Gossip of those of the Last Half of the I Last Century. _ First Novels of Two Celebrated Authors, Mannorigm i|\_,,,,,,,,y ,,§,‘§,,_ ,, Literature and Arts. Beaclmsi”reid’s Biographer, Great U Stroke of.Policy, Disraeii and Chamberlain, Contrast Between the Rapidly. wrmed Novel of One Volume and Those of 'Earlier Days. I % In the days of the rapidly-written novel in one volume, and the short story in a nutshell, I hardly think the long and severe studies of Char- les Reade, among the masterpieces gt fiction, find a. ready sale; but ho is one of the celebrities of '.vhom liter- ary mon and actors love to talk. I niet him originally when I first came to London, and he had written “Cliristio Johnstone," “lt is Novel- 'l`oo Late to Mend," “The Cloistev: on the Hearth" and “Griillth Guunt;" he was at tho height of his fame. Miss Braddou iatroduced mn to him on the occasion of a great toast she and her husband, John lilaxwell, gave at the Langham Ho- tel to celebrate the first number of 'I`he Belgravia Magazine. A new ma- gazine was an event in _those days. Now they come and go like the swallows, and often don’t remain as long as our aerial visitors. I sat next to Watts Phillips, and had for my vis-a-vis Tom ’l‘aylor. Everybody of note in the literary world was there. I was nobody of note. I camo up from Worcestershire, my "raison d’etre" being that I was one of the contributors to tho first number. My little essay was a country gossip en- titled "The Feast of St. Part- ridge." After dinner Uharlcs Reade invited me into a quiet corner, and compared notes with mo on our work, as if he were the novice and I the author whose novels were being rand all over the world. And he rt,- mnrked with a smile that an, autlior in those days was not only treated with respect, 'but actually paid hand- somely; he no longer danced attenil- ance upon atrons, they danced a tendanco ullzlon him; he said a man with a successful novel could buy a house and sit under his own vine and fig tree. First Novell of Two Famous Authors. With humility I told him that I had no reason to be particularly im- pressed with the rcwurrl of novel- ivriting. “Indecd,” ho said; "what have you received for your first. hook?" "Thirty pounds, on ac- count." "More to come?" "Ycs." "I congratulate you," was his reply. “Do you remembermy first work?" "Indeed, I do," I said; "who could forget Peg WofIl|\gto\\?” "You think it n good stor_v'?” "It is delightful,” I replied. "I got fivo pounds for it," ho said, "and was glad to have it printed on any terms." The publish- er who gave him five pounds for “Peg Wofllngton" would have readily. paid him almost as many thousands for one of his later novels. The uorld nearly lost "Under tho Green- wood Tree," "A Pair of Blue Eyes" and "Far from the Modding Crowd,” ht-cause Thomas Hardy’s first novel, “llespegate Remedies," was a finan- cial fat Ure. "Manner|sm" lu Literature and Art. Critics who dislike tho minutonr-ss of Balsac's detail say he was an ob- st-rvor, and not a, creator. This is often said of Reade. They were both in their work more or less scll-con- scious. So also was Thnckeray. The author of "Vanity Fair" lectured both his readers and his characters. ln a less forcible master this would lu- regarded ns a fault, but in Thack- oruy it was part of the man and his lnr~th_qd, his mannerism, his individu- ality by which wo know and recog- nize him as we know gnd recognize the work of famous painters. The ln- dividuality of an actor" in our day is often called "mannt-i‘ism," and con- drnmetl. Yet all the great. actors iuust have had it, and it was their nuinnerism that was part of the per- fection of their art. Just as u paint- \’l‘ or an author puts something of himself 'into his work, so docs the urtor, and it is part of the charm of his lrnperspnatloiis that we .recog- _o» cf,/. _,,_,,¢;'?,t/ , if ti C/v vi/ =.'~".f"/ O v if U O v v Ui/ v V v \. _ L -f nize that it is he, in particular, who in giving us his view of the charac- ter ho is representing. Ile may got as close to it as his genius may en- able him, fairly under tho skin of it, but without some suggestion of his OWU ldlmiycracies, there would be u want in his acting which would be disappointing in his audience. Ed- mund Kean had a niunnurism that was port of tht- force' of his charac- terizations. You would not have liked Muon-acly without his “manncrism/' nor Phelps, nor would you havi- Irving without his mnunvrisms in "Louis XI." or “The Bells." In his "llnmlt-t," tliough it was subdut-d, it was tliert\, and it seemed to belong to the ovcr\vroU&'ht and lovable prince. i Fascination of s Mnstorful Personality. Alexander Smith like Nathaniel Ilu\vi.hornt-'s ~"'l`\vict- 'I`0lil 'l`ali»s" better than his fiiiisliml novels, for the reason that while the no- vels were tvritlrn for the ¥\`0I'l me-' _‘ith Umor" .yet ‘cha knowledge tio weetgoul ofthe old dfys, when he tithe is iid forever licnru hard on him. _ \ i .Q was complet/ed several vt ecks ago and it ` TFA tempers the spirits and harmontzes the mind dtspels la8llt\¢d¢ ‘md N lteves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, ll¢llt¢1'1S 01* f¢ _ . -V freshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties- Afriw Government today. \ ¢,,,,,.,,_.,.,._ #jvc /-f;;_._»§; mwf& 4w2w other, I gave up smoking, I quit coffee \ l 1 of beer, but without any murkcfl improve l it ’ ment. § well-known proprie tury mctlince, Stunrt'.~i l W' Dyspepsin 'l‘ablet.s, and I had often ular and successful of any preparation There are numerous so~called matches but onlv one genuine Brahmin Tea. Insist upon getting Haszarcl's Brahmin from you' grccer. 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