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Literary Gossip.
annuals be half as interesting as the preceding holiday issues of this sparklinoserial , to wit " Round the Fireside , " and " Midsummer Dreams , " its readers may anticipate a treat . Thomas Cooperthe one-time radical reformer and freethought
i , champion but better known for his lengthy poems "The Purgatory of Suicides " and ine Paradise of Martyrs , " has hacl conferred upon him a gift of £ 300 from the Royal Bount y . This graceful recognition of literary worth has been further supplemented b y admirers of Mr . Cooper to an extent sufficient to secure him a life annuity of £ 100 .
Cassell ' s are about to issue an " Illustrated Universal History , " which has been m preparation for some years past . It will be issued in serial form . Mr . William Andrews , F . R . H . S ., has concluded arrangements for the appearance m the columns of the Ashton Reporter of a series of papers dealing with local popular antiquities , to be headed " Gleanings of Lancashire Lore . " *
Messrs . J . R . Osgood and Co ., the enterprising publishers of Boston U S are about to bring out an elegant edition of Walt- Whitman ' s "Leaves of Grass , without any expurgations , the author having made this a condition of the contract . Many new poems will be included . Dr . Bucke , of Ontario Saj ! v w f" I ^ ' ! C Gritic is J ust now en 8 ' age < : l upon a life of the " good gray poet . Walt Whitman ' s many admirers here in England will hail this announcement with leasure
p . J ^ -U - ^! Z £ *? £ ' ^ - of a charming collection of vers de societe called " XXXII . Ballades in Blue China , " has the following lines in a recent issue of the St . James s Gazette , in celebration of the joys of the esthetic brotherhood : — Herewhere the hawthorn pattern
, On flawless cup and plate Need fear no housemaid slattern , Fell minister of fate ; 'Mid webs divinely woven , And helms and hauberks cloven , On music of Beethoven We dream and meditate .
We know not , and we need not To know how mortals fare ; Of Bills that pass , or speed not , Time finds us unaware ; Yea , creeds and codes may crumble , And Dilke and Gladstone stumble , And eat the pie that ' s humble ; neither know
We nor care . ftp Si Member number of Macmillan has a deeply interesting article anent the late Dean Stan ey , from the pen of his cousin , Mr . Augusta J . C . Hare , author of ' Memorials of a Quiet Life . " The earl y life of the much-regretted and estimable Dean is chiefl y dealt with . c io „ uC
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Gossip.
annuals be half as interesting as the preceding holiday issues of this sparklinoserial , to wit " Round the Fireside , " and " Midsummer Dreams , " its readers may anticipate a treat . Thomas Cooperthe one-time radical reformer and freethought
i , champion but better known for his lengthy poems "The Purgatory of Suicides " and ine Paradise of Martyrs , " has hacl conferred upon him a gift of £ 300 from the Royal Bount y . This graceful recognition of literary worth has been further supplemented b y admirers of Mr . Cooper to an extent sufficient to secure him a life annuity of £ 100 .
Cassell ' s are about to issue an " Illustrated Universal History , " which has been m preparation for some years past . It will be issued in serial form . Mr . William Andrews , F . R . H . S ., has concluded arrangements for the appearance m the columns of the Ashton Reporter of a series of papers dealing with local popular antiquities , to be headed " Gleanings of Lancashire Lore . " *
Messrs . J . R . Osgood and Co ., the enterprising publishers of Boston U S are about to bring out an elegant edition of Walt- Whitman ' s "Leaves of Grass , without any expurgations , the author having made this a condition of the contract . Many new poems will be included . Dr . Bucke , of Ontario Saj ! v w f" I ^ ' ! C Gritic is J ust now en 8 ' age < : l upon a life of the " good gray poet . Walt Whitman ' s many admirers here in England will hail this announcement with leasure
p . J ^ -U - ^! Z £ *? £ ' ^ - of a charming collection of vers de societe called " XXXII . Ballades in Blue China , " has the following lines in a recent issue of the St . James s Gazette , in celebration of the joys of the esthetic brotherhood : — Herewhere the hawthorn pattern
, On flawless cup and plate Need fear no housemaid slattern , Fell minister of fate ; 'Mid webs divinely woven , And helms and hauberks cloven , On music of Beethoven We dream and meditate .
We know not , and we need not To know how mortals fare ; Of Bills that pass , or speed not , Time finds us unaware ; Yea , creeds and codes may crumble , And Dilke and Gladstone stumble , And eat the pie that ' s humble ; neither know
We nor care . ftp Si Member number of Macmillan has a deeply interesting article anent the late Dean Stan ey , from the pen of his cousin , Mr . Augusta J . C . Hare , author of ' Memorials of a Quiet Life . " The earl y life of the much-regretted and estimable Dean is chiefl y dealt with . c io „ uC