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New-York tribune., 1902-01-19

have existed in Athens and dilates upon the
splendid libraries of Pergamon and Alexandria.
He does not forget to remind us Of the story of
Eumcnes the Second, whose jealous Aexandran
rival endeavored TO check the literary output"
Of Pergamon by forbidding the expectation of
papyrus-which led the ingenious Eumenes to
the invention of parchment The magnificent
structure at PergamOn Mr. Clark thinks was
used a model for the first public library of
Rome-that library which Julius Cesar dreamed
Of building for which he commissioned Varro to
collect books. but which finally founded
by Polio, the friend Of Virgil and Horace. II
this brilliant and scholarly soldier were remem-
bcrcd for nothing else. let not forget that. as
PIny says. he was the first to make mems
talents public property" The earliest libraries
were attached to temples palaces priests and
despots being given to learning and the dis
play OF cultivated tastes 1t presently became
in Rome fashionable to a library
whether cared for reading not. it is
in modern instances. Witness Seneca's
scornful question: What is the use of books
and libraries innumerable If scarce in lifetime
the master reads the boOks?' Nowadays" he
says. "a library takes rank with bathroom as
a necessary ornament of house. These
productions of men whose genius we revere
paid for at a high price with their portraits
ranged in line above them. got together to
adorn and beautify wall"
This classic adornment of the wall does not
appear attractive to the modern owner of a
library. The so-called books of the Roman We're
of course, rolls of manuscript-pile shelves
which Were divided into pigeonholes. The stick
upon which each manuscript rolled was
often gilded painted. and the strings with
which 1t was tied were of bright colOrs; but
even these adjunCts could not have given beauty
to those piSeonholed libraries. There is no evil
dence that they were shielded by either doors or
curtains An interesting representation of
shelves containing such rolls is presented in this
volume. and confirms the impression that this
library arrangement decidedly ugly re-
sembling more than anything else the storage
shelves of The paperhanging shop of to-day
The cut was primarily derived from an ancient
piece of sculpture found Treves. and its
testimony is doubt valid. The chief dec
Grafton of the classic library in the portraits
of celebrated authors placed above the cases
New-York tribune., 1902-01-19

of St Mary's Church, Oxford. built by Thomas
Gotham Bishop OF Worcester, about 1920 for
the reception of the books which he intended
to present TO the university
Mr. Clark has bent all his best efforts to
showing that the fifteenth century was en-
phatically the library era throughout Europe;
and he discOurseS with some elOqUenCe on the
subsequent humiliation OF the splendid mo-
nastc Libraries in England in the three years
between 1886 and 1883. Eight hundred i'm
mensely valuable libraries were destroyed. the
books being burned OF given over TO the pur-
poses OF the grocer or the scullOn. Anthony
Wood has described how ''r1anuscripts
which had nothing supersritiOus about them,
except a few rubricatel initials" were carried
through oxford on bisrs to the market place
and there consumed Even the French revolu-
tionary leaders were more tender OF books than
was the more or less enlightened Edward VI of
England Only three of Duke Humphreys mag
nihcent collection of MSS were permitted to
survive. in spite Of the fact that there was little
theological literature in the whole collection
For the next hundred years the collegiate and
cathedral libraries slowly replaced their lost
possessions by printed literature and the still
lingering Iectern and stall system gradually
gave way TO beautiful bookcases OF the sun
existing form
chapter on the private libraries of the
Middle Ages is full OF entertaining information
derived largely from Illuminated MSS. The au-
thor found only one illustration OF "a library.
properly called; but from innumerabe
pictures of single figures he draws many facts
and inferences. In the twelfth century the pri-
vate owner kept his books in chests. and used
the edge desk to lean the book on in read
ing When medieval king travelled. book
chest often accompanied his majesty There is
a record Of the expense of fitting up in tower
of the Louvre a bOokroOm for Charles ', one
payment being made to wire worker for trei-
lises Ito keep out birds and other beasts" At
that period revolving desks, which could oe
raised or lowered by a central screw, like the
modern office chair, were often used Books
were placed desks hung against the wall and
protected from dust by a curtain Shelves SET
deskwise against a wall were supported by iron
brackets. in CarpacciO's picture Of st. JeromA
in His Study
New-York tribune., 1902-01-19
SUNDAY, JANUARY 10. 1902.

