentioned in the Song Of
the English" The reply. in part. runs.
II is rather large order 20 compress allpsions
to the whole Of our empire into two hnn5re5 lines
Of alleged verse. However when and -
there IS another edition Of my verses VIII Do nv
best 10 put IN Newf0undlards voice, also.
viii put IN a fouF-line verse among The s7ng of
the Cities if you, on your part viii drop. and in
huence other people TO drop. allusons to the 10Y
atty Of the colonies" In the first piac, disIits
the word colonies" and If you look ,hrougb NV
verses you viii find very seldom use t. Il is ont
Of date and misleading besides being provincial In
the second place. there is 10 need 10 talk Of 'slov
atty among white men. Like yourself an,
a colonial. in that I born in Bombay, but il
has never occurred 20 ms 20 saw that am iovsl
because like you. I am a white man. and-one
can't step out Of ones skin
Apropos Of Kipling, it is probable that
not every one who reads the book, Good
Hunting" by Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt. is
familiar with the verse OF Kiplng's from
which the title is taken:
This is the hour Of pride and power.