The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-29
RECENT LITERARY NEWS.
"RECoRD-UNION" NOTES OF
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Historic Matters-New Works
Bookmen Of the World
Critical Comment.

Ireland's telegraph department re-
Gently proved that it could manage
Gaelic, by taking the speeches deliver
ed at an Irish festival at Letterkenny'
County Donegal, in the native tongue
and receiving them at Dublin, SO that
they could be printed in Gaelic charac-
tiers in the "Freeman's Journal
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Mrs Violet Paget, the author, VINO
writes under the nom de plume OF YER
non Lee" is obtaining signatures OF
artists authors and noted people 70
petition which she has drawn up to the
Town Council of Florence, Italy, re-
questing them to stay the present work
of demolition Of many of the most peau-
tiful and interesting historical monu-
ments of that city.
Two different weapons possessing
pathetic interest were sold by auction
at different times this year; one OF
these was the spear said to have caused
the death of the Prince Imperial in the
Zulu war, while the other was .he
.weapon-a large Baggara spear-to-
gether with certificate proving its au-
thenticity, with which General Gordon
was killed at Khartoum.
At a philatelic exhibition opened at
Birmingham, England, there are on
view the two most valuable stamps in
the world-a penny and a two penny
Mauritius. Only twenty-three specl-
mems of the 1913 Mauritius stamp are
known to exist and the market value
of the two on exhibition at Birning-
ham is e., 100. They belong to Pari-
siam collector, who has loaned them for
the exhibition.
The young Siamese Prince who has
1ust been successful in an English law
examination has received from the
King of Siam AMI injunction to pay close
attention to the English legal system
and to forward him an explicit report in
reference to it. The King designs the
young prince for an important position
in connection with the administration
of the new legal machinery which he
intends to call into existence.
The poet wrote foolish verse,
And shortly after died,
And what he meant a foolish cult
Still tries hard to decide.
The Pope is writing Latin hymn on
the Worship of the Redeemer," intend
ed to celebrate the end of the century.
1t will be set to music by the priest,
Perosi. whose dramatic oratorio 1.-THE
TRANSPORTATION was recently produced
at Bologna with the same enthusiastic
success accorded to his previous ora
torios.
The war gave rise to number of
words which will undoubtedly find their
way into the dictionary. The recon-
centrado has become an American COLO
mist. and the trocha figures in the Off
cial reports of the operations in Cuba
The uniforms of an important part of
the United States army will be made
of khaki cloth from now on, and the
word will undoubtedly become part
of the language lone of the many
slang words of the year which seem
destined to remain in the American
English" said a word expert, is rub
ber' Rubber as a noun is nothing
new, but the word rubber neck as ap-
piled to an inquisitive person has be-
come popular in the slang world, and
The writings of the late Henry Drum
mond exercised a wide influence, espe-
ciallyt on young men, all over the world.
1t is claimed for him, what is prob
ably true. that he reached the hearts of
a wider audience than almost any other
man of the present century, and his in
fuence was always for good, stimulat-
1i7,o RI a hot ar
life. But while his writings are known
wherever in the world English books
are read, of the author itself little has
been known. owing to his quiet modesty
and self abnegation. Upon his death
the family. and friends of Professor
Drummond placed all the materials for
a biography in the hands of his init
mate friend, DIR. George Adam Smith,
the well known professor of Free
Church College. Glasgow, and the re-
suit is a volume containing THE Life
of Henry Drummond'' with selections
from his papers. journals and letters.
ITO the malicious pleasure which
comedy gives, to the sad pleasure trag
edy yields. is added or joined the pleas
ure of reflection over the misfortunes
them not as res furenda oculis, but as
matter for thought and meditation;
end here we have q new point of view.
The qualification we derive from the
tkeater is first of all of evil origin; but
there is, in addition, the taste for truth
in it. and, Furthermore, the taste for
considering human affairs in a serious
manner.
There is the taste for TRUTH Scho-
penhauer has contended all his life that
there is nothing real in the world ex-
cept suffering, for the sufficient reason
that suffering is incontestably real,
Willie pleasure is merely the satisfac-
ton Of want, and want is another term
for suffering: hence pleasure is mega
tive and suffering alone positive. There
* much truth in this notion. After
all. it only leaves out of consideration
the esthetic pleasures. which are not the
satisfaction of want, which are not
horn OF suffering, and are therefore
pure and positive pleasures. AS for all
other qualifications, Schopenhauer's
theory applies TO them perfectly.
Men feel that suffering is very real
whereas everything else is either IL
,,,-;,,, -. +1,, satisfaction of want-lhaf