Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-15
GOSSIP FROM BOOKLAND.

Quite good article on the Harvard and Yale boat race is to be found in Harper's for July. "The Observations of Hsrvard Man," by w. A. Brooks, M. D. "Ihem's the Harvard 's" is the expression given knowingly by the small boy.
 If the reader has ever handled a sweep in a Varsity race he will know how each man feels while he waits for the start. ahere he is with his feet firmly pressed ahsattnst the stretcher, his knees slightly ered "un witt the blade of his sweep just cov- snrino srei "hen he nncatter. nnccsatter. At the 'Go' like his shoulders, shove with lis legs, tsars his blade from the water, rushes forward, and digs the water again. Three strokes and there is headway, fourth and he can feel the need of slower work and longer r pulls. He hears nothing; he sees nothing His mind is a bank.' Few of us pFosal young fellows experience such exciIeihens iel,s uneventful lives, and yet there Is the en- thusasm and love of sport and dash bre in our very bones which makes this oe- scription of the boat race delightful reading, and runs high over. the experiences so graphically depicted. ''The Evening Party,' by Grace King, who has written some charming stories or He as ioun9 ln New Orleans, is an uneventfui llttle char- acter study of nervous mama's and happy; to nass inc evening at a soiree. The third paper of s'My First Visit to New Eng land, :" by William Dean Howells-humor- ous "reminiscences of his early meetings with Dr. Holmes and MT. fleios anu Lowell.
 Urea was the meal people asked people to | when they wished to sit at long leisure | and large ease, it came at the end or the | monied domesticity in the abundance oi 1 it's light dishes, and I fancy these did not vary much from east to west, except that | we had a southern touch in our frieo chicken and corn bread; but at the Auto crat's tea table the cheering cup had a l flavor unknown to me before that day. He | asked me if knew it. I said it was Eng fish, breakfast tea. 'Ah yes, he said, but ! this is the flower of the souchong; 1t IS the blossom, the poetry of tea.
 | If you belong to the unfortunate stay at | home class during these hot, sultry days | very large class, by the way-With our | comfortable trains running at Dayonet | points, giving entirely too much plquancy and flavor for the easy going American tourist, so if you must remain at nome ana idly rusticate during business hours, pc, ruse magazine justly called outing,
 which makes it's appearance among us eacn ,, quality and refreshment to be found m pe- rusing the descriptions of ..Sport Wlth IT. linois Bass, ., by Allister Knox Stewart {; the delightful aud exciting expeTlences in "A Day in Catboat," by Ed w.. Sandys; "Lsnz's World Tour Awheel,. gives some unique incidents found in riding through China, which is entertaining and calcu- lated to lift one's thoughts above the monotonous cry, "Hot weatherl'
 sAfter a long series of hardships ane perils, Lenz has at last reached Constan.l- nople and is on his way to vienna. No one who has not read the still unpublished narrative of his adventures A9 the moun- tains beyond IIsaths4ngs IIsathhsa4ngs-z and in the heart of
 Burrss15 can realize what the achievement 1l0f his great feat signifies"
 An especially interesting. article In the Cosmopolitan is "Beauty," illustrateo py M. E. w. Sherwood. In the first part she says, "Beauty has done much to disturb the eighteen Christian centuries. Not tdyna- mite has done more to disintegrate, to tear up, to destroy, than this immense power.
 But phe further says styles Of beauty come and go like styles of dress, and every age has it's face and every country It's type.
 There are charming illustrations or the noted beauties of various times. Madame le Brun, from the painting by herself; Marie Adelaide de France, by Nattler; the Marchioness of Ely, by Sir Thomas Law rance; Henriette de Bourbon de Cont, by | Ma Ii. r; Lorna Doone, by w. Woutner,
 pes that vary and beauties that made th ir ma rk in this old worlds history. l Give me but what that ribbon bound,
 | Take all the rest the world goes round.'
 s.Be u y is far more admired and flat