The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-18
MEN WOMEN AND BOOKS.
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

| PUBLIC LIBRARY.
A list of the new and entertaining books
distributed at the library yesterday after
noon, was given in THE BULLETIN several
days ago. The long, warm summer days
give many leisure hours, which can.
not be better employed than in the COM
partnership of good books. A number of
very entertaining books for the young folks
have recently been added to the library
and part of the vacation cannot be EN-.
ployed to better advantage than in cultivat-
ing taste for reading.
The most popular of the poems of Long
fellow in his early days received but very
soanty remuneration. The Psalm of Life
and the Reaper were gratuitous contribu.
tons to the Knickerbocker Magazine, For
two prose articles and poem, he obtained
| Chattertons works, and for two or three
years contributions to periodical he re-
ceived, by way Of honorariam, paid re
ccipt for his subscription to it, Facts like
these will be regarded as among the curios-
! tiles of American literature.
AT Pau, IN the lower Pyrenees, is the Sc
bastian collection of old masters. There
are 800 pictures, aud Raphael, Titan, Mu-
rillo, Velasqncz, and many other artists of
world wide celebrity, should attract the at
| tentlon of tourists to this mountain ham
let. They belong in Spain, and were
brought to Pau in disturbed times for safe
keeping.
A recent book on Money Making for
| Ladies seems to suppose that writer, like
poet, is born and not made. 1t says.
$50 little outlay is required for literary
work, pen, ink and paper, and few post
age stamps constituting the capital" The
book itself is an illustration of the state
ment, and while it treats of money max
| ing, We doubt if it ever makes money. The
author forgets that easy writing is hard
reading
The author of the above book has a very
different idea from that of one of our most
able and talented and hard working west
ern writers, Mrs. II. L. Stanet, the accom-
pished editor of the Weekly Magazine.
She says: II have so high an opinion of
the value of genuine and worthy literary
labor, that | am conscience stricken to ac-
cept 1t without liberal remuneration, and
feel that it is degraded when it is valued in
dollars and cents merely, rather than in in
fluencc."
From Notable Thoughts About Women, "
by Balow, here are some extracts:
1856. AlrhOnse Karr must have been
jealous OF some one surely, possibly of
Nine. De Stael, Nine. Roland, Jane Aus
tin, George Eliot, George Sand or Charlotte
Brontc, when he wrote: "a woman who
writes, commits two sins: She increases the
number of books, and decreases the number
OF CONGRATULATIONS Karr.
20, 80. | believe in the admission of
women to the full rights f citizenship and
share IN government, ON the express
grounds that few women keep house so
badly, or with such wastefulness, as chan
celIors OF the exchequer keep the state and
womanly genius, for organization applied
to the affairs OF the nation would be ex.
trcmeIy economical and beneficial. -Theo-
dore Parker.
~ AZ. Let man learn to be grateful to
woman for this undoubted achievement of
her sex that is she--she is far more than
he, and she too often in despite OF him
who has kept Chrstendom from lapsing
back into barbarism, kept mercy and truth
from being utterly overborne by those two
greedy monsters, money and war;. D.
Huntington.
The subject of discussion for the meet.
ing of the study class on Tuesday, at Mrs
W. r. Smiths, will be Michael Angelo 3
great masterpiece: The Last Judgment
Photographs of this great frcsco have been
received by the class from Soule, in Boston.
1t is perhaps, on some accounts, ono of
the most remarkable pictures in the world.
1t contains over four hundred human
figures, including those Of Christ. The
Apostles, martyrs, saints, patriarchs, the
Virgin Mary, Dante, the mortal sins person.
flied, angels, the dead, demons, Charon,
Minos, Lucifer, Judas, the celestial virtues,
sibys and heather poets. These are di.
vidod into fifteen groups. The picture is
the embodiment of that great poem;
''rhat day of wrath, that dreadful day,
when heaven and earth shall pass away"
THE TEACHERS OCCUPATION.
Have won ever thOuDht of what tho man