The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-31
MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS.
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

JOHNSON was asked if he did not thinl
that Burke resembled Cicero. "No, sir
Cicero resembles Burke, sir" was his an
swer. Good and true!n
"THE West Boston bridge, connecting
Cambridge and Boston is the one described
in Longfellow's poem "The Bridge;n as the
poem itself makes evident to one familiar
with the locality, and as Mr.. Longfellow
himself avows by his putting the poem un.
der Cambridge in his "Poems of Places. >
There is an English edition of Longfellow's
poems in which this bridge was represented
by teudal structure of stone, with huge,
looming castle in the background; the
whole forming no very accurate representa-
ton OF apple bridge and the Cambridge.
port fats"
TIE ingratitude of poets has often left us
mourning. Mr.. Tennyson has altered or
suppressed almost all the passages in his
volume of 1888 which the critics pointed
out to his notice. The wealthy miller's
mealy face" is no longer afectionately com
pared to 'the moon in an ivoy tod" what
ever an ''ivy-tod" may be. His chestnut
buds are no longer "gummy." "Then
leaped trout" has taken the place of "a
water-rat from off the bank" The famous
passage about
One drew sharp knife through my tender throat
slowly-and nothing more,
which provoked the fippant inquiry,
What more would she like" has been
modified. An ecstatic address to Darling
room, my hearts delight is omitted alto
getber, and, in short, Mr.. Tennyson has
usually accepted the advice even of un-
friendly critics. Yet be has never shown
any fervent gratitude, and even wrote fifty
years ago an angry little poem on "Fusty
Christopher Critic.
GONE Of the new books at the library,
Miss Phelps "Friends; A Duet" the Bos.
ton Traveller says, "it has certain repose
and unconscious power that the early nov
els of the author do not possess. The
theme (the struggle between love and
imaginary feslty to the dead is worked
out in an andante strain from beginning to
emo. IL aoUulus IN subdued bnlf.tonea
anu IN cDords or lvu...-,
places ones self in complete sympathy
with the composer. Unless this sympathy
is felt one wearies Of the slow development
of motive so incapable of brilliant effects.
After while we find ourselves asking at
the close of every chapter-Is not this the
end? Clearly, a story that can be cut off at
any point Is not dramatic, whatever else it
may be. But the dramatic is something
that Miss Phelps does not strive for. She
takes lie as she finds it, without adding
any artificial touches of her own and so
realistic is her method that the reader is
filed with impotence at what on sober
thought he will accept as perfectly rational
Yet, if we may be permitted the expires
sion, there is nothing inevitable about
Friends, and inevitableness Is assuredly
the indispensable basis Of the novel, which
must have a clearly de6ned perspective--a
vanishing point. An artist does not paint a
picture by beginning at one corner of his
canvas aud working across it until given
space is filled"
The new use Of the Cary sisters old
home near Cincinnati is described by the
Gin cinnati Gazette: "The old but picture
sque farm house aaClover Nook, the home.
stead of the gifted Cary sisters, some eight
miles north of Cincinnati, was consecrated
Saturday to their Nmemory by large dele
CATION OF the Society OF Friends and Others
of the admirers of these two distinguished
writers. The home and grounds had been
purchased by Mr.. Alexander Swift, who
thus intends to preserve the place sacred as
the spot that inspired the sweet-voiced
sisters. Mr.. Swift was induced to address
| the assemblage, and went on to tell how A;
years ago he made his first visit to the Cary
homestead, where he found father, fou
daughters and two sons; how ii years agt
he stood up with the oldest girl, Susan IL
the best room, and was married to her by
the Rev. George Rodgers, divine of tn,
Universalist denomination, and how, man,
years after, he welded the youngest girl
Elmipa, who is also numbered with th,