The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-19
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Charlotte Perkins Stetson, the Bos-
ton writer and artist, is granddaugh-
ter of DR.. Lyman Beecher.
The oldest medical work, an Egyp'
tian papyrus dating from I, 500 years or
more before Christ, and containing pre-
scriptions then old, has been translated
by George Ebers, the German novelist.
George Augustus Sala, the British
journalist, is a man of small eyes, red
cheeks and sharp nose. He gets $1O,-
600 year for contributing four editori-
ais week to the London Telegraph.
One of the latest Mexican biblio-
graphical lists mentions no less than
twelve thousand volumes, by three
thousand native Mexican authors. The
first book printed on this continent was
published in Mexico.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, author Of
"Robert Elsmore," says that the belief
of the founders of the new social and
religious organization, OF which she is
the head. is that "a simpler Christianity
can oe effectively taught that will both
touch the heart and direct the will"
Mr.. Gladstone is the largest book
buyer in London. AS he desires to see
every new publication of consequence
on every subject, and wishes to read his
own copy only, his enormous library
has become monumental collection OF
what Mr.. Venus would describe as ''the
human various"
The late George H. Boxer the Phil
adelphia poet, was pronounced in his
youth by N. P. Willis, who spoke with
authority, to be the handsomest man in
| America. His intimate friend, Charles
Godfrey Leland, says that the busts of
Byron were remarkably like Boxer
though Boxer was the finer looking, and
in figure much more imposing.
DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes is COM
peeled to relinquish all correspondence,
except with intimate personal friends.
''My sight is getting imperfect" he
writes to friend, ''and the fatigue Of
writing is wearing upon me; and, al
though it will cost me an effort, l feel
that, in justice to myself, must throw
off the load, which, at 'threescore and
twenty is too much for my old shoul-
ders.''
-Longfellow is credited with the fol-
lowing remark by Mr.. Butterworth, to
whom it was made: II wrote "A Psalm
of Life in my early years merely as an
expression of my own resolutions, views
and feelings. l did not intend to pub
lish it. l put it away for myself. 1
CHANGED to give it to the press, and it
went over the world, and was even put
into Japanese art"
Mrs. General Grant has girls fond
ness for candy, and she always has a
box on her writing-desk while engaged
in writing. She is at her desk three or
four hours daily now, being engaged in
the preparation of memoirs and corre
spondence, in which she is assisted by
her son Jesse, who came back from Cali
fornia, where he was engaged in mining
and farming, for this especial purpose.
1t has several times been stated in
the papers lately that Fenmore Cooper
was 1.-The favorite novelist!' of Wilkie
Collins. This is quite untrue, for his
favorite was Scott whom he took every
opportunity of declaring to have been
the greatest novelist that ever lived, and
even in point Of popularity he placed
Dickens second to the author of IVA
verify" Next to Scott, but at a consid
erable distance behind him, Dumas pere
and Balzac occupied high places in Will
kie Collins estimation.