Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-19
50 Cents.

Sonality of Lee prevailing the atmoS- phere around old Washington and Lee university. Every student was on his honor. Not one of them would lie. You have some idea of what college boys are and what many of them will do. They will stop at nothing in their pranks. Yet students at that university have convicted themselves of pranks that caused their expulsion because they could not lie when brought face to face with General Lee. He was absolutely pure man. if ever one lived. He neither drank, chewed nor smoked, nor ever used vulgar language. He was a clean man.
 Washington was his idol. He pat termed bis life after that illustrious patriot. Tn his very bearing and person ality he reminded one of Washington. You know how closely he was allied with the family of Washington. The name of Washington university was changed by the Virginia legislature to that of Washington and Lee university General Lees wife, Mary Custis, sleeps by his side in the tomb under the chapel platform at the university.
 ''Directly opposite the crypt, where Lee lies, and on the same floor, is his private office. with everything just as he left it-his chair, his pen, everything just as he had it in life. Above the crypt clining figure of the general in military trappings, executed in the finest marble by Valentine. Custis Lee. his son, is now president of the university
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 One of the latest contributions to lit eKdrrrre in the vvu5--of sonnets has been made by Mary Ashley Townsend in her tastefulIy bonnd and beautifully printed volume .,Dictaff and Spindle,' which con- tains sixty-nine sennets. There we find the work of q poet who ranks with Christina Rosetti and Edith Thomas. Each poem is animated by the subtle es- sence that is the soul of poetry, with quality like light and a purity as of snows caught in the high Alps. Mrs. Townsend wrote many beautiful verses under the nom de plume of "Xarffa, the following from the Greed being one of exquisite tenderness and pathos: ''T believe that I could hear if even
 thought Or yearning glance of thine this way
 should pass,
 Or if thy white soul beckoned me apart; Love has a sense so delicately wrought That it could hear thy shadow on the
 grass,
 Or thy chill silence drifting toward my
 heart"
 A writer in the Evening Sun makes the following amusing collation. of the 1i- brarian's woes:
 A librarian has a superlative opportu- nifty to study other persons intellectual qualities. There is library in New York city whose list of readers blunders is almost as long as it's list of books. No volume has been more productive of er- TOTS than Miss Harraden's. Ships That Speak as They Pass By" Ships That We Pass" Ships That Sail in the Night" Ships That Pass Through the Night" Ships That the Night Passes By" and "The Ship Book" are few of q 1a Ior info fat hot how given to it. 'The Prince of India" has also given rise to untold misapprehen- sion It has been called "Indian's Prin- cess" An Indian Prince" and Price of India while one constant reader" ob- served: "The Prince of India is by the same author as The Heavenly Twins isn't t?'' From time to time persons have seriously Inquired for ''The Heav- enIy Angels" "The Heavenly Wings" "The Quinnebassett Twins" and one made bold to ask: The Heavenly Twins is a religious book, isn't it?" "Trflby" has caused untold trouble. 'Is oTriIby' an author or the name of book ?'' queried one anxious knowledge seeker; and when informed. Tt is the name of book written by Du Maurier," she replied: "Oh, I see-a translation" "I want Little Trilby' or Little Billee'- I've forgotten which, by Du Maurier," demanded another unfortunate: while third, WlIn calm dSSuIdnce, Sttlu- IiedSc give me 'Triplets by Du Maurier."
 s'Let me have biographies of men who lived in Georgiana and Maryland" was the comprehensive request of one patron of this library. Give me an electric book" was the peremptory demand of a serious-eyed young man. This library's stipulation that all applicants must state their occupations and give reference has drawn forth the following refreshing an swers I'm a mechanical machinist," "Seagar-maker," My reference Is cler- ical man."
 Some other verbal felicities that have come within the librarians experience are: "The Wondering Jew" "Luthert' nothair); -"The Adventures of Robin Wood:' Mark Twain, by David Cop perfield;" "Westwood Hoe;" "Open Seams" (Open Sesame); Yellow Ostler,