The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-07-28
!. LITERARY GOSSIP.

Mrs Anna Cora Mowatt, Mrs. Richard H
St3ddard, Bayard Taylor and Richard B. Kim
ball ohave new novels in press.--the last, the
sequel to ST. Leger = 99s q ,aail Csc
PROT Goodwin Smith says that the Ameri-
can library, given him for Oxford, has been al
ready much visited and read.
The last Westminster RsUieW has an article
on the novels Of Theodore Winthrop, Justly
ranking him among the most marked writers
Of America ssSe Aagsisa s,1a ~
A superb Memorial of Edward Everett
has just been issued in Boston. 1t contains a
nsmoir by Rev. e. E. Hale; the proceedings of
various societies on the occasion of Mr.. Ever
atSs death; the spoem by DIR. Holmes, a large
p1mber of eulogies, and two fine portraits. =
Only one hundred copies viii be offered for
sale, at five dollars each ? e@ @ss'e'
IAN Illustrated History and Description Of
the Catacombs" has just been published at
Rome by the tCaviliere de Rossi 1t is per
ect mine OF information in relation to those in
seresting remains. 90 agH14g a4t
"A new translation of @Oarl Maria Won
Weber: the Life of an Artist. By his son,
Baron Max. Won Weber," is published. The
UOAh 10 hifliiiiJ 0ClAfCd AOiu w OOCA OWh Oin
iies and letters and is of great interest. h
Miss LIN. Alcott, author of Moods" is 60
ing to Europe to spend year. 81 rs ni8ee
VIM. Gilmore Simms is now publishing a
little daily paper at Columbia, S. C.asDs4ai i58
The London papers announce the publica-
ton of the second volume of Lanes "Arabic
Lexicon" The AtlseRguns terms this "the great
literary enterprise of the late Duke of Nor
cumberland, with which his widows name,
always associated with his in good works, is
now especially connected. '..@ .,i. sif p 4
-Signor Regaldi, an Italian poet, has writ
ten letter to the foreign minister Of the king
dom of Greece, suggesting that monument to
Homer should beereeted at Athens. ~ aey
The Memorial of the Bryant Festival pre-
pared by the Century Club, is an elegant quar-
to volume, beautifully printed, in large type,
and containing report of the proceedings, the
address Of Mr.. Bancroft and the reply of Mr.
Bryant, and all the poems and letters sent to
the committee in relation to the festival The
edition will be limited to one hundred and fif-
ty copies, all of which have been subscribed
for. rs Bs.aio, seb s..fs asef saessasss. 5Fsr
The London Saturday ReeiesC, in notice
of Thoreau's book, speaks of Cape Cod as ads
triet which would be curious anywhere, and
which in country so n,onotonous as the great
er partSof the United States, must be quite re-
freshing to the wearied tourist f E
The Empress of Mexico has had printed a
pamphlet Of six pages, entitled "Le Llano de
San Lazaro ct lie Camp de Tuaji Malpa;" it is a
narrative of the journey she undertook to meet
her husband, on, his return from his excursion
into the interior of Mexico. Only fifty copies
have been printed. This is her second appear
ance in print. She wrote and had printed
some years since narrative of yachting
tour. ita1er lssiaa8e aosif 59aI fl54 rs
1t is stated that the, French Emperor is
about publishing book entitled "The Imperial
Policy, as Indicated in the Messages, Speeches
and Proclamations of the Emperor"
1t speaks volumes for insecurity of person
papers and property in France, that all the i'm
portant papers of Messrs. Guizot Theirs, de
Lamartire, de Montalambert and Berger, are
kept in England. saaqs
A French critic, writing of Millions para
disc Lost" says: "What is most beautiful in
this Paradise is Hell; and in this history of
God, the first part is that of the Devil"
The London Times has new American
correspondent at New York, and Mr. Mackay
is going home.
The tenor Massimiliani, it is said has writ
ten aprofound dissertation in reply to Remains
Life of Christ, & rs s. y ...isg, ~ ~