The Portland daily press., 1865-08-11
LITERARY ITEMS.

MADAME y. Haze, the youngest daughter
of Jean Paul Richter, died ON the 14thRof April
at Munich
DR. Henry Cotton, an accomplished Eng
fish photographer, speaks, in one of his works.
Hof the steady and strong tide which is fast
carrying many of our rarest and most curious
books to the Western shores of the Atlantic,
and depositing them at New York and Bos-
ton"
Since the publication of the Emperor's
book, the French authors seem to take special
interest in everything that pertains to Julius
Caesar. Ben Gastineau has published a work.
entitled ulius Caesars Wives, his Private
Life and Morals" Lamartine, too, has his Vie
de Cesar q
1t is to be hoped that some publisher NAV
be found to republish, in this country, the last
able work of George Grote, entitled sPlato and
the other Companions of Socrates"
= The London Atbe1aGana saws of Tx Mar
vePs wet Days at Edgewood:' Sound com
mon sense, good taste and sufficient information
are amongst the qualities of the writer, who
may be regarded as a type of the American
country gentleman-a character in whose ex-
istence intolerant politicians on this side the
Atlantic are slow to believe. His style is pure
and polished, and many of his pages are bright
with humor'
An English paper says "Most of our read
ers are doubtless aware that the favorite Drive
in Hyde Park is called 1.-THE Lady's Milen-
This name Miss Braddon has chosen for the
title of her next literary adventure. which. we
understand, is to commence in an early Num-
har of To,. Is,
will succeed Miss Braddon's last and most sue
cessful work, "Only Clod."
An English publisher announces, sTo an
pear in August, new poem by Mr.. III. w.
Longfellow"
Its stated that M Reville, writer in the
Reoue des Deu1 Mo,,des, and nationalist
preacher in Holland, is about to publish life
of Theodore Parker.
MISS Harriet Martineau is about beginning
new serial novel, GA Family History" in
Once a Weok.
AT the recent fire in the British Museum
the Angio-oaxon. manuscript known as Pope
Gregory the Greats HPastorale," given by Al
fred the Great to Plegmund, Archbishop of
Canterbury, was destroyed Several other
manuscripts were injured
M Laboalaye has just published a strong
article in Les Debats, urging Spain and Brazil
to take warningby the Commissions which work
ed the death of slavery in the American States.
and abolish the institution before thew are over
taken by like calamities.
4, Victor Hugo's new novel Les Travail
leurs de la Mer," in which the coast life If the
Channel Islands is prominently BROUGHT for
ward, is receiving the finishing touches and
will soon be in the hands of the printer.
Theodore Tilton has written a story for
children, entitled "Golden-Haired Gertrude,
which has been illustrated both seriously and
comically by II. L. Stephens, and will be short
Iy published in elegant style by Tbbals and
Whiting, of New York.
Frost and Fire: Natural Engines. Tool-
marks, and Chips. With Sketches taken at
Home and Abroad, by Traveller, !" is the title of
work by J. s. Campbell, of Islay. soon to he
re-issued in this country by j. B. Lippencott &,
Co. Its subject is the confguration of the
surface of the GLOBE as affected by volcanic and
glacial action-the natural engines whose
''tool-marks and chips" are here noted.
The author of the pamphlet lies Propos
de Labienus," that little piece of pleasantly
which Louis Napoleon found it so hard to ap-