The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05

KICK themselves out 81 tht 49, 1h
.t4rA feeble American linton. lhett
..,-c,naanIs were the naters. r~eNllrf-
.ur.i prosecutors Of our grand ana gio-
44o3is. uuequallcd southland Read SUI
.a.An II you can ct the volume. anu De
sure 10 follow ~ up hy reading Hon.
u. r.. Grady last book. TIE south :
heavy and just bin OF Indictment
against the North" In b you viii ieaFil
omethtng or Northern soldiers ana
officials you DO not know now-Sher-
man. sheridan. Grant and Lincoln
No southern man of fair intelligence
has any excuse for lauding Grant ana
Lincoln ana SOM others. Get crazy :
needed book and learn the truth, no."
- hidden IN this country
wish to gather here some CLEAN
Ines from the rich field Or reading that
may interest perhaps many OF tne
nearly sixty thousand readers of the
Daiiy Ncu- and Observer.
Three lttl" VolumeS-note DOCKS
only-ieft BY Percy Bysshe shelley
were sold not long since - some
American with more money than he
knew what to do with it. for $4,000.
The little books leather bound, We're
simply memorandum books. Some or
the great poets Of the world have q
a hard time Ct il and very scant living.
/ could make out a list Of many such.
The south could furnish at least Two
exanpIt-Poe and Timrod. OtherS
perhaps might be added.
I'm ain y Scotland has an effort
been made to raise $1,000 TO erect i
statue Of honas Carlyle. In min
years only some $500 were secured.
i his is Il shame. The two authors OF
Scotland in the nineteenth century
who impressed the world most by their
writings were Walter Scott and Thorn
as Carlyle, both men of very superior
genius.
~,,,j. for+. au, rarbopc tho
preparation Of a New English Diction-
airy (OXford) began. 1t has been faith
fully. laboriously prosecuted. 1t has
had three different editors, ore OF them
the gifted Hartley Coleridge. 1t has
had 1000 scholarly Readers for it
distributed all around the world. The
learned DR.. Murray has had charge for
q quarter of a century or SO, and 1t IS
now announced that the work mas
reached its eighth huge volume. and
rs far in the alphabet as the WORD
Reserve 1t is 4 vast undertaking,
and labor. | suppose that when com
plcted, including Il volume or more Of
Supplement- it viii number at least
Twelve very large volumes, and may
have somewhere about 100000 words.
The original of thai fine, loVabie
character. Little Dorrit,' in Dickens's
long volume bearing that name, is
Mary Ann Cooper, who still survives,
aged 81. The New York saturday
Review" SAY of her:
He was always great at nick
names. says the old lady. Mrs. Cooper
remembers the pompous beadle at ST.
PancraS Church, where she and Dick
ems went together, a character who
without doubt was the original Of Mr..
Rumble. When Dickens and Mrs.
Cooper We're boy and girl together he
often used to say: III write a book
about you some day and | shall call it
Little Dorrit.' Needless to say. the old
lady is more than Il little proud of the
way she has been inimortalized She
always speaks Of her great friend as
My Charles"
A simple fellow writes in the sat
urday Review of the North ''having
regenerated the south" 1t would be
amusing but for its stupidity. 1t is that
sort of foolish, ignorant stuff that
"stirs the bile of the true Southern
people. 1t is astonishing how very ig-
norant the North is in 1907, of this
blessed Southland whose civilization
prior to 1861, was the best in all the
world and was never equalled before.
In 1906, a we'll known Scottish
writer, William Sharp, died. 1t turns
now that he wrote all the books by
Flora Macleod" a supposed woman
author.
Prof. T.. w. Maitland, a distinguished
scholar and author, in England, is
1cii L lldd DuI IL lev NcchS DtlOIt
published a strong biography of Sir
Leslie stephen, that is much lauded for
its excellence. The author was emil
nent as q jurist and historian. stephen
was an interesting. able, accomplished
critic, but not of the highest grade
his best contemporaries. Prof.
Maitland was Downing Professor of
Law in Cambridge University. The dis
tlnguished Hon. James Bryce, to be
British Minister at Washington, says
that James Russell Lowell, one of the
leading critics and poets of New Eng
land. said to him of Sir Leslie, that
h was the most loVable of all men"
Mr.. Bryce adds that those who knew
him as Lowell did would have echoed
LOWelrS words The london papers
give high praise to the new life Of
stephen, who died only q yea or two
since.
Mrs. Craigie, the well known novel
list. who died recently in England. was
q native of Boston. born in 1867. Her
father was John NJ. Richards. She
used the pen-name OF John Oliver
HObbeS.
Wilmington, n. G.. Jan. 90.