The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-26
LITERARY GOSSIP.

LITERARY GOSSIP.
Henry Koenig, the veteran German noy-
elist, died the other day at wlesbaden, at an
advanced age.
Madame Rattazzi is In Paris, sur or ntend-
Ing the publication Of the complete edition of
her novel, and Of O new work, In which she
again rdicules the foibles of the Empress ELL
genie.
Professor Lane has introduced the CONT
mental pronunciation of Latin and Greek at
Harvard, and 1t is to be used hereafter In the
instruction Of all the classes.
Mrs. Keckley, the colored fabricator OF
garments for Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and her
enthusiastic admirer and biographer, COM
plains that she has received nothing from the
sale OF her book, though she agreed to share
the profits with her publisher She has brought
q suit against the delinquent
Anthony Trollope received from his Eng
lish publishers $4,000 for his .'He Knew He
Was Right" 1t was published In thirty-six
parts, at sixpcnce each The sale was Door,
and 1t Is said In London that II the publishers
had given Mr. Trollope f200o, and then de-
stroyed the MSS, they would have been better
Off
1.-THE Bastard" the new play which is now
performed every night ut the Paris Odeon The
atre, Is pronounced by competent critics the
best sensation drama that has ever been writ
ten, and 1t is predicted that It will become a
very popular play on the stages OF oil civilized
countries The author Ia II. Tauroude, young
man Of twenty-four.
The Pail Mall Gazette contains q synopsis
Of curious article recently published by the
Swell-known literateur, Herman Grimm, in the
Preuissischc Jahrbucher. Itis entitled "Goethe
and suleika," and charges that several of the
pieces which the great poet published as his
own In his Westoestiichen Divan were really
the production Of Marianne Won Willemer, with
whose name the readers Of Goethes life are
tolerably familiar. a
"A correspondent of the Spectator thinks
the Dean of Carlisle very unfit man to start
crusade against science, because he is 30 ex-
cepuonally Ignorant Of the simplest facts OF
natural history. Preaching at swanage about.
nine years ago on the distinction between man
and all other animals, he suid THAT late scien-
tifc Investigations had shown that human
blood differed in the shape of its globules from
the blood of any beasts OF birds, "if, indeed"
he added, "birds have blood"
The newspaper business in Paris is Just
now very brisk., The dangerous illness of the
Emperor Napoleon, the Father Hyacinthe
movement, and the murder OF the Kinck fam
lily, have all contributed much toward enor-
mousiy increasing the circulation of the more
enterprising Paris journals. Thus, the Figaro
now prints eighty-five thorsond copies more
than 1t did two months ago, the Gauiois forty
eight thousand copies, and the Petit Journal
two hundred thousand copies, 70 that that spicy
little sheet has now q daily circulation of four
hundred and twenty-five thousand copies.a
Gailafdet, the. Paris correspond
cnt Of the Courier des Etats- UnIs, takes the
following yteWof the position of Pere 'Hya-
cinthe: "He will be lost, fear, in the desert
Of public indifference. We are NO longer IN
tha tipea anIshn Hiiss and :Tuthar:: !. Rof.
believers he hns gone too fhr; for the incredr,-
lous not far enough; for lie has remained a
Catholic and priest. The Reven and the
Ayenir National see in this matter only O
fhnily quarrel. One has faith or he has 1t not;
there Ia no middle ground possible. Every at
tempt at independence ia a revolt and an apos-
tacy. It is necessary, then, for Pere Hya-
cinthe to humiliaie himself or 60 further Let
him go as far as Lamennais In the road where
on he has entered.n -.6tu.
The Baron de Croze, whose death the
French Journals have lately announced, was
the person who, some ten years since, ad-
dressed memorial to the Pope, strongly urg-
ing the restoration Of the Coliseum. .'My dear
SON." replied Plus TX, ~ have seen your me-
mortal, and thank you for it; but do you not
know that there are two kinds Of vandalism,
the one Of destruction, the other Of restora-
ton Never has the Coliseum been more
beautiful than In the moving contrast of the
splendor Of its past and the magniAcence of
Its ruins To restore them would. it seems to
me, be an artistic sacrilege, and would anni-
hilate the work Of ages, only to produce q
poor and colorless counterfeit. Think no more
OF 1t, caro- naio." And the Baron thought no
more Of 1t. a:b n t-.4, n
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