The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-04-26
Charles Reade.
The Deceased Novelist.

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Charles Reade, the eminent English nov
elist, who died in London, April IL, was
born in 1914, at Ipsden House, Oxfordshire,
England. His father was an eminent
scholar, and his mother lady of unusual
intellectual strength. He was educated at
Magdalen College, Oxford. After gradua-
ton he read law, gained Vinerian fellow
ship at the University of Oxford, in 1912,
and was called to the bar the year after.
He never practiced law, but adopted liter
ary life, occupying its earlier years in
in writing for newspapers and magazines.
His first novel was Peg Wofhngton,"
published in 1858. "Christie Johnstone,"
issued the same year, was we'll received.
at is Never Too Late to Mend" produced
| in 1856, dealt severely with certain abuses
of prison discipline, and created great ex-
citement. Henceforward every work from
| Mr.. Reade's pen was welcomed eagerly.
The list of his works includes, in addition
to those already mentioned, The Course
of True Love-" "Jack of All Trades"
'Love Me Little, Love Ne Long," Z" White
Lies. F" "The Cloister and HEARTH" which
| is, perhaps, the ablest of his books; Hard
| Cash." "Grifith Gaunt," "Put Yourself
in his Place. and GA Terrible Tempta-
tion." His pen has proved exceptionally
powerful, dealing incidentally with social
wrongs, and severely condemning their
| perpetrators.
Few writer's, if any, have covered wider
| range than he in the variety of fiction origi-
mating in the view of motives and impulses
arising from other passions than that of
| love-
Charles Reade was successful dramatist.
He published "Gold i'll l843, the first of
his plays. Masks and Faces" "Two
Lovers and q Life" and "The Kings
RIVAL" followed at intervals. Several of
his stories have been dramatized, notably
"Grifith Gaunt," by Augnstin DAILY.
American readers will remember Mr..
Reade's suit against the New York Times,
because it had characterized "Grifith
Gaunt" an immoral production. Six cents
damages were awarded the irate novelist
by the jury sitting on the case. The de-
| ceased writer was man of great force and
originality of character. He loved and
hated with vehemence. His pen was far
from being squeamish, for it wrote the
truth, and he was unquestionably great
master of the knowledge of human nature.
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In the animal and vegetable kingdoms
are found two distinct forms of fellowship
in which dissimilar organisms live con-
stantly together. In one form-that of
parasitism-oDe of the associated organ
isms lives at the expense of the other, as.
for instance, the mistletoe on the apple
tree. In the other form, the advantage of
the companiorship is mutual, as in the
case of the well-known hermit crab, one
species of which picks up An empty shell
for an abode and shares this and its food
with sea anemone, which in its return
protects its host by means of numerous
long threads charged with stinging acid
which it shoots out on the slightest alarm.
By experiment at Naples thas been proven
that the compact between these two part
ners is SO close that one is indispensable to
the other. A still more remarkable illus
tration is drawn from the candle-nut tree
of South America, which forms an alliance
with a species of small black ant, to their
mutual benefit. To this curious partner
ship, which appears to exist among many
animal and vegetable species, but which
naturalists are only just beginning to study,
the name of symbiosis has been applied.
At the last meeting ofIGerman naturalists,
Prof. Hertwig pointed out that such inter-
dependence of organisms may have played
an important part in the development of
species.
Mons. Pasteur has been continuing his
researches on rabies, or hydrophobia, and
believes that he has now succeeded in rem
dering number of dogs secure from fu-
tnre iiahilitv tn the disease hv the ntan of