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THE NEW CABINET. Men Chosen by Mr. Cieveland as His Adgisers. AN INTERESTING GROUP. —— | The Presttent-slect Shows Independence in Mis Selection— Mis Personal Knowledge of the Qualities of the Men—The Careers of Men Who Will Be at the Heads of Depart. | ments. Mr. Cleveland's cabinet is going to present an exceedingly interesting group. As far as known it is quite ont of the ordinary and it will require « good deal of study on the part of the average politician to determine the system fol- Jowed in its composition. that Mr. Cleveland was not ready to take any man into his cabinet on the representation of any one else, but insisted as a requisite that he should have personal knowledge of the men whom be should select as advisers, THE SECRETARY OF STATE. At the head of the list of C one who has never up to the hour of his selec- | thon been classod as a democrat, though at the | JUDGE WALTER Q The list indicates | &#! House, bein he well identified as Carlisle ism man GRESHAM. | and then for three Congresses Speaker of the a of after that elected to the Senate, | leader of extra- ies of mind. He is one of the in public life garded by many. among them Mr. C us the greatest statesman wh today, dis re- land, bas served in Congress for years and the equal of the best the country ba: ced. of exceptional ability. simple manuers, though sociable nor extrem relations. He is far oyaa wide populority, but is naturalls Ho is slender and d bis face which is alwa: and dignified, of beard is strong characteristics, not ely cor This may be an but he is undoubtedly a | He is a man of | rtieu- Jatin from unamiable ke; Is it desti- rked with lines denoting He has @ very firm mouth, a bright, but somewhat less steady eye, and a forebead sloping back st an angle to denote a very considerable degree of stubborn- ness. In a discussion he strong in logic and sue- cinct in bis statements, and bas more regard for the power that can be put into language than for its beauty. He does not like contro- versy and is apt, when he sees nothing can be ed by long contention, to drop the matter as gracefully as possible, often leaving the impression that he may have become con- vinced. His enbsequent action usually shows, | however, that he is uot easily influenced against his judgment and he possesses «ufficiently good ‘any bat a very good argument, | judgment to render his opinions fixed, which ainst 1a jis reason, not his sentiments. Before he of the most ever bad on ti to et officers i8 | was elected Speaker of the House he was one werful leaders the democrate floor, and he showed himself election be championed the cause of tariff masterly in debate. He made the contest pr acapaor te for the Speakership of the Forty-eighth Con- reform and worked for the election of Mr. Cleveland on that issze. To the average poli- | tician it looks queer for a democratic president | put at the head of his Cabinet a man who | has all his life been known as « republican, but probably to the plain people who care more for ress h changed the condition of the democratic party and led it to the present tion as the party revenue only. to tear up al of low taritf—of ta His struggle with Randall was Protection doctrines, root and for policies than for party name in these enlight-| branch, from the party, and during the three eved days it will look lik polities above mere ho elevation of particanship. Judge <4 from @ prom- juent place in the Cabin ident to the highest rank in the Cabinet of Mr. Cleveland. Gresham has been prominent as presidential “possibility” before the past three Yepublican national conventions, and in ‘84 was near being nominated ss the candidate to ‘wppose Mr. Cleveland. But in '88 Harrison got the nomination in Chicago and the convention at Minneapolis last June the bame of Gresham wns again mentioned for the nomination and though there was little thought of his being the nominee a good many politicians argued that, as Cleveland would in | ail probability be the democratic nominee at Chicago. Gresham would be the best man to nominate ou the republican ticket, as he would get the independent vote. But so loose were Ube ties that bound him to the republican party that but a few woeks later he was strongly urged w accept the nomination of the populist partyoon a tiat money, subtreasury, free-trade The populists were led to seek him as. ader because of his high reputation, his well-known liberality of views ond immense popularity x people of the antey . declined this honor, Cleveland was for the ke the poesibility rival. Instead of rival he became champion, snd is now the chosen associate and counselor. ian Judge Gresham bas for a ears enjoyed greater popularity in all parties than almost any other man in the couniry. There are men more popnlar } than be is in particular parts, | quality, which i le it possible for aud of number of whick bappene: ceseful in that campaign, has broadened him beyond the limits of party lines. There is a great deal that ix p tractive about Judge Gresham. He is a w rong character and, at the same time gentleness of i democrat in principle and sentiments—a Jette! sonian democrat. He is certainly democrati: {im the proper acceptance of the word. He isa very good lawyer and bas made an exception- ally good judge. Besides b: avery clear} head and a ready perception he is liberal | minded and courageous. Througho Be bas enjored the reputation of being controtied by high motives, and in pol bas been regarded by all parties as honorable ‘and patrictic. He ia one of the most approach- able men in public life and he is uot Jess cour- feous to the humbie nor less firm with the pow- erfal. Such is the reputation he bears. In manuver he is rather serious than sociable, ‘though he has the rare faculty of making people comfortable who bave to deal with nim. On March 17 he will be fifty-nine years old, | Dut he looks considerably younger than thet. He,was bora on « farm near Corsdon, Ind. One of five children, be wns left fatherless at | the age of two years and his youth was spent ima pretty hard struggle. His father, who was checlat of the county, was murdered while try { Sng to arrest some desperadves. Working on the farm until he was cighteon and getting what education he could by attending the dis- | trict school in the winter time, he was