St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-04-07
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Louise Chandler Moulton said to .
late interviewer: 'How many books
have I written altogether? / hardly
know. The work nearest to my heart.
however, is my verse. 1t is the inevita-
bic part-that which expresses the
real me-"
Mr.. Rusxin does not like bicycles
II not only object" he says, "but l am
prepared to spend all my best bad Ian
guaye in reprobation of bi. tri, and
four. five. six or seven cycles. and every
other continuance and invention Tor
superseding human feet on Gods
ground"
1T was Henry W. Paine, the emf
nent Boston lawyer who died the other
day. that made to chief .justice who
interrupted his argument with the re-
mark, MIR. Paine vou know that this
is not law" the quiet reply. lit was
law until your honor spoke" and pro
ceeded complacently with his srgu-
ment
ten. Lew Wallace is at work on q
fourth novel, the material for which he
has been quietly collecting for several
wears. He has been taking life easy
since he completed The Prince OF In
dia'' last summer. Gen. Wallace re-
fuses to say with what age or people
he will deal in his new work, nor will
l,e even say when he expects to have it
finished.
Queen Victoria has reigned longer
than any other ruler in the world, hsv-
| ing ascended the throne in 1887. Next
| 10 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.
DIR. Ludwig Behrendt, for many
years editor-in-chief of the "Beriiner
TaReblatt," died in the German capital
recently. He was born In Asgdeburg.
and after graduation from the ,.aiver-
sity began his life-work rs one Of the
editors Of the ''Magdeburger 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 Henry's commentary on
| the Bible was written for the common
people. and in the slang of the day. In
commenting ON Judges ix., he saws: I'VE
arc here told by wnat acts Abimeleck
rot into the saddle. He hired for his
service all the scum and scoundrels OF
the country. lothian was really fine
gentleman. The Sechemites were the
| first to kick him OF. They said all the
i'll they could Of him in their table
talk. They drank health to his coas
fusion"
in 1851 Thomas Gray published. at
the modest price of sixpencc per copy.
IAN Elegy Wrote in Country Church
Yard" One Of these original sixpenny
pamphlets, uncut. was recently sold
for seventy.four pounds A first edi-
tion Of ssThe Vicar Of WakeAeld''
fetched 6fty-four pounds, and Grimm's
/ German stories thirty-three pounds ten
shillings. A copy Of Tennyson's poems,
issued - the joint production Of the
laureate and Hallam. which it seems
probable belonged to tho latter, roal-
lied sixteen pounds ten shillings; Cow
/; erdale's Bible, thirty-one pounds, and
another more imperfect copy twenty
pounds ten shillings; Report Of the
Challenger Expedition, forty-eight
pounds; first edition of Wordsworth q
descriptive Sketches in Verse. twenty
six pounds; two proof sheets Of "St.
Romans WELL" with corrections and
additions by the author. twenty-one
pounds, and the original autograph oi
Burns Queen Msry's Lament" thir'
ty-five pounds ten shillingA