St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-11
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.


an Englishman who lately visited him,
Mr.. Whittier expressed his surprise
that his guest should know SO much of
S-is poetry by heart. I WONDER he
said, thou shouldst burden thy mem
ory with all that rhyme. 1t is not well
to have too much of it; better get rid of
it as soon as possible. Why, can't re-
member any Of it. once went to hear
a>w1lderful orator, and he wound up
bis beech with a poetical quotation,
and I clapped with all my might. Some
one touched me Oh the shoulder and
said. Do you know who wrote that?' I;
said, No. l don't; but it's good" 1t
fault is, have written far too much. l
wish half of it was in the Red sea-"
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Town Topics asks: ''Who shall say
that the days of CEesterfeldian chiv-
airy and repartee are dead? A story
comes from Richtield Springs of Edgar
Saltus, who. in his most epigrammatic
mood, is. nothing if he is not moyen-
ageur. A pert and pretty miss, struck
by the gloomy sOlemnity OF the master,
as they are commencing to call him, was
egged on to invite Mr.. Saltus to run
Faces for peanuts. She was met by
polite. though astoniShed refusal. A
moment later she returned to the charge,
amid the giggles of her contemporaries.
'Mademoiseiie,' answered the master,
to r-refuse you once is tito express a
regret; to refuse y-yOu twice is to re-
sent an impertinence.' And thence
forward the Anatomist of Negatlon was
left i'll peace"
Of Miss LIE Row, whose little book,
English as She Is Taught" has been
SO widely attributed to Mark Twain.
Current Literature says: ''She is a
plump, dark-skinned little lady, with
the most bewitching of dimples in her
rosy cheeks. She has an abundance of
| dark hair. in which silver threads be-
gin to appear. and her clear, olive COM
pIexion and bright eyes tell of that rare
possession, good health. Her heart,
BRAN and soul are bound up in the
cause of school reform, and having
been for many years teacher OF vocal
and physical culture, she knows
whereof she afiirlns. On this subject
her pen is never idle, and her tongue is
always ready to plead for the welfare
of the children. The dedication of her
forthcoming book, ITO the Fathers and
Mothers of America, 10y one who loves
their Children" expresses her char
acter.
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The Paul Prys of the literary world
have discovered that most of the news
paper gossip about Amelie RiyeS-Chan-
Ter has been misplaced. The lady has,
it seems, a sister whose eccentricitieS
have been famous in her neighborhOod
from the time she put on long dresses.
About nine-tenths OF the cratic per-
fornanceS laid to Mrs. Chambers door
are her sisters peculiar property. Mrs.
Chanler has been living sort of double
personality. In reality she is a quiet.
industrious woman, who spends most
of her time at her desk. Hysterical as
her writing has been, her daily life is
prosaic. and furnishes no food for COM
ment to those about her.
q Among the most excellent publica-
tons recently issued by Rand, MeNally
u Co., Chicago, are two tranSlations-
one of Elm G0ttesurthell by Werner, or,
AmericaniZed. Danira, and LIE Maitre DIES
FORCES. by Ohnet. Both are in conven-
lent form for travel-reading or to be
slowed away among the heavier tones
of the private library:
We have had the Boy Hunter, the
Boy Monarch. the Boy Pirate and a host
Of other similar boy prodigies, and now
to serve as the cap sheaf for them all
Frank A. MunSey issues The Boy
Broksr, or Among The Kings of Wall
Street. A hasty glance at the contents
provokes the question if this new ''boy
phen6menon" is after all better type
than the one of our youthful days who
between yellow covers slaughtered In
dianslby the score while. fescuing hap
| less maidens? There are parents who
by peculiar kinks in theirmorai natures
Wodld prefer their boys to be pirate
kings rather than mOnarchs in Wall
sflyes Frank A. Munsey u Co., New
York
"Mrs. Bishop, if your child is healthy.
and you are as wise as think, you will
have little trouble with a crying baby;
but remember, baby's digestion has
everything to With'its health, ETC., ETC."
| The nepenthe that Andrew Lang cries
out for in novel reading and writing
becomes dose of Castoria in Molly
Bishops Family, by Catherine Owen,
the opening sentence of which is quoted
above. We shall have our medicine
books issued i'll novel form yet, and be
beguied to calomel through the mazes
of a love story. Mothers with large
families in prospectus OF visible can
| read this book with absolute impunity.
Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Boston.
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In the Good Company series, Lee &
Shepard, Boston. have out, Religious
Duty, 10y Frances Power Cobb, and
| The Wishing Cap Papers, by Leigh
Hunt. Of her work Miss Cobbe writes:
THE treatise On religious duty con-
tanned in the present volume is designed
as contribution toward a vast object
| the development of TheiSm as relig
! ion for the life no less than philosophy
for the intellect" More cheering than
this weighty proposition are the charm
| ing papers of Leigh Hunt, containing in
| themselves all of the man and wit. One
comes back 10 what Leigh Hunt has
written as he would to an old friend
| glad to see the sunny face again and
hear the merry voice.
Oliver Optic is at it again. just as he
tickled all of us dec a,ie agois he enter
| tanning the new generation, making
friends among the children OF those who
children once themseiveS-Were his
First lovers. His last series (six vol
umes)is The Blue and the Gray, the
first volume entitled Held by the En-
envy. Lee IL Shepard, Boston.
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But with all this influx of new books
almost carload Week-Robert Els
1 mere persistently holds its own, and. al
though under the ban in England, none
the less popular here. The books re-
ception in the West, where the tenden-
cies are stronger to accept the new and
break with the old, would be naturally
welcome. Strangely enough, with the
women I.angham appears to be the ia
vorite character. 1t is questionable if
many women are capable OF full appre-
| citation of Elsmere, and it would be folly
| to ask them to understand Catherine,
1 since it is woman'S chief aim to miSun-
derstand her own sex. But the slam
/ "a 1,oI.rat, fano