well trained to hard work before he went out into the world to make his fortune. After quitting the work at the farm be was empli depaty county Pes @nough to pay his expenses at the state univer- atty forayear. At the end of that time his was 8) teri terms that he went on, low hat ily struggle gaining ground until finally Mr. Cleveland’s famous party doctrine and furnished the issue a which the battle in "84 was lost and that of Carlisle and Morrison stood shoulder fight before Mr. Cleveland a it has been Mr. | ‘was won. to shoulder in this appeared upon the scene, JOHN @G. tof a republican Pres- | tariff message settled the question of the Cartlisie's wish that Morrison might be by his side in the cabinet. Ax Speaker of the House Mr. Carlisle had the if a lle THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES. had Col Lamont. He is » born politician | with more dgpth and breadth than the term | politician ly implies. He is clear- sighted and Mroit in all things and bas made s study of men so as to control them. In “New York state politics he has been known ‘since be was a mere boy Born in Cortlandville, N. ¥., one years ago, he was educated af Union College and Dogan interesting ‘himeelf in politios at age. He became s news man ‘and “was index clerk of the as sembly when nineteen. Samuel J. Tilden was attracted by him, and under Tilden he learned the politics of NewYork. At the age of twenty he was delegate to the convention at which Tilden defeated Tweed. and in ‘75 was secretary of the New York state committee Later he became interested in the Albany Argus, and when Mr. Cleveland was elected governor of New York, became his private \secretary. He has been intimately associated with Mr. Cleveland ever since, and has been of great service to him in his public career. Since Cleveland left the White House Col. Lamont has been active and very successful in street rail- road enterprises. He has in him the elements of success which serve him well in all undertak- ings. He is regarded as one of the shrewdest met in politics and bas no stain of bad politi- eal methods on his reputation. Thove who know him well have no doubt that he will be one of the potential factors in the success of the new administration, . ‘The two men who ate entirely unknown" in ublic life are Mr. Wilson G. Bissell, who 1s to ¢ Postmaster General, and Hoke Smith, who is to be Secretary of the Interior. ROKR SMITH. Hoke Smith of Georgia will be the youngest mau inthe cabinet and the one who has been heretofore least known. Bissell, having been Mr. Cleveland's law partner, is better known at at this time. These two men will, in all probability, for a while at least, attract more public attention than any others in the cabinet. Euch will weigh more than 200 pounds and both have smooth-shaved amiable faces, Smith will run weil up toward 250 pounds in weight, but he is tall and his flesh is so weil distributed that he does not show for his size. He is « man of ex- traordinary quickness and energy, and his rapid advancement is due to this. Six years ago he was « young lawyer, without political influence and almost unknown outside of his own town of Atlanta, He was led into active politics by the conviction that tariff re- | form was in need of « champlou in. Georgia at that time, and he was an ardent believer in low tariff. Cleveland's tariff message made him a devoted admirer of that statesman, and his natural disposition made him steadfast and ex- | tremely energetic. His local reputation was that of a very shrewd anti-corporation lawyer, and | he conducted many damage suite agaii railroads with great success. The Atlanta Constitution did not like the low tariff policy CA of President Cleveland and was opposed to bis renomination. That paper had for years exerted a strong influence in the south, and for awhile it made things uncomfortable for Mr. | Cleveland and for low-tariff doctrines, The cay ee RLISLE Constitution was regarded as the “New York Sun of the South.” Smith took up the fight, and then for the firet time Cleveland heard of the ‘young man Smith.” It was regarded as something of a joke at first for this young man to make wat seemingly all alone, on such war horses Patrick Calhoun. grandson of John C. Calhoun; reputation of beiag always fair in his treatment | Henry Grady, the Howells and every one of was no complaint of amounting to gavel. He bas a jadici of both parties and uniformly courteous. There | violent partizanship | justice made against him dur-| but geuius for organization. ing the entire time of his oceupancy of the | chair, and the republicans complimented bim | highly on the occasion of his surrendering the | turn of mind, seein very clearly into things and balancing ant weighing both sides with great accuracy. He is a native of Kentucky, where he was born fifty-eight rears ago. early life were limited. His advantages in His education was con- fined to the district schools of that day. At funds having been exhausted, he returned | twenty years of age Le became master of a again to the Corydon county clerk's office, | where he was employed at « doller « day, work: | fog hard and studying law during spare times. During the study of inw and in the early Practice of his profession he was thrown among strong abolitionists, anda lawyer just start- ing Out at the age of twenty-three, he took part in the firet campaign of the republi- can party in 1856, working hard for Fremont and antielavery.” The only elective office he ever heid was in 1860, when he was elected to the Indiana legislature, where he had to ot come a considerable democratic majority that legisiatnre he framed and had the Indiana legion law. He entered the Union Service at the breaking out of the war hater: tain of a volunteer company. He was rapidly promoted natil he reached the rank of brigadier general. He served with Sherman in Kentuck: and with Grant st Shiloh, Corinth and Vieks- burg. and was disabled at the battle of Peach ‘Tree creek in 64. In ‘65 he resumed the prae- tice of law with Gen. Joan M. Butler at N Albany. in "66 he was nominated to run Against Speaker Kerr for the House of Repre- sentatives, and Kerr got the certificate of eiee- tion, it being a strong democratic district. He Was again nominated for Congress in ‘68 and was again beaten by his democratic op} Bent Gront in "69 appointed him district | He served on the federal bench “for | Years with distinction and was called from that to go into President Arthur's cabinet. | He served as Postmaster General and as Secre- tery of the Treasury under Arthur and was then appointed to the cirenit bench. Cleveland takes | him from this position to place him at the head ef tne State Department. In eppointment. Having been leader of his party fi the House of Representatives on the floor, school in Covington, K found time to study law, Ear! of the Kentucky legislature, terms, always as a democrat, and while teaching He was admitted to | practice when he was twenty-three years of age. in his career he was elected a member He served several . the ty with which be has been affiliated all his life. When the war of the rebellion broke out he opposed secession and during that struggle his sym- Pathies were with the government. The public positior ceed thé late Senator Beck. DASIEL & LAMONT. Col. Daniel 8. Lamont is so intimately asso- ciated with Mr. Cleveland that it would not for Mr. Cleveland to jouse without Col. Lamont seem natural and be in the White which he has filled are: From 1866 to 156%, member of the atate senate; 1871 to 1875, lientenant governor of Kentucky: 1876, presidential elector, and im the same year he was elected to Congress, to which he was successively elected until he was chosen to suc- somewhere in his council. But » few years Lamont was not known in be fs regarded as one headed men the figured in national to We litics, and today | "Or the clearest- ry. ‘faire antl those who attempted to find fault with Mr. Cleveland. Smith not had fighting blood, need of a newspaper which would combat the Constitution, Smith got bis eye on the strug- gling little afternoon sheet, calied the Atlanta Journal. He snapped it up for a small eu and infused so muck ginger into its editorial He felt the | four or five railroads which were in Process of liquidation. Smith's admirers give him the credit for the defeat of the anti-Cleveland forces in Georgia. ‘They say that he secured popular mdorsement of Mr. Cleveland's low tariff doctrines, returned ‘Mr. Colquitt to the Senate when Grady of the Constitution was to defeat him, secured the election of Gordon to the Senate, when the anti-Cleveland men Tera ziNs, te, elect Patrick Calhoun, and that Sinaily he defeated the efforts of the anti- Cleveland men to send a Hill delegation to the Inst democratic national convention, and went there himself at the head of Cleveland dele- gation. At Chicago hedii a tremendous work Among the vonthern delegates in behalf of Cleveland, and bis indomiisble energy told at ery point, ‘MRE. WILSON 8. BISSELL. Whaterer fame Mr. Wilson Shannon Bissell may have bad in his own state, his introdue- tion to the country at large ma political way came through his being the law pantner of Grover Cleveland. Asa railroad lawyer he has enjoyed a bigh reputation for a number of ars. He bears a good reputation for legal lity, brain power and social and personal ualifige whick give him a wide popularity. is is a man of uncommonly large statue, with an amixble countenance and a good dispo- sition. Quite a resolute und ay strong in his convictions as is Mr. Cleveland, he has a Teputation for good nature enjoys a joke | and is a good club man. He is a public spirited man and ix actuated by high motives in his public acts. Ho has taken but little part in politics, bat when he has taken a hand it has beon in a clean cause. The friendship | between him and Mr. Grover Cleveland hes existed since about the period of their | rst starting in life for themselves after their | were over. From the first it has | ‘ordial and confidential and Cleveland bus | always placed great faith in Bissell's judgment in other matters as well az law. At the wed- ding af the White House Mr. Bissell was Mr. Cleveland's best man. He isa native of New York, having been born in New London, Oneida cou cember, 1847. He was but six years old when his parents took him to Buffalo and he still} holds his residence there. He attended the | public schools in Buffalo until he went toa| Private school in New Haven to prepare for college. He was graduated with honors from Yale, after a four years’ course. At the age of twenty-two yeare he began the study of law with A. P. Laning, who subsequently formed a copartnership’ with Grover Cleveland and | Oscar Foleom. In the fall of 1872 Mr. Binsell | formed a partnership with Lyman K. Bass, and | about a year later Mr. Cleveland became a| member of the firm, which was thereafter known ax Bass, Cleveland & Bissell. That firm waa! gradually dixsolved, first by the removal of Mr. | Baus to Colorado on account of ill health and then by the election of Mr. Cleveland aa gov- ernor of New York. Mr, Bissell reorganized the firm and for two or three years it bore the name of Bissell Sicard & Goodyear. The firm has always en- | joyed a lazge practice, and Mr. Bissell for the | it few vears has been obliged to refusen large | amount of the business which hw been offered to him. The special character of his practice has been that of counsel for corporations. He is | regarded as being one of the ablest railroad lawyers in the country. He has been president | of two or three railroads in the western part of this state and in Pennsylvania, He is now a director in » large number of corporations, both railroad and commercial, 2. STERLING MORTON. J. Sterling Morton, who has accepted the portfolio of agriculture, was born at Adams, Jefferson county, N. ¥ aboy he went with his parents to Michigan, After attending school at Ann Arbor he re- turned to New Union College with high honors, When twenty-two years old Mr. Morton went to Nebraska to aseume the editorship of the Nebraska City News. He and hia wife be gan housekeeping on a quarter section of Innd. | To them were born four sons, He was twice elected to the territorial legislature and in 1858 became the acting governor of Nebrask He was nominated for governor of the ate in 1866 by the democrats. The cam) was a hot one, but ho was defeated. Mra, Morton begged him to refuse to run for office again and he complied with her request until after her death in 1381, ‘The next year he run for governor on a traift- | reform platform and was defeated. Two years later he was again a candidate and received double the namber of votes cast for