Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-08-05
LITER

Ii Elk ! Ef.
Taking Of literary composition, tigginson
says that after forty-tree years 1t still costs him
As much AZ ever on every paragraph. But it is
work which he would Ike to Do in heaven.
Bu,kin says that i, is only by labor that
though, can be made healthy, and only by
thought hat labor can be made happy.
New York paper, oprop2s Of the season.
says a college graduate will discuss in five min
utes the weightieet political and moral problems
Of the age, and settle them finally
The author Of g Stone Edge and ..Lettice
Lisle," is said to be the sister of Florence
Nightingale and the wife Of an English noble
nan.
Rev. Irs. Hanlforl has an autograpY letter
from Queen Yictoria, thanking her for copy of
her e Life Of Peabody
A. Il. Guernsey, who has for fifteen years
been one Of tie editors Of Hqrper's .lf1gl-iae
has resigned that position. and become - rsade-''
for the HsrPer's publishing house
A clergyman was preparing his discourse for
Sunday, stopping occasionally to review what he
had written, and to erase that which lie was dis
posed to disappro7e, when he WAS accos;ei by
his little son, who had Numbered but Eve sum
mers Father, does God tel you what to
preach p g Certainly. my child Then
what makes you scratch it out2''
Besides his "Child's History of England
Dickens wrote for his children 8. Life Of the
Saviour which is ye; to be published.
Mr. Anthony Trollope says in his memorial
article on Dickens. that in bis arrangements in
regard to q" Edwin brood 90 MIR. Dickens express
" stipulated by deed that his publishers should
be reimbursed for any pecuniary loss which
might come to them 10y reason Of his sickness OF
death before the completion of the story
The London ILLUSTRATED .Ne.-s AYERS tia,
Dickens was inferior in the portrayal OF noble
characters, tina: there is net one ideal hero or
heroine in all his Works-no model man, no
model woman
Miss Aicott is nearer forty than thirty. says
Hearth md Homo. which gives oounterfei. cs
her fine fsce. The Alcotts and the poet Long
fellow are descended from lie same Pari,an
family.
Hawthorne was 50 bothered while Consul at
Liverpool by " American citizens Of foreign
birth, 50 that he made 10 bis notebook this pun
gent memorandum a na,uralzed citizen is
hateful Nobody has right to oar ideas unless
born to them
\ LADY who vas not shalespeari4n scholar, /
hearing the " Merry Wives Of Windsor highly .
praised, inquired how many wives Mr. Windsor
bad.
h-oy years ago the following erratum ar-
pelrei in a country newspaper " For storm
destroying porringers' read Misunderstanding
lozenges
gentleman in Indiana says, in a note ae-
compsnying letter for publication u the Lou
isyille Courier-JouraeI u sumtimes miss
spell word, and its possible / have spalt sica-
FAINT rong.".
The following lines were found on lawyers
table il the Rochester court house, after the ai-
journment Of the court the other day
Fair women was made to bew.tch
\ companion. nurse,
A blessing, curse.
tar woman was made 10 he which
This is the way in which Mr. Sholiy furnish
ed his library "I'n take said the prosper
Gus gentleman to the obsequious book seler,
d" eighteen feet Of them brown-kivered wollums
for the lower shelves, and nine or ten Of them
speckeled sided felers, and you may throw in
few feet of them red and green ones mixed, to
make things look patty
Erery Saturday says that Pres. McCosh is
faring rather badly at the hands Of the neEsps-
per fraternity. Gaze calls him Dr. McBosh, an
other President McKosh. a third McGosh, and 5
doubtless other alphabetic Sung shots await him
But it thinks that the c-noy Doctor may well be {
Indifferent to them AL for in bis philosophical t
works he has hurled a: the head of mankind
more hard words than there are left for Us 70
az hin with.
N. Provost Paralol. in an admirable paper
outributed to the Courier in February, 1861, T
spoasei the cause Of the North On the O
round that slavery in America ought to end
nj for the very logical reason that the South,
ven should she succeed in establishing her in .
ependence, could not gain the very things for II
hich she was willing to fight lie also wrote -
'me admirable papers 4" On the pretended re- III
smblance Of the French constitution to that
the Uuiltd States 8 'On the assassination h'
President LiEcoln, and an able essay, de- pi
'te1 mainly to special pleading, g On the in rs
rests Ct France in the American civil war; w
this last he showed the fatal fallacy Of the he
e1iean expedition, and probably convinced p
lropeans, or, at least, Freuchmen, that the
w oontinen; vas " irrevocsby Auglo-Sazon'' wa
Prof Goodwin Smith has given his valusbe 20
storical and classical library to Cornell Uni ZIG
rsity. Of his work IL the College writer in SET
e Boston adrertiser says: So
He has lsbored for Cornell Uniyersitp faith
lly, generously, as Mr. Cornell and M. Wnit. cas-
We labore6 for it. Think Of the world of worl- 80.
be done in arranging details, preparing courses
study, examining the crowd Of students who INA
shed there at once, many Of them net knowing hin
lat they wanted and unprepsred for ANYTHING str
needing advice, instruction, and many pecu-
.ry help. In all this work, Mr. Smith helped J
avely, sely,-wcrking, IS somebody saws. Phi
.Weniy-seven hours out Of twentv.four.'' he To-.
'e;Yes no salary; with him it IS all giving; :.
,ney, books, time. thought, sympathy. Not Tol
ly is he popular lecturer WITH the students wa
t all Ithaca knows and respects and admires is
grave, courteous gentleman, who is always r-a
ing thoughtful and unselfsh and tender acts
the poor, the sick and the lonely They will 10
you exquisite things of him. and you forget I
trivial mistakes which have been magniiied so e
ch and criticised so fercely, and see only the =.
ly generous character of the man who puts uld'
nself into his work and "gives himself with Use
aims tho
y hat the Ettrick shepherd said Of his dog elec
ctor is now going the rounds " 1t is guide
OF a dowg, SIR" says Hogg, "when his Ii
e grows like his masters. Hector got sac an ,
me, atore he deed, that remember, when | NAL,
oWre lazy 10 gang til the kirk, | used to
= MN to tax my place in the pew, and the Way
ais'er never kent the difference Indeed he ra,ll
mon. me neist day what thocht O. the ter
mon Tor ne saw me wonderful attentive
ang a rather sleepy congregation. Hector "
me g'sd ane anither sic a look that NO. n g.
ny ra'on wud hae observed il: but he ,;o.,
si1pie. primitive, unsu,pectin' amid man
,h;. .hI without guile, and jealousel AL
lie Ioes os'th Hector and lie was Ike sur
- r., ~ .ne dowg, after lauchin' in his ,b .
ms, ~. I- Hor a hundred yards, cord
- -se isneer' but was obliged to loun ana
"a nsse ,n'o pota~to field. pretending he w;
dow