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THE WORLD OF BOOKS

IRISH WRITERS.

EXPERIENCES OF A LITERARY MAN.

Those who read Stèphen Gwyan's very fascinating book, “Experiences

of a Literary Man," which la pub lished by Messrs. Thornton and Butterworth at 21s, net, are advised to make a point of keeping it com- pany with "Autobiographies" by W. B. Yeats, which is published by Messrs Macmillan at 108. net, be- CAUNG one book frequently will be found to have some bearing upon the other. Both writers were con- temporaries, and during their event ful careers often came into friendly contact, so that Gwynn, in his "Ex- perfences," makes frequent refer- ences to Yeats as well as to his father, while Yeats on more than one occasion has something to say of Stephen Gwynn, --

JAPANESE ROYALTY.

WILL PUBLISH A MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

THE CLASSICS.

HOW THEY WERE PUBLISHED.

Thackeray toki us that all the capital a writer needs is six- penny-worth of paper, a pen, and

Tokyo, July 31. The Princes and Princesses of Japan, who are a most exclusive get and who are looked upon by the common people as of divine a penny bottle of ink. The origin, have announced that they cheapness and profusion of writ- intend to try their hand at four- ing materials which nowadays nalism. Their first effort wil be obtain would have been the envy the publication of monthly maga- of the ancients could they have zine. This publication, however, known our advantages, will not have much circulation because it is to be distributed only among the Imperial Family and Princess and Princesses of the Blood.

The purpose of the magazine, it is said, is the improvement of knowledge and promotion of in- timacy among the royal families. Prince and Princess Kanin, Prince

Princess Kuni, Stephan Gwynn tells us in his and

Prince opening chapter that he was Chichibu, Prince Takamatsu-the brought up to think himself Irish last two, the brothers of the Em "without question or qualification," peror-together with other mem- but that the "new Nationalism pre-bers of the Imperial Family are fers to describe me and the like of expected to write for the publica- me as 'Anglo-Engllah." "A. E."- tion on various topics, such as the pen-name of George Russell-travels, history and poems. regards Stephen Gwynn as the The Imperial monthly is to be "Anglo-Irishman par excellence." in charge of Prince Yamashina, a Possibly the Angle portion of the bachelor of arts and the only Im- hyphenated description accounts perial Prince who ever graduated for the author's broadmindedness, from the Tokyo Imperial Univer for his toleration, and for the ab- sence of rabidity in his very absorb-

sity. ing "Experiences." I rather think that Mr. Gwynn resents having the. word "Anglo" added to his Irish tag, although he confesses to long acquaintance with London, and he consoles himself with a "Still, if you put me on any Irish lake or river with a rad in my hand, I recognise that I am somehow at home."

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Mr. Gwynn, after a period when he was sent "to try his luck at Oxford," and when he met auch in- teresting people as Quiller-Couch, Gilbert Murray, MacColl, Cosmo Gordon Lang-who became Arch- bishop of York, to the indignation of his friend Gwynn-William Morris, Hyndman, Walier Pater, Dean Liddell and his daughters, one

LITERARY "PIRACY."

To Be Stopped In ・・

France.

The most ancient method of writing was on clay tablets, bricks, and tables of stone. Even so, the Assyrians and Baby- lonians possessed astonishing libraries.

The library of Sargon at Agadé contained thousands of volumes, including works on astronomy and astrology, and many books of fables, The characters were impressed with a metal stylus on soft clay tablets, which were then baked in the sun or in a kiln.

Leaves and bark were con- stantly used by writers. The pro- phecies of the Sibyl were written on leaves. There were several copies of the Bible written on palm leaves, and some can still derivation of the leaf of a book. be seen in museums. Hence the

What Four Walls Told.

In the Book of Job mention is made of writing on stone, and on sheets of lead. The law of Moses was written on stone. Hesiod's on leaden works were written tables and then rolled up like a cylinder. When the Greeks were. merely shepherds, they put down their songs with thorns and awla on leather. `Bronze tables were

used for their laws and more im- portant records.

M. Edouard Herriot, Minister of Public Instruction and Beaux Arts, has introduced in the French Cham- ber of Deputies a Bill against the "pirating" of literary efforts Under the terms of his bill the works of writers would be inviolate for 50 years after an author's death and for a half-century thereafter producers and publishers must pay 6 per cent. tax to a general fund.

