Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-03-29
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hurcly in Westminster Abbey, all ranks
wid conditions OF society were represented.
II has only been within lste years that
Browning has been the fashion. IL seems
strange that America should pay tribute
to his genius before his own country, and
IL Is also true our appreciation of his power
increases as time rolls on. II is said
Browning knew and fclt with pain his own
unintelIigibility. Thackeray acknowledged
he did not comprehend him, but he be-
lieved the fault 10 be In himself, not In
Browning. And yet he has been read
and loved by the masses, the peo-
ple to whom the problems of life
ara every thing. We believe with
Emily shaw Forman that there are many
"who yield TO Robert Browning larger
| place than TO his brother poet" Aud We
also believe with her that II Is because
| "tbey have found more sustaining
| strength, moro penetrating sympathy, a
more Jubilant note, in tho sweet cadences
and sad minors of the great laureate" His
| power In aptly described by an anonymous
| writer In tho February Atlantic, who after
saying he IL the most powerful realist in
| the representation of human life, who has
appeared in England since Shakespeare,
continues; " lie had a peculiar felicity in
rendering mysticism, In giving form to
vague feeling and int xpressing the words
| Of indefinite suggestion that music
awakens. He had an estate In the border
land OF thought and feeling, In the confines
of thought and feeling, In the confines Of
our knowledge, In the places that look to
the promised land"
Mn OSCAR FAY ADAMS Is the editor of
"Dear Old Story Tsllers," a collection of
classical stories just published by ID.
Lathrop 4 Co. The tales are from the
Arabian Nights Homer; Aesop; Mother
Goose; Charles Perrault; the Brothers
Grimm La Fontaine, the Good Edouard
Rene Lefcbre Laboulaye: Hans Christian
Andersen ;..Daniel Defoe La Motto Fougue,
the Valiant; and The Author of Paul and
Virginia. Among tho illustrations are:
The bust of Homer in the British Museum,
picture of Aesop after Velasquez, fac
simile of part OF the Arabian version of an
Arabian Nights Tale, portraits of the
Brothers Grimm, La Fontaine, Labou-
laye, Andersen, Defoe, etc.
Mr.. Adams writes that he intends to sail
for England late in May or early in June,
and will make tour of England and
Wales, writing series of descriptive
essays.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, by Henry Frederic
Riddall. Robert Bonner's Sons, New
York, publishers.
Last month the Ledger Library issued a
book on Henry NJ. Stanley, the great ox-
plorer. 1t contains sketch of his early
years, his life in tho Confederate army
during tho civil war, afterwards AZ cores
pondent of the New York Herald to differ.
ent countries, his search for Livingstone,
and finally his rescue of Emn Bey. To
/. any person wishing to read merely an out
line of Stanley's travels and career, this
work by Henry Frederic Riddall would
be highly interesting.
A STRANGE COMPANY, by Charles Fred.
erick Holden, author of "The Sorry
King" Living Lights" etc. d. Lothror
& Co., Franklin and Hanley streets, Bos
ton.
Charles +. Holden, the naturalist, ha,
prepared the present volume, " A Strange
Company" entirely for young people, in
the hopes that II will arouse their interest
In natural history. The author has devo
ted his whole life to this subject, and ha.
written many works on II. DIR. Holder
was for many years connected with Il,
American Museum of Natural History in
New York, and was sontJdt by the New
York AquariuE TO collect specimens; so
!. in STANCE Company ho not only
tellsis what he has acquired by study Of
l.ie habits of the animal kingdom, but
what he has actually seen. j. Carter Beard
has enriched the book by many illustra-
tions
| AFLoAr In THE FOREST. OR VOYAGE
AMONG THE TREE Tors, by Capt. Mayne
Reid, author of "The Desert Hone,'
"The Ocean Waifs," etc. A new edition.
Worthington N Co., ~ Broadway, New
York.
A new edition of "Atoat in the Forest"
Capt Mayne Reid, has recently been pub
lished. Besides many illustrations it con-
tains a sketch by Il. II. Stoddard of the
life Of this popular writer of stories of ad-
ventures which has made him SO dear to
the hearts Of the boys. From this brief
memoir we should imagine that his own
early life was as adventurous AS any boy
reader of his novels could desire.
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WAS EVER WOMAN IN THIS HUMou
WooEp2 by Charles Gibbon, author OF
"The Golden SHAFT" "Amoret," "A Fair
Mtiuoil, tNC', EaHh L. lJoNtil ~ w., NEW
York.
"Was Ever Woman In this HumoI
Wooed," by Charles Gibbon, is fair ex-
ample of the ordinary run of fiction when
the scenes are drawn from English coun,
try life. His story, however, reminds the
reader of great many things he has read
: n great many times, including the husband
who was reported to have perished while
in the wilds of Africa the wooing of tn,
! supposed widow through her child by the
colonel, the villain of the story, the. ap
pearanco of the lost husband and the un
earthing of the colonel's villainy.
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A Mr.. Butterworth tells the following
OF Longfelow in tho New York Tribune
81 recall spending an evening with Long
fellow in which he related to me the Incl
; dents of his life that had expression il
verse. Il wrote "A Psalm of Life."' h,
said, in my early years, merely AS an eX
preston of my own resolution, views, ano
feelings. did not intend to publish it.
put it away for myself. chanced to Civ,
ii to the press, and it went over the world
and was even put into Japanese art"
.ra
Mr.. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON and hi,
1 wife and stepson have arrived Mt Apia
{ Samoa. from tho Line islands. CORE
: spondent of the New Zealand Herald says
"These islands are the last resort of many
of the desperate characters that hav,
stamped their personality on Pacific islant
history. believe he has had a stirring
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