The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-06-06

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The younger American poets have
been making themselves known to the
|public recently by their plays, which,
In a number Of cases, have been put on
the stage with great success MrA
Dargan's The Shepherd" which deals
with the life and struggles of to-day In
Russia and which was published In her
recent book. Lords and LOvers,~ II to
BE- produced very shortly By sothern
and MarICwe.
The rare nfst issue Of Cha1nplain'a
nrst narrative Of his 6rSt voyage to
America--Des Savvages, ov. Voyags
de Samvei Champlain de Brovaee, fait
en- Ia France novelle Fan mil ak cens
trois," was sold at auction recently for
81, 800. The book was printed by order
Of Champlain upon his return from nia
first voyage, and was published In 1908
and dedicated to Charles de Montmor-
ency. 1t was picked up in Paris about
six months ago for some twenty cen
times by a book lover who found II
among a lot of cheap books on street
book stall
The idea of the trial marriage,
which has caused such a sensation
among scandalized people, who explain
that they are thankful to-day they are
thoroughly old-fashioned' and never
heard OF such advanced notions, will
be interested in reading the Letters OF
Dorothy Osborne" This seventeenth
century maiden writes that she thinks
1T would be very convenient that all
such as Intend to marry should live TO-
gether In the same house some years
of probation. They should
then be permitted to marry If they
pleased, but how few would do 1t then.
| The Boz Club which meets once
year to do honor to the memory Of
| Dickens, Is made up Of members OF
many professions. At the last yearly
meeting Of the club Dickens daughter
Mrs. Perugini, was present, Miss Ho
garth, Henry Fielding Dickens anc
some of Dickens grandchildren. AS al
evidence of the continued popularity OF
| Dickens, ". L. Courntye Informs Us
that single firm in England sold 400,
900 copies Of Dickens works during the
last year. Mr.. Courntye estimates thai
no less than a million and half copies
of Dickens books were sold during the
year.
Ridgeley Terrence, the author o.
"Abelard and Heloise," is a graduate
of Princeton University In the class OF
1897. He has been occupied with lit
erary work since his graduation, anC
was for while & librarian In the As
| tor Library and i'll the Lenox Library
! of New York City. During the tim'
of the Russo japanese peace conference
Mr.. Terrence was the American secre
| tary of Baron Kaneko. He has pub
lished a poetic drama, "Eldorado," ant
a volume of verse, 1.-THE House of {
Hundred Lights" His poetic gift hai
already been popularity and authorita
lively acknowledged, and he is one o
the most promising of the youngel
poets.
| Some interesting data concerning th'
estates left by modern writers of prom
inence are published in the Londol
! Sphere, from which it may be Learned
that Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid left al
estate of some nine thousand pounds
| Sir Edwin Arnold, $4,000; George Gis
sing. $1,000; William Sharp less thai
f40O. In consideration Of these fact
I Clement Shorter concludes that no on'
| should enter the profession of Htera
ture OF Journalism without sufficien
means to live upon outside the remun
Grafton earned by writing. Although
six successful novelists Of the day II
England are able to provide themselye:
with motor cars and other luxurie'
apart from the popular writer of fiction
there is little to be said for the literary
life save that it brings great deal Of
pleasure with it.