The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-22
MEN. WOMEN AND BOOKS.

"Mr. Longfellow is rapidly recovering
from his recent illness, and in spite of his
years is taking long walks"
"Mr. Browning's extraordinary rapidity
of work is shown in the fact lately made
public, that bis tragedy of "The Blot on the
'Scutcheon" was written in five days"
"The Methodist University of Boston has
come into possession of 100000 be-
queathed it by Isaac Rich, the fish mer-
chant, ten years ago."
"Paul Hamilton Hayne, the southern
poet, lives in rough cot of pine boards on
the Georgia railroad, about twenty miles
from Augusta; where, completely isolated
from the social and artistic world, he de-
votes his life to conscientious literary work."
MIR. RUsKIN has determined to devote the
remainder of his life to making the museum
he has founded at Sheffield the most COM
plete institution of the kind in the world
lie has lately given to it his unique and
almost priceless library, and portion of
the books and plates have already arrived
JUDGE A. W. Tourgee is to be the editor
OF the new illustrated literary weekly which
is about to appear in Philadelphia. Miss
Kate Fields is to have charge of a depart
ment devoted to cooperative work among
women; and Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton
will edit column on social customs. A
decorative art department will be conduct
ed by Mr.. Donald G. Mitchell and Mr..
Louis c. Tiffany. The paper, which is to
be called Our Contine MT, is to be stitched
cut and bound in colored covers, which
have been designed by Mr.. Tiffany"
"MR. TENNYsoN is not an ardent lover of
his kind He has had few devoted and
intimate acquaintance, but he has been on
the whole self-sufficient. His pipe has
been his frmest friend through life. Some.
times he stays with Mr.. Joweet, at Oxford
sometimes he visits Mr.. Gladstone, and last
year ne gave two or three quiet dinner
parties at his London house. But no one
would speak of him as society man." He
loves long intervals of solitude as much
now as when thirty years ago he would
disappear for weeks together in the wilds
of Cornwall, and acquire, as he gazed upon
the tumbling Severn, that local color which
brightens his best works"
THREE additional volumes in their
tasteful and inexpensive edition of DR.. Hol-
lands works have just been published by
Messrs. Charles Scribners Sons, New York.
They are The Puritan's Guest and Other
POEMS The Mistress of the Manse,' and
Concerning the Jones Family Like the
volumes which preceded them, all have
had the advantage of the authors revision
almost the last work, indeed, with which
the lamented writer occupied himself and
all have maintained the high place in pub.
lie favor accorded them in their first ap-
pearance "The Jones family" has, perhaps,
gained most by the revision, being entirely
rewritten and changed in form. 1t is re-
garded as one of the authors best efforts.
The personal types presented have their
counterparts everywhere to-day, and the
hits at men and manners are as opposite
now as when first penned The edition is
good one to possess, and its inexpensive
form puts it within reach of all"
1T is, after all, to the private cores
pondence Of men of letters that one must
turn for our best knowledge of them. OF
no one is this more true than of Charles
Dickens. His speech, like his dress, was
assertive His public writings we're affect.
ed in style. But his private to his friends
had the charm Of naturalness, Of simplicity
and truth. 1t is impossible to read them
without having better appreciation OF the |
man and the breadth of his nature. Seek.
ing only to express his thoughts in the
pleasantest way, he gives at the same time
full force Of his individuality. The third |
volume of The Letters of Charles Dickens
edited by his sister in.law and eldest
daughter, completes the publication Of his
voluminous correspondence. These are
letters which were not at hand when the
previous volumes were prepared, and in
clude those already published in various
together with those addressed
to Sir Austen Layard, the Earl Of Lytton,
ctc. They are published simply with ex-
planatory notes, as the biography of the
authors life has been heretofore completed
They show every side Of the authors per-
sonality, and with tho two volumes already
published constitute the best biography Of
Dicksns yet lAsusd, |
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