Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — A New Author. [ARTICLE]

A New Author.

“I would like to take one of Bart's Works,” said a lady to the custodian of a circulating library. “Bart? lam not familiar with the author. Ido not think we have any of his works in our library-;” “OJ yes, indeed you have. I have seen the name in the cataloguge.” “Do you remember the titles of any of his works?” “Yes, I remember one. ” “And that was ?” “That was ‘The Last Days of Pompeii,’by E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart.’” Dos to it Globe. Take the place and attitude which belong to you, and all men acquiesce. The world must be just. It leaves every man, with profound unconcern, to set his own rate. Hero or driveler, it meddles not in the matter. It will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and "being, whether you sneak about and deny own name, or whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens, one with the revolution of the stars.— B. W. Emerson.