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- A LOST VOLUME.
qpe “Paradice of Dainty Devices,” @ Booh That Shakespeare Knew.
Occasionally, after years of disep- pearance On the musty shelves of some took antiquarian, a forgotten volume fnds its way through some auctian 0033 or by Some less conspicuous route t the steck of the rare bookseller, ghen it becomes again an article of gmmeree. When this happens, it is more than likely that the years have added at a marvelous ratio of accumula. Hion to the value of the book, and the tookseller, being the first man to find this out, derives from it the reward 4 his peculiar knowledge and discrimina- tion.
In 1606 Edward Ande, a London pub. lisher, printed for Edward White, then “dwelling at the little north doore of Saint Paul’s cuurck,’’ a book which has had that kind of a history, since ;t came the other day, laden with a value many hundreds of times above its orig- jal publication price, into the hands of George D. Smith. It is called the “Paradice of Dainty Devices,*’ an im- portant volume of early English poetry, from which William Shakespeare de- rived at least one idea and one form of poetical expression. :
Describing the volume, the editor speaks of the work ‘‘as containeing sundry pithi precepts’ and ‘‘excellent inventions’ and as being ‘‘a learned counsailer and right pleasant and profit- able for all estates.’’ It was, says the editor, ‘‘devised and wgitten for the most part by Mr. Edwards, sometimes of Her Majesty’s chappil; the rest by sundry learned gentlemen of honor and worship, whose names hereafter follow. wherennto is added sundry new inven- tions very pleasant and delightful.’’ In the succeeding pages there follows what critics with four centuries of wisdom subsequently acquired say is really de- lightfal reading.
One leaf of the volume, iost some- where many years ago, has been sup- plicd in manuscript by Brand, a former owner. The title has been mended and the last leaf inlaid. Otherwise it is in good condition and legible throughout. Corser, the authority on rare books, suys: ‘It seems remarkable that, not- withstanding the editions which were published, so few copies should now Gc- eur, not more than seven or eight being known and about half of these beirg imperfect. Of some editions only one copy is known to exist, and yet few of our earlier collections of poetry are more valuable.’’ The rarity which Cor- ser describes is even better attested by the fact that an example of the editions of 1577, in which one leaf was supplied in facsimile from a later issue, was sold afew years ago by a New York dealer for $2,000.
This resurrected copy varies from the preceding and other impressions, accord- ing to Corser, in having two fresh poems inserted in the place of the nine- ty-seventh, “He Bewaileth His Mis- happe.’’ Three others are added at the end, one of them being ‘*Maister Ed- wards His ‘I May Not.’ ’’ In Shakes-
peare’s ‘‘Romeo and Julict’’ (act 4,
scent 5) the poem, No. 58 in this yol- ume of ‘Dainty Devices,’’ is quoted and» used in the action of the play,
Nobody knows where this little vol- ume has traveled in the past 400 years, though part of its movements have been traced by the experts in early English literature and its genuineness establish- ed by the descripticns published from fime to time. Some rich collector of New York will perbaps get it, and then
g itwill disappear for perhaps another
century, to accumulate with age addi- tonal value to another collector.—New York Times,
A Spider Keeps Time to Music.
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ar heaviest tones, the insect could not Gecvived, but always followed the ading part accurately and with the Precision of a director’s baton. All kinds of songs, from ‘‘Down In © Cornfield” to ‘The Bridge,’’ were a — the ability of the wonderful of th ‘ng, and each time he came ont € conflict not a beat behind. At the four voices struck an awful dis- » 4nd instantly the spider scurried
_— Muprovised metronome and dis- 8 in the chimney.—St. Paul
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Count Constantine Bestucheff Rjumin, the historian of Russia, died recently ai St. Petersburg at the age of 68 years.
David Ward, the Michigan pine king, has contracted with the Michigan Cen- tral railroad to haul 40,000,000 feet of timber from Gaylord to Bay City.
Ex-Governor Morrill of Kansas ha’ an American flag that will be his wind- ing sheet. It was given to him by some old soldiers of the Leavenworth home.
General Schofield and his wife are passing the winter in one of the Ponce de Leon cottages at St. Augustine. The general has a book of army experiences and recollections on the stocks.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, said in a lecture at Ann Ar- bor, Mich., the other day that he had ruined his eyes when young by reading ‘‘Oliver Twist’’ by candlelight wher the novel was first published.
Mr. Alfred de Rothschild possesses ¢ lion cub which he has trained to follow him about his house and grounds. Its food consists of rice and boiled rautton, of which latter article it readily con sumes upward of five pounds per day.
M. Osires of Paris, who recently bought the palace of Malmaison, is hay- ing every room in it carefully restored. Among the best known rooms are Napo- leon’s study, billiard room and drawing room and the room where the Empress Josephine died.
The Due d’Orleans, Bourbon pretend- er to the throne of France, who neve: misses a chance to place his name before the French public, has just subscribed 25,000 francs to aid in the production of a religious play called ‘‘Le Mystere de Jeanne d’Arc,’’ the work of a French priest.
Further evidence of William Waldori Astor’s expatriation is shown in his election to the Carlton elub. This is the ultra swell Conservative club oi London, and no one is admitted to if who does not belong tothe British aris- tocracy. Ergo, Mr. Astor has become s British aristocrat.
John Nicholas Brown, who has just given $200,000 to the Providence Public Library association for a new building, is the eldest son of the late John Carter Brown, who gave to Brown university its new library building and the land upon which it stands. He is 83 years old and lives in Newport.
Egbert E. Carr, editor and publisher of the Marlboro (Ulster county, N. Y.) Record, has just completed his six- ticth year of newspaper work. He began at the age of 12 and says that he still keeps the accounts, writes the editorial] articles, reads the proofs and, when oc- casion requires, sets up a littie type.
Both Sagasta and Canovas are from the soil, although they rule alternately the proudest monarchy in Europe. The former is an engineer by trade and fol- lowed that profession until he aban- doned it for politics. At present, being out of office, he is the president of the Northern railway at a salary of $12,000 a year.
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Engene Sne required 18 months to produce ‘‘The Wandering Jew.”’
Lcerd Brougham commonly spent three or four weeks in study before writing a great speech.
Sir Thomas More devoted the leisure hours of over three years to the writing of his ‘‘Utopia.’’
Macaulay, from the inception of the plan to the time when his work was cut short, spent eight or nine years on his ‘**History of England.’’
Wordsworth would write one or twe sonnets every day. When engaged on ‘*The Excursion,’’ he produced from 150 to 200 lines a day.
Cowper required three days for the production of “John Gilpin.’’ He re- vised the work very carefully, almost rewriting many of its lines.
Allison is said to have consumed 24 years in the preparation of his “‘ History of Europe,’’ but many important liter- ary enterprises were also carried on by him during this time.
Congreve would prepare a drama fot the stage in a week or ten days, though four or five times this period was given to the work of revision and reconstruc- tion after the play had been to the ac- tors.
Hobbes spent two years in the prepa- ration of his ‘‘Leviathan.’’ It is said tc have been printed just as it came from his hands, with scarcely any erasure or thange in the manuscript.—St. Lonis tilobe-Democrat.
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