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three months for #be;c4 per number or one dollar per year4 ,contents for ,may3 ,i4 ,glints of ,wit and ,wisdom3 ,being replies from sundry ,great ,men who missed a ,good ,thing4 ,,ii4 ,some ,historical ,documents by ,w4 ,irving ,way1 ,phillip ,hale and ,livy ,s4 ,richard4 ,,iii4 ,as to ,stephen ,crane4 ,e4 ,h4 ,a preachment by an admiring friend4 ,,iv4 ,seven poems by ,stephen ,crane4 #a--,the ,chatter of a ,death ,demon4 #b--;,a ,lantern ,song4 #c--;,a ,slant of ,sun on ,dull ,brown ,walls4 #d--;,i have heard the ,sunset ,song of the ,birches4 #e--,what ,says the ,sea8 #f--,to the ,maiden the ,sea was ,blue ,meadow4 #g--;,fast ,rode the ,knight4 ,v4 ,a ,great ,mistake4 ,stephen ,crane4 ,recording the venial sin of a mortal under sore temptation4 ,,vi4 ,a ,prologue4 ,stephen ,crane4 ,,the ,,philistine4 ,,no4 #b4 ,july1 #ahif4 ,,vol4 #c4 ,a ,,sea ,,song4 ,away with care6 ,away with grief6 ,hurrah for life6 ,hurrah1 we're free6 ,away with sorrow6 ,perish wrong6 ,hurrah1 ,hurrah6 ,the sea6 ,the sea6 ,yo ho1 ,the waves are dashing1 ,yo ho1 ,the billows crashing1 ,yo ho1 ,the spray goes flashing ,down the bay4 ,hurrah6 ,the gulls are winging1 ,o'er bows the waves are flinging ,the cooling1 pelting1 stinging1 ,salt sea spray4 ,away with care6 ,away with grief6 ,hurrah for life6 ,hurrah1 we're free6 ,away with sorrow6 ,perish wrong6 ,hurrah1 ,hurrah6 ,the sea6 ,the sea6 ,f4 ,w4 ,,pickard4 ,a ,,bit ,,of ,,war ,,photography4 ,after the applause won by ,mr4 ,stephen ,crane's ,red ,badge of ,courage1 a little reaction is not strange2 and this has already taken1 in some quarters1 a form quite unjust and unfair4 ,certainly any one who spent so much as a week or two in camp1 thirty years ago1 must be struck with the extraordinary freshness and vigor of the book4 ,no one except ,tolstoi1 within my knowledge1 has brought out the daily life of war so well2 it may be said of these sentences1 in ,emerson's phrase1 8,cut these and they bleed40 ,the breathlessness1 the hurry1 the confusion1 the seeming aimlessness1 as of a whole family of disturbed ants1 running to and fro1 yet somehow accomplishing something at last2 all these aspects1 which might seem the most elementary and the easiest to depict1 are yet those surest to be omitted1 not merely by the novelists1 but by the regimental histories themselves4 ,i know that when ,i first read ,tolstoi's ,war and ,peace1 ,the ,cossacks and ,sevastopol1 it seemed as if all other so-called military novels must become at once superannuated and go out of print4 ,all others assumed1 in comparison1 that bandbox aspect which may be seen in most military or naval pictures2 as in the well known engraving of the death of ,nelson1 where the hero is sinking on the deck in perfect toilette1 at the height of a bloody conflict1 while every soldier or sailor is grouped around him1 each in spotless garments and heroic attitude4 ,it is this ,tolstoi quality--the real tumult and tatters of the thing itself--which amazes the reader of ,crane's novel4 ,moreover1 ,tolstoi had been through it all in person2 whereas this author is a youth of twenty-four1 it seems1 born since the very last shot fired in the ,civil ,war4 ,how did he hit upon his point of view8 ,yet this very point of view1 strange to say1 has been called a defect4 ,remember that he is telling the tale1 not of a commanding general1 but of a common soldier--a pawn in the game2 a man who sees only what is going on immediately around him1 and1 for the most part1 has the key to nothing beyond4 ,this he himself knows well at the time4 ,afterward1 perhaps1 when the affair is discussed at the campfire1 and his view compared with what others say1 it begins to take shape1 often mixed with all sorts of errors2 and when it has reached the ,grand ,army ,post and been talked over afterward for thirty years1 the narrator has not a doubt of it all4 ,it is now a perfectly ordered affair1 a neat and well arranged game of chess1 often with himself as a leading figure4 ,that is the result of too much perspective4 ,the wonder is that this young writer1 who had no way of getting at it all except the gossip--printed or written--of these very old soldiers1 should be able to go behind them all1 and give an account of their life1 not only more vivid than they themselves have ever given1 but more accurate4 ,it really seems a touch of that marvelous intuitive quality which for want of a better name we call genius4 ,now is it a correct criticism of the book to complain1 as one writer has done1 that it does not dwell studiously on the higher aspects of the war8 ,let the picture only be well drawn1 and the moral will take care of itself2 never fear4 ,the book is not a patriotic tract1 but a delineation2 a cross section of the daily existence of the raw enlisted-man4 ,in other respects it is reticent1 because it is truthful4 ,does any one suppose that in the daily routine of the camp there was room for much fine talk about motives and results--that men were constantly appealing1 like ,carlyle's ,frenchman1 8to posterity and the immortal ,gods80 ,fortunately or unfortunately1 the ,anglo ,saxon is not built that way2 he errs on the other side2 habitually understates instead of overstating his emotions2 and while he is making the most heroic sacrifices of his life1 usually prefers to scold about rations or grumble at orders4 ,he is to be judged by results2 not by what he says1 which is often ungracious and unornamental1 but by what he does4 ,the very merit of this book is that in dealing with