| Show LITERATURE EiPresident Legitime of Hayti is writing i writ-ing a history of his downfall Some one has figured out that one Journal jour-nal is published for every 85000 individuals 1n the world T he Housewife of New York announces that all rolled manuscripts will be burned unopened Citizeness Bonapartd by M do St Inland will be tho volume to appear in the French Court Series II Frederick Md is trying to raise 10000 to build a monument over the grave of Francis S Key author of The Star Spangled Banner iiiMt Olivet cemetery For the American Religious Leaders Series John Fiske will write the volume on Theodore Parker and President Patton or Princeton the one on Charles Hodge A new theory of the origin of species is formulated in a volume on Evolution by j vli David Symes of Melbourne which is now passing through tho press in that city The first volume of Mrs Jefferson Davis life of her husband will be ready by October Octo-ber 1st It will be published by subscrip tion and 35000 subscribers have already been enrolled Donald G Mitchell > iIk Marvel fell down stairs recently at Rye N Y and broke his left arm Ho is now resting quietly at his home at Edgewood and no serious consequences are anticipated Houghton Mifllin Co havo prepared descriptive catalogues of books adapted for school libraries Every school library ought under state auspices must come from a list prepared by the state superintendent superin-tendent Mrs General C H T Collis has Ipre pared for press account of tho tour by the Northern Pacific railway to Sitka It will be called vA Womans Trip thrbugh Alaska and will be illustrated by photo graphs taken by the author Harpers Bazar for September 10th contains con-tains an interesting Chapter on Old Spoons by Mrs M P Perris illustrated from drawings and photographs of spoons in the possession of historic families In the same number appears a short story by H Butterwortli entitled Mrs Free mantles First Lecture Joseph Jefferson will close his autobiography auto-biography in the October Century with what tie himself is saiu to consider the most important im-portant installment of allprobably because be-cause he ventures to state Here more fully than before his i oflections on the art of acting He touches on the question as to whether an actor should feel his part describes fault French acting discusses imitators how to keep fresh in playing apart a-part how to learn to act how to conduct rehearsals and how far realism maj be allowed al-lowed on the stage Daniel S Lord is the Perry Mason Co the nominal proprietors of the 3 oaths Companion He bought it some thirty y rat s ago after it hadbeen in existence about thirt three years for five or six thousand dollars when it had only a few thousand circulation It now has an immense circulation circu-lation close upon five hundred thousand A business reason for adopting the name of Perry Mason 3 Co is that there may bono bo-no change in the proprietorship in case of the real owners death or retirement The following statement said to be a quotation from an Irish history may throw some light upon the title of a story Lea Tephi in Amity II which will appear in Harpers Magazine for October When the prophet Jeremiah left Jerusalem he did not remain in Egypt as people thought He came to Ireland bringing with him the ark of the covenant and the princess the young and tender plant Tea Tephi In Ireland the prophet buried the ark and after a time married Tea Tephi to the crowned horseman of Ireland Queen Victoria Vic-toria was descended from them |
