The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-11
MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS.
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

1 'Nbb'N
"R. WoRrHINGToE has Just ready The
Life, Laborsand Writingsof Lorenzo Dow -
"Yale college has 1903 instructors, 1887
students and 10000 volumes in the libra
ries."
MIR. WHITTIER, the poet, says he re.
ceives 200 applications for his autograph in
the course Of a year"
CDR. HOLLANDS poem, Bitter Sweet,
had tho largest sale of any poem ever pub
lished in this country 900 copies"
Among the requests of the late VIM, p.
West, of Halifax, N. s., are 100000 to
Tufts college, Somervllle, Mass; $4,000
to the Church of the Redeemer, Halifax,
and $4,000 to be divided among local
benevolent institutions in Halifax"
GEORGE ELIoT's GRAVE.
visited George Eliot's grave at High
| gate the other day, and was struck by the
many touching tokens of affection which
| saw there 1t was a chill and cheerless
autumn afternoon, but anumber of beauti-
| full flowers were lying at the foot of the
| cold gray granite pillar which tells who
rests beneath There ia no grave in the
cemetery more frequently asked for, and
persons from all parts of the world visit it,
| - London World
HAwTHoRNE.-Henry James, Jr., gives
to Hawthorne unhesitatingly the foremost
rank among American authors; "Threc or
four beautiful talents of transatlantic
growth are the sum of what the world usual
ly recognizes, and in this modest nosegay
the genius of Hawthorne is admitted to
have the rarest and sweetest fragrance"
"THE Princess Beatrice ia for the first
time in her young life tasting the pleasure
of giving away her own earnings. She has
just bestowed out of the proceeds of her
Birthday Book" $4,000 upon chld's
hospital in London. That this sum should
be only apart Of the receipts implies large
sale among the loyal Britons."
"THE essay read by Chas. D. Warner be-
fore the Social Science association at Sara
toga last fall, has been issued in neat and
portable shape. 1t is keen, pithy, bright
and sure to find favor wherever it goes
The theme is The American Newspaper
1T is subject in which everybody is inter
ested and about which 1t is not polite 10
say that anybody is not well informed for
although there are scattered through the
land many persons, am sorry to say, I'm.
able to pay fora newspaper, have never
yet heard of anybody unable to edit one
The closing sentence of the essay is worthy
of remark: With all its faults believe
the moral tone of the American newspaper
is higher, as a rule, than that of the com
munity in which it is published The late
DR.. Holland expressed somewhat similar
thought"
MARX TwAINs latest literary essay Ia a
romance" entitled 1.-THE Prince and the
Pauper," and we are informed that il is "a
tale for young people of all ages" This
addendum has much of the Twain flavor
about it, and we find on turning over the
leaves of the book there ia indeed much
that will amuse if not instruct young peo-
pie of all ages'-not merely the youth be-
ginning to understand and crafty his in
nate longings for knowledge, and to devel-
ope his imaginative faculties, but for the
"old boys" and elderly girls, the fathers
and mothers of the aforesaid youth. The
work marks decidedly new departure on
the part of the humorist. II is indescriba-
bic in the limits of review. brief sy-
nopsis of its plot may help to an under
standing of the outline of the story, but the
book itself alone supplies the filling in that
forms remarkable fabric. The plan of
the tale is thus described:
ut deals with the period of history when
Henry VIII. was king of England, and by
a series of accidents the son of the king and
a stout boy whom he miraculously rescm-
bles change places. The young prince,
who afterward becomes Edward VII, is
thrust out of palace gate, and falling into
the hands of the psuper's family, is accept
ed as their own, while the pauper begins
life as the kings son amidst the obsequious
complisnces Of the courtiers among whom
his freskish exchange Of clothes with the
real prince had left him. Edward Tudor
leads from that time on the life Of . beaten
and hunted beggar aud tramp, and Tom