The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-07-01


/ don and the author 81 : He 81 him pub
printed from General Stewartand EuMahdi
along with 0therimportant documents and
maps twenty-five thousand dollars = sait
TO havebeen paid BY the English publisheri
Tor the copyright.
Harper & Brothers publish this week .
story entitled "Upona Cast" byChariott'
DunninE, q new writer Of considerable
promise. The scene is laid in > quiet httle
country town on the banks Of the Hudson,
within q few hours' distance Of New York.
The plot has been constructed with no littas
skill, and the characters-an Of them inter
esting and worthy OF acquaintance-are
portrayed with great distinctness. The
book is written in an entertaining and
yiyacious style and is destined to provide
entertainment for q large number OF read
ers.
The city Of Buffalo enjoys the distinction
of having given to the country two Presi-
| dents, Willard Fillmore and Grover Cleve-
land. It is usually thought Of as q modern
| and rather u~npicturesque city, but q paper
| which is to appear in the July number Of
| Harper's Magazine viii correct this mis-
taken impression. It is one OF the bril-
iantly illustrated papers on leading Ameri-
can cities which that paper has been giving.
| and it is understood that q paper on Hart
ford will come later in the year.
Some of the finest buildings in India prove
to be the work of Mohammedan builders
during the period of the prevalence OF that
religion, as is Interestingly shown by an ar
ticle to appear in the July Harper'son .sThe
Mohammedans in India" In this will be
given a number of interesting Illustrations
of their towers, mosques, palaces and tOmbs,
wonderful in the richness of their detail. It
is noteworthy that it has fallen to an Amer
lean, Lockwood DeForrest, to revive Indian
arts in the establishment OF a company OF
native carvers at one Of the Indian art GEN.
tiers.
Henry O. Forbes work, "a Naturalist's
Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago
which is about to be published by Harper
& Brothers, form a notable addition to the
library OF travel and scientific research.
The book embraces a large and varied field,
the explorations which the author de-
scribes having extended through the Cocos
or Keeling Islands, Java, Sumatra, the Mo
luccas and Timor Liant. 1t will rank with
Darwin's ''Voyage OF the Beagle and
Wallace,s "Malay Archipelago" The inter
est of the volume is EXCHANGED by a large
number of illustrations, including q colored
f%rontpiece, and by several w~ell-executed
maps.
The etching which Mr.. Garrett has made
for Mr.. Rideling's forthcoming book on
''Thackeray's London" represents the
great novelist at ~three-quarters length in
the easy, i~nsouciant attitude which all who
saw him will remember. The book will be
published by Cupples, Upham & Co., imme-
diately. Mr.. Rideling says that the house
in Young street, Kensington, where Vanity
Fair" ''Esmond" and ''Pendennis" were
written, is occupied by a gentleman upon
whom the literary associations ofthe build
ing are not lost. He has placed IN orna-
mental window in the study, which Thack-
cray occupied, and commemorated the
work done there by an appropriate inscrip-
ton.
A b~iographer OF the late Rev. Mark Pat
tison recounts some of the rector's over
remarks to women. He wal visited
by a young lady who wrote well, but who
his opinion talked less well. He resolved
to admonish her of this defect; but instead
of trying in any of the thousaud-and-one
ways to hint, while commend
ing her writings, that more wal now
of her discourse, AudandO Praci-
Dere, as Bacon would have said, he embar-
raised her by the blunt rebuke: Your
conversational utterances arefeeble." The
following abridgement of an account which
ne gave of his meeting an American young !
ady at a foreign table ThOte reproduces
lis characteristic sayings almost, if not
1uite, verbatim: "She was only 10. but
she knew everything. She told me the exact
of affection which the Princess
. has for her future husband, and she
ave me a full account OF the divorce laws
If all the States of America. She appealed
20 me sometimes; of course l agreed. At
asst she asked me whether 1 did not think |
the could write a book, and I told her that
she was the most ignorant girl l ever met.
But 1 took care to say so in such a way |
she couldn't mind it"