The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.


Empress Eugene is trying to find
consolation in compiling memoir of
her dead son.
1t seems to be generally understood
that Marian c. Evans, better known as
George Eliot, has published her last
book, and has, so far as the public is
concerned, actually Withdrawn from lit
erary life.
The Saturday Reriew says that &c in
the region of pure mathematics the late
Professor Clifford was one of the first
five or six original thinkers in Europe.
As an expounder to unscientiic people
of the foundations of science and phil
osophy he was almost without rival"
Mr.. Matthew Arnold, when elected
to the chair of poetry in Oxford Univer-
sity, remarked, with characteristic
irony, how pleased he was to be pro-
| fessor, and to en- JOY the same title borne
! by those distinguished men, Professor
Pepper, Professor Beckwith, the swim
mer, and Professor Anderson, the Wizard
of the North.
"A Philadelphia lady is the owner of
a valuable relic in the shape of a manu-
script copy of Wesley's Hymns in the
handwriting of their author. The book
descended to this lady from her grand
father, to whom it was given i'll partial
payment of a debt by the son of the man
who printed the first edition of the
hymns.
Judge Hilton of New York has pur-
chased for $4,000 "a Visit to the
Baby" by Munkacsy, painter of the pic
| ture known as "Milton Debating Para
disc Lost to his Daughters" and con-
sidered by many the finest work eXhib-
tied in the Champ de Mars last year.
| Both works will soon be in New York,
the latter having been purchased for the
| LenOX Museum.
Charles Dickens the second prom
ises to do honor to the family name. He
manages one of the largest printing
offices in London or in Europe. He has
very successfully published the London
Dictionary, and the Guide to London,
and is now preparing a Dictionary OF
the Thames. He inherits his fathers
love for printing-Offices and newspa-
pers.
A notable performance of GAS You
Like 1t - will be given at Manchester,
! England, soon, for the benefit of the
widow and children of Charles Calvert.
Helen Fawcit, who was a celebrated ac-
tress over a generation ago, appears as
Rosalind, Tom Taylor as adam, Alma
Tadema, lie Bean, Linsley LambOurne
rs Charles the Wrestler, and Lewis Wing
! field as Orlando.
Mr.. George w. Cable, the writer of
% Creole Stories,'' is 4 native of New
Orleans, and is now So. His first con-
nection with print was in a reportorial
capacity with the New Orleans PicGyu11e.
Sc1fbner'S Monthly announces his new
novel, 1.-The Grandissimes, for serial
publication during the year beginning
with the November number. The scene
of this story is laid in New Orleans about
the time of the Cession of 1903, and the
themes cluster around an hereditary feud
between two old Creole families.
A fresh description of Charles Reade
says that he is big and manly looking,
not fat, but large-framed and muscular.
He is very fond of physical exercise,
such us rowing, riding, cricket, swim
ming, and, Notwithstanding his hair is
grizzled, his stalwart body shows no
signs of decay. He is neat, though care
less in dress, and resembles, with his
ruddy face, easy gait, and unconven-
tional manner, prosperous farmer. He
likes congenial company, but not formal
society, which, as rule, he takes pains
to avoid. He enjoys himself with lot
of good fellows and lively actresses over
pipes and bowl Of punch, but is not
dissipated nor sensual. He has whole
some degree of animalism, rs most of
his countrymen have, but he takes all
his pleasures in moderation. He is n
bachelor, but has spacious, pleasant
house in the suburbs of London.