Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — The Library Corner [ARTICLE]

The Library Corner

. The English sales of “Trilby,” counting all tie editions, have reached thir-ty-four thousand copies. The recently issued large-paper edition was practically exhausted by subscribers and booksellers before it was published. Mr. Stead, for the better inculcating of public taste, is bringing nut editions of the English poets at the low cost of one penny per volume. The first issue was Macaulay’s “Lays,” the second “Marmion,” the third “Cbilde Harold.” The fourth Is to be “Selected Poems from Lowell.” Longfellow will follow soon. A granduncle of Rudyard Kipling, an ancient gentleman verglng on OO years, has lately burst upon the world as a poet. His verse does not suggest the powers of his honored relative, but it is comparatively well-meaning. Dr. Ibsen is to have a monument erected in his honor during lifetime. It is to be by a well-known sculptor, Herr Stephan Sinding, and will stand in front of the Royal Theater at Christlania. Stevenson’s pew story, “St. Ives,” deals with the adventures of a Frenchman captured in the Peninsular War and shut up in Edinburgh €astle, where he falls in love with a Scotch maiden and has a duel over her with a fellowprisoner. “St Ivea»” it is said, was left practically completed by Stevenson. He had been at work on it for more than a year when he died; the first half of it had been entirely rewritten several times, and many chapters had received his final revision.

Mine. Lardin de Musset, sister of the poet, has emphatically declared that she has no intention of publishing any of the posthumous works of her brother. Nothing of the kind in her possession 1I r "calculated, she says, to add to the fame of Alfred de Musset as a poet. Gossips will be disappointed, no doubt, to hear that Mine. Lardin de Musset has likewise determined to keep secret her brother’s letters, and notably the correspondence between him and George Sand, with whom he was passionately in love.