Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-12-03

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Marriott Watson's next story Is to B.
entitled The Career Of Della Hast
ings."
The Rev.. Washington GLADDEN. 70
writing q book on 1.-THE Working
Church and it, Pastor"
The vi3ttors at shakspeere,s birth
place during the. year ended with last
March numbered x70SS ~
Harold Frederick. new book. "Mrs.
Albert Grundy," Is declared by the Lon
don Sketch to be rather flat and ''too
easily written"
Maurice Maeterlinck is at work on
new tragedy to be called "Aglavaine ct
Selysette. The title sounds quite Spen-
serian, with touch Of the Far East.
Though "a years Of age, Edmond de
Goncourt has attracted Worldwide at
tention. with his new volume on ''Ho-
kousal" the greatest Of Japanese de-
signers. 500 sf
Gladstone's new volume OF Studies
Subsidiary to the Works Of Bishop But
ler', will be published early. in July.
1t will appear simultaneously on both
sides of the Atlantic. -
Gen. Sir T. E. Gordon has nearly
ready volume entitled Persia Revis-
tied, 1896" In which he. comments On
Muzaffer-ed-D Din, the present Shah, and
on the political situation. 80
After a long stay at his country house
at Saint Tropez Emile Olivier is again
back in Paris. Improved health allows
| him to push forward his history Of the
Second Empire and novel called ma
RE Madeleine"
Charles =. L. Wingate is preparing q
volume on '.Shakspeare's Heroes on the
Stage" as q companion to his "Shaks-
peare's Heroines on the Stage" He
also has ready a handsome holiday vol
ume to be called Famous American
Actions Of To-day"
The Bookman is authority for 1t that
John Morley has in preparation new
volume of Studies in Literature" and
| adds: 1T is pleasant to note that Mr..
Morley's writings have happily contlp-
ued to increase In spite Of the jealous
demands Of the political shrew." 4.
Mrs. Lynn Lintons 'sMy Literary
Life" which is to be published in vol
ume form in the autumn, Ii said to con-
tain some startling revelations and
much personal gossip about literary
characters who lived amid the .'Sturm
und Drang" Of the midcentury period.
Andrew Lang says: 20 difference in
taste in books, when 1t is decided and
vigorous, breaks MANY a.. possible
friendship He indicates the passport
to his favor BY telling as. HAT .he or
she who condemns Scott .and cannot
read Dickens Is a person with whom
would fain have no further converse"
In 1865 four lads occupied the same
room on the ground floor Of the first d.
/ vision Of Cadet Barracks at West Point.
Since then they have made their names
more or less well known. In current
American literature. They are Capt.
| Charles King, Arthur Sherburne Har-
| dy, John Brisben Walker and Richard
Henry Savage. >.
| After Mr.. Barrie,s mother and elder
sister were buried together, last Sep
TENDER It was authoritatively announc-
ed that these two were the original Of
/ Jess and Leeby in "a Window In
Thrums.". 1t is said that the sad beau
/ II Of those characters Is found in still
fuller measure In Mr.. :Barrie's forth
coming book about his mother entitled
''Marget Ogilvy." T,
| IRON Foundations for Tall Builiips..
A new way Of constructing solid
foundation for tall building has been
tried with success in Berlin. It was
necessary to find solid base sufficient
" strong to carry q building weighing
more than 0QQ0 tons. The plot Of
ground upon which the building was to
stand was adjoined on both sides by
high buildings, which rendered unsafe
the digging to any depth for q founda-
ton. The only way'out Of the difficulty
was the sinking OF q caisson In the CEN
ter OF the plot, upon the cemented top
| Of which n hollow ~~---- u
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