The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-28
LITERARY GOSSIP.

The first nunber Of srIhe Week, "a paper
made up wholly Of extracts from the Journals
Of This and other countries, has made It's ap-i
nearanco. NJ It is q good looking and pr omisng
enterprise Of the. conductors OF t1e hoQno a9 q
Table. =.
--Mr. Bentley, The, London publisher, an
nounces that he win shortly issuet sbJ autnor-
NV Of the 'Austrian Goyernme ent," the work en-
titled sRecolections Of My Life" by the ,a lase
Emperor Macmillan. It is to be ready IN feD-
ruary. - .s.: -
1.-The Saturday Review says: !S5There are,
IL must be owned, but few things on eartn OF
less interest at first sight than gisl IN q! ner
teens.", Several persons, however, VIII uis'
agree. with the writer, .
Races and languages are internli1ed ~
the most puzzhng way in CalHornla. II IspiY'
to the, question, "Can you speak Enghsn aa
italian bootmaker in San Francisco Fepiien ~
with pride, "Si, senior; certalnment: ,Ion Des
Regarding the gregarioIs masculine s,h eise sen,
writer in the Atlantic says: .mThe Turks oulio
harems for their women, but we hnd It neces,
sary to abandon to women Our apooes, anu
construct harens for ourselves,"' -. -.
"A book has been published in Eendon ~ un-
der the title Of "Wrinkles," by the "Oid she-
karry." It consists of directions and hints for
camp life in the East. The author f1Yes nst
Of requirements before man ms properly
can himself q Shekairy. He must possess
sthe bottom OF an Arab horse, be able to run
like deer, to creep like q leopard, to wr1ggle
himself along the ground like an eel, TO sWlIa
like a fish, to bound from crag to crag Wltn
the agility and certainty OF cham 91s, 70 10, 70
under all emergencies, COOL and c9necSeu, w w
shoot with an unerring aim, and DC always
eager to face death, no matter whether 1t ss'
sumes the shape of man-eatlrg tger' d
tsrnustn elephant. or Jungle feVer.
The following story is told Of LeyerTier.
The part which relates the reply OF the EN-
nress is certainly improbable: 'Tfhe Empress
met M. Reyerrier at court, and, ignorant that
praise Of another astronomer, IA. uelauny, was
dissgreeahle to him, ssid: we were dehgnted
NJ Delagnys clear Lecture r. aesssr,en, s1
erily replied. Mon Dieu, Madame. where dld
you acquire patience enough to listen 10 the
stupidities Delauny drivelsT Tie Empress
colaly replied: AT your lecture, III. Leverrier,
and walked away. M. = Reverrier never ap-
peared at court again"
-dEchoes from the Clubs, an English pub
Ecation, has s-paper on the suhtest OF neeray
larcenies, in which the principal sandaIu EEe- ~
author says that Shakespeare sole has plots.
almost without exception. Herrick stole Hom
Ben johnson what 'trare Ben" hpd preytonsH
pilyered from Ovid. Spencer from Dante,
Pope from Waller, Sterne from Benton, BuiWer
from sterne, Byron from Wielanc- ana Meuer; ;
Schiller that he became impressed with che
lelusion that he was the author OF some OF
their best productions. Tennyson, Wofds-
worth. Shelly. Gray and Campbell are slso
classed in the same category by the critic.
English though our own ls,guage is, and
is likely to remain, We bid fair to become e1-
pert linguists, as a people, from sheer neoessl-
tS, The generous wsy In which We have open
ed our arms and taken the people OF 30 many
come familiar with their tongues. The Ger
man element in some OF our Western cities is
tnlly as strong as the French used to be In
New Orleans. We see that Cincinnati pro-
yides for the instruction, In its public schools,
Of German children in their OWN tongue. This
is liberal and proper. The main thing 1elng
the education Of the children, ot whatever ma
t1onality. the purpose would be defeated in an
attempt to teach them new tongue tRhen
they 60 home to the old one very day. What
A babel the San Francisco schools VIII present,
by and BY, when Japanese and Chinese nit on
the game benches with keen eyed Anierloan
children, and every country OF Europe besIdes
is spectacle that will bettsr illustrate the
leading characteristics Of the settlement and
development Of the country than any Other 1t
ispossible to produce. 81 s,r!r..,. .,o.
"A short article in the Galaxy has for It's
topic a famous character, known IS General
Washiu gton's negro body servant. who was less
remarka bic for what he did in living than in
dying. He died in the Boston Gazette IN lSOs,
aged 95. He died "some -Inoren In Macon,
ditionaliyi yin the st. Louis Republican. in 1910,
having numbered 95 winters. In 1855, bis
death was repeated at Dutch Fiat, California,
aged 95. His final feat Of dying, 30 far az has
vet been made known, was performed in Mich
Igsn. BY curious ooinGd ance he had Just
reached The age ot95 years. These numerous
doubt on the fact, OF Georges exiHtence-in-
deed, he Beems q sort OF modern American
myth = 3" -'.-l - - it-- .s'"c.-'" .i .