Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-08-27
1lTERA~X CONDOLENCES.
CttrIOvs Happenings Among Book.
makers Briefly Told.


y makers Briefly Told.
mr.. Gladstone, It is said, has devoted
p his leisure for the past ten years to the
preparation of new edition of Bishop
Buffers Analogy" with annotations.
lie does not consider this a task. but
says the time given to the study of "the
noblest and wisest. of writers" has
frightened his few holidays.
The book is to be in two volumes. the
text In one, the annotation in another
and the modest reason Mr.. Gladstone
gives for this is that he does I OF con
slider his own remarks worthy to appear
side by side with those of his author.
Recently, as his work was drawing TO
close, he heard that another book on
bishoP Butler was about to be published.
This, which to many men would be
severe disappointment, has not discour-
aged Mr.. Gladstone, but he continues as
busy as ever, and hopes soon to finish it
1t has repeatedly happened in litera-
ture that the same plan, subject and
even ideas have been suggested in two
persons each of whom has an equal
claim to originality.
Mary Russell Mitfords, "The Eos
Carl (IS7I), had been sent to London
'n the very day the same suject was
'nnSunced by Lord Byron. She wrote
o her friend Hayden, the artist, deplor-
ng her shocking ill-Iuck" in having
written on the same subject with Lord
syron, and added: al am so distressed
the idea of competition, not merely
nth his lordship's talents, but with his
Feat name, and the strange awe in
ihich he holds people, and the terrible
;offs and sneers in which he INDUCES
imself, that have written to friend
the propriety of supprcssing my
ay"
1t was too late, however, and few
: months later she writes Of her pleasure,
on reading Lord Byron's 1.-TWO Foscari"
In finding that he took up the story Just
where she left 1t off, SO that his play did
not clash with hers.
When Mary Cowden Clark had about
half finished that work SO valuable to
Shakespeare students, her concord.
ance," she heard that another person
was engaged with the same task. Sor-
,Towfully she abandoned her loved labor
and packed all her portfolios aad.other
materially modestly thinking MAJ her
e1'' 1..Anown rival would J533sS.
She has described hertz Hs &
kneeling on the floor, pushing the i
packet under her bed for safekeer
CThey lived in small quarters and s
had to be economically Joyful was
when she learned that the rumor
false, and that she could resume
work and complete it.
The "Concordancen was publishe,
1886 after the unremitting labor of
teen years, twelve in the preparation
- le manuscript and four more in ser
safely through the press.
What may be termed the accident
horshiP are many.
shnson's "Rasselas" resembles
tvs "Candide," book composed v
ay different purpose. Boswell wri
I'VE heard Johnson say. If they
nosen published SO closely one Al
theher that there was not time
Union It would have been In vain
aenthat the scheme of that VIII
camatest was not taken from
othet
JoLothrop Motley, after he
spenEeral years In collecting ma
I'als sketching the outline of
Is71Aistqtgrhe Rise of the Dutch Rem
lie" heard that Prescott was anticipate
him with Life of Phillip the Secon
In one of his letters he tells what
sad blow this intelligence was to him
cit seemed to me-" he SAYS, obi
had nothing to do but to abandon at o.
cherished dream, and probably to
nounee authorship, for | had not ma
up my mind to write history and IL
cast about to ta6e up subject. Nv S,
1ect had taken me up and drawn me
and absorbed me into itself"
Not wishing to be dlsIoyal to Presc
he went to him at once and explain
MS position. Prescott generously ga
MIN every encouragement pIiad
result OF the interview been Different,
writes Motley, ~ should have gone fro
MN with chill upon my mind and
doubt have laid down the pen at on,
Tor II was not that | cared about writ,
history, but that felt an ineyifat
impulse to write one historyn