Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07


passed separately through the press, repre-
sented nineteen million Impressions.
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Macmillan & Co. are about TO issue
series of short religious ESSAYS for the times
by three Friends" under the general title
"A Reasonable Faith" The authors an
nounce that they write ''for those, to what
ever school or sect they may belong, who
are sincere seekers after God and his truth,
and who are willing to look carefully, and
with as little prejudice as possible, at any
thing which purports to be sober and de-
vout statement of religious conviction
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The Christmas number of "Harpers
Weekly" which will be in the hands of its
readers on the 18th inst, will contain sew
eral Christmas stories and poems BY some
of our most popular writer's, and illustrated
BY Messrs +. S. Church, F. Dielman, How
ard Pyle, A. B. Frost and W. I. Smedley:
1t will contain, in a word, so many good
things that an eight page supplement has
been required to hold them, not forgetting
tinted cover with charming designs BY
Mr.. Church.
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Two or three anachronisms have been
charged 10 Mr.. Howells's new story, The
Rise Of Silas Lapham," because one Of the
characters speaks Of Daisy Millerism before
Henry James's novel appeared, and an
other is described as using type writer IN
1875. Mr. Howells meetsthe charge in an
open letter to be printed in the January
Century" in which he claims that in aim
ing at contemporary effect the general
truth is sometimes better than the specific
fact
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The Current" will publish in its Christ
mas issue paper by Lieut.. A. W. Greedy,
L. S. A., the Arctic explorer He will de-
scribe Christmas celebration Of his party
OF heroes upon an ice bound island OF the
greatest interest and will awaken many
tender sentiment for those gallant men
whose fearful privations have placed them
so high upon their countrys roll of honor,
and TO whose heroism the President has ust
paid grateful tribute in his message to
Congress.
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Lord Tennyson has two beautiful grand
children, Alfred and Charles, sons of the
Ion. Lionel Tennysou, elder son of the
poet. 1t was to his grandchild, Alfred, that
lord Tennyson dedicated his latest collec.
lion of Ballads Of Poems" in verse be-
ginning, "Goldenhaired Ally, whose name
is one with mine" portrait Of the two
children has lately been painted by Mrs.
Anna Lea Merritt, the well-known Amerl-
can artist, now resident at London, and a
fullpage engraving of the painting appears
with the consent of the Tennyson family
in the Christmas number Of st.
Nicholas"
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The Athenuum says of the late Prot.
Henry Fawcett: 1T was when he had an
opportunity Of combining the theoretical
and the practical economist that Mr. Faw-
c,tt displayed himself at his best. He has
rtfuted in a most triumphant way the
general impression that theorist or bust
ness cannot be a man OF business, and by
lOing this he has effected more good for
political economy than any other man Of
his generation. And in the lesson of his
life he taught most impressively the doctrine
Of self help, which ruled, perhaps too rigidly,
his economic thought For these qualities,
rather than for his books, he will live in the
history of the science he represented.
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The SySton Park library, which is to be
suld soon in London, contains 90 editions Of
Horace. nearly all of which are rare, and
some Of which are excessively rare. Among
Them are Pines edition, BOdoni's the one Of
l470 (the FIRST, another of li70 and hither-
20 unknown, and the first and several other
Aldine editions, as well as an Elzevir bound
" Clovis Eve for Marguerite Of Ealois.
7 re copy of the first folio Shakespeare is
}:s inches high, or a quarter Of an inch
'aiier than the Daniel copy, which fetched
1..lG the purchaser being the Baroness
- ,dett. COutts.
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The American Bible Revision Committee
(which DR.. Philip Schatf is President, an.
; cupce HAT the revision of the Old Tesla
l%,n nj, after II years of labor. is now COM
i,ted, snd it will be published next Spring
! the University Pesses Of Oxford and
"smbridge in several editions The 4 mesi
% L committee have ordered a memorial
liiion in four volumes printed on the best
ripper and bound in the best manner. to be
Inscribed in gilt letters and sent free OF
Charge to any one who contributes $40 to
lie expenses Of the committee Orders
'rr this edition must be sent TO the Bible
Hccsc, New York, before December Fl.
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Among the Daisies is the title Of
sunptuous volume published in Hartford
AID IN which are embraced poems selected
from the whole range Of English literature
and including the most that has been said
by the poets Of the daisy. Mr.. Whittier
WIS asked for contribution. He replied
as follows IL fear have never made the
daisy theme OF verse A farmer-bred boy,
suppose inherited the rural dislike to the
white weed which sometimes overran and
ruined our moving fields Yet / always
admired its beauty in spite Of its mischief,
and ] nowwish | had verse in its praise
to send thee.
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IN OIL GbpuJhouSN iCNNCt W VIII
ton while fulfilling reading engagement,
Charles Dickens saws: Come early in
January and see certain friend of yours
do the murder from Oliver Twist. 1t is
horribly like, / am afraid. | have vague
sensation of being wanted as walk about
the streets" Writing to the same friend at
another time, he says further, with regrrd TO
his readings: Il do not commit the muir
der again in London until Tuesday, March
3. have not read The Chimes for ten
years. am afraid it is little dismal, but
/ have shortened and frightened it as much
as possible. l hope you will come and see
the murder done"
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The London "Press News says: "Csx-
ton, the first English printer. had three
punctuation points-tbe comma, the colon
and the period but it is doubtful if he had
any idea Of the principles of punctuation.