Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-27
NOTES

Notes pcncilod by Lord Ma.auIay On
DIS Greek and Latin books should inc
ttIcst any one who 81, wise enough Goo
nave kept up his classics. or YOUNG
enough still TO be reading them Te.v
are numerous iu the "MargiuaIttn
about 90 bc Incorporated iu Sir Galr.s
otto Iravelyan's Life and Letters of
Macaulay' which tho Harpcrs arc 10
publish IN now edition within the
fortnight
Feb 81 lS25.-This day / finished
Ihucydldes. He Is the greatest his
torian that ever lived"
May 30, 1851 am stin OF the same
mind
Finished Catullus no Latin writer
is go Creek. The simplicity. the pa
thos, the perfect grace which L find 900
the great Athenian models are AN u
tatuilus, and In him alone Of the no
mans
- have now gone through the whole
of Ovid's works, and heartily ursd
ann OF him and them. Yet be is a Won
derfully clever man. Ho seems to have
been very good fellow. rather too
fond OF women, O. tlatterer and a cow
ard; but kind and generous"
Recently the london county council
placed "a tablet at IL Elm Park road.
n. W. TO commemorate the house en-
which Thomas Hood wrote his Song
OF tho shirt a lively controversy has
arisen, for already a. claim had been
set up for Lake House, Waustead. the
tenant Of which had affixed 90 the
trunk OF cherry tree iu the grounds
a plate bearing this inscription:
Beneath this Ancient Tree
In Mood Sorrowful
For the Woes ut thc Gender Sex
Mr. Tom Hood wrote the song of the
stitch, STITCH Stitch."
Tho victory has remained with .ho
champions of No. ~ lglm Park road.
The poem, IL has been shown. was pub
llshed in Punch at the end of 1913
Hoods stay at Wanstoad was from
1882 until early I'M 1925, and between the
latter year and in 1915 hc suffered
much In health, and had many occl-
slons on which copy had 20 be produced
ln the face of almost insuperable dif-
hcultles In such circumstances IL is
Uncomfortable that Do would have kent
such a piece by him imprinted. Fur
thcr IL IS believed that the poem was
inspired by police court case which
was tried at the end of October. lS42-
just two months before the Song" was
published. il was not until January,
ls44, that the Hoods removed from NO.
u Elm Park road, So that there can
be no reasonable doubt that the poets
most widely known poem was written
at the house now properly marked
Little, Brown & Co.. announce n third
printing OF r. Phillips Oppenhe.m's
latest novel "The Missioner" which
they state is Mr. Oppcnheim's most
popular novel thus far published I'm
this country
The Missioner is of course appear
Ing on the list Of the six best selling
novels iu the United states. II Is note
worthy that "Tho Long Arm OF Man
MISTER Mr. Oppcnhcims previous
novel, Us now listed as one OF The six
best selling novels iu England
In tho course of an interview print
ed while he was In this country Lord
Northclino recalled tho amazing i'm
forest manifested I'm Wlkle collins
The Woman In White" when that
story of mystery was appearing serial
IS in An tho Year Round during the
year Of 1860. on tho day OF publlca-
ton tho street in front OF the offise
OF the periodical was usually throneed
by vast crowd OF readers eager 10
DO among tho drst 90 got hold OF the
new iustalmcnt To find a similar case
of literary popularity one must 60 back
10 the forties, when Eugene Sues THE
Mysteries OF Paris" was appearing in
a daily newspaper. Then interest In