Life — March 27, 1902 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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sLIPE - * for the royal household. look for the new drama. W.S.: Witness how enthusiastically you received ‘* The Belle of New York.” W. A.: Yes, and Mr, Gillette’s “Sherlock Holmes.” The American Maeterlinck—that is what we call Mr. Gillette over here now, you know, though I believe the delicate symbolism of the cigar episode escaped you in New York. You see we are still in advance of you in some things— W. S.: And though we are stealing your commerce you are still abead of us in artistic perception. W. A.: Precisely. Ww. Particularly in your perception of the relative values of our American poets. W. A.: Well, if you are referring to my recent volume on the ** Poets of the Younger Generation,” I admit— W.8.: Exactly. That book was a revelation to us. We had never even heard of half the Amcricans that you accorded a place in that Pantheon of present-day poetry. But now we are all industriously engaged in looking up the back files of the newspapers for more of the work of the men you so highly honored, Weren't the portruits a little wooden, though, that accompanied them ? W. A.: Wooden ? Of course they were wooden! Wood- cuts, my dear boy! Why shouldn't they look wooden ? They afford a magnificent example of the artistic revival io England to-day. Wooden! I should say they were wooden! All wood from top to bottom, every feature a separate block, and all pegged together with wooden pegs in the real old- fashioned way! As Mr. Satyr stole away, Mr. Archer was still excitedly talking about the wooden woodcuts, and he was heard to mutter something about ‘“blockheads,” though to whom the epithet applied could not be ascertained. However, it gave an inspiration to the artist who had accompanied Mr. Satyr to the interview, with the result herewith submitted. It is to America now, you know, that Law. INCE Congress is busy protecting us against impos. tures, why not a Federal law regulative of extra editions? Let's have it made by statute, so that we may know, positively, when we hear an extra cried, that something has really happened; tbat, say, There has been a new move in the Schley-Samp- son case, or That a son of the President has got into another fight at school, or That a professor in the University of Chicagothas spoken from his heart of hearts, or, Not to seem to neglect the plain people, that somebody has been murdered. HE case of Kitchener is more and more illustrative of the riskiness of exposing laurels far from the latitude they were won in. Analyzed. ws y= Miss Bilkins has really written a tale with the genuine New England atmosphere.” “What's that?” ‘Ob, about nine-tenths old maid, and the rest made up of equal parts of culture, pie and Browning.” PIETY. “TL HOPE, MY GOOD WOMAN, THAT YOU HAVE DENIED YOURSELP 8OME- THING DURING LENT?" A Stand-Off. TPWO students of Will Shakespeare's plays, with energy debative, Took sides about Lord Bacon's part with arms gesticulative. Cried one: “By F. B. they were writ, #0 cease your learned tooting.” “ My faith in Will,” the other roared, ‘admits of no disputing.” And 00, as one for Will was hot; the other hot for Bacon, They compromised and culled the plays the works of Speareback- shakon. comicbooks.com