Mr. Dooley has been moved to humorous protest in the
New York Journal by Mr. Carnegie's munificence. "'Has Andhrew Carnaygie given ye a libry yet r asked Mr. Dooley. Not that I know iv,' said Mr. Hennessy. He will,' said Mr. Dooley.'Ye'll not escape him. Befuna he dies he hopes to crowd a libry on ivry man, woman, an' child in th' counthry. He's given thim to cities, towns, villages, an' whistlin' stations. They're tearize down gas-houses an' poor-houses to put up libries. Bef are another year ivry house in Pittsburg that ain't a blast furnace will be a Carnaygie libry. In some places all th' buildin's is libries. If ye write him fr an antygraft he sinds ye a libry.' " You do not stimulate authorship, according to Mr. Dooley, by erect- ing libraries. " Libries niver encouraged lithrachoor anny more thin tombstones encourage livin'. No wan iver wrote annything because he was tol' that a hundred years fr'm now his books might be taken down fr'm a shelf in a granite sepulcher an' some wan wad write 'Good' or This man is crazy' in th' margin. What lithrachoor needs is fillin' food. If Andhrew wud put a kitchen in th' libries an' build some bunks or even swing a few hammocks where authors cud crawl in at night an' sleep while waitin' fr this enlightened nation to wake up an' discover th' Shakespeares now on th' turf, he wud be givin' a rale boost to lithrachoor." The idea of a literary " doss-house " is excellent, provided that no writers of novels were admitted.
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