The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-11
LIterary and social IIat,ers.

Jules Janin, 3 witty Frenchman,
says: "If you love books, observe the
rules: Buy no books except those You
can read, and bind no books except
those you wish to keep - = I'd
Peter Force, of Washington, has a
a rare historical library of z, 500 vol
umes and 1850 pamphlets mostly re-
lating to American affairs, and he offers
it TO Congress for 500, 900. That sum
has been offered him for il by book
seller. yIE -re zen -a le9I
Jay Cooke, the banker Mr.. Chase
made rich and famous, is setting up an
art gallery, and has come int the mar
ket as a"heayy-paying picture buyer.
He has Just given 5000 for two i'm
ported pictures, and offered a like sum
for George 1nness's peace and
Plenty" but its owner Marcus Spring,
preferred painting to money. ~
Mr.. N. P. Willis's famous country
seaton the Hudson came about in this
way; "It was portion of the farm of
Nathaniel Sands, a lovely, kindly, gem
tie old man, whose sweet, persuasive
words from, the high seat OF the Qua
ker meeting, have won many hearts 10
the peaceful faith he had espoused. He
ing some very moderate sum OF money
as its price, because, Nathaniel it is
only an idle Mild.' Il will take it. said
Willis. and it shall be called Idle
WiId.'" -"i,4 l st,i
DE Quincy tells of singular
youthful grief OF his when he saw the
multitude of books in vast library.
Before him were tens of thousands of
books, lifetime hardly being sufficient
for reading them; and when his
thoughts took wider scope, aud he re-
dected upon the number of books in
the world, and the certainly that he
should never . ven see the titles ofthem
all and of the millions of living men
whom he could never See, he was
driven into such q grief as only chill
dren know. 20 sS'. I- a'E'' -
How to write history is thus told by
a great historian of France: "I prepare,
in the first place a table of all the
events, the great as well as the small,
with the verified dAtes-the dates not
only of the years, but of the months
and days; this Is the longest and most
minute of my labor. Then 1 efface
from my mind all current and precon-
ceived opinions; I consider my dated
facts; Isee their connecticut feel the
progress of events, and write my book
like novel;" - Zi--HG =.
Dickens tells characteristic story
of Carlyle and some annoying Cochin
China fowls next door to his country
home: e:s,''ExaspOratedb beyond measure
by these daily tormentors, he sent a
servant to his neithbor to implore re-
lief. But the nsiA hbor was unyieIding
He, or rather she, regarded the- fowls
with peculiar affection, and declared,
besides, that she had observed that her
pets, though they certainly crowed very
loud, only crowed three times in an
entire day. 'Ay, so they may re-
marked the author of Hero Worship
when this reply was brought to him;
so they may: but woman does not
consider the awful moments 1 sutter
when expecting them to crow. r --4
OfHeinrich Hsine, the German poet,
we have from Paris these painfully in
knew Heinrich Heine only by the
screams wrung from him during the
last weeks of his existence by the pains
which chained him to his bed. These
screams were heard through the walls
of his lodgings and reached mine,
which We're above his. His window
was almost always open, AS the op-
| pressed lungs of the poet needed a reat
circulation OF air. Ismore than once
saw his broad and massive head, pale
and .haggard, but still energetic; and
the invalid's undress revealed his enor-
nous neck and his isimmense breast. In
| his posture of a man half reclining,
half seated, Heinrich Heine constantly
wrote, and interrupted his labor solely
to scream, or scoldl the persons who
hectiunately and constantly; watched
over him, or to talk with VISITORS His
conversation was lively and harsh; the
! l.. II
nor very friendly. There was some-
thing abrupt in it. 1t was not merely
the German accent which produced this
abruptness, as some persons were dis
posed TO think; il wGS the natural tenn
| perament of the writer which revealed
itself in a state of continual explosion
in these conversations"