him in the previous campaign. Last year he was w fourth time the candidate of his party for the same office and made aspirited but unsuccessful campaign. For years, at what he calls Arbor Lodge, Mr. Morton bas had under cultivation the finest | orchards in the state and he has been the cham- | pion of all movements for the preservation of the forests, Though Mr. Morton is about sixty years old he bas the vigor of a man of forty. His frame i 1 nd he beats a close resemblance to Gov. Boies of Iowa, who refused the port- | | folio Mr. Morton has accepted. <a THE D. K. k aud was graduated from | The Washington Association Holds a Ban- quet and Reunion at Welcker's. The tenth annual banquet and reunion of the Washington Azeociation of Delta Kappa Ep- silon was held last night at Welcker's. Several colleges were represented and there wasn good attendance, At the business meet- ing which preceded the banquet the following officers were elected: Gen. John De Witt War- ner, president; Mr. Fred. Perry Powers, vice president: Dr. W. H. Hawkes, secretary; Ma). T. B. Kirby, treasurer, Col. Lewis B. Blnck- ford, Mr. J. N. Whitney and Mr, R. M. Collins form the executive committe. After the banquet toasts were responded to by Representative Herbert, Mr. Chus. Halleck, Controller Hepburn, Maj. Kirby, Mr. Geo. R. Wales, Prof. Harkness, Mr. "ed Perry Powers, Dr. Hawkes, Col. Blackford, Mr. Stuart Brice, Mr. R. M. Collins, Mr. Moffett, Mr. MeCor- muck and Mr. B. W: Sherman. Among those present were John De Witt Warner of Cornell, Hilary A. Herbert, Uni- versity of Virginia’ A. Barton Hepburn, Mid- Alebury; Prof. William Harkness, Rochester University; Col B. Lewis Blackford and Col. J. ard Hodge, Virginia; Mr. Charles “Amherst Me. Ered Perry Powers, University of Senator Calvin 8. Brice, Miami University; Mr. 8. E. Moffett, University of California; Mr. Robert M. Col- Mins, Middlebury; Mr. doin; Mr. 0. C. | publ | austribution by the SOME RARE BOOKS. | Splendid Specimens of the Printers’ and Binders’ Art. MR. BRICE’S LIBRARY. It Contains Some of the Richest and Most Elaborately Bound Works to Be Found iv ‘This Country—A Collection That Will De light the Lover of the Besatiful in Books, —— The Corcoran mansion has in its lessee, Sena- tor Brice, a gentleman who will sustain ite repu- tation, not only im the hospitalities dispensed, and which rendered it so famous, but in bring- ing to Washington bis unique and un- rivaled library, Mr. Brice has placed ail lovers of the beautifulin books under obliga- tions and added to the famed nfansion addi- tional attractions. I had seen an article in the New York Tribune describing some books Mr. Tae Evextxo Stan had euggested, when it was announced Mr. Brice had leased the Corcoran mansion, that he would bring toit some of those rare books with illustrations and bindings the like of which has not been seen here. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centurios the art of bookbinding had reached its zenith. The most profuse adornments were lavished on the covers, and the famed Grolier was succeeded by others of almost equal fame. Roger Payne was, I believe, the last of those of the past century who made bookbinding one of the fine arts, and when he died. in consequence of intemperate habits, he bad no successor for some years ‘This art has received an impetus by the en- couragement given it of late years, and with such artists as have produced the works to be found in the library of Mr. Brice it cannot be doubted the present age can exhibit specimens which will compere favorably with those of the past centuries, In this a liberally dispensed to provide libraries every- Where, encouragement has been extended to those artist-binders whose work to be appreci- ated must be seen. It is, [ believe, for the en- couragement of the art of bookbinding that the Grolier Club as been established in New York. Another club in New York is designed to ad- vance the urt of bookmaking,printing and bind- ing, and the specimen in Mr. Brice’s collection of the poems of E. C, Stedman, printed by the “Book Fellows Club" will compare favorably with the examples of tffe most famous book makers of Europe. TEE ENLARGING OF BOOKS. The enlarging of books has been in vogue for some years, but recently the illustrating of the text by hand painting is indulged in by those whose means enabie them to thus beautify favorite authors. Many of the volumes in thie library of Mr. Brice are thus exquisitely beau- titled, but none more elegantly or with more artistic skill than Macnulay's “Lays of Ancient Rome,” by Mr. Cronin of New York. The taste for rare and beautiful books bas grown of late years. Mr. Bouton of New York told me he had orders to purchase most of the rare books when the celebrated Althorp library was likely to come into the market, He lamented, as every lover of books did, the disposition ‘of that famed collection, which deprived America of such treasures as that library contained. There Were in it many Groliers bearing the arms of Francis the First, Diane de Poitiers, Colbert, De Thou and Mad. de Pompadour—books bound by such artiste as Nicholas Eve, Pasde- loup, Deromes and Roger Payne. Of “*Cax- tons” this library contained fifty-seven copies, some of them of extreme beauty, and one oF two of them the only examples in existence, What was our lous waaa gain to the city of Mau- chester. Mrs. Rylands purchased the library us itstood from Lord Spencer, and with the li- brary of her Inte husband presented them to the of Manchester ‘o perpetuate bis memory. ‘This library was undoubtedly the finest priv collection in the world. ‘The catalogue by Dib- den filled seven large volumes, and they say he tells but half the story of this wonderfal collec- | tion formed at the end of the last and the be- ginning of the present century by the second Earl Spenéer, Brice nd exhibited at the Grolier Club, and | when wealth is 80 | letter, weal Chabert, E . “by Balzac, Extra margins, uneut E = Te rots page embellished with aquarelles “Omnibus,” by George Crackshank, with original drawings. . “Faust,” printed on Japan to almost a folio. Only’ twenteave of thie | | edition were printed, of which this is No. 23. | Bound, inlaid and ‘embellished by De Lam- blancx. — 2. and em! with “Evangeline.” Full Lined with criasson sik | aquarelies. | pocket; Homarum.” An exquisitely itustrated Wind's