The herald., 1896-02-23
is rs complete in plan throughout 90
it is attractive In makeup.


silver coins do not lose value from
abrasion, as du gold ones, and that 80
long as they are recognizable, it does
not matter what has been the loss in
weight. There is great significance
in this to thoee who have eyes to see.
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Business and literature are coming
the new womsn's way. The latest ave-
nue. she is walking in, is house-bnnting
for real estate ageucies-indeed, toe is
setting up in the business herself. It
10 said she 10 able to pick up houses
that will At families 90 much better
than men can do, that this employ
ment promises to become permanent
feature in house renting business. We
venture the prediction that, befors
long, the number of closets in our
dwellings will greatly increase and
that even the smallest cottages will
have back stairs. Msy the coming of
the new woman be epeeded.
"Gone, fed. as ere autumn is ended
Tho yellow leaves flee from the oak
have lost it forever, my splendid
Original joke.
What was it? Iknow was brushing
My hair when the notion occurred;
know that felt myself blushng
AS thought, how supremely absurdl
How they II hammer on floor and on table
AS its drollery dawns on them-how
They will quote it, wish were able
Toquote it just now"
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Criticicizing Mr.. Tarver's book on
Elaubert, M. de Wyzeva says in the
Paris Temps:
"Imaeine deaf man consecrating
all his leisure to writing the life Of
Mozart, not from admiration of the
music, but for the elevated moral
qualities revealed in the private let
ters of the artist"
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The pessimistic novel will always
have it's delighted readers, possibly be-
cause, as La Rochefoucauld says, "In
the adversely of our best friends we
always find something which is
not wholly displeasing to u.s. AT any
rate, in imaginary woe there is lux
urious sensation, real il indefensible.
4
The Publishers Circular shows that
in Great Britain the output of books is
as follows: Sermons, one volume q
day; novels, five day; educational
books, two day; art aud science, two
each every week; histories or biogra-
phies, six week, and law, one every
two weeks. Total, 1856.
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Mr.. Jerome X. jerome has been
speaking disrespectfully Of the dead
languages. He says that "a knowledge
of the dead languages has generally
been found to hamper a man in every
walk of life except schoolmastering,
which is the perpetuation of the follies
| of our ancestors"
OF Mr.. Stephen Cranes Red Badge Of
Courage, the Saturday Review says:
"We wish to draw our readers atten-
ton to it at once, as containing, in our
opinion, the most realistic description
ever published of modern war from the
purely subjective standpoint of pri-
vate soldier"
Mr.. Quiller- Couch. whose Delecta ble
Duchy has delighted every one, made
his reputation in 1887 by Dead Mans
been A Tale of Troy Town, The Splen-
Three Ships, and The Blue Pavilions.
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The Westminster Gazette prints the
following, with apologies to the shade
of Dryden:
Two Alireds in one generation born
The Iaurateship of Eng land did adorn;
But Nature found the first throes so exhaust.
| ing
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The Rev. John Watson ("Ian Mac
laren') had attained the age Of As years
before becoming known to the public
| Tn thnu
after the sales of "Beside the Bonnie
Brier Bush" exceeded 100. 900 copies in
England and America.
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Al. Graham & 90. of New York
publish in little volume Metaphors,
| Smiles and Other Characteristic Say
ings of Henry Ward Beecher, compiled
from discourses reported by T. j. Ell
linwood.
Mr.. Samuel Rutherford Crockett, the
novelist, declares that for many years
he has never missed sunrise, and that
he is usually at work by o'clock in
the morning.
Mr.. William Edward Norris, the pop
ular novelist, personally prefers his
second story, Mademoiselle de Mersac.
to any book which he has since written.
| "Man and his littleness perish, erased
like an error and cancelled,
Man and his greatness survive, lost in
! the greatness of God"
The seventh and concluding volume
| of the Duo d'Aumale's Histoire des
Princes de Conde is ready for publica-
ton.
Miss Beatrice Harraden's new etory
| is to be called Hilda Stafford.
| It has long been known that sunlight
is potent destroyer of noxious
germs, and the general belief is that it
is the actinic rays that chiefly have
such action. Now, il the X rays are
merely the invisible ultraviolet rays
of the spectrum. they are probably the
most actinic of all. Indeed, that is in
dicated by their effect upon photo.
graphic plates. Then they may prove
to be powerful germicide agents, and it
may be needful only to pass them
through the human body to destroy
all the noxious bacteria in the most re-
mote aud inaccessible tissues. New
York Tribune.
For the redemption of Spain we can
see no hope other than through the es-
| IA tahlishment of republican irstitutiOns