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The times., 1898-09-11

According to Mr. Wemyss Reid. the
original of Rochester in lane Eyre was
the brother of one of Charlotte Bronte's
friends, Ellen Nussey. and was West
Riding merchant. Charlotte" Mr.. Reid
says, "idealized him into Rochester and
planted him in the midst of circumstances
of which his own life knew nothing.
The times., 1898-09-11

Contrary to the experience of most
translators. whose fate it is to reap little
of honor and less of pay for their pains
taking work, jeremiah Curtin, the trans
lator of Quo Vadis," Is said to have
realized s25. 600 as his share of the un-
precedented sales of Sienkiewiczs mas
terpiece.
The times., 1898-09-11

In the free library at Todmorden. Eng
land, there is a unique collection of
works on tobacco. consisting of 14i books
and pamphlets. The dates of these books
range from 1880 to the present day. A
German work bears the date of 1892
Sixteen books were printed in the seven
teenth century, one of these being King
James "a Counter-Blaste to Tobacco"
The times., 1898-09-11

Two volumes entitled About Music :
by Mr.. William F. Apthorp, are to be
published shortly by Copeland & Day.
The times., 1898-09-11

Miss Anna Fuller, the author of some
pleasant fiction, is about 10 publish a
novel entitled 'One of the Pilgrims
The times., 1898-09-11

When you go to the Bull Inn at Roches-
ter. England, they show you the very
rooms in which the Pickwickians slept on
that memorable night when the clothes
were stolen.a They point out Mr. Pick
wick's room, and Tupman's and Wrinkles.
So much for Dickens accuracy of de-
scriptIon and acquaintance with the inns
of his native land.
The times., 1898-09-11

"On the Housing of Books" by the late
William Ewart Gladstone, is an impor-
tant contribution to the list of books
about books. NJ +. Mansfield & Co. have
just ready a reprint of this famous essay.
1t is printed on antique deckle edge pa
per from new type and bound in appro-
pirate paper boards, with a Japan paper
portrait of the author from a photograph
taken in the year of his death.
The times., 1898-09-11

Among the historical books announced
by the Macmillans is '.The Story of Old
Fort Loudon." a tale of the Cherokees
and the pioneers of Tennessee, i760. by
Charles Egbert Craddock, author of THE
Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain,
where the Battle Was Fought" etc.
1t is illustrated by e. c. Pircotto, and is a
narrative of the life or the pioneers of
Tennessee and their fortunes at the hands
of the Cherokees in the uprising of 1860
The brilliant Tennessee landscape and the
old frontier fort serve as background to
this picture of Indian craft and guile and
pioneer hardships and pleasures
The times., 1898-09-11

A bets B that the motto of the Order Of ths
Garter. viz. .-Honi soft qIi mai pcnse.' IA
Latin. TIE
A is not a Latinist certainly. The mot
10 is old Norman French. "Honi is the
past participle of an old and now OBJ
solete verb. "honir." meaning to be
damned. The expression really means,
not "evil to him who evil thinks" but
May he be damned who evil thinks OF
this
The times., 1898-09-11

A quotation from an English book cata-
logue shows the unwisdom of abbrevia-
tions:
Lot 599: Binney's Is it possible to make
the best of both worlds and five others.
The times., 1898-09-11

Dodd. Mead & Co. will publish before
long "A Creei of Irish Stories, by Jane
Barlow, author of "Kerrigan's Quality
The times., 1898-09-11

THE House of Hidden Treasure" Max
Well Gray's forthcoming novel, is regard
ed by the author as her most important
and significant work since THE Silence
of Dean Maitland" This book will be is
sued Immediately by d. Appleton & Co.
The times., 1898-09-11

A volume of Child Verse is TO be
made up from the ten volumes of Mr.
James Whi,comb Rileys poetry. 1t will
be published simultaneously here and in
England.
The times., 1898-09-11

q. p. Putnam's Sons have on their fall
list of books volume by the late Lewis
Carroll, now for the first time printed. 1t
The times., 1898-09-11

phases of an Inferior Planet is the
queer title of the new novel by Miss Ell
len Glasgow, author of 1.-The Descend
ant" which the Harpers are about to
bring out. 1t is story of Bohemian life
in New York.
The times., 1898-09-11

