is face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again.

The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light.
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout:
But there is no joy in Mudville--mighty Casey has struck out.

FOIBLES OF LITERARY MEN.

Many qualities which would be regarded as censurable if possessed by
ordinary men and women are often regarded with a respect that is tinctured
with admiration when they are possessed by persons of genius.

There is scarcely an author or musician of note who has not been
distinguished by some foible that has excited the amusement of his
friends. In many instances these foibles afford an index to the character
of their victim. Some are natural, while others would seem to be the
result of some inexplicable affectation. Viewed in any light, however, all
are interesting.

=Keats= liked red pepper on his toast.

=Sardou= imagines he has a perpetual cold.

=Dickens= was fond of wearing flashy jewelry.

=Ernest Renan= wore his finger-nails abnormally long.

=Walter Savage Landor= threw the dishes around to relieve
his mind.

=Edgar Allan Poe= slept with his cat. He was inordinately
proud of his feet.

=Alphonse Daudet= wore his eye-glasses when asleep. He did
his best work when hungry.

=Thackeray= used to lift his hat whenever he passed the
house in which he wrote "Vanity Fair."

=Thomas Wentworth Higginson= possesses a singular power over
wild birds, and can easily tame them.

=Alexandre Dumas=, the younger, bought a new painting every
time he had a new book published.

=Robert Louis Stevenson's= favorite recreation was playing
the flute, in order, as he said, to tune up his ideas.

=Robert Browning= could not sit still. With the constant
shuffling of his feet holes were worn in the carpet.

=Longfellow= enjoyed walking only at sunrise or sunset, and
he said his sublimest moods came upon him at these times.

=Washington Irving= never mentioned t