The sun., 1909-05-26
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

intellect. was young ladyish enough tt
be an admirer Of Byron. She writes II
Carlyle when she hears Of the poet
death, And Byron is dead! l was tolc
it all at once in roomful of people. NJ!
God. if they had said that the sun or th'
moon had gone out of the heavens II
could not have struck me with the ide'
Of a more awful and dreary blank in th'
creation than the words Byron is dead.
have felt quite cold and detected evel
since; all my thoughts have been fearful
and dismal, wish you would come
Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens
of England ends with Queen Anne. Mist
Alice Greenwood has been asked to con
tinue this gossipy history, which she ha'
done in two volumes 10 be published soon
The first one concerns Sophia Dorothea
the wife Of George l.. and Caroline OF
Anspach, the Queen Of George IL. The
second volume contains the lives OF the
Queens of George H., George Nv. ano
William ". A third volume dealing wit
Queen viot oria may follow
Prof Archibald Of Brown University
has been for some years actively engaged
in collecting Information concerning Mar
garet Gordon, the first love Of Carlyle
By many people she is proclaimed to be
the original OF Blumine, who afterward
became Lady Bannerman. Prof. Archi'
bald has also obtained the use of beauti'
full miniature Of her, made at the time OF
her correspondence with Carlyle. This
will be reproduced in the book. which II
to be published soon,
Mr.. William Allen Whites first novel
A Certain Rich Man." is to be published
in June Mr.. White was born in Kansas
He sti ives in Kansas and his story is a
Kansas story. though the State in this
case represents the whole country. Its
characters represent a large portion OF
the country and It's big dramatic plot Ii
closely interwoven with the development
Of the country. MIR. White is one OF the
editors of the American Magazine and he
is also the editor of the Empoud Gazette
in which he first published h 5 famous
editorial, entitled What's the Matter
With Kansas
MISS T1tlth y lSI HIc WIZ ho' "i'N'N'
number OF books and papers upon French
society and letters in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. is staying al
the Lyceum Club, London, where she il
busy upon a new work along the lines ir
which she is specially interested. She
finds London. thanks to the British
Museum, her best workshop, Miss
Clerpue's latest book was The Salon
A writer in a recent number OF Every
bodys Magazine tells OF a conversation
at a London dinner which turned upor
the var GUS methods employed by the
talented in working. 1t was said of one
well known poet that he would walker
his wife in the night, saying Maria
Get up! I've thought Of good world
Whereupon his obedient helpmate woulc
ar Sc and make a note Of the word. Ar
hour later he would waken her again
saving: Maria! Maria! Get up! I've
thought of a better word" The company
in general listened TO the story with ad
miration but an American girl presen,
remarked: Well. IL he'd been my
husband | should have replied, Alpheus
Get up yourself! I've thought Of a bac
word"'
Mrs. Harold Gorst. who has been spend
ing some time in America studying New
York slum life, is q beautiful woman a.
we'll as a novelist OF ability in her peculia!
field. which is London slum life. She is 9
sister OF Charles Ram Kennedy and G
descendant of family OF writer's. She
is engaged on a new novel which vii
deal with matters she has carefully in
vestigated in America. She finds here
no such slum life as exists in London
according to the current Putndm's. W.
have no blind alleys that lead into hovell
that are little more than caves, as sht
found them in London-'some OF then
under the very shadow OF the palace o
the Archbishop OF Canterbury Mrs
Gorst's latest book Ia called -The THE
on the Cross, which WAS published las
year.
In Harper's for June is printed the mar
rative OF one OF Sheridan's scouts In which
he tells the true story OF Sheridan's IA
nous ride. There has been lot told ans
a lot written Of what Sheridan said tina
day but here il what he did say-the yer!
words; l was there heard, and these ar
his very words A man out Of the rank
called General. whore will we sleep to
nightT Gen. Sheridan stopped his hors'
and turned, he didn't speak loud. but II
the hush that fell his words seemed T.
ring: Well sleep in our old camps to
night or we'll sleep in hell!' And mo
ment or two after that he gave the sig
nal 20 advance and the whole line movet
out cheering like mad"
Mr.. Joseph H. Sears has returned
from Europe. where he has purchased I
number OF English books that will be addet
TO the Appleton autumn publications
These include several volumes OF his
torio and archaeological interest. memoirs
books on the fine arts and some novels
He has also brought back the manuscript
of a new novel by Maarten Maarteni
and one by W. B, Maxwell
Jsannette l.. Glider publishes in the
June Puindm's her personal memories
Of Marion Crawford. Il had known hin
hnos he was a lad Of IL years. sh,
sAyl y, too, was a younsster in thos'