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GIimpses of Kingsley.

Miss Rose Kingsley, in her new book
on 'Eversley Gardens and Others" gives
US, as we noted the other day, some
glimpses of her father. the novelist. at
home. Here are two of them:
II hardly ever smell syTinga without
recalling an experience Of my father S
boyhood, which he used TO say had been
one of the lessons Of his life. AS small
boy he was passionately fond Of the
scent Of syringa; and one day he thrust
his head into a bush and drank 10 the
fragrance, till It suddenly turned into q
nauseating stencil, so that from that mo-
ment his horror of It was as great as his
former enjoyment, and never, as he would
tell US. did he forget that sharp reminder
that one might have too much Of a good
thing.
When my father settled at Eversley
Rectory in 1874, most Of the garden con-
sisted in a line of fish ponds, running
from those In the glebe field. past the
house. and joining the large pond belong
ing to the church farm, behind the
church. He at once became his own en-
gineer and gardener The ponds. except
three in the glebe field, which IN course
OF time were stocked with trout. werc
drained. What had been wretched chick
en- yard outside the brick f1oored room
which my father took for hts study was
laid down in turf, with a wide border on
each side, and the wall between the
house and stables on the western side
was soon mass Of creeping roses. scar
let honeysuckle. and Virginia creeper.
This became ''the Study Garden" Up and
down which my father paced bareheaded,
composing sermon or novel. lecture OF
poem. for he never INDUCED IN rough
copy. every sentence being thought out
first. and then written or dictated OF
with hardly correction
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DICKENS AND MR.. PICKwICK.
A Revival of Interest in Famous
Authors Popular Tale.

In connection with the Pickwick Exhi-
bition We may note that there is a -four
ishing Dickens fellowship at the other
end Of the world In Melbourne. says a
writer In the London Daily Chronicle. In
that city there has resided for many
years Mr.. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, enc
Of the two surviving sons Of the novel;
ist. Some years ago Mr. A T Dickens
toured Australia with lecture embody-
Ing his personal recollections Of his
father
Mr. Edward BuIwer Lytton Dickens. the
youngest son Of the novelist. also emil
grated TO Australia, and died in Sydney
at the age Of ffty-one. He represented a
constituency In the Parliament Of New
South Wales for six years. but apparent
~ his legislative experiences were not
happy. for he IS reported 70 have said,
after his defeat by a labor candidate,
that he was 'out Of health, out Of tenn
per. and out OF pocket" through becom-
ing an n. P. For some years the two
brothers were in partnership as stock
and station agents. with Offices in Mel
bourne and Sydney.
Once when Mr.. E 3. L. Dickens was
addressing the house IN Sydney he was
again and again snappishly interrupted
by a member named Willis. Al last NJ.
Dickens stopped 20 remark: Mr.. Speak
er my father coined a famous phrase
Barkis is within Under present cir
cumstances am strongly tempted TO re-
verse it, and say. Willis is barking"
The house laughed, and the Interruptions
| ceased.
The Pickwick Exhibition at tie New
Dudley Gallery might well have been at
tended by delegates from the three Amer
| lean Pickwieks. little places ia Tennes-
see, Mississippi. and Minnesota-the Min
nesota Pickwick being only a few miles
from the Minnesota Homer. Presumably,
| these American places were named after
the immortal book; but IL is the other
way round with PickWick on the Bath
road, familiar 10 British cyclists as a
spot Of some Importance in the c. T. C.
Roadbook. Here once. as Mr.. Percy Fitz-
gerald records. stood Pickwick House.
the seat of c. n. LOscOmbe. esq, and
Pickwick Lodge, the abode Of Capt
Fenton; and here a mail-cOach guard
found an infant or the road. to whom
he gave the name of Moses Pickwici5
This Moses Pickwick became the coach
proprietor who suggested to Dickens the
name of his hero. Dtckensians viii re-
member an amusing allusion to him in
the great work. and may see a relic Of
him at the exhibition.
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SPoILs CT AUSTRIAN COURT.
How They Are Divided Among At
tendants Tpon RoynIty.

