The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1903, Page 12

| = 7 writ w Jhe Leopard's Jpois. MAS DIXONK JR. White Junaay Call. PARED FoXR AN X ZECALEATI O Y JIER WIELEZ, king to friends she After they it all down and soon night 1 in he of them. and day. Some ier pages and sne y drawings by her Dorothy occunation led work. She did s Yc has giv ingest 1 this up. € atlons from her father's i auther to take credit great larity of this second which ran- into any Nevertheless It Is her she gathded her best efforts. Her in regard | | , gegins Feb.22 remembered what had gone she would hed a i material for her book. She worked work destroyed the least ef- had to re- She had the book ready for blication in about two months enthusiasm her to try a ,good s. writing articles and short e magazines under the name of Daughter.” pan has beautiful jllus- brush. The number of editions work, for which to her work THE SUNDAY CALL shows in her manner of speaking of her wrt in i ts “they” wrote her first 1 1d books Do you think.” she said in speaking of her “World Pletures ‘that any one would care to 1¢ hat 1 wrote if they tatlier’s plety to luok at as had not Durothy’s fourth book. on which sha = wurking at present, Is ““The World's Chldrer This she hopes to bring out in the with proofs and illustrations fiom her ther's pen and brush. Her friends think it promises to be as great a success as the “World's Pictures. plies and plles of ‘manuscript, the of her habit of jotting down fmpressions of people and things she sces. To fudge from a great deal of this it is evident that the young author owes her success to nicely balanced powers of obrervaticn, retentive memory. and a facllity expression which 1is remark- able in one ung Miss Menpes does not spend all her time a very healthy rts. she ioves to do better punt all day long under er work ish love of There is n to lie in a the trees on the river at Pangbourne, where they have a house, and do abso- lutely nothing She speaks slightingly of her accom- plishments, but admits that she can draw a little and she sings and plays a little, but only “rubbishing things” on the mar dolir \d guitar. She is very fond of acting @ particulariy likes the part of ortia Sne does yut everything that a girl of her age can do. She is fond of bicyc- ling, punting and tennis and ping-pong. best of all she Iikes real games, like paper-chases and all that r she and her brothers go down to a little wild place on the sea coast. Then . gines her brain a holi- day and goes blackberrying and birds’ nesting. At the end of this little vacation she goes back to London well prepared for her work. Everything arti appeals to Miss Menp . .who inherits this taste from her father. Just now she s very much inter- ested in jewelry making and enameling 1 metals. She has he »wn furnace and pipes und everything necessary for work. in everything she under- ., she goes into this new work thor- oughly and has learned several trade se- jew - robably has a great fu- for she loves to write. amusement it has be- ruest although a pleas- her 1 mer *ome 1 \n ant wor b L T The Book of Weddings. v. Page & Co.. New York, have i 1'a book that should prove pop- ular among those who wish to know just the “proper thing” in regard to Its title is he Book of Wed- Mis. Burton Kingsland; price nd is an authority on 1 can be relied complicated detalls remony with due partial list will ontents of the book: rstitions, invi- what is weddings dings,” $12 the wedding gown, the iding expenses, customary attent t) bridal attendants, the br glfts (manner of sending notes of thanks), du and expenses of the bridegroom aid of honor, the best man and the bridesmaids, a ch v (rehearsal), home wed- Qings, evening weddings, wedding break- fast and suppers, the wedding guests. sec- ond marriages wedding anniversaries one year. paper: second, cotton; third, leather (books, ete.); fourth, china; fifth, wooden, etc Stories of F.umble Friends. Miss Kather Pyle, the sister of the well-known ‘author and artist, Howard Pyle, now appears the author of a book of her own—*'Stories of Humble Friends.” The storie which s intended for grade, are about animals and birds fa- miiar to children. They are simple in tlielr style, attractive in their subject mat- ter and well suited “to arouse the pupil's intcrest and to cultivate