The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-17


nlirer, who, after years of waiting. ut
last met the man Of the plain Tales,
narrates the Book News Monthly.
You" she cried. staring at the author
"You. you are Rudyard KiplingI"
Naturally, Kipling felt embarrassed.
Yes" he murmured modestly
The lady continued TO marvel.
But / thought" she finally explained,
I thought you were-oh. how shall / say
it?-something quite quite different"
"Oh, 1 am, Kipling FASTENED to tell
her in a very confidential tone, Il am,
madam. Only you see, this is my day
off"
The late Mrs. Craigie John Oliver
Hobbes) possessed a rare sense Of humor,
but she was also rather sensitive about
her own dignity and insisted on proper
recognition. 1t is said that during her last
American tour, where she was made
rather a good deal Of she was invited to
a public meeting and asked to speak. In
fortunately there was quite long list
Of public speakers and through an mad
vertence Mrs. Craigie's name WAS put
well down at the bottom of the list
speech after speech was made, and TO
make it worse several people not on the
list were called upon ana made speeches.
1t was nearly midnight before the dis
tinguished author Of some Emotions
and a Moral was called upon, and then
the presiding officer announced that Mrs.
Pearl Craigie-John Oliver Hobbes-would
favor them with an address,
Mrs. Craigie arose courteously, bowed
solemnly to the assembled company, and
said: My addTess-is Hyde Park. Lon
don, and I am far from home. It is very
late. / shall wish you all-good-night-"
The records Of popularity at the Pub
lie Library during the past week show
that in nonfction the most called for
books were Arthur Denson's. From a
College Window" and his Upton Let
ters;" in fiction, The Mystery" by
White and Adams" and 'The Call of the
Blood by Hichens, while Lang's fairy
books still have the call with the young
sters.
A lot Of President Roosevelt's earlier
stories about hunting and the need for
preserving game have been gathered to-
gether from the magazines to which he
contributed them, and are TO be issued
this week under the title Good Hunt
ing: In Pursuit of Big Game in the West"
The book is said 10 be wildly descriptive
Of Mr.. ROOseveIt's hunting and ranch life
in his early days, and was written years
before there was any thought OK his be-
coming President.
y new book by F. IIopkinson Smith, to
be called "The Yelled Lady and Other
Men and Women" Will be one OF the
spring books of fiction. The book viii
be attractively illustrated.
TIE February publications of Charles
Scribners Sons will include Poison Is
land" by ~ T. Quiller-Couch; Studies
In Pictures" by John G. Van Dyke:
Madame de Treymcs." by Edith Whar-
ton, and The Spanish Explorers in the
Southern United States" The last is Il
volume Of the original narratives Of early
American history
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad has
issued an official directory, which is, in
reality. a carefully compiled book Of in
formation about the territory through
names and addresses Of all the industrial
establishments along the line, and it dis
cusses the agriculture, pOmology coal
fields, commerce, forest products, live
stock, minerals, watcr-power, finance.
education, &c, Of the region it feeds.
Nearly one thousand photographs have
been used in illustrating this book, and
the half-tone engravings are beautifully
done The book is bound in veIlum, and
is a handsome one. Tt Is called THE Off
Cial Industrial Guide and Shippers Di-
! rectoTy' and can be secured from the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway agents. Ii
is a volume much TO be desired by bust
ness men.
Ida Carroll Longs Songs Of a Home"
has just gone into third edition. such
/ Is the success of these charming poems
/ have met with. Mrs. Long is "a residcn.
| Of Washington, granddaughter a,
Gerald HallOck, founder, and for sixty
I years editor, of the New York Journal
Of Commerce. whose son. Charles Hal
| lock, is well known IN Washington as an
author and naturalist. She is related
| through her paternaI grandfather. to
/ William Cullen Bryant. and is a distant
cousin of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
through direct descent from Jonathan Ed
wards.
The verses that go TO make up Mrs
/ Longs volume have fine, homely aual-
l ity. They all find their inspiration in
| the joys and sorrows Of home The Der.
sonal note is rather too prominent. per-
/ haps. for the poems ever to have wide
! acceptance. but there IS a universal nUte
to them. too. that makes them TO be IN.
| derstOOd Of all men. Che book. rs q
| whole, is a sort of idyll Of married life
/ the wedding, the establishing CT the home
! the coming of the baby, dntI:
No other lifcwor5 seemed half so dear
/ And no other gift so good
As the building no Of q happy home
And the blessing Of motherhood.
And then. because il is the strange anC
sad cycle of life, comes in turn the fur
and frOlic of babyhoOd and then-agt
! coming on and-the baby boy has gone
The utter grief at the loss is most pa
| thetically set down, and the dawning Of
/ that peace that comes with faith.
And learned 10 look on my boy as one
| Who had parted from me with a smile,
/ And iourncyed OF 10 a pleasant land
To be gone for little while.
Il vas only when my boy went home,
That Heaven seemed real TO me.
And SO these verses, voicing the poo1
joys and the large griefs that come t,
most homes, touch a chord that is strucl
/ by all humanity, and one can understand
how this little book has gone into thre,
editions.
There is a strange sadness, a glimme
of twilight of life about much of wha
Mary Z. wilkins Freeman writes, an,
more somber than ever is her latest novel
BY the Light of the Soul" 1t is on
of the longest stories she has written
and 1t seems to show careful work an,
arduous study, for its literary craftsman