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A HAMLET STORY.-Apropos of Mr. Laurence Hutton's remarks upon "A Century of Hamlet," in a recent issue of Harper's Magazine, the Drawer of that magazine is in receipt of the following interesting item: Edwin Booth remembers Thomas Ward dying in sight of the audience as the Player King, and being dragged from the mimic stage by the heels, to enter immediately at another wing as Polonius, with a cry of " 'Lights! lights! lights!" Hamlet, in " a one-night town," swearing that he loved Ophelia better than forty thousand brothers, has watched Ophelia through her open grave, packing her trunk in the place beneath, while the Ghost, her husband, waited to strap it (Houghton, M. $1.25.) From Woodberry's "North up! There are more things in Hamlet's existence Shore Watch, etc." behind the scenes than are dreamed of in the philosophy of all his commentators and all his ASSISTED." Did you write this poem all your- critics. A SEVERE CRITICISM. - Tennyson is said to have remarked once with regard to his experience with Browning's "Sordello": There were only two lines in it that I understood. One was the opening line Who will, may hear Sordello's story told 'and the other was the closing line Who would, has heard Sordello's story told.'" AN ACCOMPLISHED AMERICAN AUTHOR. Marion Crawford is credited by The Book Buyer with the ability to speak German, French, and Italian fluently; to read Latin, Greek, Sanscrit, Arabic, and Persian; and to understand Russian and Turkish. He is described by that bright little magazine as over six feet in height, with broad shoulders, small feet, and a large head, the latter being well covered with a profusion of brown hair; a beard of the same color conceals the lower part of his face; a fine but rather large mouth is partially hidden by a mustache of the same hue as his beard; his teeth are handsome and his smile exceedingly sweet. He talks well, in a carefully modulated voice, enjoys a good joke, and is easily moved to laughter. EMERSON'S CHOICE OF WORDS.-A letter, written many years ago by Oliver Wendell Holmes to John Lothrop Motley, has recently been made public, in which occurs the following allusion to Mr. Emerson, so characteristic of the writer: "I sat by the side of Emerson, who always charms me by his delicious voice, his fine sense and wit, and the delicate way he steps about the words of his vocabulary; if you have seen a cat picking her footsteps in wet weather, you have seen the picture of Emerson's exquisite intelligence feeling for its phrase or epithet. Sometimes I think of an ant-eater singling out his insects, as I see him looking about, and at last seizing his worm or WALTER SCOTT'S LAST MANUSCRIPTS." I was looking not long ago at the manuscript of KenilMacmillan's Magazine, and examined the end worth in the British Museum," says a writer in with particular care, thinking that the wonderful scene of Amy Robsart's death must surely have cost Scott some labor. They were the cleanest pages in the volume. I do not think there was a sentence altered or added in the whole chapter. And what is still more wonderful, he could dictate with the same rapidity. Three of his novels, and they are among his best-A Legend of Montrose,' Ivanhoe,' and 'The Bride of Lammermoor '-were in great part dictated, the last entirely so, owing to ill health; but his amanuenses declared that they could hardly keep pace with him. During the progress of The Bride of Lammermoor' his pain was sometimes such that, strong man as he was, he fairly screamed aloud, but with the next breath he would continue the sentence as though nothing had happened." BROWNING AND BYRON ANTIPODAL.-" modern English poets," says the Cosmopolitan, Byron is the one with whom Browning found the least accord. Not only in externals but also in essentials the two are antipodal: Byron self-centred to the core-Browning merging himself in the consideration of others; Byron melodious, fluent, rejoicing in color, form, euphony-Browning rugged, forceful, careless of form, regardful of thought; Byron misanthropic, gloomy, despondent, out of tune with the world and himselfBrowning sunny, cheerful, optimistic, in harmony with the universe; Byron with his wail, 'Of all 'I have not loved the world, nor the world me,' -Browning with his note of cheer, 'This world's no blot for us, Nor blank it means intensely and means good.' But although the peculiar quality of Browning's genius places him upon a solitary pedestal in the grand gallery of British poets, there is nothing recluse to be noted in his life, nothing exclusive in the nature of his work; on the contrary, for range and variety he is the most inclusive of all the writers of the Victorian age." INFINITE CAPACITY FOR TAKING PAINS. - Jules Verne, who lives at Amiens, is prevented from travelling and visiting the countries he wishes to describe, by the injury he received four years ago when an insane nephew shot him in the leg. He lately said to a visitor: "I am now at my seven ty-fourth novel, and I hope to write as many more before I lay down my pen for the last time. I write two novels every year, and have done so regularly for the last thirty-seven years. I do so much every morning, never missing a day, and get through my yearly task with the greatest ease. I must tell you that I am very severe on myself, and that I correct and correct. The function of whetstone was never more rigorously performed by any author on his works than by me on mine. I will show you one of my manuscripts, and you will see that in every line there are numerous erasures. Then I copy and correct again, and then I recopy. I often copy six or seven times before sending my copy to the printer, and then when my proofs come in I always find a quantity more corrections to be made. I don't believe in dashing off work, and I don't believe that work that is dashed off is ever worth very much." Thronging through the cloud rift, whose are they, the faces Faint revealed yet sure divined, the famous ones of old? "What," they smile, "our names, our deeds so soon erases Time upon his tablet where Life's glory lies enrolled. "Was it for mere fool's play, make-believe, and mumming, So we battled it like men, not boy-like, sulked and whined? coming: Each of us heard clang God's 'Come!' and each was Led, we struck our stroke, nor cared for doings left and MARK TWAIN ON AUTOGRAPHS. - Mark Twain, according to the Commercial Advertiser, thus recently wrote to an autograph collector in response to a request for his signature: "I hope I shall not offend you; I shall certainly say nothing with the intention to offend you. I must explain myself, however, and I will do it as kindly as I can. What you ask me to do, I am asked to do as often as one-half dozen times a week. Three hundred letters a year! One's impulse is to freely consent, but one's time and necessary Occupations will not permit it. There is no way but to decline in all cases, making no exceptions; Each as on his sole head, failer or succeeder, and I wish to call your attention to a thing which has probably not occurred to you, and that is this: that no man takes pleasure in exercising his trade as a pastime. Writing is my trade, and I exercise it only when I am obliged to. You might make your reques of a doctor, or a builder, or a sculptor, and there would be no impropriety in it, but if you asked either of those for a specimen of his trade, his handiwork, he would be justified in rising to a point of order. It would never be fair to ask a doctor for one of his corpses to remember him by." And all this the humorist wrote on the typewriter, signing his name by the same method. The autograph collector's feelings may be imagined. Lay the blame or lit the praise: no care for cowards; fight." FOR PERTURBED LITERARY SPIRITS. 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