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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-31
THE COURIER.

Her work lacks strength, verility.
Aerial flight. descent into the depths
Of the soul. or that breezy, irOnical
view of types that Kipling and his
humble followers take, is not TO be
found i'm Miss Ingelow's WORK. 1t is
Of the school II L6ngfellOw, COwper,
Southey and Wordsworth and these
do not interest as they used whether
because the century is degenerate or
because We have more light. we are
too near to say.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-31

been admired a bronze medal.
After that We were all invited into
the dining hall and told to order what
We wanted to eat or drink"
At this point asked the little boy
what he ordered. and guess what it
was-a mutton chop and glass Of
pop.
Tongues Of peacocks. exotic fruits,
pyramids of cakes: what delicious
things we have heard Of as being
served on a Queens table, but never
before have pictured mutton chop
and glass Of pop as even finding a
place i'm the royal kitchen.
Patriotism ran very high i'm London
before the jubilee. One man in the
Royal Institute gardens forgot to lift
his hat during the playing of God
Save the Queen" A kind gentleman
knocked it off for him and then fight
ensued.
If God Save the Queen" forces
every man to take off his hat, let some
great musician compose tune that
will make lady take off her chapeau.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-31


Til EsteI and hear
If a step dr,veth near,
For my love Is late"
Her poems Of childhood and TO young
love sing themselves. Their lyrical
quality makes the work Of the com
poser as easy as putting together the
parts Of an already fitted whole. ''Off
the Skelligs. and .'Fated to be Free"
are the two best known Of her novels.
But her fame rest upon her poems of
childhood. Her point Of view enabled
her to write:
20 Colmbine open yow folded wrapper,
Vhese two twin turtle-doves dwell;
O cuckoopint toll me- the purple elaPper
That hangs IN yosn clear green bell"
The psychologist knows that child
dwells i'm a world Of symbols. that to
him II is a ladder. S a snake. X farm
gate. O a bowl Of bread and milk. a
row Of chairs is a train of ears. cane
is an untameable Steed. etc. Miss In
yellow remembers the glory that en-
veloped those things and is able
thus TO keep up her communication
with that child world that is shut
upon most people and sealed with a
lo.kwhicb willnot yield when Welt
schmerz cries out ''open."
When Tennyson died Queen Vic
toria was importuned to appoint Jean
lngelOw poet laureate. Although not
Of the same rank with Tennyson. Jean
lngelow's appointment would at lest
have been the recognition Of 2 poet.
She is incapable of the absurd sole
cisms which the present laureate
cmmits without csmpunction on the
nations anniversaries. But Queen
Victoria Toes not believe in recog-
mixing anything feminine. Her
ministers, poets. playwrights and
gillies are men and if she knows
her mind her appointees will be
masculine, TO the end Of her reign.
Jean Ingelow's work is not 50
popular as it was ten years ago. Like
Mrs. Oliphant, she felt that her day
was over. With the modern school
Of art for arts sake they had not
much to do. The style which made
them the vogue may come again but
just now it is for hilltop novels. i'm
pressionism and realism. Rudyard
Kipling and short story writers Of the
last end Of the century have made
people impatient with the classicism
oftwenty or fifteen years ago. 1t is idle
topredict what another ten years will
do. Therefore ii is only safe TO say
that the children will go on commit
ting Songs Of Seven" for they are
not influenced by fads or schools.
Mother Goose is as popular as she was
before language songs. lesson songs
and all kinds Of kindergarten methods
laid siege to the heart Of a child
Jean Ingelow died at the age Of sixty.
seven a gentle, pink checked old lady.
We are personally attached to her al
we were to Longfellow, for his coed.
ness and sweetness. When Mrs.
Browning died it was predicted that
Miss IngelOw would take her place.
Critics do not admit Miss Ingelow's
work now to SO distinguished place.
She has not fulfilled her early promise.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-31
STORIES IN PASSING.

