New-York tribune., 1908-11-21

cbfseI mt or laeorousiy deepening with bis
already erected At last there were few church.
arcs IL Ayrshire. Galloway or DumfrieSshirs
DISTINGUISHED from designs of aay other artist
% 'e e PRIMITIVE Pr rudeness 81 the en1bles OF death
ais of his creation
For forty years Old Mortality thus labored with
out fee or reward till enc cav in deep snow he was
iound dead by the roadside with his od pony
standing beside him and his seir-imposed task
ended for is.on record that the cost of lis
as en-. lRo 1,salng 6eaf ard Chsse at the Fousrat
& TO The modest Of g Is. iod and as he was
traced he who had spent the best wears Of his life
erecting Iomhstones many less worthy than
ing place.
There are some interesting notes Anthony
Troliope. the novelist in the "reminiscences Of
Sir Henry Brackenbury. published IN the cur
rent "Blackwood." The writer quotes Trollope
as saving that he began to write at o'clock
every morning and wrote q certain number of
hours unti it was time to dress for breakfast.
never touching his literary work after breakfast.
I remember telling him that I always worked
at night. and his saying. Well, give the fresh
est hours Of the day to my work; you give the
fag end Of the day TO YOURS I have often
thought over this. but my experience has always
been that the early morning is the best time for
study and taking iu ideas, night the best time
for giving out thoughts. I said that TSenvied
him the gift Of Imagination. which enabled him
10 create characters. He said. imagination My
dear fellow. not bit Of it; it is cobbler's wax.
Seeing that I was rather puzzled, he said that
the secret Of success was TO put lump OF cob
bIer's wax on your chair and sit on it and write
till you had succeeded He told he had
written for years before he got paid
The novelist was 2 great smoker like many
another literary man:
One wall of his library where he worked
entirely hidden by small cuDboards or bins. eacn
stacked across each headers and stretchers
like timber so as 10 allow free circulation of air
On wet days the doors all kent closed. in dry
weather they were open He told me that each
Havana There was pointed stud stuck into the
wood sp2Ke the door OF the BIN IN US use, ano as as
the next bin. and the empty one was filed from
cigars longest in stock being always those smoked
He had a long thick beard. which it was difficult
ton for fragments of cigar ash
The Adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment
is the title of a volume by DR.. H. E. FIsck which
is in the Johns Hopkins Press The study. it is
stated, begins with an account of the Congress
sionaI legislation preceding the amendment
especially of the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil
Rights acts The history of the amendment be
fore Congress, before the people AMI before the
states is then considered in successive chapters.
and the work completed with examination Of
the Congressional Interpretation of the amend
ment as shown in the legislation enacted in pur-
suance Of the authority conceived to have been
derived from its provisions
a collection of about thousand Irish airs
and songs never before published is coming
from the press Of Lonzmans. Green & Co. It is
entitled old Irish Folk Music and Songs" It
has an analytical preface and running com
mentary all through The editor is DR.. P. W
Joyce author OF "Old Celtic Romances."