The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| Judy has discovered that the height OF the
season is never in the depth of winter
Mr. Wilkie Collins is writing a new serial
| for al the Year Round.
Mr.. James Hannay is about to become the
editor of one of the many English magazines.
The author Of Margaret and Her Brides
maids" is about to publish new novel enti-
tied "Three Wives.'
Mr.. r. w. Robertson, the dramatist. has
produced new play, Foy Lore, which is not
considered success.
Mr.. Charles Darwin will shortly publish
volume upon "The Variation Of Animals and
Plants under Domestication."
The Flathead and other Indian tribes Of
Montana threaten an outbreak. They have
been attacked with a smallpox.
An exchange queries whether a young
lady OF eighteen springs ought not to have
fine waterfall.
"A salt spring has been discovered in Sum
init county Colorado, which is said to yield
one thousand barrels Of saline water day.
Central Illinois is parched up by the con
tinued droughts. The farmers were busy dig
ging for water, but with little success.
John D. Drake, of the fremont House, in
Chicago, takes the place of General Blair as
Pacific Railroad Commissioner.
Adrian College, in Michigan, is said to
State which has such a noble university?
-Green Bay, Wisconsin, is putting down
the Nicoson pavement and building court
! house, to cost $4,000.
| A Fair for the benefit of the widows and
! orphans of soldiers is being organized in
! Chicago.
THE dram shops of st. Louis received over
! $780, in September according to their own
returns.
Carl Benson, in an excellent pamphlet on
! '"The Interference Theory of Government"
aptly dubs prohibitory liquor laws "aquarian
! legislation"
"A society for the educational advancement
/ of the freedmen has been formed in Zanes-
vile, Ohio, by the negroes.
The Chicago Republican of the 23d devotes
thirteen columns to proceedings of Councils.
| Chicago must need a vast amount of gov
ernipg.
--Pic5poekets were troublesome at the re-
cent wedding of General Forsyth and a
daughter of Ex-Governor Dennison, in Colum-
bus, Ohio.
The Countess Paula Won Kollonitz, late
| lady-in-waiting to the Empress Carlotta, is
about to publish work entitled "The Court
| of Mexico'
The Photograph manuscript, one of La Fon-
taine's fables, "L Huitre ct les Plaideures," "
was lately sold in France for one hundred and
! fifty francs.
Mr.. Whyte Melville's novel of 'White
Rose" which has been one of the features of
| the Fortnigltly Re0iew, is about to be published
| in three volumes.
Mr.. swinburnes forthcoming volume,
civilian Blake, Artist and Poet will con-
tain number of illustrations in colors, from
original drawings painted by Blake and his
wife.
The Christmas number of All the Year
Round which is to be ready two weeks in al
vance of its date in England, will not be the
mere patchwork of former years, but the ex-
! elusive writing of two hands-Mr. Wilkie Col
! Inns and Mr.. Dickens himself
"A statue was recently raised to the
memory of Camoens at Lisbon with great
pomp and ceremony Where, asks an English
paragraphist, is the tercentenary statue Of our
great poet and where, by the way, the Gl800
subscribed by the members of the committee
| so unfairly OverthrOWn? The same question,
as regards sundry Gums of money apply
equally we'll to a number of monumental pro-
iects in this country and the answer would
| probably be the same-none at all.
-Messrs. Adam and Charles Black of Edin-
burgh, announce a Roxburgh edition of the
Waverly Novels, to be completed in forty
volumes, each of which will contain two steel
eng avings, and between thirty and forty
woodcuts, the total number of the latter in the
series being sixteen hundred and fifty, drawn
by some of the best artists, and including the
objects of an antiquarian kind collected by
Scott at Abbotsford, to illustrate the historical
events and personages of his works.
Mr.. w. w. Skeat is about to edit, for the
Early English Text Society, an Alliterative
Romance Of Alexander, the existence of which
was first pointed out by Sir f. Madden, in a
note to WartOn's "HistOry of English Poetry, "
and which he believed was written by the poet
William, who translated and shortened the
French romance of "Guillaume de Palermo 4"
edited by Sir +. Madden for the Roxburge
Club, under the title of civilian and the
Werwolf." Mr.. Slleat likewise inclines to
this belief, saying that it would puzzle any
one to get more Werwolf phrases into a page.
II He will soon include this Alexander Romance
in his edition of civilian of Palerne" for the
Extra Series of the society in question. The
manuscript which he proposes to print, and
which is now in the Bodleian Library, belongs
to about the middle of the fifteenth century, a
century or so later than the composition of
the poem, which is unfortunately incomplete.
Mr.. SSeat will also reGdit for the same printing
club Sir f. Madden's "Havelok the Dane"
The prospectus of the projected Chaucer
Society, which is in fair way of formation in
England, has been issued by Mr.. Frederick j.
Furnivall, who states that one of its objects is
to let the lovers and students of this "Morning
star of English song" see how far the best un-
printed manuscripts of his works differ from