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THE COUKIER-JOURNAL, LOOTSVILLE, SATURDAY MORNING. ATTftTTST 19, 1905." narrative will be run serially, beginning LITERARY GOSSIP I frHH MHM 44 h. UIIIMIMtHtHMHIIIIIMHIIIIIHtltHMIIIIIIlM X-H-'M-l-M-M I I I 1 1 M-mi i i m-i-H- by his granddaughter. Helena Sturte- 1PR0R HELLER'S STUDIES IN I MODERN GERMAN LITERATURE. I Get a copy of the September number of Everybody 's Magazine at the newsdealer's.

Read it. If you don't like it, write a sensible, abusive letter to the publishers. It will be appreciated. Everybody's Magazine has a larger circulation than that of any other general magazine. Sold by all newsdealers, at 15 cts.

per copy. TRY IT. DENIAL qualified in carpentry, blacksmithlng and wheelwrlghtlng, and the age limit Is twenty years and over. The commission announces that examinations will be held on September 13 and 14 at Louisville, Lexington and Pnducah, for Kentucky applicants to secure ellglbles to flu a vacancy In tho position of assistant librarian, at $900 per year, In the Department of Justice, and any other vacancies that might occur In a service requlrng similar qualifications. Applicants taking the examination are required to have a practical knowledge ot the care of books, and specially of law books.

The position Is open to men only. Enlist In Marine Service. Five more applicants were sworn Into the marine service at the recruiting station In the customhouse yesterday morning by Lieut. D. W.

Blake, of Cincinnati. They left last night for Norfolk, where they will bo first assigned for duty. Those who enlisted are as follows: Frank Lavender, of Portsmouth, Charles E. Bell, of Louisville; Grant S. Stewart, of Andrews, N.

George A. Gunel, ot in me September issue. It bids fair to prove far more interesting and exciting than any imagined detective story, for it aeais directly with those phases of life their supervision by the police upon which aH the ingenious yarns of clever writers are formed. Henry rwueign is Illustrating the Confessions, and is making some very realistic drawings. As a companion book to the "Reflections of the Morning After," the H.

Caldwell Company, of Boston and New York, announces for publication on August 15 "The Log of the Water Wagon or the Cruise of the Good Ship Lithla," by Bert Leston Taylor and W. C. Gibson, both on the staff of Puck. The illustrations and border designs by M. L.

Glackens and the eccentric cover ndrt much to the general effect There will oe two editions, "The Blue Ribbon" and "The Extra Dry." Probably the most characteristic and valuable among the works left by Oscar Wilde is the series of papers on art and kindred subjects issued under the general title of "Intentions." A beautiful reprint of these papers, set uo and printed by the De Vdnne Press, is now In preparation, with an appreciative introduction by Perclval Pollard. The book has been practically Inaccessible tor several years. Tills edition, while most attractively made, will be reasonable in price. It comes from the press of Brentano's. Some Kecent Fiction.

THE LITTLE HILLS. By Nancy Huston uiuiKH. xne juacmuian New iorit. A carefully drawn and delicately handled picture of an old-world Kentucky town is this story of "The Little Hills." Here is' the atmosphere, the fragraace of the splce-pinks, the calmness of that leisurely life wherein there Is plenty of time to be interested in the affairs of one's neighbors oil the time there Is. One enjoys the thin and languid Widow Wall, who was "limply irresolute even in the matter of a fig ure, and the portly and domineering Mrs.

Pottle, who was cotitrnually doing good to the whole neighborhood wheth er they liked it or not Mother Rowan, that strange, narrow passionate wor shiper of her duty, as she saw it, is an unusual character, and she who Wnd3 them together into one story is Phoebe, who had been a lonely. fanciful child and became a more lonely fanciful girl and a most lonely fanciful woman. Phoebe Is a sweet, delicate, soft-hearted little creature (one drops unconsciously into the diminutive in thinking of her, although in the story the constantly recurring "little" grows somewhat tiresome), and though In her quiet, sheltered life she has no mountains to surmount, the "little hills" that rise in her patihway are rough climbing, which she takes with a tender patience. The story has charm and humor and a wholesome sweetmee3 of tone, and will undoubtedly be sought by these who read the quaint and delightful chronicles of "Oldfieia." MELVINA DREW. By English Norman.

Broadway Publishing New lork. The author's intentions are good (she sets them forth in her preface), but it is a pity that such good- Intentions should develop Into such a foolish little story. It is merely a sentimental and unreal homily on Dogs vs. Children. the heroine.

Lucie Rolande, in her de votion to the cause of her childhood standing as a contrast to Miss Virginia Dell, the heiress, whose dogs repose on violet-scented cushions, shaded with hangings of pale blue silk, and have visiting cards engraved with their Of course, Lucie is happily married, and Miss Dell, also, after reforming in the matter of dog worship. DOLLY, A DAUGHTER OF NEW ENG LAND. By Ruth Louise Sheldon. The SaaJfleld Publishing Akron, O. A novel with a purpose Is usually not an artistic success, but a reason tor being is absolutely necessary, and in this novel it ia impossible to find the slightest raison d'etre.

