The morning times., 1896-05-24

isters,, majority; with kings, the sword
with fanatics, denunCiation; with men OF
sound sense, Il sound reason.
S winburne's new poem, The Tale of
Balen, is founded on sir Thomas Malorey s
story of Balen.
The Junior Promenade netted ST. 800
for the class OF 81 fund, contributed to
the Yale library.
John Kendrick Bangs announces new
humorous novel which Is called "A Re
bellious Heroine"
There are 3.S04 public libraries in the
United States. and only thirty contain over
100000 volumes.
Tom Brown, OF Rugby fame, is acknowl-
edged To be a portrait Of Dean Stanley III
his younger days.
A contemporary credits Ferdinand de
Lesseps as having been utterly without
personal cupidity.'
Mary Z. Wilkins spent some time at Old
Point Comfort this spring. She Is again at
her Randolph home.
Neither Milton, hryden, Pope, Gold
santa or COwpsr created any conspicuous
Ideals OF womanhOoI.
The printing OF the Bible in the United
Kingdom is scarcely less jealously guarded
than printing bank note.
The Kit-Kat, published in Philadelphia,
Is actually the cheapest magazine pub
lished, 1t sells for l cent.
The PhiliStne and the Fly Leaf after two
weeks Of married life are divorced. Each
VIII hereafter publish separately.
How many ma "a zines would dare publish
its articles without names, preferring TO
rest on the merits OF the articles?
At sale in Frankfort four letters by
Beethoven brought s 900, and fourteen
letters by Goethe brought 81 400.
Tennyson was the poet Of the women.
iuasmuCh as he created more strong and
varied women than any otncr poet.
Who said, The tongue is the mysterious
membrane that turns a thought TO Il sound;
drink is its oil, eating its Grag chain?'
a wag has described a quill as a thing
sometimes taken from tie pinions OF nnt.
goose TO spread the opinions of another.
The sobriGuet, "Hosten Peck" which
Dickens gave his son Sydney, was u cor
ruption by his children az ocean Spectre"
The PentateuCh Of the Woman's Bible
has appeared. Critics are using on it
what is more powerful than the sword.
The house of saric.nesca is TO be perpetu-
ated III the forthcoming novel by Marion
Crawford in the Centnry. II is 10 be called
''Coreonc," and Don Orsino is TO be the
hero.
Mary wilkins next novel is called "Je-
rome, a Poor Man" Her illness prevents
its beginning in the July Harper'S. as aG
vertiSed.
The author OF ''Thc Heavenly Twins
has another book on the stocks, which
may not see the types before the first of
the year.
Barthelemy St. Hilaire. who died re-
Gently in Paris, was so weak baby that
he was expected TO die for months and
was sent TO live the hardy peasant lite
in SceauX.
President Seth Low has his pictures in
the periodicals recently with a regular rt V
that suggest press agent in Classic
Columbia.
Compiler Brew wer was born Just four
months after Gladstone They are two
examples of llterature's inducement to
longevity.
Signor Paolo Tosti has written nearly
800 songs. Ferdinand Gumbert, who died
recently in Germany, wrote nearly 400
songs, which in their time were as popular
as Abts.
Fiona Macleod. the Celtic novelist, an
nounceS a new work, Green Fire. She
lives at Midlothian and has never been TO
London.
Tedious Poet Watts has changed his name
to Dunton. May he change his style of
poetry to something as dIssiInilar To the
present effuSiOnS.
Charles Dickens said of Robinson Cru
soe' that it was THE most popular story in
the world, and yet one which never drew
a smile or a tear"
Alfred Austin is accused of feeling his
oats" j is said that whenever he goes
anywhere he has himself announced as
The Poet laureate
The friends of Paul Verlaine will place
the monument-to his memory in the Jar
din du Luxembourg. Sculptor Neidenhau-
sen will execute it.
Grant Aliens" Jaws of Death" is not sug-
gested by the Daffodil Library's title
naffodils and deaths jaws don't usually
grow in the same sod.
Edouard Rod. the author of s'Whf-,
Rocks is ga professor in the University of
little known in America.
nr Nansen tho Norca ax,,Ioror b.. 49,,
Jributed extensively TO Norwegian scien-
tific literature. He won Il gold medal al nd
his doctors degree by his pen.
There is to be a subscription edition of
the poems of Rlch9 rd Realfs. no committed
suicide in California some eighteen years
ago. His was queer career.
The best books make the worst plays,
says London Truth, because the art of the
novelist is to delay the secret; the art of
the dramatist is to bctray it.
Five novels are issued every twenty-four
hours. six histories or biographies each
week, and two educational booksor a vol
ume of sermons every morning.
The novel "A Provincial Lady, is
spoken of as the most notwithstanding tale IF
London society recently written and is
good guide book for foreigners,
Tusser first used Better Late Than
Never i'll his Five Hundred Points in
Good Husbandry. He is forgotten, but
his smart phrase will never die.
Why doesn't some novel writer seize
on Aztec civilization? Lew Wallace did
not exhaust or even make conspicuous
success of it ID 1.-The Fair God.''
Though Rudyard Kipling hates society.
he goes about i great DEAL This is to
please his wife. AS he expresses it, ''she
makes the engagements md keep them''
A statement at the close OF the free New
York Peoples Lecture course shows that
twenty-eight lectures were given by adj
mirabie experts on the subjects discussed
Sarah Grand's husband was medical
man on the staff of the British army in
India. The madame followed the sol