The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-03
MEN WOMEN AND BOOKS.
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CAIRO
PUBLIC Library.

JpyinB the summer AZ santa BirOara, Call
fornia
Mrs. Burnett, the Novelist, is now in
Lynn, Mass.
Mrs. Constance f. Woolson, author of
"Anne, is writing a novel at Baden Bad
en-.
Those who enjoy the game Of chess will
probably be interested in "Stantons Chess
Player in two volumes, in the Bonn edition
received from London some time since.
1t will be well TO mention in connection
with this, that in list Of
books lately recommended for summer
reading, among the new books, several not
lately received, were mentioned: since thAt
time reviews of others have been given.
as the catalogue was published several years
ago it was thought advisable to men.
ton the books in this way
TO enable patrons Of the library to send
for books when net convenient for them to
come.
BRIGHT DAYS IN The OLD PLANTATION
TIME.-By Miss Ross Banks. This vol.
ume contains series Of sketches forming a
connected story of southern life IN the old
days before the war. 1t is evidently a rec
ord Of personal experiences which glow
brightly in the authors memory, and have
become clearer and clearer in
all the years that have past since planta,
ton life was broken up never to be the
same again Of course no plot is needed
in such book, scenes are vivid and the mar
ativeis peculiarly bright. The author intro
duces the darby intellect with an ease that
must have grown up with her in familiar,
ity with the plantation quarters" 1t is
yerylnterestlng volume and will be greatly
relished by all who knew the life it de-
scribes and the scenes it so wildly portrays.
The author halls from "Bankston, Farm,
Griffin, Georgia" and her voice from the
old southern home gives no uncertain
sound
A correspondent of the New York Eve.
ming Post denies the denals Of Mr.. G. p.
Lathrop and his wife in regard to CDR
Grimshawe's Secret" III have seen parts Of
the manuscript, and read from it. Nothing
essential in the first announcement Is TO be
changed, except that the statement as to
the complete condition Of the work should
not be made so strong. The develope-
ment Of the story is about complete, but
Hawthorne would probably have written
several chapters to finish the book. Per
sons abroad, who have heard parts of il
read, are OF the opinion that it is one Of
Hawthorne's ablest and most Characters
tic works. What has been said about
the bad chirograpby is true, though the
statement about HawthOrne's dictatiOn to
his wife is not. 1t is q close, compact
manuscript, with numerous words not cas-
lily decipherabe by an unfamiliar reader,
and the whole must be transcribed for the
printers. Mr.. Julian Hawthorne is in
clned not to take any notice of what the
public say. He will give the novel to the
world, confident that it will be its own
vindication. All that he will authorize to
be said at present is that the explanation
of what has been published lies in the fact
| that there are two manuscripts which are
confused with each other. One consists of
fragmentary notes, with hints Of the plot
of Or .Grimshawe's Secret the other is the
novel elaborated in detail, from which the
publication will be made, and whose exist
ence is unknown or forgotten by those who
confound the one with the other.
We learn from the London Times that
copy of work printed by Caxton, being
the English version of the celebra
ted French medieval romance
of the -Four Sons of Aymon
| mas Dtc0 LOT SplHt tllllc hHOWu ny minute
Caxtonan scholars to be in existence in
Earl Spencer's library at Althrop. In de.
fault OF the printers name, the place, OF
the date, the period of A. ID. 1890 has
been assigned to it as an approximation
No other copy is known to be extant, and
its scarcity may be estimated by the fact
no mention of it occurs in the pages either
of Ames's Typographical Antiquities" o.
of Dibdin's ."Bibliographical Decameron,
Under these circumstances of rarity, ever
the most iragmintary occurrences of tn,
"Four Sons Of Aymon" is an event cacu
lated to move the whole world Of biblio.
graphy. Three leaves, or six pages Of thi
work have just come under observation
which have owed their preservation, t,
have been used as part of the binding of a
volume bearing a later date in the fifteenth
century than the "Four Sons Of Aymon'
} itself.
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