Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-05-05
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Mn. G1ApsroNE's unappeasable appetite
for literature is indicated by the fact that
recent consignment Of books sent to MIN at
his request by a London dealor contained
several works in the Cornish language, an
account of religion in England IN Anglo
Saxon times Griesinger's history OF tue Tue
Jesuits. DIR. Stoughton's "Rehglon ia En-
gland Under Queen Anne, Adams p2oA oh
birds. a life of Cromwell an early EnsnS11
yIossarv and other mental pabulum OF
equal variety.
THE late Alfred Name, OF Tours, France
was the greatest publisher OF Roman Catho-
lie literature in the world. In less than
wear this establishment used up 4V,OJO
sheepskins in binding books in parchment,
and the mere sweepings from his glider
room was sold for $4,000. NJ. Name made
most Of his great fortune by cheap catechisms
that sold as low as three cents each, anu
leaflets and pamphlets required LOT puPlls VI
religious schools. On the reprouucuon Vi
illuminated missals and other expensive
publications of interest TO pooK colec'oiS "0
invariably lost money.
Mrs. Cleveland has pleasant little custom
of taking the President out rldlng every -.
noon He goes as her guest, and on tnese
occasions leaves all business cares Denlhd
him. Too make the President feel that ne IS
entirely his wife's guest, Mrs. Cleveland al
wavs uses her own carriage and coacnman.
The mistress of the White House has COM
nlete eauipage Of her OWE, ana even tne
pmonooram on the harness and the carriage
door is hers. and the letters are Z. T. u
Francis Folsom Cleveland. On these 01ca- ,
sions Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland go alone' lney
are not even bothered by Baoy RUIN, lu, anu'
the drive is generally as far INTO the county
as the length of the afternoon VIII permit
THE Rev. DIR. W. W. McVickar, VINO Is
prominently mentioned for the succession "
! Phillips Brooks as Bishop OF Massacnusee's,
was horn in New York about forty-seVeh
q vears 400 He received his education at
rohtu,bia College and at the Phlladelpnla
nivinitv school. His first parish was tue
Church of the Holy Trinity, Harlem, whehce
he wos called TO succeed Bishop Jaeger, Oh
southern Ohio. in the rectorship OF the holy
Trinitv in philadelphia. He has been there
for eiShteen wears, and has been great sue
eess both as pastor and teacher. Bishop
Rrooks was rector OF Holy Trinity from looz
TO 1869. and five years after he lett tne Gnu ~
DIR. McVickar assumed the rectorsnlp "ni0n
he has held ever since.
Miss LUCY LARcoM, whose recent uea.h az as
he age of 67 the literary world ana iaIs
,ircle of personal friends are deplorlng, was
comnlete contrast to the typical spinster;
] Her AmDlb 10TH anu hODANf 49,
face gave her motherly look, Whlch her
man6er. always cordial and interested, con- con,
armed. She was very fond OF Monticello
seminary, in Illinois, where while she taught sdd
,he also studied. She frequently declared
hat that institution was, at the time she at
ended it, by far the most progressive @ on,
for women in the United States. sne wa
dearly beloved by her pupils at Nneat1l
Seminary, fine old school for girls in TN
vicinity of Boston, and their gathering
we're never considered complete without her
= Miss Larcom was thoroughly welded Z
New England, and as with all true New Eng
anders, Boston was the centre oil her ear.n, H.
ideRs and aspirations. Not many years az
| sbe Maid visit to New York. and conlesse'
! shudderingly that she was very uncomfort'
= HE there. "New York seems hownn
( wilderness to me" she sighed, "and ION
r 70 Get back to Boston, where | know JUS
: what and where everything is"