Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26

MAJOR Powell enjoys poetry even
better than prose tictiOns, but he is
punctilious in the matter of art in
rhyme and rhythm in which respects
Whittier, Longfellow, Burns and
WadswOrth often sc use the judicious
to greve." He is intOlerant of Walt
Whitman and says, when | want ex-
clamatory emotional frenzy | prefer TO
90 straight to the Indians"
Thurman is a great reader Of French
romance but he is not content with
taking Hugo in course, but he wants to
90 back to the habits and romance rs
before RabelaiS and the Lorraine :.
His daughter. Mrs. Cowles, who lives
at Richmond, just out Of Brooklyn,
speaks French elegantly.
Henry Cabot Lodge has IL good many
fine books at home, it is said; to
Washington he brings only an obvious
acquaintance with them. He keeps up
his studies even i'll the midst of his
studies even in the midst Of his work
on the elections committee, and he al
ways reveals the possession Of fine
literary tastes and even skill-thc
art of putting things.
Senator BerIy's loss of a leg in the
army made great reader and student
| Of him. His tendencies are toward
| novel reading and ne especially likes
translation, Hugo and Balzac promi-
| nently.
Senator Edmunds has a well stocked
library in his big house on Connecticut
avenue and he constantly replenishes
| it. The library where he reads and
| u-1.itnl hos "a CT,nrin,,- hn -,
dow, Ornamented with nails. the heads
OF which are as big as trade dollars.
He knows French and German, and it
is alleged that he, too reads French
novels when he has time.
Senator Sherman has finely stocked
library CT standard books, but he prac-
tees the theory Of Gladstone: Never
read book till it is year old" He
buys all rare and valuable books on f.
nance and informs himself of their con-
tents. He knows the history OF prices,
and has theory OF his own about what
creates values.
Judge Lamar lost his fine library
during the war, but he is rebuilding il
with immense industry and discrimina-
ton. He possesses a keen, quick and
penetrating intellect, well stored with
classic traditions. He still reads hi.
Greek, with confidential doubts as 10
certain quantities. but if he has not the
attic taste OF Edward Everett, who
wanted to read his Virgil through "a'
least once year. he his perception
that would enable him to choose an au.
, thor better worth reading.
: Judge Gray, also OF the supreme
, court, has Massachusetts love OF lux
| ury, and he is found in the amiabIt
} emulation for the possession of hand
3 somely printed and bound books
: When the edition de luxe is in the mar
Y ket it finds in Judge Gray an admirer
: He reads French with avidity," and
it is reported that he has drawn from
a the congressional library a thousanC
J, French novels OF the better class in Tn,
Q last five years.
It Secretary Blaine possesses abou
/, everything that is considered ess entia
> in the way OF books; but it is said tina
e he personally buys little nowadays bu
y works OF history and politics.
8 The ladies of the present cabine
u circle seem quite able TO mold thei
d own IN society, but of their bookisl
II tendencies little is yet known in Wash
d ington. Mrs. Window, living wit
t. her family in the elegant mansion {
II Prof. Gardner Hubbard. finds hersel
. surrounded with an immense library
n containing some OF the rarest {