The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-22

sardonc hunorist it is needless to dwell. In his PHI
iosophy there nothing really positive construct
i've, any more than there is in that OF Swift"
AN interesting "Reminiscences Of the late Colonel
Burnaby appears in the Publishers Circular lie was
rather fdgety in the matter of proofs, and was in
state of feversh impatience until ne got them That
he did not write for literary effect may be inferred
from the following. On OCCASION when slight
nelegancy Of style pointed out to him. he wrote
You arc probably right about the repetition. :
write as | talk and do not pretend to have any
STYLE You the only person who has remarked
about the repetition of the word l have let two or
three people look at the proofs. They are not
nected with the press, but are average mortals.
call them my Foolometers. They like the book. /
think they represent the majority of the reading pub
lie"
Mr.. LABoUcHERE does not believe in letting the
fortunes that men make live after them-in undivided
entirety. II would not allow he says, ANY to
inherit from another beyond certain sum. Let us
suppose this were 600, 900. and that man
dies leaving fortune Of a1,000,000, and three
children. 20 per cent. succession duty would alb
serb 100000. There would then, after each child
had inherited 100000 remain $500 600. To
share this he would have TO find five persons. Thus,
instead OF one son having nearly million and two
sons tribe is the result of the mode in which rich
men now leave their money, the state would come in
for 5000, 900, and eight persons would have very
comfortable provision"
EDITOR LABoUcEERE, of the London Truth, says:
I'VE begin our education at the wrong end. Instead
of examining child with Latin grammar at the age of
SIX we ought to teach him French, German and Ital
ian while he is young enough to master the pronunc
ton correctly. Then as sort of extra polish let
he bnc md ta1c ct,.dv T,ati
and Greek, beginning, say about the age of fifteen If
he has no aptitude for these dead and practically
less languages, let him at abandon them. By
idotic system, make boy waste the whole of his
school days in vainy endeavoring write languages
which he most probably detests and then expect him
to pick up French and German as he best in the
course of long vacation tour abroad.
FRANCES, second wife Of James Russell Lowell, was
daughter of Captain John Dunlap, leading merchant
of Portland, Me-, and niece of Robert p. Dunlap
Governor of Maine from 1884 to 1888. While Mr.
Lowell and his first wife were abroad in 1S21-'52
their daughter NOV Mrs. Edward Burnet was left in
the care of Miss Dunlap. She married to Mr.
Lowell in September, 1867, the year in which he ac
copied the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly just
started by Phillips Sampson & Co., of Boston. Mrs
Lowell had serious attack of malignant typhoid
fever five years ago, while in Madrid with he
husband who was then United States minister to
Spain After several days of critical illness, her
physician pronounced her dead but it discovered
that she merely in a comatose condition. and with
great she finally restored. After slow
valescence she able to rejoin Mr. Lowell in Lon
don whittier he had in the meantime been transferred
as minister but she never fully recovered from the
effects OF this experience, and this account
corded special audience when presented to the
Queen She leaves children.