The morning times., 1896-06-07


"A Fool of Nature" for which the Herald
gave $40 600, are roundly rated by q Book
man critic. He would not have given a
10 cent piece for it.
The Buddhist he'll is sort of apart
ment house divided into eight easy
stages. They leave tn e victim sore
rooted, blind. MANNED. roasted, bleeding
ana pounded 10 jelly.
The curators and patrons of the Cooper
Union Library OF New YORK are lament
ing the fact that its books are wearing
out and 1T viii require many thousand
dollars to restore them.
It is said that Longfellow was so re-
served about his Work THAT Sometimes Il
without his family having known that it
was even in process OF writing.
Prof Totten hasissued calendar covering
a period past aud future of 67,713 $50
years. Ponce de Leon and DIR. Brown Sc
guard tried to make work of this kind
practlcaDlc for. their generation.
"RoInoo'' was first published in Corn
mn Magazine. and cost The publication
1000 readers. II was 100 heavy for
The general reader. James Payn, who for
long edited the Curnhill, has retired.
Winifred Agnes Haldane, the author of
"A Chord from Violin" is Chicago
| miss OF seventeen. The famous story, The
| First VIOLIN was written by Jessie Fotf-
ergill when she was only seventeen.
ii is the regularity of the very highest
wor OF every kind, says an eminent En-
glish critic, that 1t is not the result OF
painful labor, but II is easier to do il than
not To do it, when ii can be done atall.
Thomas Wentworth Higgnson for years
collected library of the history Of
women 1t contains over 900 volumes,
| sented it to the Boston Public Library
The National Library of Paris has
100000 volumes, which are divided into
twenty-siX classes and are denoted by the
1elsers of the alphabet As the French al
substitute sign W.
Mrs. Custer's favorte home is u secluded
log cabin near the Pocono River, seven miles
from the Della ware Water Gap and two
she finds II possible to do more writing in
day than in week of city life
The smallest book in the world has one
OF the largest names. 1t is the Konvcr-
cubic inch, though it contains $4,000
words. 1t must he read with micro
scope especially prepared for 1t.
critic in reviewing Il cook book, al
ludeS 10 'hcduphaSetic apOthegms, the
agitated gustalory centers." the cpl
SrdStic nerve ungleS, such book is
bettef for humanity IN these latter days
than ten epics and 10000 triolets put to-
gether."
Oliver CaswpI. a blind aud deaf mute. TO
whom Dickens devoted several pages OF
his American Notes. died not long ago
az Conanicut, r !. When Dom PEDRO
for CaSweil and presented him with IA
gold souvenir.
Continental literature translated for the
English trade is almost without exception
theological writings fan to the transmitting.
lens 81 the Stnrr@r sex. Nan has SOME .ItLIr
LEFT hun he re below.
Only II out OF every 100 Russians know
how TO read. For l25,OO0,UUO Russians
there re but 800 ne wspapers. aud their cir
cuiation is small. st. Petersburg has only %
hookstoEe and most o. the publications. are
TRANSACTIONS from the French.
one Of Arsene HousSaye's most interest
b ing works is his History of the Forty First
A run Chair Of the Aca iemy." THIS body If
iInmuTtalS is Unite u forty ana Houssaye
described al the famous men whom the
academy neglected or refused tn call.
The British Weekly saws that Miss Har-
rddcn has not quite fixed on title for
her new novel. but has thought of a
striking one-''I, Too. Have Passed Through
Wlntrv Terriers. what would be the
popular title. Il Too" or "Wintrv Ter
rOrs?
A student of railway statistics contrib
utes an article 10 a current magazine in
which he figures tina a person may travel
4406.659 miles without getting hurt. and
AZ. bSS,9G6 miles before getting killed
Strangely enough the writer's name is
Mr.. Speed.
William II Ridcing the editor OF TIE
Gouth'S Companion. announces that he has
Catha rinc Pearson Woods writing is
SAID 10 recall the style Of Charlotte NJ.
Ioung. The Brontc revival is on with
vengeance.
You, Young men," said the Bishop of
Derry TO a congregation of undergrad duates
Ill St Marys Church, Oxford. ARE very
proud Ia call yourselves agnostics It's
a Greek word. don't think you are
equally fond of its Latin eduiva lent
'lgn0ramus. y
The land of the Shah is the land Of poetry
and romance. The Persian language has
been the language OF polite literature in
the East for centuries and 10 speak Persian
fluently and Automatically. and with Il cor
rect accent. is the distinguished mark or IA
gentleman in the East.
The great mystic poet OF Persia is Jalalud
deem Rumi He was born in the city of
BalktI, A. H.. 207. His literary fame rests
on the book called the "MaSnavi' a work 50
revcrencrd by the rersians that they call 1t
the holy Masnavi. and esteem it as Il
vertabc book Of God.
Baron Ferdinand dc Rothschild mem
Der of the English branch of the greatest
family of financierS IN the world. has torn
himself for few moments from hS Gus
toDarv occupation of piling up gold and
written book: II is entitled Personal
Char" ctcristiCF T-om French History"
II was Gorge Eliot who said'of the power
of silent forces: The growing good of the
world is partly dependent on un historic acts.
and that things re not SO i'll with you and
me as they might have been is half owing to
the number who lived faithfully a hidden
life and rest in unvisited graves
Mrs. Burnett's LADY OF Quality ranks
second in point Of sales during Nav in
England. Harold FreueriC'S ''Jamnation
of Heron Wavp'' "--'' c. .'r-c,1 badge
are within the first ten. showing the popu-
larltN al n'eI'C:.' M''t< !; ana and
the fUtilitv =" the old cry Of mo appre cia-
tiou abroad
The highes tpriCe known to have been paid
for book at auction was 1880 pounds
at which price Mr.. Quarintch bought the
'Psamodum COdeX. printed by Faust
x Schoeffer, in 459. This is much rarer
book than the Gutenberg Bible the first
book printed with nova bic type. whose
highest auction is $500.
Mr. Gladstone, in IL recent speecb to n
gathering of his neighbors said: Il am a
Scotchman by blood. lam a LaucashirenaD
by birth. am kind of LondoDer by living
so long there belong to most parts of he
country, but my VIE, as most or you know.
is good Welsh woman, and tnlnk that to
great extent has infected me-
A midget Testament. three-quarters of
an inch long and half an inch wide, weighing
! only twenty-Six grains, and mite
Bible, L "a inches nigh by g wide con-
tanning 936 pages, and weighing 80 grains.
have Just been published by Il Glasgow
firm. They are said TO be the smallest
Bible and Testament in the world
1t should interest Americans to know
that Bret Harte is writing a serial for
publication i'll an English periodical, and
ttaJ Henry james is Wrltlng iOVe-StOFy
for the Illustrated London News. 1t will
| begin in July and run for thirteen weeks
Mr.. James has ready for the press a new
volume OF stories. "Embarrassments."
A complete list of Gilbert Parker's tales
| includes Pierre and His People" Mrs
| Falchion." The Translation of a Saw
age The Trail of the Sword The
TreSnasser. When Valmond Came to
Pontiac Seats of the Mighty" AN
| Adventurer of the North" and The PoIrr
| of tie Lavilettes.' Ernest McGaffey was
| born in Ohio
The Socete des Gems de Lettres has
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