Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-05-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary,

-"Commodore Rollingpin' (Mr. j.
H. Carter) recently delivered n lecture
in St. Louis, in aid Of the fund for the
relief of the family Of the late NJ. j.
Dalton, mate of the relief-boat Cham
bers. A handsome sum was realized
for praiseworthy object.
-OSsehdSonlito HodalomtorteneIna;
Lapok is the title of little fortnightly
journal published in Kolozsvar, Hun
gary, whose columns contain original
articles in French, German, English,
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Morse,
Swedish, and Magyar. Often the po-
ems are followed by translations into
several languages.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, the
author of "One Summer" has become
permanent resident of Stuttgart,
where she has taken the place of the
late Ferdinand Freiligrath, the poet, as
editor of Hallberger's Illustrated Jour-
nal, the fortnightly eclectic, printed in
English, which has large circulation
on the continent.
Miss Fanny Barron of New York,
who has carried the maternal instinct
into literature, and who has made for
tune out of children's books, has taken
to the platform, but she lectures only to
children. A correspondent says: She
is delightful little woman, with head
which is all brow, something like Mrs.
Browning, only far prettier.
MIR. Arthur Sullivan and Mr.. W. S.
Gilbert are assuredly coming to this
country in the autumn to attend to the
production of their new comic opera.
An entire company is to be formed in
London for the representation of the
piece. Mr.. Gilbert will arrange all the
details of stage management, and Mr..
Sullivan will conduct the orchestra at
the opening performance.
The London World has an article
in its series of Celebrities at Home, -
in which it renders justice to Ralph
Waldo Emerson at Concord" The
writer winds up thus: "No one who
has visited and conversed with the sage
of Concord can wonder at the love
which his neighbors feel for him, or the
reverence with which he is regarded by
the scholars of England and America !;
no one can leave his beautiful and hos
pitable home without knowing that, for
once, at least, ne has been in the pres.
ence of a great man."
eff have any ambition" wrote
Bayard Taylor to an acquaintance more
than 20 years ago, sit is not to make
myself notorious, but to live as rich and
ample a life-to enjoy as large store
of eXpeIieEce-as this earth can furnish.
The only things really value for their
own sake, among all my writings, are
my poems, and they are perhaps of little
value to others. Great popularity in a
book is as often sign of mediocrity as
of excellence, and thus an authors sue
cess may sometimes humillate, rather
than exalt him, in his own mind"
The announcement of an interest
ing magazine " find " is made by IScrib-
ner's Monthly, being the letters of
Madame Bonaparte to her father from
Europe, during those most romantic
years when she was seeking recognition
for herself and "Bo" (as she called
her sony from the hands of his Euro
pean relatives. These letters lay in a
lumber room of the old Patterson man.
sion on South Street, Baltimore, from
the death of Madame Bonaparte's fa' her,
in 1886, until a few years ago, when the
house was pulled down. They were
then sold to junk dealer for a tri6ing
sum, and by him to paper dealer, who
recognizing their value, disposed of
them to the present owner, from whom
they were obtained by the editor of
Scribner. The first installment appears
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