Court etiquette IN Austria is more strin-
gent than in other European courts. says
Tit-Bits.
The attendants come in for large per-
quisities, as comestible articles are never
allowed to appear twice on the royal ia
bles. 1t must be a good thing TO be one
Of these attendants, as TO one man falls
all the uncorked bottles to another the
wine left in the glasses. and the game,
-ish. and sweets are equally divided in
the same way.
Each morning a market IS held in the
basement OF the palace, where the Wen
nese come to purchase the remains OF the
banquet.
This custom is revival OF one that OBJ
tanned great favor in the Middle Ages.
Then the great lords Of the land were not
above accepting the remains of a feast,
and the lord chancellor was entitled to the
ends Of one large candle and forty small
ones each day.
He in his turn made capital OF this per-
quisite and undoubtedly his exchequeT
was greatly increased by it at the end Of
the year.
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mons and roadside spaces. There were
no lords by letters patent Of creation I'M
der the Norman kings.
The occupant OF the throne summoned
such men as he wanted. and they sat
while the great council. or Parliament,
lasted. 1t did not follow that they were
summoned for the next similar assembly.
Many of them, indeed, had lost their
heads or their estates in the interval
But even the latters patent did not con-
fer the hereditary right to take part in
the making OF laws. Before they took IL
into their own hands the peers used to
complain because they had not received
writs of summons.
"The House Of Peers" 1t was long ago
said, has maintained its existence by
usurping an influence over the represent
tation of the people which II has turned
TO It's sole advantage"
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GLIMPSES OF BAUDELAIRE.
Nature Was Repugnant to Him-Sac-
rifced Ii to Inventions.

rinCed Ii TO inventions.
Baudelaire had a horror OF the ideas
of romanticism, says the London Times.
He loathed nature. She was the mire
and slime out Of which man has
painfully crept at last. the savagery
TO look back upon which is to be turned
into a pillar Of salt. There is something
religious in his horror OF Cycele and her
affairs. All his poetry is a constant sac
rifice Of nature 10 ingenious inventions
There is scarcely a description Of a land
scape IN hts writings. He owned himself
incapable Of melting into tears over
vegetables" and avowed his contempt for
"des legumes sanctihes." He writes in
letter TO Desnoyers: Mon anne est re-
belle a cette singuliere religion nouvelle
qui aura toujOurs, &c me semble. pour
tout etre sFirituel je ne sails quot de
shocking" ('Lettres." page ~. Nature
appeared to him ''impudent." The thought
that man had surpassed her humble needs
and in his ultra-natural superiority, de-
sired a beauty which should produce in
the mind not that beatifc calm, that de-
light Of satisfied acceptance (Which Is
the classic ideaD. but a pang of surprise
and ravishment. a sense of rarity and
strangeness. Baudelaire frankly admit
ted his passion for the artificial Tout
&c qui eloignait rhOmme, ct surtout la
femme, de l'etat de nature. lui paraissait
une invention heureuse" Eve are quoting
Gautier's famous preface signe
de la volonte humane corrigeant a son
gre les formes ct les couleurs fournies
par Ia matiere" (and II we remember
right, in support Of this theory, once he
dyed his own brown curls a light green).
Baudelaire certainly cannot be taken as
dyed his own brown curls a light green).
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BY EX-ATTAcHE.

penhagen. the Danish government had no
alternative but TO yield. Within the last
twelve or eighteen months there has been
a fresh agitation in Iceland. prompted
largely by the success OF Norway in cut
ting herself adrift from Sweden, with
out any armed resistance on the part OF
the latter. and without provoking the I'll
will Of the foreign powers. Several
movements were started. The strongest
and most pronounced was that in favor
Of the revival Of the grand Icelandie
republic. Identified with the history OF
the islands greatest prosperity and
glory.
Another faction was in favor OF the an
nexation Of the island either 70 Norway
or to Great Britain-pTeferabiy TO the
latter. For, save when prevented by
Denmark. the British islands have always
proved the most profitable market and
the best friend Of Iceland. Finally there
was a party which advocated complete
separation from Denmark, save OF a dy-
nastic character. So serious has the sit
uation become that King Frederick has
AOUiAa II HEJE5Sdiy ~ NAStk NAA- AaAt4A4 Al
the early part Of this month with his
prime minister. NJ Christensen, and has
endeavored 20 postpone the crisis by ap-
pointing a royal commission to devise
means Of rendering the autonomy Of
the island complete. In a speech deliv-
cred in the national capital. Reykiavik,
the King declared that
'Tcelanders shall have every facility zor
the development Of their national charac-
teristics and their country, so far as IS
consistent with the unity OF my kingdom.
have inherited the kingdom as unit,
and as such II shall remain from genera
ton 70 generation. But I have also in
herited from my father the tradition that
Icelanders are to be a free people who
cooperate with the King In framing the
laws under which they are 10 1--we, and
II is my will 10 continue building on the
foundation Of this inheritance. I have.
Therefore, to-day established this commits
sion. which is 10 find a form under
which the future Of the freedom OF Ice
land may be built up and protected, while
the united kingdom Of Denmark is pre-
served and insured"
This profession on the part Of Fred
erick is far from satisfying the majority
OF the IceIanders, all the more as they
are aware that every concession which
he himself might be prepared TO make
viii be combated by the Danish people,
who insist that Iceland Is a mere crown
colony, instead Of a neutrality-suspicious. sis
ter state.
How II viii all end It is difficult 10 pre-
dict But. judging from the anlmosity
which prevails between the Icelanders and
the Danes. an animoslty which, like that
Of the Irish for the English, Is essentially
economic In its origin, It Is probable that
ere many years are past the United States
will be called upon 10 hail the rebirth
Of the ancient republic OF Iceland.
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SALE AT SOTHEBY's.
Some Ancient Manuscripts Fetch US-
usual Prices.


