The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-16

manufacturing. in commercial oppor-
tunities. in many branches Of industry.
The progress would have been still
greater but for bad. oppressive. some
times ruinOGs Congressional laws All
this advance has been made without
the help of other people. other nation
alities. There are not today i'm our
borders 6, 600 foreign born citizens.
Our people are homogeneous beyond
any advancing people on Gods green
earth" The people are aroused. They
mean business. are resolved upon pros
perity and Development and are
against all legal expressions all con-
spiracieS of money TO Cypress. wrong
and destroy and are resolved to be
free now and forever. or more than
an hundred thousand true Carolinians
will know the reason why as The
brave thirty thousand Cornishmen in
England wanted ito know the reason
why" the gallant, faithful Trelawney
must die" The watchword around
the State is "be up and doing" The
thing to do is Ito labor and to wait
to seize upon the great, manifold ma
tural advantages that the State offers
and 10 make them all tributary 10 the
great stream of prosperity, and l trust
happiness and honor, that is now flow
ing in with refreshing and invigorating
power throughout our borders.
The two highest selling old books
are known. ii is said. The highest
was a book in movable types that
fetched nearly $4,000. in December,
1884. This work says the New York
Saturday Review" remained in the
possession of its purchaser. the late
Bernard Quaritch. for long period,
and was finally sold after his death
mt ENr~.l .1.Y.{a
perfect and imperfect are now known
of the Psalter of 1859. of which an
edition of twenty copies was printed
by Fust and Schoeffer at the expense
of the Carthusian Monastery of st
James. near MentZ. The copy just
sold for "A 600 was discovered in 1887
by NJ Alois Berger in the library or
Count Wilhelm Won Westerholt-
Gysenberg. in the Castle of Freien-
thun, near Klagenfurt, in Carinthia."
A new book of interest is Shakes
peare's Sonnets, edited by H. c.
Beechling. NJ. A, ID. Lift. Canon OF
Westminster and at one time Clark
Lecturer i'm English Literature az
Trinity College. Cambridge. England.
G2mo. Cloth. pp. lxSii.145. The
Saturday Review" SAYS that the
'sonnets have been divided into groups
and carefully annotated. DR.. Beech
ing discusses all the most recent
theories on the subject. besides ciitl-
cisng the work of other editors Of the
sonnets." | notice that he differs from
the. eminent Shakes0e arean, Mr.. Sid
ney Lee. as to the time Of the produc-
ton Of the mCst interesting volume OF
sonnets in the world. DIR. Beeching
says; And in pursuance of his theory
Mr. Lee places the bulk OF Shake
speare's sonnets in 1924. But all the
evidence there is pointed TO a date con-
sideraby later. No reference TO the
sonnets has been traced in contempo-
rary literature before 1893. 1t was not
till 1893 that two of them found their
way into print The Passionate Pill
grim" And the only sonnet that can
be dated with absolute certainty from
internal evidence points also. for the
most part to a later date" To really
appreciate these sonnetS you need to
read them often and continuously.
When YOU become familiar with them,
you will find them-in number 49,
the greatest body of sonnets in all the
literatures % earth.
Wilmington. y. G.