Life — March 15, 1888 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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A COMMON ERROR. IFE is an ardent worshipper of Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson’s writings, but when Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson says of a talker, “he must have worn the words next to his skin and slept with them,” we are constrained to say that Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson at times grows boshy in his remarks, If he had said of a man who cannot make an after- dinner speech that he must wear his words next to his liver- pad and play quoits with them, he would have made quite as sensible and forcible a statement. * * * TABULATED statement of the books of the year prepared by the Pudlishers’ Weekly has the follow- ing two items: Fiction, . 1,022 Language, . smu ¢ 283 Now, what we want to know is, under which head do Mr. Howells’s works come ? * * * HE table seems to draw a distinction between “ The- ology and Religion,” since its item of religious books is presented as quoted. A pertinent query would seem to be, Why lump Law and Justice under the general heading Law? This is hardly justice. * A CORRESPONDENT suggests that the item “Belles Lettres” should include only the work of ladies, for- getting, perhaps, that the average lady of letters is rarely found among the belles. * * * PEAKING of ladies, a young gentleman much given to scientific and historical research, makes the startling statement that had Queen Victoria been born a man she never would have been Queen of England. We have not given thg matter much attention, but there seems to be good ground for the assertion. * * * F Buck Grant is successful as an editor, Frederick will probably take one of his father’s old swords and be- come a sculptor. * * N the Milton Memorial Window recently erected in St. Margaret’s Church, London, by Mr. George W. Childs, is the following inscription : “This window is dedicated to the Glory of God in memory of John Milton by George W. Childs.” We can almost hear Mr. Childs quoting Shakespeare : ‘* When shall we three meet again?” * * THE BEST HUNDRED BOOKS. LUTARCH'’S LIVES, Motley’s Dutch— Both are free from libel’s touch ; Odes of Horace, Homer's Iliad Pilgrim’s Progress, Balm of Gilead ; Julius Czsar’s Commentaries, Grimm and Andersen on Fairies ; Gibbon, Milton, Irving, Burns— Prose and poetry by turns ; Shakespeare—with him must be taken, Too, the works of Francis Bacon. Old Dean Swift and modest Noll, Arabian Nights in a single vol.; La Rochefoucauld and Pascal’s Thoughts. For law in brief, Biglow on Torts ; Junius’ letters, Hudibras ; Mrs, Caudle, too, will pass. Pepys and Evelyn, Southey's Doctor, Hoyle on Games, and Whist by Proctor ; Aristotle—be it known All alien works are found in Bohn. Vathek, Balzac, Thomas Browne, Leigh Hunt’s Letters on the Town ; Leaves from Highlands by the Queen, Old Confucius, Verdant Green. 4Eschylus, Mahaffy, Taine, Browning, Stone, John Howard Payne ; Don Quixote, Epictetus, Jones on Spinal Meningitis. Boswell’s Johnson, and Spectator, Tatler, too, its honored pater ; Of Two Cities read the Tale, Over Fagan linger pale. Charles O’Malley, Cooper’s Spy, From Jeremy Taylor learn to die; Newcomes, Philip and Pendennis, Richard Sears’ Hand-book of Tennis, Mr. Ruskin, too, on Venice. Izaak Walton, Humphrey Clinker, Emerson, the lofty thinker ; Mill on Liberty, and the Floss, Firdusi, by Edmund Gosse. Elia’s Essays, AEsop's Fable, Dr. Holmes’ At Breakfast Table ; Jeremy Diddler, Miller—Joe, Howells, Terence, Hawthorne, Poe. All the works of J. J. Rousseau, Daniel de Foe’s Robinson Crusoe ; Obiter Dicta, two by Birrell, Charming critic and a virile. Victor Hugo, Thomas Jones, Monte Cristo, Prime on Stones ; Cicero and Savage Landor, T. Carlyle, oppressed by candor. Bancroft, Darwin—full of mystery, Martha Lamb for sweetened history ; Dr. Jekyll, Bulwer, Scott— Any one, it matters not. Religious thoughts from Dr. Paley, Freaks of Letters by D’Israeli ; Andrew Lang’s Essays on Myth, Up Mt. Blanc, by Albert Smith ; Byron, Tennyson, Samuel Clemens, Sparkling wit of Old Mark Lemon's. If these hundred fail to suit, Erase the bad and substitute. John Kendrick Bangs. comicbooks.com