Show AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER TIIE magazines now in course of publication li number 1778 BRITAIN leads all foreign nations in the number of newspapers is urging his brother novelists in france to form a union and publish for themselves THERE are newspapers published in this country chios donation to this reading fund numbers 1013 THERE is a chinese in san francisco who is hard at work with a translation of Mil tons paradise lost into his language CHARLES ELIOT No Brox who was selected by lowell to be his literary executor is also named as trustee and biographer for ruskin miss the daughter of the grand old man has admirable literary judgement jud gement and her recommends tion of a book carries nearly as much weight as does that of her father ix the year 1819 there were born in this country james russell lowell charles A dana walt whitman dr holland and julia ward inowe that is the birth year of queen victoria also M H DE YOUNG editor of the sar francisco chronicle started his firel newspaper in san francisco in on a capital of 20 bret harte was then a clerk in the mint and did his firby writing for mr de young |