The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-14
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LITERARY ITEMS.

- Smiling in eternal sweetness
80. On thy cradle-on thy tomb! =.
80 $50 LITERARY ITEMS.
It. is said that Queen. Victoria is preparing a.
work the press, illustrated by plates OF her OWN
Drip. Brockett and MIR. .-or Miss?- Mary G.
Vaughan are preparing q book on Noman's Work
in the: Ciyl War ther an, exhausted theme.
De. :Shansst, tbs author of novel described by
heImdon Atheneum as "vulgar, profane and IN
delicate, has brought an sction against that jour
nal for libel go .sE..fz .g1na,.
M: Arthur u J. Peabody, nephew Of George Pea
body. fas become q partner In the book publishing
house of Charles SMibner. & Co. The name OF the,
frmremains unchanged. - 80
MI. DUFF Green has written O. volume Of recolec-
tions Of tho public men whom he has known dur =
ing Political soa aaa SaI1s1 OF aa
OBJ? Sam. Colts biography which, it seems,
eontamporary considers tsan autobiography Of Col.
Colt written by his widoW"-has been printed IN
sumptuons style for private circulation. az1Es=
Afull and very interesting account Of ! the Qua
ke5s nbishsd IN RhadsP5a y pPM Me
moirs Of the Rel gio1s Society OF Friends, by VIII
lianf Hodgson. s.al, - - = * -
Baaidss Gustav Freytag, several other eminent
literary men are candidates for election TO the
North German Parliament. Among these We no
ticeG Gottttrie Kinksl and Professor Mommsen the
The Austrian Government have prohibited the
saleof and ordered the police to seize, new work
which has appeared under the title Of Twelve
Champions Of Revolution" containing the biogra-
phiegof Robert Blum, Karl sBind, Mazzini, Count
Oayour, Louis Blanc, and others. .
Tinknpr b Fields press liz unusually busy this
spring. .Ths sDiaHpnd Editions are great sne7..
cess md abesidsS Dickens and Tennyson, the
house is now adding to the diamond series the
Wayerly Novels aid Owen Meredth's, LongfeloWs
and hithers poslps. r.. ;.ls .',;5 4 q :,
Mr.Htdson Taylor, who9. for nearly twenty years
sellers 81 Washin has just retired from busi-
ness: ;Heis Succeeded BIZ lMessrs. French, & Rich
ardson, The former Of whom was for some years
the manager: :of Mr.. Taylor's estab btshment. y. =
"A Russian General Of arGillery has just died,
after having deposited in the Bank Of St. PETERS,
burg sum of IS 600, to remain at interest until
the year 1895 the anniversary OF the death OF the
Emnerpr Alexander L, and then to be givent to- the
authpr Of the best history OF that The
sum- will amount ,0O0 lS-.a.S2s a.:. - ..no
HoimsE ns 81 tas shskespesrs
remarks that ,seFenf Shakespeare after ALL did
not write Shakespeare-WhiehW we see no reason 70
belieYeit pretty certain that Bacon was not the
authorSS had notsufRcient geniaity Of nature
for such performances, and what We know. Of his
s :ssssfs ~ e - is'' 8 :. =.
OK melte.- ,,-7y H.ts tf:t:'s :. -
Charles.I Dickens. .was&a spectator OF the recent
raform demonstration in London from the balcony
Of the kshenBum Club, in company with the. Arch
ssas ssog agyss
The tberd George Gordon riots furnishsd, the ma
tarial for Barnsby Rudge;, ,so the John Bright re-
form demonstration may lay the foundation Of a
novel ~ the great master stern ~ the the
law passed some years since ~ the German Diet,
aud agrsed to BIZ an the !sepRrste Governments, all
COPYRIGHT which had up to thattime been prolong-.
ed BY special privileges, ceases and becomes pub
lie prurerty. The works Of Schiller, Goethe, -Wie-
land, Harder, Korner, and many other German
classics that have up to the present year
copyright Of certain. publishers OF etaInihes Of
the authors car then be pqblished by any one and!
