Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — The Library Corner [ARTICLE]

The Library Corner

At a sale in Frankfort four letb-ira. by Beethoven brought SI,OCK) anil fourteenjefters by Goethe brought $1,400. The last thing written l)jr Mrs. Stowe was a grateful acknowledgment to the public.of the fond remembrances sent ' iiCT on her Ssth birthday. Baron Rothschild includes in his "Personal Characteristics” the Reply of the Marquis de Bievre to Louis XV: "I hear that you make jokes on every subject; well, make one on me.” “Your Majesty is not a subject.” A complete list of the “fadazine” periodicals of the Chap Book order shows just twenty-five of them, scattered from one end of the country to the otherChicago' has only one—the best of the lot—while New York City suffers from seven. The Bookseller and Newsman of New York tells a country bookseller that cap be gained in transferring a small account from Chicago to New York; Chicago Is fast becoming a leading recognized center for book manufacturing.” Elbert Hubbard contributes to the “Little Journeys” brochure series an enthusiastic essay on Walt. Whitman, whichJb e concludes thus: “There are men who are to other men as the shadow of a mighty roclc in a weary landsuch is Walt Whitman.” Robert Louis Stevenson’s personal estate, in the United Kingdom alone, has just been taxed at a sworn valuation of about SST,O(K). The quite general impression that lack of money forced Stevenson to write at times when illness made the effort a torture was hardly waranted. One a glimpse of Raskin's thoughts on the subject of Ilia health .when he wrote tips to an old friend: "No matter how foolish one may liavo been, one can’t expbet a moth with both wings burnt ,ptf anil dropped- into hot tallow to sing psalms with what is left of Its antennae-’-'

Rev. Mr. Kellogg, the author of “Spartacus,” who is without an ache or pain at four-score, used to do such things as jump in the winter ocean on a wager. Last summer, contrary to expostulation, he stood bareheaded in a pelting rain storm while a Lewiston (Me.) Journal artist took his picture. Thomas Hugos, author ,of “Tom Brown at Rugby,” was once commissioned to write the life of Peter Cooper. Tire book was written and tlie manuscript" sent to Mr. Cooper’s family, whq, after reading it, locked it up. The manuscript was put in print, but the book was never issued to the public, e Aubrey Beardsley, though his art has been much laughed at, is said to have made an income of $20,000 a year since -he appeared on the horizon, two or three years ago. He was born at Brighton of poor parents, who intended that he should be a musician, and his first pictures were shown when lie was 20 years old. It was thought last year that book collecting had ran the full length of madness when Poe’s “Tamerlane” was sold for $1,045, Walton’s “Angler” for $1,225, for $1,050, and CroimvelPs “Souldier Bible” for $1.000.. Blit these prices are said to bo totally eclipsed by some of the rarities on the market this year. Ilea dors of Crane’s “Red Badge of Courage” at first thought the writer was a war veteran. Now those who have read his “Maggie” have a Strong •suspicion that the young man must bo a Bowery rounder. But tlie admirers of his “Black Riders” have proof positive that he is acquainted with the interior of a lunatic asylum. A Tsalter printed on vellum in 1459, for the Benedictine monastery of Sank! Jakob, at Mainz, tlie third book from tlie Mainz pmss and the second printed book with a date, is offered for sale In Mr. Quarltch’s liturgical catalogue for $20,250. When last sold. In ISB4, tills copy brought $24,750. No other copy lias appeared in the market for almost a hundred years. It Is far rarer than the Mazarin Bible, the first book ever printed.