Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-01-15
One Dollar Per Year,
Personal AND LITERARY.

"A sistcr-in-law OF ono OF the best
known and distinguished members OF
Parliament keeps fashionable lodging
house in London, where in the season
majority Of the patrons are Americans
Among the unpublished Thackeray
manuscripts now offered for sale In
London arc notebook containing
! 200 fragments OF unpublished verses,
scrap-book with 400 tracings and sketch
lngs, and an album OF sketches.
Lady Martin Miss Helen Faucit)
IN whose pew Browning used to sit
when visiting tho little church at
Llanbysilio, Wales, whom he spent the
autumn OF 1856 at that place, has had a
memorial tablet put on tho church with
the inscriptions: I'm memory OF Robert
Browning, poet, born 1912, died 1889,
who worshiped in this church ton weeks
in autumn, 1885, by his friend Helen
Faucit Martin"
--Jo Howard says of Henry Ward
neecher: II have seen him hundreds OF
times take bis letters from the post-ot
fee, open them as he walked along tho
street, continue opening them in houses
whore he called, and, in other words,
attend to his own business. That Mrs
lIeecher opened some OF his letters Is
quite likely, but to say that it was tho
regular procedure, shedetermining what
to answer and what to throw away, is
simply silly." Esssxi
"A selection from tho correspondence
Of the late Queen Elizabeth OF Prussia,
wife OF King Frederick William w., is
10 be published toward the end OF next
year. 1t will be edited by Empress
Frederick. A large collection of the &C
complished Queens letters was madeby
Emperor Frederick, who intended to
publish number of them. He had also
proposed to write a short biography OF
his aunt, for whose intellectual quail
ties ho had the greatest admiration.
Tho London Literary World says
shat during one of his recent sailing
trips fire broke out in Mr.. r. L. Stew
snson's cabin, and the burning things
we're hurriedly carried on deck or flung
into tho sea. Suddenly Mrs. Stevenson
saw two OF The crew with burning box
which they were about to cast over
board. fortunately she was in time to
save it, or all Mr. Stevenson's literary
notes for many months past including
the greater part of story being writ
ten under contract for "a, 900, and much
Of the history of the island which is for
tho future to be his home, would have
been irrecoverably lost
While Evangelist Moody was thun-
dering strong truths into the hearts OF
his hearers at Buffalo n. Y, recently,
an aged deacon who sat near him on the
platform kept interfering audible and
fervent "Amens" and Goods" "a man
with principle is a man to be admired
above many Others" roared out Mr..
Moody. That's true, "mumbled out the
deacon in tones of rapture. The evan
gelist turned around instanter and
shouted in his mellow voice: True, OF
course it's truc. What do you suppose
I'm telling here tonight, lies?" The
poor little deacon subsidized.
DIR. Holmes tells in the Atlantic
that he has 'just cleared the eight.
: barred gate" and taken step into a
field which few como within sight OF
and still fewer enter. Tho genial doc
tor says women grow old easier than
men, and this is strain from his "De
Senectute:" 20, If we could all 60 out
OF flower as gracefully. as pleasingly,
as we come into blossom! / always
think OF tho morning glory as the love
lest example of graceful yielding tc
tho inevitable. 1t is beautiful before
, its twisted corolla opens; it is comedy
as it folds its petals inward, when it,
! brief hours of perfection are over"