Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-04
LITERARY ODDS AND ENDS.

! THE father of Edgar Saltus sold Louis Ne poleon the guns with which he won the bat tle of Solferino , THE United States, Holland and France are said to send to England the largest sup plies of alien literature. :.
 LORD TENNYsoN asserts that his coming volume of poems will be his absolutely fare well contribution to literature.
 , A LITTLE church has been built by the ladies of Grovetown, Ga., as memorial to Paul H. Hayne, the poet, who made his home there
 . A MEMORIAL is to be erected at Canter- bury to Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabeth an poet from one of whose dramas Goethe built up his tragedy of "Faust." Among the subscribers to the memorial are George w. Childs, H. H. Furness and James Rus sell Lowell
 : AN effort is being made to get Oliver Wendell Holmes to write an autobiography. He refuses on the ground that his works al- ready tell as much of himself as he cares to have the pub lie learn, and that he desires to spend his remaining years in comparar tive idleness.
 GEORGE BEERS, the rival of Rider flag gard in Egyptian romancing, is fifty-two years old. Heis professor of "Egyptology" in the University of Leipzig, and he took to | capacitated him for better work So his ,biographers put it.
 AN eccentric bibliomaniac who died re- gently in England, leaving highly valua~ ble library, refused to allow a book in 1t over certain size, and absolutely excluded any thing written either by clergyman or a woman. They had no business with liter ature, in his opinion, and were incapable of achieving success in 1t.
 DR. HoRAT1us BoNAR was the writer of some of our sweetest hymns. Among them, 'Fade, Fade Each Earthly Joy," ''I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say," II Lay My Sins on Jesus," IA Few More Years Shall Roll" and Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping" One of his religious tracts reached circulation of 750, 900 copies. IT is said that the editor of Harper's Magazine selects for publication each year about seventeen short stories and rejects annually between 16,000 and 16,000. It is also said that the yearly cost of publishing the magazine, not including the printing, but merely what is paid for writers, artists and engravefs, is $260, 900.
 THE manuscript journals of David Living, stone, from which his first work, "Mission- ,ary Laurels and Researches in South Afri ,ca" Twas compiled, are said to be missing and his sisters are said to be the more anxious for their recovery from the circum stance that Livingstone declared that out of these journals he could write three books as large as the one actually published. MRS. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE was very poor when she wrote ''Uncle Toms Cabin. , The last chapter was written in the office o1 her publisher in Boston. 1t was cold win ter morning, and she arrived at the store half frozen. She stood over the stove hal an hour before shewas sufficiently thawed tt hold her pen. Three months from tha time she received check for $1O, 900 as th' first payment on the sale of "Uncle Toms 6ahin.H
 'tNo MERCHANT adventurer, no manufact prer, no silver-mine proprietor" says Mir Walter Besapt, in describing his ideal au thors future, ''would be richer than tha American or Engishman who should sue ceed, as Charles Dickens succeeded, i, grasping the prize of universal popularity When once an international copyright ,ant an equitable plan of publishing have beer achieved, wealth beyond the dreams of tn
 biggest brewers vats will be his."