Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-10-30
One Dollar Per Year.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Rider Ilaggard's first book was a
complete failure. 1t was "Catewayo
and His White Neighbor." He made
$40 on his second, Dawn"
Sir Edward Guinness, the big Dublin
brewer, is to be raised to the peeragc.
One of the family has already got there
under the title of Lord Ardilaun,
The first order for the Carnegie free
library in Pittsburgh is for 5000 vol
umes, and it will require nearly six
months to fill it, as books go out of
print so rapidly.
--Ismael Pasha, the ex-Khedive of
Egypt, is practically prisoner at his
residence on the Bosporus, The
Turkish Government recently refused
him permission to go to Carlsbad to take
the waters for his health.
The Empress Frederick has, be-
tween her jointure, her husbands fort
une and the Duchess of Galliera's be-
quest an income of e7O, 900 year The
English taxpayer has had to contribute
fs, 600 year to her support for the past
thirty-three years.
When the Queen had read ."Alice in
Wonderland" she personally solicited
its author by letter to send her another
of his charming books" Then the
droll gentleman, who Is fellow OF
Christ Church College, sent Her Males.
ty his treatise on the "Differential Cal.
culus"
The number OF volumes added to
the British museum library last year
was 50, 500; of these nearly 10000 are
new books received from the publishers
in pursuance of the English copyright;
4, 695 volumes have been presented, and
no fewer than 1860 acquired by pur-
chase.
That mysterious quality called
gift strikingly revealed itself in the
childhood of the distinguished French
artist, Nine. Jeanne Madeline Lemaire
As soon as the little girl could move
about, pencil was her greatest joy, so
that even at the age of five or six she
busted herself in making pictures"
B. L. Farjeon the popular novelist,
was once newspaper man in New Zea'
land, where he was the proprietor of
small newspaper. A friendly letter
from Dickens turned him in the direc'
ton of underwriting, He is married to
a daughter of Joe Jefferson, the actor.
and one of his young boys has caught
the gait and mannerisms Of Rip Van
Wrinkle from seeing his grandfather
play the character, and is able to pre-
sent good imitation of the original.
Whenever Gladstone gets down to
garden truck and talks simple things to
simple people the Conservative press
has fun with him. Lately he talked to
the folk about Hawarden about poultry,
eggs, fruit and tame rabbits, and
showed them there was profit in their
cultivation. Awhile ago he had some
thing to say about jam and fruit pre-
serving in general whereupon 'the
quantity of strawberries brought into
Covent Garden this season shows an in.
crease.
The Critic says that a scholarly
Philadelphia journalist writes to 1T to
say: would it not be interesting to
find if any one writes Newman? He is
undeniably the first stylist of the cent
ury, but ! never meet any one who
reads him, and do not believe there is
an author of his rank so little read in
the Libraries" Whether Newman is
read by journalists, or widely read by
any class, we can not say, but that he is
deeply read by those qualified to appre'
oiate him we know to be true among
our own circle of acquaintance, and sus'
spect to be the case generally.