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to take the oath IF allegiance. His Quaker
custom of wearing a hat in the presence of his
father exasperated the old gentleman in the
highest degree, and he regularly tore the COW
ering from Master Thomass head a source OF
much beating his of thee and thou"
In his autobiography he describes his father as
sending him to his chamber and following hiEl
to the foot of the staircase:
Being come thither he gave me parting blow,
and in very angry tone said; Isrrah if eyer T!I,
strike your teeth down your throat" 1 was great
ly grieved to hear him say so. and feeling L
and calmly said unto him should it not be Just
God sh9H ad ferye 69se So When 1 thou Sad Sa
up saw it sink and his eounte9anee fall and he
A page of Thoreau's autograph manuscript Is
to be inserted in each of the six hundred signed
and numbered sets of Thoreau's works. The set
includes twenty volumes. and the issue is to be
called the manuscript edition" "Thoreaus
Journal" edited by Mr.. Bradford Torrey, will fill
found much material never before published.
Photographers from charming scenes in the
woods and fields about ThoreauS home will IL
Iustrate the edition. The sets will be sold only
by subscription
IT is reported that we are to have fresh light
on Goethe and Schiller-light drawn from the
long boarded letters of the philoogist and Off
cial Wilhelm Won Humboldt The two authors
were to him friends near and dear. The letters
were written to the lady who afterward be-
came Humbodts wife. The book is just coming
out in Berlin
In the Critical Memoirs of the Life and Po-
etry of Wordsworth" by Barron Field, soon to
be published are many annotationS by Words
worth himself. One of these refers TO Fields
statement that Mr.. Wordsworths poetry is es-
| sentaIly democratic The poet adds:
am lover of liberty, but I know that liberty
cannot exist apart from order; and the opinions
in favor of aristocracy found in my works the
ness ness nave that in the present state Of human
| knowledge-and its probable state for some ages
not be maintained without degrees. 1T is pride and
% e a6 agd tb bs Aegcan SO enamoure
| of what they call equality
The King of Siam has established at Bangkok
National Library in memory Of his father
| King Mongkut 1t is to be known as the va
! jrajan" Library. the name borne by the late
/ King during the years he spent in the priest
| hood before he succeeded to the throne. Fhe
| AthenRum" says:
The new library be- in the strictest but also
inasnuch as in it are to be collected and preserved
Tbe Bndhst section is to contain the sacred Buddh
list writings and commentaries on them as ,, 1ney
has reached. 1t is also to contain the printed
literature written in foreign languages, and it may
will have a unique collection rightly preserved IN
W ghe Rn has i Ten nrfIieG Buddhist
The Thai literature is TO contain the
of the Thai race; and in view of the wide area 70
which the race extended is migrations from the
| AMMAN and Tonkn to Assam, the gathering OF TINS
section will be slight task and 1t IS sure to
| throw welcome light many obscure points OF
| history and ethnoogy
The MS archives of Lucca (Which was for
four hundred years republic) are about to be
| published They consist largely of the letters
] of her merchant adventures, who were 2cc1s-
toned to describe their travels for the benefit or
i stay-at-home citizens The first volume rich IN
picturesque details of Italian affairs IN me
| fourteenth century, will soon appear.
i
| The decidedly unusual move "Belchamber'' is
/ to have a successor, Mr.. Sturgs having pro-
duced another story entitled .tAl That Was Pos
sible.' The subject is unconventional and sad
I /.
j It is said that Baroness Bertha Won SuttTer,
! the winner Of the Nobel prize for work done in
| the of peace. drew the material OF her
novel, Die Waffen Nieder,' from life. Its
scenes of suffering in time she witnessed
! herself in The six weeks campaign of Sadowa
She has been called the virtual founder OF the