St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-19
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

DlSeXudl, ana GnaE CnlS Is Wnat is meant
| by the words, God formed man in His
own image. When the fall of man came
in the Garden of Eden-whieh, by the
way, Mr.. Oliphant says was the lost
| continent of Atlantis-it was the admis-
sion into the hitherto pure organism of
the human being of the principle OF
lust. Prior to that time sexual passion
was unknown. From the date of the Fall
| the process of separation between the
masculine and feminine principles went
| on until men and women became as dis
| tinct as we know them to be to-day. Ii
was during this change in the race that
| the idea OF duality in sex of the Godhead
| was lost. Mr.. Oliphat claims, however,
tnat IL was all the while concealed un-
Ger the Writings of the prophets, and
| tnaI from Tune to time men appeared
who were sufficiently inspired to under
| stand it.
i recall very good story of Joaquin
Miller in California, says writer in
Current Literature, which has never
found its way into print. 1t is pretty
we'll known fact that his daughter does
not hold her gifted father in that adj
mlratlon with which the world regards
MIN. he left her among the Indians too
long. 1t spoiled her temper and
dWarfed her appreciation of genius. a
few years ago joaquin got out an edi-
ton de luxe of his poems, which
he embellished with likenesses of
hlmSelt In various picturesque costumes
and attltudes-"Mr. Miller among the
Sierras;" ''Mr. Miller Shaking hands
with the FlllibuSter Chief ~" Back view
OF Mr.. Miller on horseback" and so on.
One plate he generously reserved for
his daughter, Miss Myrtle Miller. She
had the post of honor in the middle of
the book, and was seated on a prancing
mustang, her hair flying toward the top
OF the page and lurid-light effect be-
hind her. Joaquin sent a copy to Miss
Miller with his distinguished autograph
on the fly leaf. She glanced through
the book: appreciated its contents; ran
a pencil through her own name beneath
the wild and reckless female, and writ
ing below it "Mr. Miller when he was a
girl" sent it back to him.
Lester Wallack is to put some of the
sunshine of his life into Scribner's
Magazine. In series of papers soon
to appear in it, he will tell of the men
he has met in his varied life, and of the
best that they have said and done.
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In an article called ..Some Days with
Amelie RiveS," published in LiDpin-
colts and written by some undergradu-
ate of Flattery, initialedJ ID. H., writes
| critic, there occurs this passage: 'sln
the face of scurrilous paragraphs which
have limited at every kind of belief, it is
| but just to say that Mrs. RiveS ac-
knowledgeS and reverenceS the God
who has so lavishly endowed her with
| great gifts" This patronizing graft
| rt of MrS lo,. ~
be very satisfactory to her Creator.
Julian Hawthorne announces another
work as the result of his curious lit
erary partnership with Inspector
Byrnes. 1t is to be called "Another's
| Crime" Speaking of it, the critic of
the Mail and Express says: "a title
which enables the authors to shift the
blame from one to the other in case the
story should be found fault with"
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Lippipcotts are to issue new novel
by Amelie RiveS in September.
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| Extravaganza in binding has fire.
quently furnished an opening for the
display of fantastic tricks and fadS. In
booksellers catalogue was once an
advertisement of Latin copy of Apu.
lelu'S Golden ASS" bound in the skin
of an ass. A book relating to Jeffrey
| Hudson, the celebrated dwarf, was
bound i'll piece of the silk waistcoat of
| Charles L. FOX'S historical works were
bound in fox skin, and Bacon'S works
were dressed out in hog skin. One
offspring of the French revolution was
the grim humOr of binding books in
human skin. France was not alone in
| this practice. In various parts of Eng
| 1on nd fhn Oh Nf L..
tanned and used to bind books. The
public library of Bury st. Edmands has
a book containing the account of the
trial of man for murder bound in his
| own skin. Eccentricities of binding in
such as skins of cats, crocodile, mole,
seal, wolf, tiger, bear, etc, abound.
The use of cloth in binding is one of
| comparatively recent date. In 1885
Archibald Leighton introduced cloth
| for covers, the first books so bound
being Byron's complete works.
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| Gen. Sheridan's article entitled "From
Gravelotte to Sedan," to appear in the
| November number of Scribner'S maga-
ever made by Gen. Sheridan to period
ical, and covers part of his career
which it was impossible for any other
| pen than his own to record.
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The article does not deal with the mil.
| itary technicalities of the battles, except
| for occasional signs of very ShreWd OBJ
servation; but is written upon a larger
scale, as though the dramatic force OF
what he was watching could not but get
the better of the merely professional
point of view. This gives the story per
hapS its greatest attraction, and certain
passages show a remarkable and unex
| pected power of word painting.
|
The Langtry, in the eyes of her para.
site friends, having successfully run
the gamut of matrimonial desertion,
scandal, champagne drinks and nasty
| displays of her nakednesS at public
| places, is considered ripe for the writ
ing of bOok-memOirS that will fall
but little short, in their estimation, of
that of Remusat.
If to be bad and yet to gain wealth,
hold social position, and be the play
thing of a wealthy snob, is the only
preparatory course required of authors,
then the Langtry will shine in the world
| of letterS-a realm yet untainted by her
| presence.
Literature may have its Lama as
we'll as Society, and why not then the
Langtry?
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| W. S. Walsh, the editor of Lippincott,
in letter to the Critic, denies the cur
rent reports that The Quick or the
Dead" was severely cut into by the ed
itOr before publication. He says the
manuscript was ''set up exactly as re-
ceived, few alterations here and there
were suggested in proof and acceded
to by the authoress, but the entire
corrections would not altogether
| have made so much as four lines of
| printed matter" He remarks that ssOme
| people have even carried their vanity or
| their malice so far as to invent imagin-