The Literary Wayside.
Reading edition
During the base-ball tourney between Chicago and St. Louis we are issuing extra editions of “The Daily News,” containing such excellent reports of the all-important contest as to excite the warmest admiration in leading literary circles.
At the meeting of the West-Side Literary Lyceum last week, the question, “Are Homer’s poems better reading than Will Carleton’s?” was debated. The negative was sustained by a vote of 47 to 5. On this occasion Miss Mamie Buskirk read an exquisite original poem entitled “Hope; or, The Milkman’s Dream.”
Col. T. Weston Briggs, the well-known real-estate agent, offers his magnificent private library for sale at four dollars per front foot.
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