The record-union., 1899-06-18

ably both the poem and the sketch were
drawn from the same source. Napoleon
seems to have owed his Inspiration to
Marigny's Histoire des Arabes, ~ OF
which we have his copious extracts.
A review of the different families of
insects whose habits under favorable
conditions lead them to infest booksl and
bindings Will show them TO be more or
less well defined, according to their
feeding habits. The book scorpions and
mite CheyletuS erudituS, which, as we
have seen, do not come under the head
OF insects, are primarily carnivorous,
and their presence in books may be due
to the fact that they findsthere animal
as Well as vegetable food. This is GER
tainly true of the book scorpion, which
feeds on mites, book lice and other
small insects The fish moths or -"sil-
YER fish, the .sbook lice'' and the
"cockroaehes'' can have no other rea-
SON for infesting books than their lik-
ing for farinaceous substances, such as
are used I'M and about the bindings and
labels of books. For this reason the
damage done by them is largely con-
fined to the exterior or interior of the
bindings, and only SO much of the book
itself is injured as comes in their way
in their search for food. The white
ants feed principally on wood, and in
and about books there is more or less
wood fiber which would be to the lik-
ing of these voracious feeders. The
moths and beetles are the burrowers
and borers. They seek retired places
in which to lay their eggs, where the
larvae will be surrounded with food for
their growth. The moths and some of
the beetles are more given to burrowing
in the bindings, keeping close to the
outer surface for the purpose, it is
thought, of making it easy for the
image to emerge after the change is
completed; while others bore straight
tunnels, often from cover TO cover. Il
natural conclusion for one who has
gone over the literature of book injur-
ing pests to reach is that the many
persons that have beel. industriously
looking for the bookworm, as well as
those that have reported the finding Of
isolated specimens, some dead, scme
alive, have had in mind the one crea-
ture which bored holes in books. The
frequent use of the terms genuine
bookworm," ''the real bookworm, etc.,
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phrases approached the subject with a
preconceived idea of the kind of crea-
ture they should find to account for
the ravages only too apparent on scores
of volumes which pass through the
hands of booksellers and bookk keepers.
To many the boring beetles are the
only creatures which ara rightfully call
ed bookworms, and in their search other
n-fc \ - l.
account.-WilEard Austin in Popular
Science Monthly.
An Irish Anthology on the plan of
Mr.. Wards English Poets will be
brought out in the autumn.
William Morris, we are told, once be-
gan a story of Roman life, the ether
side of THE. House Of the Woiilngs,''
but abandoned it in disgust He left
six completed poems-"Troy poems
which have never appeared in print,
save in theh form of extracts in Mr.
MaekaiPs biography of their author.
The Statement that Queen Natalie
of Servia is writing novel founded
upon the story of her persecution has
been elaborately and Indignantly con-
tradicted.
The writer known as Fiona Macleod
deeply resents the guesses as to her
personality. She has addressed this
note to her publishers: st am much
annoyed at this continued Identification
OF myself with this or that man or wo.
man OF letters-in one or two instances
with people whom I have never seen
ana do not even know by correspond
ence. For what seem to myself not
only good, but imperative private rea-
sons, wish to preserve absolutely my
privacy. 1t is not only that ternpera-
mentally shrink from and dislike the
pupHclty OF reputation, but that nv
very writing depends upon this privacy.
But IN one respect. to satisfy those
VINO VIII not be content to take or leave
10 read or ignore, my writings, L. give
you authority to say definitely that
flona Macleod is not any. of those with
Whom she has been identified; that she
writes only under the name of Fiona
macleod; that her name is her own:
ana that all she asks is the courtesy
poth OF good breeding and common
sense-a courtesy which is the right of
all, and surely imperatively Of woman
acting by and for. herself"
A striking instance of the spread of
the English language and its reaction
on information publishing is the SIM
utaneous publication of editions Of
Richard Carvel" in New York. Lon
don, San Francisco and Toronto:. while
negotiations have just been concluded
Tor special edition in India and for
one also in the British colonies. Wins
Ton Cnurchtfl was practically an nm
known man just one year ago This
month Such. however, is the outcome
OF the success of his first novel "The
Ceiebrity, which by the by was writ
ten during a holiday interval while
Richard Carvel' was on the stocl<s
Mr.. Churchill has given four years
nard work on both sides of the water
70 the writing Of the latter book.
One day, when Byron was a bow. he
accompanied his mother on a visit to
Lady Abercromby. The conversation Of
the ladies' not proving interesting to
him. he escaped to the room above
suddenly the two ladies We're Mortified
10 hear piercing scream and 10 see
an object clad in boys coat and hat
rail- headlong past the window of the
room where they were sitting. Byron
mad dressed up pillow in his clothes
and had cast it from the window above.
at the same time uttering frantic
Yell, in order to make his mother i'm.
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