Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-24

Somebody has been counting up as to
the names of graduates of New England
land colleges There are 214 Smiths, 115
Adams, 96 Clarks and 30 Aliens, these
heading the list.
Leypoldt & Holt expect to have ready
before Spring, "The Talmud," by Emanu-
81 Deutsch, 80 long promised. They also
announce 1.-THE First Duty Of Woman"
by Mary Taylor.
Our Minister at Copenhagen, Geo. II.
Yeaman, has written work on political
science, entitled "The Study Of Govern
ment," which Messrs. Little, Brown &
Co., will publish Immediately.
The Nation is informed that the Uni
versity of Michigan has secured the
library of Prof. Ran, of Heidelberg, a
telegram from Ann Arbor having antici-
pated, by one day similar telegram from
Yale College.
Roberts Brothers are to publish trans
lation by Edw. Wheelwright of Remains
constitutional Monarchy in France, "and
a collection by Mrs. Lowell, the author
or editor of "Seed fought" of choice
poems for children.
A niece of Lamartine, Mademoiselle
Valentine de Cessiat, has made a public
appeal to all who possess letters or other
writings of her uncle, to send them to
her as helps in her preparation of his
forthcoming correspondence.
Mr.. Lewis III. Morgan of Rochester,
has made the primitive condition of man
a special study for many years, and his
work on the subject, embracing the most
extensive researches, is in course of pub
LEGATION by the Smithsonian institution.
The largest prize ever offered Fresh.
man class in any college in America has
been offered to the class of "a at Prince
ton. 1t consists of $500 present per year
for the remainder of the college course to
the student of the Freshman class who
shall, at the conclusion of this college
year, pass the best classical examination.
1t requires an examination in authors not
included in the curriculum, and to which
the competitor must, therefore, direct
extra attention.
As to the Christmas number of Old and
Neac, the Boston transcript says: "a
competent lady writer is to go on a pill
grimage to Bethlehem passages will be
furnished from the travelling diary of a
distinguished Hail. stories German,
American and cosmopolitan will be told ;
Robert Collyer is turn over a new leaf ;
Bellows is engaged to preach the occa-
sional sermon Christmas in Italy, among
the Teutons and at hume VIII be de-
scribed; fitting poetry, together with
Mendelssohn music to a carol, will do the
singing; and thus in literary way the
Nativity will be celebrated"
Coleridge mentions somewhere that
Wordsworth assisted him in writing the
"Ancient Mariner" The two poets had
agreed to take tour together, and in or
der to pay their expenses resolved to write
some poems, which were composed during
the tour. They gave each other assist
ance in their compositions; in the can
cient Mariner" the idea of the dead men
pulling the ropes, which would seem more
like Coleridge than Wordsworth, was sug-
gested by the latter. The first verse of
the poem 1--WE are Seven" was written by
Coleridge. Wordsworth composed this
poem backwards, beginning at the last
verse and going upwards. He and Cole
ridge were staying in a friends house at
the time of its composition. Wordsworth
was summoned to tea when he had finish
ed all but the first verse, and Coleridge
told him to go into the drawipg-room and
he would complete it for him. Coleridge,
not Person, as has been said, wrote some
stanzas of Southey's Devils Walk" and
Mr.. Hobhouse, afterward Lord Brough-
ton, wrote about thirty lines in Byron's
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"