The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-09-03

AT the time Of the production of
Ahe Lady Of Lyons. il was not known
nat Lord Lytton was the author. Be |
tween the acts Dickens met Lytton |
and asked him what he thought Of ii.
Lytfon pretended to think s%Iightingiy |
OF the production, and mentioned
some OF its shortcomings. Come. |
now replied Dickens. who was en-
thusiastic e it, 1T is not like YOU,
6uiWer. to cayil at such small things
as those. The man who wrote the
play may AVE initiated your work
mere and there, perhaps, but he was
a deuced clever fellow for all that.
To hear you speak SO is almost enough
To- make enc think that you are jeai-
oNs.' In a fortnight Lvtton's author
ship Of h work was announced. The
next time Dickens met Lord Lytton
he felt a sudden fall in the temper
allure Of Their r%elation,
On n occasion, ohm Sargent, the
famous American painter, painted a
picture Of the children Of Fred which
he entitled: "Carnation. Lily, Lily,
Rose" When exhibited, his picture
was re-chr!stened by some Philistine:
"Darnation, Silly, Silly. Pose"
Sometime after Mrs. Humphry
Ward had Won great renown as a
novelist. accompanied by rich finan-
cial rewards, Miss Constance Feni-
more Woolson, author OF Anne, a
novel amous in its day t,SS1), wrote
a friend:-
THE other day I met Mrs. Hum
phr- Ward: l mean I was invited to
meet her. Although I seldom accept
invitations nowadays, I did accept this:
[ was curious to see this fortunate
m She looks ry much like
the Portraits: fine eyes, not handsome,
but plenty of force. I should say she
takes herself and her books with in
tense seriousness, as very important
influences in the world Of today. There
is g pretty story told of her. She fell
in low with Ward, and nearly broke
her heart about him. Cor she had no
money at all-in England a Sine qua
non; 1 mean that money iS-and as
he had none his friends were strong
ly opposed to his saddling himself
with such heavy responsibilities
young as he was. He was an under
graduate Of BraZenOSe; and, later, a
Fellow. Finally he did larry poor
Mary as people were calling her.
And now behold his reward"
John Kendrick Bangs, the humor-
list, employs various MONS de plume
in his writings, which often lead to
SOIIlp AL
Of poetic compliments between Bangs
and Carolyn Wells, on this subject,
is an, excellent illustration of that
peculiar sort Of wit which Harper
& Bros. have consistently encouraged
and exploited. The poem Of Carolyn
Wells is entitled
) THOSE NEW POETS.
Quite frequently it happens
AS I scan my Harper DER.
I see a goodly poets name
I've never seen before.
hin Hes very clever
) At cutting verbal FRANKS:
Another merry jingler
Is added to ranks.
And then the notion stirs mo
And round my spirit hangs:
lis it another pseudonym
OF J-k-B-?"
The following reply, by Bangs, wa!
entitled:
t TO CAROLYN WELLS.
You DO right we'll. O Lady Fair,
l In all the verse you see
|, Behind the name that's written there
! To look for little me.
I And if you seek the prettiest
l Of all my magic spells,
l The wisest and the Wittiest-
; Read those I sign
> Just Carolyn Welis..'
! Recently, a boo has come to M
notice that is entitled to a nassinf
Y word-of ridicu!e. It is entitled The
Mountain Girl, and the scene is lait
!. in the mountains Of Western Nortf
. Carolina. For a~bsurdity in plot, ane
faulttneSs in Observation-Disclosures
this book deserves the severest ant
most precise condemnation. It is onl,
another example Of those books
hopelessly untrue to actual conditions
I crassly unrepresentative in tone
which finds readers, not in an in
!, formed South, where conditions ar
clearly understood. but in an ignorant
sentimental, sympathetic North
where conditions in the South ar
neither appreciated nor understood. /
> has been my own personal observation
A. and experience that Northern peopi'
no n class rro,-iio6 thQv have no