The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-16
LITERARY JOTTINGs.

q new quarterly threepenny Illustrated maya
Mne Is TO appear in London this month, under
the title Of Mission L}te. It is to be journal
OF the Universities Mission to Central Africa.
WON ems Rights" sre to have an organ in
Paris. A new journal is announced under the
title of the COhtnbiie, the editor OF which is
MadDle Suzanne Lager, with Madame de Cha
brillan as sub-editor. The paper is to advocate
the equality OF the sexes.
The London Reuleao calls Mr. Gladstone
"the Tennyson of inance;n for, it adds, he
'brinRs to his public expositons not only the
powers OF his reason, but also the resources OF
his imagination and clothes them with beauty
OF diction and richness OF illustration which
men delight TO hear"
The Boston transcript says:-''Mrs Agassz
has paper in the forthcoming AHdntIo Monthly
describing an Amazonian picnic party which
she and the Professor lately attended in Brazil.
IL ls the first series OF alticles by this accom-
plirhed lady describing her South American ex-
perIence."
Charles Knight is about to reissue in Lon
don, in cheap weekly numbers his excellent
"Enelsh Cyclopgdla." 1t is to begin with the
division OF Art and Science" anu will be FOL
lowed Immediately by Biography" "Geogra-
phy," and Natural History" all increased in
value by means of supplements now preparing.
1t is calculated that thirty-one periodicals
have transferred their seat of publication from
Turin to Florence where at the present moment
slxty-iour serials exist, giving employment to
about fifteen hundred persons In the printing
houses only, without counting the Individuals
indirectly contributing their part to the produc-
ton of the smallest leaf of printing paper.
A London publishing firm has recently been
trying to prevail on the Poet Laureate to permit
the introduction into England OF the American
editions OF his works, alleging as q reason that
they are quite as well If not better printed, and
that they are much cheaper than the English
editions. Another reason adduced was the ue-
STABILITY of circulating Mr.. Tennyson'5 writings
amongst the working classes Notwithstanding
these represe the Laureate declines.
The Pat Mall Gazette says:-"It was pro-
posed last year to establish literary club in
Paris under the title of lie Cercle des Lettres, to
correspond in certain degree to the Athen@um.
or still more so, perhaps, to the Garrick. Not
only were the members OF the Societe des Gems
des Lettres and of the Societe des Auteurs
Dramatlques invited to join 1t, but also the
editors OF newspapers and the directors of thea
tres. A provisional committee was appointed to
collect subscriptions and everything promised
well for the prompt realization OF such very
natural idea. But in France a special authoriza-
| ton is required for every assembly exceeding
twenty in number and this authorization the
Pretect of Police has refused to grant,"
The following bits of gossip concerning
popular novel-wrIters appear in an Irish jour
nal:-lt is curious circumstance that at this
time nearly all the serial stories in the leading
magazines are written by Irish authors, or by
authors of Irish extraction. Thus, that OF the
CorpahM, "Armadale," is by Mr.. Wilkie Collins,
whose tsther, s the pan painter, was an irshlmlan;
Mr. Lever; that in Macmillan is by the Honorable
Mrs. Norton, the daughter Of tom Sheridan
that IN All The Year Round "The Second Mrs.
Tillotson,"is is by Mr.. Perel Fitzgerald; that in
the DobLin University by Mr.. j. s. LIE Fanu;
that in Once-d Week, by Mrs. Trafford. author OF
! George Geltn;" that in the Shilling Magazine,
by the same; that of Temple Bar, by Mr.. Wills
Grlsh also), and by Miss Braddon, VINO, it is
rumored, is of Irish extraction.
"A recent French statement is thus summed
up by an English iournal:-"Thorny are the
paths trod by gentlemen of the press in France
has lust terminated there have been twenty-one
warnings, sixteen trials followed by condemna-
tons, two seizures. four suppressions, and two
interdIctlons OF territory to say nothing OF
the caprlcious confscations to which foreign
journals are daily exposed. The judicial con.
demnations Of 1866 represent IN fines 10, l75f.
(not including law costs, and in imprisonment
eight years four months and twenty-one days.
Editors have had to pay 6l25f., and to undergo
eight months OF prison; printers, 1250f and three
months and fifteen days of PRISON. and writers,
2800f. and seven years five months and SIX days
of prison. The chief result OF this severity has
been to confer Importance on individuals who
i would otherwise have been insignificant, and to
give wide circulation to wriuuRs which other.
wise would have been little read"
Seventeen autograph letters of Lord Byron
are advertised for sale at auction in London.
They are mostly addressed to Mr.. j. Hodgson,
and contain numerous passages which have not
yet been published. One, for instance, contains
this rather plain contession: 81 hope you will
find me an altered parsonage. do not mean in
body, but in manner, for begin to find out that
4 am tolerably sick OF vice, which l have tried
in its agreeable varieties, and mean, on my
return, TO cut off all my absolute acquaintance,
leave off wine and carnal company, and betake
I myself to politics and decorum.n In another
letter, dated Athens, he says: 81 am living alone
in the franciscan Monastery, with Capuchin
friar, bandy-legged Turkish cook, two Albanian
saVaees, a Tartar, and dragoman.n Respect
ing his speech in the House of Lords he re
marks: ~ have had many marvellous eulogeG
repeated to me since, in person and by proxy,
OF these shall only mention Sir f. Burdetts,
He says: "lt is the best speech by q lord since
the Lord knows when!'
The valuable library of the late DR.. Barth
the African explorer is to be sold In Berlin thi
spring. 1t IS rich in works relating to ethno
gTapLy and African discovery. A correspondent
OF the Boston Transcript says:-
i at is worthy of remark, that more than one
halt of the works are English. / think tina
an American who might wish to secure thu
whole could do SO for four thousand dollars. L
is by no means mass OF rubbish; it is col
n lected with great care and without regard t,
expense, as Barth was wealthy, and lavish in al
that could assist him in his scientific enter
prises. His early Mediterranean tour cost hlu
Sll 600, gold. One of the interesting relics o
his library is his copy OF Herodotus which &C
companed him in all his travels. 1t made tn
circuit OF the Mediterranean with him; it pene
trated to Tlmbuctoo and the Niger with him
when he was robbed at CyIene Of all his note
books and papers, during his first tour, that
and that alone, was spared. 1t is little volume
and not soiied as badly as one would suppos
1t would be, alter encountering such varie
experiences"
a AN OLD BOOK.
In the Scientific american it is stated that th
Camden Library Association have in their posses
sion large book, published A. ID. l639 being
curious specimen of Typography.
AN OLDER BooK.-The editors Of the Scientif