| Show III I ABOUT BOOKS AND AUTHORS I The Duke of ellington Napoleon conqueror waR sontclk ln ot Il P0 J I uc cording to Th United Berv Ice Magazine which has unearthed the libretto for 0 cantata written b > the great duke and j produced too The subject la Pandora and Prometheus When the late Alexundre Dumas was t t 4f llidh 11 ked It he ever gave anything to the poor ho replied Oh yes When 1 com across II bad piece ot money I always give It to Il blind mann A recent work o man-n Nelson makes the odd blunder In scribing the effort to bring on a fight wit VllIencuve ot sayIng say-ing The fiae lieutenant endeavored to 11 1 explain the mistake Just as the admiral was rubbing his hands with Intense sat Icfactlon The question Immediately arises How could Nelson rub his band lacking on arm The hlght prle ever pahl for Il poem was 6000 golden crown paid tu sanna zaro by the citizen ot Venice for his eulogy on their clto poem of six lineR only Mrs Lonsstrtct the young wit ot Generlll Longett Is I considering the propcsltlon mad hr by Il publisher that she write a book Ho mentioned no particular subject she said but laveR the choice entirely to me Itudyard Kipling declined payment for Our Lady 01 the Snows and the Recessional on the ground that he would not receive money for patriotic Poem Mark Twain In speaking of the Qer man language said that It ought to bo forbidden by act oC parliament to construct one m4ntence ot 113 word with seven parentheses and seven subjects sub-Jects I Tennyous lines In Lockly Han about the ringing groove of chang owes Its origin to a mistake at the Poe t I When ho made the first trip from London Lon-don to Liverpool 1830 then was such a crowd about the carriages that he > > cOllld not so clearly and left with the Impression that the wheels ran In grooves The Chinese dictionary compiled by Pa cut ebe 1100 B C Is I the most ancient an-cient of any recorded In literary history his-tory The British museum has books written writ-ten on bricks tiles oyster shells bone I and flat stones together with manuscripts manu-scripts on bark Ivory leather parch nd copper lead Iron ment papyrus or the illree Copies wood It has also thre ca the of Bible written on the leave palm Oliver brother of the I1olm John 1 I tn6il Wndn ljoirres was almost lueit brought of until his I iccent severe lllnail him into public I notice I Jinl < Lowell I once wrat 1 him co lb those choice poets Who m bid their bright fancies by p1lbl > > lI 0 J t = |
