The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-23

Educational ~Items-Bryn Mawr Hand
book-The Late Mrs. Tennyson.

book-The Late Mrs. Tennyson.
Brvn Mawr College IS about 10 issue a
handbook which viii contain Information
concerning the opportunities women have
for study az all fine European universe
ties. iva each case the facts nave lten
obtained from headquarters. SUCH a
manual should he OF great service bOth
hero and in England.
AN interesting library collection az STAN
ford University is the railroad library,
presented to the institution by Mt lim-
othy Hopkins. eX-treasurer or lne SCUM
chm Pacific. IL consists OF about 5000
books and 5000 pamphlets, and iu add Ion
20 this a. receives currently sixty lerlodl-
calls devoted 10 the same subject. vt
these tweuty-seVeu are published IN me
United States. ten IN London. light IA
Paris. seven IN different STATES i'm Ger
many. two in Vienna, and one each ia
Turin and Florence. besides which Bel
GUM. Switzerland. Australia. aud New
Zealand are each represented.
Emily. Lady TcnnysOn. widow or me
Poet Laureate. died az Aldw0rth. Surrey.
on Monday morning last. Of congestion
OF the lungs She was the daughter %
Mr.. Henry So'iwood. OF Somersoy, Lord
T@ennys0n's birthplace. and a niece or SIR
John Frauiiu. the famous Ardtc eNpllr-
or. She was married % the poet In ~,
and was something or a poet nersclt'
some OF her verses may he found ~ ~
E|MHL AN|A. 800" |H NM| |-'E E-
Was also not without musical gilts and
wrote the music for Crossing the Bar.
which VAS sung al her husband funeral
in Westminster Abbey. The portrait
given here. kindly lent by The Review q
Reviews. was. / believe. taken from ono
of Mr. Cameron's artistic photographs.
! may mention, by the way. THAI Ienny-
son. also. died az Aldworth.
or his friend II. C.. Bunner. Mr.. Bran
Do r Matthews viii say in the september
S~cribners. "TO say thar Bunner was
wholly free from any faint OF Angloma-
mia is 20 state the case mildly. his amer
icanlsm was as stlrIp as IuWells. lie
was firmly rooted in the soil or his ma
tyity. Pc was glad that he was an
American and proud of being a New YORK
er. lie saw that creatures or the type
that Lowell scogucd ssh fingered on; and
Or he Nero iutolerant toward any ono 10
was toward the renegade American, the
man without a country.
Mr.. William George Jordan has for Tho
second time resigned the e0itorship or
Current Literature, which position he fas
practically held since that useful period
calls first number. with the exception
of "a period spent in Chicago lu ~educaftOn-
al work. Mr.. Jordan PROPOSES 10 start
a periodical OF his own. lie IL az pres
ent engaged on a series OF papers FOR the
ladies' Home Journal.
We gather these items from The London
Bookmln for September; Mr. WilAam
Morris. his health greatly improved, Is
cruising i'm the nora. The scene OF the
novel on which Miss Harraden has been
at work for two years Is laid entlfely lh
England. The story Is longer man
"Slirs." and iu "a more cheeflul vein
in October Mr.. Norman Gallo will give to
tho public "a volume OF Little Poems Tor
Little People" with over a hundred draw
inrs by Miss Helen Stratton. Mr. Ken
Meth grahame. whose Golden age is 20
greatly admired by Mr.. ~swino1rne anGa
many others. holds "a post IN me BANK
Of Ensiand.-The c..e'-
REGARDING the literature OF ro-day Nina
r. Allen has the following 10 say In the
September Liupinc0tts.
Many changes have crept in. Time
was when. if sorrows rolled over het
Ike pillows and one misfortune lo.'oMeu
on the heels OF another, the heroine was
permitted 20 glide into merciful uncon-
seiousness or went into a death-llke
trance. Nowadays. however. no
matter how narrowing the caiam-
itv. shs IS obliged 10 GRIN
and bear II. Ike The rest or US
The novelist no longer consldeIalelF
draws a veil when he comes 20 al en
usually difficult piece OF writing. Ter
hans he Inns learned that he cannot now
NECESSARILY shirk his task with the plea
that 10 saw more would be proclamation
f.It hs will not be tho one % lay ua.e
,h, se,ro's OF that stricken heart. IN
these degenerate days he plunges N ,ne
inff, with fondish elce. regardless ~ me
eHnerines OF the victim. or himself or
che nniifr Nor does he res- uhtl ihc
elastic tari, OF vivisectiOn j. complete
The heroine. you may have observed
rarely saws anything az present mourn
she manages TO do the Hons snare or
talking. she does not answer sne docs
rol renlv. she seldom r%etOrts. NO, she
aut,ers She flashes back. she hreatnca
when sh4 wishes to give ut'erance 70 hsr
thoughts. II she Is In an exultaht ih2on
aha glori-a. INSTEAD OF exclaimlhe' bls