This fund, to be administered by of whom sat for "Alice in Wonder- officials chosen by the State shall times. Another northern heroi land," and when he finally reached be used for the amelioration of ad London by way of Dublin, the verse conditions among writers and London of the 'eighties and nine-artists, Article I, of the measure ties, when so much achievement provides that "the objects of the was in flux, and when the camera fund are to aid by allowances, obscura of literary and artistic life prizes and travelling scholarships, offered for inspection 80 many purchase of works and other means strange and interesting personall- the work of writers, scientists and ties. Mr. Gwynn writes sympathe-artists: to found fastitutions in tically and interestingly of this period, and Introduces us to many a striving soul who has since help- ed to make history. There are two portraits in his book which stand out with remarkable prominence, one of Mary Kingsley, whose work in Africa is still remembered, and the other of that fine Irish cleric, Father Healy.

Lovers of the best' in literature will be grateful to Mr. Gwynn for his readable and recommendable book, which contains many interest- Ing illustrations,

The early Icelanders wrote upon walls; and one Olaf built a house on the balks and spars of which he had engraven the his- tory of his own and more ancient had nothing other than his own chair and bed with which to hand down his own heroic acts. The Arabs had the shoulder blades of sheep and materials.

a knife for writing They carved these bones, and then tied them to gether and hung them up. These favour of letters and the arts and early inventions led to the dis sciences, notably municipal theatres covery of tablets of wood; and as and Institutions of popular educa cedar is lasting, this wood was tion; to aid French undertakings used for chests to preserve the for the publishing or republishing writings of some importance. of works presenting literary scien- Hence arose the wall known tag, fic or artistic interest and to as-worthy to be written on cedar." sure protection of the rights of au- thors and their works."

Forbidden Pens.

The writers wrote with an iron bodkin. This stylus was sharp father and mother are sympatheti- at one end to write with, and cally drawn pictures and exercised blunt at the other in order to on me s similar appeal to that of make erasures, But after a time Alexander Irvine's wonderfully the Romans forbade the use of limned "Mother," in "My Lady of these implements because they the Chimney Corner."

came in so handy as weapons. Writers are notoriously touchy, and an iron stylus could easily give point to a heated literary argument.

Mr. W. B. Yeats's Memoirs, which he calls "Autobiographies," make a settled, definite appeal, They are intimate and frank, and they show

We follow his early youth, in that the author, veteran of Irish Hammersmith, his school days and literature as he is, is not entirely, his years at Bedford Park with par fortified against modern influences. tfcular interest at least I did In fact, occasionally it suggests because Hammersmith, with Nor- that the work of a fellow country-man Shaw's chosen village, were Pumice was used to smooth man, James Joyce, has made some familiar spots to me, and even now the roughness of parchment when Impression upon him, especially as I can see Cartmel Robinson's this came into use, or to sharpen his "Autobiographies" have a good church, St. Michael of All Angels, the reeds that were split like our deal in common with Joyce's auto-standing out in its floridity of red

pens when these took the place biographical memoir which was brick.

With In later life we happen upon the of the adaptable stylus." published some two to three years

great ones in drama, art and the passing of time, the art of But there is something greater, literature, and perhaps the most writing consisted in painting something more human and more vivid recollection of this period will with divers kinds of Ink. This appealing about "Autobiographies," be found in Mr. Yeats's portrait of was done upon linen and infre because Mr. Yeats does not go out Aubrey Beardaley, a portrait full of quently upon the skins of ser- of his way to introduce what, for deep understanding and of pents. Indeed it is said that the want of a better term, I will des sympathy. Another portrait, im-fliad and the Odyssey were writ- cribe as literary discords. The pressively painted in words, is that story of his childhood, set down of John Singe, the Irish dramatist. ten in letters of gold on the skins with an almost inspired apprecia- who made so great a name in so of these reptiles,

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tion of a child's viewpoint, of his short a time. Mr. Yeats's last Papyrus and Parchment. family and of his school days, is words are written in appreciation

writing the bark of a reed called papyrus, it came into general use because it was so convenient; but after the eighth century parch- ment took its place because it lasted longer

told with a narrational charm Yeats of Singe and, of Lady Gregory, who. When the Egyptians used for has made peculiarly his own. He has done so much for the Irish makes us see himself with a friendly theatre, and who is still a vital in stable boy ioafing in the hayloft and fluence t reading Orange rhymes, from which he derived the pleasure of rhyme for the first time" a strange. fount for a muse so national as that of Mr. Yeats to have derived its early father.-J.L.Lin nourishment. His portraits of his "Sunday Times."

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Mr. Yeats's Interesting memoire are illustrated by etchings, photo- graphs, and by a reproduction in colour from a painting by his

Johannesburg"

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erect on the library shelves. They were titled on the outside with red-letters or rubrics. The library at Pergamus contained two hun dred thousand volumes. Ptolemy. Philadelphus owned forty thou sand books. The library of Alexandria, begun by Ptolemy Soter, had two hundred thousand volumes. This was destroyed by order of the Caliph Omar. The literary output of those pagan days far exceeded that of the middle ages. "T. P.'s and Cassell's Weekly."

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