New-York tribune., 1910-09-10
who takes the last desperate rehheuS
in fact the genius he thinks himseH


Every one who is engaged in hteraTs
pursuits has come across am ann cases
wasted time enough on. many 80, a
where a very ordinary gift. or peIhaPt 10 .
mere facility for stringinS Wot'o ,,,rer
gether has been mistaken py lt ai<o ana
for genius Every publisher once "itS g
eyerT editors room could deliver up lts
secrets of this kind; a nercl1ui uoJ og !; gbt
generally hides them from tne I u crar,ember
Of day But not always we Ir ItIli Ia ck
an Unfortunate case a few years pa. @ n n
where young woman, whose n.y. stoI an-
been refused by one publisher d. 'babind
other committed suicide, leaving peiIiia" @
her q letter in which she gave as HeL 80 90,
son that her gifts as a writer if5 iia1 80
been appreciated. There was aediances i.,.ii
sation one or two tender coIScieai' of o.'
probably had a slecpless night. mos htolt "
tougher fibre who had rejected Lne i,,1o
told themselves that thelr adFei &c T,,fhor's
mcnt was not affected by me autlioi - :
act The hook as was inevitable aiteI
such an event, was pubilSheq, eIi the
dead authors work came oelolV nT;o,Tad
world for the verdict Ii was itflS" tr,,
with considerable reticence ana III eESI 80 :,
case reference was made to the Ids1UI 90
which had preceded it's appearance hIic
neither with the critics nor tnt Pu,'i y
I,5s tbe hook 2 success: the author hai
mistaken a mere rushlfght for the star li oi
genius and. like the moth had aaci liz
her life for the mistake. , of
We have forgotten the name DotH "
the author and of her book: but tle.'ei1d tle eptl
sode painful as it was, has aJWaI3 , tbc
.I,1
fate or the personal circumstances VI ~. ~!
author TO weigh with their verde, ,,ae plt in
work There may be relative EaluT0 thn
literature: but the positive merit VI rnaI
work that Is DTonht'u - w
test.
4 volume which ought TO c2t''al"
pa ssa ges amusing to readers on tais Sioe
Of the Atlantic is announced for carry
n1b1ication under the title of Home
Life in America" It's author is ha'"
crime z. Busbey
Works of fiction which will shorty oe
published by the Scribners lhciuue NJ
Henry James's collection OF shoiI
stories. entitled THE Finer Gram Oh
A r. OuilIer-Couch's Lady Good-lor-
Nothing" an eighteenth century TO-
nance. whose scene is laid IN TINS co"ii-
try: Mrs. Edith Wharton's IaieS "i
Men, and Mr. James 3. CohnoiS
open Water.
Mr.. Augustus Post, who with another
American dropped a third ut a liilie III
an exploded balloon, has set torth the
story of that perilous experience LOT tile
October Century This was the accl-
dent that stirred the spectators OF tiie
Gordon Bennett international balloon
race at Perrin in the autumn of 1898.
democracy and the Overman' IS the
titI, of forthcoming book by Professor
Zueblfn. who was once on the staff of
the University of Chicago, ana VINO
published much discussed volume
called The Religion of Democrat.
American niIgrims to the historical and
literary precincts of London Will no
longer be able to trace Tabard street
that road which Chaucer knew, when
led forth to Canterbury, and UP Whlch
swarmed the peasants VINO lolio"eU
Wat Tyler. and later those who rloted
at the heels of Jack Cade. 1t was the
chief highway into London, even In
the days of the Black PRINCE, who
rode through il with his captive, the
French King. 1t was never street 10
be admired. LAS long ago as the
thirteenth century the London enron
icle'' says, 1t was haunt of depraVlty
and poverty. In Shakespeare time 1t
was stunned by all respectable folk.
For centuries it was deplored that dis
tinguished foreigners coming from the
Continent should get their first impress
sion of London from Tabard street, ana
sometimes they used to be hurried
through by night, SO that they should
see as little of it as possible The
region is now TO be cleared and the
houses torn down, as hopelessly unsani-
tarv. With them will go the associa =
tions of the place with Dickenss most
Ioyable heroine, Little Dorrit. The
grimv old walls of the Marshalsea still
stand.
Without defending those i'll Judging
Americans VINO address postal cards
during service in the church which holds
Shakespeare's tomb, we may gently sug-
gest that this is case of the preVerbial
pot and kettle The behavior Of British
tourists in Continental CathedralS has
for generations been a subject Of COM
plaint by those who hold those edifices
sacred Let us he lenient all around TO
the thoughtless traveller.
Apropos of Shakespeare's tomb, it
must he admitted that there is good
foundation for the regret of one English
man that the church authorities exact a
small charge for viewing it To such a
shrine pilgrims from all over the world
should he allowed to come in a spirit
free from thought of lucre. 1t is d pity
i that money cannot be raised otherwise
for the church purposes, to which this
fee is said to be devoted Is it not prob
able that Stratford reaps d rich harvest
in other directions from its many foreign
| visitors?