The death of Horace Elisha Scudder is de-
there must be unusual proportion of those
who also write. He was man of letters
whose gifts included the art of editing Con
tributOrS to The Atlantic Monthly during the
period of his management of that periodical,
from 1890 to 1898. keenly realized this. One
of the pleaSanteSt memories he leaves behind
him is that of editor who not only made
good magazine, worthily upholding fine trad-
tons, but rendered sterling services to those
who wrote for its pages and made their rela-
tions with it always most agreeable. Further
more, while he did a great deal of excellent
original work, among the publications which
bear his name upon their title pages, there
were many volumes in which his skilful exer-
else of the editorial faculty especially excited
the admiral ton of his fellows in the craft.
There is no better series of reprints than 1.-The
Cambridge Edition of the Poets of which he
was the editor Beginning bis literary career
as n writer of juvenlia he moved steadily on
toward the execution of weiShter works.
Deeply interested in biography, he wrote of
Webster and Washington, published a life Of
Bayard Taylor, and, as will be remembered by
readers, brought out, not long before his
death, the biography of James Russell Lowell
which will remain the official representation of
that author Mr.. Scudder was a man of en-
gaging personality. He had dealings with a
remarkably long list Of authors, and it is not
too much to say that every one in that list was
his friend.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-19
MILLICENT.
BY ROBERT BRIDGES.

Thou dimpled Millicent, of merry guesses
Strong nmbed and tall. tossing thy wayward
tresses
What mystery of the heart can so surprise
The mrth and music of thy brimming eyes?
Pale brow, thou knowest not and diest to learn
TT mortal secret that doth in thee burn;
With look imploring IF you love me- TELL
Mat is it in me that you love Well?"
Then suddenly thou stakest all thy charms,
And leapeSt me: and in thy crcling arms,
When almost stifled with their wild embrace,
feel thy hot tears shelterng my face.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-19

The statistician brings news that is boon.
It appears that in England the books of 1901
were fewer by thousand than those In 1900.
Could anything be more comforting? OF course
it is painful to think of thousand authors
disappointed, OF n thousand characters per-
mancntly warped into a state of malignant
Scorn- Yet, somehow, we feel a certain SYM
pathy with that philosopher who made up his
mind that there was something in the mis-
fortunes of friends not altogether dis
agreeable to contemplate. thousand books
remain unpublished and that is the main point
Is there any reader who can rise up in his
place and, with his hand upon his heart, say
that he is sorry? Has any one missed those
masterpieces? For our part, we believe
that there at least thousand of the books
Of 1901 which could safely be added TO the
thousand that remain in manuscript in the
depths Of oblivion, and no one be the worse
for the loss. The interesting thing, moreover
is that, far as they have been heard from.
the publishers are not complaining.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-19

To the true lover of books we commend this
chronicle of the ways of bOokish men in respect
TO the housing and management of their treas
ures 1t is a plain and practical history. illus
trated by many reproductions of ancient pct-
ures of readers. libraries and library fittings,
and by many plans and elevations. There is
something of anecdote and great deal of pains
taking detail to which the authors genuine en-
thusiasm has given animation not always
inherent in his subject.
He begins. of course, with the record rooms
of the palace of Assurbanipal. discovered by
Layard Iaments the lack of definite information
concerning the private libraries which must
New-York tribune., 1902-01-19
MEDI EVAL LIBRARIES.
A STUDY OF THE CARE OF BOOKS AND
OF LIBRARY FITTINGS.

THE CARE OF BOOKS. An Essay on the De
VelOpment of Libraries and Their Fittings, from
the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth
Century. BY John Willis Clark. M. A, F. 5. A.
SvO pp. X, $50 The Cambridge University
Press. New-York: The Macmillan Company
New-York tribune., 1902-01-19

