Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-09-21

.Txles from Town Topics" IL the title
Of q new volume OF stories, poems and
wlt..clsnls published BY the editors OF
the widely-known but not always re-
spected society journal Of New YORK.
While the journal IA question 10 ire
qnently feprsnsnsible IN 10 matter,
aud has often overstepped tie bounds
OF decency IN It's attempts 10 DC enter
tanning, nevertheless. il has gwen TO the
world considerable literature that % TOO
good 10 be lost, and this recent volume
contains much OF that admirable ma
tsrizl. The poem by the late Frances
:. saltus IS uncommonly good, with its
strong Byronesqae swing and color,
aud the stories and jokes. which are
found In abundance, are really among
the most effective that Town Topics
ever published.
In an interesting article in the
October scrlbner OH ''The Biography
OF the Oyster" whose life history We
have hardly before properly appreci-
ated. Mr.. Edward l.. Wilson, the we'll
known traveller and photographer,
glves the following figures as repre-
senting the work of but one of the I'M
portant centres OF the oyster industry,
1.-THE Delaware Bay and Maurice River
Cove Oyster Association" ofNew Jersey.
In the fall OF the year. when the busl-
ness is at its height, from thirty to forty
car loads leave here daily, each one
carrying away 100 sacks or barrels Of
oysters averaging 1000 oysters. Thus
from 100000 10 1900, 900 oysters are
shipped daily"
The Dardanelles incident has called
fresh attention to the danger OF the
PEACE Of Europe given Ivy the Russo
Turkish relations. The historian Ed
ward A. Freeman, who is perhaps tie
best informed student of the Eastern
Question in the world, is preparing an
article for The Forum on the Peace OF
Europe, III which he will set forth the
delicate relations OF all the European
Governments to one another regarding
this danger point.
One OF the sensations Of the year IN
the book world Will be Max RelPs new
volume of travels called "a French
man IN America" which will be pub
lished by the Cassell Publishing Conn.,
pany. New York, late in October.
Max O'Rell has notrepeased himself IN
this book. 1t is all as fresh and racy az
though ne had never written q line
about America before. In this book he
gives the humorous side Of his expert
enccs as a lecturer, and he has o good
deal to say about the people whom he
has met, both the interesting and I'M
interesting ones. +. w. Kemble has
made over l35 illustrations for Max
O'Raips story, and everyone who is
familiar with his inimitable work will
appreciate what an addition they will be
To tho book.
Melville D. Landon, better known al
cell Perkins," has put the result OF his
experiences OF thirty years on the lee
ture platform in volume which the
Cassell Publishing Company, New York
will soon have ready for publication.
In his acknowledgment, Mr.. Landon
says that he has listened to thousands
of anecdotes, "reminiscences, and funny
experiences from the lips of the follow
ing witty, wise, and eloquent thinkers,
now dead, among them Abraham Lin
coin, Charles Sumner, Generals Grant,
Sherman Sheridan, Admiral Farragut,
Beecber, Roscoe Conklng, Garfield,
Wendell. Phillips, w. r. Travcrs, Artc.
mus Ward, Nasty, Josh Billings, and
John q. SAKE. Among tho living
Chauncey NJ. Depcw. General Butler,
Horace Porter, g. W. Curtis. Jay Gould
Eugene Field, Mark Twain, O. w
Holmes. Bret Harte, and John Habber.
| ton have helped to make the pages Of
| his beck living reading.