Miss Margaret Benson, daughter of the
late Archbishop of Canterbury, is an
Egyptologist of much energy and some
note. With another lady she has been
engaged in excavations at Karnak, and
has written a book describing their dis
coveries and giving an account of the
daily life of excavators in Egypt.
The times., 1898-09-11

The International, in a recent issue, had
this to say concerning "Ossip Schubin:'
Aloysia Kirschmer an Austrian au-
thoress of growing popularity, was born
in Prague in June, 1854, and her early
youth was spent on country estate Of
her parents. Since her eighteenth year
she has travelled extensively, spending
her winters in some of the large cities,
Rome, Paris or Brussels, and her work
shows the keen observation and cool
judgment of a cosmopolitan writer. She
is well liked in England
The times., 1898-09-11

Mother Song and Child Song" edited
by Charlotte Brewster Jordon, Is an
nounced for early publication 1t Will
contain the best poems of motherhood
and childhood by the favorite American
and English poets with special atten-
ton given to our own writers of the day.
The times., 1898-09-11

Concerning Mr.. Ruskin a correspondent
of Poet-Lore writes that though he is
living in retirement and nothing has
come from his pen for some time, the de-
mand for his books is increasing. The
Ruskin society which fourishes in Bir-
mingham-it calls itself '"rhe Society of
the Rose" by the way-is now publishing
a quarterly journal under the title of the
Saint George.
The times., 1898-09-11

The Macmillans will publish in the near
future another book on colonial times,
by Alice Morse Earle, entitled Home Life
in Colonial Days.
The times., 1898-09-11

A book TO be issued in the near future
by G. p. Putnam's Sons is ALFRED Ten
nyson: His Homes, His Friends and His
Work, by Elizabeth Luther Cary 1t will
contain many fine Illustrations in photo
grayure.
The times., 1898-09-11

Maurice Hewlett, author of the artistic
romance Forest Lovers" has written
another book, called "Earthwork Out of
Tuscany" The book is now issued in a
new edition with particularly fine iilustra-
tiOnS.
The times., 1898-09-11

r. F. Fenno & Co. announce a new book
by Maurus Jokai, entitled The Golden
Age of Pennsylvania"
The times., 1898-09-11

The second volume of the Heroes of
the Reformation Series,' published by
G. P. Putnam's Sons, will be Phillip Me-
lanchthon" Q497-15s0) the Protestant pre-
ceptor of Germany, by James William
Richard, D. D., professor of homiletics.
Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettys-
burg, Pa.
The times., 1898-09-11

A book with title which sounds rath-
er fascinating is Catering for Two, by
Alice M. James. The young housekeeper
usually finds that the recipes given in
ordinary housekeeper's friends call for
much larger quantities of material than
is needed in a family of two. and in many
cases 1t is not good for inexperienced
hands to divide the recipe in halves. And
by the time woman has to provide for
a family of five or six she usually under
stands how to do it without any help
from books. The author of this little vol
ume seems to be on the right track.
The times., 1898-09-11

How many generals Of the civil are stiIl
alive2 " 3.
We do not know. In 1883 a list of the
Union generals and another of the Con-
federate generals. lieutenant generals.
major generals, and brigadier generals,
was published II showed 20 Union ma
jor generals, without taking account OF
brigadiers and 164 Confederate generals
OF all grades. Since then several on both
lists have died.
The times., 1898-09-11

Gladstone's private library at Hawar-
den Castle contained 5000 volumes, which
related chiefly to works on Homer, Dante
Shakespeare and every theological work
of any value published Since the premier
was a collegian. This does not account
for all the books which had come into
the great statesman's possession, but just
his working library, as he once made a
calculation that he had purchased over
5000 volumes.
The times., 1898-09-11

A man recently wrote and announced
for publication a book on Ease in Cy-
cling" The book did not come out on
time. Tt was not the fault of the pub
Usher He explained that to the public.
He informed them, as gently as possible,
that the book was delayed because the
author had been pitched off his wheel,
broken his collar bone and lain insensi-
BILE for sixty hours.
The times., 1898-09-11

A new book to be published by G. p.
Putnams Sons is THE Life of George
Borrow" by W. J. Knapp, professor of
Roman literature in the University of
Chicago. The edition is uniform with the
standard editions of "Lavengro" and The
Bible in Spain"
The times., 1898-09-11

