The Washington herald., 1908-08-09
LITERARY NOTES.


Mark Twain has gone 20 his summer
home in the hilly inland o. Connecticut
near Redding. which lies in the old CO
lonial district once tramped over by Israel
Putnam- Tbe house is Just at the verge
OF the hilltop at the head OF success
sion OF terraces, and overIooks woodland.
stream. and hills in a lovely landscape.
Mark Twain calls the estate Innocence AZ
Home The house itself. which is long
and white. with a Ioggia and the char
acteristic great Hving-room- was designed
By John Mead HoweIs. the brother Of
William Deap Howeus.
In Figaro there Is "a story concerning
Labiche and certain literary mendicant
whose candidature for the French Acad-
emy ne was asked TO support Labiche
hesitated for a long time and yielded only
when he was told that if the ambitious
author should fail 70 be elected he would
die Of IT, Failure nevertheless did come.
and the following year, when a second
vacancy occurred in the academy. La
hiche's vote was once more solicited in
the mans behalf.
No" shouted L.abiche IN vehement in
dignation. II VIII not vote for a man who
does not keep his word. He did not die.
w E Henley IS among the poets whose
work in its entirety IS much less exten-
sive than people commonly know The
English volume Of his poems made only
two hundred and fifty pages. and the
American volume. Hawthorne and Laven-
der. which the Harpers issued only a
short time before his death. contains not
more than a hundred A London crItIc
calls this poets output "a small work
with which 20 besiege the house OF fane 4"
So self-crfticaI was Henley that he cut
from his work all but the best OF it,
Even the justihsble sadness felt through
Hawthorne and Lavender was restrain
ed into kind of peace by this spiritual
blue pencil
Ida n Bennett IS a gardener who knows
how 10 impart TO others the valuable
knowledge acquired through experience
Her helpful volume. The Vegetable Car
den" forms the best Of companions 20
the authors earlier Flower Garden. and
is well worthy a place on the gardening
library shelves Miss Bennett adds a new
terror 10 life in her opening description
Of the unhygieuic conditions under which
vegetables often are grown for the CT
dinary market but she makes J-p for this
shcck by telIng her readers just how 10
grow good vegetables OF their own. 70
say nothing Of giving number Of good
and appetiZiEE recipes for cooking kitchen
Z garden products This writer not only
: believes in the home veEetabla garden for
sanitary and economic reasons. but she
believes that ii paws. also. from a physl-
cal standpoint q view"
Did Ee cultivate assidu1uslv o-r baczvar4 -.-5s-s
tlose n rs whose Salv ern5 chains uz fas- 20 bs1
OF -hls-le OF even an once clocE. there u11l1 =
fever nervous h-easi1rus- J. s. rrr-ous how or
cares drop away f7-n 0-- roo- faz-e1 minds whlr
-rt CIT Ir touch with the Eo1G hrosn ea--H.
l. u-sr he a d7g7-zsared trouble indeed which VII
not ltt ever E-tle when the robins son- Is N
TIE afr and The sweet rnais- smell df -he s-i c-rss
~ after rlir- To possess TIE lan6 and r.- r. is
-be primal heritage Cf nan To delight FRI -te v1rk
Of bis hands -he reward which heczous him
Good Photographs Increase the suggest
+ I've merit OF this fine and comprehensive
garden treatise which neatly covers the
ground from The location. planning and
making OF the vegetable and salad parc1
I 20 "The Gardens Enemies" and special
I methods Of producing and improving spe-
! cfal kinds and varieties. The author. who
Z IS well known 70 readers Of periodicals.
I does not herein evidence marked literary
ability. but she does her chosen work
vel IT, -Tf-rrr~r-e.