Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1910 — BITS FOR BOOKWORMS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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“An Ideal Husband,” by the late Oscar Wilde, has been translated Into Russian and has been staged by ths Moscow Imperial State Theater. The play has attained an unusual success In Moscow, having been pei foraged 25 times in the space of four months. The Moscow theater Is a “repertory" playhouse, with 15 to 20 plays running each winter. A parchment recently discovered In the State archives of Munster haa proved to be the manuscript of three songs>of Walter von der Vogelweide. together wtlh the music and a fragment of a poem by another writer. It had been used as a cover ,for a sixteenth century bill and is Judged from the handwriting to belong to the middle of the fourteenth century. “Three Years Behind the Guns” is to be put Into embossed type for the blind. This Is the story of the experiences of a runaway sailor lad on tße Olympia and it was of this book that Admiral Dewey wrote the publishers: “I can vouch for many of the facts, and the description of the battle of Manila Bay Is one of the best I have ever seen published.” A curious fact In connection with this book Is that It was written by a woman who didn’t see the battle, but wrote the story as her runaway sailor son told It to her. A naif correspondent of the London Athenaeum writes a long letter to that journal in the hope of recovering his copy of the early poems of George Meredith, which he left a* St. Goarhausen in 1857. "It so happens that I have had five copies of this notable little volume. At this moment I have my hand upon two copies of the book. One of them ,1 lent to Meredith about the time of his second roarritee. He asked for the loan of it to read to his new wife during their honeymoon. When he gave it me back I was obliged to have It bound.” i The new biography of the French Republican, Gambetta, complied by a relative of his, M. P. Gheusi, has been published In England under the title “Gambetta: Life and Letters." The work Is largely made up of letters from, the great tribune to his relatives and Intimate friends. M. Gheusi, by a Judicious choice of the very voluminous correspondence left by Gambetta, and treasured by his own eit'cfb, now rapidly growing smaller and smaller, enables us to follow the patriot’s career from his entry Into the humble seminary at Cahors kept by priests until his sudden death. In a little book, “The Education of tb6 Child,” Ellen Key attacks vigorIn a little book, “The Education of the Child,” Ellen Key attacks vigorously some common mistakes made by parents. She says; “A grown man would become insane if Joking Titans treated him for a Single day as a child 13 treated for a year. A child should be Just 'as courteously addressed as a grown person, In order that he may learn courtesy. A child should never be pushed Into notice, never compelled to endure caresses, never overwhelmed wtlh kisses, which ordinarily torhient him and are often the cause of sexual hyperaethesla. Nor should the child be* forced to express regret In begging pardon and the like, which is excellent training for hypocrisy.”