The Macmillans announce for pubii-
cation in the near future .'The Philip
pine Islands and Their People" record
of personal observation and experience,
with the general account of the archipal-
ago and short summary of the more
important facts in its history, by Dean c.
Worcester assistant professor of zoology
University of Michigan.
The author and his companion, DR.. F.
S. Bourns, have twice visited the Phil
ippine Archipelago to study its zoology.
and nave Travelled more widely there than
any other Engiish-speaking men. work
ing on every important island in the
group. and pushing into the widest and
least explored portions of the country.
Their first trip was unofficial in its
character; their second was made under
royal order from the Spanish government,
backed by special order from Gen.
Weyler, so that they had opportunity to
study the country and its people from
two very different view points.
The book is not, then. a description of
Manila and it's vicinity, with notes on
other parts of the archipelago, gathered
from miscellaneous sources. 1t is a rec
ord of personal experience and observa-
ton. not only in the, larger cities, bus
among the uncivilizcd natives, the wild
tribes and the fierce Malay pirates of the
southern islands, 1t gives comp-ehen-
sive view of physical, social and political
conditions throughout the colony. While
strictly accurate. ii lis free from techni-
calities. The au hor's plain. stra' ghtfor-
ward account of the observations and the
adventures of his par.yiis made vivid by
sixty-one fine illustrations. fifty of which
are from original photographs by DR..
Bourns. The Illustrations are closely con-
nected with the s,-biect matter And
there is a large and accurate map of the
Philippines, complied from British admi-
The times., 1898-09-11

One of the forthcoming publications of
r. f. Fenno & Co. is THE Fall of San
tiago." by Thomas ]. Vivian, author of
With Dewey at Manila" The latter was
one of the most vivid and picturesque ac-
counts of the great battle at Manila, and
the present work is a comprehensive ac-
count of the campaign in Cuba, written
in the same incisive and delightful way.
The times., 1898-09-11

What is meant bv the title Admiral Of the
Blue, of the Red, of the White. that ind in
some old books Of British naval history and hc-
ton? What was p1st captain2 p s D.
The senior admirals displayed red en-
signs. the middle admirals white ensigns
and the juniors, blue ensigns- The dis
tinction exists no longer in the British
navy having been abolished in 1854 In
this country where all our admirais are
of equal rank, the senior admiral present
displays blue pennant. the intermediate
admiral a red pennant. and the Junior
a white pennant- When there Is but one
admiral present he flies the blue pennant-
He hauIs it down and runs up the red
pennant. If a senior should come along.
post captain was a captain who COM
manded a post ship or rated vessel He
ranked as an army colonel He was
called post captain TO distinguish him
from commanders and lieutenant COM
manders who were called captain by
courtesy, If they had commanded ves-
sell No commissions as post captain
were even given. and the name disappear.
ed after 1924.
The times., 1898-09-11

Father and Son. by Arthur Paterson,
author of For Freedoms Sake" will be
published in England by Messrs. Harper
& Bros, after having appeared serially
In the London Times. The Athenaeum, in
an extensive review, says. among many
other complimentary things. Father
and Son. is an exceptionally pathetic
story, written with much delicacy and
reserve of power. on lines which are so
unhackneyed as TO give it something OF
the charm of originality.
The times., 1898-09-11

Book News says: 1.-The war spirit
already dominates the English maga-
zines 40 less than our own. Some
one with taste for statistics has
taken the trouble to count the war pa
pers published in periodicals issued over
there as well as here, within three
months. and he makes out a grand to-
tai for the two countries of 215 articles.
OF that number q related to Cuba, Is to
the Philippines, &c TO navies, is to big
guns, q to small arms, and 16 to strate-
gy.'
The times., 1898-09-11

What was the effective range OF a four-pounder
and six-pounder gun in the days Of the Revou-
ton? E H. H..
According 10 Sir Howard Douglas
authoritative book, Naval Gun
merry" published first about six
ty years ago. a six-pounder with an ele-
va5tion Of one-quarter Of a degree had an
effective range OF 800 yards. A twelve
FOUNDER with. no elevation, had an effec-
tive range of ass yards. Sir Howard
dCes not give the range Of a pound
er: 1t must have been less than that of
the six-pOunder-
The times., 1898-09-11

came to this country from Italy without hav-
ing done military service there Can 1 return
temporarily q am a citizen here now) without
being arrested and compelled to serve?
PASQUALE F.
Legally you can be compelled to serve
there and the United States will have
no legal right to help you This is be-
cause Italy says that she Will not let
her subjects naturalize themselves else
where. or recognize their naturalization.
until they have done their military duty
She has as much right TO refuse TO rec
ognize our naturalization laws as We
have 10 refuse to recognize her military
service laws. So she might cause your
arrest, and as a matter of courtesy might
release you from service on our request
The times., 1898-09-11