a feeling of sympathy for our “humble friends.” The fllustrations add to the interest of the o3 It Is publishcd by the American Beok Company, New York. Price &0 cents. i this book, the third-reader Letters of an American Countess. The J. 8. Oglilvie Publishing Company, New York, has just fssued the “Letters of an American Countess to Her Friend.” purporting to have been written by the Countess herself. This book is on a line with the discusstons that have appeared from time to time in the dally press throughout the United States regarding the schemes by which Amerfcan hefresses have been induced to marry titled Buro- peans, for commissions said to be pald to certain schemers. It gives the experiences of a wealthy American girl who had been captured by a famous ‘“count” with the ald of a svndleate. Price, 50 cents, cloth; in paper, 25 cents. Literary Notes. Frances Charles, the young 8an Fran- clsco.author, whose “In the Country God Forgot’ was favorably received a yoar ago, has written ““The Slege of Youth a story of the present day, with its scenc ia San Francisco. It dcals with art, with journalism and with human nature. Winston Churchill is now preparing his fourth novel for the press and his pub- lishers, the Macmillan Company, hope that it will be completed tn time for pub- lication before the summer opens. They promise early Informatlon as to Its con- tents and Its title, but no definite news about it has yet been forthcoming. A new volume from James Lane Allen is oromised by the Macmillan Company some time during the spring. Definite de- talls about it have not vet been {ssued, but his publishers look upon it as likely to prove the most important novel that Mr. Allen has yet written and they also tell us that it will be in many respects a departure from the current school of American fiction. Henrik Ibsen, the Norweglan author, loves to keep his hair in disorder. This is said to be his one vanity. He always carries a little tollet case contalning a loaking-glass and a comb, which are at- tached to the lining of his gray hat. He will often remove his hat to look into the mirror to see how his hair Is lying. If :t is not rough enough to suit his fancy he tizes the comb to give It the requlsite tan- gle. William Stearns Davis. whose two nov- els, “A Friegd of Caesar” and “God Wills 1t,” achieved such a prompt popularity two years ago. has another novel prac- tically ready for (he press. It will Le published by the Macmillan Company some time during the spring. It will be remembered that this author's first suc- cessful novel was written before he grad- uated at Harvard and considered extraordinary feat for a man of his y on account of the wide scholarshin and reading finvolved In the preparation of the story. The following is an estimate of the number of books contained in the larg- est libraries in the world: Bibliotheque Nationale . 3,000,000 British Museum . 2,000,000 Imperial Library (St. Petersburs). 1 Beérlin Library Strasburg Library Vienna Librar; Munich Library Oxford Library Leipsic Library Copenhagen Librar. Stuttgart Library +11,400,000 The Baker & Taylor Company an- nounces for publication in February a new art book entitled “Pictorial Compo- sition and the Critical Judgment of Pic- tures,” by H. R. Poore, A. N. A, Mr. erience as an artist and in- structor of art students fits him admir- abiy for the production of this book. Among art teachers composition is now 1ecognized as one of the most essential features in art instruction, a feature fre- Poore's e quently misunderstood by the students of art, the photographer and the col- lector. The book will be fllustrated with many half-tones and engravings showing the principles and faults of compositign. Despite the numerous editions of Shake- speare now avallable, a new ane is an- nounced which awaken fresh in- terest. It is called the “First Folio” ed; tion. and is being prepared for Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, the well- known editors of the Camberwell Brown- ing. This edition goes back to and 1e- produces the famous F Folio text of 1623, the one which gives Shakcsneare in the original spelling and punctuation. The text is thus freed from the editorial changes of three centuries, which, how- ever, are indicated by abundant notes. The type is modern and is set by De Vinne. This fs