Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-08-02
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


thor, was educated for an engineer.
When boy Clark Russell, the
writer of sea stories, led a rowing life
and lived several years on the sea.
--Wilkie Collins is painstaking
writer and makes copy very slowly. He
is quoted as saying that he revises copy
seven times before giving it to the pub
lie.
congressman Breckenridge, of Ken
lucky, who is noted for his eloquence
as an orator, says that his favorite
books are the Bible, Shakespeare and
"Don Quixote.h 1t Is his custom be-
fore making a speech to read a chapter
in the Bible, and he usually chooses the
book of Isaiah.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe apparently
did not look upon her marriage as the
end of her school days, for since her
marriage she has learned to speak
French, Italian and modern Greek flu
entity, and has acquired profound
knowledge of the works of Kant, Hegel,
Spinoza, Comte and Fichte.
Mr. Charles T. Gunther, of Chi
cago, has one of the finest collections
of Bibles in this country, surpassed by
none unless it be the Lenox Library.
Among others he has Wycklyfr's and
the Bishop Bibles, and those strange
examples of errors in printing known
as the "Wicked," the Vinegar" :" and
the Brooches F" Bibles.
Mrs. John A. Logan recently wrote
in the american Magazine: 1.-THE first
absolute requisite for success in enter
tanning people and adding to the pleas
ures of life, is to have kind heart and
a real desire to make others happy,
and not be prompted by wish to dis
play our possessions for the unsatisfac-
tory qualification Of having them ad-
mired in our presence, and the source
from which they were obtained and our
taste criticised in our absence"
AT one time Carlyle and Mr.. Ar
mold were friends; and then-to put it
euphemistically they saw less of each
other A friend of both called on Mr..
Arnold ESQ runs the story and asked
him about the sage. "Oh, poor Car
lyle," said the prophet of culture,
"he is in his dotage." Afterward, the
same gentleman made some remark to
Carlyle about Arnold. Matthew Ar
mold" growled the philosopher,
"thinks God couldna' max anithcr
Matthew Arnold"
"A bookseller at Lyons, France, has
been issuing literary curiosity. Iti'
volume entirely of silk, to be pub
lished in twenty-five parts, of which fiji
teen have already appeared, at the price
of two dollars per number. The text il
woven in the silk. AS each number
consists of only two leaves, the whole
volume, containing the Roman Catholic
mass and number of prayers, viii
have only fifty leaves, round the Gothic
text of which every leaf has a special,
designed medieval border Both tex
and border are woven in black silk OF
a white surface, and the effect is said t.
be Every artistic"
The cost of publishing Mr.. Lowell
first book was borne entirely by him
self, the edition being plain one o
! five hundred copies. The author fel
the usual pride in his achievement, an,
hoped for almost immediate fame, bu
only few copies of the work wer
sold. Soon after fire occurred in tn
publishing house where the volume
were stored, and they were destroyed
AS the publisher carried a full insur
ance on the stock, Mr.. Lowell was abl
to realize the full cash value of hi
venture, and he had the satisfaction @
saying that the entire edition was eS
hausted,