Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-08-08
LOST LITERATURE.
Fire aud Water Have Destroyed NAV,
Grent Books.

Hsre aud water Have Destroyed Navy
Grent Books.
The due literature absolutely lost Il
very considerable. or classical litera.
ture alone books could be filled with
,he mere names OF works, never to
mention the mutilnted state of many
that survive. The causes Of loss are
few. Fire Is the most common. Ben
Jonson by the fire In his house lost an
entire drama of the life Of Henry "
with notes. and number Of other
works. The fire of London was respon.
sible for the loss of many valuable
works Of the Elizabethan period and Of
much early English poetry. A severer
blow to lovers Of Anglo Saxon literN.
ture was the burning of the Cottonian
library in 1881. when a vast quantity
OF old manuscripts was destroyed. In
1852 by fire In Lincoln's Inn Fields
large collection OF manuscripts and
pamphlets, gathered with great labor
by Lord Chamberlain Somers. was lost.
About the same time Davies notes on
Cicero's de Oflclls" were lost by
FIRE In Strand, London.
The second great cause of loss is the
ocean. whose greedy nav" swallows
all kinds Of treasure so remorselessly.
Early in the fifteenth century Guarino
Feronese wns returning to Constanti
nople with sbipload of classical man.
uscripts. The vessel was wrecked and
the treasures lost, misfortune which
turned the scholars hair white in few
hours. Our own Spenser suffered seri.
ous loss by shipwreck Of q servant
crossing from Ireland. The last sir
books of the "FaerIe Queene" and
number Of translations and poems, in.
Guiding Dreams" 1.-THE Court Of Gu.
pid" and "The He'll of Lovers" were
thus consigned to watery grave. In
1900, on the death of Vincentio Pinelli
Ills library was packed In three vessels
hound for Naples. One was attacked
by pirates. who flung out the books
and papers into the sea and along the
shore, some OF the latter being picked
up by the inhabitants and used to stun
windows with. Toward the close Of
the last century servant Of warhu-
ton came across unique mass Of mat,
uscript plays. which she used up IN
lighting fires and making pie crust
frllls. And everybody remembers how
q domestic OF John Stuart Mil con
signed to the flames part of Car
Iyle's "French Revolution" The hor-
FOR of Mill Mt the loss and the agony"
Of Carlyle in rewriting the work are
now matters of history.
A very curious loss was occasIoned
in Italy in the fourteenth century
when Raimondo Soranxo loaned tbe
manuscript Of Cicero's de Gloria" 10
friend, who pawned It and died be
fore Its hiding place could be discover,
sd--I4ondon Telegraph.
The "If" Is Rather Important.
Here's something that may save
your life when bull gets after you
When bull charges, just before the
6nal lurch he shuts his eyes. and II
you have the presence Of. mind to
stand stock still until he Is about two
or three feet from you all you have ia
DO is to step aside, and he misses you
Any child with sufficient presence OF
mind to do this can let bull chorge
all day with perfect safety. This ID
not new thing as 1t Is one Of the So
crets OF the bullfshter I'm the. coun
tries where the sport is practced. The
builaghters say that COW does mol
do this, and they would never try any
auch tricks with n mad oou