the ouly reprinting ex- tant of the F Follo. The first pla 1o be fssucd fs “A Midsommer Nights Dreame."” In addition to the commenty of “The Lounger” The Critie tains the following: for Febr con- *“The Current Drama Caricatured,” Car.o de Fornaro; “A Rose fn Winter"” (verse), Rovert Loveman, -etters to a Literaty Aspirant,” part I: “College Professors Who Are Men of Le ters® (I Harvard, Vlustrated). Frank W. Noxon; Laurence Housman's ‘“pethle- he ' (Mustrated after original ddawings by Gordon Craig). Christopher St. John; “In Spite of the Censor,” Laurence Hous man; “Literary Landmarks of New York (VII paper, illustrated), Charles Hem- streef;3* ‘The Decay of the Novel' An- swered” (being numerous replies by prom- inent novellsts); ““Scenery Versus Human Nature,” Garolyn Shipman; *“Real Con- versations” {conversation X, with “Lucas Malet™), Willam Archer: “Mary Hartwell Catherwood,” W. E. Simonds: “Woodrow Wiison's ‘History of the American Peo- ple' ™), George Louie Beer; ‘‘Books of To- Pay and Books of To-Morrow,” “Arthur Pendenys”; “The Book-Buyer's Guide'; “Library Reports on Popular Books. Goldsmith's house in London, No. 6 Wine Office court, Fleet street, where he dwelt from 1761 to 176/, has lately been Lraced up by wooden crutches, in order to orevent its falling down in company With the house next door, but preparatory to its own demolishment. It was here that Goldsmith lived with a relative of John Newbery, his publisher. The ar- rangement was that Newbery's man should continually urge the not overe diligent author to produce copy, and the device was more or less successtul. Here Goldsmith was visited by Dr. Johnson, who is said to have dressed with immacu- late neatness on these occaslons in order to set an example to his careless friend— truly an amusing picture of the untidy old moralist. In this house Goldsmith wrote “The Traveler,” and probably fin- fshed *“The Vicar of Wakefield." It is amuzing how little the average studious reader knows of the works of this writer, beyond his famous poem, novel and play, “I'he Deserted Village,” *‘The Vicar of Wakefield” and *‘8he Stoops to Conquer."” The Harpers say that when they an- nounced thelr Cunningham edition of Goldsmith's writings. in_twelve octavo volumes—eight of them Goldsmith's ac- tual prodyct—-many of their correspond- ents expressed surprise at the extent of the works. Four out of “tae twelve vol- umes cover “Goldsmith’s Life and Times, that loyal biography of John Forster's which involved him in his quarrel over thefr respective property in the facts of Goldsmith's career. Forster dedicated this “Life” to his friend Charles Dickens in a sonnet, of which the last lines are: . . “Come with me and beholt hat there fs fiercer crowded misery In garret toll and London loneliness Than in cruel islands mid the far-off se This “‘garret tofl and London loneli~ nless” were a portion of Goldsmith's ex- perience in the house in Wine Office court now doomed to early extinction. The Theater for February contains an important article by J. I. C. Clarke, vice president of the American Dramatists’ Club, in which he urges that immediate steps be taken by our native playwrights to bring about the establishment in thie country of a national theater, conducted on purely artistic lines. Mr. Clarke thinke that wealthy men would advance the cap- ital necessary—estimated at $150,000 for the first year—If a committee prepared a practical scheme which they could con- sider, and he advocates putting the idea to the test. The Theater, which has been indefatigable In its efforts to kgep up pub- lic Interest in the matter, says the Ameri- can Dramatists’ Club will call a meeting soon to consider some plan of action. An example of ;what can be done In this di- rectiofl is shown by the wonderful carees of Antoine in Paris, who, from a clerkship in the Paris Gas Company. worked his way to the front, until to-day he is the most prominent and successful theater manager in Paris. An article by E. Bur- ton Stewart describes the personality of this man who in ten years has revolu- tionized the French stage. Another arti- cle of special and timely interest is “The Revival of the Stock System,” showing how popular the repertoire theaters are becoming, together with an account of the leaders in this field of theatrical ac- tivity and their