The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-27
W, c. AND l.. ASSOCIATION COLUMN.
Edited in the interest Of the Cairo Public Library
MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS.

| i''' ShII", VI ''c University ~ NHBlHld
has translated from the German, Duntzcr's
"Llic Of Goethe and the book will be
published shortly in Boston.
HISTORICAL students are gratiicd by the
announcement that the French Bureau of
History is preparing new volume Of docu.
mcnts in the possession Of the state, which
will contain great number of letters 10y
Cardinal RichcIicu, never before pub
Iished.
THE letters Of Peter the Great, 5000 in
number, that have been lying unlocked
over in room in the St. Pctersburgh Ii.
brary are about to be published under the
direction Ct special commission appoint
ed by the present Emperor, and will fiji, it
is computed, together with explanatory
notes nearly fifteen volumes.
The ringing Of the Curlcw bell has been
resumed at Standardization, the town of
Shakcspcare's abode. The bell, which was
presented to the town by Sir Hugh Clop.
ton, Lord Mayor Of London, in the reign Of
Henry VII, is placed in the tower Of the
Church Of the Holy Cross, aud Is ruug for
six months Of the year, commencing Sep
tember II,
The British Museum has received a fine
clay cylinder from the excavations Of Bah
yIon, containing sixty lines of cunciform
writing OF a time l2Oj B, c. when Anti
ochus the Great was wintcrng at Babylon.
Sir II. c. RawlinSon says that the employees
Of the British Museum will be permitted
for two years longer to make excavations
OF the mounds Of Assyria and Babylon.
private circulating libraries have long
been common in Japan, but since 1873 scv-
eral free public Libraries have been cstab-
lished, the largest being in ConfucIan tenn
pie in Toxic. The library now contains
G3,S4O volumes Of Chinese and Japanese
works. Size English, G,ji7 Dutch, aud
about 1000 volumes IN other European Ian
guages. The number of visitors is about
$500 per month, OF nearly hundred
day.
HOMER, the blind old man of Scios
rocky Isle" describes the lotus eaters as
people on the northern coast of Africa, who
were visited by Ulysses in his wanderings,
and who cndeavorcd to detain his compan-
ions by giving them the lotus to eat Who
ever ate OF this fruit wished never again to
depart 'osee his nltive country, This poet
ical idea is known alsoto the Arabs, who
C Ill it the fruit Of destiny, which is to be
eaten in Paradise, and it has been cxquis,
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SHAKE,PEARE's house in A,dcrsgatc,
London, is likely to be torn down. Mr..
Newman Marks lately wrote to the London
Globe "Ihe cNigencics Of commerce do not
surely require the destruction OF one Of the
few remaining records OF an age long past
that are still left to Us in tins great city,
The City Of London, we know, is not re-
markobc for the conservation Of ancient
buildings and the most interesting relics
are swept away to make room for siX.sto-
RED warehouses, without a Sigh Of regret or
voice being raised against 1t 10y citizens.
Shakespearc'S house IN Aldcrsgate is one of
the most interesting buildings in England.
Olten IN passing 1t have stopped TO adj
mlre ITS quaint and picturesque appearance,
ana viewed with mingled feelings of awe
AMI reverence the residence OF the greatest