Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-29
Literature ANA Art.

come. He Is working with might and
main upon large picture from Cali
fornla scenery.
COLONEL GEO. W. MUMFoRD, former
Secretary of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, is putting his recollections of
men and events of his official life into
historical work.
WILLIAM PAGE is at work in his
studio on his portrait of Shakespeare.
This work has engaged the artists at
ttntion for several months past, and
during the present year, it will, no
doubt, attract quite as much notice as
his head of Christ, which was exhibited
at the National Academy of Design in
1871.
A WORK on the coal regions of
America will shortly be brought out by
the Appletons, under the title of .tUn-
derground Treasures; Where and how
to Find Them Key for the Ready
Determination of all the Useful Miner
ais within the United States. Prof.
James orion will also soon publish a
work of great use and value to those
prospecting among mines, real or sup
posed
MORTIMER COLLINS has published a
satire which has excited much attention,
called "British Birds" Tennyson is
satirized as Hair" Browning as
Brow and Swinburne as " Beard. "
The statesmen are Gladstone, " Latus-
apis;" Bismarck, Bisnotus," and
Theirs, "Lachryme - while Huxley is
Protoplast;" Tyndall, Germ :"
Darwin, = Gorilla, and Stuart Mill,
Sewing machine
New YORK journalist, in ransack-
ing the posthumous papers Of his
grandfather, an -Westchester county
official, during last week, stumbled
across an unpaid check for sd 900
which the deceased had won IN 1901 in
a Lottery for the encouragement of lit
erature, lotteries being legalized in
those days.
HURD's grass is not a good article for
human food. 1t is very slow of diges-
ton. A Connecticut paper swears that
a man at Montvillc coughed up head
Of this plant which he swallowed seven
teen years ago. 1t was hard as stone
and retained its form and fiber per-
iectly.
JEAN LENloISNE, the Partisan jour
naist, has written the life of Eugene
Sue, the novelist, which contains some
curious disclosures about the private
affairs Of that wonderfully successful
writer LemoInne, who was for many
years an intimate friend Of Sue, SAYS
that the latter took strangely morbid
interest III cruel and bloody scenes. He
never failed TO be present at any exc,
cuton III Paris, and watched with his
opera glass the face of the doomed Gull /
put, from the moment he appeared on
the scaflold to the bloody end. One day
he went to England for the sole pur-
pose of witnessing a tiogging scene, and /.
he often regretted that he had never
been able to see Russian knouting
HE defect in average American lit
eraturo and art hes in the haste with .
which all material is worked up aud .
thrust crudely before the public. Two .
weeks in the Yo Semitic or Yellowstone T.
region gives us a mountain painter in
smith; a chance week in a yacht de .
@--NN' 10 Will DlullHC NltNH io1 years I
@terWard from Brown an hours ride
IN railway car fills the notebooks of
our many coming American novel
ISIS with characters, Our artists with
Doth pen and pencil work, as it were,
iI2m hand to mouth; their bread, in
a2asekeepers' phrase, is made OF
raw flour 1t would be worth
laer while to compare HAWTHORNE
notebooks with his finished work, to
observe how long the ideas were suffer.
So to lie iallow before they were slowly
a"ed and brought. forth into fruit so
perfect and enduring. The real differ
saee, perhaps, lies in the fact that in
one case the work is done from the life
-oag love of art, in the other from the
S5.a.iy necessity OF money; but until that
inference IS recognized the prospect
-2G both our art and literature is but
. fungus growth, strong and rank for
~ time it lasts, but that time viii be
0ata day.
HE Japanese have determined to