It begins with the decidedly questionable escapade of two girls ut boarding-school, which has no connection with the rest of the story, and rambles on aimlessly over a season of traveling abroad and the married life of one of the girls. The character of Dolly, handled with an artistic touch. might have developed Into something worth while, for her letters possess wit And nIHK huf th whole thlner has been co bungled that one's only impression is that of a curious mixture of stilted stiffness and novel talk and a desperate attempt at lurid wickedness which de velops into absurdity. FORSAKING ALL OTHERS. By Sylia W.

Hamilton. The Neale Fublisnmg New York and Washington. A story of Sherman's march to the sea, with an Interesting love affair in termingled, "Forsaking All Others," Is an attractive book. The author is daughter of the late Gen. Bryan M.

Thomas, of the Confederate Army, and much of the story is a record of actual facts which came within the personal observation of members of her family. It Is the usual war love story; a South ern girl falling in love with a North ern army officer. The Southern sweetheart is conveniently removed by a bullet and all ends happily. Mrs. Hamilton touches more closely on the actual home conditions in Georgia during the war, and In this her book is valuable.

The negro, as he really Is, with his dialect undistorted, is faithfully presented. The Harpers. are printing this week new editions of Mary E. Waller's "Sanna." a novel that is rapidly grow ing In favor; of John BIgelow's "The Mystery of Sleep," and yet again of "The Masauerader." Mrs. Thurston's novel that refuses to bo downed by more recent fiction.

One of the most originally worded orlnions of a book was given by Frederick Remington, the artist, the other day, who. In speaking of F. Berkeley Smith's new book, "Parisians Out ot Doors," said that "Smith's sympathetic Paris would make a wooden Indian part with his cigars." A POSTHUMOUS STORY BY MRS. ELIZABETH WALTZ. A posthumous story by Elizabeth Cherry Waltz.

"A Lady of Balance," will be one of the September Century's features. A pathetic interest attaches to all of Mrs. Waltz's work since her death Just at the time that her first and, as It proved, her only book, "Pa Gladden," was in press. Mrs. Waltz was literary editor of the Courier-Journal for several years, devoting herself to her work and her writing with unusual zeaL nc i nrunrm ur luiiuuii.

"Why Are There No Heroines With Glasses?" Asked An 4 American Woman Writer In J. the Metropolis Unpublished Talks With Goethe About To Be Translated Into English Tfit ur Tr. 1.W a JUMiiy uuiuo ill Paris, His Old Concierge In the I Eue Tour d'Auvergne Still On Duty A Quaint Story of Bor- row. Hr, Correspondence of tho Courier-Journal. London, July 30.

Every now and then the gayety of the metropolis Is augmented by apposite suggestions or queries by Mrs. John Lane. A really pretty wit Is possessed by this Amer ican wife of an English publisher, and her dissertations on domestic and other problems In the pages of the Fortnightly and kindred reviews are in variably stimulating. Mrs. Lane, who is a Boston woman, has now called at tention to the significant fact that even the greatest realists have not ventured to bestow eye-glaseea on their heroinea, and asks why, in literature, glasses are incompatible with romance with woman, while they never damage man? "The hero's eye-glasses may grow dim with emotion," observes Mrs.

Lone, "but if tho heroine weeps behind her glasses she is lost" The fair writer does not attempt to explain tho mys tery, but winds up by declaring that the place of female spectacles in romance is that of tho famous blue ones In "East Lyne" to disguise the heroine. Some little regret has been expressed over the decision of the London authorities to make way with the ancient obelisk at the end of Blackfrlors Road. It Is to be replaced by a big clock. The obelisk may be described as a literary relic, for It was erected to commemorate Crosby's battle with Parliament, which ended with permission being given to the press to publish the debates. Br.

Johnson often drove past the obelisk on his way down to Streat-ham, and In 1775 Mrs. Thrale wrote to him: "We have had a great thunderstorm. It has even spilt the obelisk in the Blackfrlars Road; no exaggera tion in this; you may see the crack when you come home." All lovers of Goethe will be interested in a volume of conversations between the poet and the French savant, Fred erick Soret, which Is about to be trans lated Into English. The conversations, which have never before been made public, have been collected by Dr. Hugo, the director of the Weimar State Archives, and have just -appeared in print in the Fatherland.

The volume will consist of some hundred and sixty-eight special talks between these two remarkable personalities. Apropos of the admitted need for a genuine sympathetic life of George Borrow a new story of the author of "Lavengro" has Just found Its way into print. When he set out for Russia Borrow's sole funds consisted of a five-pound note, change for which into gold his mother procured for him at his reauest. Writing to her from St. Pe tersburg, Borrow urged her to bo more careful in the future as one or tne sovereigns which she had.

given him proved to be bad. "However," added this strangest of missionaries, "thank the Lord, I succeeded passing it in London." The famous "Greek towns that claimed Homer dead" were only slightly more numerous than the houses in Paris that claim Hugo during some portion of his career. The author of "Les Mlserables" began his married life in a winding little slum dwelling. Later he lived in'the Place des Vosges. And this week, upon the festival of St.

Victor, Hugo's name day, quite a number of youthful enthusiasts went in procession to a house in the Rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, where he lived at the moment of his banishment of the Second Republic. In apartments on the first floor, overlooking a courtyard, Hugo had his residence for a year. The concierge who served the great novelist is still at his post, hail and hearty, and full ot reminiscences, while the house contains a lodger who lived there in Hugo's day. The author's youthful admirers placed a small bust of him in the courtyard. The first home of Victor Hugo in Paris will be commemorated by means of a memorial tablet which will be affixed to the mammoth apartment building soon to be erected on Its site.