den pet. Pall’ Yond aad giny Bx os ornamented by De ox “Debut dane La Magistrat No. 24 of the limited number printed for private distri- | bution. Full bound by Ruban, with many aquareiles. “Master Humphrey's Clock.” First edition, with illustrations by Cruckshank. Two vol- umes, full bound and ornamented. | iq Contes Remois,” by Louis Laconr. Bound | in yellow calf by Eugene Roussville. Inlaid and ornamented. No. 19 of the limited edition. Holmes’ “Before the Curfew” and Longfel- low's “Voices of the Night,” exquisitely bound | | and ornamented. } Reserving in my limited lisg the beat for the | volume, “La jast, I mention the sumptuot Touraine.” This volume folio was prepared for aud exhibited at the world’s fair in London in 1362. Tne engravings, of which there are» great many, are proof impressions before let- tering. It’was bound by M. Cape in claret | morocco, crushed and polished and inlaid lined | with green and the flyloaves of moire antique. | Itis impossible in a limited to give an adequate idea of this wonderful work of art in | ry branch of bookmaking. The names of forty or iifty firms are given who were engaged in the production of this superb work. Macaulay's “Lays of Ancient Rome,” early Uition, profusely illustrated with water-color paintings, and vencil and Indin-ink drawings on nearly every page by David E.Cronin, full bound in blue morocco, silk lined, is one of the most at tractive. These will serve to illustrate the col- | leetion, which cannot but interest all lovers of | the beautiful in books. Joux F. Core. ————— NEW PUBLICATIONS, | | PRISONERS AND PAUPERS. A mudy of the abnormal increase of criminals, and the public burden of paupertem in the | States: the | cadses and remedies. By Hesy M. Bors, jspite of the fact that ite truths are stated in | the least vensational way. From beginning to | end the volume is fullof facts that will not | | suffer argument and figures that may not be Gisputed, Starting out with the announce- tient that the criminal class grows nearly three | times as rapidly as the whole population Mr. | Boies followwa line of inquiry that develops the responsibility for the fearful conditions which, he iusists, are fostered rather than ameliorated by the methods now generally employed. A | book for thoughtful men and women, who love the land they live in. | THE FRENCH WAR AND THE REVOLUTION. | By Wifi Mintigax Sroasg, PLD, LHD., Professor in Princeton University. With maps. New York: Charles Scrivaer's Sons, Washing- ton: Brentano's. This is Prof. Sloane's contribution to Serib- ner's American History Series, which, when completed, will be = most vaiuable history of the United States. The present volume deals only with occurrences between the years 1756 and 1783, There is no more deeply in! era in American annals than that inclu: within the limits stated, and few if any men are better fitted to tell the story than is Prof. Sloane, THE CHILDREN OF THE KING. A tale of southern Italy. By F. Mawion CRaWFORD, autor of “Mr. Tsaace,” “Dr. Claudias,” “Sara: cinesea,” &c. New York: Maomillan & Co. Washington: W. Ballantyne & Son. A fascinating romance—its scenes laid in Sicily, its hero m common sailor, its sketches true in every touch, its finale a masterpiece of the novelist's art. Crawford at his best. REVERIES OF A BACHELOR AND DREAM LIFE. Byle Maeve. New York: Cusries Scribner's Sons. Washington: Brentano's, | Iam very bappy to say that Mr. Brice, the fortunate possessor of such w auperb collcetion, | will not, like the late James Lenox, exciude lovers of rare and beautiful books from bis | library. For many years Mr. Lenox kept bis | books and paintings secluded from the general . Itis related that the late Mr. Beecher | desiring to consult a volume in Mr. Lenox's collection calied at the house and sent his card, stating the object of his visit, and in answer | Mr. Lenox sent word he did not recognize the name. At his death Mr. Lenox made princely provision for his great collection in the massive marble structure and the square of ground on ‘Two dainty little volumes; new in shape, but the same delightful books they have always been. People whe come to this world a bun- dred years hence are, if they be civilized. to be us much pleased and edified with Donald G. Mitchell'sartas have been those who for the | = generation have admired his consummate | literary skill, MANUAL OF NATURAL THEOLOGY. By Groxas Park Fister, D. D., LL. D., Tituy Street Pro- fessor of ecclesiastical hatory in Yale Univer sity. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Washington: Brentano's, ‘Those who have no time for the reading of which it is located and by a large endowment. The taik of a city librery is renewed and some | action was taken in the Senate, Mr. Woleott favoring it, but alter some debate it was re- ferred to the committee on the library. ‘There is nocity in the Union where a library would be of such importance to its inhabitants. ‘The | large number of government employes could | avail themselves of what 18 felt now by many as | a coprivation, It will be some three or four years before the new nations! librars, as I hope it will be called, will be open to the public, and | in the meauwhile there is aliterary dearth, SOME RARE SPECIMENS. Returning to the library of Senator Brice, to | which Tnx Svan referred when it was known he had leased the Corcoran house, and whowe sug- gestion has been taken by the Senator in bring- ing bis rare collection here, { make mention of some of them, a few of which are only examples | of the residue of this priceless collection which fills the large book case on the west cide of the library, I mention these as worthy of the piace | they occupy in such an extraordinary collec- tion. They testify to the taste, judgment and knowledge of their fortunate possessor, *Militon,” by Theophile Gautier, embellished with water-color frontispiece und title page, bound in green moroccy, inlaid and_ tooled in exquisite designs by the artist-binders Stike- man & Co, ‘This edition, which was limited, is printed on Japan paper, and is No. 214 of the 500 copies. One of the most exquisite productions of the rinters’ and binders’ art is George Sand’s “La Marquise,” bound by De Lamblanex, in yellow crushed ‘calf iulaid most ciaborately, the froutsprece and title page in acquarelle. | It is inclosed in a Lighly ornamented