Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-06-02
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| A new biography Of Harrison Aims.
worth is coming from the press. It
is supposed that some of Ainsworth's
forty-one novels are still read-though
they can hardly be called literature.
TYPES from City Streets" is the IT,
tie of the forthcoming book in which
Hutchins Hapgood has undertaken, to-
describe the underworld of New York,
especially what he finds to be its
charm.
Jane Austin is the newest literary
discovery Of French critics. One Of
them declares that she forms the one
striking exception to the insanity Of
genius. He calls her the first Of the
realists, writer absolutely normal
and sane.
In the writing OF the authoritative
life of Karl Marx, which is among the
spring publications, the author, John
Spargo, has had the assistance Of
Nine. Lafargue, Marks daughter.
Marks friends have also assisted the
author in gathering reliable material
A vivid picture of the state Of
France at the accession of Louis XVI.
is to be found in the Marquis de Sc
gurs new book, "The Setting Sun Of
the Monarchy" The author apparent
ly believes that Turgot might have
saved the monarchy had not Marie
Antoinette's prejudice against him
sent him into retirement.
A good example of the spelling Of
three hundred years ago as well as an
interesting presentation of the Gus
toms and manners of the period is
given in F. w. Moorman's biographi-
cal and critical study of the poet Rob
ert Herrick, to be published soon. DR..
Moorman quotes a letter written by
John Eyrick, as the poets grandfath-
er spelled his name, to his son Nicho-
las on the occasion of the latter's mar
riage, which reads as follows:
Some Nicholas Eyrick, your mother
and l have us commended unto your
bedfellowe and you; for l trust now
that ye be married man; for l hard
by your brother Stenford that youe
weir appointed to marry on Monday
the tenth of December; and If you be
maryed we pray God to send youe
bottle muche joye and comfort togeth-
er, and to all hir friends and yours"
Some Musical Recollections of Fifty
Years" by Richard Hoffman, is a late
publication. The delightful reminis-
cences of Mr. Hoffman are prefaced
by a memoir by Mrs. Hoffman which
gives briefly and very pleasantly the
main facts of her husbands long ca
reer, and supplements most satisfac-
torily the "reminiscences themselves.
Mr.. Hoffman begins his story with the
account of how as boy of IA he made
the journey from Manchester, En-
gland, his native city, to Birmingham,
to hear Felix Mendelssohn conduct
the Elijah" When Is years old he
came to America, and from that time
on he gives most entertaining and in
teresting accounts of all the musical
celebrities who came to America and
gave concerts and toured the country.
His account of his own concert at
Castle Garden, New York, and his
tour of the West and East (including
Canada) with Joseph Burke, of their
expenses and receipts, and the recep-
tton they met with, of Jenny Lind's
arrival and singing in New York and
OF her tour with him under P. T.
Barnum's management, of Thalberg
and Gottschalk, Won Bulow, and their
tours, make this most valuable and
charming review of the musical his
tory of America.