his men the author offers1 within this general range1 all the essential types of character--the man who boasts and the man who is humble--the man who thinks he may be frightened and is not1 and the man who does not expect to be1 but is4 ,for his main character he selects a type to be found in every regiment--the young man who does not know himself1 who first stumbles into cowardice1 to his own amazement1 and then is equally amazed at stumbling into courage2 who begins with skulking1 and ends by taking a flag4 ,in ,doyle's ,micah ,clarke the old ,roundhead soldier tells his grandchildren how he felt inclined to bob his head when he first heard bullets whistle1 and adds 8,if any soldier ever told you that he did not1 the first time that he was under fire1 then that soldier is not a man to trust40 ,this is putting it too strongly1 for some men are born more stolid1 other more nervous2 but the nervous man is quite as likely to have the firmer grain1 and to come out the more heroic in the end4 ,in my own limited experience1 the only young officer whom ,i ever saw thoroughly and confessedly frightened1 when first under fire1 was the only one of his regiment who afterwards chose the regular army for his profession1 and fought ,indians for the rest of his life4 ,as for ,the ,red ,badge of ,courage1 the test of the book is in the way it holds you4 ,i only know that whenever ,i take it up ,i find myself reading it over and over1 as ,i do ,tolstoi's ,cossacks1 and find it as hard to put down4 ,none of ,doyle's or ,weyman's books bear re-reading1 in the same way2 you must wait till you have forgotten their plots4 ,even the slipshod grammar seems a part of the breathless life and action4 ,how much promise it gives1 it is hard to say4 ,goethe says that as soon as a man has done one good thing1 the world conspires against him to keep him from doing another4 ,mr4 ,crane has done one good thing1 not to say two2 but the conspiracy of admiration may yet be too much for him4 ,it is earnestly to be hoped1 at least1 that he may have the wisdom to stay in his own country and resist the temptation to test his newly-found ,english reputation by migrating--an experiment by which ,bret ,harte has been visibly dwarfed and ,henry ,james hopelessly diluted4 ,t4 ,w4 ,,higginson4 ,cambridge1 ,mass4 ,a ,,prologue4 ,a ,,gloomy ,,stage4 ,,slender ,,curtains ,,at ,a ,,window1 ,,centre4 ,,before ,,the ,,window1 ,a ,,table1 ,,and ,,upon ,,the ,,table1 ,a ,,large ,,book1 ,,opened4 ,a ,,moonbeam1 ,,no ,,wider ,,than ,a ,,sword-,,blade1 ,,pierces ,,the ,,curtains ,,and ,,falls ,,upon ,,the ,,book4 ,a ,,moment ,,of ,,silence4 ,,from ,,without1 ,,then--,,an ,,adjacent ,,room ,,in ,,intention--,,come ,,sounds ,,of ,,celebration1 ,,of ,,riotous ,,drinking ,,and ,,laughter4 ,,finally1 ,a ,,swift ,,quarrel4 ,,the ,,din ,,and ,,crash ,,of ,a ,,fight4 ,a ,,little ,,stillness4 ,,then ,a ,,woman',s ,,scream4 8,,ah1 ,,my ,,son1 ,,my ,,son40 ,a ,,moment ,,of ,,silence4 ,,curtain4 ,,stephen ,,crane4 ,a ,,hot ,,weather ,,idyll4 ,the new assistant sat in the office1 vainly endeavoring to discourage the perspiration in its efforts to show him how the water comes down at ,lodore4 ,but1 with a perseverance worthy a wetter cause than the dry weather1 it continued to flow from his mobile brow and neck1 mop he never so well4 ,the thermometer on the wall registered #hi1 and the calendar only ,may #ast4 ,it was the new assistant's first day in the office1 and he had already begun to contemplate with humid horror the prospect of spending an entire summer in a place that was already warm enough to have caused his once stiff and glossy collar to emulate his puff-bosom shirt4 8,why10 he gasped to the ,old ,book-keeper1 8what will it be when summer really comes80 ,the latter1 who had been a cent short in his cash the night before1 gruffly replied that it would probably be ,june #ast4 ,but1 before the day was over1 he1 too1 was forced to realize the heat and to speak of it4 ,so1 when his face began to assume the appearance of a greasy plank under a hydrant1 he concluded that it might not be so great a compromise to his dignity for him to agree with his junior1 and his looks showed him to be rapidly thawing4 ,they managed to survive that day and the next and several others that followed4 ,in the meantime the thermometer seemed bent1 in fact1 warped1 upon beating all previous records1 and the two sufferers watched the mercury climb1 until it seemed to be trying to reach its ,olympian namesake4 ,the thought that the worst was to come served to increase their distress4 ,it always does4 ,finally1 the ,old ,book-keeper1 who occupied a sort of oldest inhabitant position in the neighborhood1 although he had always worked for a living1 threw up the sponge and reluctantly admitted that1 for so early in the season1 it really beat all the weather he ever saw4 ,the new assistant sympathized with the old man in his defeat1 and went so far in his efforts to cheer him1 as across the street to buy the beer1 without first proposing to match for it4 ,so affairs went on1 nothing worthy of note transpiring1 except1 of course1 the two now becoming warm friends4 ,every morning and again after lunch they would enter the office1 take off their coats and everything else that ,mr4 ,comstock might not object to1 and drearily settle down to their work1 always wondering if they would be able to stand it when summer really came4 ,by this time1 they had ceased to consult the thermometer1 and the calendar was forgotten4 ,several pages that should have been torn from the latter