The Irish standard., 1886-06-12
MULTUM In PARVO.

MULTUM In PARVO.
George Bancroft, the historian, is the
senior living doctor of laws of Harvard
College.
James Payne, the English novelist, is
said to be strikingly like Talmage in per-
sonal appearance.
Wilkie Collins is not ye1y rapid
| worker, and seldom writes more than ten
pages of manuscript day.
The New York World was originally
started as a daily religious paper, under
the editorial charge of j. Watson Webb.
John Ruskin is of slight build, with
gentle blue eyes, and modest in manner,
but a brilliant and charming conversa-
tionalist.
Whittier has been much pestered by
women. One wealthy widow actually
proposed to him, and other women have
made violent love to him without avail
Miss Mary A. f. Robinson, whose "Life
Of Emily Bronte" which attracted wide
attention, is described as slender, deli,
cate young girl of passionate enthusiasms.
Thurlow Weed never made a dollar
until after he was fifty. Horace Greeley
was poor as church mouse until abo:1t
the same age-or until after the Tribune
became q success.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is as ready to
pop up at dinner and read his poem ON
the occasion as he was thirty years ago.
And the poems have grown rather longer
as the years roll on.
Theodore 1ilton's once fair brown locks
now hang over his shoulders in ragged
ttengles OF gray, his eyes look heavy and
jaded, and there are deep wrinkles all
over his face. Moreover, he is growing
fat and commonplace looking.
Whistler, the London artist who has
become famous through his tsnocturnes"
and symphonies IN color, is an American
by birth, and the quiet, rocky old town
of Stonington in Connecticut can claim
the honor Of being his birthplace.
"Daniel Webster is not loquacious,"
Carlyle wrote to Emerson in 1889, :'but he
is pertinent, couclusive; u dignified. per-
fectly-bred man. AS a logic-fence!. advo-
cate or parliamentary Hercules one would
incline to back him at first sight against
all the eXtant world"
Before her novel sdTranville de Vigne''
was written, Ouida was an unknown
her magazines stories She now receives
seven thousand dollars down for a novel.
Her name is Louise de La Rance. Her
father was Flenchman. She lives in a
villa near Florence.
london binders often get orders to fill
library shelves by the running yard. TO
do this cheaply they bind up patent. office
reports in handsome covers and back them
:+I
.'Walpole's Letters which are subse-
quently put in bookcases, the keys Of
which are conveniently lost.
II. r. Haweis tells the following anec-
dote of John Richard Green: "He was
full of quick discernment, and I remember
one night his reading out some passages
of Swinburne's then new hook Of Poems
and Ballads selected by the Athenmum
for scathing ridicule, and saying, This is
the greatest master of poetical language
since Shelley, but he can't think"
A comical incident is related Of an emf
nent English noblenan who was presiding
at press dinner. He concluded his few
feeble remarks by proposing the '.health
of Gutenberg Some one pulled his coat
tails and whispered that he was dead. II
regret" continued the notleman. stto an
nOuUCc luHU lnGGulBSnCG HAS .jtiSt UGcA lc"
ceived that Gutenburg is dead"
A lady with fetal squint came once to
6. fashionable artist for her portrait. He
looked at her and she looked at him, and
both were embarrassed. He spoke first:
s'Would your ladyship permit me-" he
said, tsto take the portrait in profile?
There is a certain shyness about one Of
your ladyship's eyes which is as difficult
in art as it is fascinating in nature"
Oliver Wendell Holmes attributes his
years and good health to an early morning
walk or horseback ride before breakfast
He was naturally OF q delicate constitu-
ton, and when he married Doctor Jack
sons daughter the father-in-law said to
him: elf you have the necessary physique
to stand horseback riding, do it; if not
take an early walk each day" He scrnpu-
lousy followed the advice.
A gossipy writer in the Troy Press says
OF Bret Harte's father, whom he met years
ago. when he was & private tutor of two
of his playmates: II remember him we'll
Il very pleasant gentleman. He married
a girl out of the mill. She was one Of the
most beautiful girls ever saw-as hand
some as doll but had no education. Her
husband educated her, and she became
one of the finest ladies in Hudson"
The publishers of a German novel re-
Gently did neat thing in the way of
They caused to be inserted
in most Of the newspapers a notice to the
effect that a certain nobleman of wealth
and high position, desirous of finding a
wife, wanted one who resembled the
heroine in the novel named. Thereupon
every 1narriageable woman who saw the
notice bought the book in order to see
what the heroine was like, and the work
had an immense sale.
Charles Dudley Warner, as an instance
Of what is regarded as successful author
ship, cites the history of bookmaking
venture undertaken at the request of the
publishers. For the sI4ife of John Smith"
he received 500 advance money This he |
paid away for obtaining information from
original sources in England and for the |
expenses of copying. When ne received
q statement from the publishers. he found