The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-29
PORTLAND MAINE
Literary and Personal Gossip.

tAs yedr.
Literary and Personal Gossip.
Mademolselle La Quinterre George Sand
has written a book which has reached its sec
ond edition, purporting to be religious nov
ell, and Is an attack ON the Catholic priesthood,
80 highly -colored as sometimes to be even I'm
purely suggestive, though intended to have
been highly decorous.
Charles Lever, the popular Irish author, Is
now British Consul at Spezzia, In Italy, but Is
pursuing his literary labors.
Walter Savage Lander, The Oldest English
author, Is now ninety years old.
Alexander Dumas has just finished a new
romance, which viii be published In England
three months before 1t appears in France. 1t
is called "Emma Lyons" which was the mall
den name Of the once celebrated and fascinat-
ing Lady Hamilton, by whose charms Lord
Nelson was subdued and spell-bound.
Earl RusselIs eldest son, viscount Amberly,
a young man just attained to his majority,
has written an article on "Clerical Subscrip-
tons" published In the North British Review,
the Free Church organ OF Scotland
Lamartine Is said to be in q condition bor-
dering on distress, and his property Is on the
eve Of being put under the hammer. It's
question with democratic Americans, who are
In the habit, when they contract debt, OF
paying 1t, why Lamartine should not pay his
why his landed estates, to which there Is no
blood heir, should not pay his debts, the fruits
Of his imprudence. He asks the public to con-
tribute the means to settle with his creditors,
that he may remain landed proprietor.
Americans don't see 1t in that light-at least
the American Publishers Circular does not so
zee 1t, from whose columns we collate and
abridge several Of these items.
Capt. Spoke's Journal of the discovery Of the
sources OF the Nile, was to be published in
Edinburgh before Christmas.
The Irish tongue is voluble in more senses
than one Three dictionaries of that language
are said to be undergoing simultaneous publ
cation In Dublin.
Prof. James Russell Lowell and Charles FL
lott Norton, Esq, have succeeded DIR. Pea
body as editors OF the North American Re-
view.
The Uniyersalist Quarterly Review-new
series--is TO appear the LIST Of January. Rev.
r. B. Thayer, Boston, editor. We learn that
1t will contain an article relating to the Re-
bellion and Its results, from an able pen in
this State.
Bishop ColeL 70 has not done troubling the
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teuch and Book of Joshua, critically consid.
ered,r Is about to be published. 1t will con-
tain remarks on the Creation, the Fall, and the
Deluge.
Nobility Is pluming itself with goosequills-
the Duke Of Manchester announces two vol
umes Of "Court and Society from Elizabeth
70 Anne"
The concluding volumes of Carlyles Fred
erick the Great, will soon be issued from the
press.
The historical works Of Prescott, Bancroft,
and Irving, have been translated into French
by Guizot, and are extensively read In that
country.
A novel has recently been published in
Paris, which was announced thirty years ago.
The writer must have written for posterity.
A new biography Of Father Mathew, the
great Irish Catholic Apostle Of Temperance,
has just been published, drawn up by the
Mayor Of Cork. Father Mathew preferred the
cork undrawn.
The London Times refused to publish an
advertisement OF "Mrs. LIrrlper's Lodgings"
NOT knowing but it would thereby lure young
man Of easy virtue into one Of those places SO
graphically referred TO by Solomon, the steps
Of whose keeper take hold on hell" The OBJ
jection was removed when the "Thunderer"
found out that 1t was only the title Of Dickens
new Christmas Story.
II II literary tradition that Robinson Cru
zoe, generally attributed 10 Daniel Defoe, was
actually written by Robert Harley, Earl of
Oxford, while confined on q charge Of treason
In the Tower of London In 17l5-l7.