Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-15


literary Items abOut TennysOn,
'sPuneh," EOveIisfs, BantIn= ON
CorpuIenee, Robinson CrusOe and
M, Renan.
Tennyson's "Enoch Arden" does not
And the highest praise from the English
reviewers. The London Quarterly eIi
horts the poet ito produce something Of
larger size and more massive substance p
The British Quarterly thinks that such a
poem is desiderated as "the poem of the
age" but Mr. Tennyson, in the opinion Of
the reviewer, is not the man to write it.
Though confessing to a great admiration
of his fancy, and Of his rich and polished
diction, this critic Is Of opinion that he is
"a composer of verses rather than poet
a sweet echo of our world, not voice sing
ing to it; glass in which we see his ski
full reflection of themen and women around
him, but not that mirror Of Imagination
which, held up to nature, shows US her
purest and highest creations"
The last surviving son of the historian
Roscoe, mas died in England in his seventy
6rst year. He was a physician.
The editor of Punch, Mr.. Msrk Lemon,
has sent threatening letters to Captain
Burton because the latter allowed the fol-
lowing passage to appear in his " Mission
to the King of Dahomey." It occurs in
the first volume:
at must briefly sketch the party. Mr..
Bermask0 was accompanied BY his son
Tom, small boy of eleven, who already
spoke half dozen Of the coast dialects
There were two interpreters, on the Da-
homan principle. The first was John
Mark, pOpularly called Mariki or Msdiki,
the Hun-to, nominal head of the Eng
lish town Whydsh. Heisthe son of Mark
Lemon, whom Commander Forbes de-
scribes as a perfect Dahoman, too big "a
fool to be 8 rogue and in-whom Mr.. Vice
Consul Fraser found very fair average of
rascality.
A London paper says that novellsts are
sometimes sorely put to their wits end for
Christian and surnames which shall in q
measure be representative of their char
acters. a French writer who had once
given pain to a worthy tradesmsn, coined
two outrageous names for certain individ-
usls described in his work, trusting that
this time no living being would himself or
herself be aggrieved by what he had done.
But he was disappointed. A week after
his work appeared, letters reached him,
begging that the names might be altered,
as they happened to be borne by people
who described themselves as among the
most exemplary and sensitive of his read
ers In despair the author is said to have
thrown into his hat the letters of the al
phabet taking the first eight as the name
of his new hero and the next seven which
came to hand as that of his heroine.
Banting's pamphlet on Corpulence is
having an immense sale in England, al
ready ffty-three thousand copies have
been disposed of, and it is purchased at the
book-stalls as light" pleasant reading,
in preference to the creations of novelistB
or the narratives of travellers The only
recent work that can at all compete with
it in popularity is Tennyson's recent vol
ume of poems
A new edition of Robinson Crusoe, coL
lated from the original copy in the British
Museum, is published in London, by the
Knights It will include third part or
volume, omitted in all recent editions, and
Cdlleu DtIltius 4NoAcGblOus uuELg luB
Life and surprising Adventures Of Robin
son Crusoe; with his Vision of the Angelic
World-written by Himself" OF the au-
thentieity Of this part of the work-Whieh
was never popular-there has always been
much doubt.
NJ. Rensn intends to supplement his |
"Lives Of Jesus aud the Virgin May'l |
with the "Lives of the Apostles" and for |
this purpose will soon visit the East I'M /
tending to go ovsr the ground St.dPaul |
travelled between the period of his eonver-
sion and his martyrdom. st. Paul will be
The principal figure in the forthcoming
work. ..- .
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