case’ bound in maroon inoroce E, C, Stedman's oems printed for private jook Fellows Club. Title page in water color, hand painted, bound in fall noroces ‘This copy 1s No. 82 of the 100 copies printed, “Hiawatha,” by Longfellow, full bound, in- | lwid in original designs, with water-color title e. SThe Marriage of Cupid and Payche,” by William Adlington, Oxford, 1837, preface by Andrew Lang, exquisitely bound in maroon morocco by Ruban, with water-color illustra- sions and Land-painted engravings, “Zelas and Bain,” with satin titte page, bound by Emile Rousselle, inlaid and mosnic. Lowell’s “Fable for Critics,” an early copy, bound in crimson morocco silk lining and aquurelles, ‘THE ONLY PRRFECT COPY EXTANT. “Joseph and his Brethren,” by Charles Wells, a forgotten poet upon whom Swinburne wrote an article to the Atheneum. ‘The only rfect copy extant, published in London in Ts24, bound by the artist-bindor, De Lamblancs, in green crushed calf, Egyptvan designs, embel- ished by lotus flowers inlaid, ‘erralt’s Popular Tales,” bound fall calf by Ruban, illustrated by many wat tings. “Fables of Bidpai,” full bound in blue mo- rocco by Ruban, illtistrated by water colors. “Tennyson's Early Poems,” first edition, 4690 fall bound, mosale original designs by uban. “Anecdotes of Napoleon,” a-rare edition, seven volut 1828. “Whittier’s "fall bound by Ruban, “Paul and Vi "an early edition, pro- fusely illustrated with aq and other PeltBock of Hours,” illuminated, and a miseal of the sixteenth centary, every page illumin- vellum. ‘Shelly's Poems,” with extended treatises on natural theology will find | the brief, plain yet thorough discussion 1m this | little volume, ACME PHONOGRAPHY. By F. J. Mctver. | Washing: The Acme Phonography Scuool. H. L. MeQueen, printer. A thorough explanation of the Acme system, | witha series of carefully graduated lessons. Mr. Mulvey’s claims as to the superiority of his | methods are broad, 'S. Decisions of a Draw Poker Con- _Compited by Wiliam TIMOTRY CALL. New York: M. Gibb, A concise response to the New York Sun's de- | mand for « tinal authority on disputed phases of the national game. THE DUCHESS OF BERRY AND THE REVOLU. TION OF isge. By ImpeaT DE SaINT-AMAND. Translated by Ejizabeth Glibert Martin. New York: Charles Scribuer’s Sons. Washington: ontan: | JOHN APPLEGATE, SURGEON. By Mary Har- OTT Nonwis. One of the Golden Library Series. St. Paul: The Price-MeGill Co, THE DAILY NE AL AC FOR 1998. Com- plied by Geo. PLoMBE, A.B., LL.B. Chicago: The Daily News Compan} —seos MR. KILGORE’S INDEX FINGER. Importance as the Session ‘Nears Ite Close. It is now, during the closing days of the ses- sion, that the index finger of Mr. Kilgore of ‘Texas points most directly the way to of disnp- pointment. Members with their little bills, which they have been waiting all the session to pass, look upon it asa sign, “Danger ahead.” Holman gladly gives way and sees that index pointed in the place of hisown bony finger, which has punctured so many schemes, With all bis power asakicker and a filibuster, dis- played during the course of the session, it is i Had that occupied by the bebind him and g . 8 id : li it get i a i € E 3 I | i ij E i 3 i i PB if fr ! é i | z d | ! tf i tt | id | ‘de but a loss J i i | if i f i fi 7 Lj | i i week if af Rogers’ “Italy and Poems,” with autograph | Tate Hetbetn, “Dance of Death,” rare copy, | A GIANT GLOBE | with a circumference | face ix entirely they — wonld —_ undoubtediy 0 and certainly would be benefited by an exami- + | pation of this remarkable exhibit, which is per- Bape more closely allied to ther studies in Geography than any other that will be pre- sented by the government. It is to be hoped that a few days may be given during which the exhibit may be viewed here before it is sent to its destination. he inventive genius displayed by Mr. Pitowy in the conception of thie mnigue exhibit, the ingenuity chown in the construeston of the Mammoth globe and the artistic style with Which ite surface has ween decorated bave been fully appreciated by the officials ander howe direc performed wach v= A Feature of the Land Office Ex- hibit at the World's Fair. ——_-—-—— MADE AT MT. PLEASANT. An Immense Representation of the Earth tinuous and or. He bas been ~The age gi Constructed by Mr. A. b. Fitney * asristed in the construction of the maps of the Latest Geographical Discoveries Shown— now states by Mecera 1 P Bertnrong and Wm. Interesting Maps Which Will Go With the | Nevlor, who wore sniailed from she "innl thaw tnd whose industry and skill Huge Globe. their work. and skill are manifested im 2 —_—>— LIFE ON THE amazon, “Tt is the earth.” | “And with # fence around it” | Curios Found by = Naturatist in Bractiien These remarks weremade by a Stat re- re porter and Mr. A. L. Pitney as they stood to- ———e some gether ina large building that stands just cali 1a TRICE ER- back of the residence of the latter on Princeton | Joveeys wire ants anb santa pewee Street, Mount Pleasant. spanistanhiiier ‘abiemiin Seca ee Mr. Pituey was explaining to the reporter | @ apn eipdiatsartennes the result of the continuous labor of bimeelf end assistants for something over a year. This result is to form the unique and instructive exhibit of the general land office in the govern- ment building at the Columbian exposition. When it was decided to make a land office ex- bibt Mr. Pitney was sent for and consulted. He had been a clerk in the office for many years, and had designed, constructed and had charge HE VAST REGION WATERED BY THE tributaries te filled wits De ined Aragon and it strange and little-known Bates, the fainous naturalist, ob j part of Jong ago less than 8,000 species of wm sects, &c., which were wholly One of the most curio imals, He that 0 workd n crea of the exhibits of that important branch of the | SFOS! War a gigantic fpiler Government at the centennial, the New Orleans «mall binds, Ite lege have « «y and the Paris expositions. "Consequently he | inchoe and ita body and legs was the proper man to Lave charge of the pro- pis nto tn petal in be A a0 [coarse gray and reddish baire The web ic determined that something should be pro- | *Pin* i* strong enough te entangle aod bold duced that would *urpase all former exhibits, | €uch feathered victims ws finches Not reliving and finally decided upon a massive globe which | exclusively upon its «nares, however, thie m is now nearing completion. As it turns on ite axis in this building, which was erected espe- cially for its construction, this model of the earth is a little over twenty feot in diameter, nixtr-three feet, « feet and a weight of rows arachnid Mies forth at night, «) recs and sucks the eggs or devours the of humming birds. The bairs with wh clothed come oi when touched and « peculiar and almost maddening Chil are sometimes seon leading thee spiders around by means of «mall cords tied About their wrists Even the vegetation of that reg character There is « irritat perticial area of 1, over 4,000 pounds. It bears upon its surface representations of the Jand and water on « scale of sixty-nine miles .o one and three-fourth inches measured at the equator. The degrees of longitude and : m bas wei tree very common near Fara, # parallels of latitude are indicated, as are also guurterer linen Ieee ig oe the zone lines, the ixothermal lines, the princl- support the weight of the plant, the pal steamship lines and @ proper tracing of | climbson « tree of another species, The way the route of Christopher Columbus on bis it does this is peculiar, Springing imp close to memorable voyage in 1492, the result of | tho tren on hich 62 Dabandste Gx salt < the Columbian exposition is to celobrate. The | woot its stem grows by spreading itself like 8 plastic mold over one side of the tr supporter. It then pnts forth from divisions of land with the boundai even location of the larger cities and the dir = " like branch, wi o o of the rivers and streams, are set forth with re- Sosbane Women “ye on yee ap: Bana markable fidelity and art. and hardening as it went, This adheres closely MADE IN #ECTIONS, | ‘The coustraction of this globe—probably the | largest ever attempted —was the result of wou- derful ingenuity. It is made in forty-eight sections and will be taken apart and packed for shipment when the work of painting the sur- completed. The interior framework is an ingenious but simple com- bination of girders, principally of wood, over which was first stretched burlaps, then can- vas and then Scotch linen. On this linen were ma moet- ponite ride and blending together. womewbat regular ing on the « These arms are put forth intervals in mounting upward, and the victim, When its strangler is full grown, becomes tig utly clasped by a number of inflexible rings, These tings gradually grow larger as the murderer Sourishes, aud in course of tume the liana bills ite prey by stopping the flow of its ap. strange spectacle then remains of the selfish parasite clasping in ite arms the lifeless and 4e- caying body of its victim, As the dead track put five coats of paint to get the proper | molders ite own end approaches—ite # furfaco and then the work of painting | port is gone and itealf nino falls. - representation — the arpa eau MYSTERY HAUNTS THE FORESTS. vi oo cogterniod divisions which mark pation | Mystery seems to haunt these tropical forests, from nation, was began. A scaffolding or gal-| There are many sounds which it is imponsible to lery rising to about bal! ite dlameter surroands | account for. Even the natives do not know globe, and on this Mr. Pitney stands to do | what they signify. Sometimes a noise is beard most of his artistic work. This was what the | like the clang of an iron bar aginst a hort, remark that it was theearth withafencesround hollow tree, or a piercing cry rends the a'r meant. «pints oan | hese are not repented and the succeeding It is hoped that the work on this exhibit will |sijonce tends to beighten the wnpleassnt tnt be completed shortly after the 1st of March and | preasion which they make on the mind. With it will then be packed and shipped to Chicago, | the natives it is always the “wild man” or where it will be erected in the space allotted to | epjrit of the woods who produces all noises ther the general land office in the government build- | gre unable to explain. This wild man ie a vere ing. There {twill surmount e star-shaped edi- gxtraordinary being. Sometiines he i» dee fice, which will in itself bes pleasing arebi- | scribed as a kind of orang-ontang, being cov- tectural contribution to the building. ered with long shaggy heir and living in trees. This pedestal will elevate the monster globe | 4t others he is said to have cloven feet and © toa focal pinne of fifteen feet above the floor, | bright red face. He has a wife and children. so that it will rise above the surrounding ex-| {bo natives shoot fishes with bow and-arrow, bibite, The edifice which will serve asa podes-| Tho arrow is a reed with «© steel barbed pole | } tal to the gigautic globe will, with its ingenious | which is fixed in a bole at the end and secu! construction, afford opportunity for dis-| by fine twine made from the fibers of pine- plas of six big maps of the new states Idaho, | apple leaves. It is only in the clearest water yoming, Montana, Washis and the two | that fish can be shot in this way, and the only Dakotas. It may be entered th five door- | skill cogeieel te to make, in taking sim, the ways and will be artistically draped with flags, | proper allowance for refraction. These Indians the arrangement of which will have a signifi- | procure # certain kind of monkey called the cance beyond the mere blending of colors. No doorway, for instance, will be decorated with a | combination of flags of rival nations A cir- cular apartment in the center of the globe pedestal will contain interesting ‘tabulated | statements of the condition of the pr? lic lands, UNDER THE RARTA. ‘This room will be fifteen fect in height, with & convex ceiling formed by the lower part of globe. An interior stairway will afford access to a balcony around the base of the globe, which will be supported on « horizontal axis, turned by a small motor, instead of bein, laced at an angle of 67}, degrees, as the worl t is actually bung in space. The horizontal axis | gathered around projecting twigs. will afford a better view of the depiction on the | ‘The most interesting animale remarked by globe's surface than if it were inclined at the | Naturalist Bates were the termites, commonly geometrically accurate angie. There will be | called “white ants,” though they sctually be- very little to represent at the south pole beyond’ | long to the same order as the dragon flies, In the vague linee of Graham's