The revival of the Shakespeare Bacon contro-
vcrSy precipitatcd by Mrs. Gallup, that great
writer, is at least enhancing the gayety OF
nations. And no one, not even Mrs. Gallup
herself, contributes more to the fun than Mr.
W. III. Mallock whose pOrtcntOus sapience
grows more and more delightful. He sees no
wit in Mr.. Sidney Lees supposititous ease of
somebody's finding certain scratches on the
walls of Westminster Abbey and thcreupon de
ciarng that building TO be really the Tower of
London. In fact, he cannot see why Mr.. Lee
or anybody else should take the Gaupian
theory with anything but solemnty Shake
Spcare is only of interest to us, he declares
because we credit him with the authorship of
he plays and poems What we know of him
otherwise" he says. "tends to quench interest
rather than arouse it," and he calls It School
girl sentiment to resent the idea of transfer
ing our admiration from a man who is per
Sonally complete stranger to all of us-or, at
best, not very reputable acquaintance-to n
man who is universally admitted to be one of
the greatest geniuses who have ever appeared
at any period of the worlds history" We seem
to have heard somewhere that Francis Bacon
Lord Verulam, was 1.-The meanest of mankind" -"
But we let that pass. What we are grateful
for is Mr.. MallOcks kindness in letting us know
just how to go to work when we get ready to
prove that the works of Edgar Allan Poe say
really written by the late William Words
worth who sought, by thus sinking his iden-
tity, to postpone until long after his death the
revelation Of the career of drunken piracy upon
which he embarked in his youth, and especially
his commanding part in the bloodiest passages
of the French Revolution.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-19
Gbe Aetu'llork 0ribna1e.

ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
Snynbie Wins the Euturity.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1. 49, The most
spectacular Futurity ever run was de-
cided at the Sheepshead Bay race
track when crowd of 10000 persons
witnessed the victory of the western
stock speculator, John A. Drake, with
the colt Savable after brilliant head
and head finish with August Belmont's
home bred colt Lord of the Vale The
two were alone in front, struggling
inch by inch to the winning post, with
the Belmont colt in front to within
one jump of the finish, where Savable
got up and by scant nose won the
greatest prize of the turf and countless
thousands of dollars in bets for the
western crowd, who followed the
rake-Gates-Dunne plunge on the
winner. Far to the rear finished the
best of the two-year-ods of the east
ern millionaires, James II. and Foyhall
+. Keene getting the least share of the
big stake with the tilly of their own
breeding, Dazzling.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
AN UNFAMILIAR TEXT.
hut IL Was n Forcible illustration
of n Great Truth.

Several years ago there labored In
one of the western villages of Mime
sofa preacher who was always in the
habit OF selecting his texts from the
Old Testament and particularly some
portion of the history of Noah. NO
matter what the occasion was, he
would always find some parallel incl
dent from the history of this great
character that would readily serve as
text or Illustration.
At one time he was called upon to
unite the daughter of the village may
or aud a prominent attorney I'm the
holy bonds Of matrlmony. Two little
boys, knowing his determination to
give them n portion Of the sacred his
tory touching Noah's marriage, hit
upon the novel idea of pastlng together
two leaves in the family Bible so as to
connect, without any apparent break,
the marriage of Noah and the descrip-
tlon of the ark Of the covenant.
When the noted guests were all as
sembled and the contracting parties
with attendants in their respective sta
tions, the preacher began the cercmo-
MES by reading the following text:
"And when Noah was one hundred ana
forty years old he took unto himself
wife," then, turning the page, he
continued. 1900 cubits in length, %
cubits in width and 80 cubits in depth
and within and without bcsmeared
with pitch" The story seemed little
strong, but he could not doubt the 81
BILE, and, after reading it once more
and rejecting n moment, he turned to
the startled asscmblage with these re-
marks, "My beloved brethren, this Is
the first time in the history of my life
that my attention has been called to
this important passage of the Scrip
lures, but it seems to me that it is one
of the most forcible illustrations of
that grand eternal truth that the ma
ture of woman is exceedingly difficult
to comprehGnl.-Star Messenger.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
THROUGH BAY STATE
President Roosevelt Speaks
In Many Cities.
WARMLY WELCOMED EVERYWHERE.
Important Utteranccs on the Trusts
mt Fitchburg and ON the Philip
pine Question at Springfield.
Governor Crimes Guest.

