The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-03

early magazine articles has just expired,
and many of them will soon be given TO
the public.
9Jo I'm Bach McMaster, the historian,
is accused by the literary critic of the
New York Tribune of grotcsque mimicry
of Macaulay.
Songs and Ballads of the Old Planta-
tions, by Uncle Remus, is the title of
Mr.. Joel Chandler Harris's new volume,
now in the press of Ticknor & Co.
Mr.. Howells is going abroad to spend
the winter and spring in Italy and Swift
zerland. His literary work will not be
interrupted by this arrangement:
In the celebrated collection of rare
curiosities to be found in the Dresden
Gallery is wonderful Mexican manu-
script with hieroglyphics curiously
painted on aloe leaves.
Sh0kspearean0 informs US that there
is Shakespeare Society in Quincy, ILL.,.
composed of thirty-fve young ladies',
and that extensive plans have been laid
out for this years campaign.
That famous old Wing quarteely, The
Edinburgh Resie@, may be expected
shortly to appear as monthly at half-a-
crown. 1t will aim at being more lively
and entertaining than its present editor
has made it.
\ useful companion volume to Men
of the Time will be T. Humphrey
Wards Men of the Reign 60 bio
graphical dictionary of notable person.
ages of both sexes who have died during
the reign of Queen Victoria
Tennyson's many ardent admirers will
be gratified to learn that his volume now
in press will contain no long poems, but
will include several short ones which
have not previously appeared
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes to a
Toledo friend that she has completed
romance upon which she has been en-
gagged for the past two years, and in
which she has something to say about
the freedom of the press.
Novelist Gable remarks that he never
saw ali argument against woman suffrage
that was not flmsy. The best argument
against it is that the sensi) de women of
the country are not clamoring for it, and
would be slow to exercise it if it were
conferred upon them.
The English admirers of Walt Whit
man have stated frequently, and with
rather unpleasant emphasis, that the
good gray poet" has few friends in this
country, and none among the literary
men of Boston. Yet last week, just
after Whitman received a gift of money
from his English friends he was made
the possessor Of a handsome horse and
phaeton, which had been paid for by
nearly twenty American gentlemen.
Among these were several authors
John G Whittier, John Bowie O'Rcilly,
r. W. Glider, and others, most of them
Bostonians.
Mr.. Hughes, a boiler maker, who has
spentmuch time in thinking how hard it is
to get up and light the fire on cold morn
ings, exhibited lately the contli-
vance by which he does away with tire
hardship. The invention. which is pat
ented, is tin clock, which can be set
| like an ordinary alarm clock. If you
want your fire started at 6 you set the
clock for that hour and put it on little
stool before the stove CRATE. At 6
spring moves, bringing down with a rush
a short metal rod projecting from the
back Of the clock. A match is fastened
to the rod so that it will rub against
piece of sandpaper and go off. A strip
of paper fastened to the clock connects
with the kinding in the CRATE, lights the
fire, and there you are with warm room
to get up in. A second continuance in
the clock can ring an alarm and wake
you up as soon as the fire has had time
TO warm up the room. The clock was
made to work repeatedly and never failed
Mr.. Hughes says he used it OH his stove
all last winter.