Life — July 4, 1907 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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work for a daily newspaper. He has labored mightly to duplicate it, in a more serious way, but without avail. Irving Bacheller “struck twelve o'clock” with “Eben Holden.” Did the author of ‘‘The Breadwinners” ever write another novel? What has become of Olive Schreiner since she wrote “The Story of an African Farm”? “The Story of a Country Town” is one of the best things that ever came out of Kansas; but the public of to- day knows E. W. Howe only as a producer of newspaper paragraphs. * * * A’? so it goes. Posterity, as Matthew Arnold has noted, is ever engaged in throwing over its literary luggage; and it will not let the author boss the job. It has, for example, chucked Charles Reade (the phrase is our own, not Arnold’s), excepting his immortal “The Cloister and the Hearth,” and insists upon cherishing “Lora Doone” as one of its precious possessions, despite the protests of Black- more. a « « ZANWHILE, those of us who rejoice in the persistence of the unobtrusive literary achievement must have noticed how the name of Harry Stilwell Edwards is still associated with “Two Runaways” —a magazine short story of twenty years ago. Even more striking is the case of Clarence King, whose name means noth- ing to the average novel reader, but whose “The Helmet of Malbrino”—a paper con- tributed to the Century Magazine in the early cighties—is to this day quoted as an example of good literary art. ‘As ever,” wrote Gertrude Atherton to Lire, not long ago, “I found my greatest pleasure in Clarence King’s ‘Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada’; a book surely unsur- passed in our literature for perfection of style—natural style—and poetical imagina- tion, to say nothing of its humor.” Gould R. GEORGE M. GOULD, of Phila- delphia, who has made the medical profession “‘sit up,” both in applause and attack, since he first began to demonstrate the prevalence of eye-strain among literary workers, is an apostle of toil. The five volumes of “Biographic Clinics,” in which he has so plausibly set forth his explanation of the tragic sufferings endured by many men of genius, are but a fraction in the out- put of his ceaseless energy. He is the author of several medical dictionaries and encyclopedias, a compiler of curious scien- tific data, an investigator of “borderland” phenomena, and the possessor of a literary style which in the elucidation of metaphysi- cal problems makes him a welcome con- tributor to such magazines as the Adlantic, In spite of the rigorous demands of his practice and his duties as the editor of Innch Always Tastes Good if you have found the birds, if your dogs have worked well, and above | all if your shells have been right. Shells loaded with “INFALLIBLE” ! SMOKELESS arealways right. ‘‘INFALLIBLE”’ SMOKELESS is the only dense powder made in America and is the best dense powder made any- bana in any and all kinds of weather. It is not affected by heat or cold, dryness or dampness, Its accuracy and reliability make it what its name implies—‘*‘ INFALLIBLE.”’ Nobody can make a mistake in specifying “INFALLIBLE” SMOKELESS in ‘heir loaded shells I (N. B.—Du Pont Rifle Powders meet all requirements. Write for descrip- } tive folders, stating caliber and make of rifle.) i where. It is a shotgun smokeless powder that is made to be used I th E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Powder Company Established 1802 Wilmington, Delaware Private Stable OR SALE—On Fifty-second Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, a new thoroughly equipped private stable 25 feet wide; accommodations ven horses; with two box stalls. Up to date in every particular; elec- , gas, telephone, etc. The best lighted stable in the city. Address J. EDGAR LEAYCRAFT & CO., 19 West 42d Street, New York comicbooks.com