The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-13
UNDER THE LAsH.
ANcLlcus.
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v. Lucas, ROstand, Brleux, Mae
terlinok, Sudermann, Gorky, dan
Edmund Gosse, Haupt-
Edith Wharton. Jack Lon
don, Ambrose Bierce, Mrs. Humphl
rey Ward, George Moore, the auth
or OF The Seven Who Were Hang
ed (Andreyev, I think,) Gertrude
w. j. Locke. There Ia
no need to stop there, bnt these are
the first names that occur, and
with few exceptions their reputa-
tons have been made very recently.
For sophistication of this kind, ID
is also necessary to havea backing
of the gods of an earliergeneration:
Howells, James. Twain, Ibsen,.
Tolstoi, Hardy, Meredith, Kipling,
Stevenson. Personally I'D rather
be one of the seven noticed above
than wade through this quagmire
of print. "Of making many books
there is no d." remarked the
prophet. who lived long before the
invention of printing-long before
Balzac and Dumas spentthei lives.
pen in hand, long before Chesterton.
started on three books a year.
FROM the last Scribner's may be-
learned that Mr. Roosevelt has.
shot hartebeeste, wildbeeste, zebras,
kongoni water-buck, i'm p lla>
Glands, cougars, lions, leopards,
gnus, pythons and one or two more,
Eat whose name the verse feels
loath." This seems pretty decent
bag for one article. Some of them
were predatory, but others merely
undesirable. One nice thing about
the ex-President there is; he does
not bury his records in cache OF
leave them on the summit of Kill
manjaro. Nobody doubts that he
really extinguished all these vital
sparks; the only question is, what
good does it do? Were Africa
swept clear of sharks and boojums,
would it be any more desirable to
inhabit? Of truth, there is much
valuable knowledge to be picked
Il up from the inspection of skinss
but just as much knowledge, of
still greater value, can be acquired
through a conscientious study OF
skin games. The streets of New
York might be paved with croco-
} die skin, to match the tears of the
, inhabitants; but Tammany would
sneak in on the contract, seeing
: that the Tiger is notdead but sleep
2 eth. Nimrod was mighty hunter
before t he Lord; but Bwana
t Jumbo lie close third. With the
. eye of fancy. it is possible to see
the Smithsonian Institution get
0 ting hustle on it, which, is as in
q credible as an Englishman with an
= antipathy to mutton and tea or a
!: shoeblack with clean face. There
n is a warm time coming for Smith
+ sons brood; modern methods, the
is strenuous life. card.systems and
> overtime. These things were moi
= much accounted of in the old days
, at the Smithsonian. Alas, poor
., Smithson! I gnu him we'll, before
re the coming of the stranger within
70 his gates. He was fellow of in
% finite repose, but we have changed
all that. Where be now his lee
- lures, that were wont to set the
III classroom on a snore?
h A WRITER in religious jourDa
~ makes timely protest agains
e.. nicknaming ones child a kid
: Somebody once commenting OF
the tendency to drag in the name
T. of the brute creation on every pos
sible occasion delivered himself o
ry the following: 'The cat is tn
Il most graceful of animals; the due
:. is the most awkward of birds; bu
~ don't apply this theory in you
IT. loye.letters." A child is not a,
i'd angel; but it certainly is not kie
By I repeat this in the teeth OF th
We Duchess Of, who, according
N the Sunday papers, commonl
- speaks of the Hon. George v
3D. Lothario as her "candy kid" Br