A number Of interesting manuscripts
were sold in London last week at Sothe-
bys, fetching extraordinary prices, says
the New York Times. In the first place,
the original draft, with emendations. OF
the first three epistles Of POpe's Essay
on Man" went for SAB An even more
important lot. although II did not realize
the highest price. was the authors auto
graph Ms. of Gilbert Whites Natural
History and Antiques of selborne"
is to say, the letters penned by White to
Thomas Pennant and DANES harrington,
which form the gist of the book, and con-
tain some passages not printed in any edi-
ton. This Ms. was up for sale in 1895 in
SOthebys room, and az that time fetched
N.575. The price paid last week was
50, 20 Proof sheets Of Byrons including
the script for nine stanzas Of "Childe
Harold" went for $50; Keats draft Of the
title page OF ''Endymion," with the dedi-
cation ITO the memory OF the most Eng
lish Poets. except kespeare-Thomas
Chatterton. s4s5; Tennyson's proof sheets
OF "Gareth and Lynette." 800 The orig
inal autograph Ms. Of 1.-THE Brook, Z"
fetched a.5o0 This Ms. appeared at
Sothebys IN 1889, and then realized $3.50.
The report Of the sale IN the Times Of
June II Of that year ELECTED from the
present Lord TennysOn, writing on be-
half Of his father. who was then living.
an indignant protest that unpublished
verses Of his should have been made pub
lie and the MS sold" without the au-
thor's consent Mr. Hallam Tennyson
added the remark that some Of the cor
rections appearing on the Ms. appeared
not to be his fathers. Among first edi-
tions sold was one OF THE Virginians"
QSSS. with the following rhyning in
scription by Thackeray:
In the L. States and IN the Queens doninlons,
All people have a night % their opinions,
AID many don't much relist the Nirginians.
Peruse ny boob. dear r., snd {; -cg find il
little 10 y0T tas,e. hope you'll bind Il,
The sale also included William PENIS
copy Of r. J Visscher's Map Of New
Belgium and New England" with PENIS
Endorsement 10 the effect that this was
the map by which the privy council. l6s5
settled the bounds between Lord Balti-
more and l." &c.
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DR.. RUDYARD KIPLING.
English Paper Comments on Cen
ferrinE OF Degree on Him.

ripper comments on 00n-
ferring OF Degree on Him.
Certainly, oxford had been booming
Of late. with a vengeance. says the
London Saturday Review. II was some
comfort that Mr.. Kipling had not been in
vited 10 write new version Of The Alb
sent-minded Beggar" for the Oxford APP
peal. but perhaps he would be called in
yet; anyhow, he had Just been made a D.
c. L. No doubt II was a very popular
move 10 confer an honorary degree on
Mr.. Kipling But II is not lie business Of
a university such as oxford 10 make pop
ular moves. MT. Kipling's gift has its fit
reward, I think, in the applause Of a
crowd which viii soon cease to remember
him. If Oxford wished to honor a writer
of fiction. she should have selected some
one working on a less popular, a higher
plane of art The idols OF the market
place need no wreaths from a university.
Mr. Meredith is already, l believe, a
D. c. L. Of Oxford. But no such honor
has yet befallen Mr.. Henry James a
writer as signally fit for it as Mr. Klpling
Is unit. In his own line Mr.. Kipllng Is
mastery. But who shall assert so much
in regard TO Prof. Herkomer, another OF
the persons honOred at this years En-
eaenia? He has teen honored for no
other reason than that HIS name may
act as an advertisement for Oxford
genial. hearty, unpriggish, go-as-yOu-
please Oxford, whose chancellor is not
really, as q certain rhymer once supposed
him, "a most superior purzon." I have
no positive objection to the comforting of
a degree on Prince Arthur OF COnnaught.
He has not, as have Prof. Herkomer and
Mr.. Kipling, done anything that a univer-
sity ought TO frown on. What. indeed. has
he done? Why should the line have been
drawn at Prince Edward of York? His
name would have lent additional pic
turesqueness and popularity to a list
which, throughout. was so obviously COM
piled with a view to popularity and pic
turesuueness
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WHY COOKS ARE FAT.