already the NanGouneement iof cheap reprints are
being advertised. o.a.! !. = a. a. 80 80. -, -:
The,S Siecles subscription for statue 81 Voltaire
to be erectedin public place ID: Paris, aoes not
sppeartob be, ,thRarsed by authority. On the con-
tTary, the ahaaon of several Prefeotoral Journals
in t4A proY1ncesi IS evidence that the proposal if
not Hite: Myoaaby viewed, is at Least strongly
Winked at. One, II. Costel, the Mayor OF SAINT
Vast; ia Houf,ue, 2 near %Havre land all Mayors
and now yGo4er11ment nominees sends franc to-
the q behalf OF himself eId AZ son
and at thalsama time expresses hope that. the
statue sf1hY be high enough to throw it's shadow,
not only overall france, but the entire world:
There was lately discovered in q corner Of the
part Vie original correspo ondence Of Count Mat
fhias Galas during the Thirty Years. War Three,
hundred and tWenty one dated documents from
the Tear 1888 to 1886, with number Of others be-
were among. them.is The most impcl tant among
them are those OF 1884, which directly refer to the
Wallenstein. The space between the I'd Of Janu-
ary and the 1ss April, 1884, IS represented BY
three letters rom imperial generals, Med!ci,
and others, to CALAIS; further by letter from Gal
las to the emperor, dated Frauenberg, February a
MrsIohn Stuart Mill was ina1g gurated as Rector
of st:E E4harews University on the LIST inst: He de-
ed tbs Rbos
territotY St tie higher education, and includeda
cordial defence Of classical culture (minus the
verse-makingl, on the ground that to estimate
words for what athey tafe-the- 'c6nnters" repre-
ssnsn ssa @st Ssa baGy otns5 asS
that t6e1 psrdeahr tan9g mses and ltsratufs5 are
OF such curions perfection such artistic complete
ness. M. Mn excluded n1ne:d hegreat,c,niti-
pleading only for classics, mathematics, logic,
ethics rather historically than dogmatically
taught-expe science and physiology, but
even for ecclesiastical history from al undogmatc
point of view. On all he:said some fine things:
the moss Sensitive susceptib biites, casting out
fbers into every branch of human culture, and yet
shrinking on every side from the assertion of uti-
mate principles, or roots The definite, gradually
springing into shape out Of the inde6nite-that is
Mr. Mills conception Of almost every branch Of
human knowledge. I: iszs ...2l.....s... .,,...l,S
The Londca. Quarterly Review remarks: ''The
mind of a'chhd, ,psays wise thinker, sis like the
acorn; its powers are folded up, they do not yet
appear, but they ara all there: The memory, the
Judgment. e.invention, the feeling of right and
IF fnnt iustt
born. Oneiby one they awake" His imagination
me Of the earliest powers that awakens within
him, eyenbefore' he has passed through the mys-
teries Of pap, and found out that being naughty
will be; either on the makebelieye talk Of his sis
ter Nary nursing her DOLL the idle stories of Bet
sey, the nursemaid, when he is naughty, about
sna sRd the e. black aa who carries off bad
tafey and gingerbread he is good. By-and-
by, as he grows older his sister Mary reads to
him, and at last he learns to read for himself the
and the
monds and Pearls;" the delicious history of sPnss
in Boots the tragedy Of sBlue Beard" or the he,
rois drs% Of ssf g ga as Gsat Killer
delightful pages, it be, his faith is boundess
Happiest oil mortals for time at least, he can be-
Eeve all he reads with the one happy proviso that
Il it is not true, it ought to be- ay, and is, because
his sister says SO; Mhie WI he is absorbed in the
Duck, the breakfast bell is unheard, and dinner
umheeded; he is feasting in Dreamland on STIR |
about in the Giants Castle, or on those famous
cheesecakes Of Queen Scheherezade, whose vital |
fsot, evaa sTais j. tie fnu pursuit Of fiction 1n-
deed he Is always burning for facts. BE wishes to
know what glass is, where: Robinson Crusoe was |
buried, how much gold it takes to make the inside
Of . watch, why:the sun sets later in June than
bow touches the ground: why firing off of cannon