The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-11-27
MEN. WOMEN AND BOOKS.
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY,

Institute at Staunton. II is an Episcopal.
ian seminary"
"CHAnLss SUMNER particularly admired
Hawthornes paper on "Civic Banquets.'
He said ono day that he had re.rcad it
three times for the style
QUEEN ELIZABETH, Of Roumania, still
clings to the literary career. She has Just
published another volume--a collection of
novels in verse called "Stnrme."
MRS. AMELIA B, EDWARDS novel, Half
a Million of Money has been translated
into French under the title of "L'Heritape
dc Jacob Trepalden."
THE sale of "Kathrina' had already
amounted to 100000 copies before DR..
Hollands death. OF "Bitter.Sweet" 30 900
copies have been sold"
"1r is thought that the photograph which
Mrs. Garfield will select to send to Queen
Victoria, will be one which was taken in
PsnsvilIe, Ohio, by a country artist, but
which all his friends who have seen it think
il the best likeness taken of the late pres.
ident"
THE Hon. +. B Washburne is living
quietly in his Chicago home, but is far from
idle. lie has lately been occupied in the
preparation ola history of the life and times
of the Hon. Edward Coles, the second poy-
eruor OF Illinois
Mr., LoNoFELLow enjoys telling at his
own expense, the story that M Englishman
strollsd into his cambridge home one sum
mer day, saying "As-ah, there is--ah, no
old ruins in this blarsted country, thought
I'd come to see YOU
"R. l.. STUART, Esq, Of New York, has
made another rich gilt to the Princeton
theological seminary plat of ground
1876 feet square, costing $4,000, for the cree
ton of house for Prof Patton, and de-
post in the New York trust company of
$4,000 for the erection of the house it.
self"
MR.. ". d, HowELL's new serial story,
which i, to be called "A Modern Instance,
a title which, like those of several of his
other works, shows that authors fendness
for Shakespeare. The scene is laid in a
New England numbering village, which is
Enthusiastically named Equity. The
heroine first falls in love and practically
brings about the proposal"
"'AUYr SERENA is the second venture of
Blauch Willis Howard-the lady who has
shone out as a new literary star two or three
years ago in One Summer She has been
sbroad aimee, butretarnS to put in the new
book the novelties OF character which ..lc
has discovered on both sides of the Atlantic
The touches Of humor, fine bits of descrip-
tion and ,iveciiy Of style, which made the
future of heT past book one equally marked
in the second"
"BULwER always wrote in perfect isola-
ton. His study was remote, and the least
noise was forbidden. While writing the
floor about him would be strewn with books
aud papers, and 80 Jealous was he of the
privacy Of this sanctum that few were ever
admitted within its walls. In his latter
days he never gave more than three hours
TO composition, After silel,y eating n
light breakfast he would enter his study at
ten, and regularly at one o'clock he would
emerge, his work over for the day"
THE LRAcUBoF TEE IREouors is the tit
10 OF new poem by Benz, Hathaway, author
of "Aart Life and other poems" The pur-
pose ia to embody the traditions concerning
the origin of the famous Indian coniedera-
ton known as tho Five Nations aud OK.
peeially in their NEUROLOGICAL aspects, as
Offering the trueSt key and standard of In
dian character. IL is work Of merit not
only AZ poem, but also as preserving in at d
traotive from very many of tho fauciiul and
fat vanishing myths Of the rcd man"
'bNF on tNH ulORI HotdDic bVohe W tHO
day, and one Of especial interest to scholars,
is announced as in preparation, It isa
translation Of Frederic Winkel Horns "His-
tory Of the Literature of the Scandinavian
North, from the Most Ancient Times to the
Present" lately published at Leipsic, The
American edition is TO be the joint work of
the original author and Prof X, B. Andcr-
sou, of the University of Winccnsin. II is
tho only book In literature covering the
field, aud is brilliant and attractive MS well M
exhaustive, 1t will bo an octave volume of
over 500 pages
Mr. Robert BROWNE has ever main
tanned, in regard to the details Of his life, the
reserve which the world permits to the gen
tlemau, but rarely to him who is also CO.
lcbrity. Mr. Edmund w. Gosse has at last
persuaded him that a biography will some
day be written wlly-nilly, and that il would
be much wiser for him to give consent and