This small, two-storied house Is now being demolished, and in another fortnight or so will have disappeared altogether. Standing in what was formerly the Avenue d'Eylau and is now the Avenue Victor Hugo, the little, tree-bowered house has many associations with the great novelist's declining years. Here it was that in January, 18S2, all Paris gathered to honor the poet's eightieth birthday. On the same day all the children of the Paris schools marched past Hugo's window, singing his songs, and throwing wreaths of flowers as they passed on to a pile which, before all the children had gone by, reached to the above which the writer's whito bearded face smiled down his thanks. He left the nouse for the last time In his coffin.

All who bore names in France's literature, arts, sciences and music followed the casket, ten or more wagonloads of flowers followed, and hand In hand behind the flower-laden wagons walked Jeanne and Georges Hugo, the descendents for whom Victor wrote his famous book on the "Art of Being Grandfather." The furniture which his house contained has been placed in the Hugo Museum In the Place des Vosges. It is when Irishmen are enraged that they are most prolific of bulls. The outburst of wrath occasioned by the proposed redistribution bill, which would considerably reduce the number of representatives of the Emerald Isle at Westminster, has produced some gems. The following extract, from a leading article in the Galway Western New, contains more of wit than I can remember ever having seen. before packed in such small apace: "Being the weaker, England has planted her heel on the throat of Ireland for a century and robbed us without pity or remorse.

To rob a man of his purse and then maltreat him for not having it. would pass muster amongst pitiless, brutal but to kill and slay a man to the point of death and then murder him for not dying quiCK enougn is one pome better in the catalogue of human infamy. It Is enough to make Irishmen set their teeth and talk silently in groups." However, tne reaistnoution bill stands small chance of being passed and humor will be a sufferer thereby. HAYDKW CHUJUlw. His view is Leveson's chicfest boast.

Unconscious that the part of it His guests see gladdest is their host, The sunshine at the heart of it; The friendly voice, the manners bland, The culture not too much of it I must forego, the honest hand. With welcome In the touch of it; Across the void that hand I press, And think, the surest rental man. Mocking at Land Leagues, Is the cess Al! true hearts pay a gentleman. Later, when Mr. Gower thanked Lowsll for them, Lowell begged him to throw them in the waste-basket and promised to write him something better; but Mr.

Gower did not feel that way about them and kept the manuscript. In Mrs. Stevenson's preface to the "Dynamiter" In the biographical edition of her husband's writings she tells us that when the- story was written the author was threatened with total blindness. "Here," writes Mrs. Stevenson, "was a predicament for a literary man! Condemned to lie helpless on his bed on account of the sciatica, his right arm bound to his side lest an advertent movement might bring on a recurrenee'bf the hemorrhage, speech denied him for the same reason, and now a bandage over the eyes that precluded any attempt to use them!" It was finally suggested that Mrs.

Stevenson was to go for an hour's walk ever- afternoon, and on returning repeat a story which had been invented in the meantime, a sort of "Arabian Nights" entertairmKints she as Scheherazade and he as the Sultan. "There had been several dynamite outrages in London about this time," continues Mrs. Stevenson, "the most of them turnfcig out fiascos. It occurred to me to take an important dynamite intrigue as the thread to string my stories on. I began with a Mormon tale, and followed it with innumerable others, one for each afternoon." It was these stories that were afterwards developed into "The Dynamiter." JEANNETTE L.

GILDER. Newspapers On File At the Louisville Freef Public Library. I j. The following list of newspapers on file at the Free Public Library supplements the list of magazines, as printed In thi3 paper last week. The newspapers are arranged In convenient flies in the reading alcove to the right of the elevator.

The two latest copies of each paper are on the- file, and earlier copies may be had upon application in the reference room. An attempt has been made in this selection to represent different sections of the country, but the numtoer of papers will be much increased after the library's removal to larger quar ters In the new building: Atlanta Constitution. Boston Transcript. Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Chicago Record-Herald.

Cincinnati Enquirer. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Houston Post. Indianapolis News. Kansas City Star.

Knoxville Sentinel. Louisville Anzeiger (gift). Louisville Courier-Journal (gift). Louisville Evening Post (gift). Louisville Herald (gift).

Louisville Times (gift). Memphis Commercial-Appeal. New Orleans Times-Democrat New York Herald. New York Times. Philadelphia Public Ledger Pittsburg Post.

Richmond Times-Dispatch. Rocky Mountain News. Springfield Republican. St. Louis Globe-Democrat St.

Paul Pioneer Press. San Francisco Chronicle. Washington Star. 5- American state ueports. This volume contains annotations fully equal to any which have appeared in any of the preceding volumes if possible, they are in some respects more satisfactory.

The deductions made seem to have more of the air and feeling of certitude in their conclusions. Special reference is had to the following cases: Tabb vs. Mallet'te, 120 Ga, to which is appended a note on exception of wages, salaries and earnings. This note is very valuable for its discussion of the statutes of exemptions, and Is concluded with a section on the mode of construing exemption statutes based on opinions from almost every State, and containing references to the. preceding volumes In which this subject was considered.

