The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-20
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

MIR. Edward w. Box tells in tho
Boston Journal Of one magazine editor
who literally handles his manuscripts
with gloves. 80 fearful is lie OF coE-
tagion from some disease that may bof
transmitted through the paper.
Miss Susanna Warie!d, w,.o COM
posed tho Grand Inaugural March
played ait the Inauguration Of William
Henry Harrison. died lately at Grove
lard, her estate near Sykcsyi.ie, Car
roll County. Md, in her ninety-ffth
year.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes decided
after the death OF his wife that ho
ropid DO no more literary work. Ho
has changed his mind. however, and
nnds in the monthly letters TO the At
iartic source of pleasure that no did
not expect to again experience.
--A writer in tho Writer takes cxccp-
tion to the usc Of such phrases as nom do
plume (Which by tac way IS declared not
10 bc good Frcncb) AMI nora de guerrc
and sur le tapis, pgcferring the English
equivalents. lie says that sGr le tapis
should rot 10 translated ION tho car
res," but ION the table," as it signifies
the green baizo with which tables arc
covered.
--Franccs Berry Whitchcr is scarcely
known By name TO the present genera
tion of American readers, yet she arote
one Of tho most popular books OF her
t.mc. '.1hc Widow Eedo.t Papers. sho
was bocn in Oneida County, u. T.. in
ISL, AMI died there in 1852. In 1917
~, III E.,tgn Il
clergyman. anil |, was the pecullaritics
Of his t,cc.z which sLc portrayed in her
papers.
Tho amateur authcr2ss is generally
difficult ID please This is especially
triie af ladies' who aabbie IN literature.
Quite recently bluc-stoelin.. accord
Ing to the Printers Register, had tho
usual Hoy proofs sent her for correc-
ton. Size was inssch gratslcd, Tut still
not altogether happy. Presently
ste mildly vcntascd to suggest that tho
Y book might be printed on bett-r paper,
and perhaps, too. it would bc an adsan-
\ tage ii the pages were mot quito so
\ long"
/ There IS a great run in England on
letters Of literary people. At recent
sale thirtyiye dollars was paid for
note in which Tennyson excused him
salt from attending a dinner to which
he bad been invited. and q letter OF
Sheiley's. referring entirely to pess
matters, brought one hundred dollars.
4 A letter of Lambs, in which he said,
4 Il am recovering, God be Iraised for it,
I q hcaltAiness of mind something like
4 calmncss, but | want more roligion,S
brought ninety-fve dollars.
Lord Justice Coleridse is ono OF tho
best takers" in England. Every
one" saws writer in tho New Review,
knows his silvery yo.ce, and that per-
feet cloca.ion which prompted 4 COM
pe.ent iadya Of such matters TO say: I
should enjoy listening 10 Colar.dgo
even If he only real cut . page OF
s'Eradshaw.-' 10 these gifts must be
added an immense stoec OF varied
knonlcdTc; q genuine enthusiasm for
whatever Is beautiful IN literature CT
art. great copiousness Of appropriate
;anecdotc, and natural power Of exact,
yot not offensive, m,nicey."
Jules Verne can travel 70 moro,
prevented Ly the accident which befell
him four year, ago when fayurieo
.4ephcw went mad suddenly and Sao. at
tho novelist One Of the bullets Lit
:l..n in the lc-. and the wound has never
neaisi. He Il consequently unable to
walk much. His forthcoming boGk is
called Tho Journey Backwards ani
describes trip through the north Of
America and Alaska ami over tho
babring Straits. Verne Is now at his
sesenty-foGrlh novel. lie writes two
every yea-. lie gets through certain
amount OF work every morning, never
missing day.