Three Lincoln young men went out to
Colorado for q month last summer and
many and varied were their experiences.
The last week of IT, eir stay they spent AZ
and around CoIora 10 Springs and Man
itou and the last day was devoted to the
as cent Of Pixies p ak on foot. They
had pat this off until the last that they
might the better be able to stand the
walk and as i;,ing climax to the
trip.
The accent was to then u hat it is to
every one who makes it on foot-one
,onk continuation of magnificent scenery
little showers, cog-road, aud constant
knee-action at an angle OF sixty degrees.
or course they took lunch from Mani
tou out, or rather up-5oiled eggs and
doughnuts and sandwiches and the like
bullying out their pc, kets; but what
with munching continually on the wsy
and losing part by one Of the young fel.
lows slipping down ravine into the
brook. and the cheese ant the doughnuts
getting ground up into a mealy mass
with the eggs, there was lit lie Of that
lunch left by the m, the three struck
the red section house that il the real
half way resting place up the mountain.
From there on it is long. steady. up
ward pull. mile after mile, with the end
seemingly never in sight until you made
that last turn and anting. falling, cold,
faint, exhausted and dead-beat, you
tumble into the stone house at the top
and call for lunch. Everybody feels
about the same and everybody eats and
tainke about the same-if they are not
too Ill to look at food.
These three Lincoln young men were
not ill-the atmosphere made little diff.
ference to them-but they were cold and
wet and hungry, and they ordered near
ly everything at hand-whole pots OF
coffee, cakes, steak. potatoes, toset aud
more coffee. Now. il you have ever Wis
tied that eating house on the summit of
Pixies Peak, you know the place and
you have had experience with the prices.
The young men had never been there
before and no one had even told them
about it. So when they called for the
bill and the waiter counted up and said,
-four dollars and seventy-five cents,' it
took their breath away in earnest and
for the moment at least they felt the al.
titude.
"Oh, Lord!" said the big, brown haired
fellow who lie foot ball man and had
eaten as much az the other two.
Sour dollars and eeventy-fi cents, "
said his brother, well, at that price We
can let nothing 60 to waste" and he fell
to again, cutting of bit Of steak cloec
to the bone.
But the third young man was silent,
for he alone realized the gravity Of tbs
situation. He was treasurer Of the
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-31

The Queen dislikes Buckingham Palace ana
20 20 to Paddington. two miles from Bucking-
ham, and take the train for Windsor Castle
which is twenty-four miles away, even II she
has 20 return the next morning.-Ed.
As Richard Harding Davis says,
London is a show city. There is al
ways a uniform or band or some
ROYALTY TO be looked at.
One Of the most interesting scenes
for an American tourist is view of
the Queen on her way from Bucking-
ham palace to Windsor.
1t is announced i'm the morning
paper that Her Majesty will drive
through Hyde Park at 4 O'Clock. on
her way to Paddington station. So
about three / wander over tn egreen
grass of the park which has no warn
ings to keep off. Here one can seat
himself comfortably some where i'm a
penny chair and await the great
event.
About O'Clock all traffic is stopped
along the route and mounted police
men gallop back and forth with an air
OF mystery. A crowd begins to-gather
along the main road and realize that
/ am getting little excited with all
these preparations going on.
First five or six vans appear. bring
ing the royal baggage. The Queen
arm chaiI. which always travels with
her. is conspicuous i'm one van. She
never uses rocker: perhaps like Patti.
she believes it viii make her grow
old.
When the vans with their brown
horses and scarlet liveried drivers are
out Of the way. the carriages come
with officers of state. ladies i'm wait
ing. the royal children and last. but
not least. four Indian attendants.
Some ten or fifteen minutes have
passed before, through the trees, is
seen the simmer Of the uniform OF
the Royal Horse Guards. Seven at
tempts have been made on Queen Vic
toria's life so il is no wonder they are
commanded to ride fast. the guards
with their guns pointed and a mill
tary clank of armor which is quite
thrilling.
When the Queen. dressed i'm black,
appears i'm her open carriage. | am de-
lighted to see that she looks exactly
like her pictures. Her daughter.
Beatrice. is always with her. Two
Scotch attendants in full Highland
uniforms are i'm the carriage. The
people hardly have time to cheer be-
fore her Majesty is past. The crowd
closes in, the delayed traffic moves on
and We wander home to discuss roy
atty in a familiar manner at the din
ner table i'm the evening.
once had the honor to meet small
boy, who. along with fifty other blue
coat boys. was chosen for good be-
haviOr and a good drawing to visit heI
Majesty at Windsor.
when we arrived" he told me,
I'VE were all taken into a long hall
where we knelt on one knee holding
up our drawing. Then a little hip
pity-tippity old lady came i'm, dressed
in black who did not look as well as
mother. She walked down the line
examining the drawings through heI
lorgnettes and occasionally saying one
was good. When the end of the line
was reached she left the room. but a
very gorgeous looking man appeared
and gave every boy whose work had
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-31

