Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-25
LITERARY ODDS AND ENDS.

In France the copyright of an author
is for life.
Dir. SMIbEs says: "I never studied the
art of composition. I read O multitude
Of tho best books, and from that sup
pose learned to compose
Mrs. CAROLINE ATHERroN BRfGcs
MASON. who wrote tho popular song, "Do
They Miss Mo at Homer" died recently
ut tho Worcester Mass Insane Asylum.
She was born in 1923.
VINO is ready to pay $4,000 for 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: "If q
man has any thing to- shy 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 moro than
no should have n good purse without any
money, or good scabbard without any
sword For my part always scorned
the very idea of forming II style"
Wilt. CARLETON is reported as having
recently said: "Other writer's of verso
have laid great stress on the artistic
faculty which many of them have pos
sesscd in an eminont degree, but with
mo tho aim has always been first and
last to reach tho heart of the peoples
and to say those things which should
both entertain and mako better. hope
l have not altogether failed in my eff
forts. would rather appeal to tho.heart
of man than to his intellect"
SOME Juvenile efforts of Browning's
which wcrc lately sold in London, were
accompanied by this letter from his
father:
BANK. March II, 1919
"IIc has not tho slightest suspicion TINT any
OF his very Juvenile performances nrc In exist.
cncc. l have several OF the originals By me.
They arc NIL cXtCnIP lrhncous productions, nor
has my ono u single alteration. There was one
amongst them 'Ol Bonuparte,' remarkably
bcautifu-cnl had I not seen It in hi own
handwriting never would have believed 1t to
have teen tho production of q child. 1t Is de.
stroyCd." ,
MONSIEUR BIossI, q contemporary of
Nultafrc, wrote great number of pieces
for tho thcatcr. most Of which were so
loosely written that they were COM
pressed by the performers into farccs or
pieces of ono act. Biossi was much
mum hO ouCu tItHGHltHI, anu ONO u1y
when a full piece of his was cut down
from thrco acts to ono he could no Tong
or rofrain.. "Zounds, gentlemen" no
cried, "if my plays are to be hacked and
hcwcd In this manner, what shall l do
to have picco represented in five acts?"
Voltairc, who was behind the scenes at
tho sifmo time, replied. "Writc it in
eleven, and perhaps you may succeed"
BEFORE Stanley left London on his.
last expedition Sir John Ponder
gave him copy Of Burhs's. poems. Sir
John in recently writing to Mr.. Bryce,
says; "When I met Stanley in Egypt in
the spring had not been in conversa-
ton with him many minutes before no
reminded me Of the little copy Of Burns
poems, and no said it had been great
source of comfort to him; nc had read
1t many tintes over, and he believed
there was no better thumbcd book in
existence than that little volume. IIe
said that Burns was sucn child of
nature, and that no was so much in
sympathy with him, that many times no
was rot only deeply touched, but greatly
Encouraged by tho pcrusal of tho POEMS /"