The morning times., 1896-10-18

] TO Ills loved one, aud their beauty caused
Tie stern parent to rrlent. SIR Edwin has
Transcribed tile sauskrit original in the
manner OF an illuminated nissal. When
published inis wili,appeaI on one side and
the translation in Sir Edwin's baIdwrit-
ing on the othcr. Clever idea, worthy or
-apoet who ls also an euterprising Journaiist
III 1865 four lads occupied the same room
on the ground floor of the first division
OF Cadet Barracks NC West Point. Since then
they have made their names more or less
well known III cuyent American literature.
They are Capt. Charles King, Arthur Sher-
burne. Hardy, John Biisben Walker, and
Richard Henry Savage.
new work on an old subject-an In
i ,eresting one, however, at this season or
| the year, when the first "eagcr aud nip
ping FROST finds us facing the double
prospect OF an empty coal blu ana an
Anthracite trust--"The Story OF American
Coais,' is announced for publication th,ii
fail by j. b. L'ppincott Company.
James Payn, i'll Ills literary recollections'
says My experience Of men OF letters is
tiat for kIGuness of heart they nave no
equal. contrast the bena avlOr TO tiie youhS
and struggling with the harshness OF the
| lawyer, the hardness of the man of Dusl-
ness, the contempt of the man of the worid.
and 1 am proud 10 belong to this calling.
VAIN hunStil, lbe pOpuisii seA '''N''''
has turned politician. he sounds note
Of warning II the public prints as TO the
employment of foreigners in the regular
army aud in the mercantile marine. he
fears the invasion of the cnen? IN us
guise. he advocates the granting oil tbe
most decided Inducements 10 enlistng ma
uves.
Prof j. U. B. Hewitt, of the bureau or
American ethnology, has left or II aGout 10
In Canada OF the languages Of the SIX Ma
tions. He will carry a phonograph and VIII
try TO persuade some of tie Survivors OF
the Six Nations To talk into il, so that ne
can study the words and grammar OF thc
Indians at his leisure. He intends to COM
pile an Indian dictionary.
Grant Allen is a noted naturalist as well
| as a novelist. and has lately been elected
president of the Microscopic ana Natural
History Society at Haslemcrr. in surrey
There was strong opposition To lis election
Oh account of the moral views expressed
in his novel, The Woman Who Did. anu
when 1t was found that lie had been elected
by u majority of Two votes, several hichoeis
expressed their determination TO resign.
Hamlin Garland was recently discussing
literary topics with Joel Chandler Harris
in a uanta and had a guod deal to sa about
writers getting away from 'the soil
was born TO the soil" he replied, 'and shall
stick to it till die" A rural visitor sitting
near became Interested in this Western
strangers talk about the soil, and after
Garland had left he thoughtfuliy remark
ed: Il wonder how many bales o cotton
he makes ter tile acre.
Peter S. Newell, whose odd Illustrations
for" a House Boat on the StyX' and In the
back pages of the magazines have marked
him as an artist Of striking individually,
has malea book called" \ shadow SNOW,
which S something like the Topsy Turvy
books which Mr.. Newell issued several
years ago. 1t consists of number OF PIC
lures priutcd in color. which. when held up
10 the!ight and reversed, produce startling
effect upon the observer.
Book dealers vote August the dullest
month OF the year in their trade. Inc
sale of summer books is exhausted. The
publication of fall books has not begun.
September is the month OF Textbooks.
October is devoted to a didactlc class OF
books, suggested by the formation OF liter
AIRY clubs and the outlining of winters
course of reading. tits not easy to classify
November, hut Dcccmbcris is easily the Icuod
during which art books find their most
extensive sales. Anticipating the holidays
The death is announced of the German
woman who was know II under the Name OF
Camilla Sclten" and who SO tenGerly
nurscd Hene during the last months oi his
painful Illness. The poet. who gave her the
name OF "Mouche," addressed to her his
last poem, aud the letters he wrote to her
are most pathetic. Camilla Seldcu.' whose
real name was Elise Won krcinitz, pub
lishel in 1884 Il book entitled Il Les Der
niers Jours de Henri Heine" She latterly
resided at RoGet,. gaining her livelihood rs
u teacher OF German
a correspondent Of the London Chronicle
writes: " For about twelve years Mr.. q Du
Maurier resided at New grove House, Hamp-
s'ea |, aud RI was here that 'Trilby' was
written. as was also Peter Itbetson,'
Several OF the characters in both books
were drawn by Mr.. Du Maurier from some
of his hampstead ncighhors Last autumn
the author left Hampstead in favor OF Ken
sing1on. aal the house has now been taken
by the well llknown pbilaRthropist, Miss
Mocatta. who has turned in into Il girls
orphanage. y iiiigcnt search is being made
in the district for SveDEali's prototype"