The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-11-03

works OF English wit. Love for Tow. !,
The Double Dealer and The WAY Of
the World, are given in one volume. They
can be bought for 81 a volume.
William Watson is after S~winburne the
best living English poet. He has 4 new
volume IN press. Tie blood-thirStv crowd
IN England who are so cruelty anxious to
pounce upon the weak Beers and crush
them, do not like Watson and decrv him.
But true lovers of poetry know better
than To accept the dictum Of crudenese
and antIpathy. He has written poetry
even worthy of the great Tennyson and
quite superior TO Kipling and the others
Of the war gang who bounded on the
dogs OF war.
It may interest TO know among the big
crowd OF novel writer's in Great Britain
now who are the best selling writers.
which IS no proof whatever that their
works are the best or even respectable as
to ability and literary merit. Mr.. ". L.
Alden, London correspondent of the New
York Saturday Review, on Goth Septem-
Der. wrote:
The most popular Of them all is Mr..
William lie Queux, and next to him
comes Mr.. Guy Boothby, and then Miss
Corelh. Next come Sir Conan Doyle. Mr..
Klpling, Mr.. Jacobs, and Mr.. PETIT Ridge,
and then follow Mr.. Hall Game, Mr..
Crockett, Mr.. Anthony Hope, and others.
The hold which Mr.. lie Queux, Mr..
Boothby, and Miss Corelli have on the
public is easy to understand. The vast
majority OF novel readers care only Eor a
story. They never ask themselves if the
story is original, or if the characters
which move in it are alive. Give then
a GnnI Stnry- ND No ,oo{{o. - --.-Iz
and ~lifeless the characters may be they
are perfectly satisfied
The same conditions exist in the United
States. The books that excel all Others
in selling are by no means the best that
are written. 1t is the story teller who
wears the flower now.
l am gratitied to see that the truly
great and noble authors are not yet for
gotten. A publishing house in New YORK
announces that it has issued in fines
style Landor's "Pericles and Aspasia'
price only $500 net. They should follow
it up with Landor's Imaginary Conver
sations." The price cuts off all but the
rich who rarely relish the best books
Landor is one of the very ablest British
writers of the very prolific nineteenth cen
tury. His prose is of the best and somt
OF his poetry of a high grade. He was
great master OF prose.
William D.. Howells, the leading North
ern writer now, as he is graded "ul
there was born In Belmont county, Ohio
1st March, 1897. He was a type settle
and next became a correspondent. He j
5 a writer of excellent prose and much IN
: fluencc in the North.
t They write about everybody and every
f. thing now. The latest is a life of tn
} bloody villain Nero; of Rome, 'showini
, his artistic side Next.
A new historical work is out entitle
l ireland Under English Rule" It is b,
5 a man with a famous name, Thomas Add
! Emmett, NJ. D., Ii. D. It IS IN tw
5 volumes octave. 1t is "a bold, extrem
g book in some sense but is interesting. II
< calls William Pitt the Demon OF DIS
cord Here is something that will SUI
7 prise many and arouse opposition. | cop
I from a review of the work IN the Ne7
York Saturday Review:
j The Presbyterians who settled in tn
: north of Ireland after the early part {
i the eighteenth century had come chiefl
$ from the central portion OF England, say
DR.. Emmett. They, like Cromwell, hate
l.. the Scotch, and would never have accep
t ed the term Scotch-Irish for themselves.
0 He goes on to say that it was these Pre-:
y byterians who, having become entirel
: Irish, a little more than a hundred yeal
Il ago, originated at Belfast the Uni
o Irishmen,'' and were the first to urge to
erance for their Rome Catholic countr.
men,"
n am gratified to see that a new editlO
l. of an able Southern production has bee
y issued in four volumes. 1t is The His
n tory of louisiana by the late Charlt
y Gayarre. With a biography of the al
:: thor by that graceful writer, Grace Kin.
y of New Orleans. Gayarre was a schola
d and a strong writer of many accomphsl
n ments. His work is no doubt the mo-
mastery production of all histories of til
Southern States.
I must correct two errors. I had see
it stated that General w. r. Cox Wa
born in Alabama or some other Stat
5; south of us. But this was not correc
My venerable college class-mate al
5 friend, Peter f.. Smith, of Scotland Necl
Halifax county, writes me that Gener
Cox was born in Scotland Neck, m
nearest neighbor, a few years my juno
It We went to school together at Vine H
academy, and when he was about tie
/ years old his mother moved to Tennessee
t. His father came from Edenton. So he
a genuine Tar Heel" l may add that
k have had a very pleasant acquaintan'
with General Cox for more than thlrt
e, five years, perhaps. He was a merltorlo'
st brave soldier and served his native Sta
n in the field most CALAMITY and faithful
d in the great war. 1t was his brigade tn
O.. did the last fighting at fatetul Appoma
er fox when the curtain of peace droppt
$ upon the great Drama OF Blood. In civ
d life he has borne himself in all fidelity al
II manliness, and bears his blushlng no
S ors' with all due modesty and sincerity.
Recently I quoted a famous line
1.-THE spacious times of great Elizabeth
= and said it was by Byron. | knew be
= ter. but at the moment had in my MIL
:. a noble passage that Byron wrote
e. The dead but sceptred soverelgns, w