To Sms5I Food Is Better shan 70 Eat
IL, Says Authority.
From the Dundee Advertiser
1T viii do you more good 10 smell
food that is being cooked than It will
70 eat II after IL Is cooked was the as
founding statement made by restaurant
man In the Indianapolis Star.
That is the reason why so many pro-
fessiOnal cooks are heavy-weights. You
never saw any one who became a chef
and stayed at Il any length OF time. but
became fieshy. Cooks never eat to any
great extent. except TO taste the food at
times while II is being cooked IN order
to see II it is done. It is the odor Of
the food in the kettles that makes them
fat
THE same will apply in the case Of
the housewife. Continuous work in the
kitchen makes fleshy women, and healthy
women. Cooking is the healthiest oceu-
patton In the world
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MANAGING A WIFE.
Napoleon Tells HIS Brother How to
Handle Women.

Napoleon Tells HIS Brother How to
Handle Women.
In Queen Hortense and Her Friends"
by L. A. Taylor. a new English publica-
ton. the great Napoleon is seen en- IA
mile His stepchildren, Hortense and
Eugene de Beauharnais, were frankly nis
favorites. Il love these children" he
says, because they have always been
anxious to please me. II there is a can
non shot. It is Eugene who goes to see
what It is; if I have to cross g. trench it
is he who gives me his hand" As for the
others, his brothers and sisters, he SAYS:
''They are jealous Of my wife and Eu-
gene, OF Hortense, Of all who surround
me. Eli, bien, my wife has diamonds and
debts-nothing else. Eugene does mt
possess an income of 10000 livres. They
say that my wife is false, that her chill
drens attentions are interested. Well.
be II so. They treat me like an old uncle
1T gives, none the less, all the sweet
ness TO my life; ! am growing old am
thirty-six. 1 want rest" There is also an
interesting letter 20 his brother Louis, in
which he gives him advice on how a
man should treat young wife:
You treat young woman one would treat a
regiment. You have the best and most yfrtuous OF
wives, and you make her unhappy Let her dancs
az much as she wishes it is natural at her age |
have wife Of forty, and writing to heT from the
field OF battle bid her go 70 balls. And you wish
wife OF twenty, who sees her life slipping by
who has all her Illusions, 10 live in a cloister. 70
spend her days Ike q nurse slways engnreA in
washing her child should not say ali this
did not feel an interest in you. Render the
mother n vrafr Children Eas-r,v -.
way It is to show her much esteem and conf.
dence Unhappily you have too good a wife II
you had one who was a eOquette she would lead yo,
by The nose. But your wife Is proud; the very
idea that you can entertain a bad opinion of her
gIieTes and revolts hen. Y0u should have had one
Of the wives know in Paris She would haye
played you false and have kept you at her knees.
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All advertising contracts made by
The Washington Herald are based
upon its sworn ciTculation-a cireula-
ton in Washington larger by thou
sands than was ever before attained
by any morning newspaper at the
Capital. It's books are open.
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jamestown visitors are arriving daily
and looking for furnished rooms. An ad.
in The Herald viii get them. The Herald
has the largest circulation at Norfolk and
jamestown Of any Washington paper.
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The Biblia Pauperum. the famous man
uscript mentioned by leasing. but which
had since been lost track of, has again
been found ia the Ducal Library in Wolf
enbuttel. OF which Leasing, in his day,
was in charge. During the entire nine
teenth century no trace OF this manu-
script could be found. This is explained
by the German papers by the fact that II
was bound In one volume with a manu-
script Of the "Speculum Humane Saliva
tiOnis." The manuscript contains thirty
eight pages, and the same number Of
groups among the latter four not found
anywhere else. It is finely illustrated
especially with pictures from the Old
Testament. 1t was rediscovered by Dr.. j.
LutZ. Of IllZach.
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After the success Of her first real novel,
The Plow Woman" Eleanor Gates re-
turns TO the looser and more informal
type of fiction in her new novel, cupid.
the Cow Punch, which Mcclure, Phillips
& Co. announce for fall publication. Here
Miss Gates depicts more particularly the
humorous side Of the cowboys life, not
without a purpose Of her own. which is.
as she expresses It, to serve as an anti
dote TO Offset the false sentinentality OF
so much that has been written Of plains
life.
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Unfortunately the geographical knowl-
edge OF the statesmen intrusted with the
direction OF the destinies Of the world
= hundred years ago was Of much more
limited nature than it is to-day, and the
plenIpotentiaries OF the European powers
assembled in congress at Vienna, in 1874
for the purpose Of reshaping the map Of
the world after the downfall OF Napoleon.
had apparently never heard Of Iceland,
OF had. perhaps. forgotten Its existence.
Denmark had incurred their wrath by
her espousal Of the cause Of the great
Emperor. and accordingly they deprived
her Of Norway. which they added 10 the
dominions OF King Charles Of Sweden.
the ex-French marshal, Bernadotte. who
had assisted them to defeat Bonaparte.
They knew OF Norway. But although
Iceland is twice the size Of Scotland, and
three times as large as Denmark, it re-
eeived no attention. II was clean and
clear forgotten. and was left 10 Den
mark merely because no one happened to
think about IT, IN fact, no mention OF
Il is TO be found in the records or discus
slOns of the congress.
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Naturally, the modified autonomy grant
ed by King Christian gave the Icelanders
a desire for more. AS in other countries
which are elamoring and fighting for
home rule. political appetites are sharp
ened by everything that they manage to
extort. Five years ago. that is to say.
IN 1892 further demands for self-govern-
ment were made by the Icelanders. and
in spite of the bitter fight made against
any surrender in the legislature at CO.
The Washington herald., 1907-08-18

