The Washington herald., 1909-01-03
REVIEW OF CURRENT VOLNOTES AND GOSSIP WORLD OF BOOKS

OF an Empress" while unprecedented in
fiction. is by no means 50 in fact. a few
months ago Lord Edward Seymour, a
younger brother Of the Earl Of Yarmouth.
and third in the line Of succession TO the
Marquisate Of Hartford. had a narrow
escape from death in the meshes OF lust
such a net while swimming of Benz
bridge, in the isle Of Wight. He was
floating on his back far out from shore.
when a great bed Of matted weed sud
denly rose from the depths and COM
pletely surrounded him. Realizing that
he would become hopelessly entangIed II
he made any attempt 20 free himself. he
remained perfectly still. and presently
the CHASTITY snare sank away from him
as suddenly as II had risen After such
an experience il is no wonder that. as
the account has IT, the swim back 10
shore wanted some doing" In The
Cradle OF the Rose" the dragging under
a sea Of weed appears In the first scene
in the story. and in the last with a most
curious dramatic effect.
How much does your soul weigh2 Dr..
James II Hyslop, secretary OF the
American Society for PsychicaI Re
search and author Of "PsychicaI Re-
search and the Resurrection" and other
standard classic works. observes, auro-
pos Of Fourier dAIbe's newly enunci-
ated theory Of psychTomeres. or soul PAR
ticies. that Il do not know whether. the
soul has weight or not, and II does not
make any difference to ne in my expert
ments and investigations. II the soul IS
composed Of matter-that Is. Of a SUBJ
stance which We now recognize as mat
ter-it must have the quality of gravita-
ton. But it may be composed Of a sub
stance not now recognized as matter.
but which many years hence may be in
ClUded in the category Of matter when
our scientific knowledge shall have de-
velOped much more extensively than at
present
One thing is certain: II the soul has
weight, il will always be a difficult prob
lem 10 weigh IL on account Of the gases
OF the body escaping at death
DR.. HyslOp in this matter. as well as
others, stands pre-eminently for applica-
ton Of scientific methods of phenomena
alleged TO be occult.
William Dean HOwells. whose favorite
critical pursuit is the discovery of Ameri-
can literary centers. might well consider
Louisville. where. as shown in a recent
special article in the Cincinnati En-
Quirer- verses are being written by Nadi-
son Cawein. styled by Edmund Gosse as
the -'one hermit thrush in the world of
poetry who sings from Louisville. Ken
lucky" Charles Hamilton Nusproye
satirist and felloW-membsr with John
d. Rockefeller and George Ade In the
American Press HumOriSts Association:
Charles T Rogers. magazine poet: s. J.
Duncan-ClarSe. Charles T. Moore. Lucien
Y Rule. Young Y. Allison. widely known
for his completion Of Robert Louis Ste
vensOn's Fifteen Men on a Dead Mans
Chest Charles Dobbs. Daniel O'SuHi-
van; Gale Young Rice. husband Of the
author o. Mrs. Wigs Of the Cabbage
Patch. and several others. Hardly any
81 this school makes a living from
writing verse. except possibly Mr. Ca
vein. whose works have lately been col
iected into magnificent f1ve-volume lin
tied edition de luxe and published By the
Boston house Of Small, Maynard & Co.
This weli-knOwn poet has for several
years been in receipt Of enough checks
from prominent magazines easily to SID
port the ordinary literary Bohemian. A