McCoy vs. McCoy, 33 Ind. App. 3S, followed by a very able note on what amounts to a contract for the sale of land under the statutes of frauds. Tho scope of this annotation is very comprehensive In its subsections of the subject, including every conceivable transaction in which such a contract could arise.

Burkhard vs. Walker, 132 Mich. 32, on abandonment of homestead. Drum vs. Miller, 135 C.

204, on powers and liabilities of school teachers In relation to pupils. Goldrldge Mining Co. vs. Tallmadge, 44 Ore. 34, on warrantees of quality Implied in sales.

If It were possible to clear up and remove the confusion in the law of caveat emptor as affected by the nature of the article sold and the circumstances of the sale, this note will do much to bring order out of confusion. It speaks with no uncertain voice. It is manifestly the result of patient investigation of the cases and a critical study of the subject on Its fundamental legal basis. Harding vs. Harding.

1G S. D. 406, on the power of courts to create and enforce Hens to secure the payment of alimony. This note is very opportune for divorce courts throughout the Union. To take an expression in common use.

it actually supplies a long felt want. Our Judges have been much at sea on this subject and needed this discussion owing to-the great number of such cases in every State. Warren vs. Cleveland; 111 Tenn. 174, on acknowledgment or new promise to suspend the running or remove the bar of the statute or limitations.

This note on an old subject gives a fresh ness to its bearings on the different occasions on which it is used to protect contracts that is unusual in an notations to cases. It is indeed a very able and comprehensive note, leaving nothing to De said on the subject, and. above all, it is thoroughly practicable. These notes, to wnich special reference is here made, are not all that are valuable In this volume. A Just discussion of each would make this notice of the volume too long.

JOHN WHOPPER, THE NEWSBOY. By Thomas M. Clark. illustrations Good Juveniles. vant.

l. u. "age uosion. This is a new edition of an old fa vorite published with an introduction by Henry C. Potter, in which he says that It was not unnatural that Bishop Clark should have published the work anonymously if only to escape "the crit icism of those goody-good people who would have been swift to say that such a style of writing was Inconsistent with Episcopal dignity." The-work is eml nently characteristic of the Bishop and in this new form has had the advantage of correction and revision by one who was of closest kinship.

THE YOUNG FOLKS' CYCLOPAEDIA OF NATURAL HISTORY. ay Jonn Denison Champlin, A. with editorial co-operation and an introduction by Frederic A. Lucas. Henry Holt New York.

This work fills a distinct place among books relating to Natural History, Including In a single volume an outline of the animal kingdom from the largest mammal to the tiniest insect in exist ence. The opening sentence under each heading gives the animal's place In na ture, the next, facts regarding its family or genus, lastjy an account of the more important species, habitat, personal history, habits and facts about its life, such as Its origin and its relation to other species both past and present. About eight hundred illustra tions adorn the book. TOR: A STREET BOY OF JERUSALEM. By Florence Morse KIngsley.

Henry Ai- temus Philadelphia. Peter the Fisherman finds the boy. Tor, ragged and starving in the street, and befriends him. The child follows him and is fed and told that it is evil to steal, to fight. Then he sees the Roman Pilate, and, hailing him, shouts Insulting words.

Pilate snatches the lash from the driver and lashes the child full across the eyes, blinding him. Then another boy leads him to the King, who was laying hands on the blind, the lame and the palsied. Christ heals his eyes, and he cries, "I shall follow Him. I shall see Him always." The book gives a beautiful paraphrase of the story of Christ's healing and the resurrection. DOWN IN DIXIE.

The Story of Three Little Crackers. By Will Allen Drom-goole. Illustrated by Ethelred B. Barry. L.

C. Pago BQSton. A story of the adventures of three boys in the wilderness of Florida, where they meet live alligators, who get mad, Indians ditto, and bears the whole making tip-top entertainment for an idle hour. THE GREAT SCOOP. By Molly Elliot Seawell.

Illustrated by W. F. Steelier. L. C.

Pago Boston. This charming story was published serially by the Youth's Companion. It tells of the office boy on a big daily, who wished a chance to rise and made It by work and common sense. Richard Henshaw did not wait for luck; he found out what he could do, and stuck to it until he made a success. A LITTLE GARDEN CALENDAR.

For Boys and Girls. By Albert Bigelow Paine. With forty-six illustrations. Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia. The author has told ill.

elmple lanr guage of tiie wonders of plant life and the best methods of planting, tending and gathering harvests from month to month during ths whole year. In addition to this, he gives certain characteristics of curious plants, and relates facto about the'ir habits of getting food and otherwise protecting and sustaining existence. The volume is divided into months, and its knowledge is Imparted in the form of the story of Davy and Prue. THEODORE AND THEODORA By Marian W. Wiidman.

C. Pago Boston. The -twins wept to visit their aunt and cousins. There a bad day begins and plenty of things happen. A funny sort of society is formed by the.children, a society without an object, because, Winnie said, they intended to do such a lot of nice things that they couldn't possibly get them all into one name.

In spite of this, an object is found, which must be read about to be appreciated. BOY SOLDIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. By Susan R. Hull. The Nealo Publishing New York.

