The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-02
MEN. WOMEN AND BOOKS.
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

PUBLIC LIBRARY.
AT the April meeting of the Womans
Club and Library Association, which will
take place at the Library room next Wed
nesdsy p. III. at o'clock, the annual re.
ports OF the Association, for the past year
will be presented and the election of Off.
GERS held.
The Age Of Pfa1tcles, another of the
delightful series Of art-papers by Lucy
Mitchell, now running in THE CENTURY, is
fully equal to that!which preceded it. The
Phidian Age, .and shows the perfect &C
quaintance Of the author with her object.
These articles are to be read and discussed
at the meetings Of the study class of the W.
e. and l.. A. and form valuable auxiliares
to the rcvular text book, the History OF Art
Nrs. Dinah Mulock- Craik, nearly always
mentioned as the author of "John Halifax
Gentleman" has prepared for the press a
volume of sketches under the title of "Plain
Speaking"
Some of the public schools of New
Haven, Coma, have introduced fire drill ss
part of the EXERCISES wise pmcaution
and one worthy to be extensively followed
everywhere.
Mrs. Miriam Florence Leslie tie widow
of the we'll known publisher has upon ap.
picaton to the courts of New York, had
her name changed to Frank Leslie, the
name her husband bore. 1t WAS not
mere within with her, but business idea,
as wishes to perpetuate the nme of the
Frank Leslie Publishing house of which
she is now the proprietor ard manager,
Every morning she is found in her office
by half past eight o'clock, and remains
until five in the afternoon. She signs oil
checks and money orders, makes oil
contracts for supplies of oil sorts, looks
over the proofs of all articles before they
are published, and makes suggestions con-
corning the make up of every periodical
before il is sent to press. In word, she
| is the head Of the whole establishment.
In Mrs Leslies employ are over four hun
dred people, comprising artists, engravers,
editors, compositors, etc, and thirteen
different periodicals are issued.
In the death Of Henry W. Longfclow
the whole world is bereft--in the hearts of
all the English speaking people, and
wherever his matchless verses have been
translated in other tongues, there is sad.
ness and heartfelt sorrow for his loss. Not
premsturcly was he taken; not in the full
noontide Of his career as Shakespeare, or
the fresh morning of life like Keats-but
in the golden and tender glow of lifes
eventide; after the burden and heat of the
day was ended. This christian poet was
the noblest representation of American
literature, the pride Of his own land and
race, and admired and revered by all the
world. Beloved alike by prince and peas
ant, by old age and little children, his
memory will be ever green, his golden
words forever snug. Where can that
modern poet be found who has
so stirred the hearts of millions
and lifted them into the higher and
purer relms Of sympathy with nature and
communion with Godl Of what other
poet can it be written that nothing base,
ignobe or pretty can be found in all his
writings2 His seven carrier Poems" "An
April Day" woods in Winter" "Hymn
of the Morovivsn Nuns" "Sunrise on the
Hills THE spirit of Poetry" and Burial
of the Minnisink," were written before he
was nineteen years old. Since his retire
mept in 1S45 from the professorship which
he had held in Harvard for twenty years.
Mr.. Longfellow has given to the world
"thc autumn fruitage of a mind eminent for
the fragrance and !uxuriance Of its carly
blossoms" His best works, since then,
have been "Thc Song of Hawatha," pub.
lisbed ia 1855; "Courtship Of Miles Storm.
dish,"in 1858; "Tales of Wayside lnn,"
in 1868: "Flower dc Luce" in 1866; his
translation of Dante, in lS67.70; "New
England Tragedies" in 1909; THE Divine
Tragedy" in 1871 ;"Three Books of Song"
in 1872; and "The Hanging Of the Crome,"
in 1874. The second taken of our great
American triad, Bryant, Longfellow, Whit
.ier, he is first in our affections, and his life
psalm of labor and victory
ELECTION OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS.
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