methods. Vicla Allen, a warm favorite with thousands of theater- goers, furnishes the Interview of the month, and gives an Interesting insight into the personality of this charming and sympathetic actress. Several versions of Tolstoi’s novel, *‘Resurrection,” are being feverishly prepared for the stage, owing to the success of the play in Paris. There is a full account of the plece In The Thea- ter, together with pictures of the most striking scenes. There are al§o a series of pictures showing each act of Belas: latest production, “The Darling of God: The other pictures superb colored portrait of Lillian Russell (on the cover), Annie Russell in “Mice and Men,” E. H. Sothern in “Hamlet," scenes from “The Untoreseen,” “Gretna Green,” ‘‘Heidelberg,” “Sultan of Sulu,” “Bird in the Cage,’ *Girl with Green Eyes,” Cecilia Loftus in “Ophelia.” May Robson and Jerome Sykes in “The Bil- lionaire,” Julie Opp, Amy Ricard, William Bramwell, John Craig, Lilllan Lawrence, Mary Sanders, Corse Payton, Mrs. Spoon- er, Viola Allen, Andre Antoine, Jane Had- ing. Isabel Irving, Walter K Perkins, Mme. Roger-Miclos, the Kneisel Quartet and Anna Held. the include a In “Under the Old Elms' Mrs, gives a few glimpses of Whittier, Claflin one of Gonwnzm s 3 AN oL p PRL e =S GLRZ, - o the most welcome guests in a home noted for its wide hospltality. Whittier's attachment to his own sect— “our folks” he always called them—was exceedingly strong. He could not bear the thought of any change in their hab- its of worship. One day he came home from meeting in a state of great indig- nation. “Our folks have got to talking t' much he declared. *“They even want a glass of water on the table, and some of them want singing in meetings. I tell them if they want singing they've got to get the world’s folks to do it for them, for 200 &) = THLE LITZLE | A7 WoRZ v i > AHATE T BSos years of silence have taken all the sing cut of our people.” Yet although he could not endure the idea of singing In meeting he dearly loved to listen a simple ballad sung by a friend. ¥ then, however, was care- ful not to express too much interest “Thy voice is very sweet,” he would usually say Everything in the way of stat s whether tiny figure or colossal bust, Whittier called a “graven image.”” Secret- ly he was rather fond of graven images —at least, some of them. At one house where he visited was a life size figure of Ruth, which the poet was often seen ex- umining in private. The figure turned on a pivot, and one day it happened to he left in such a way as to present its back to these approaching it. Whittler wa so much disturbed that he went to his Lostess about it “Thy graven image appears to be back ing folks t' much, he said gently 1 think thee better turnéher round.” Nor was It graven images alone that he ATTLHORE AR observed. One day, when Mr Maria Child had been at the ho marked to his hostess, “Lyddy thing new on her bun: s that bunnit for ten years. but some new fixi thee think it was One more picture Mrs. Claflin g which has an element of pathos. Whittier was always painfully conscious of b c¢wn shortcomings. One day she dis ered him in the libra idently mn depressed. The re: pertect poem. a pertect poem A lar artic The m the T Lieutenar t fllustrated by twenty pages ble photographs. se vestigations of th professions ¢ gins in this mumber with 1 ar cle by Harry D. Nims on “The Law yrge lles is the author of a well ted st of Herbert Spencer's w and Art Goodrich finds good things to say abou ited States Steel Corpo- on's s Owen W which W Aty Worid's Work. a W x workshop. Libraries, their growth a work. make up ) w Miss Helen Hair D M randall gives inte & sugs s the “Prevention of P! al Breakdow Louls James Magee teils ods Americans can business men. And t 1y part of contents. ere is an article about Amer p as shown fean skilled workmé watch factorfes by P. P y-five short editorial ar more »st, some thir- ticles in tl mong the World's Workers." The port raits for the manth melude Secreta Moody of the navy, Judge Alton B. Pa ker, General F. V. Greene and Dr. J. E Russell. | Jhe Leopard's J@ls. BY THOMAS DIXON JR. j A Romlnc}i‘f the White man’s burden—1860-1900. It - the temnderest love pas | sages, the most tense, verile situations, the most vivid war pletures ever created by mod- ern pen. Begins Feb.22 —_— e —— Junday Cail. . 2