DALTON, Mass, Sept. 3.-Presdent
Roosevelt took notice of his return Wis
it to Massachusetts by delivering at
Fitchburg another speech on the trust
question in order that he might fully
answer his critics and to more clearly
define his attitude on that subject. lie
also launched into defense of the ar
my in the Philippines during his speech
Mt Springfield. The impression had
gone forth that any views he might
express regarding the acquisition of
territory by the United States would be
sure to be coldly received, but the
demonstrations of approval which
greeted his utterances dispelled this
idea.
Governor Crane entertained the pres
ident overnight. The town was beau
tifully illuminated, red. white and blue
lights being displayed everywhere.
President Roosevelt was greeted by
more than $4,000 people in Springfield,
fully Il third of whom heard him de-
liver an address in Court square. The
presidential train arrived late at SOB
y. m, and, with Mayor Ralph w. Ellis
in charge, the party was driven in
carriages to the United States armory.
Lieutenant Colonel f. III. Phipps, com
mandant, directed the firing of Il sa-
Lutte of twenty-one guns, and then the
president visited the armory office.
Through streets jammed with peo-
pie he was then driven to Court square.
where about 25.000 people were gath
cred. Directly in front of the stand
stood three companies of the Second
Massachusetts regiment, which camped
beside the rough riders ut Santiago.
To these the president spoke directly
many times. He dwelt particularly
upon the duty of American citizens to
respect the soldiers fighting the war
fare of n tropical jungle and subject
TO many temptations, taking this sub
ject because Springfield is the home of
some of the well known critics of the
Philippine campaign.
Afterward he addressed the Grand
Army veterans ut their headquarters,
speaking from his carriage.
The first important stop of Presi-
dent Roosevelt after he had resumed
his travels through Massachusetts was
at Fitchburg, where he found the peo-
pie keeping Il general holiday a stop
of an hour was made, and the presi-
dent delivered an address, thousands
of people being assembled to hear him.
\ one minute stop was made at En-
wing. At Athol and Gardner speeches
also were made. At the latter place
fHlly 10000 people greeted him. Har-
ward flags We're everywhere in evil
dence, and as the president ascended
the platform number of college boys
gave the college cheer
At all Of the places where stops were
made the president spoke upon the ne
cessity for good citizenship in order to
be successful in life.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
Whine of Time.

The value of odd minutes is illus
trated by n story told in a curious lit
tie volume of advice printed in Eng
land. A large firm required n manager
for one Of its departments and ap-
pointed 12 o'clock for arrangement Of
terms with the selected applicant. He
arrived at five minutes past -, to find
dozen directors waiting, the chair
man watch in hand. The chairman
announced that they could not engage
a subordinate who had wasted an hour
of his employers time, and on the ap-
plicant deprecating such eXaggeration
the chairman explained that each di-
rector had wasted five minutes and
that made an hour in all.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
G.. l.. Fairs VIII Filed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3O-There-
sa Oelrichs and Herman Oelrichs have
made application for letters of admin
istration on the estate Of Charles l..
Fair, the dead California millionaire,
and have filed his last will and testa-
ment. The document bequeaths the
entire estate to Mrs. Charles l.. Fair,
the wife, who died by the same acci-
dent that ended the life of Mr.. Fair.
At the same time n petition was pre-
sented by Hannah L. Nelson. Joseph
Harvey and Charles S. Neal for letters
on the estate of Caroline -. Fair and
an order for the production of Mrs.
Fairs will, now in safety deposit
vault. Her will makes requests to
the testator's relatives of about SGO.-
coo, and the remainder of the estate
Is left TO her husband.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
TWENTY-ONE KILLED.
Many More VIII Die NJ Result of "a
Railway Accident.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. q
While rounding Il curve on high en-
bankment near Berry. Ala. the engine
and four cars of an excursion train on
the Southern railway leaped from the
track and rolled over and over down
the incline. smashing the coaches into
kindling wood and causing the instant
death of twenty-one persons and the
injury of eighty-one others. Physicians
say that at least twcuty-nine of the
injured cannot live.
With the exception Of II. y. Dudley,
trainmaster of the Southern railway.
of birmingham and Roscoe shelby of
Columbus, Miss. all of the dead are
negroes, who were taking advantage
of excursion rates from points in Mis-
sissippi to Birmingham.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
Dickens Said She Was n Woman.

1t is said of George Eliots literary
style that its most marked character
istic is sympathy, And long before
her identity had become known Charles
Dickens, singularly acute critic of
his own art, detected her sex by this
undercurrent Of womanly sympathy.
He had been reading Scenes of Cler-
ical Life" which had been sent to him
by the publisher, and on putting the
book aside he said, "Well, this writer
possesses. great ability, but l should
say, despite the name, that George
Eliot is a woman"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
New York Markets,

