The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-25
THE DAILY BULLETIN.
W. G. AND l.. ASSOCIATION COLUMN
Edited In the interest Of tho Public Library.
MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS.


MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS.
MRS. JANE G. AUSTIN is accused of beng
the author Of MRS. Beauchamp Brown"
the latest "No Name" novel.
THE Astor library at New York sends its
books to be bound in England, for econ
omy. The price of binding an ordinary
thick octave volume in half morocco in
New York is $3.50; in London, about 81.
MISS M. A. CLEAvEs, VI. D., of Daven.
port, was delegate 10 represent Iowa at
the annual Conference Of Charities, meet
ing at Cleveland, Ohio, on the eth inst,
and also at the National Convention for the
Protection of the Insane, meeting at the
same time and place.
Miss WILLARD in company with her
mother and Miss Gordon,o of Chicago left for
Vermont, where they spend month. Miss
Willard takes this as her only opportunity
for the summer rest she so greatly needs
she will be on hand at the various summer
meetings and conyocations to which she is
pledged.
In the July Fortnightly Review William
Mimic, professor of logic and rhetoric at
the University of Aberdeen, contributes an
elegantly written article on Edgar Allan
Poe, in which he undertakes to show that
to understand Poe's method of work is to
understand the reason why he produced 50
little, why he did not produce enough to
furnish himself with a means of living,
and why his restless mind, painfully an
alyzing everything and exactly scrutinizing
his own work, chafed and fretted into in.
sanity. "He broke himself" says Mimic,
ION wheel of his own making"
The long, quiet summer days that to
many bring time for rest and relaxation,
and leisure for reading, should beimproved
to the best possible advantage, especially
by the busy wife, mother and housekeeper.
1t is now, if ever, between the hurry aud
toll of spring cleaning and spring sewing,
and renovatiug, and looking after the chill
dren's examinations; and the fall work,
and starting the little ones to school again,
and making ready for winter, that the
house mother can take little time for her
self for her own improvement and cul.
ture. The temptation TO do nothing for
little while every day is great, and to
spend an hour or two in reading light liter
allure, or novels, still greater But for the
sake of the children themselves, as we'll as
Tor her own benefit this inclination should
be resisted and the time well and wisely
spent in such reading as will improve and
elevate and inform. There is no lack of
good reading that is as interesting and ex-
citing as any novel can be. The library
contains histories and other books
that will well repay attention.
Turner'S history of the Anglo-Saxon, is
more enhancing than any novel, Prescott's
graphic and delightful history OF Ferdi-
nand and Isabella, Irving's "Alhambra,'
or the Conquest of Mexico Carlyle's
Life and Letters of Oliver Cromwell" and
a dozen OF other works that might be men
toned, and that are standing idly on the
shelves can furnish healthful food to the
mind as well as recreation. One hour
day, in such reading, for nine months only,
Will give one an entrance into new world;
introduce one to an entire new set of &C.
quaintance who have lived and moved
amid grand scenes and noble deeds, the
consideration Of which will lift us out of
the narrow ruts of common place existence,
and strengthen us Tor the better fulfillment
of the duties of our own lives. The pretty
and poverty.stricken round of intellectual
life can be enriched and filled with treas
ures that time nor age, nor sickness can
ever take away.
WOMEN AND CHARITIES.