New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-24
CURRENT TALK OF
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
The Authorship of Home An lnference-Lord Nor
ley's New Book-Syle and Styllshness -
Christina Rossetti in Later Life.

of printed paper when she found IT,,
lest II should bear the Holy Name and
he trodden upon" Here is more
sympathetic picture Of her than we are
accustomed to get from her usual over
wrought admirers:
was somewhat taken back when she
entered the ROOM wearing short service
able skirts of an iron-gray tweed ana
stout boots Her dress did not at
all 80 with her spiritual face and the
heavily ldded, wide apart eyes when on"
only finds in highly gifted woman. The
heavy lids were less of n beauty than
:hey had been when her brother delighted
to paint them.
certainly believe that she made the
worst of herself, perhaps as species OF
modification. She even affected a short,
matter-of-fact way OF speaking. which
took me somewhat aback at our first
meeting. She put one off sitting at her
feet completely. Il wrote such melan-
choly things when | was young" she
said that | am obliged to be unusually
cheerful, not TO say robust, in my old
age"
At later date I told her how taken
aback I had been by the dress and the
boots, and 1 remember how she laughed.
Mrs. Hinkson also gives us a dis
tinctly wholesome impression OF her
friend Mr.. W. b. Yeats, describing the
movement as a very simple human
creature in old days. The Yeats Of the
Irish theatre and of much petting and
spelling is, or may be, she says, quite
a different person. when he wanted
to go to town" she adds, "he was quite
ready 10 take a seat with Tommy Mer-
rigan, who drove milk van into town.
The spectacle OF the poet sitting up
among the milk cans is weird one in
nv memory. He would drive
through the smartest streets in the
milk van, unconscious or careless that
it differed from the finest carriage"
Anne Warmers Last Book.
Sunshine Jane" is the title OF a
posthumous novel by the author OF
Susan Clegg' and THE Regeneration
of Aunt Mary" which Little, Brown &
Co. announce for publication on Febru-
airy II, on which day they will also
issue Success at Golf" a book by six
masters OF the game, Harry Vardon,
Alexander Herd, George Duncan, Will
frid Reid, Francis Ouimet and Law
renee Ayton.
Style and "Stylishness"
style in literature is not syntax,'
says a writer IN The Saturday Re-
view" nor Pangloss, who was for
teaching the young peer to spell and
write precisely Whatever it is, some
hold it can be cultivated by assiduous
pains in writing and phrasing. But
that surely is more than doubtful. Styl-
ishness can be got so; but. when we
compare the two. stylishness looks very
much like the ape, the painted ape. OF
style:
STYLE appears to be the rarest and -e-
finest thing given out BY exceptional
minds II might be likened to the aroma
OF the best wines, except that the aroma
is so soon distributed and lost. But in
one matter at least the smile would be
absolutely true--there can no more be
STYLE without substance, plenty OF sub
stance. behind II than In wine there can
be choice aroma without body, plenty OF
body. The last thing I'm the world that
style is is 4 thing without an abundance
of good solid stun al its source. Style
essentially springs from substance It
pretty-as preciosity was shrewdly sus-
pecte1 OF being. This is perfectly clear in
poetry AS in prose. Wherever there Is
great poetry and great style there il sub
stance. Where there Is no substance there
is no style, only CHASTITY simulacrum
OF IL.