The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-29
T,FRMlS-LN. ADVANCE,
Literary Gossip.

After0ry GOSSIP.
The Harpers have issued the six
teenth edition of Major Nichols
'sStory Of the Great March, It con-
tains General Shernah's own correc-
tions of his official reports contained
in8the AppendiS-one of the emen-
! dations making a serious difference in
the sense of an important passage,
where tine words General Govern
S ment' were misprinted &c General
Grant Ia theearlier editions A vo-
luminous report from General Easton,
Quart te1n1aster General of Sherman's
army, and a full index, have also been
added. ss3 %.
A. =. I.oring, os Boston, has is
sued fresh War story, identified
Standish, !" the plot of which is To-
\ Gated in Boston. It is a. readable
book.
Martia r. Tupper writes to the Lon
don Atsea0eups protest against lite
\ rary forgeries, instancing q poem en-
titled Portrait of Puseyite, to
(which his name was fraudulently at
tached. he ADDS a paragraph which
contains asRun:
\ Now, your equity will take notice
that this is not the common case OF a
parody !; no one in his senses would
complain of what is only a more
cheerful form of advertisement; and
for one return humble thanks to
Sdear -sold Punch, and his younger
brother Fun, for many Of (heres
new joke for them) vitupc1atic0; I'm
used to 1t, and take it as good-rAature.
: though perhaps not always SO i1tend-
ed
The London -Atseno,atm obsekves
that ''critics have long been at wan ,ak
to the power of the hand to baff1a%te
power of sight, by work almost jSAs
finitely minute. Optical work is *
ceedingly delicate, a thousandth Iert
of an inch-being quite considerable
space. Mr.. Ruskin asserted, and
Mr.. Kingsley proved, that Turner's
dots and lines were liner than the
finest work done upon such lenses as
those OF Lord Rosse's telescope. By.
,and-by the sun may be able to dis
'tance even the artists pencil III
producing small and yet perfect work.
A friend has sent to us from Mel
bourne o copy of the Colonial Land
Act of 1865, done in the Photographic
department of the Land Office in that
city, SO minute as toibe scarcely visi-
BILE to the eye, the whole ffty-two
pages, folio, being printed on Il bit Of
paper about the size of bnnk-note.
TAls dainty production is thc work Of
Mr. Moore
M. Fl. W. Fricker has just pub
hshed in London, a volNme of poems,
which he calls ga Quarter Of Il Centu-
ry,' giving the odd reason for choos-
ing this title, that he ''has been ac-
quaintcd with the gentlemen to whom
it is dedicated for five and twenty
years.
An international scholastic conpcti-
lion is proposed by the French Gov
ernment. NJ. Duruy, Minister OF
Public Instruction, recently, took oc-
casion. while addressing the PROBES
sors and pupils Of the schools OF Paris
aud Versailles, at the annt1a.. distribu-
tien Of prizes, to announce that the
Emperor had determined that the
results of education should have place
beside those OF art and industry
at th6.; coming Universal Exhibi-
Y ton 81 warm you, then, future
4 laureates Of the general competition
of 1867, said.M. Duluy, ''t]lat yoar
works, whatever they may be, viii be
sent to the committee of the Univcr-
sal Exhibition. Ii Germany, Eng
land, Italy, and other powe.s viii
follow our example, and on like con
dltlons, VIC shaii see vino is III best
course. A:d further on the Minister
added:
''While the immense edifice is being
erected which ID to encasc all the mar
yels OF industry, the Emperor desires
to see Smother temple raised - able