Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-21

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tionary Times, published by the Messrs'
| Seribner.
Mrs. Charles H. Gardner IN her two
| little volumes Of English and French
history has made the main historical
facts of both countries very easy TO re-
member by putting them in rhyme. This
will be of untold service in the school
room, and also an easy way for adults to
refresh their memories.
A second edition of Anthony Hopes
| "Phroso," is announced by the Frederick
A. Stokes company. 1t will be supe-
ror to the first in respect to pressWork
and the quality of paper. The Greek
war cloud has made it's appearance as
a timely advertisement of this romance
After Conan Doyles first story had
been refused by eleven publishers, he
| managed to sell 1t for ELS. Sir Walter
Besant's first novel lay, after having
been rejected by the publishers, for
some years in corner of his study. He
| finally burned it.
! Messrs. Bangs G. Co. began on March
| s the sale of consignment of niscel-
! laneous books from Mr.. Bernard quar-
| ITCH of LONDON. The prices realized were
| rather low, 'fChaplain's Voyages Qars,
1922, a fine copy, bringing s1O0, while a
copy of the Bible paris, 1879 brought
$34
| MIR Rush C. Hawkins makes plea for
| the LenoK library in the columns of tho
| New York Times. He protests against
| it's union with the Astor and Tilden foun-
| dations, and insists that the donor OF
| this precious gift never intended 1t to be
| what is generally known as popular
| library"
| 1t is said that during this month a new
! volume of short stories by Frank r.
| Stockton will be published. As this writer
has never been known to write a dull
| short story. his little volume will be most
| eagerly expected and gladly welcomed,
| for the author of the Lady and the III
| geH-' has SO many admirers that anything
new from the same pen is always APP
| preciated.
| A story of western life by Octave
! Thanet. Drumtochty story by Ian Mac
| laren, a group of true railroad stories
| by Cy Warmans a romantic sea story,
! and nstallments of Robert Louis Ste
Venson's last novel, st Ives" and of
| Kipling's fine tale of the Grand Banks.
| are promised in McClure's Magazine for
| April
tMr. Laurence Hutton is writing his au
| photography for ST Nicholas, under the
| title eff "a Boy Knew" which is rather
| suggestive of Mrs. Burnett's story of her
! girfhood, which was called THE One l
| Knew Best of AL" It seems that Mr.
| Hutton. as a. very small boy, had the
| honor of sitting on Thackerays knee and
| being patted on the head by the great
novelist.
| The most novel and evidently truthful
| reason offered lately by an editor for the
| discontiruance of his two weeks old lit
| erary daily. is that it's publlca ton neces-
| STATED rising at a. m. and devoting all
| their energy to the work. A fact which
| was altogether two unreasonable to be
| continued. AS this was his theory it
was certainly a blessing to Journalism
when he retired to private life.
| A first prize of $500 and a number of
| smaller prizes have been offered by the
| Century company, publishers of the Cen
| tury Dictionary and Cyclopedia, for the
| best answers to hundred and fifty ques-
| tons covering broad range of infor-
| nation. An additional prize of $500 is
| offered to any one who can answer 80 per-
| cent. of the questions from any ten pub
| lished works of reference other than the
| Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
|
The Current Literature, referring to
Sir Walter Scotts love for animals.
| states that he once said to a friend
Thine has been when L did shoot good
| deal, but somehow l never very much
| liked it. l was never quite at ease
when had knocked down my black-cocks
and going to pick him up he cast back
| his dying eye with a look of reproach
| l don't affect to be more squeamish than
| my neighbors but | am not ashamed to
| say that no practice has ever reconciled
me to the cruelty Of the affair.
! Current Literature contains The follow
| irrr pnrarli ,-1a y notice rf the nOpf Ill
Alabama is proud to claim:
| 'iMr. Samuel Minturn Peck, the Ala
| ba ma poet, is in New York for the win
| ter. Last May he was ordered abroad by
J his physicians. and, after passing q most
! interesting summer in England, France
! and Spain, with brief tour ia, Morocco,
he has returned with health entirely re-
stored. He has just completed a series
of wheeling articles about his tour in
| France, where he rode on his wheel 1000
miles. wv bile in Paris he was made a
m mber of the Touring club of France.
! Mr. Peels's first volume Of verse, cap
and Bells" has now enteredSits sixth
| edition. while the later volumes, Rings
| and Love Knots" ard Rhymes and
| Roses" are In the fourth anddhird edi-
tons, and all are yearly increasing in
| sales"
| Mr.. Nathan Haskell Dole writes 10
| the Boston Transcript: MANY people
have tried to explain the meaning and
| origin of the title of Mr.. Kippling's last
| volume of poems, some even reckoning
| on their fingers the various seas that
| the author might be supposed to have
| crossed in the course of his wanderings
I think 1t is more likely that the title is
derived from the last line of the forty
| seventh quatrain in the 1872 edition of
iFitzGerald' 'Ruhaiyat of Omar Khay-
yam
| lWhen you and behind the Veil are past,
| oh, but the long. long while the world shall
| last;
Which of our Coming and Departure heeds
| AS the Seven Seas should heed a pebble
| cast
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