The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

A monument to the memory of Ed.
gar Allen Poe in proposed by the Balti-
more Sun. which says: There is no
city which should feel greater interest
in a memorial of him than Baltimore,
where part of hi, life was passed. and
where, after life S ftful fever, he sleeps
WE'LL"
William E. Gladstone continues to
be an omnivorous reader. Hardly q
new book Of any Importance comes out
in England that he is not one of it's
earliest perusers. If he is especially
pleased with the book he is very apt
to send a complimentary letter to the
author.
Every year Worth sent to the EN-
press Eugene a large bouquet Of
Parma violets tied with a mauve rib.
bon on which was his lame en-
broidered in gold. This was in menu
DRY of her patronage at the time when
her within could make or ruin a Paris
tradesman.
Senior Canovas del Castillo. at the
head of the new Spanish ministru, is
one of the homeliest men in Europe,
being squat, paunchy, and unsym-
metrical, with a face that is intensely
unprepossessing. He is a reactionist
of the most pronounced kind and q
thorough believer in the divine right
of kings to do as they everlastingly
please. His wife is a very naughty
and unpopular woman.
Maurice Barres, one of the bright
est and least scrupulous of the newer
French authors, has just given up the
management of La Cocarde. He has
written some psychological novels of
decided merit, in which he breaches
the study of self, a kind of end of the
nineteenth century version of Socrates
Gnottri %seaution. He plunged into
Boulangism, as he says, partly for fun,
and is o a radical socialist.
Baron Max Guido Won Thielman,
who is to succeed Baron Won Saurma-
Jeltch as German ambassador at Wash
ington, vas born in 1876. He began his
diplomatic career in Washington, and
since then has served in a half dozen
capitals of Europe. He is a great
linguist, and is said to have written a
short account of the surrender of Sedan
in Sancrit for his Berlin teacher. He
has written several books of travel.
James Anderson, a tragedian of the
Macready school, died recently in Lon
don at the age of eighty-four. He
joined Macready's company in 1897,
and was the first impersonator of many
well-known Observation-Disclosures, in
"Richlieu;' Claude Melnotte, in the
Lady of Lyons" Charles Courtly, in
London Assurance" and Ingomar. He
appeared as Othello at the Broadway
theater in 1876, and during the fifties
made several visits to this country as a
star. His last appearance was in Lon
don in 1873 as Antony in Antony and
Cleopatra"
Good prices ruled at a recent sale
of medieval books in London. A Latin
Bible of the thirteenth century from
the Palatine library at Mannheim, with
miniatures by a French and by an Ital-
ian artist, brought S2,45O; another of
the same century, made in England,
81, 300; Metelin's 49-line Bible, 1466, the
rarest of all the Latin Bibles, 81, 900.
The Biblia Pauperum, a block book of
40 pages, representing the life and pas
sion of Christ, fetched 81, IT'S; a fifteenth
century manuscript of Ovid, magnif-
illuminated, $3.50, and a tenth
Latin Psalter from the duke Of
collection, 81, 500. A ''Boke of
Divers Fruytful Ghoostly Matters" by
William Caxton, 1870, sold for S5s5, and
Martin F~robfsher's "A True Discourse
of the Late Voyages of Discoveries for
the Finding a Passage to Cathaya by
the Northwest, 1878, very rare, brought
$40.