Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-11-04
LITERARY NOTES.

The SPECTATOR, tho new weekly paper
which we announced some time since, appears
this morning. Ills Published BY CT. F.MnLRR,
at BRoPHr q BuRcH's seaton Hall book store,
Ninth street. II announces that "it will not be q
eligious or Church paper in the strict sense Of
the term. II will be simply an ordinary news
paper under Catholic control and, Of course,
conducted in .aocordanos with the recognized
principles and doctrines Of the Catholic faith II
is not undertaken for the special purpose Of dif-
fusing that faith, but al the same time 1t will be
employed to defend that faith on proper ocea-
sions, especially from attacks in secular quar-
ters "
DR. DRAPER, the historian of intellectual
development in Europe, has nearly ready for
publication ahistory ofthe American civil war, in
8 volumes, svo. -"
JUDGE DEAN, of Albany, New York, COM
petes with BucKLE In work which he has now in
hand on the history Of colonization.
LANARrSE is writing life Of BYRON for
the Paris Const tIiuiioneI.
We HAVE Just had the examination Of
Hamilton's Philosophy by Mr.. MILL, and now 1t
is announced that Professor MCCosH, Of Belfast,
who has lust published = second edition Of his
"Intuitions OF the Mind :" is about issuing an ex-
will be unfriendiy in its tone As an illustration
Of the high position which MoCOsH occupies, It is
stated, that his 'Intuitions'' was introduced, a
few years since, as a textbook into the College
Of New Jersey. Mr. MILL is also about issuing
q new work entitled 'Auguste Oofnte and POSI-
tivism," and the Hamiltonian controversy is to
be still further continued by Mr.. JAMES II. srER.
LING, In forthcoming work, entitled "sir Will
IGarn hain ha phil0anUhV " n
tlon: an Analysis. "
EDMOND Amour is at work on q novel Of
very Frenchy plot Rich young man enamored
Of poor girl Can't marry her, on account OF
social position. Goes to poor school fellow and
proposes thus: "You care for nothing on earth
but chemistry; now, II you will agree to my
proposition, will give you money enough 10
enable you to deyo,e your whole time and atten-
ton to your favonte study. This is my propo.
sition: Ask Mile. - in marriage; she will
not refuse you; have arranged all that with
her. After marriage you both will take up your
residence with me, and You will be, the nominal,
will be The real husband" They agree VIE.
lover and husband go along finely. rAfterswhile
lover and lady run through all the mdney, and
are poor as Jobs turkeys, or Methodist oolpor.
teur Chemist been at work hard made great
discoveries; got rich. Having little leisure
now for such things, he falls in love with his
nominal wife; ships OF the other fellow and
takes her himself NicSsfste of society ,
The Round Table threatens to become
daily.
Mr.. BAYARD TAYLOR Is, we understand,
engaged upon new novel. That modern pho
nix, Mr.. p. Barnum, in recent letter to the
Nation, states that he "has tried t6dire Bayard
Taylor TO scour Burope' with him TO make par
chases aud obtain contributions OF duplicates
from Institutions abroad for his twin paying and
fee museums. Bayard Taylor, he says, will 20
next summer, but in the meantime he advertises
for an educated intelligent gentleman to start at
trust, will be taken up in a proper spirit aad
| discovered from the putting and yulyarity which
unfortunately hang to everything =. B. takes
| In hand. He suggests Free National Museum
which shall be for America what our British
Museum is for the British Empire. - Trubner,
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