Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-02-15


Three separate editions Of "Doo't have
appeared in England With m aggregate sale
OF 10.O0O copies In America the sale OF the
work has been IS, 600 copies, making . total
for the two countries Of. rs, 900 copies.
In the February Brooklyn Magazine
the Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage thanks the
many good friends foe the kind and con-
~pimen,sry things said on the occasion OF
his .6fy bird birthday. The magazine
seems to have come 70 stay.
stPhilosophiR Questor; or, Days at Con
cord" Is q UNIQUE book, in which Mrs Jalia
K. Auagnos, one Of the daughters OF julia
Ward Howe, presents, in = pleasing nara
tive. a sketch OF the Emerson session ofthe
Concord School Of Philosophy.
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The Authors at Home paper in the Critic
Of February I, IL George Bancroft st
Washington, Mr.. Banerofts age Is now
~. lie has 3 vivid recollection of having
discussed Goethe with Byron at Montenero.
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The ninth volume Of stories By American
authors just published BY Charles Serb
ner's Sons, Is made memorable by c. ID.
Whites wonderful story, FIJI" which sp-
ptsTed in the Century" in 1881. The other
contributors are Thomas Nelson Page,
ChsTles s. Gage, Milicent Washburu Shlnn,
CAM. Roland L. Coffin, and Leonard Kip.
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Il is said in London that the letters Of the
late Lord Lytton are likely to see the light
in England after all Some of the copies
sent out in advance Of the injunction were
sent, il seems TO this country. After beng
printed here they can then b taken to Eng
land and cold there, as no copy right was
taken out in England in consequence OF the
injunction.
The prominent magazines OF London
have already arranged for reviews OF the
biography OF George Eliot Lord Acton
has in preparation the article for the Nine
teenth Century; Frederic Harrison will
contribute the notice in the Fortnightly,
sud John Morley will review thetwork IN
Mscmillau's Magazine. The writer Of the
Edinburg Review notice will probably be an
eminent novelist
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One Of the rare volumes by Increase
Muther turned up in y strange manner re-
Gently in London. A bookseller assistant
vas passed on the street by q man With a
wheel-Asrrow load OF books, n OF which
at that moment fell 10 the ground. Pick
ing il I'D the assistant recognized it IS the
Msther work. and asked the price. oh,
t~hIuppence, i suppose, will do, said the
nan. The money was promptly paid aud
rbe book jOyfully carried away. The value
Of the copy is estimated at from $40 to $50.
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In one of the letters from George Eliot,
which Mr. Cross prints occurs this sentence;
i have seen EmersoR-the first man l have
ever seen. She then relates q story which
she says Miss Bremen got from Emerson.
Carlyle" she relates was very angry with
him Emerson for not believing in q devil
and 10 convert him took him among all the
horrors of London-the gin shops, &C.
and finally Il the House Of Commons, ply
ing him st every turn with the question
Do you believe in s devil nooy'
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In addition TO the articles on the engage
ment between the Monitor snd the "Merri-
mac" written By officers Of both vessels,
which are to appear in the March number
of The Century, Captain Ericsson is writing
q paper to be printed III an early number OF
the same magazine, making record of the
circumstances attending the invention OF
the Monitor" and treating also OF the en-
gagemeut in Hampton Roads.
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The March Century will contain an ar
ricle on the Soudan, written by Gen. K L.
Colston, formerly Of the Confederate army,
snd later on the general staff of the Egypt
ian army. In the latter service he com
msnd two explorations in the Soudan, travel
ing on all the principal caravan routes, and
spt nding two years in the towns and among
the tribes which are frequently mentioned
in connection with Ell Mahdi's rebellion.
Tie article will be illustrated with more
than twenty pictures.
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Some of the prices obtained at the sale Of
the Herman Library, in London, were these,
many of the books being extra illustrated
"Di6oin's "reminiscences" $50; Dickens
"Grimaldi," extended TO four folio volumes,
$50; Fields Yesterday with Authors" 700
extra illustrations, Esq; Edwin Forrest"
By l.. Barrett, only 100 copies printed, large
paper, Ell; Nell Gwynne's Life" by Gun
nirgham. E49; Hawkins Life Of Edmund
Kean," EI6; Leigh Hunts Lord Byron
e25; Boaden's Life OF Miss Jordan El9
IOs; Edmund Eesn's Life" BY Hawkins,
El5, bought for Mr.. Irvipg;) "Machlin's
Lite" by Kirkmsn. E6I; Matthews
Memoirs" by C. Mathews, E23; Millions
''POems," l645, els; Moore's Life Of Sher-
idan," eli; the late II. J. Byron's set of
Punch, So volumes, a reprint of the original.
Gl2 lOc. q fine copy Of the second folio
Shakespeare, E38; for an American; q fine
COPY of the fourth folio f43; Shelley's
Queen Nab" elS; SheEley's "Adouils,"
first edition, esq also for America; Camp.
BELLS Lite Of Mrs. Siddons," Ell. The
DAYS sale brought cI,6lo l5s. Mr.. Her,
mans own estimate Of the cost Of his books