The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-05-15
SUNDAY READING.

SOME INTERESTING LITERARY NOTES FURN-
IsHED BY MRS. LYMAN FOR THE CAIRO
WOMAN 3 CLUB AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
THE mother of Victor Hugo was not
content with caring for the moral and liter
airy education OF her sons; she sought also
to develope their physical strength. She
forced them to hoe, to rake, to water the
garden, in fact to become gardeners. This
iatigued them greatly, and was probably
the reason of Victor's later taste tor uncul-
tvated gardens, where things grew sponta-
ncously, and are watered only by the rain"
"a New YORK merchant who has large
iron mill in Pennsylvania, heard few
months ago that his employees intended to
found a small library Tor their own use.
lie at once selected and purchased, from
his own purse, a library of five thousand
volumes provided proper apart
ments 10 which to take care of
1t, and handed it over to
his employees. That library will prove a
good business investment. Men worth
keeping are not likely to go away from
such special benefit to them and their
families. The better class of workmen else
where will be attracted to the mills that
offer the use of large collection of books
in addition to their weekly pay, while the
mere tramps in that particular department
OF work will find the mill not at all to their
taste, for somehow drunkenness and
strikes are quite infrequent in the neigh
borhCod Of good libraries"
"WE noyelists cannot but smile when
asked if such and such character is ''taken
from life" and especially when ingenious
critics persist in identifying usually falsely
certain persons, places or incidents.
Or course, we 90 about the
world with our eyes open
but what we see and how we use it is
known only to ourselves but settlers are
never aware they are being painted, and
rarely il ever recognize their own likeness,
Whether or not it may be allowable to hold
up TO public obloquy bad or contempt
BILE character, suppose it would be far to
describe perfect character If we could
find it, which is not too probable. For me,
I can only say that during all the years !
have studied humanity never met with one
human being who could have been put
into book as whole without injnring
1t. The only time I ever attempted (by
requeS) to make study from nature
absolutely liberal-all the reviewers cried
out to my extreme amusement, "This char
acter is altogether unnatural" the
author of "John Halifax, Gentleman"
ALL of Mrs. Mulock Craik's works are to
be found at the library, including "John
Halifax" one of the most entertaining of
English novels in style and plot
"TnE oldest medical work extant is a
roll of papyrus obtained by the celebrated
German archgologist, Ebers, in Egypt.
He was travelling in that country few
years since and learned that papyrus roll
had been discovered lying by the side of a
mummy. After considerable difficulty he
became possessed of it. 1t is about eleven
inches wide and sixty feet long, and is in
excellent preservation. 1t was written
1922 years before the Christian era, when
Moses had just reached his twenty first year.
The author is believed to be the great
Thoth, who was defed by the Egyptians on
account OF the civilization which he brought
them. It is the intention of Ebers to
make complete translation of the
work.
"ADBoTsFoRD, Sir Walter SCOTS castle is
to be let, furnished, by the season, romance
thrown in"
WILLIAM BLACK, the novelist, who visited
the late Mr.. James T. Fields at his summer
residcrce---Gambrcl cottage, en- Thunder
bolt hill, very near the Singing Beach of
Manchester the, sea-gives descrip.
ton of the scene in his "Green Pastures
and Piccadilly."
A WRITER has tried to prove, with good
success, that Oliver Goldsmith wrote the
famous nursery story, "Goody Two Shoes"
MnlAIsis painting a portrait of Ten
nyson. The same artist painted the fine
portrait of Mr.. Gladstone in five hours,