Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-04
-eesnNAl AND LITERARY.

,oooydine to Librarian Hosmer of .,.1.asonolis the public library of that ~. at the present rate of increase e'sH within short time be second or s'st es in the United States in the num- hsg s'sy of books circulated.
 g Andrew Carnegie will return to ,,... t,1rgb in the fall to arrange for the sa,.r5al ! ssI opening of the library which he v 'tp aive to his fe1low-citizens. From |, | counts, the institution promises < ~ be worthy it's great purpose and ht v ffs donor honor. The buildings VI ss oitv will be 230 900 volumes.
 VI f4aidde's Book .CaliguIa, which is ..,nosed to refer to Emperor William, had a wonderful sale in Germany. asr ,,.,s ..e one hundred and fifty thousand
 ;os have been sold already and sgTse9 s,'sao nrinting establishments are kept .., s.ase supplying the demand. The srI, gas2 is now in it's twenty-fourth edi-
 i nortrait of the late duke of Clar- s,Ae nainted by Mr. Alfred A. Poore, 4 4s,s artist. is to be presented to the asta M and duchess of York as s we'd s: s:.r qift from the officers of the Tenth is's Ss,,ssars The portrait represents the lafe duke i'll the magnificent uniform sf that regiment, and is admirably exc euted.
 Mark Twain says there are three s;afalliblen ways of pleasing an author:
 To tell him you have read one of his haaks 3. To tell him you have read all of his books }. To ask him to let ,,sn m read the manuscript of his forth sa.ninq book No. 1 admits you to his gsspect. No. ? admits you to his ad- ,oiration. No. 3 carries you clear into lis heart.
 - Lord Chief Justice Coleridge had in b;s possession an exceedingly interest ;ng collection of letters of Goleridge Wordsworth and Southey, which had Fsen addressed to his father, Sir John T. Colerfdge The letters cover. nearly theWh01e of the poets career, and be- ain with the appeal to buy his dis charge from the army
 Thomas Mast, the earicaturist. for mefly with Harper,s Weekly, and now nIondon on the Pail Mall Gazette, spent much of the past winter paint ine. His early ambition was to be an Historical painter before his great sue cess as eartoonist made him give up the brush for the pencil He has now Feturned to his old love, and has re- eentlY finished two large pictures of events in the late war
 Much regret is feltin Spain at the death at Madrid of Don F. Madrazo, one of the most gifted artists of Spain lie had reached the Biblical limit in aQe. Among his most famous pictures are Godfrey of Bouillon Proclaimed King of Jerusalem" painted in 1899;
 Marie Christine as q Nun at the Bed 0f Ferdinand VII, /" Women at the Sepnlehre of Christ. and many DOT uaits of Spanish a1istoerats.
 Queen Victoria presented the duch- esa of York with Two cradles for her baby One is of Wtitewood, and is the same bassinet as originally held the Empress Frederick of Germany. IL has an Inscription in silver letters to that eileet and also thal the queen gave it to 1he duchess of York in 1894. It is dtted up with white satin and Honiton lace The other cradle is made of ma hQgang with a rich gilt inlay. and is apAolstered in pale blue brocade Both afe furnished with sheets of Irish lawn edged with lace, and blankets as light as eiderdown, composed of Pyrenean W0ed