Among the books announced by the
Neale Publishing Company for the fail
are: 'Kentuckians in History and Litera-
aure, by John Wilson Townsend, author
Of "A Life of Richard Hickman Men
efee," recently issued BY the Neales;
Among the Appaiachians, a novel by
The Washington herald., 1907-08-18

The following books have Just been pub
lished by Henry Holt G Co: In the new
series OF American biographies, edited by
w. P. Trent. a volume giving the lives
of Leading American Soldiers" by r.
NJ. Johnston. lecturer in Harvard Uni
versity; Biographical Sketches of the
Graduates Of Yale College" being the
fourth volume OF the Yale College History
Series. by DR.. Franklin B. Dexter; An
cient Society" a book by Lewis II. Nor
gan, Ii. D.. giving the result of his re-
searches on the lines OF human progress
through savagery and barbarism 70 civili-
cation.
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Iceiand's salvation, such as it is, has
come not from without. but from within,
She Is indebted for the turn in her for
tunes not to any congress of the powers,
but TO her own sons. Early In the nine
tenth century Msgnus Stephenson. a
patriotic lawyer. inausurated a National
list movement, by means Of the founda-
ton OF a Useful knowledge Society. with
view of bringing within the reach OF
the people the practical knowledge Of the
day New life having been thus infused
into the Icelanders, trey were prepared
in the next generation for the home rule
and free trade struggle. in which Ion
SigurdssOn played so prominent a part,
and at length, in 1874 his efforts were
crowned with success, and Denmark, con-
fronted with the danger Of a secession OF
Iceland. restored TO it not only free trade
but also a modified form of home rule.
While this concession was bitterly OPP
posed in the legislature at Copenhagen,
il was made with the utmost grace and
kindliness by the late King Christian,
who visited the island in person-the first
occasion Of a king setting foot in Iceland
in a thousand years. and on the historic
plain Of Thingvellir, where the Althing
or Parliament was wont to assemble in
the days Of the old Iceland republic, he
read aloud to the people the decree
which granted TO them those rights OF
trade and of home rule for which they
had been struggling.
1t is described as having been a most
picturesque and inspiring scene. and when
at its close the IceIanders struck up
/ the song composed Tor the occasion by
one of their skalds, TO the air OF one of
the old saga melodies, King Christian and
the members of his suite were so much
electrified by the music and the sur
roandings that they joined in the sing
| ing. The words of the song ran as fol-
/ lows:
By the stream 0xar,
By the ThinNala,
Unfurl our free banner
White falcon on blue;
/ New err Of freedom
/ Nov daWns on our nation;
4 Cr5r- lives d Vrp rlefra her