The new Boston firm of Hardy, Pratt &
Co. have secured the subscription books
of Messrs. Roberts Brothers, and will
continue their sale on the same lines as
established by their recent publishers Mr.
Pratt is son of A. Bronson Alcott's eld-
est daughter, the Meg of Little Women. y
The times., 1898-09-11

What is the correct quotation, ''WheEe sits Nc
Gregor is the head of the tablet should it
go ''Where sits Mcdonald IS the head of the Ia
ble?'' d.
en-, and also that given by Scott in Rob
Roy" Emerson. in his American SchOl-
ar" puts Mcdonald there and some years
ago it was quoted as: Where sits Me-
Nab is the head of the table" The idea
is found in Don Quixote.
The times., 1898-09-11

The Stokes Company promise volume
of "reminiscences of Henry Ward Beecher,
by Mr.. #. j. Ellinwood. Mr.. Elinwood
took stenographic reports of many OF
Beecher's sermons. and was long asso-
ciated with the great orator.
The times., 1898-09-11

Prof. Max Muller tells a story which
illustrates most delightfully."- the vanity
of human nature. He says that while
he was copying manuscripts in his room
at Oxford one day. gentleman in long
black coat was shown in and addressed
him in a language of which Prof. Muller
did not understand a word. The latter
mildly inquired, in English, what Ian
guage his visitor was speaking, and the
black-coated one said that it was Sans
crit. Had Prof. Muller never heard 1t
spoken? Prof. Muller said that he never
had. but that he had some manuscripts
of the Veda which might prove interest
ing. The visitor took them and pored
over them awhile, but finally had to con-
fess that he could not translate single
word.
The times., 1898-09-11

In what year did the famous Irish comedian,
SUBSCRIBER.
Power came here IN 1883. and made his
first appearance in the New York Park
Theater on August IS Thereafter he play
ed in the Walnut, Philadelphia; the Tre-
mont, Boston; the Front Street. Balti-
more; the Washington Theater. in Wash
ington, and the American New Orleans.
He made his last appearance in this
country and on the stage. at the Park
Theater on March 9. 1871, and sailed for
England on the President on March q.
The ship was sighted four days out, but
never afterwards.
The times., 1898-09-11
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DR.. Conan Doyle appears TO have made
up his mind to let the public know that
he can write poetry as well as novels
book of verse called Songs of Action
he has been successful.
Whatever may be the reason, our lat
ter-day verse has taken on a strength
and a swing in its movement which
the past generation knew not. To old
fashioned people much of the verse of the
present day seems coarse and unmusical;
for the same reason that people who
like Italian opera are not apt to admire
Wagner. This strength, as in the imita-
tons of Wagner, occasionally degenerates
into mere noise, and then it is painful.
But this Is not the case with Conan
Doyle's verses. There is the view-halloo
of the hunt and the clatter of hoofs in
many of them; the careless, merry hu-
NOR Of the English huntsman. 1t is al
most inevitable that these songs should
be compared with Kipling's "Barrack-
Room Ballads" because of the rough
and-ready movement and the Cockney
dialect of some of them, but there is
really slight resemblance Kipling' S
verse all echoes of the sea or the regi-
mental band; in all of 1t one may hear
either the swish of the waves or the
tramp of feet. Doyle's verse is ''horsey"
above everything. He is the English yeo-
man at home. and glad TO be at home.
One of the best examples of this sturdy
quality in his work is the song of the
bow, which the readers of THE White
Company" will remember. 1t is almost
too bad to take that song out of its nat
ural environment and place 1t in a book
of poems, for there was never a more
picturesque fiction frame for song than
that since novels began. There are few
besieged people shut up in burning tow
er, around which crowds of infuriated
british French peasants are yelling. Out
of the darkness. just as hope is almost
gone, comes the song of the English bow
men. cheerily marching TO the succor of
their friends. And this is the song that
civ
The times., 1898-09-11

