The herald., 1898-09-18
edited by Enoch Knight.)
A Moments Monument


Memorial from the souls eternity.
To one dead deathless hour. Look that 1t
be,
Whether for lustral rite or dire portent,
OF its own arduous fullness reverent:
Carve it in ivory or ebony,
AS day or night may rule and let L Ilme see
It's Towering crest impearled and orient.
"a sonnet is a coin its face reveals
The soul-its converse to what power It's
due:
Whether for tribute to the august appeais
OF life, or dover in Loves high retinue,
It serve, or mid the dark wharf's caVernous
breath
In Charon's palm it pays the toll to DEATH"
The most formal and elaborate single ef-
fort to provide literature for the soldiers
and sailors has been illustrated n Boston.
Voluntary contributions from the city ana
its surroundings have fitted outs complete
in every detail that can add 10 comfort and
convenience, the Massachusetts hosp!tal
ship Bay State. These comforts were IN
terpreted to include a choice library, to be
selected with every literary and hygienAc
care The task of selection was put INTO
the hands of Mr.. Herbert Putnam, the IL
brarian of the Boston pubic library. Ger
tain restrictive rules We're adopted; me
volumes chosen should not be too heavy for
use by an invalid; they should not be of a
very serious turn Of thought; old editions,
"standard" works, popular authors. should
he excluded and the books should be Sc
iected in expectation of menta! pre-occu-
nation on the part of the readers and with
a realization that the period for perusal
would probably not exceed from three TO
six days. almost without exception the
books are by modern writer's of fiction"
Aside from fiction, some military and naval
history and biography ana some works. of
travel and adventure have been provided.
Each of the 275 volumes was cheerful in
character. and a certain freshness and va
riety that will be grateful 10 readers de-
bil.tated in mind and body stamps the COL
lection.
In declining to receive gifts of books. the
library managers gave proof of their fidel-
.ty to a high ideal. Mr.. Putnam. Justly or
not, felt that TO accept such volumes would
Inevitably lead to modtfcations in the
scheme SO carefully worked out. Thus the
entire library consists 0f new and pur-
chased books.-New York Times.
A new book about Zoa is to be published
N Paris. The great novelist being asked
to read it beforehand and TO give his per-
mission to have it published, thus answers
the request:
"I have read these pages; they have in
terested me much, and l willingly grant au-
thonty TO publish them as authentic and
true; for have one desire in life, the truth
nv p1 opa n 1al l.a ba art t-,,-b
That which tends to truth cannot but be
excellent. I give this authority because l
have never hidden anything; have lived
openly, spoken freely and without fear that
which l believe to be good and useful. In the
thousands of pages which l have written
I have nothing to withdraw. If my works
have certain vices they may be good for
something in serving as a lesson. This
study about me is about one who has given
his life to work and dedicated to this, work
all his physical. mental and moral forces"
DR.. Doyle is to come before the public as
q writer Of verse, as well as prose. II is an
nounced that he has prepared volume of
the Doubleday & Mcclure company has
venture and the sold!er-the later poems
have been frequently and favorably com
pared with k!ping's army poems, as they
deal with the soldier character
The New York Times has this hit at a
San Francisco claim:
'@The library of the late Adolph Sutro,
which was supposed to have been left TO
San Francisco. is subject of much discus
sion in the papers Of that city. one OF
them said the other day: Another great
discovery has been made in the Sutro L.
brary, a discovery which is here made pub
Mc for THE first time. and which ts destined
to thrill the world Of letters as the discov-
cry of a mountain Of gold might thrill the
world of commerce. Ard then i; goes on
to say that the great discovery is a copy
Of the first folio edition Of Shakespeare's
plays and an incomplete copy a that"
The Times goes on 10 say that people
should be careful how they make claims
of this kind, and concludes thus:
"Over a dozen copies as good ire in New
York and Brooklyn public and private col
lections, and "a least six more are in other
libraries in the Eastern states. Cal.for-
MIA has had mountains of gold in her time
but she has not found new one of .ho
shakespeare order IN the Sutro library.
Somebody has dealt Mr.. Chamberlain a
treacherous blow. 4 Birthday book"
containing selections from The writings and
speeches of Mr. Chamberlain, has just
been published. and, Of course, it was
bought by all his admirers. who saw In it
merited compliment TO the man. But
what was their horror TO find that all the
selections in the book were al open vari-
ance with the opinions now held by Mr..
Chamberlain. Having started as a Radi-
cal and ended as Conservative, Mr.. Cham
berlain has of course conrradioted every
thing that he originally supported. The
book is therefore avn object lesson in the in
consistency of a great statesman. and his
enemies are now buying and reading II
with huge delight.
BOBBIE M'DUFF. BY Chiffon Ross,
author of 1.-THE Scarlet Coat" "Zue-
ka," etc. Illustrated by b. West Cline
dinst. l.. A. c. Page & Co., Boston.
This is beautiful lit lie volume and well
illustrated, and it IS a most gracefully
written romance of a vagabondage kind,
and exceedingly clever. The story opens
on the broad Paris road. ard Bobbe Nc
Duff-or he who had been Bobbe McDuff
bility." and what it is to wake under he