The Portland daily press., 1865-08-26
LITERARY GOSSIP.

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-McAittdn's Magazine for August has an ar
ticle on the American question of negro suf-
frage by Professor Cairnes of Oxford.
Carleton, the New York publisher, has in
by himself entitled Sour Artist in Cuba.
IN. Y Evening Post
-Goethe's Faust" has just been translated
into Hebrew.
Mr.. Anthony Trollopes serial, "Can Yen.
Forgive her" has just been completed and viii
soon be issued in book form. Ii 3 tl.f.-I
Miss Mulock, the novelist has become Mrs
Craik, she having married the son of Professor
g. L!sCraik, the eminent author of the His
tory of English Literature" The newspapers
first announced her marriage to a gentlemen
| with awooden leg, and then gave her Professor
Craik himself for husband. The Professor is
sixty-six years old, having been born in 1893.
He has just published Manual Of English
Literature. t ssfa eifa4 &
We understand that Boston publishing
house is about to reissue in this country the
Letters from Egypt Of Lady Duff Gordon.
1T is stated that Mrs Grasdy has a weekly
circulation Of FIVE thousand 1t is rumored
that the Harpers are backing up the paper f.
nancially, and that they will probably adopt it
when its literary success is assured.
The new edition of Irving's works. now is
suing from the Riverside Press, has reached the
sixth volume Two volumes, nearly ready. will
complete the set of the works Of the aSketeb
Book Series" This series, in eight volumes.
includes all except the historical works, which
are still, published as heretofore .ssssVyoks
There are some signs of an early annear-
ance of the second volume of the Imperial Life
of Caesar. The Emperor occupies a portion Of
his time at Plombieres upon work which
will shortly be published under the title Of
Imperial Policy, according to the Speeches
and Proclamations Of His Majesty, Napoleon
III, from 1913 to 1867
! m. Derache of Paris has just published the
third and concluding volume Of 'Les Antioui-
ties Celtiques ct Antedilnyiennes,' by Boucher
/ dePerthes. t9e9 2d es- s6H5sf
s. Barry Grays new book, to be published
early in September by Hurd and Houghton. is
entitled Matrimonial Infelcities, with an Oc-
casional Felicity, by Way Of Contrast, by an
Irritable man: to which are added. as being
pertinent to the subject My Neighbors and
Down in the Valley" The volume is inscribed
to Clifford, the, artist. .lel97oa97 - zaaf.
"A writer in the Independence Belize saws
that NJ. Victor Hugo is about to publish three
new works; a volume of lyrics, aSonos ef fba
] Streets and the Woods; novel in three vol
umes, "The Workmen Of the Sea-" and 4 vol
ume of plays, containing drama in. five acts
fTorquemada, and a comedy in ona e,fbo
| Grandmother. 1o fMt adt % aafsI9as =
The world of literature has Just sustained
q great loss in the death Of Mr.. Edmonstona
Aytoun, Professor of Rhetoric and Relies
Lettres in the University Of Elinburgb =
Professor Aytoun is known by vast number
of contributions to Blackwood's, Taifs and
other magazines His list of published hooks
includes "The Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers ,,
first published in collected form in 1913. a1r;r.
milan; A Spasmodic Tragedy" in 1854. : bnr-
lesque of the sensational dramas; s'Bothwell ,
apoem, giving an episode in the history Of Mart
| Queen of Scots, published in 1885, an edition
of "The Ballads Of Scotland" 1851; aLect,,res
on Poetry and Dramatic literature, delivered
in London in 1858; TRANSACTIONS of @poems and
Ballads of Goethe" a joint labor with M. Tba-
odore Martin; IN orman Sinclair a novel f;.st
! published from Blackwood's pages in 1851 =
Most of these works have been republsbad in
this country. Professor Aytoun has hean Cor
some time in feeble health, and had lately visit
ed the mineral springs fGermany to find relief
He died near Elgin, Morayshire, on the 4tb inst
His age was fifty-two. 5ne II