The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
Mark Twain has returned from Eu.
rope.
Clara Morris has accepted drama
by Edgar Fawcett, the poet.
Miss BraddOn, the we'll known nov
elist, was the only representative of FEM
mime literature on the English Reception
Committee at the recent Congress of An
thors in London.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in
spite of his 20 years, is necessarily busy
he writes as much as ever, and is as in
terested in his duties at the Medical
School. 1t is limited that he intends to
publish another volume
Prof Louth of Munich has publish
ed book to prove that a hierOglyphical
inscription on a monument discovered i'm
lower Egypt by Marietta Bey shows that
the monument was erected by Moses.
William and Mary Hewitt first in
trOduced Scandinavian literature to En-
glish readers. They translated several
books from the Swedish to their own
tongue. Frederika Bremen was their
intimate friend. William Hewitt left an
autobiography, which will be prepared
for publication at once by his widow,
now nearly 80 years of age.
M. Theirs left his unpublished man.
uscripts in the care of the Bank of Eng
land-the only author ever thus cared
for by great financial institution. The
paper of authors is generally found
outside of banks. One of the manu-
scripts relates to the personal transac-
tons of Theirs in the Government of
Louis Philippe; with it was sent mon
ey deposit i'm provision of the impending
events, which soon followed. Another,
relating to the part played by NJ. Theirs
from 1870 to 1877, was forwarded by his
wife, Immediately after his death, to
avoid seizure by the Broglie cabinet.
OF any two men in the world, the
ex and present English Premier are
least alike. History never brought into
nearer or stronger juxtapositiOn two
eminent men SO absolutely opposed to
each other in ways of thought and man.
ner of speech. Mr.. Gladstone is in
tense, earnest, thorough. Lord Bea-
cOnsfield is Indifferent, polite, superb
cial. Gladstone, when Chancellor of
the Exchequer, would rs readily have
placed a penny on the income tax rs
made 4 joke. BeacOnsfield does either
as chance befalls, and with an equally
light heart. While you hear that Glad
stone has made great speech, you
never hear that adjective i'm connection
with Disraeli's addresses. His speeches
are "clever." never great. Perhaps
the adjectives desbribc the men-the
one great with the force of high
moral character and 4 ponderOus intel
lect; the other clever only in the sense
that cleverness is superlative.
with Copy of Emerson's Poems.
Here is no milk for babes within this flask;
No childish cOrals in this casket lie;
This music will not serve for lullaby,
Tn elixir it's to thrill II herO's task
And level with Il gods to lift his eve;
And gems are these surpass what princes
buy,
And scOIn to deck the brow that wears
mask.
This melody is of the eternal song
Whcrewith the earth was builded and the
stars
So high it SOars near and deep it swellS.
The genius of this spell is wrought SO strong
As only they that think may pass its bars;
Wise souls, pure hearts, drink life from
these clear wells.
Springfield Republican.