The Red Cloud chief., 1879-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
PcrsonaI and Literary.

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Mr.. Aldrich's new novel is Ia deal
with a strike in a manufacturing
town.
-Berthold Auerbach is going TO pub
lish a collection of dramas and short
stories.
Mrs. Henry Woods East Lynne :"
has reached its eighty-fifth thousand,
which is a large sale even for a
novel.
Scotch papers announce the death
of Miss Elizabeth Taylor. "a well known
novelist, whom DIR. John Brown
called 1.-the Miss Austen of modern
literature"
Mr.. Julian Hawthorne j. said 10 be
engaged i'm writing a novel larger in
scope than any he has yet pub
lished. lis title is TO be Sebastian
Strome."
Miss Louise NJ. Alcott was the first
woman Ia register in the town OF
Concord, Mass, in order Ia vote for
members of the School Committee.
John T.. Owens, the actor, advcr-
tises for sale the stock and fixtures Of
his elegant farm near TowSontown,
Md. The s%upposition is that Mr..
Owen proposes to quit amateur
farming.
-Tennyson's brother changed his
name To Turner in order To inherit an
ircome Of $4,000 a year. He left no
children, and Tcnnyson can now get the
estate on the same terms; but he VIII
not accept the condition.
Justin Mccarthy, the new Home
Rule member, il parliamentary leader
writer on the London daily NewS. He
was born in 1880, in Cork, and began
newspaper life a. "A reporter" on the Cork
EJdmtncr.
The well known novelist and elo-
qucnt preacher, George Macdonald, will
probably visit this country the coming
winter with his wife and children, Ia
give dramatic performances founded on
Bunyan's Pilgrim Progress
Richard Henry Dana ". comes up
on the worlds stage. At Cambridge,
the other day, there was born unit"
Richard Henry Dana, the third, and To
Edith Longfcllow Dana, "A son., who had
the honor of making the poet L"ngfcl-
low a grandfather for the first time.
The London critics speak very high
" of the ballads and songs of Alexander
Anderson, Il Scotch railroad laborcr, Il
man who, after mcnding roads all day,
would come home in the evening and
read Pctrarch, Schiller, Victor Hugo,
Dante, Goethe and Bcrangcr and write
verses.
Mr.. Alex. II. Stephens, having been
asked about his book, s.The War Be
tween the States" replied: 81 wrote
it with a view of having the facts a.
they were truthfully stated, and without
any ~pecuniary view. ! have received,
however, $4,000 as my royalty on the
sale. or % cents a volume. "
1t has come out through a lawsuit
between the managers that "Pinaforc"
at first failed Ia draw well in London,
the receipts averaging for weeks only
about $500 "A night, while the expenses
were $500. But the contract stipulated
that il should he performed ri least 100
times co~nSccutiycly. and before that pc
riod had expired the profit was S2,5oo Il
week.
-Epitaph by Longfcllow on Parker
Clcaveland, Professor in Bowdoin Col
lcgc in the first quarter of this century:
Among the many lives that I 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 murlnur in low monotone,
These walks frcqucutcd by scholastic feet,
Were all his world; but in this calm retreat
For him this Teachers chair became II throne.
With fond affection memory loVcSto dwell
In the old days, when his example made
\ paStime of the toll of tongue and pen;
And now amid the groves he loved 80 well
That naught could lure himf from their CRATE
tul shades.