The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-06-05
LIBRARY NOTES.

GAN English lady, who has been work
ing for twenty years on Lord Bacon has
come to the conclusion that Shakespeare
was a myth"
"MR. LoNGFELLow IS said to be the au-
thor of "Auf Wiedersehen" the poetical
tribute to the late James T. Fields. in the
Atlantic for June"
1.-THE Athenaum calls Bret Harte 'one
OF the most popular of living writers of
English and also says that within his
limits there is no living writer who can i'm
prove on him."
SIT is said that Mr. Froude is preparing a
small volume ofnotes of conversations with
Carlyle, perhaps in justification of his course
in printing the "Reminiscences in their
original pungency. This book will precede
his biography of Carlyle.
"WERE pray for taste which should
stand me instead under every variety of
circumstances, and be a source of happiness
and cheerfulness to me during life, and a
shield against its ills, however, things might
go amiss and the world frown upon me, it
would be q taste for reading. Give man
this taste, and the means of gratifying it,
and you can hardly fail of making him
happy man; unless, indeed, you put into
his hands a most perverse selection of
books. You place him in contact with the
best society in every period of history
with the wisest the wittlest, the tenderest,
the bravest and the purest characters who
have adorned humanity. You make him a
denizen of all nations, a contemporary of
all ages. The world has been created for
him."-Sir John Herschel. Address on the
opening of the Eton Library, 1888.
"OYE Of the late events was the celebra-
ton Of the anniversary of the death of the
Spanish poet Calderon. His tomb was Wis
tied by large concourse Of people, who
afterwards marched past 1t in procession.
The troops defled by the poets statue in
the presence of the king and royal family.
Calderon was one of the few earlier poets,
whose life was one Of ease and comfort. In
his philosophic dramas Calderon is his best.
He was man of deep thought, and many
passages may be extracted from his Iworks
which. taken independent Of thor cur
roundings, form perfect poems. One, from
Life is DREAM" contains deep philoso-
ply. It is spoken to comfort an unfortun-
ate prince whose father has confined him
from childhood in an isolated forest cool;
An ancient sage, once on a time, they cay,
Who lived remote, siar from mortal sight,
Sustained his feeble life as best he might,
With herbs and berries gathered by the way
"Can any other one, said heone day,
SO poor, so destitute as |, be found!"
And when he turned his head to look around,
He saw the answer; creeping slowly there,
Came an old man who gathered up with care
The herbs, which he had castupon the ground"
MISS MULoCK's ROMANCE.
ut was John Halifax, published after
she was thirty years old, that brought her
fame, and made the task of earning her
daily bread little less arduous. Seven
years later she was awarded a pension of
three hundred dollars year. She was
nearly forty when she married. In 1865
Captain George Lille Craik, an officer in
the English army, who had been In the
Crimea, met Miss Mulock, and although
some years her junior, addressed her and
succeeded IN winning her hand. They
proved most congenial companions, and
their married life was all they could wish,
with but one exception, the woman whose
love for children amounted almost to
passion, who wrote Philip, My King was
denied the happiness of feeling baby fin
gers upon her cheek or of ever hearing
herself called mother. This was
severe sorrow but even this pain has been
partly assauged Strangely enough, one
dark, rainy night, while she and her hus-
band were speaking of children and of the
joy and brightness they bring to so many
dwellings, there came a loud ring at the
bell and then furious knocking. On
opening the door, lying upon the sill they
found a basket enclosed in many wrappings.
When they were removed they discovered
lovely little baby only few hours old.
The child was wrapped in one roll after
another of India muslin, and on its breast
was pinned note, begging Mrs. Craik to