The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17

to General Lee and at the same time re- buiSes he Boston publishers. as follows:
 'I have been informed that an Ameri- can publisher has printed the first edi- ton of this translation of M. Antonius. do net grudge him the profit, if he has made any. I have also been informed that the American publisher has dedicated this translation to an American. I have no objection to the book being dedicated to an American; but in doing this with out my consent the publisher has trans- rgessed the bounds of decency. I have never dedicated Q book to any man, and if dedicated this, I should choose the man whose name seemed to me most wor-
 thy to be joined to that of the Roman soldier and philosopher. might dedicate the book to thS successful General who is now President of the United States.
 with the hope that his integrity and Jus- tice will restore peace and happiness so far as he can to these unhappy States, which have suffered so much from war and the unrelenting hostility of wicked men.
 But as the Roman poet said:
 "vlctrlx causa Dels placuit sed victa Catoni,"
 and if I dedicated this little book to any man, I would dedicate 1t to him who led the Confederate armies against the pow erfu1 invader, ana retired from an un-
 equal contest defeated. put not dishon- ored; to the noble Virginia soldier who @ talents and virtues placed him by the side of the best and wisest man who sat on the throne of the Imperial Caesars" |" Could Leave It Out.
 When the book was being published an American bookseller in London declared that he would not take a single copy if wa.A sent to leave it out and the London pub fishers settled the matter by printing it on a separate page, which" says MT. Long, ,'the indignant Yankee may tear out, if he likes, to please his customers. '' This was actually done, as I have been informed by Southern gentlemen who sent for the book and received it with this page torn out. They became ashamed of this course at last, and the book can now be bought as 1t came from the London press.
 MT. Long was born in 1890, the same year with Macauley, and was with him in the same college and class. In 1921 Long and Macauley each won the Craven University scholarship. This was some compensation to Macaulay for his failure, strange to say, to win one of the three silver goblets for the best English decla- nation of that year. A few years later they were both elected to fellowship in the college.
 Boy Professor.
 When Mir. Long was elected Professor in the University of Virginia he was only in his twenty-fourth year. In one of his letters, written a few years ago. he gives an amusing account of Mfr. Jenferson's 6 surprise and apparent disappointment at his youthful and boyish appearance, but added that he soon became better satis- fled with his boy professor, and seldom failed to call on him when he visited the University, which he did almost every day on horseback. Tn 1851 MT. Long be- came editor of the Journal of Education for the Society for the Diffusion of Use full Knowledge" and for eleven years ed- ited the Penny Cyqclopaedia for the same society. In the last volume Iz7OOD of that work. the committee of which Lord Brougham was Chairman, ''offer their thanks especially to the editor by whose learning, unweaTied diligence and watch. fulness unity of plan has been maintained during eleven years: error, as far as pos sible has been avoided, and regular monthly publications, without A single omission, has been accomplished. It is believed that no similar work has ever been brought to it's conclusion with any regularity" Besides editing the Journal or Education and Penny Cyclopaedia. he wrote several of the volumes of the ''Ii- brary of Entertaining Knowledge" In 1S46 he was invited by the Society of the Middle Temple to deliver a course of lec- lures on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law.