chance of anything to eat for twenty
four hours.
Two other young men had an expert
ence over a lunch but it was in corning
out from Chicago and in quite differ
emit way. They had left Chicago in the
evening with nothing but their tickets
and seven cents between them. The
next morning the train stopped at Pa
cific Junction for breakfast and the two
young men walked into the lunch room.
"Ill just take a cup Of Coffee" said
the taller of the two, he Of tine five-cent
piece, "Whatll you have. Will?'
"Oh, nothing" said Will, "l'm not
feeling very well this morning and don't
believe could stand anything to eat"
And he went over to the ewatsr tan',,
took drink. and bought two sticks Of
gum with his pennies. Then he leaned
up against the wall and watched his
friend drink the coffee, and locked low
inglv 1t large package of lunch the
waitress had wrapped up and placed on
the counter near his friend, evidently for
some one in the adjoining dining room.
Will thought his companion hung over
his coffee cup an unusually long time,
but the yourg man had purpose. He
kept pouring in little more cream and
slipping slowly until the engine gave a
shrek and the bell changed. Then in
the general rush of passengers from the
lunch room the two young men reached
the car.
When they took their seats Will eaw
that his friend had the package of lunch
which had been placed on the counter
60 conveniently near. They found fried
chicken, bread and butter sandwiches,
q half Of pie and some devilIed eggs.
Tsey washed it down with ice-water and
the walked through the train. But
save ford old gentleman who told his
wife gruffiy to 60 into the diner for break
fast while he took smoke, they found
no one who seemed to have lost lunch
in the general stampede from the sta
ton.
1t is q big, barn like structure just to
the west of the depot at the little town
of Greenwood down on the Burlington
between here and Omaha. Years have
passed since it served it's purpose, for the
windows are paneless and the doors
stand gaping. The wind sways the
hanging shutters and keeps up mourn
full tattoo on the loossned weather.
boarding, The bricks of the chimney
Lave fallen away until merely a stump
remains. There is big rent in the roof
which admits rain, sun, dust and the
birds that haunt an old houee. At the
side tine remains OF a "lean to" still
stand, bit threatening to collapse at any
moment. Tall weeds and suu-flow
ers hide the approaches and choke the
doorwsys. Through this growth a dog
sometimes noses it's way, or boy and
his companions play hide-a and seek"
there but not often, for the old building
has an evil name among the young Of
the village. 1t has never been occupied
within their memory and that is enough
to suggest almost anything in their
imaginative little brains. To the older
inhabitants of the town it brings back
early years OF prosperity and business
and hiQh hopes now zone They 1azA
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-31

fund which they had pooled in starting.
and he Of the three knew how the f.
nances stood. He ran his hands down
through all his pockets AMI brought out
some loose silver. Then he called on
the others and they added few dimes.
and nickels. He counted the money
over and pushed it across the counter.
Two ninety. That's all we've got,
aud no way OF getting any more uLtil We
reach home. Send the rest to you
then"
And then the three fled out the door
and headed down the mountain and that.
night took the Rock Island for Lincoln
which place they reached the following
afternoon, raveIous as wolves. for that
four dollar anC seventy. five cent lunch
on. the Peak had deprived them of every
chance Of anything to eat for twenty
four hours.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-31

