The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-06-28
Literary Items.


Among recent English publications we find
Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland" by
Capt c. c. Chesney, R. E., Professor of Mill
tary History, Staff College. 1.-THE Westminster
Review ysof this writer His criticisms on
the commanding officers of each army are man
ifestly the result of careful study of their va
rous qualities, and are calculated to create
higher and juster appreciation of the abilities of
the American generals than Europeans generally
are disposed to entertain. III saa 70 Essfssf ssn
One Of the most interesting and valuable Of
recent ethnographical works is entitled s'Re-
searches into the Early History Of Mankind,
and the Development of Civilization" It is
written by Mr.. Edward Burnet Tylor, and is
published by Murray in London. We under
derstand it is soon to be re-issued in this coun-
try. EkaaA8n
The second volume Of Napo leon's Cesar will,
it's said, appear in Paris, this autumn
The Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and
Fine Arts Of Brussels elected M. Louis Wolow-
ski, the eminent economist member of that body.
The Academy also elected NJ Theirs and M.
Leon Remieux. M. Wolowski had already OBJ
tanned the same honor from several of the
Academies Of Europe, and is president of the
Academy of Moral and Political Science.
The Appletons have issued an elegant edition
in French of Napoleon's Histofre de Jules Cesar.
There are many who win prefer reading this
celebrated work in the original, and to all such
the Appleton edition can be thoroughly recon-
mended.
Frank Ir0llope, another of the novel-writing
family, has published story entitled !. The
Right-Minded Woman
Miss Braddonss novel Of s'Eleanor's Victory,
has lust been dramatized IN london. sTsss
An. illustrated edition of s',sam Slick, the
Clockmaker," with elucSdatory notes by the
author, will be published in the Autumn by Mr..
Bentley.E NV as 1919. 49,
The notorious Belle Boyd, now Mrs. Har-
dinge, has published her promised autobiogrs-
ply In London, in. two volumes. The critics
call it weak and silly. One stupid passage
which holds President johnson responsible for
the murder Of Mr.. Lincoln, is reprehended by
the English Journals which are usually un-
friendly ous- Even the London Atheneum,
whose political tendencies, SO far as they exist
at all, are adverse to the loyal people of the
United States, cites this passage with the fol-
lowing words of condemnation: ssComing from
.the lips OF foolish woman, such nonsens Sc
ssaould be met with laughter; but it is no matter
FOR mere merriment when Englishmen are found
weak enough to believe, and rash enough to
publish, irritating and scandalous libels upon
the rulers of great and sensible people.
M.Plon. the publisher of the .'Life of Cesar, .
printed lao 900 copies Of the first edition. He
has not yet got rid of more than q, 900, and
complains bitterly. Is. + .asass .ss.ts..
Anew humorous weekly paper is to be started
in New York, July LIST. It is said to be supper
ted by large capital and hecorps of writer's and
artists engaged to contribute to it, promise to
secure for it longer life and higher character
than such enterprises have usually had in that
city,