remained there still3 not enough air was stirring to move them4 ,at last1 one afternoon just as the new assistant had succeeded in opening his attenuated countenance wide enough to say1 as usual--8,i wonder what it will be when summer really0--the door was suddenly darkened by a portly form enveloped in a heavy overcoat and a confident manner that unmistakably stamped their wearer as the ,boss1 and a hearty voice exclaimed--8,well1 this bracing weather is delightful after a hot summer on the ,riviera60 ,the ,old ,book-keeper and the new assistant staggered to the door and looked out4 ,the snow was falling thick and fast4 ,,estes ,,baker4 ,knoxville1 ,tenn4 ,a ,,venture ,,in ,,manuscript4 ,having finished some literature ,i put it into an envelope1 with postage stamps to get it back2 for that happened sometimes1 even when it was real1 hand-made literature1 as in this case4 ,it came back1 because the editor of the ,bugle said it was too long4 ,i sat up that night paring and changing1 and when it had been condensed a third it occurred to me that maybe there was a surer market for it in the office of the ,banner of ,freedom4 ,another try2 more postage stamps4 ,returned with statement that 8,we never print stories less than #f1jjj words long and yours is too short40 ,i rewrote it in part1 restoring an episode on which ,i had slightly prided myself in the original version1 and as it was neither long nor short ,i sent it1 this time to ,tomlinson's ,bi-,monthly4 ,tomlinson kept it for nearly two years before returning it1 and it reached me a veritable tramp of a manuscript1 dusty1 creased1 dog-eared and ragged1 with editorial changes in blue pencil that could not be erased1 and the remark that1 as ,tomlinson's circulated largely among the ,bulgarians in ,america1 and received advertising patronage from them1 it was impossible to print anything that might offend ,bulgarians4 ,this surprised me1 because the fact that one of my characters1 ,gilhooly ,mc,manus1 was a ,bulgarian had nearly escaped my notice4 ,he was introduced because his nationality made occasion for an incident that ,i needed1 and had he been an ,american every reader would have denounced his conduct as absurd4 ,there was nothing for it but to copy it afresh and send it to ,bloxam's4 ,it was returned in the next mail1 manifestly unread1 with the usual form announcement that 8owing to pressure0 etc41 it was impossible1 etc41 so ,i tried ,the ,pacific with it next4 ,it came back in time with the objection that it was too sensational1 and the next week it was returned by the ,chambermaid's ,own as too quiet4 ,hanks' ,review would not have it because plots were going out of fashion1 and ,the ,athenian suggested that ,i imbue it with at least a trace of interest4 ,at last a little one-horse magazine in ,texas offered to print it if ,i would subscribe for three years to his magazine at two dollars per year4 ,i accepted the offer by return mail1 stipulating only that the magazine should be sent1 with my compliments1 to an almshouse4 ,and ,i set out on my next story wondering if the time would ever come when a man could speak his mind to his fellow men in print1 or if all written things would have to be shaped according to the ,procrustean notions of the average editor4 ,,charles ,m4 ,,skinner4 ,,the ,,micketts ,,of ,a ,,wybirt4 ,then with a touchbox of transalpine tar1 ,turning thrice round1 and stirring not a jot1 ,he threw five tons of red hot purple ,snow1 ,into a ,pigmy's mouth1 nine inches square4 ,which straight1 with melancholy mov'd1 ,old ,bembus ,burgomaster of ,pickt-hatch1 ,that plunging through the ,sea of ,turnbull street1 ,he safely did arrive at ,smithfield ,bars4 ,then did the ,turntripes on the ,coast of ,france1 ,catch fifteen hundred million grasshoppers1 ,with fourteen ,spanish ,needles1 bumbasted1 ,poach'd with the ,eggs of fourscore ,flanders ,mares4 ,mounted upon the foot of ,caucasus1 ,they whirled the football of conspiring ,fate1 ,and brake the shins of smug-fac'd ,mulciber3 ,with that1 grim ,pluto all in ,scarlet blue1 ,gave fair ,persephone a kiss of ,brass1 ,at which all ,hell danc'd ,trenchmore in a string4 ,whilst ,acheron and ,termagant did sing1 8,the ,mold-warp10 all this while in white broth bath'd1 ,did ,carol ,didoes happiness in love1 ,upon a ,gridiron made of whiting-mops1 ,unto the tune of 8,john ,come ,kiss ,me ,now10 ,at which ,avernus ,music 'gan to roar1 ,enthron'd upon a seat of three-leav'd grass1 ,whilst all the ,hibernian ,kernes in multitudes1 ,did feast with ,shamrocks stewed in ,usquebaugh4 ,at which banquet made of didillary ,took great distaste1 because the ,pillory ,was hunger-starv'd for want of ,villains ears1 ,whom to relieve1 there was a ,mittimus1 ,sent from ,tartaria in an oyster boat1 ,at which the ,king of ,china was amaz'd1 ,and with nine grains of ,rhubard1 stellified1 ,as low as to the altitude of shame1 ,he thrust four ,onions in a ,candle-case1 ,and spoil'd the meaning of the world's misdoubt4 ,thus with a ,dialogue of crimson ,starch1 ,i was inflamed with a nun-cold fire1 ,upon the tenterhooks of ,charlemagne4 ,the ,dogstar howl'd1 the ,cat a ,mountain smil'd1 ,and ,sisyphus drank ,muscadel and eggs1 ,in the horn'd hoof of huge ,bucephalus1 ,time turn'd about1 and show'd me ,yesterday1 ,clad in a ,gown of mourning2 had ,i wist1 ,the motion was almost too late they said1 ,whilst sad despair made all the ,world stark mad2 ,they all arose1 and ,i put up my pen1 ,it makes no matter1 where1 why1 how1 or when4 ,,ian ,,taylor4 ,,the ,,purple ,,insurgent4 ,clangingharp told ,frostembight the only prophetic way to write an epic was to save all the rough drafts1 with interlinear corrections4 ,he said your biographer could thus trace the growth of your work from its earliest inception to its final bloom1 and the photographic reproductions would do away with the cost of sketches4 ,frostembight said a man that would write an epic was a lunk-head4 ,clangingharp started to get up and destroy ,frostembight1 but he stepped on ,marcus ,aurelius1 and with a rush of words to the throat fell helpless into his chair4 ,marcus ,aurelius was the cat4 8,dam that cat10 added ,clangingharp4 ,one night when ,clangingharp sat writing1 an episode occurred4 ,clangingharp couldn't write on an empty stomach1 and the verses he made when he was sober were so drab and elegiac that in spite of his remark to ,frostembight he threw them away and went out after cocktails4 ,he could write shriller and hotter stuff when he had had cocktails4 ,well1 one night he sat thinking of what an empty thing a cocktail is4 ,he had been writing verses1 and he knew they were regrettable4 ,but he did not go out and have cocktails4 ,it might be told why he didn't1 but what's the use8 ,you go to a comedy to get away from your business troubles1 and the chief clown constantly thrusts under your nose a big wad of stage money4 ,it would simply be dragging in sordid matter that should have no place in a psychological study4 ,it is enough to say he didn't go out4 ,he sat and plunked drops of purple ink from his pen into a blotter with an insurance advertisement on it that lay submissively on the desk4 ,then ,marcus ,aurelius leaped onto the blotter1 and a fiendish shine glittered dryly in the epicist's eye4 ,he noticed the cat was white4 ,rainy afternoons on the fire-escape had made the beast very white4 ,clangingharp plunked a drop of royal purple on the tip of ,marcus ,aurelius's tail4 ,the next instant ,clangingharp had written3 8,and gave him hemorrhage of the soul40 8,great60 he screeched in a seething cauldron of joy4 8,powerful60 ,he began to wonder whether or not cattails were as effective as cocktails4 ,he plunked another royal purple drop onto the cat's tail1 and wrote another line4 ,it was not so good as hemorrhage of the soul1 but it was pretty fair3 8,and freshet-flushed his hydrant eye40 ,for two weeks ,clangingharp's days and nights were dry4 ,he did not go out after cocktails1 and as there was a drought on the fire-escape the cat was becoming splendidly regal4 ,the window was kept open1 for the weather was hot2 but ,marcus ,aurelius got no nourishment excepting an occasional mouse and what he absorbed from the ink1 so he staid in4 ,clangingharp would sit there for hours and deliberately sling ink at him4 ,not a growl from ,marcus4 ,at last he would take down the folding-bed1 and before getting in would remember the pen and wipe it along ,marcus's spine4 ,not a plaint from the cat3 always patient and forgiving4 ,the epic was growing4 ,it had become so vast now that ,clangingharp had long since stopped saving rough drafts1 and the complete copy was piled up neatly on his desk4 ,there was so much that he had even ceased reading the whole of it through after writing each new line4 ,the evening came when ,clangingharp felt that he could finish the last canto4 ,his heroine was about to get her document so she could be married to the hero1 and ,clangingharp felt that without stimulants he was scarcely up to writing the heroine's final spasm to the jury4 ,it may as well be said here that ,clangingharp had been hearing from home lately1 so he decided to go out and have them for a last strain4 ,he piled his manuscript fondly on a corner of the desk1 dipped his pen thoughtfully into the ink-well1 and gazing abstractedly at ,marcus1 plunked the whole penful into a mute ,aurelian eye4 ,when ,clangingharp got back he had had several of them1 so at first he did not quite take in what had happened4 ,it seemed to him as if much greater cohesion and consistency had been imparted to the epic by the insertion interlinearly as well as between the pages1 of his pot of mucilage4 ,illustrations had also been sketched over the sheets with the unbridled ink-bottle4 ,the work as a whole had begun to circulate1 and was already widespread in its influence4 ,much of it looked as if the critics had already been at it4 ,clangingharp stepped to the window and looked out4 ,golden light from the window in a first-floor flat shone brightly over the bottom of the air-shaft4 ,there1 curled up on the cement1 lay ,marcus ,aurelius1 a study in purple and dead4 8,dam that cat60 said ,clangingharp4 ,,frank ,w4 ,,noxon4 ,,heart ,,to ,,heart ,,talks ,,with ,,men ,,query ,,one4 ,whom do you consider the greatest living litterateur8 ,formerly1 this matter was in doubt2 but there can be no dispute over this point in recent years4 ,but1 unfortunately1 both good taste and modesty prevent me from making a more definite reply4 ,,query ,,two4 ,i notice you frequently refer to ,henry ,ward ,beecher as a great man2 will you kindly state why you consider him such8 ,mr4 ,beecher acquired some reputation in ,brooklyn a few years ago as a preacher2 this contributed somewhat to his fame4 ,his principal claim to greatness1 however1 rests on his wonderful power of recognizing genius in others4 ,he early saw the advantage of seeking out and connecting himself with the great geniuses of his neighborhood4 ,i need scarcely add that ,i was raised in ,brooklyn1 and that he was among my first admirers4 ,,query ,,three4 ,should a young man smoke cigarettes8 ,i notice on glancing over our advertisement columns1 that the cigarette trust has given up its devilish attempt to make our ,american women nicotine habitues1 so ,i will divert from my usual plan of never referring to myself1 and tell you my own experience as a reply to this question4 ,ten years ago this very day1 a large cigarette firm in ,new ,york ,city offered me ten thousand dollars a year if ,i would smoke their brand of these death-dealing instruments of the evil one4 ,i was very very young at the time2 this is my explanation of my only great temptation4 ,i confess that ,i did not see the horror1 the degradation in this suggestion2 ,i saw only in the offer the gold4 ,i am changed now1 but1 then1 it was a fierce battle4 ,but my mother plead with me1 and she made me promise never even to think of such a wicked thing again4 ,see the result4 ,i now edit the largest journal in the world1 and am educating the women of ,america what to do and how to do it4 ,this lesson teaches you to do always as your mother tells you4 ,some day you may edit the ,homely ,ladies' ,journal1 and then you can catch the sympathies of your readers with this sentiment1 without fear of your conscience keeping you awake at nights4 ,,query ,,four4 ,which of our great poets do you consider led the happiest lives8 ,whittier and ,tennyson1 because they were so blessed with great friendships4 ,i knew them both well myself4 ,i shall never forget that glorious day in ,london1 when ,tennyson told me1 with tears in his eyes1 that his only regret was that he had written himself out before ,i had taken charge of the ,homely ,ladies' ,journal2 while ,whittier1 the dear old chap1 told me his fiery war songs that brought him social ostracism1 need never have been written had ,i edited the ,woman's ,house ,journal during that period4 ,,query ,,five4 ,do you find editing such a great journal as the ,woman's ,house ,journal hard work8 ,it must be1 for ,i find it very hard to edit properly my own little country weekly4 ,this question it is almost impossible to answer2 to you my work would seem ,herculean1 unceasing1 impossible2 but to me it is so different that ,i feel that ,i cannot answer this question to make myself intelligible4 ,this question is doubly difficult to answer1 for ,i have systematized my work by establishing a drag net for getting material4 ,i will explain my method4 ,i take up the latest magazine2 ,i see a story by some new great writer1 a society leader in the metropolis4 ,presto6 ,i order a series of articles on 8,how ,women ,should ,behave at ,teas0 from her pen4 ,i hear that a great ,english novelist is coming over to seek the ,american dollar2 again1 as with lightning1 ,i order an article 8,how ,your ,women ,impress ,me40 ,it is immaterial to me what they actually do write1 or how far they wander from their text1 so long as they use my ready made titles4 ,they look so nice in the index4 ,in this way1 ,i use the small talk of the writers as a soft food for my readers4 ,just as you attempt1 in your feeble way1 to serve up the gossip of your little hamlet in your weekly paper1 so ,i do2 for ,i tell you in confidence what women want is not literature1 not art1 not science1 but gossip4 ,so ,i make all the great writers of the day write gossip for them4 ,this is the secret of my success4 ,you should feel very happy now1 for1 although my thoughts and pen fly with lightninglike rapidity1 ,i have spent five hundred dollars' worth of time in answering your inquiry4 ,i will answer the rest of my anxious readers as soon as ,i can systematize other incidents in my very short but successward career4 ,in the meantime1 young men by following the lines laid down in this paper cannot fail of success1 real1 pure1 noble success4 ,j4 ,,howe ,,adams4 ,,plots ,,and ,,things4 ,,unforbidden ,,fruit4 ,i have a plot3--,a man and a girl in a boarding house in ,duesseldorf were rather sweet on each other4 ,it might have become love and a marriage1 since they were the only ,americans there1 were both to stay all summer1 and both attractive4 ,the romance began well1 they even got so far that one day he held her hand and leaned forward1 gazing deeply into her eyes4 ,just then the ,frau ,professorin who kept the pension stepped suddenly into the parlor1 saw them1 and retreated precipitately4 ,here was a catastrophe4 ,her reputation according to ,german ideas1 gone4 8,ein junges ,maedchen sich se zu eenehmen--abschenlich60 ,nothing but an engagement could excuse the holding of the hand of a junges ,maedchen by a man4 ,they looked at each other and laughed1 ruefully4 ,then they agreed to become engaged1 temporarily3 what in ,virginia is known as 8just engaged10 in contradistinction to 8engaged to be married40 ,for a time it was good fun4 ,he was more devoted than ever2 and they even thought of making it permanent4 ,but you know how people act in ,germany4 ,every time he came into the parlor1 whoever was sitting beside her1 jumped up1 and he had to go over and sit beside her4 ,then he had to make pretty speeches to her while all the other boarders1 with ,german tact1 stopped talking and listened4 ,the man and the girl carried out their roles well1 though they drew the line at having their picture taken with their arms around each other4 ,this was a great disappointment to the other boarders4 ,neither the man nor the girl was able to talk to any one in the house except about the girl and the man4 ,it got to be boresome after a while4 ,when at last they left ,duesseldorf1 the joy with which they flew asunder was something to see4 ,there my plot and the romance end4 ,of course there were to be chaperones and scenery4 ,,which ,,sinned8 ,i was confessor2 my cousin or ,miss ,hart was sinner 7each has confessed on the other72 the story is about this3-- ,he stood opposite her in the waltz quadrille4 ,he did not know her1 but thought what a pretty girl that was in the pink dress1 and wondered if ,i knew her4 7,i was in one of the side couples47 ,at 8,ladies half change10 he reached out his hand with eagerness and she gave hers without reluctance4 ,when they stood in their places again1 he continued to hold hers1 instead of dropping it as he might4 7,this may have been absent-mindedness47 ,presently she turned to him1 smiling1 and glanced down at their hands4 ,he smiled1 too4 ,then she withdrew her hand1 but without apparent offense4 ,just then the order came1 8,forward and back40 ,he reached out his hand for hers1 saying1 sotto voce1 8,you see1 you might as well have let me keep it40 ,this was all the preliminary skirmishing4 ,the question of veracity comes next4 ,after the dance my cousin came to me4 8,who was that pretty girl opposite me80 ,he said4 8,what girl80 ,i asked4 8,the one in pink3 who was to your right3 and danced with the man in the wilted collar40 8,ah6 ,that was ,miss ,hart4 ,nice girl40 8,yes10 assented my cousin4 8,she squeezed my hand the second time we met in the grand right and left4 ,i wish you'd introduce me to her40 ,the next dance happened to be the second extra1 which ,i had with ,miss ,hart4 ,we had not gone half way around the room when she said3 8,why didn't you introduce your cousin to me8 ,he squeezed my hand in the last quadrille40 ,of course it's a simple matter of tact4 ,i have my own opinion1 but prefer to allow the sentimental reader to judge for himself4 ,i have known ,miss ,hart a long time and she never has squeezed my--however ,i don't suppose that really bears on the point4 ,,the ,,unusable ,,plot4 ,here is another plot1 but unfortunately it belongs to a friend of mine1 so that ,i cannot use it4 ,if is half past four in ,paris--stories of this class are always put in ,paris--and the hero1 who is also the villain1 goes into a church4 ,he stops at one of the chapels and looks in4 ,a woman is there1 but the light is dim and he cannot at first be sure that it is she whom he seeks1 women's backs being all somewhat alike4 ,she is kneeling1 and she has been crying1 though the hero cannot see that4 ,he speaks to her and thanks her for giving him this opportunity of seeing her1 and is going to take her hand2 but she interrupts him and tells him that it is all a terrible mistake1 that she cares for him to be sure1 but that it is in a platonic way as a brother1 that she truly loves her husband1 and is sorry for all that has happened4 ,the hero who is also a villain listens with half a smile3 he has seen women repent before1 and it adds zest to the chase4 ,his manner warms and he makes love admirably4 ,the heroine is nice--so the person who made this plot told me--and the hero is horrid4 ,his hair is a little thin on the top of his head1 and his boots are carefully polished1 and he is a little fat4 ,he is always polite to a pretty woman1 but his politeness is something of an insult4 ,it is because the heroine is really nice1 ,i suppose1 that she at last persuades him that she does love her husband and not him4 ,then he goes away1 and she1 sinking down on the priedieu1 listens to the click of his polished heels on the marble floor of the church4 ,she sees at her feet the flowers which he had worn in his button-hole1 and she picks them up and kisses them passionately4 ,she is going to hide them in her bosom3 but then being really nice she lays them before the figure of the ,virgin1 with a little prayer and then goes away4 ,as for the hero who is also the villain1 he is piqued that it should be she that has stopped loving first2 but is perhaps as well1 he reflects1 for she was beginning to bore him4 ,he looks at his watch and jumps into a cab4 ,the horse goes fast1 for the hero has an engagement at half-past five o'clock with ,therese and has offered the cabman fifty centimes pour-boire if he will get to her house on time4 8,,sans ,,wins1 ,,sans ,,song1 ,,sans ,,singer1 ,,and--,,sans ,,end40 ,i have another plot1 but ,i do not expect ever to do anything with it4 ,it is about the ,man in the ,iron ,mask4 ,somebody is to be handling the iron mask--it is kept1 ,i think1 in the ,invalides at ,paris--when upon pressing a certain knob a hidden recess is to be revealed1 constructed with marvelous ingenuity 7as they always are you know7 wherein is to be a paper telling all about the man in the iron mask4 ,there is nothing very original so far2 but as ,i recollect this plot--,i thought of it four years ago--the denouement was very striking4 ,unfortunately ,i have forgotten it4 ,,kenneth ,,brown4 ,,side ,,talks ,,with ,,the ,,philistines3 ,,being ,,soul ,,easement ,,and ,,wisdom ,,incidentally4 ,subscribers to the ,,philistine not fully understanding my jokes will be supplied with laughing gas at club rates4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,st4 ,louis ,mirror is flashing the light on to one ,w4 ,j4 ,arkell1 who it says has a habit of carrying on a brilliant conversazione with himself through his chapeau4 ,just what this means ,i do not know1 but ,arkell is not the only man in this country who owns an ,unjust ,judge4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the city of ,cork in ,ireland has one hundred thousand inhabitants1 one-half of whom can neither read nor