Evening star., 1935-07-28

and not the parks postal stations.
The contrary point Of view controlled
the policy Of distribution at the time
and ruined the publicity value of the
stamps appearance.
Mr.. Southgate, in the Bureau Spe-
eialist, says: Some writers predict
that in q few years these sheets Gar
ley reprints) will be worth real money
and compare the prices that other
special printings now bring, to back
their contention. The fallacy Of that
argument is that only few hundred
al the most Of the special prints for
the centennial exhibition were sold.
1t is hard to see how stamps bought
by the million and going into dealers
stocks and collections will ever bring
much more than face plus interest"
The drive for a stamp commemo-
rating the life and work Of Mark
Twain, author of TON Sawyer" and
"Huckleberry Finn" will be resumed
under the direction OF a Missouri
group of collectors.
Chester L. Landlord has discovered
a booklet of the l0-cent Lndbergh
airrnail stamps with one page in
verted.
The best new issues" news in many
months-for junior collectors, any
ways the announcement that Den
mark is to bring out series Of stamps
in tribute to the memory of Hans
Christian Andersen, beloved "chil-
dren's poet" and fairy tale writer.
Not a politician nor a military
leader, the bard's only claim to fame
is that he spent the best energies Of
his life in the service of the juvenile
mind and heart. He was born at
Odense, April 2. 1905. and died at
Copenhagen, August 4, 1875. Between
those dates lies the story Of a career
almost as pathetic in character as
some of his literary productions. His
parents were poor and shiftless. and
his own childhood consequently was
sad. Even as man he still was handi-
capped by shy reticence resulting
from experiences in his boyhood. o.
regular schooling he had practically
none, but found inspiration for the
work he was to do in the books Of
Shakespeare, Holberg, La Fontaine
and the Arabian Nights. Chance at
tendance at a theater stimulated him
to forsake tailoring to try his luck in
the capital. But the play houses there
had nothing to offer lad Of IA whose
only gift appeared to be q soprano
voice rapidly changing. Andersen
starved until two musicians-Chris-
toph Weyse and Siboni-befriended
him.
Later patrons, including the poet
Frederik Hoegh Guldberg, Jonas Col
lin and King Frederik vi, maintained
him at schools in Slagelse and Elsi-
more, but formal training was wasted
upon his temperament. He found
himself when he began to write. The
road to fame, however, was steep and
rough. Public appreciation of his
genius developed slowly. Several
novels were moderately successful,
but his initial volume of fairy tales.
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much of sensation. A whole dec
ade of travel, study and labor ensued
before he attained celebrity, and he
did not become a universal favorite
until he had survived half a century
of literary struggle. His own people
were the last to applaud him.
Tall. thin, awkward, ungainly. with
huge hands and feet and an impossi-
bic nose, the poet personally was the
antithesis of an idea! maker. of mel
ody. Yet, mo writer looks so wholly
with the child's eyes as he, none so
interpenetrates narration with the
smiles. the tears, the very intonations
of childhood. His personifcations d.
are the natural drama Of children"
A century edition Of his writings was
printed in 1900 under the direction
of the Danish government.
Tripolitania, Italian colony, brought
out an ethnographic set for the Ninth
Industrial Fair, an annual exhibition
AS listed officially the series is: 10c
plus 10c, yellow brown, base ball