The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-03-24
PERSONAL AND IsTERARv.

Louise Chandler Moulton said to .
late interviewer: "How many books
have I written altogether? I hardly
know. The work nearest to my heart.
however, is my verse. 1t is the inevita-
bic part-that which expresses the
real me-"
MIR. Kuslzin docs not like bicyclcs
II not only object he says, "but am
prepared to spend all my best bad Ian
guage in reprobation of bi, tri, and
other continuance and invention for
superseding human feet on Sod $
ground
1T was Henry w Paine. the emf
nent boston lawyer who died the other
day, that made to chief Justice who
! mark, MIR. Paine you know that this
is not law the quiet reply, lit was
law until your honor spoke,' and pro-
ceeded colnplacently with his argN-
lnent.
-Gcn. Lew Wallace is at work on .
fourth novel. the material for which he
has been quietly collecting for several
years. He has been taking life easy
since he completed The Prince of In.
6ia'' last summer. Gen. Wallace re-
fuses to say with what age or people
he viii deal in his new work. nor will
lie even say when he expects to have 1t
finished.
than any other ruler in the world. hav-
ing assembled the throne in 1887. Next
to her in point of time are Emperor
Francis Joseph Of Austria and Fred
erick, the grand duke of Baden. The
youngest crowned heads are the little
queen of the Netherlands, who is thir-
teen, and the king of Spain, who is
seven and half years old.
DR.. Ludwig Benrendt, for many
years editor-in-chief OF the 'Berliner
Jageblatt," died in the German capital
recently. He was born in Magdeburg,
and after graduation from the 1.Iiiver-
sity began his life-work one of the
editors of the ''MaEdeburger Zeitung.'
He was writer of force and poet
whose verse is full of feeling. His
translation OF Horace is considered one
of the best in the German language.
Matthew HenrE's commentary ON
the Bible was written for the com mon
people, and in the slang OF the day. In
commenting on Jud Ses TX. he saws: I'VE
are here told by what acts Ahimsleck
got into the saddle. He hired for his
service all the scum and scoundrels' OF
the country. lothian was really a fms
gentleman. The Sechemites were the
first to kick him off They said all the
i'll they could of him in their table
talk. They drank health to his con-
FUSION
In 1851 Thomas Gray published. at
fnS INQUEST price OF SiNPehCS IScI COPY
AN Elegy Wrote in a Country Church
Tard.'' Ono of these original sixpennr
pamphlets, uncut, was recently sold
for seventyfour pounds. a first edi-
ton of THE Vicar of Wakefield"
fetched ffty-four pounds, and Grimua'e
German Stories thirty-three pounds ten
shillings. copy of Tennyson's poems.
issued the joint production of the
laureate and Hallam, which it seems
probable belonged to the latter, real
lied sixteen pounds ten shi1lings: Cow
erdsle'S Bible, thirt y-one pounds. and
another more imperfect copy twenty
pounds ten shillings; Report of the
Challenger Expedition. forty-eiEht
pounds; first edition of Wordsworth's
Descriptive Sketches in Verse, twenty
six pounds: two proof sheets of est.
Romans WE'LL" with corrections and
additions by the author. twcnty-one
pounds. and the original autograph cf
Burns Queen Mary's Lament" thir-
ty-tive pounds ten shillings.