listen and 10 whom they reply In theii
own tongue with comprehension
that only poet or another child car
understand. BY birth gift more
wonderful than that Ct second sigh'
Jean Ingelow has kept the imagina
tion OF child after having acquired
the technique Of maturity. For the
rest her love poetry is apt to be Oh
scure though the three times sever
girl as she leans out Of the WINDOW
breathes a simple wish that is ne
more mysterious than loving.
1leaned OFT Of the window,
Ismelt the white clover,
DARK, dark was the garden,
law not the gate;
Now Il these Be footsteps,
He CONES my one lover
Hush nightingaIe, hush,
Osweet nightingak wait
Til lister. and hear
II a step dr,wefh near,
For my love Is late"
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-31
1.-The 6ourier's" London Cores
pendent.
pondent.

The Queen dislikes Buckingham Palace ant
will not sleep there II she can help it, preferrins
20 20 to Paddineton. two miles from Bucking
ham, and take the train for Windsor Castle
which il twenty-four miles away, even II sh'
has 20 return the next morning.-Ed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19

size and general excellence Is that owned
by Robert Hoe. The entire inside is abso-
lutely perfect, the only place where there
has been any retouching being on the up
per right-hand corner of the title page.
This had become torn off and new paper
has been substituted. with two or three
letters inlaid.
No details could be learned regarding the
folio owned by Augustin DAILY beyond the
mere fact that it was sold to him about
ten years ago by Dodd Mead G. CO., who
acquired 1t in England. 1t is said to be re-
markable more for Its perfection than for
its large size.
The last of the nine copies mentioned
that at Columbia University, found its way
into that library as a part of the S. Whit
ney Phoenix collection. Mr.. Baker, the
Columbia librarian, says it has been pro-
nounced by experts to be a beautiful and
valuable folio.
There was a copy of the first folio I'm
the Pope collection in Brooklyn, which was
sold two or three years ago with the rest
of that library. but the name of its pres
ent owner could not be learned. 1t is pos
sible that there are still other copies in
the neighborhood. but the addition of the
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19

man street London. 1t measures 12s by
So inches, and cost in 1856 G163 les. A
distinguishing popularity is that it has
two Cancelled leaves in "As You Like It."
1t may be said incidentally that all of
these folios present some slight differences
in the text, so that each has a certain in
dividuality. The most remarkable thing
about this copy, however is that 1T bears
the date 1922 instead of the usual 1923. The
discrepancy has been the subject of much
argument and opinions seem to have been
divided as to whether the alteration was
made by accident or design.
OF the third Lenox copy no history is
given. 1t is fine one, similar to the one
just described, except that the date is the
usual 1923. 1t has been bound by Francis
Bedford in red crushed levant morocco,
with gilt edges and tooling on the sides and
back. The fourth and last of the folios
now in the library was formerly the prop
erty of Samuel ]. Tilden. 1t is inferior
to the others in condition, and is. kept
locked up instead of being on view in the
cases.
A remarkably fine copy is that owned by
W. A. White, of Brooklyn. 1t measures
~ S-16 by 15-16 inches, and was bound
about twenty-five years ago by Francis
Bedford. This folio was once the property
of Sir William Tito, from whose possession
1t subsequently passed into that of Eu-
gene N. Robinson. and then into the libra
What would be considered by fastidious
collectors a slight defect serves only, Mr.
White says. to make his copy more valua-
BILE to him. This popularity consists of
small wormhole running through the first
part of the volume and reaching to the
Comedy of Errors" 1t guarantees the
fact that the portrait, the leaf with the
lines addressed to the reader, etc., are all
as they were originally.
II. D. Church, of Brooklyn, owns what
has been called by experts one of the finest
known copies of the 1923 folio. Its size
1875 by 81, is exceptional, and is the same
as that of the celebrated Daniel copy, pur-
chased at the Daniel sale in 1864 by the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Mr.. Churchs
copy is sound and perfect throughout, and
has never been, cleaned. He bought 1t
ten or twelve years ago from Dodd. Mead
& Co., for $500. an unusually high price
even for a perfect first folio
Another copy known to collectors for its
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19
RARE FIRST F0Ll0S.
Nine Copies Of Shakespeare's Original Book
of Plays.

