The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Mr.. Aldrich's new novel is to deal
with a strike in a manufacturing
town.
-Berthold Auerbach is going to pub
lish collection of dramas and short
stories.
Mrs. Henry Woods East Lynne -
has reached its eighty-ffth thousand,
which is large sale even for a
novel.
Scotch papers announce the death
of Miss Elizabeth Taylor, well known
novelist, whom DR.. John Brown
called "the Miss Austen of modern
literature -
Mr.. Julian Hawthorne is said to be
engaged in writing a novel larger in
scope than any he has yet pub
lished. Its title is to be "SebaStian
Strome."
Miss Louise NJ. Alcott was the first
woman to register in the town of
Concord, Mass, in order to vote for
members of the School Committee.
John E. Owens, the actor, adver-
tises for sale the stock and fixtures of
his elegant farm near TowsOntown,
Md. The supposition is that Mr..
Owen proposes to quit amateur
farming.
-Tennyson's brother changed his
name to Turner in order to inherit an
income of $4,000 year. He left no
children, and Tennyson can now get the
estate on the same terms; but he will
not accept the condition.
Justin Mccarthy, the new Home
Rule member, is parliamentary leader
writer on the London daily NelCS. He
was born in 1880, in Cork, and began
newspaper life as reporter on the Cork
Examiner.
The well known novelist and elo-
quent preacher, George Macdonald, will
probably visit this country the coming
winter with his wife and children, to
give dramatic performances founded on
Bunyan's . Pilgrims Progress"
Richard Henry Dana ". comes up
on the worlds stage. At Cambridge,
the other day, there was born unto
Richard Henry Dana, the third, and to
Edith Longfellow Dana, son, who had
the honor of making the poet LOngfel-
low grandfather for the first time.
The London critics speak very high
ly of the ballads and songs of Alexander
Anderson, a Scotch railroad laborer, a
man who, after mending roads all day,
would come home in the evening and
read Petrarch, Schiller, Victor Hugo,
Dante, Goethe and Beranger and write
verses.
Mr., Alex. II. Stephens, having been
asked about his book, "The War Be
tween the States,n replied: 81 wrote
it with view of having the facts as
they were truthfully stated, and without
any pecuniary view. | have received,
however, $4,000 as my royalty on the
sale, or % cents volume. -"
1t has come out through a lawsuit
between the managers that PinafOre"
at first failed to draw well in London,
the receipts averaging for weeks only
about 5000 a night, while the expenses
were $3.50. But the contract stipulated
that it should be performed at least 100
times cOnsecutively, and before that pc
Rod had expired the profit was $1,000 a
week.
-Epitaph by Longfellow on Parker
cleveland, Professor in BOwdoin Col
lege in the first quarter of this century
Among the many lives that have known,
None remember more serene and sweet,
More rounded in itself, and more complete,
Than his who lies beneath this funeral stone.
These pines that murmur in low monotone,
These walks frequented by scholastic feet,
Were all his world: but i'm this calm retreat
For him this Teachers chair became n throne.
With fond affection memory loves to dwell
In the old days when his example made
paStime of the toll of tongue and pen;
And now amid the groves he loved so well
That naught could lure him from their CRATE
full shades,
He sleeps, but wakes elsewhere, for God hath
said, amen"