This is a series of biographical sketches of the boys between eleven and eighteen who foughf for the continuance of the Confederacy. The list Is so long, the sketches must perforce be short. They record courage, patriotism, piety and many other noble virtues usually beyond, the limits of youth's possible attainments. Randolph Harrison McKlm, young Lee, Carter Berkeley, Oarrington Taylor are some of the young heroes memorialized. TiTfll' i I 41 I Books, Authors, Publishers.

i The Putnams are taking advance ord ers for an attractive little gingnam- bound cook-book with the suggestive title What to Have for Breakfast. This wll) be the first volume In a new series devoted to cooking and housekeplng. The author. Miss Olive Green, Is an ex perienced writer as well as an experienced cook. This breakfast-book Is very cleverly written, and It contains many good things besides the recipes.

The opening chapter treats helpfully of the philosophy of the American break fast. Then follow a great number of tried recipes conveniently classified The book closes with 36G appropriate breakfast menus chosen for every day in the year. Last week the Holts announced the sixth large editi6h of "The Princess Passes." This week we are Informed that the seventh printing has begun. The Williamson's "Lightning Conductor" Is still one of the best sellers on the-list of this firm. The first book of fiction which the Macmillan Company will publish this fall Is a volume of short stories by Mr.

Eden Phillpotts, entitled "Knock at a Venture." The author of "The Secret Woman" and "The American Prisoner" has come to occupy so important a place in current literature that the appearance of a new book from hiB pen Is an event looked forward to with tbe greatest Interest. The Cosmopolitan has been fortunate enough to secure the "Confessions of a New York Detective," made by an ex-Captain of Police. This remarkable 4 personality; he is simply not quite artistic enough to hide It." In criticising Hauptmann, the professor is equally temperate and just. He speaks of "The Sunken Bell," as "a lyric effusion cast in dialogue," and as such he has for it a high appreciation; though, viewed as a philosophic thought, it is less worthy of praise; he misses "back of the lovely allegory the clarified world-view of a refined in dlvlduallty such as the great dramatists have been wont to give us." As a whole the studies are just trib utes to greatness. The style in which they are written Is at once original and vivacious, logical and illuminating.

It wins the reader from the very start. The latter part of the volume, and not the least Interesting, has for its theme the modern women writers of Germany, and one is startled to find how many there ore. of whom America has never even heard. Prof. Heller bears hard on his pencil while limning the faults of his countrywomen.

Sarcasm, satire, wit fill these pages. He notes "a startling absence cf freshness counterbalanced by a great Imitative faculty," a criticism, the professor must own, that is applicable not only to his country women in literature, but to hie countrymen in other branches. In this case, he lays the blame on the prone-ness of the German women to allow domestic affairs to absorb them, and "that seeming incapacity for the fullest self-expression, which excludes the greater part of feminine fiction from the legitimate domain of letters." He draws a pungent distinction between llterary culture and latent genius, citing many instances ot both. His book closes with an estimate of the best women writers the present generation, Isolde Kurz and Bicarda Huch, who, he considers, have reached the highest point of artistic achievement. His opinion gives birth ardent desire for a closer acquaintance.

The book is sure to foster a better appreciation and a wider knowledge of German literature. STUDIES IN MODERN GERMAN LITERATURE. By Otto Heller, Ph. D. Glnn Boston.

-M-K-W-H' BOOK TALK. i-H-i-rW-H-H-l-H-H-H them Justice, as, without being learned, they had cultivated minds. "I once asked Lady Holland whether would frighten her to see a ghost. 'Oh, no; it would delight me, as proving the existence of a future She could not bear the idea of leaving this one. She said she would exchange her present position for that of a crossing sweeper who was young.

She never would allow the word 'death' to be uttered in her presence. I once went with her to the play to see an afterpiece. We arrived too early, and the funeral in "Hamlet" was being performed. She Immediately left the box." Mr. Gower tells of a house party at his uncle's, the Duke of Devonshire, which Included Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Lord Palmerston, Lord Melbourne, the Duke of Wellington and others.

The rich and great were not the only ones with whom Mr. Gower associated. Among other distinguished men whom he met was Thomas Carlyle and his wife. His recollection of the latter is sitting in a corner, busy with her embroidery, with no one speaking to her. After the death of Mrs.

Carlyle, Mr. Gower met Carlyle at a dinner of four, given by Lady Ashburton. "As I am not a hero-worshiper and disliked some of his opinions, I maliciously Introduced the subject of slavery. Mr. Carlyle rose to the occasion, defended slavery, and vilified the abolitionists.

The two ladles, who had tender hearts and abhorred slavery from the bottom of their souls, were much disturbed. 'Oh, Mr. Carlyle, do not say that! Tou cannot mean it. Have you ever read Mrs. Stowe?" "A poor, foolish woman, who wrote a book of wretched trash called "Uncle Tom's Cabin." My purpose was achieved, and for a short time the adoration abated.

Another day the same party met, when after dinner our hostess said to Mr. Carlye: 'I hope you will not mind our leaving you, as we are going to the theater to see Feehter act To her astonishment, he told her he would like 'to accompany us. He had not been Inside a theater for years, and his lel e-ht at the performance was great. 'The fellow Is not so bad. after all.

