The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-23
LITERARY NOTES.

should not for that reason believe that
he can keep it up until death do them
part. Nine. Grand is quite right. 1t is
easier to be witty now and then than
all the time. Nine. Grand adds that
men should have their wives selected
for them. There, also, she is right. The
angel who at twenty appeals, at thirty
has been known to appal. Even so, the
fact does not help matters. In the abb
stract, matrimony is the ideal state,
and the choice of partner is a pastime
more alluring than any which Nature
has devised. In the concrete, however,
matrimony is just what we find it,
and the choice of a partner an opera
ton which has to be gone over three or
four times before =. one really knows
how Nine. Grand intimates that in the
process we lose our Illusions. But of
course we do, and with them our UNI
brellas and our hair. The point is not
TO nave any, to recognize that matri-
mony consists in three months of ador-
alton, three. months of introspection,
thirty years of liberation, with the
children to begin it all over anew.
After which, in the fullness of wisdom
and the ripeness of judgment, one may
sit down, or even stand up, and dictate
magazine articles by way of danger
signals to the young, convinced, in so
doing, that they will pay no more at
tention to them than we did when pos
sessed of our umbrellas, our illusions
and our hair.-Edgar Saltus in Golfers
Weekly
The Old South lectures in Boston
during the summer of 1898 have been
upon the interesting subject, 1.-THE Old
World in the New" their aim being to
bring. before the young people the var
led elements which have gone to the
making of our American republic. The
special subjects of the several lectures
We're: What Spain has done for Amer
lea What Italy has done for Amer
ica What France has done for
America, . What England has done for
America, What Ireland has done for
America. What Holland has done
for America" What Germany has
done for America" What Scandinavia
has done for America" The following
leaflets were issued in Connection with
these lectures: The account of the
founding of ST Augustine, by Francis
co Lopez de Mendoza Grajales;" Am
erigo Vespuccis account of his third
voyage; "Champlain's account of the
rounding of Quebec "Barlowes ac-
count of the first voyage to Roanoke; I"
'Parker'S account of the settlement of
Londonderry, N. H., by the Scotch
Irtsh;' 'Juet's account of the discovery
Of the Hudson River" "Pastorius' de-
scription of Pennsylvania, 170O;" Acre
Illus account of the founding of New
Sweden These eight lectures have now
been published in leafet form, aceomp-
anied by useful historical and biblio-
graphical notes and edited by Edwin
D. Mead.
The Christian Literature Company,
which has won reputation rs the pub
fishers of the works of the Ante-Ni-
Gene Fathers, has sold out to Messrs.
Charles Scribner's Sons, who will con-
tinue the publication of the important
works already begun by that COM
pany.
So it was young woman and
graduate of Vassar, who won the
Century's $3.50 prize. The prize story,
"A Question of Happiness will APP
pear in the November Century. 1t is
by Miss Grace M. Gallaher of Essex,
Ct, Vassar, B. A, 81.
The Century Magazine makes the
most important announcement for the
coming year that it has put forth for
fifteen years in promising q new war
series that will deal with the recent
war in the same remarkable way that
distinguished the former series. To
the November and December numbers
Captain Sigsbee will contribute his per-
sonal narrative of the Maine. This
will be followed by Lieut. Hobso2s mar
rative of the sinking of the Merrimac;
Capt. Mahan, who is recognized in Eu-
rope as well as in America as the most.
distinguished naval critic in the world,
will write of the battle of Cavite and
the destruction of Admiral Cervera's
fleet. Other contributors to the series
will be Admirals Sampson and Schley,
Lieut.. Commander Wainwright and
nearly all the leading army and navy
officers.
Recent important publications by the
American Academy of Political and So
cial Science are Fiat Money and Cur
rency Imitation in New England from
1929 to 1889" by Frank F. Mcleod;
Australian Experiments in Industry"
by DR.. Helen Page Bates; THE Unit of
Investigation or of Consideration in So
ciology," by DIR. Samuel McC. Lindsay,
and 1.-The War AS a Suggestion of
Manifest Destiny" by Prof. II. H.
Powers.
Anthony Hope has just finished a
novel which is devoted to a delicate
and penetrating study of Disraeh.
The October Bookman reprints from
the London Academy a "Nietzsche
Breviary," which students of the mad"
philosopher may or may not relish.
Here are few excerpts:
There are two things a true man likes
danger and play. He likes woman be-
cause she is the most dangerous of play
things.
ton of a warrior. A woman for the ree-
reation of the warrior. All else is rub-
bsh gfs1s q
A womans principle of honor is to love
than Sn a G moi IN he
second. F -r lt
i In any game where love or hate is not
All women behind their personal vanity
cherish an impersonal contempt for
since man was created, man has en-
original sin
A slave cannot be friend; tyrant
cannot have friend.
What a charming brochure is this
just issued by the university press,
Cambridge. 1t is in reality an adver-
tisement of Some examples of recent
drawing and printing, the work of Will
Bradley" and an announcement that
the Wayside press has been transplant
ed from Springfield to the university
town. 1t is filled with samples of Mr..
Bradley's worl-book covers, posters.
art borders and ornaments, reproduced
in a truly sumptuous manner, and is
from beginning to end, a delicious book
let.
Beginning with March, 1898, the Lon
don Studio will publish an American
edition simultaneously with the Eng
lish from the office of John Lane, 140
Fifth avenue, New York. 1t will be
identical with the London edition, but
will contain a supplement devoted ex-
clusively to American art.
THE SEXTON OF THE SEA.
(John James Meehan in Leslie's Weekly.
You scatter flowers on the grassy mound
That marks the spot where your loved
ones be.