Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-03-15

has been announced OF Mr.. WhItelaw Reid.
editor OF the New York Tribune. To Miss
Trnnic Mills, daughter OF Mr u. o. Mills
oftte Bank oi California. The nuptials, 1t
Is said. will he celebrated In quiet aud hand
some STYLE at Mill's mansion on iilth avenue,
in New York, early in March. The bride
and bridegroom will make an extended
tour In Europe and return 10 New York
next August. Miss Mills receives dover
OF three hundred thousand dollars from
her father.
The following experience Of success
mi writer. a lady, is told In the Boston
Courier Il wrote two stories, AMI sent
one % Harper's and one 10 Old and New
and alas they both came back. 81 Just
changed them about and sent them "n
again thc one tha, Harper bad before going
now IN Old and New and rice r'rsd. This
tim. they were both accepted. aud what
il more, Mr. Fletcher Harper wrote m"
that the one they published indicated that
| | had IL in nv power 10 become the best
writer Of short stories In the country
-Fraulein Ergcnic Mirlitt. the author
OF "Gi>rla." The Moorand Princess.
etc. has 4 kind and sensible but not pretty
[ face. and her head j. covered with fnan-
tity OF short riu.lcis. She j. the daug hi'r
| ~ an artist. and hal at sixteen, 80 hcau,i-
| ful voice that she attracted and was
adopted hy Princess SchwarzDurs. Sender
| >hauScu. "A lady devoted Ia art. The prin
cess educated the young girl. who WAS pre-
plriuc for a career on the lyric stage when
f, sud.l-n trouble OF the anral nerves
brought on acute deafness AMI put m end
forever Tn her musical hopes. She re-
turned To the court of the princess, where
-om- literary compositions OF her school
d,y, 50 pleased divers friends and critics
, To- whom they were shown, that they adj
yi>ed her 10 devote herself 10 literature.
She took this advice, Withdrew from court
and returned 10 her early home In the Thu
riu.lan forest, where she has since written
her interesting aud successful novels.
-Georgc Eliot, and now Carlyle. Doth
have passed into Eternal Silence, aud
the story may be told. \ young man, no
longer youthful. but now ~ well known NJ
Westminster ~ hr i popular In his hall,
called upon the sage for counsel aud adj
vice. Gently received he opened his heart
to the philosopher lie had ambitions rs
A writer. lie contributed 10 light litcra-
ture, 5ut his soul hungcrcd for higher
things. lie would diSsect human nature,
expose its foihlrs, slorify IL goodness aud
its -rac-s. lie ycarDed. hut feared ~ tread
the higher walks OF fiction. Carlyle looked
gra,cly nj the blushing boy. "A poor
trade, lad, n poor trade! ! tried 10 read
your George Eliot's Adam Bede, and now
| am reading the second volume OF her
last book" rappIng the volume before him,
and hud il neither ln>tructiv" nor anus
ing, but duil-simpiy dull" Then turning
the leaves. he muttercd, Poor Lewrs,
poor Lewes" and the young man, rather
dazed, went away and buried himself in
law. London World.
The leading article in the hterHa,i0H-
al Rsrie,c for April will be- the conclusion
of Mr. Edwin Arnold's beautiful poem,
THE IliSd OF India. which was begun in the
January number. Mr.. A. y. Mryrick, the
active member ofGov Mcclellan, Commits
sion on Prison Labor, appointed to examine
the prisons OF New Jersey in lo73 writes
upon Improvements In Prison Discipline.
Rev. George F.. Ellis, ID. ID; writes OF
Dr. Seabury, of Connecticut, and tpisco-
palianiSm in America under the title of
The First American Bishop President
Gilman. of John Hopkins University has
an interesting and valuable article upon
sDr. Francis l.ieber" DIR. Ernest W. Cush-
ing discusses the statutes X, guating the
Practice OF Medicine land Henry l.. Nelson
writes strong article upon "Schnrzs Adj
mipIstration of the Interior department
new writer-Madam L., Rosozln,
Russian lady residing in New lork-gives
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liant article upon the state trials In Russia /.
under title that might have most natur-
ally come from llugo-"Thc Trial OF the
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