Dear mel That Is All thi3 was said in so loud a voice that every moment I. expected the audience pal! the nhitosonner to oraer. Another distinguished author whom Mr. Gower knew well was Robert Browning, whom he describes as being nolsv at luncheons ami dinner and who, though often invited to maet French people, spoke l'Tencn very oaa-K- Gladstone he describes as one of the most amiable men he ever knew. It seems that Mrs, Gladstone thought that her husband was inclined to eat more fruit than was good for him.

One day, after a long walk through Mr. grounds, he ate freely from the gooseberry bushes. Mrs. Gladstone called her host aside and asked him to say her husband that he was expecting number of guests who were fond of fruit, and was afraid Mr. Gladstone would not leave enough for them.

Mr. Gower does not know whether Gladstone thought him serious In what he said, but he at once desisted. One day Mrs. Gladstone coming- out whether I considered him ambitious. I said I thought him very keen to carry out his own policy, but not ambitious with regard to his personal position at least less so than most of those who were' elmllarly situated.

He was much pleased, and said I had Judged him rightly, but he added, smiling, that he feared some of his friends would not agree with me." One day Mrs. Gladstone coming out church at Ewhurst, "went up to an man in a smock-frock, which Is still worn by some old people, and said to him: "I like to see that old smock-frock. reminds me of old days. Have you been to church? 'Yes, 'Do you know who was in 'No. 'Mr.

Gladstone was in church." 'Was You have heard of Mr. 'Never, Mr. Gower was a great admirer of Lowell, who visited him constantly at Holmbury. Once when he was unable accept Mr. Gower's Invitation, he sent the following Impromptu lines: How gladly would If I might.

My Wheaton's dreary tome bury. And hasten with the lessening light To the warm arms of Holmbury! Homebury's the spelling I prefer; Oh. could I make a bee-line I Thither, to curl mo up and Durr With comfort more than feline! Alas, it cannot be. for I Am pinioned here in London, male Andromeda, to sigh Tliat o1x1ek.s no't Yta tinHyj I OT In many a day has such an admirable dissection of prominent writers been offered to lit erary critics and students as this work on Sudermann, Hauptmann and the Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century by Prof. Otto Heller.

The author first calls attention to the fact that the most significant figures of German literature have appeared in pairs and he goes back as far as the Ninth century to exemplify. The Heliand has the Evangellenbuch, the is paired -with the 'Lay of Kudrun, and In the same period may he found Eschenbach and von Strass-Imrg. Later come Klopstock and Leasing, Goethe and Schiller, Kleist and Koerner, Uhland and Hauff, Heine and Lenau, Geibel and Freillgrath, Grill-Jparzer and Hebbel, Reuter and Schef- iel, Freytag and Keller, Heyso and Epielhagen and some other literary itwlns of note to support his assertion. He next considers Hermann Sudermann and Gerhart Hauptmann In their preat roles as masters for the patterning of latter-day literature in Ger- many, tracing the development ot these from their crude beginnings to their present high rank in the world of letters. He thinks that Scherer's theory of rival masculine and feminine forces in German literature here finds some support; Hauptmann representing the high-strung, nervous, feminine talent, and Sudermann the more robust and coarser masculine.

While Sudermann's success has been phenomenal, Prof. Heller thinks it is ndurlng, and he gives as a reason for his belief the fact that each of his great works takes a living issue for ita theme. While Americans generally reject Sudermann's teachings, they respect his earnest sincerity. Then follow reviews In detail. The themes, ethics and style are expounded, and attention drawn to such features as have caused a clash of literary opinion, Sudermann, for instance, is not the "poseur" that the critics would have one believe.

"He does not parade hla MISS GILDER'S 5- Mr. F. Leveson Gower's volume of recollections entitled "Bygone Tears," to which I alluded In a recent letter, Is now published in this country by Messrs. Dutton. When I wrote of it I had only had a lew minutes' glance over an English edition and realiy could not get at the most interesting pages of the book in that short time.

A less superficial glance reveals much that Is entertaining, for Mr. Gower has known many distinguished people and lived an unusually interesting life since he was born in 1819. One of the first of Mr. Gower's recollections was' of the Duke of Wellington, who was visiting his father's country place, and, in shooting at a mark, not being a safe shot, wounded his host in the face. There was no great harm done, but the escape was a narrow one.

When he was seven years old Mr. Gower had the pleasure of shaking hands with Sir Walter Scott. Among his playmates at echool were Prince George of Hanover and Prince George of Cambridge. After Eton Mr. Gower went to Oxford, -where Mr.

Ruskin was then an undergraduate. Of Euskln at the University he says: "He seemed to keep himself aloof from everybody, to seek no friends and to have none. I never met him In any one else's rooms or at any social gathering. I see him now, looking rather crazy, taking his solltory walks. His isolation was In no wise, as the Dean suggests," due to his parentage, as undergraduates never took that into account In the choice of their companions.

Young men having relations and friends in common and some knowledge of London society were unconsciously disposed to foregather, but not from any wish for excluslveness. It was no advantage to Ruskin to be a gentleman-commoner, as gentleman-commoners, with some notable exceptions, were generally looked upon askance, as rather vulgar parvenus, too proud of their wealth; and there wa3 more fellowship between noblemen and commoners than there was between them and gentlemen-commoners. Ruskin classed the gentlemen-commoners as being between the noblemen and the commoners. I should put them But such classifications are rather fanciful. A Yankee who had never been in England asked a fellow-countryman, who had been there, what people were comprised In the term 'middle 'Baronets, to be sure' a definition which would not be acceptable to some of our baronets with long pedigrees." He tells of one occasion when Ruskin gave a large supper to which he invited somo of the leading undergraduates whom he did not know.

