Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-02

court the draggle-talI muses., they
would starve me-" Yet Goldsmith had
already given to the world his TRAY,
eler' and Deserted Village" He mad
not been dead twenty years when
Erasmus Darwin. for the second part
u his Botanic Garden" was PAID
boo0-just nifty times as much as Gold
smith had received for 1.-THE Traveller"
lwenty-six times as much us Jonson
had received for mis- great poems, The
vanity OF Human Wishes and more
than 4 hundred times as much as
Milton received for paradise Lost"
Wprdsworth's Lyrical Ballads and
Colerldge's Ancient Mariner which
were published together in one small
Volume, fell still-born from the press.
Yet all great men have told us that 1t
vas by the great poets that their
thoughts had been nourishGd and their
minds disciplined And 1t is n melan-
eholy change when In the columns of
sporting papers. not in the pages OF
poetry, romance and history; in the
record OF events" as they are alb
surdedly called, not in Shakespeare.
Defoe and Scott, that our heroes are
fought and found.
In days aback few have been the
newspaper writer's who have deserted
neir calling for the less exacting oc-
,upation OF exclusive magazine writer.
Julian Ralph, long the "star reporter
w W me New York sun, Is an exception.
&c now engaged by Harper Brothers.
,lI whose Monthly and Weekly he Is
ssssIhlshing a large quantity Of delight
matter. In the old days such work
y ralph Is now engaged in was done
wat was then phrased the travel
Is correspondent" He was up to a
snntt time ago In Japan, from which
ywuhuy he furnished the readers of
,astper Brothers publications many ar
uses OF very considerable interest
,sonn Chapman, In n late number Of
~ Chap Book" gave this Interest,"
~ account of early Chap Books"
N, MY n nave long been the delight OF
1 ~ plohomanlac; These curious little
msspss, which formed the major portion
we reading OF farmers and their
s.s throughout England during the
tteenth and early nineteenth CEN
Thss are most interesting study
q, ake their name from the pedler,
~. hspman. who, carrying them,
~ other goods, wandered from viii
~ 70 village. from farm house to
~ mouse, an ever welcome guest,
~. eould retail the last news OF the
A. sue, and whose pack contained
ss,,tlnm gatherum Of delights, I'M
r,,,.oie except by visit to the
i c1.V town. Thus he was called n
rspuan. from the middle English
ny OF Cep. meaning purchase or bar
fe-s also meTnt a market. ns IN
IA There still remain Cheapside
Il ra,t.st Cheap, whilst many English
49, towns are described MS Chip
4 rAl,r, Sheaping--as Chipping Barnet.
vi, ing Norton. The Chapman was a
snerehant, carrying n very varied
rsst' neht q goods, and was. so to
q tss.tie market in himself He Is well
n as,s W by CotErave. in his Dlction-
~ the French and English
a.TpS,ss london. lem.
No. n 7, ~ ~ m, Q pnultrie Pedlar.
h c.r-,s long packe. or maured (which
Asnr.,s l2r the most part open. and
H I'm nom his nscke, before hlm).
n ethsr frisn,anacks, Rocks Of News, or
ui'lng ware to seil'"
dsrsrn attention to the fact that the
III M years OF the nth century have
81 tsa,c,.s more cosmopolitan in many
~ vi ,s,, man we ever were before, and
Nhp~nueaily and socially the sense
ees ~ Sehdarity Is growing all the
hi, Rlai has some pertinent re-
t.tfr make concerning the made
hinsla,ts. contemporaneous literary
:, ,llrssl and Is especially severe up
hn,s'u TRANSACTIONS into English
Mia ,anpie fact Is that the dualin.
translator are SGT far toe