The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-08-27
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the puzzle of the tangled relations Of
the various British royal houses by
means of a chart showing The De-
scent of England's Sovereigns."
Paul Bourgeois dispute with his pull
Usher has had the effect Of stirring up
one of the French Deputies to propose
a bill compelling publishers to place a
Il centime stamp on each copy Of ev.
cry book they print.
The much-discussed Freytag mOnu-
ment is not to be erected at Wiesbaden
after all, but probably at Leipsic.
Freytag's library is shortly to be sold
for 10000 marks, and it Is expected
that some American institution will be
the purchaser.
The first volume of Social England"
edited by Fl. D. Trail, is about to ap-
pear in London. 1t is the work Of half
a dozen writer's of note, including
Saintsbury and ProtherO, and covers
the period from the accession Of George
l. to the battle of Waterloo.
Godey's Magazine begins the 1891
volume Of the famous old periodical
tisil lhtCl l tHc Olllc VI llC DICp-
ent generation under the title Of God
ey's Ladies' Book. 1t has lost none of
its individuality as a ladies book"
though it has, wisely or unwisely,
widened its field.
The third annual report Of the John
Crcrar legacy to the American Sunday
School Union shows that in the three
years 155 new Sunday schools have
been organized and 800 teachers and
5.22S pupils brought into them. About
is per cent. of the schools have already
produced churches.
One more volume of the journal OF
Edmond de Goncourt'' is announced,
covering the years from 1892 to 1895.
LES GOncourt' have at least achieved
the distinction Of being the most persist
ent and artistic gossips and chroniclers
Of small beer in the century. Though
Jules died IN 1870 it has always been
les Goncourt' with the two brothers.
and always will be. =
Gladstone has written to Kenyon
West, the author of The Laureates Of
England thus: II appreciate the
honor you do the country in taking
literary notice of the curious subject
Of the laureateship. There is much
history connected with il. 1t seems al
ways to have been a difficulty. I de-
c]ined to advise filling it up. Yet Lord
Salisbury has done otherwise
DR.. StOdart Walker has written an
Introduction to the new volume of Sc
lected poems by his uncle. Prof.
Blackie, in which he tells an anecdote
of a time when Blackie visited an Ed
inburg editor and mentioned that he
had lectured the previous night on
Scottish home rule. Il am astonished,"
said the publisher, lat your fOndness
for making an exhibition of Yourself"
Prof. Blackie turned on his heel and
slammed the DOR after him. Present.
ly he came back, thrust his head in, and
said: do you know, that's just what
my wife tells me-"
Andrew w. Tuer has finally comple.-
ed his exhaustive History of the Horn
Book" which appears in two splendid
volumes. Mr.. Tuer's interchangeable re-
searches have succeeded in tracing $50
hOrn-bOOks in place of the eight OF ten
previously supposed to remain in eX-
istence. The earliest record Mr.. Tuer
has found of a real %horn-boOk faced
with a sheet of iron is about 1850.
though this torment of the British child
was not generally used until the close
Of the sixteenth century. Two or three
years ago an imperfect specimen of this
species Of textbook was sold in Eng
land for 1920.
And now come even the booksellers
ilso and depose. saying: Cursed be the
bicycle craze. AS the book trade de-
ponds upon ~scdentary rather than on
perambulatory habits. the wailing is
probably not altogether of the magma
ton. But it is just as we'll to look on
the bright side and to believe that
when the present fad has passed it's
acute stage it will have built up such Il
general increase of yigor as 10 cause Il
demand for more books than ever be-
fore But they will not be books Of
the George Egerton or Grant AlleD
brand.
George Haven Putnam propounds I
curious explanation for the poor quail.
ity of the paper used in recent Euro.
pean books. He say T is due to the
decline of Moslem fanaticism on the
eastern shores of the Mediterranean
Myriads of pilgrims used TO cross those
dreary deserts IN their way to Mecca.
every one clothed in fine linen. Thou.
sands died by the wayside. and it was
Il profitable business To strip the
bodies Of their linen for tie use of
European paper mills. Now the Mos
lem is losing faith and the publishers
are losing their supply of the best