On this occasion he made a speech which was not considered a success, for in it he Baid that he could hardly express how much he felt honored that so many men who were superior to him socially should have condescended to accept his invitation. This disinclined those who were present to keep up the acquaint ance. (Mr. Gower admits that he never felt the enthusiasm for Ruskin which inspired so many of his contemporaries. He admires the beauty and eloquence of his writings, but doubts the soundness of his judgment.

Speaking of Mr. Gladstone, Gower says that he had quite an argument with him at one time on the subject of class distinction, and that the famous statesman believed that the line between the srentry and commoner should be drawn with a firm hand. Mr. Gower did not think so, and maintained that the equality between youths, both at school and college, was a great advantage, particularly to those who were most favored by fortune. He tells a story about his friend, the late Lord Bath, who, on his first arrival at Eton, was asked his name, and answered: "I am Viscount Weymouth, and I shall be Marquis of Bath." Upon which he received two kicks, one for the viscount and the other for the marquis.

This story Mr. Gower does not vouch for. but he tells It as illustrating the fact that if at Eton a boy boasted of his social advantages he would have cause to repent it. Mr, Gower has many anecdotes of the brilliant but eccentric Lady Holland. At her table he met Macauley, Sydnev Smith and Samuel Rogers.

"All ot the Whig ladies visited Lady Holland, and many of them w.rc charming and agreeable. She was very fond of my cousins, Lady Carlisle's daughters. One day she exclaimed, "What Is the use of education? Your1 cousins know very little, yet how they I think she harillv did of to It to to ot old It to him A Of Charges of Fraud By Solinger and Duffin BANKRUPT PROCEEDINGS. OTHER. CREDITORS ASK TO BE MADE PARTIES IS ACTION.

POSTAL CLERKS ON OUTING. A response was filed in the Federal Court yesterday afternoon by Jacob Solinger and James R. Duffin, attorneys in the Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings against the assigned banking concern of P. J. Potter's Sons, of Eowling Green, to the charges made in the answers of the banking firm and the assignee, E.

L. MottH-y. The petitioners who first sought to throw the defunct banking concern into involuntary bankruptcy were Martin De Vrles, Cora Gee, John Harper and D. W. Hilton.

In the petition it was stated that unless the estate was thrown into the Bankruptcy Court many of the creditors would be discriminated against It also charged that too much was being expended in the matter of winding up the estate. To this petition, as filed by creditors through Attorneys Solinger and Duffin, answers were filed by the defendant Potters and E. L. Mottley, as assignee. The answers of the Potters charged that those signing the petition had entered Into a fraudulent conspiracy with Jacob Solinger to divide the tatter's large fee, and that Mr.

Duffin had misrepresented the facts of the case to one creditor in order to persuade him to sign the petition. The answer, as filed by Assignee Mottley, repeated the allegations of fraud and conspiracy, but contained no mention of Mr. Duifin ''In tho case. Tn the resnonse filed yesterday At torneys Solinger and Duffin deny absolutely the charges made by the bank-inc firm and E. L.

Mottley. as assignee. The paper states that since the petition was filed to throw the concern Into bankruptcy many creditors have written asking to be allowed to join in fho "Federal nroceedinirs. The' re sponse stales that there are about 6,000 creditors of the defunct bank. With the response are filed the claims and petitions of six other creditors asking that they be made parties in tne action against the defendants in the bankruptcy proceedings.

The six creditors who join in the bankruptcy proceedings are Bradford Howell, of Allen county, whose claim is W. H. Dixon, of Allen county, $200; S. C. Welch, Loufevilie, $834; Singer Sewing Machine Company, the George G.

Fetter Company, $11.50, and Lena Grottenthaler, $90. These petitioners state that they have taken no part in the assignment proceedings. BANQUET AT SMITH'S GROVE. Postal Clerks Go Into Camp For Two Weeks At Mammoth Cave. tmio r.ntn.1 cierks who work on trains between Cincinnati and Nashville yesterday went into camp for two weeks at Mammoth Cave.

They will not all be In the camp at once, in fr rinvs on and four days ott. There are about twenty of them, and thero will be a dozen or more in the on the banks of Green river, and camp all the time. The tents are pitcn everything has Been proviawi im is mndurlve to a K0Od time. ueioi" leaving for the camp a banquet was given Thursday night the hotel at Smith's Grove, by the resident clerks of that place. The clerks were welcomed to Smith Grove in a speech by Mayor Hudson.

The response was made by S. A. Parsons, ot Louisville. Toasts were responded to as follows: "Pay Day, James B. Kirby; "Duties of a Poet-master." J.

W. Wade of SmlAs Grove- "Duties of a Postal Clerk. John A. O'Connor. A speech was made bv Prof.

W. H. Prltchett, superintendent of tho VanderWlt Training School at Smith's Grove. Chief Clerk D. A.

Caulkins, formerly in charge of the Louisville district, but now of Cincinnati, was present and responded to the toast "Why Am I Here?" Chief Clerk J. Burt, of this city, attended, the banquet. ELIGIBLE LIST EXHAUSTED. John W. Mills Resigns As Clerk In the Post-office.

