Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1910 — BITS FOR BOOKWORMS [ARTICLE]

BITS FOR BOOKWORMS

"An' Ideal Husband,” by the late Oscaj- Wilde, has been translated Into Russian and has been staged by She Moscow Imperial State Theater. Tho play has attained, an unusual succesa In Moscow, having been performed 2& times In the space of four months. The Mobcow theater is a “repertory"' playhouse, with 16 to 20 plays running each winter. A parchment recently discovered la the State archives of Munster has proved to be the manuscript of three • songs of Walter von der Vogel weide. together wtih 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 la the story of the experiences of a runaway sailor lad. on the Olympia and it of this book that Admiral Dewey wrote the pub-" Ushers: "I can votich 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 soa told It to her. A naif correspondent of thp 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 at 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 I lent to Meredith about the time of his second marriage. He. asked for the loan of it to read to his new wife during their honeymoon. When be gave It me back I was obliged have*tt bound.” * The new biography of tjhe French Republican, Gambetta, compiled by a. relative of his, M. P. Qheusi, hqs 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. dfc. Cyieusl, by a judicious choice of the: very voluminous correspondence left by Gambetta, and treasured by his own circle, 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 the Child,” Ellen Key attacks vlgorIn a little book, “The Education of tho Child,” Ellen Key attacks vigorously some common mistakes made by--parents. Ghe says: “A grown man would become lnsan* if joking Titans treated blip for a single day as a child 13 treated for a year. A.child should, be just as’courteously addressed as a grotfn person, in order that he may learn courtesy. A child should never be pushed Into notide, never compelled to endure caresses, never overwhelmed wtih kisses, which ordinarily torment him and are often the cause of sexual hyperaethesia. Nor should the child be forced to express regret In begging pardon and the like, which is excellent training for hypocrisy.”