Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-09

mhrCO fOlO Ln8t Nas ioE LAohy
De Quincey's possession.
Sir William Stirling Maxwell's "Don
John Of Austria" was published in an
edition de luxe form about two years
ago for $125 per copy, and within rev
weeks every copy had been disposed OF.
The work Is now scarce. Recently
copy was sold for $500.
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First editions of Dickens continue 70
bring the high prices they have long
fetched. "Pickwiok" recently sold for
S26, sketches by Boz" the first octave
reissue, with extra plates, for S2i.oo;
SOLVER Twist" for $3.50, and "Great
Expectations" for $40.
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Readers of the "Century's" article on
"Old Public Buildings in America" in
which st. Paul's Church and the City
Hall, New York, are praised as every
wise man praises them, will be glad to
hear that the Century" at an early
day, will publish extracts from the
diary of the architect Of the City Hall,
Kept during the erection of that build
ing.
The Scribners will begin this month
the publication of series OF "StOries by
American Authors, in volumes bound
in cloth and TO be sold for 80 cents,
which will comprise short stories con-
tributed TO periodicals or ether publi-
cations during the last twenty. tive
years and not now easily accessible.
Among authors already named are Bay
ard Taylor, F. d. Millet, Brander Mat.
thews, Mrs. Davis, Mrs, Burnett and
H. G.. Bunner.
In the Current" Of March s, Char
Iotle Adams begins series Of descrip-
tive and analytic papers on some New
York Studios" They treat OF artistic
decoration, and leading studios in New
York are infinitely described to illus.
trate certain decorative principles.
These papers show most unusual de-
scriptive ability and discriminating per-
ception on the part of the writer. They
will be Interesting to students and pro-
fessors of art, and also contain many
suggestions which will be found OF
value in the furnishing and decorations
of American homes.
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One of the most startling literary SEN
sations Of the season is "Berlin Society,""
a translation Of which has just been
issued in this country by 5. w. Green's
Son, New York. The author takes the
name of Count Paul Vaciti, and the book
is written in the form Of twenty.One
letters, addressed to young military
attache of the French embassy at Der.
lin, who has just arrived for the first
time at the Prussian capital. The sup
pre- ssion of this book in Berlin, on &C
count of the scandals in high life which
It 80 tearIessly brings to light, and the
insight which it gives of the personal
life Of the crowned heads of Europe in
general, and of the Prussian royal fam.
lily in particular, cannot fail to excite
,ht same interest in America which has
created its enormous sale in Europe.
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Tie printing world Of London is much
disturbed 10y the discovery of new pro-
cess which enables any humber OF
copies TO be taken of any book, even the
oldest, without setting line of type.
\ compound has been discovered which
may be spread upon page without in
the slightest degree injuring the paper,
ard which refuses to rest upon ink. 1t
can be easily removed to stone, and
there becomes the matriX for stereo-
type, or can be used for printing from
at once. Practical printers are expert.
meHting to see whether they cannot
save the cost Of re. setting old editions,
and, II certain practical difficulties are
removed, there will be a change not
only in the production of fac SMILES OF
old books, but in the reproduction OF
new ones. 1t will no longer be neces-
sary to keep type standing, as a proof
will be as good as a stereotype plate.
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When Will Carleton was asked by a
reporter of the Detroit Evening Jour.
nai what was his first poetic compost
ton, he replied that that was like ask
ing a boy what was the first fish he
ever caught. ".ls sooH rs | began to
read prose and poetry pretty well" adj
dtd Mr.. Carleton, 81 began to feel that
| could write such things, too, and, as
suppose every boy whose talents turn in
literary groove does, began to keep
diary and write verses in it, and |
u ed often to scribhle verses In school
Then, when | was in college, began to
write some of my compositions in poet
~, and occasionally | contributed
poems to The Toledo Blade and other
papers. Thus things went on, the po.
etic talent growing little by little, and /
really can't tell when / did begin or
what NY first work was. At first my
ambition was to be an editor, and, Ia
school, when / should have been
studying my lessons, / vas often draw
ing on my slate outlines Of papers with
headings which | would give them, and
writing editorials such as | thought l
would write were really an editor"
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a book which should be in the hands
of every iron worker in our city is
Creators Of the Age Of Steel" by w.
L. jeans. The volume is made up Of
memoirs of Sir Henry Bessemer, Sir
John Blown, Sir William Seimens, Sir
joseph WGitwOrth, and other Of the
oremost iron and steel workers of Eng.
land, and the attentive psrusal Of its
pages will do much to inculcate young
men with the principles Of self-heIp and
acknowledgment, and to instruct and
encourage by presenting in a readable
and concise form the histories of the
lives of some of the worlds greatest
men, the difficulties which they met
and overcame, and the rewards they at
tanned hy industry, pluck and sober
living. Mr.. Jeans finds numerous and
suggestive examples of sterling points
Il "laracter, a study of which cannot
is il to benefit our young men. The
,aue which stands first in the history
If tie development of steel making in
England is Sir Henry Bessemer, and
the story of his remarkable career forms
the first and longest of the sketches