John W. Mills resigned yesterday as a clerk in the post-office. He will go to Cedar Rapids, whero he will engage in business. He has only been In the service a few months, and say3 that he thinks he can do better at something else. Claiborne C.

Zeliick, a substitute clerk, was Immediately appointed by Postmaster Baker to succeed Mills. The resignation of Mr. Mills reveals the foe: That there are no more persons on the' eligible list from which to select substitutes. There arc now only five persens on the substitute list, when there should be ten. Postmaster Baker said yesterday afternoon that he would notify tho department at Washington at once, and it Is expected that a special examination for ellglbles in the clerical department of the local post-office will be ordered to be held within the next thirty days.

The position from which Mr. Mills resigned pays $000. Postmaster Baker said that it looked as if the citizens of Louisville were not anxious to secure post-office Jobs, as the lists In all the departments are running vory low. EXAMINATIONS ORDERED Louisville: William S. Truax, ot Neosho, Mo.

Vacation Notes. Miss Hortense Horton. stenographer In the office of the United States Mar shal, returned to her desk yesterday, after a stay of two weeks at Dawson Springs. Walter Blackburn, chief deputy under A. D.

James, United States left yesterday for Marion, where he will spend several days with his family, who are sojourning thero during the summer. LOWEST BIDS EVEE RECEIVED FOE, HYDSAN2 CONSTBUCTION' Opened Yesterday By City Health Authorities Will Inspect Tie J. B. Finley To-day. The lowest bids for the erection of fire hvfrants ever filed with the Board of Public Works were received yesterday from a Kentucky firm, which will probably receive all the contracts for the erection ot lza nyaranis.

ine uma were $99 for hydrants on the same side of the street as the water mains and $125 to $140 for hydrants across the street from the mains, the difference in the latter bids being caused by difficulties in construction. Heretofore tho hydrants have been costing from $125 to $160 each. The bids received yesterday were for the largest number of hydrants ever let at one time. The policy now being pursued Is to substitute hydrants for cisterns all over town, and the General Council has been passing fire hydrant ordinances for the last two months. Tho Board of Public Works waited until they had a large number, so that th price would be lower.

To Inspect the Einley. Dr. Edward Laverty, Assistant City Health Officer, will inspect the tow-boat J. B. Finley this afternoon before her arrival in Louisville with a view to ascertaining whether or not there is any contagious disease on board.

The Finley left New Orleans a week or mora ago and has been Inspected in every city through which she has passed, but persistent reports that there Is yellow fever on board made it appear advisable to have her inspected again here. Dr. Laverty will board her before sho reaches West Louisville, and will take the temperature of every person oa board. Dr. Deig Beturns.

Dr. Albert Delg, Assistant City Health Officer, has returned from his vacation. which he spent in Crawford county Indiana. He is now busy looking after the sanitary work In the city. Will Pave Street The Board of Public Works has decided to pave street between Third and Fourth Avenues with vitrified brick block as soon as plans and specifications have been-prepared.

WOMEN ONLY VICTIMS OF SMOOTH SWINDLE. Miss Theresa Weldner, daughter of Dr. Carl Weldner. who lives at 1055 Sixth street, believes' she has been victimized to the extent of by a smooth swindler. A man.

apparently forty years old and well dressed, called at Miss Weldner's home one week ago Wednesday, and alleged that he was representing a large patent house of the East. By dint of a number of catalogues he convinced Miss Weidner that ho was no Impostor, and finally persuaded her to accept the agency for a patent shear, which he alleged his house intended to place in this market. He informed her, however, that it would be necessary for her to make a deposit of as an assurance of good faith. Her suspicions not having been aroused, Miss Weidner made the necessary deposit, and has not heard of tha stranger since. She was to have received samples of the shears several days ago.

The detectives believe the alleged swindle is being confined solely to women. The amounts secured from those who have fallen victims range from $5 to $10 Company Incorporates. The Louisville Milling Company incorporated yesterday with a capital stock of $5,000, divided Into shares of $100 each. The maximum debt Is fixed at $5,000. The incorporators and their holdings, ail of whom are of Minneapolis, are: James Bell, thirty shares; James Ford Bell, ten shares; Charles C.

Boney, ten shares. LITTLE MAY CURRY Heard From In the Heart of ths Fever-Stricken Delta. Sunflower county, is in tho Delta district where people are never free from the fever. Ruleville, In this county, is the home of little May Curry, whose Loulsvilte correspondence states: "Our home Is In the Delta where people are sick all tho time, more or less, with the fevers. We do not know of a single family that does not use your wonderful Wlntersmith's Tonic.

Mamma sends her best wishes, for your prosperity. I am your little friend. "MAT CURRY." For Mechanic and Librarian By Civil Service Commission. The United States Civil Service Commission announces that an examination will be held here September 13 to secure ellglbles from which to fill a vacancy in the position of general mechanic. Western Navajo Agency, Arizona, at $720 per year, and any vacancies that might occur in any other branch of the sen-Ice requiring similar Qualifications.

The applicant should be I.