Life — December 16, 1897 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Not New to Him. IIE newly arrived soul was paying his first visit to the Cave of the Winds, in the upper realms of space, and his astral body quivercd and shook like a pendant ribbon in the maelstrom of sound waves. It was a horrid din Shricks, wails, screeches, squcaks and in major and minor keys, made up the awful dise “You don't m to mind it much,” id his ghostly guide, No,” said the tourist shade.‘ You I became hardened T mat crashe ord. see, while on carth to all college glee club for three seasons. sorts of discords. BLS Dangers of the Essay Habit. HE business of being an essayist: in America is not an attractive one, according to Norman Hapgood, who enters the field with his eyes open by publishing “Literary St (Stone). ‘The trouble seems to be that while “in no country do more people read,” there are very few sets of us which “raise and nourish men who care more for the mild approval of the judicious than for the money and notoriety of popular success.” Nevertheless, the author write some essays, which are probably just s though he had expected reward for each one, If a man really likes to write essays, the smallness of the reward isn't going to keep him from it, The essay habit, like others, grows by what it feeds on, It will never reach the dangerous pro- portions of the fiction-writing habit, because there isn’t so much fun in it. Still, any it will bear watch- ing. Mr. Hapgood points out how it de- 2 abnormal taste for strange, un- familiar and high-sounding adjectives. He ds that Mr, Brownell is allured to structive repetition of the word “sapient, and Henry James bulary by overworking his fresh and apt words"— particularly “mitigated,” “casual,” * veterate.” Mr, James might slyly call atten- tlon to Mr. Hapgood’s fondness for such utiful words as “qu hed,” “distinguishes Every literary esmen and Others” proce to as goo golden man who ha arrows his v ind “intim business has its “termin- olog: as the scientist calls it, and criticism has accumulated a fair share for itself, When you once learn the words they are rather nice to play with, but may 1 excess, to spiritual haughtiness. Nothing “THIS LOOKS LI INVITATION TO DIN of his intel- ofness” as the private bulary with an unimpeachable pedi- is so apt to give a man as lectual superiority and inner consciousness of possessing a . * jad that Mr. the perils of . ven though he may fall into the elutehes of some doubtful reputation, The product is well worth the trouble, for the author has pre- served throughout a clear eye,a balanced judgment, and a good temper. He has not any fads, and he seems to be catholic in his appreciation of good things in any language, ne of the best opinions that he utters are on “American Cosmopolitanism,” which point out the right attitude of a broad minded investigator toward his own and other countries. “The large mind, un- prejudiced and serene, chooses its goods from all the world and its friends from all mankind.” Deock Fo has very few vacations. Method in His Madness. ABBERS : Going to get married on J the twenty-fifth? Well, you are achump! Havens; Why ¢ “Because all your friends will make one gift do for both wedding and Christ- mas present.” “Of But do the same with my hereafter I can anniversary and Christmas presents to my wife. See?” course, In Memory of Lowell. THE plan announce ago for buyi 1 more than a year part of James Russell Lowell's + Elmwood,” and making it a public park, has lagged for various reasons, and the fund for it still lacks some thousands of dollars of being complete. An appeal for subscriptions to this fund has lately been made by twelve stalwart and highly distinguished gentlemen, to wit: Grover Cleveland, Lyman Abbott, DUT IT WAS ONLY A PRACTICAL JORE. ‘Theodore Roosevelt, John Fiske, Ric! Watson Gilder, Mr, Howells, Secret Long, Colonel T. W. Higginson, Governor Wolcott, Senator Lodge. Richard Olney and Seth Low, When such a team as that lines up there is no question but that they will score. Sul, bic dat who is promptly respon Send your money to J. P. Morgan & Co., Bankers, New York, and help to make a memorial that is worth making. It is well enough for the Americans to swarm abroad in shoals every summer to see interesting places and memorials in Europe, but we make a serious mistake, both in economy and in sentiment, if we ct to provide some goals for pilgrims in our own country. New Rules Adopted by the Austrian Reichstrath. LL motions are in order, Everyone making a motion must be provided with a second. A motion is lost when the mover of same has not recovered consciousness within half an hour after making ii It lways in order to lay members as well as motions on the table, the former having the preferenc COAT-OF-ARMS FOR KENTUCKY. comicbooks.com