Land, and the the valley of the Amazon the surface of the apparatus for turning the globe will'be placed | country here and there is covered with conical at this end of the axis and hidden from view by | hillocks built by these insects, Some of these an immense representation of the official seal of structures are ive feet high, being formed of the general land office, which will serve as a| jos of earth worked & material as screen and jend sigmficant decoration to an | hardas stone. The “ants” are small, pale otherwise prosaic part of the globe. | colored, soft-bodied creatures, having scarcely In preparing the surface of this globe Mr, | anything in common with true ants, except Pitney has consulted the latest maps obtain-| their colonies include several distinct able, both those made in this and in foreign | orders or castes of individuala Their popu- countries. He thus found that there are dis- | lous communities are thoroughly organized for crepancies in maps pre} under the same|mutoal help. In each colony, besides the “conita” by shooting it with the blowpips and darts, They restore the animals to ife by putting a little salt— the antidote to the curari poison with which the darts are tipped — in it# mouth. The monkeys thus captured become tame forthwith. India rubber is known throughout the province of Para only by the name of ‘seringa,” which i the Portuguese word for syringe. “It owes this appellation to the circumstance that it wne in the form of eyringes only that the firat Portnguese settlers found india rubber employed by the aborigines It is said that the Indians were firet tanght to make syringes of rubber by secing nataral tubes formed by it when the flowing sap authority at different . and he hasendeav- | males and females, there isa set of individual ored with the greatest care to harmonize all | whose tark is to work and care forthe young differences. Over fifty different maps have brood. These neuters are divided into two been under constant” examination by him | clases—fighters and workers. " Both are blind, during the progress of his work, and among | and each keeps to its own tank, the one to de the collection are those made by Peary, Brain-| fend the community against’ all comers, the ard and otber arctic explorers from which be | other to build, nurse the young broods from the bas indicated the performances of these ad- | oggs upward and takecare of tne kingand queou, ventarous men, THE INSECT COMMUNITIES, A TEAR's woRK. The organization of such insect communities As has already been said, the work of con-| affords « strange spectacle. Nothing like st is structing this globe and painting its surface | found among the higher animals except with has occupied over a year and the labor bas not | man. Social instincts exist ih many epecies of been confined to ten hours aday by any means, | mammals ond birds, but the principle of Many times he bas worked far into the night | division of Iabor and the setting apart of classes under improvised gas jete that surround the | of individuals for certain employmeuts exist giobe like many brilliant’ stars. Sundare and | only in human societies in an advanced state of holidays have been utilized to push forward the | civilization, Tho wonderful point about the completion of the work. termites is that nature bas given to each class = While this globe will be the principal, as it | structure of body adapting it to the kind of will certainly be the most unique feature | labor it bas to perform. Tae males and females of the exhibit of the geveral laud office, there | form aciass apart. They dono kind of work, Will be other maps and plans that will show the | but in the course of growth acquire wings to distinctive character of the work done by that | ennble them to issue forth and dissemiuate office. The maps of the six new states, which | their species. The workers and soldiers are ve already been referred to, will be jews, differing only im respect to their tealety ‘oer aooount of the fect teat thay | ‘This member in the laborers is smooth will be the largest single sheet maps ever | and ronnded: in the soldiers it is. of large «ize produced. ‘They were wn from the land | and provided with horns resembling pikes and office publications and are, notwithstand- | tridents Some species do not these ing their immense size, perfectly accurate | borns, but instead of them have jong jaws in all their detsils and fine specimens of the | haped like sickies, sabers or saws. draughteman's skill. Then there will be tables | Mr. Bates remarks that nowadays civilized showing the extent of the public land, both | and industrious nations of men find it neces- agricultural and mineral, and reproductions on | sary to eet apart a numerous armed class for scale of an agricultural patent and | the protection of the reyt. | Nature attends, vo ‘a mineral patent that ilustrate the docu-| this matter for the fermites. The soldier ments in which so many public land holders | “white ant,” however, has not only the Sgut- are interested. ing instinct and function: be is constructed w« PAINTINOS TMAT funk Mrevens. 8 soldust,carrying bis weapons not fa, his bands but growing out of his body. Whevevers neat bart ongceonprsiasage Point of inter-| colony of these insects is disturbed the workers ont Jarge paintings | at once disappear and the soldiers make their 10x13 feet, executed by Mr. Pitney, one illus-| appearance to cover the retreat of the traung the Progress of mining in Calitornia ¥ mttack fiercely any intruding and the other improvement in locomotion | object and as fast a their front ranks are do- in this country, or as the artist it, “A of the facilities of the States." of obtair 5 ; if : : F if | z ft 5 HE | 7 ‘This instinct ix rather unfortunate for them when a colony is attacked by the well-knowa enemy of “white ante,” the ant bear. {t is the soldiers only which ‘attnch themeecives to the long worm-like tongue of the animal, while the workers, on whom the ty of ‘the young depends, are left for the most part harmed. Thos the members of the fightiug caste serve to protect the epecies by sacrificing: i i : i i f i i i Hs 5 rif E § z f i Fe i if i it i | i spice it L a Hi i i : i i fi ut t f E ei ! p i | ie £ H F f E if] } i d | ui i le a f i i fi j 5 E t : é E t 3 I 3 | ut i oa g F t t ie? if fe i if i Thy | Hi il f j i i Fi i iF iH |