Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — Intellectual Recreation. [ARTICLE]

Intellectual Recreation.

Congressman Peel, it is well known, is not a man of very high literary attainments, but to appear well read he professes to have gloated over every piece of literature that comes under discussion. Judge Pittman, who is a highly intellectual and well-read man, takes keen delight in talking literature to Peel. Some time ago, when a party of gentlemen were sitting around listening to some of Peel’s experiences of Congress, Judge Pittman asked:- “Peel, you have read Tennyson, haven’t you? “Oh, yes, yes, and I like him very much.” “Do you like Goldsmith?” “Dote on him. ” “What do vou think of his poem, ‘Goldsmith’s Maid?’” “By George, sir, it is the best thing he ever wrote! I tell you what, Pittman, this going to Congress whets a man’s appetite for literature.” — Boston lra t eller.