Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-11-29
LITERARY ODDS AND ENDS.

IN France the copyright of an author is for life.
 DR. SMILES says: ''I never studied the art of composition. read multitude of the best books, and from that I sup pose learned to compose"
 MRS. CAROLINE ArHERToN BRIGGs MASON. who wrote the popular song, Do They Miss Me st Home?" died recently at the Worcester (Mass.) Insane Asylum. She was born in 1923.
 WHO is ready to pay s3,OOO for a set of books? That is the price put upon each of the few existing sets of John Gould's Birds" The forty-three vol umes of each set are elegantly bound and fitted into carved cabinets.
 GEORGE MACDONALD observes: eff man has any thing to say he will man age to say it; if he has nothing to com municate, there is no reason why he should have good style any more than he should have good purse without any money, or good scabbard without any sword. For my part I always scorned the very idea of forming style"
 WILL CARLETON is reported as having recently said: "Other writers of verse have laid great stress on the artistic faculty which many of them have pos sessed in an eminent degree, but with me the aim has always been first and last to reach the heart of the peoples and to say those things which should both entertain and make better hope have not altogether failed in my eff forts. would rather appeal to the heart of man than to his intellect"
 SOME juvenile efforts of Browning's which were lately sold in London, were accompanied by this letter from his father:
 BANK. March il, 1s43
 ''He has not the slightest suspicion that any of his very juvenile performances are in exist ence. have several of the originals by me. They are all extempOraneous productions, nor has any one single alteration. There was one amongst them On BousparJe,' remarkably beautiful-and had I not seen it in his own handwriting never would have believed it to have been the production of a child IL is 6e- stroyed."
 MONSIEUR BIossI, a contemporary of Voltaire, wrote great number of pieces for the theater, most of which were 90 loosely written that they were com pressed by the performers into farces or pieces of one act. Biossi was much hurt at such treatment, and one day when full piece of his was cut down from three acts to one he could no long CT refrain. Hounds, gentlemen" he cried, If my plays are to be hacked and hewed in this manner, what shall I do to have piece represented in five acts?" Voltaire, who was behind the scenes at the same time, replied: ''Write it in eleven, and perhaps you may succeed"
 BEFORE Stanley left London on his last expedition Sir John Fender gave him copy of Burns's poems. Sir John in recently writing to Mir. Bryce, says: "When I met Stanley in Egypt in the spring had not been in conVersa- tion with him many minutes before he reminded me of the little copy of Burns poems, and he said it had been a great source of comfort to him; he had read itcmany times over, and he believed there was no better thumbed book in existence than that little volume. He said that Burns was such a child of nature, and that nc was so much in sympathy with him, that many times he was not only deeply touched, but greatly encouraged by the perusal of the poems"