How many men were landed of sll the vessels
at Manila at the frs; landing aboIt the 9Th OF
July? How many ware sent on the first Philip
pine expedition2 Also h0s many the sec0ld
and third? 3 What is tie salary Of Congress-
men. United States Senator's and Speaker Of the
House? D. p.
were about $500 men Two died on the
voyage. On the second expedition 400
men were sent; on the third about 1900
went. 2. The Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress are paid $500 a year.
The Speaker gets $, GO.
The times., 1898-09-11


The Russian army Is, think, capable of great
sr endurance in the field than any other in Eu-
rope The infantry and artillery are composed
OF strong hardy men, and the cavalry unsx-
celled. The Cossacks constitute perhaps the best
OF the mounted troops. The horses strong,
hardy and well fitted for the hardships and fa-
tigues that campaigns require In fact, the Rus
sian horses / believe, the best in the world
The Russian people take better care OF their
horses than any other people have ever known.
not mutilated in the cruel manner in which we
fnd them in our own country and other countries
Of Europe In fact, In Russia it is considered
bad form for a driver to carry whip, and
never saw during my stay q horse that appeared
70 be iIl-treated Il-fed.
The maneuvers which took place In
Germany, and were witnessed by Gen.
Miles, were the most extensive ever held
in that country in time of peace. In all,
l17.ooo men were engaged, and the prob
lem was to bring great army into the
field and to operate against an invading
army which had crossed the Rhine from
the west. Gen. Miles says that except for
the danger Of war, the troops probably
suffered as much hardship as they would
IN actual campaign. He, with the other
spectators, was provided with means Of
transportation. and followed the army day
ty 6ey. The men crossed rivers by means
of the pontoon bridge, and went through
sll the other operations necessary In war.
Some men were drowned in crossing the
The times., 1898-09-11

In the epilogue to Shakespeare's Henry WIZ
he uses the expression which We have not done
neither" Kindly enlighten me upon this APP
parent grammatical erIor- L 5 L.
1t was not a grammatical error in
Shakespeare's time. You will find the
double negative used all through his
plays and poems.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-09-21

train, stopped over night at the same
hotel and departed east on the same
train without knowing that each had
been party to u transaction III witch
both we're interested. The trade was
satisfactory all around. but think OF the
sagacity tina. had TO be exercised 10y the
m,ddlemau to keep seller and buyer
apart until be could satisfy them both
and at the same time satisfy himself
with a profit on the deal.
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MILLINERY OPE Wing.
Miss O'Counell's New Stock Has Arrived.

Next FRIDAY and Saturday. September
% and n. Miss O'Connell will give her
usual fall opening OF millinery. The
display will be beautiful. everything new
and the very latest styles. Our stock is
unusually large and everything 10 the
line OF millinery can be found in 1t. The
ladies are cordially invited to call.
Good work horses for sale on time and
reasonable prices. CHAs. B. KENNEDY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-01
GREAT LUCK Of IDAHO MINERS
THIRTY MEN MIRACULOUSLY
ESCAPE DEATH.
Three Hundred and Fifty Pounds of
Dynamite Exploded In the Morn
ing Mine at Wallace.

Wallace, Ida, Sept. 30-Thirty men
working the night shift in No. tunnel
of the Morning mine had an almost
miraculous escape from death early
this morning when 25O pounds of dyna-
mite in magazine exploded. The first
report to reach here was that eight
dead and wounded had been recovered,
and that smoke was still too thick to
permit the rescueTs to get farther
back, where it was feared the imprison-
ed men were all dead, either from the
direct results Of the explosion, or from
the gases generated by it. Later it
was learned that not a man had been
killed or seriously injured, the only
casualty being the killing of a horse
used to haul out the o.. Most ot the
men walked out, although some of
them were so stunned by the explosion
or overcome by smoke and gas that
they had to be helped. number Of
them were stunned by the conclusion.
and one, Captain Woods, fell onto his
candle, burning his face severely be-
fore he recovered consciousness suf-
ficiently to get from over the flame. 1t
is not known what caused the ex-
Dlosion, no one being near the maga-
zine at the time. That no cne was in
jured was purely piece of luck.