FLOUR-Steady and moderately active
for spring wheats; Minnesota patents
SO. SOa4; winter straights, $34Oa3.5O; winter
extras, $3a325; winter patents, $3.60d39O
WHEAT-Ruled steady, but quiet, in
fuenced by steady cables. light offerings
and little covering; December, ~ 9-16a
727sc.; May. 74lac.
RYE-Steady; state. 55l3G56c, c. t. f.,
New York; No, western 60c., f. o. b.,
afloat; No. 2, 59c track.
CoRN--Opened steady with wheat. then
weakened on the forecast of fine weather;
December, 4l5aQHAc. May, 44hd4i3sc.
OATS-Dull and barely steady; track,
white, state, 33435c.; track, white, west
PoRl<o@steady; mess, slS.25a1925; fam
lily, $2On20.25.
LARD-Firm; prime western steam,
10 zoe.
BUTTER 80 Steady; state dairy, l5a
lS@c.; creamery l5Ul9Rc.
CliEESE-Quiet to firm; new, state,
full cream, small, colored, fancy, 1O3sG
lOl2c.; small, white, 1O3sal0l2c.: large, col
ored, 94a97sc. large, white 9& d95sc
EGGS-Firm; state ana Pennsylvania,
2l@22c.; western, candled 20d2lc.
SUGAR-Raw steady; fair refining, 27sc
centrifugal, 96 test 39sc; refined steady:
crushed 5.15c.; powdered, Also.
TALLOW-Easier; city, &C.; country.
6AM64c.
HAY-Steady; new, shipping, 55a7Oc.
good to choice, 90c.mSl.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
TRAIN BLOWN OFF TRACK.
Three Killed ana Thirty-cight Hurt
Four Fatally.

OWOTANNA, Mimi, Sept. 1.-The
wreck on the Northwestern road five
miles west of here was probably the
worst that ever happened in this sec
ton of the state. Three persons are
dead, four are fatally injured, and
thirty-four others received injury, some
of them of serious character.
Investigation shows that the storm
which wrought such damage to the
train was but hundred feet in width.
From all reports ii is evident that the
engine escaped the fury of the tornado
by but Il few feet. for it remained
standing on the track, while the six
coaches in the train were picked up as
If they were feathers and rolled over
and over down the steep embankment.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
WAR GAME ACCIDENT.
Two Killed at Fort wright by an
Explosion.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-While the
guns of Fort Wright, Fishers island,
were firing on Rear Admiral Higgin-
sons fleet Edward Roy was instantly
killed by the premature explosion of
a twelve inch gun.
Harry \. Davis died later at the
hospital from injuries received. Sam
uel Clevenger was severely wounded.
Several others suffered slight injuries.
All the men were privatcs of the Sec
ond company coast artillery of the
regular army.
Roy was No. man at the gun and
was handling the powder. He had
put thirty pound charge into the gun
and had just pushed the breech block
into place without locking it when the
explosion occurred.
1t is supposed that piece of burning
rag had been left in the gun. Roy
was literally blown to pieces. Davis
was hit in the chest by a piece of fly
ing bone and sustained fatal injuries
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
STARTLING PHENOMENON.
kingstown shaken by Terrific EN-
plosions at La Sougricre.

plosions at La Sougricre.
JAMESTOWN, st. Vincent. Sept. 3.
"A remarkable volcanic phenomenon
occurred here between . and 10 o'clock
ut night. There was startling series
of detonations from La Soufriere, loud
er than any since the terrible eruption
of May II. Each explosion shook the
buildings of this town. The noises
We're terrific and gave the impression
in every town and village of this is
land that the scene of disturbance was
only about two miles away. During
the period of intense anxiety which at
tended the detonations two luminous
circles, like rainbOws. appeared in the
cloudless sky to the northwest. They
were presumably the reflection of the
flames in the crater of La Soufriere.
Subsequently dense cloud of steam
arose from the crater, but this soon
dispersed. The weather now is fair.
Telegraphic reports have been re
ceived here from the islands of Grena-
da, Trinidad and Barbados saying loud
decorations were heard at these re-
spective places at the above mentioned
hour. These explosions were similar
TO those heard when Mont Pelee. on
Martinique, and La Soufriere were
previously in eruption. The people of
Grenada We're greatly alarmed at the
detonations.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-09-04
Death of an Aged phiIuut n roDist.

NEW YORK, Aug. 3O.-The Rev.
Leonard l.. Radcliffe is dead at the
Westminster Home For Invalid Cler-
gymen at Perth Amboy. He was nine
ty years of age. Cancer of the throat
is given as the cause of death. Mr.
Radcliffe was at one time prominently
connected with the American Home
Mission society. Before retiring to the
home Mr.. Radcliffe made number of
donations to different churches.