write4 ,able-bodied men can be hired for forty cents a day1 and women who get a dollar a week and board are very fortunate4 ,the city of ,cork has no street cars1 nor electric lights2 the best hotel has no elevator1 nor gas2 so you can neither fall down the shaft nor asphixiate4 ,at bed-time you are given a candle which is duly charged in your bill4 ,three-fifths of the citizens are ,catholics and yet the city of ,cork boasts the finest ,protestant ,episcopal church of its size in the ,united ,kingdom4 ,i refer to the ,church of ,st4 ,fin ,barre4 ,it cost seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars4 ,the bronze gates that separate the chancel from the nave1 alone cost twenty thousand dollars2 sixteen thousand dollars were paid for one window1 and the grill-work1 hand carved1 in the choir1 took two men five years to make4 ,the building of this beautiful temple was made possible only through the generosity of one ,mr4 ,guinness1 manufacturer of a certain 8stout0 that is known as 8,,xxx40 ,this mixture is highly recommended for nursing mothers and those in need of a tonic4 ,and now a resident of ,chicago proposes to build in the ,windy ,city a church patterned after the beautiful church at ,cork1 but whose steeple is to be twice as high1 and which is to cost a full million dollars4 ,cork can keep her rags and illiteracy2 she may continue sending her guests to bed with a candle2 but no longer shall she be able to boast her supremacy in things ecclesiastic--not by a dam sight6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,east ,,aurora ,,summer ,,school ,,of ,,literature3 ,the season of #ahif opens ,july #ast1 and will last for two months4 ,the idea of the course being to prepare beginners that they may score a success in the fall publishing season4 ,a feature of our system is the ,art of ,sonneting which is imparted in three lessons1 leaving the pupil then free to take up ,novel ,writing1 ,essay ,composition or ,dramatic ,construction4 ,the ,modern ,sex ,novel ,department is under the special care of the ,matron4 ,for prospectus1 address with stamp1 ,doctor ,john ,peascod1 ,d4 ,d41 ,principal1 ,room #ajja1 ,philistine ,building1 ,east ,aurora1 ,new ,york4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a small but lusty ,philistine is now following ,strange ,gods in one of the ,buffalo 7,n4 ,y47 newspapers4 ,in his 8,philistine ,talk0 he cites certain authors who he claims have an itch for fame2 and for their benefit and the benefit of ,organized ,charity he gives the following ,fable3 ,the ,emperor ,claudius on going up the steps of the ,capitol at ,washington one day found a ,beggar who had a bad case of ,eczema4 ,now the ,eczema had staked off its claim on that particular spot on the ,beggar's back where he could not scratch it4 ,the ,emperor being a tenderhearted man1 and a generous1 acceded to the fellow's prayer and ordered a slave to scratch the ,beggar's back4 ,next morning on mounting the ,capitol steps the ,emperor found two ,beggars in place of one4 ,but instead of assigning two slaves to scratch the backs of the two ,beggars1 he remarked in a sweet imperial falsetto3 8,here you shabby sons of guns6 scratch each other660 and passed on in maiden meditation fancy free4 99 99 99 99 99 ,to ,jehn ,z4--,no1 ,way ,williams do not publish ,the ,short ,horn ,register4 99 99 99 99 99 ,i descend again to ,mr4 ,bok1 and apologize to the ,philistines for having once seemingly coupled his name with that of ,mr4 ,howells4 ,that particular issue of the ,,philistine is now listed at seven dollars with no copies to be found4 ,whether the scarcity arises from the agents of ,mr4 ,howells having bought up all obtainable copies and destroyed them1 or whether ,mr4 ,bok's emissaries scoured the book stalls for them1 to keep as precious heirlooms1 or both1 ,i cannot say4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,new ,york ,world recently gave two full columns to old epitaphs1 and how the writer missed this1 the choicest of them all1 ,i know not4 ,i hope1 by the way1 that none of the enemy will be deceived by its typographical form and quote it as a ,stephen ,crane poem3 ,here lies1 ,foundered in a fathom and a half1 ,the shell ,of ,hawser ,trunnion1 ,esq41 ,formerly ,commander of a ,squadron ,in his ,majesty's service2 ,who broached to1 at #e ,p4 ,m41 ,oct4 #ajth ,in the year of his ,age ,three-score and nineteen4 ,he kept his ,guns always loaded1 ,and his ,tackle ready manned1 ,and never showed his poop to the enemy1 ,except when he took him in tow4 ,but1 ,his shot being expended1 ,his ,match burnt out1 ,and his upper works decayed1 ,he was sunk ,by ,death's superior weight of metal4 ,nevertheless1 ,he will be weighed again ,at the ,great ,day1 ,his rigging re-fitted1 ,and his ,timbers repaired2 ,and with one broadside ,make his old ,adversary ,turn tail4 99 99 99 99 99 ,when ,george ,haven ,putnam said1 8,the chief business of the ,true ,publisher is to discourage the publication of books10 he made a strong bid for immortality4 ,the mot deserves to rank with ,tallyrand's concerning the gift of language4 99 99 99 99 99 ,in a recent issue of ,harper's1 8the pastor of ,mt4 ,clemens0 has something to say4 ,and who would ha' thought ,mark ,twain had a pastor8 99 99 99 99 99 ,any writer who poses before the country as being the winner of ,a ,big ,prize is no longer like ,caezar's wife4 ,little ,journeys ,,series ,,for #ahif ,little ,journeys to the ,homes of ,american ,authors4 ,the papers below specified were1 with the exception of that contributed by the editor1 ,mr4 ,hubbard1 originally issued by the late ,g4 ,p4 ,putnam1 in #ahec1 in a book entitled ,homes of ,american ,authors4 ,it is now nearly half a century since this series 7which won for itself at the time a very noteworthy prestige7 was brought before the public2 and the present publishers feel that no apology is needed in presenting to a new generation of ,american readers papers of such distinctive biographical interest and literary value4 ,no4 #a1 ,emerson1 by ,geo4 ,w4 ,curtis4 0 #b1 ,bryant1 by ,caroline ,m4 ,kirkland4 0 #c1 ,prescott1 by ,geo4 ,s4 ,hillard4 0 #d1 ,lowell1 by ,charles ,f4 ,briggs4 0 #e1 ,simms1 by ,wm4 ,cullen ,bryant4 0 #f1 ,walt ,whitman1 by ,elbert ,hubbard4 0 #g1 ,hawthorne1 by ,geo4 ,wm4 ,curtis4 0 #h1 ,audubon1 by ,parke ,godwin4 0 #i1 ,irving1 by ,h4 ,t4 ,tuckerman4 0 #aj1 ,longfellow1 by ,geo4 ,wm4 ,curtis4 0 #aa1 ,everett1 by ,geo4 ,s4 ,hillard4 0 #ab1 ,bancroft1 by ,geo4 ,w4 ,greene4 ,the above papers will form the series of ,little ,journeys for the year #ahif4 ,they will be issued monthly1 beginning ,january1 #ahif1 in the same general style as the series of #ahie1 at #ej cents a year1 and single copies will be sold for #e cents1 postage paid4 ,g4 ,p4 ,,putnam',s ,,sons1 ,,new ,,york ,,and ,,london ,the ,,roycroft ,printing ,shop has in preparation ,,glynne',s ,,wife1 a story in verse by ,mrs4 ,julia ,ditto ,young4 ,mrs4 ,young is a ,poet who has written much but published little4 ,this1 her latest and believed by her friends to be her best work1 is the product of a mind and heart singularly gifted by ,nature1 and ripened by a long apprenticeship to ,art4 ,as a specimen of the pure 8lyric cry10 illustrating the melody possible in the ,english tongue1 the volume seems to stand alone among all books written by modern versifiers4 ,the delicacy of touch1 the faultless rhythm1 the splendid vocabulary and the gentle tho' sure insight into the human heart1 make a combination of qualities very1 very seldom seen4 ,the author knows1 and knowing blames not3 a sustained sympathy being the keynote of it all4 ,the publishers have endeavored to give the story a typographical setting in keeping with the richness of the lines4 ,five hundred and ninety copies are being printed on smooth ,holland hand-made paper1 and twenty-five on ,tokio ,vellum4 ,the copies on ,holland paper will be bound in boards covered with antique watered silk2 the ,vellum copies are bound in like manner save that each will bear on the cover a special water-color design done by the hand of the author4 ,the price of the five hundred and ninety copies is two dollars each2 the ,vellum copies five dollars each4 ,every copy will be numbered and signed by ,mrs4 ,young4 ,orders are now being recorded and will be delivered on ,september #ast1 numbered in the order received4 ,,the ,,roycroft ,,printing ,,shop1 ,east ,aurora1 ,new ,york4 ,illustration3 ,,modern ,,art ,edited by ,j4 ,m4 ,,bowles4 ,quarterly4 ,illustrated4 8,if ,europe be the home of ,art1 ,america can at least lay claim to the most artistically compiled publication devoted to the subject that we know of4 ,this is ,modern ,art40--,galignani ,messenger 7,paris74 8,the most artistic of ,american art periodicals4 ,a work of art itself40--,chicago ,tribune4 ,fifty ,cents a ,number4 ,two ,dollars a ,year4 ,single ,copies 7back numbers7 #ej ,cents in ,stamps4 ,illustrated ,sample ,page ,free4 ,arthur ,w4 ,dow has designed a new poster for ,modern ,art4 ,it is exquisite in its quiet harmony and purely decorative character1 with breadth and simplicity in line and mass1 and shows the capacity of pure landscape for decorative purposes4--,the ,boston ,herald4 ,price1 #be ,cents in ,stamps1 ,sent ,free to ,new ,subscribers to ,modern ,art4 ,l4 ,prang ,company1 ,publishers4 #bhf ,,roxbury ,,street1 ,,boston4 ,we make a specialty of ,dekel ,edge ,papers and carry the largest stock and best variety in the country4 ,fine ,hand-made ,papers in great variety4 ,exclusive ,western ,agents for ,l4 ,l4 ,brown ,paper ,company's ,hand-mades4 ,,geo4 ,h4 ,,taylor ,,co41 #bjg-bji ,monroe ,street1 ,chicago1 ,ill4 ,have you seen the ,roycroft ,quarterly8 ,the ,may issue is a 8,stephen ,crane ,number40 #be;c4 a copy or one dollar a year4 ,the ,roycroft ,printing ,shop1 ,east ,aurora1 ,new ,york4 ,,the ,,roycroft ,,printing ,,shop at this time desires to announce a sister book to the ,song of ,songs3 which is ,solomon's4 ,it is the ,journal of ,koheleth3 being a ,reprint of the ,book of ,ecclesiastes with an ,essay by ,mr4 ,elbert ,hubbard4 ,the same ,romanesque types are used that served so faithfully and well in the ,songs1 but the initials1 colophon and rubricated borders are special designs4 ,after seven hundred and twelve copies were printed the types were distributed and the title page1 colophon and borders destroyed4 ,,in ,,preparation of the text ,mr4 ,hubbard has had the scholarly assistance of his friend1 ,dr4 ,frederic ,w4 ,sanders1 of ,columbia ,university4 ,the worthy pressman has also been helpfully counseled by several ,eminent ,bibliophiles4 ,bound in buckram and antique boards4 ,the seven hundred copies that are printed on ,holland hand-made paper are offered at two dollars each1 but the twelve copies on ,japan ,vellum at five dollars are all sold4 ,every book will be numbered and signed by ,mr4 ,hubbard4 ,the ,roycroft ,printing ,shop1 ,east ,aurora1 ,n4 ,y4 ,,books ,,received4 8,an ,honest ,lawyer0--book just out-- ,what can the author have to say8 ,reprint perhaps of ancient tome-- ,a work of fiction any way4 --,,grace ,,hibbard4 ,illustration