The herald., 1896-05-03

settlement and development of this
country-a most striking showing.
There is also another significant po-
litical article entitled The Presidency
and Mr. Olney, that will be read with no
little interest by all who are anxious
concerning the outcome of the Chicago
national convention.
The article by j. Lawrence Laughlin
upon the Teaching of Economics, will be
found to be full of weighty facts and
suggestions, as will Old Wine and New
by Agnes Repplier. But the pleasant
est reading in the whole magazine, from
litreary standpoint outside of what
directly pertains to new books and crit
Icism, is Some Memories of Hawthorne,
by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop from
which we quote this choice bit of de-
scription Of their neighbor, Thoreau,
who often dropped in upon the family
In their Concord house:
Another peculiar spirit now and then
haunted us, usually sad as a pine tree
Thoreau. His enormous eyes, tame with
religious intellect and wild with the
loose rein, making a steady flash in this
strange unison of forces, frightened me
dreadfully at first. The unanswerable
argument which he unwittingly made to
soften my heart towards him was to
fall desperately i'll. During his long ill
ness my mother lent him our sweet old
music box, which softly dreamed forth
its tunes in mellow tone. When he
died 1T seemed as if an anemone, more
lovely than any other, had been carried
form the borders of a wood into it's si-
lent depths and dropped, in solitude and
shadow, among the recluse ferns and
mosses which are so seldom disturbed
by passing feet. Son of freedom and
opportunity that he was, he touched
the heart by going to natures peaceful
ness like the saints and girding upon
his American sovereignty the hair-shirt
of service to self-denial Walden woods
rustled the name of Thoreau whenever
we walked in them
Only moderate prices were paid at the
sale of autographs and manuscripts by
American authors at the auction rooms
of Bangs & Co. on April II. The manu-
scripts and letters of Edgar Allan Poe
sold at prices ranging from $40 to $50,
the latter being obtained for his copy
OF Miss Winslow's parody of The Ra-
wen. A three-page letter by Oliver
Wendell Holiness referring to Poe, sold
for $31; page by Nathaniel Hawthorne
for $26; three quarto pages by Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Concord, 1S41. brought
$37, and eighteen folio pages by Feni-
more Cooper, being Life of Richard
Dale, sold for $23 A manuscript by H.
d. Thoreau brought s33, while writings
by Bayard Taylor ranged from $1.5O for
an autograph to s21 for poem.
The Pegasus Club is Philadelphia
organization having for it's purpose
the writing and studying of poetry"
It's members write poems and submit
them anonymously to the club for
criticism and acceptance or rejection" "
The Year Book of the Pegasus dippin-
cotO, a pamphlet volume now pub
lished. reproduces the best work sub
mitted under the club rules, and divulg-
es the authorship of each piece
The new edition of Poe, published by
the j. b. Lippincott Company, at once
challenges comparison with the edition
recently edited by Messrs Stedman and
Woodberry. 1t is very neat in appear
ance, and it is offered at about half the
price of the rival editions. There are
eight volumes, each with three illustra-
tions.
In an article on Women Bachelors in
London. in the May Scribner's, Mary
Gay Humphreys will show that London
is far ahead of New York in the fa-
cilities it offers to unattached women
for reasonable, comfortable and polite
living" in the manner of lodgings and
clubs.
Messrs. Macmillan & Co. announce a
complete edition of Browning's works,
in two volumes, with notes by the au-
thor included in no other edition. The
same firm will issue, in conjunction
with Messrs. Dent & Co., a translation
of the works of Daudet, in monthly vol
umes, illustrated.
Prof. Brander Matthews has written
An Introduction to American Litera-
ture american Book Coz, which is
easily the best book for the use of the
lower schools that has yet been pro-
duced upon this subject