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NOTES

SWinburnes last volume, Three
Plays OF Shakespeare. published by
the Harpers only d few days before the.
poets death, contains a characteristic
criticism Of "Othello." Analysing the
situation of the man, his Wife, and .he
friend who betrays him, Swinburne
says that Iago is spirit of deeper
dannation., than Faust both Goethes
and Marlowe's, in that he is "a bluff,
plain-spoken soldier, whose honesty
seems the most obvious thing about
him. which neither man nor woman.
ever fails to trust" And Swinburne
demands: WHO will be fool enough
to imagine that he would have been
safe against the deadly and inevitable
thing Iago cannot do. the critic points
out: He cannot make the wife doubt.
or even blame, the husband. Her wo-5
mans cry exruses him with woman's
divine excusing-.'Nay, we must think
men are not gods"
q Elinor Mccartney Lane. herself Irish.
whose last heroine "ISatrne," in the
Harper novel of that name, Is of her
own race, has certain memora Bile things
to say therein Of the ways or Irish
u men-folk:
Every Irishman's got to have one of
three vices: whisky, love-making. or
lying
Never let the world know you are
downed in anything. Carry all off with
a laugh or a song.
= He's the greatest liar as we'll as the
most truthful person alive; but you've
got to be Irish to understand how that
can be-"
II was never addicted to work,
It was never the way o. the Gradys.
But I'd make a most excellent Turk,
l' For I'm fond of tobacco and ladies'"
"A kiss on the hand and compli-
ment to the madam, compliment and
a kiss on the lips to Peggy, but in his
I, heart It was to the dell with all women
save otne.'
The Harpers have made public thu
complete list of those writer's who have
been named, in print OF letter, for au-.
thorship of THE Inner Shrine" Hero
are the names. Alphabetical. And it
may be added that not one of these has
been authenticated:
Gertrude Atherton, Josephine Dask-
am Bacon, Alice Brown, Mrs Frances
) Hodgson Burnett. Marion crawford.
Richard Harding Davis, Margaret De-
land, Mary L. wilkins Freeman, Mrs.
Burton Harrison. Anthony Hope. Mil
dred Howells Henry James. EliZobeth
thoAbS''i, Ia we h-oSNS,
der Matthews, Leonard Merrlck. Gwen
dolyn Overton. Gilbert Parker Ameie
Rives, Elizabeth Robins, Theodore
Roosevelt, van Tassel Sutphen, j. C.
Z Smith, Booth Harrington, Katherine
Cecil Thurston. Mark Twain. Henry
van Dkye. Marie van Worst, Mrs.
Humphry Ward. Edith Wharton. Prof.
Wendell.
Jacques Futrelle is known wherever
the best seller" has gone, and the sun
never sets on the best seller. But books
are Just a Futrelle by-product His
Peal interest in life is crops.
4 About the year 1901 Jacques (pro-
nounced any way you please) discov-
cred the town of Scitlrate. Scituate Is
situate on Massachusetts, bay. The Pill
grims discovered it first. in 1924 a few
days after they fell upon their knees
and the aboriglnes at Plymouth. Any
how, Mr. f'utrelle was the first to APP
praciate Scituate. 1t reused the rural
soul within him. Since then he has
spent eight months a year there, farm
ing. His farm is about 2ox2o--feet. this
is. not miles The only things he has
= succeeded in raising on 1t so far arc
an umbrella and a family.
In the intervals of planting trees and
onions, building porch furniture ana
carving wood with a penknife), Mr..
teSu.tily sNiitt-S llI> sJtSL SelieTS.
It's easy to turn out literary skits at
Sctuate. Elusive Isabel was writ
ten there by Farmer Futrelle.
..The Scuaw Man" Edwin Milton
Royle's play of a few years age. which
Julie Opp Faversham, wife Of William
Faversham, made inO a novel for the
Harpers, IS to have a sequel. The new
+ play will be called I'm the Blood" and
1t will be Interesting to discover wheth-
er In the Blood" will find its way in
turn into novel form. al Mrs Favsr-
X sham's hands or anotheT's Mr. Rovlc
has just left New York to spend n few
weeks at the Uintah and Ouray Indian
reservations at White Rocks. Utah.
where he expects to test some Of his
Indian impressions.
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