The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08

Ihanet' Is Miss French. OF Missouri.
Henry Seton Merriman" Is Hugh Scott.
recently deceased. Mark Twain j.
Samuel L. Clemens. Henry n. Stanley
is John RowIands. Tan Mac Laren'' i
Rev. John Watson. "Artemus ward" was
Charles r. Browne. TX Marvel Is
Donald q. Mitchell, Ouida" j. Louis
&c la Rance. Sidney Lee the we'll
known English author, is Solomon levy.
Eugene Sue was Marie Joseph Sue.
Joaquin Miller Is -Cincinnatus HaIne.
IN old times Washington Irving adopted
IS his literary name at first. 'Ge3ffrey
Csayon." Prof. John Wilson wrote him
self Kit North and made ii famous.
The poet Bryan Waller Proctor used the
p-en-namc Of Barry Cornwall The IA
nous Rev. Sidney Smith used Peter
Pimly," as his anonymous name, IN his
great political Letters
Let me resume the brief work Of taxing
extracts from old poets:
Come, sleep, Q sleep, the certain Knot Of
The batting place Of wit, the balm Of woe,
The poor mans wealth, the prisoners re
lease.
Sir philip sidney.
Born 1854, died from wound in battle
a 1886.
No inward nature. but an outward
seeming,
No solid truth, no virtue, holiness.
But types of these, which time makes
more or less.
Lord Brooke.
Religion stands not in corrupted things,
But virtues that descend have heavenly
wings.
Brooke.
Born in 1854: died in 1928.
Divines and dying men may talk of hell,
But in my heart her several torments
dwell.
Thomas Nash.
All friends,-no friends that then IN
gentle frcwn,
When changing fortune casts US headlong
down.
Nash.
Born IN 1864; died in 1901.
THERE'S ONE
That wakes above, whose eye no sleep
can blind.
George Chapman.
Like the horror Of a winters thunder,
Mixed with a gushing storm, that suffer
nothing
70 stir abroad on earth but their own
RACES.
Is sin, when it hath gathered head above
US. Chapman.
Through all the pomp Of kingdoms still
he shines.
| And graceth all his graces.'
Chapman on Homer.
Born 1857; died 1884.
Her little sweet hath many sours,
Short hap, immortal harms
Fer loving looks are numbering darts,
Her songs b%ewitching charms.
Robert S~outhwell.
Born 1880; died 1895.
| Treason doth never prosper: what's the
reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it trea-
Sir John Harrington.
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to
many
But yet she never gave enough to any.
Born in 1861: died 1912.
A1o q ~ i-Sf 1919 4Ci--Cis -
am glad to see it given authoratively
| thai Tor October his latest novel. so varl
9usly estimated, and so bitterly denounced
and so warmly praised, 'The One Wo
man. was third among all recent novel;
in the sales. Aliens last book. The
| Mettle OF the Pasture" and Foxs THE
Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come" stood
first aud second. 1t is noticeable that
PAGES rather inferior novel. "Gordor
Keith" was fourth. So in October IN the
chief cities and reading centres OF The
Nation the four highest selling book
We're all Southern, representing three
States-Kentucky, North Carolina anl
Virginia. OF six highest these four led.
mention that Dixon's book among the 81,
highest stood first in Atlanta, Dallas
Texas; Memphis, and New Orleans. i
was third at Cleveland, Ohio; Kansa.
| City, Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska; first a
Toledo, Ohio; sixth at Washington. D
c.; Salt Lake, Utah, and Toronto, Cana
da. and fourth at P~itCsburg. Pa.
Two new books that VIII interest liter
airy men and scholars have just appeared
They are Essays on Great Writer'S b.
Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Jr. Among
! those written about are Scott, Thackeray
Macaulay, Montaigre and C~ervantes
great themes and most engaging. The
other bCOk IS entitled. Aids to Study o
Dante by Charles Allen Dirsmore. H
published a previous book or The Teach
ings of Dante and It has passed through
several editions. The New York Book
man says CT It:
S.The present book gives IN q conyenlen
form Dante's famous letter TO Can Grand
Boccaccio's narrative Of Dantes life, in
formation from the chief authorities Ike
scartazzini, ~Comparetti, Charles Elio
Norton, Dean Church, Gaspaly, ant
Lowell. The illustrations include table
and diagrams. The book is designed fo
the general public as we'll as for coieG'
classes"
The very unfortunate and abominabl
Education Act" about which there i
such a stir in Great Britain. will die al
early death it is TO be hoped, and vii
contribute no little to the defeat OF til