Literature.
— M^^V»kM has undertaken the sftty^or Arrowsmithjjr noit Qprislmas aoaial. $v $ erectinrreo puDlTo library and niut)icnall at Alleghany, Pennsylvania, at a cost of not leu-than £50,000. — Society (London) has been reduced in Rpice from ifixgenoe to]* petmy^so lh»t the humblest reactor deed no longer' re. main ignorant of th« gosaip- of fashionable circles. —Much is being made in America of the statement that Mitts Cleveland's volume of essays han had a larger nale there than Queen Victoria's last book in England. — Mr Grant Allen, who has been staying with his father at Kingston, in Canada, is reported to be practically restored to good health. He wi|l probably not return to England till September. —It is stated that Sir Frederick Pollock, who has retired from the post oi Queen's Remembrancer, and from that of Master in the Supreme Court of Judicature, intends to write his recollections. — Several literary men are amongaC tho candidates for the vacant secretaryship of University College. The list includes Mr Walter Besant, Mr Khys Davids, Mr Andrew Lang, Mr J. S. Cotton, Mr G L. Graves, and Mr J. M. Horsburgh. —The original title-deeds of Shakespeare's estate at New Place have been discovered in tho archives of a Shropshire county family. According to Mr Halliwell-Phillipps, one of them is torn, but the other five, dating from 1532 to 1602, are perfect. —The governing body of Harvard College have decided to abolish compulsory attendance at religions services on the part of the students, in accordance with the recommendation of the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and the college preachers. —The new illustrated magazine which Messrs Scribner intend to bring out will probably appear with the New Year. The editor is Mr E. L. Burlinghame, son of the hte Anson Buriinghame, American Minister to China. —The firut three chapters of Mr W. Clark Russell's new novel, " The Golden Hope," which Messrs Tillotson* of Bolton, are about to issue to the, provincial press, are full of promisp. They have all the charm of the author's previous sea stories. — The second and third volumes of the 11 Index to the Gentleman's Magimne " are now being rapidly completed by Mr Farrar, and will be issued without delay. In order to show one of the causes of the delay, it may be pointed out that in some cases weddings and deaths are mixed up in the most glorious confusion, and in many instances can only be noted by veiy careful reading to prevent any error creeping in. — The following was Mr Whittier's reply to a remark calling in question the date of his birth : "I cannot say positively from my personal knowledge when I was born ; but my mother told me it was on the 17th of December, 1807, and she was a very truthful woman." —Mr Matthew Arnold, writes the Washington correspondent of the Independent, spent a few days last week at the Arlington with his wife and his second daughter. The elder one, it will be remembered, married a young Ameriman, Mr Whittredge, about a year ago. Mr Arnold likes this country very much, though it was his fate % when he was here two yearn ago, to be entertained largely by the " Philistines," namely, Mr P. T". Bdrnum, of Bridgeport, Mr David ' Clark, of Hartford, Mr and Mrs Leiter in this city, and Mr Andrew Carnegie, who is an Englishman or Scotchman, but who has, like the others, made his own fortune by his own hands or head. Mr Arnold has all a philosophic Englishman's interest in the varied elements of life in this country. He went to Arlington to get an idea of a Southern planter's home, nn<l flattered himself on his return that he had seen it ; but he was mistaken. 'I he ideal spot is Mount Vernon. The Southern farmer owning slave* kept them around him, and built, besides the houses which were their quarters, a house for every separate thing that was to be done on his farm. At Mount Vernon these buildings are numerous, because General Washington loved his farm. And at the back of the house, skirting the lawn aud its noble trees, are the two kitchens, the well-house, the spring house, thp butler's house, the gardener's bourse, the meathouse, the wash-house, an ice house, and the great barn with a lean-to roof, and the poultry yard, with buildings appertaining to it. Ailington never had the perfection of apoointmcnts which distinguish Mount Vernon, and it is saddened now by the long lines of white headstones which mark the graves of those who died to save the Union.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2209, 4 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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