The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-15
Literary Matters.

] is trying TO hunt up publisher TOR
another volume venture. E LIZA
The Journal and Troreler of Bos-
ton are quarrelng bitterly over their
circulation and the liquor law.
B. F. Butler, LII. D., is to be one of
theseditorial writer's for the New Or
leans Republican,
The Boston O,ci has blinked its
last. Con lie literature even of the
poorest description, does not seem to
thrive at4he Hub. EgHs0A4
Mr.. Charles Henry St. John is one
of the most promising of the minor
Boston poets. Mr.. Earl Marble has
also given evidence of some poetic
ability. 81fal Afsiol18b 38910 .
Miss Olive Logan serial story will
soon be commenced by the Harpers.
| George William, Curtis has given a
very favorable opinion concerning it.
F Gen Buffers Standardization and
dissection of, the. military reputation
of Gen. Grant will be published in
book form during the summer. ae B.
f. B.. Yields a trenehant pen, and
some racy developments and cutting
structures may reasonably be looked
for.sd ~ .9ssIsnap-g s.tshi18 10 aTo9
Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen is liv-
ing very, quietly at Richmond, Va,
and is writing little or nothing for
publication "A. little daughter now
claims the songstress care and at
teptlon'f Ii ss,slss.s.sl 51fF .bsiC5ss
Mr.. j. T. Trowbridge's novel of
Our Neighbors, which run through
the published numbers of Northern
Lights, but which was unayoidably
interrupted by the early demise of
that periodical, will shortly be pub
lished in book form by Messrs. Lee Il
Shepard. of Boston. 1t can hardly
take rank beside Neighbor lakewood
and Guido Cave, by the same author.
Miss Kate P. Osgood. better known
under her .pseudonym of :. Kate Put
nam" whose beautiful little poem of
Driving Home the Cows, has been
read and admired everywhere, is
sister to Mr.. j. r. Osgood of the pub
fishing firm of Ticknor &, Fields.
Miss Osgood is ayoung lady of fine
literary culture 1ass ~. sA \, IN
az a.. Another specimen of the polygot
species of magazines-ise..aa mixture
OF reading matter and advertisements
upon alternating pages-has just made
its appearance at Troy, and is con-
Quoted by lie Grand Benedict. It's
gotten up in the same style as the
Louisville Magazine. -. 3. ri e '.,sse
Those who read about :, :" Haunted
Wido VS. In the last number of the
Atlantic Monthly, will readily admit
that Col. ) Higginson's fiction is as
strange as anybody's. 1t is under
stood that this gentleman is engaged
in writing novel of very ambitious
design. do ssis9ss BIZ s7iRfs'.tg g
Messrsa Longman & Co., of London,
will shortly publish two valuable
works. entitled respectively Disserta- !,
tlons and Discussions, by John Stu
art Mill, and Short Studies on Great
Subjects, by j. A. Froude.
A new irst-class literary weekly
has made its appearance in London,
called the American. Its corps. of
contributors numbers some of the
best writers in England and America.
Mr.. Gerald Massey is foundering
about in the Athenoeune over the
Shakespeare sonnet controversy which
is still kept up with good display of
vigor. ,keu1g
The Scientific lEnglishman is the
title ola new illustrated journal which
has lately appeared in London, devo-
ted to the discussion of subjects con-
nected with science, art and industry.
,ns Artemus Ward was heartily dead
before Routledge, the London publish
er, announced the book of $ Betsy J.
Ward" with the assertion that it was
written by the original Artemus.
Great numbers of Ecce Homo are
still being sold In England The pub
fishers having disposed of over ten
thousand copies of the half guinea
shillings. for which three thousand
subscriptions have already been OBJ
tainedsto9Sz bm8 43sEl5sftE 4
The Boston Recorder will be pub
llshed in New York after the LIST of
May. Drs. Thompson and Palmer
will remain its editors. =
The Mobile Tribune, an exceedingly
amiable sheet, recently remarked of
Horace Greeley that he was the
most abomipable william ever belchsd
to the surface of a corrupt age. The
Tribune is edited by one j. r. Eggle-
ston, a regular fire eater.
] j osh Billings 1Rasp written "a most
ridiculous obituary notice of Arte-
mus Ward in a Troy paper. which lis
published with approving comments
by the editor thereof n79eisa