The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13


yeltaire. They placed the mouth of
the sack over the hole and dumped
| these homes into its shadow" Such is
history as Hugo told it.
Some new letters bearing on the ILL
starred. marriage Of Byron have been
published. They support in full degree
the well-found belief that Miss Mil
banke was a woman i'll suited to the
romantic, strong-willed nature of the
poet of passion and despair. One OF
those beautiful duchesses CT Devonshire
of whom contemporaries never tired of
writing praises, knew her well, having
a son, who at one time aspired to M IS
Milbanke'S hand. Good amiable and
sensible, but cold, prudent and reflect
ing" are the words she applies to this
wife of a man to whom none of those
terms ever was applied by any man
who knew him. Again she was called
"a mystery; liking. not liking; gener-
GUS minded, yet afraid of poverty
there is no making her out She is
really an icicle." When the storm burst
ard byron had separated from WIFE,
the same hand wrote: "They We're GER
tain1y too very opposite people to come
together; but she would marry poet
ard reform a rake"
man, who is known the world over by
his pen name OF Lewis Carroll, the au-
thor of "Alice'S Adventures in Wonder
land" has been speedily followed by
the death of Dean Liddell, the father
of Alice Liddell,- who was the Alice of
those adventures. But Dean Llddeil
bad far greater title to interest wher-
ever learning has gone. He was the
Liddell of tire famous Greek lexicon
known literally to every school boy as
Iiddell and Scots Many college tales
of Liddell are now coming across the
water. One day a student at Oxford
was translating to Liddell a passage
from SophCcles and went far astray
Where did you get that?" asked Lid
dell. From Liddell and Scott, re-
piled the bold young man. did your"
retorted LiddeIl Then you got 1t
from Scott ard not from Liddell-"
Iiddell was a man of tall stature; his
wife short and stout. In the times OF
church controversy at oxford this gave
rise to a famous couplet
She is Broad and l am High;
We, two. make the university
Another famous Oxford figure in
LiddelI's time was Jowett. the trans
lator of Plato, and on him some col
lege wit composed a sklt that has
gone round the world with JoWett S
name:v ~. re
i
Whatever can be known l know 1T.
| am the master of this college
And what l don't know isn't knowledge.
But it is not alone the lives of po-
cts, philosophers and. educators which
interest the world and lead to book
making and magazine writing. All
successful lives interest others And
perhaps the chief cause lies in the
fattering JUNCTION we take to our souls
that ours, too. might have been ia
mo1fsly successful had circumstances
ordered things otherwise. We are lar
too apt to overlook the importance or
the personal eQuation-the element Of
will and the power to seize occasions,
which, after all, play the greatest Part
in mems fortunes. OF John JACOB AS
tor most Americans know little more
than that he made a small fortune IN
furs and a great one in New YORK real
estate His opulent descendant, VINO
has had some repute in political ana
diplomatic life as a candidate for con-
gress and minister to Italy, but who
for some years has made England his
home-William Waldorf Astor-will
soon make us know more Of this found
er of the best known millionaire lam
ily in America. He will tell some
thing of John Jacob Astor's story IN
the pages of his own monthly perlod7
icaI. the Pail Mall Magazine. Since he
~
this publication to- peculiar eminence.
Among all English publications 1t alone
can be said to rival in popular interest
our own magazines, with its pictures,
striking and novel; its Typography or
the best; it's topics Of large and gen
uine interest.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton has just pub
lished volume Of reminiscences cover
ing the eighty years Of her laborious
life. Born in Johnstown. in this state,
the place founded by Sir William john
son, that great English administrator,
who in colonial times, did more than
any other man in New York to keep
the Indians from going oyer to the
French, this eminent and noble woman
stands out in American life as slngu-
larly beautiful and disinterested spirit.
We do not need to advocate woman
suffrage in order to admire her courage,
her devotion, her elevation of charac-
ter. 1t appears from this volume that
her interest in 'womau's cause dates
from early childhood. Her. father lost
his only son. Several girls remained,
and the father gain and again gave
expression to his regrets that none of
his surviving children were boys, Thus
in childhood Elizabeth Cady began to
realize that there was inequality in the
sexes, and deep in her heart sank a
conviction that this was wrong.
Another interesting volume Of reInin-
iscences will be Max Muller's, which Is
announced for publication within about
a week. Readers who look for any
thing dry and scholastic from this emf
.nent Orientalist will be thoroughly dis
appointed. The volume is full Of hui
man nature-genial. sympathetic. mel
low and anecdotal passages relating to
his youth in Germany, accounts OF OK
ford social life, delightful "reminiscences
of Tennyson. Gladstone, Lowell and
Holmes crowd his pages.
Most authors have had their strug-
giles with titles. Of all things connected
with the first impression a book makes,
none is so important. Mere typography
and binding are of far less moment.
Lawrence Hutton has, I think, made
hit with the title of his new book-a
volume of boyhood recollections which
he calls GA Boy I Knew, and Four
Dogs" If that book does not sell, it
will not be the titles fault.
Francis w. Halsey.