The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-18

spend All Unusual amount of money, with excel
dent ever understood better than Mr. efferson the
art of entertaining; yet his table cost him no ex-
cess cessiye sums: For the best champagne he paid
he paid dollar, and the Madeira which was
drunk in pipes at the White House cost between
fifty and sixty cents bottle. His French cook
and cook s assistant were paid about four hun
dred dollars year. On such scale his salary
modern money" Yet when he "atttempted 2 to to
settle his accounts he discovered that he had ex-
ceeded his income. Not his expenses as Presi-
dent, but his expenses as planter had dragged
him down." AT Brentano's.
1.-THE Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" by
jerome *. Jerome, is delightfully."- desutory
collection of essays on nothing in particular
Its pages are full of a mild quaint humor that
gently stimulate the risibilites without stirring
to actual laughter Perhaps the book is all the
more fascinating and re-readable because of this
graceful moderation. The dedication gives the
keynote of the pages. 1t is ito my very dear
and well-beloved friend who seems day by day
more drawn by me, and, in return, to more and
more impregnate me with the odor of his
friendship-to the friend who never tells me
or my FAULTS never wants to borrow money, and
never talks about himself-my Oldest and strong
est pipe" The titles of some of the essays are
On Being Hard Up" "On Being Idle" ""On Cats
and Dogs" ION Babies" "On Furnished Apart
ments" Such a gentle humorst could not be
without his pleasant melancholy but this comes
in softly and almost nsensibly, like the sigh that
careful and graceful; Altogether it is 1 Volume e
away and leave the reader in freshened state of
mind; n II can hardly fail to have wide circulation.
IL is NO. in the Idle Hour Series' of Henry
Aitemus, Philadelphia, and may be had in this
city of j. G. Parker, Seventh street. 1t is neatly
bound in paper, with an illustrated cover, and
printed on thick paper with wide margins.
The greatest literary sensation of the winter in
Paris was Camille Flammarion's astronomical
romance. II raQie " of which tha CnESall
ing Company are the American publishers. Up,
to the present time M. Flammarion has been
known as the foremost astronomer in France, but
now he has become at a bound one of her most
popular romancers. There is no escaping from
the fascinations of this book. 1t is such a story
as one might imagine that Jules Verne and
Richard A. Proctor could have written had one
put his imagination and the other his science
into the same pot and got II. L. Stevenson to stir
the attention of the student and enough plot and
love story to interest the general reader. Mrs.
self, has put NJ. Fiammaro3s deiisbtfnI Frenc6
into charming English.
The May arena contains an attractive list of
twenty articles by eminent writer's. Rev. Heber
Newton discusses in his forcible style "The
Dogmatism of Scence;' Canon Fremantle has
some strong words to say on God in the Govern
ment" Rabbi SCHNEIDER writes on 1.-The Divine
Problem" from the Jewish standpoint "and Pro-
fessor Joseph Rodes Buchanan has Il fine article
on THE Cosmc Sphere of Woman" Lawrence
Groulund, the Socialist; Professor Alfred Hen
nequin, Professor N. S. Shaler, John III. Keatley
and Henry A. Hartt, NJ. ID.
1.-The Adventures of Skeleton" broadly
grotesque story by Beecher w. Waltermre, is
among the late issues in Ogilyie's "Peerless
Series" which is printed in large, handsome
type,
Wilkie Colius's last story, "Blind Love-"
late issue in j S. Ogilvie's wel-prnted "Fireside
Series" 1t may be had at all the book stalls.
No family should be without a crate of r.
Portner Brewing Co.'s celebrated beers.