Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-01-20

A DOrtrait OF the huCnOf ID SiSeh ~ soS
first volume, besides twenty one steer
plates and six wood deDgravings. The
edition is made from entirely new type.
signor Salviui has written his "lm-
pressions of Sbakespeares 'Lesr'' for
the February Century. 1t 10 sald taat
the paper contains also many Striking
general observations on the dramatic
art.
1t isa bad plan to turn literary people
inside out. Trollope, Carlyle, Bulwer
have all been butchered to make an
American holiday in the FRANKLIN
Square cheap edition arens within
twelve months. Distinguished authors
might well say when they die, Ia
Lady T,az!e, IL leave my character be-
bind me-"
1t appears from a letter published in
the current number of "The Magazine
Of Anericau History" that George
Washington, that alleged model OF all
the virtues, was in the habit OF bullying
the female members of his family on
the subject Of uutiiiDees. Like most
great men, he was eyidently tyrant in
tie family circle.
The fourteenth volume o! the Parch-
ment Library of ID. Appleton d Co. is
English Lyrics. Ii CONTAINS long list
of the gems Of poetry literature, excel
lent in variety. IL includes no living
authors, and none even who have lived
IN the last half of the present century.
From the name and scope OF the work
odes, all narrative, didactic, and ballad
poems are excluded from the pages. Tne
selections mark the EDITORS work and
judgment not only good, but excellent.
An anecdotal paper on Gustave Cour-
bet, the eccentric French artist and
communist, will be contributed to the
February Century by Titus Coan.
Among the illustrations will be full-
page copy of Courbet's famous painting,
"Tbe Musician" which was conspicuous
among the Courbet paintings at the re-
cent BarthOldi Loan Exhibitions; and a
picture of the scene in the Place Ven
dome, when Courbet and his men were
pulling down the Vendome column.
August Robe, OF st. Paul, offers in a
pamphlet to tell all about the mile.
mum in 1890; the arrival Of the long
anticipated Jewish Messiah; the great
financial crisis of 1856 the war through
out the entire world in 1885; Spiritual
ism explained; Satan; the chief Anti
Christ; the tune of his birth; the incl
dents connected with his birth; Satan's
power and his advance skirmIshes; his
reign on earth; how to recognize Satan.
II We were certain on that last point we
would recommend the work.
An analytical index to the new edi.
ZION OF the Encyclopaedia Britannica is
in preparation, one of the purposes OF 1t
bt ing to show the grouping of related
subjects, and that apparent omissions
are not omissions i'll fact, the subject
sought after being treated under some
Other heading. The forthcoming vol
ume-VoI. XVII.-will contain articles
10y John Austin Stevens, Gen. Nc
CleIlan, and George w. Cable. Prof.
Whitney, of Yale, is preparing the artl-
Gle on anthology"
In these Excursions" Mr.. Fiske has
preserved certain amount of evolution
so far as regards the sequence Of essays.
Thus we have to begin with a picture OF
Europe before the arrival of man, 80 far
as geology can draw 1t then the arrival
of man in Europe is sketched; next
comes short essay on "Our Aryan
Forefathers," followed by "What we
Learn from Old Aryan Words" The
essays, addresses aud short papers mum.
ber fourteen, and in no case are devoid
of interest. Some are exceedingly good
reading, while others are unquestiOna-
bly, able, and will put in new light
subjects familiar only to special stu
dents.
Carlylyle's works are to he brought
out in this country in an edition de luxe,
though it may be doubted whether the
grim Scotchman would have been
pleased with such honor. Heretofore
there has existed no complete Ameican
edition of Carlyle's works, all the com.
rlete editions-and perhaps it might be
added all the desirable being of Fog.
lish manufacture. This edition de luxe
will be uniform with the recent Hsw-
thorne and Emerson edition de luxe
and will comprise ~ volumes, two vol
umes being issued each month, begin
ming with January. The American
publishers are Estes d Lsuriat, OF Bos-
ton, who announce that large part OF
the edition has already been subscribed
for. 1t Is limited to $50 copies.
The illustrative papers on modern
novelists, announced in the Century
prospectus for the present year, are an
unusual attraction. In the forthcoming
number february will be one Of these
papers-Mrs. Alice Maynelrs account
of Dickens Mystery of Edwin Brood"
Special interest will attach to the Hsw-
thorne articles, Though the time oftheir
appearance has not yet been made pub
lie, )So little in this line about Hawthorne
having been written. One of the Har-
per features ia February will be a short
story by Julian Hawthorne, entitled
DAVID PoIutdexteIs Disappearance,
and another, a paper by Miss Mason
on Jacob Ruysdael. For the February
Century Siguor Salvini has written his
impressions of Shakespeare's Lear"
The publication Of Tennyson's lines
on "Helen's Tower" has drawn out
from Mr.. Browning a permission "
print the lines which he wrote on the
same subject, and also at Lord Duffer-
ms r, quest. They are as follows, the
date being April 20, 1870:
who hears of helen's Tower may dream,
peIchance
How the Greek Beauty from the sccau
Gaze
Gazen on old friends unanimous in hate,
Death-doom'd because OF her fair counte'
nance
.Bearts would leap otherwise at thy advance
Lady, TO whom THIS Tower is couSecrale!
Like hers, tiny face once made all eyes eiate
Yet, unlike hers, was blessed by every glance
1.-THE Tower OF Hate Is outworn. far and
strange:
A transiIory shame OF long ago,
1t dies into the sand from which Ii sprang
But thine. Loves rock built Tower, shall feal
no change;
Gods self laid stable earth's foundations ST.
When gil the morning stars together sang.
The Painter, of Cleveland, o., an
illustrated monthly devoted 70 painting
and decoration, starts on Its third year
in most comely garb and with rare pros
poets for growth and usefulness. II ha.
a new and artistic design for its cover, q
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