From the New York Tribune.
There appeared a few weeks ago IN
''Notes and Queries" list compiled by a
correspondent, of forty-five copies of the
first folio of Shakespeare. which are trace
able today. Its compiler did not claim
completeness for his list. but he considered
il a step toward the aseertainment of the
number of such folios in existence. OF the
forty-fve which he mentioned, four only
were in America. These were credited to
Robert Hoe Augustin DAILY and the Lenox
Library, New York, and to Robert Roberts
been able to find nine. OF these the Lenox
Library owns four, Columbia University
one, Mr.. Hoe and Mr.. Daily each one, as
stated, and the remaining two copies are
the property, respectively, of e. d. Church
and w. A. White, of Brooklyn.
1t has frequently been observed by liter
airy authorities that the first, 1923, folio
of Shakespeare is not, strictly speaking, a
rare book, except in state of perfect
preservation. II all the battered and de-
fective copies were counted the list, says
one writer, could doubtless be extended
into the hundreds. The nine mentioned
here, however and presumably all those
included in the English list, are known TO
book collectors perfect copies
OF the four specimens now in the Lenox
Library one is the old Astor library copy,
which was recently taken uptown when the
consolidation of the two institutions caused
some changes to be made in the arrange
ment of the books. This was known in
England as the Stowe copy. Not much is
known about its history beyond the fact
that 1t was bought by Bohn in 1919 for
f76. 1t measures 123s inches by SIS inches,
and has the Ben Jonson verses, opposite
the Droeshout portrait inlaid.
The most famous of the Lenox folios is
the Baker or Litchficld-Baker copy. once
owned by James Baker. Kings Arms. Cole
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19
Long Span of = Few Lives.

From the Birmingham (Eng) Post.
Lord Brougham used to tell how he had
eonversed with an eyewitness of the exc
eutioner of Charles I, and as Brougham did
not die until 1868, this represented space
of 2l9 years, WITH only one life between.
Within the last few years there was to be
met in London a gentleman whose grand
father had told him of talk he once had
with an old Devonshire laborer who had
seen, when a child, the landing of William
of Orange in Torbay. The writer of these
lines has met at dinner one who had talked
with a hostess of DR.. johnson, in the per-
son of Mrs David Garrick; while Mr.. Glad
stones earlier memories include an inter-
view with Hannah Moore, who was the
great photographers fiatterer and friend,
and an mountaineering with Thomas
Granville. who, not far from 120 years ago,
arranged the terms of separation between
this country and the United States
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is a grievous pity that the solicitations OF
his speculative son. who has four theatres
on his hands to make or lose money on,
have prevailed upon Mr.. Jefferson to send
that second dispatch. How can man IKE
Joseph jefferson be neutral in contest
that involves the question Whelher tne
mere Snowman shall supplant the aetorE
The brave actors and actresses who are
fighting this thing out will regret Mr.. JEFF
ferson's weakening, but they VIII win,
nevertheless, if they are resolute. Their
cause is just and the public Is with them.
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Mile Reichenbery, famous French ac-
tress, is to retire permanently from the
stage. She is now 50 years old and
played first at the Coincide in 1868, but to-
day she is regarded as the best interpreter
of girlish roles on the French stage
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19

foregoing to the Notes and Queries" list
is interesting as proving the existence of
several more American copies than were
mentioned there.
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