, 1872-12-25
EW YORK..
= Illustrated Daily
re -Eresenti1ne--t
OF Death.
'oi"Lost ARTS ''---Sten0grpGlc
4venges---Reported Eh'
'o>, atriC Failure.


:, ID G. CIoly, who lately res, ,neu sue H"n"
.,-editorship Of the Hforld !tenas TO occo-
3 same position on the ne illustrated oally
whiea J. H. and G. H.. Goodsl' punnene1s OIL
Ehe Spectator and Fi'.ancier, Fe TO lssue cary
next month. The Messra. ooosel1 Ia nav pacA- o
ers. il is said to the c1tenrf Sooo' ooo' ana are
entirely sangui,e Of aucc1.
EDWIN FfREsf,
have been told, had al.ys expressed sincere
desco to dio suddenl, anu "hen IN TINS c'ty
recently, remarked to- fr1eno tnat ne clo not
BELIEVE he should see = Ne" Year. he denled
that he was in gloomyplrlts, but ne mad long
had presentiment TT he should not survive
1872. Discussing i subject, he sald death had
never had the syhtest terfofs LOT MIN:
but he could overcome, unreasonable
as he knew ito be, certain dread OF
physical decay. is estate, unoerstanu' VIII
prove to be wort not far from S2,ooo, ouo,-hls
Library, perhapshe finest private cohectlon IN
the country, bfg valued a. 7zop'ooo- he nau
3 magnificent Illustrated b1ack-letter copy of
Shaksneare. 7 which he is reported to havo
been offered and to have refused, $4,000.
There is som talk here Of purchasing FORESTS
library: an it is to be hoped the purchase will
be made. would be great pity to have that
collection co. 600 volumes = disposed OF at
auction m so scattered that it could never be
reunited. .......
7aYLos7 ARTS WORSE THAN LOST.
The T,9une announced, the other day, that it
had nadt for the first time since it's compost
tion, 3 :erbatim report OF Wendell Phillips
*.Lost AS" He las been delivering the dlscourse
for twery-three years, and it u thought that
the iounaI determined to We it in full i'll order
to prernt the orator from further repetitio n
Mr.. Philips is said to be ignant not 30 much
on account OF the report as the manner OF
5t,-ald he is certainly e1cusable for his indis-
nation. The I1ibuae's account would make one
thinl that the lecturer WIS either tipsy or in-
insesuence, AMI nonsense. Every point made,
and every eloquent sentence Expressed, WAS ruth
1esely butchered; and what ia really brilliant
essay was converted into a mass Of Vapldl-y.
prompted to m1srepresent him from sheer ma
Lightly, though the report owes1ts gross blunders
to some Of tie accidents irseparab1e from haste,
late hours, and inadGertent neglect. It is to be
hoped that such peculiar reporting will be one Of
the lost arts IN future in every Well-regulated
newspaper Office.
EEpoRTon1A1 REVENGE.
This incident reminds me OF the method an
angry reporter took, some years ago. to revenge
himself upon Park Benjamin, who WAS then
ses before lyceums. The press-man had applied
to Renjamin for his manuscript to make
selettions from, and his application had
bee.A refused. On the evening Of the lecture,
Auo @kSAOt54d14CA AaACAAAAJ %oVA ASH1A tA4o "0@a"
est lines and they we're many,-of the So
called poem, and printed them in the mornings
5ssue;, under the head Of - Beauties OF Park
Ben 1a1nin." The newspapers everywhere fell
upo1t the rhyming, padded platitudes, and
Wounded the self-complacent pcetaster to the
quick.
Ai,other case Of reportorial revenge was di-
Iected, within my memory, against teroeiously-
orthodox clergyman, SO absorbed ID theology
ahat he had no leisure to cultivate good manners.
IA irGft1ta6 . atanonra rbpr yhn lind raHrnEt eI
soule slight courtesy, and the result Was, that
on :, certain Sunday, when he delivered an elab-
o1ats sermon touching upon articles Of faith,
the reporter was present, and go ingeniously
misr epresented him In print that the dis
couiso fairly bristled with alarming heresies.
The preacher wrote card to set himzelf right !;
but he never could. Tho pious papers generally
denounced him as an atheist in disguise, though
he VAS really one OF the frmest, and at the
same time weakest, Of orthodox believers. He
never recovered from the 1ascal1y trick played
uron him, and was subsequently (doubtless
through desperation) guilty Of certain irregular
tiles that caused his expulsion from the church
OF which he had once been shining pillar.
sAMAouNDI.
The building OF the new Tribune Office. which
was to have been begun next spring, has been, !
understand, indefinitely postponed:
4 miserable ragabond, who died in one OF the
station houses IN a drunken fit, few days since,
is asserted to have been wealthy and independ-
-5nt citizen twenty years ago. He bad such an
1ngoveruable temper that he drove his wife and
children from his louse. Then he took to drink
ing to drown his remorse spent his money
lost his friends, and sank into the kennel.
The opening Of Fechter'e Lyceum is once
more deferred, and many persons think it vii!
not be opened at al. The probability is, that
Fechter is, at least for the time, financially EN-.
barraesed.
The best performer by all odds in John
Brougham's new play, the ''Li}y OF France, >
now acting at Booths Theatre, is the SpltzbcE-
gen dog; and yet such is the professional jeal.
ousy OF the other artists that the little animal
receives no word Of praise. CoIsTouN.