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The venerable w. J. Rolfe Is hard
at work upon volume of Shakspearian
proverbs-and also upon another work
relative to Shakespeare about which he
Is silent at present. At 80 years of
age Mr. ROlfe is a robust and vigorous
parsonage. One of his comfortable
morning walks is from Cambridge to
Boston and back again.
Sir Gilbert Parker recommends a
simple method of acquiring the books
one would like to possess. Il have
often said to myself he remarked re-
Gently to a London audience, Il can
not afford to buy that book" Aud then
1 have said again, My dear fellow, If
you will fast for one day you can buy
three of them. 1t Is a book for
NEAL"
In "The Prolongation OF Human
Life" new volume soon to be publish
ed, Prof. Metchnikoff eXpouuds at
greater length the main thesis Of his
former book, ''The Nature Of Man"
that human life is not only unnaturally
short, but unnaturally burdened with
physical and mental disabilities. The
legacies received by man from his ami
NAL ancestors, he argues are the prime
cause Of many Of the Ills of the human
race and the peSSimiStic tread Of so
many systems of philosophy and relig-
ion. He believes that these traits, which
were In harmony With the conditions OF
the remote past and are so discordant
In the present environment, may be
counteracted by rational hygiene. He
argues that his hope for the prolonga-
ton Of human life has substantial as
surance based upon the certainties Of
science.
thinking, Feeling, Doing" one OF
the first books on mental science to be
written in English for the general read
er, has rather an unusual history. 1t
had a sale Of more than 10000 copies
when 1t was first brought out. A large
part of 1t was reproduced without &C
acknowledgement as an independent work
by a school principal. translation
was made into NJ ndarin Chinese by
the plates and the manuscript were
burned In the Boxer rebellion. A Sec
ond edition was called for few years
after the first was published, but the
author had become involved in extern
sive researches on the voice and could
work only slowly on a revision. The
work as 1t now appears has been large
" rewritten. The author was pupil
Of Wundt, and the book contains
summary of Wundt's new theory of the
feelings.
The Letters Of DR.. John Brown"
edited by his son and D. w. Forrest,
D, D., will interest those who care for
the author Of "Rab and His Friends"
A busy Edinburgh doctor, he went his
breezy way through life with re-
markable capacity for friendship. His
fame, as Stevenson plaintively said,
was won with such careless ease, and
by another critic he is called "since
Scott the most lovable Of all writer's"
In Ruskin's words, he wa "a good
Scotcbman of the old classic breed ;"
or to take another Smile from the
same source, "a Holbein with Carpac-
clio tenderness" There are some three
hundred Of the letters, and at the end
a number Of letters from Ruskin,
Thackeray, Mark Twain, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, R. H. Hutton, Lord Cock
burn and Dean Stanley. OF Ruskin
DR.. Brown says: 81 am sure he has
wings under his flannel Jacket"
Dickens he pronounces "a child of
genius, but only a child" He Iislikes
Disraeli, thought Longfellow "a sort
of male Mrs. Hemans," was never quite
sure about Browning, and said that
George Eliot made him "uncomforta-
ble." Stevenson he finds "a new liquor,
fresh and aromatic"