Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-24
LITERARY ITEMS.

Mrs. Craik is writing q new novel
spring.
Louisa Mnhlbsch's new novel, "From
SOlferino TO KOenigsgrstz," is TO be pub.
lished in sixteen volumes.
Mr.. Gladstone is to contribute a Sc
ries Of papers on 1.-THE Duties of q Citi-
zsn of q Free State" to Good Words.
Mr.. William Carleton, the Irish
novelist, is in g very %preeariOus state OF
health. His recovery is not expected.
Prof. Henry Morley, Of London, is
editing q new edition, 10 one volume, OF
the Standardization & Steele's Spec
tdtor.
The London Spectator doubts " IL
any English writer now living writes so
pure q classical English "a vas written
by Nathaniel HAWTHORNE"
The american Ecclesjusticdl and
Educational Almanac for 1869, edited by
Prof. Schem, of the Tribune, will be pub
iisheS this month.
Murray sold one-hslf Of the first edi-
lion of Bickmore's Travels in the East
Indian Archipelago, In advance of pub
LEGATION, at his late trade dinner.
Louis Blanc, the French political ex-
lie in London, has Just completed, after
nearly twenty years of labor, his history
of the French Revolution, in twelve vol
umes.
Andrew Jackson Davis is soon % is-
sue another immensely 1.-THE Present
Age and Inner Life-Ancient and Mod
ern Spirit Mysteries Classified and Ex-
~piaiDe3."
1.-THE peoples edition Of the Life
and Epjstles of st. Paul. written by
Rsvs. w. J. Conybeare and ]. S. How
son, two eminent English d~ivines, is soon
to be published by a Hartford firm,
Rev. ]. T. Headley contributes a
very sensible article ON Planchette"
to the February Number OF Hours at
Home. He attributes the phenoAena of
the mysterious little board to electrical
Influences.
Victor Hugo's book, now under
translation by the Appletons, will bear
the title 1.-THE laughing man." the two
parts being 1.-THE Sea and the Might"
and "By Order OF the King" MI. VIM.
Young is the translator,
The Chicago Times has nohly come
to the support Of the Chicago Tribune, a
political opponent, which has been un-
ming the gauntlet Of any nuUaber Of libel
suits. AS usual nowadays, the major
ity of these suits were brought simply
for money making purposes.
-BerthOld Auerbaeh, the German
novelist, has offered to devote the whole
procaedso o. his next work, the subject Of
which will be en- episode in the history
of Bohemia, to the erection nj a syna-
gogus in tho little town Of r ger, in Be-
hemis. Fifty Thousand copies of the
book will'be issued by the jewish Publ
cation Society.
Parton is engaged on a stimulating
subjeet-the "Llfe of Hon. Richard
Yates" in five large volumes. One of
the volumes will be filled with biography
and the others with speeches. In the
former q large number OF unpublished
letters from Abraham Lincoln OF public
affairs, written to Senator Yates during
the four years he was Governor of IlIi-
pois-from 1860 to lS65-Will be made
public for the first time.
-HdTper's Weekly, for January % has
an able editorial on Independent Jour
nalism." It says that "Hypercriti-
cisms, eynicism, -captiousness, persifiage,
are not its characteristics, but profound
conviction, tact, knowledge, humor and
good temper. Fifty such journals from
Maine TO California, prosperous, spark
ling, vigorous and rigorous, would rattle
the dry bones of party hacks, and instil
q most wholesame terror in charlatans
Of every kind.n
M. Victor Hugo has changed the
title of bis new story spar 0rdre du
Rpi" Thy the kings commando into
"L'Romme qui rit." The difficulty of
translatin0 this title will probably in
duce the English translator to retain the
original title. which, it is stated, applies
10 three cut of the four volumes of which
the story consists. The story will be d.
vided into two parts, The first, con
sisting of a single volume, will be pub
Iished in Paris under the name of 1.-THE
of three volumes, will ba pub
lished in Paris about q fortnight after the
first volume, and will bear the name
originally intended for the entire work OF
+" Par Ordre du Hoi."
Prof. Welcker, who died g few days
ago at Bonn, was n Of the most emil
nent German students of ~philoloQy and
Ology. He was born in 1884, at
Grunberg. He obtained a pfofessorship
in the Gymnasium at Giessen in 1903.
YEARS later he went to Rome,
he stayed for two years, end where
the celebrated Danish archfe olo-
gist, exercised vital influence upon his
intellectual development, Returning to
Germany, be was appointed professor at
the Universities of Giessen, Gottineen
and Bonn successfully. He was q fol-
lower Of the Keynes and Wolfee, aad
contributed not q little TO the raising OF
phllology from naFrowness end pedantFy
to the high position it now occupies. Fhe
q re catholic spirit and philosophical sig
niaeance which men like himself, o.
frIed. Muller, Hocbk, and Others, among
he stood foremost, lHlpsrted to
hat scienee may be counted among the
which have made German learn.
ing and philosophy go famous. He had
a vast range of knowledge. aeliescy Of
and subtlety of judgment. his
: Gotteriehre,H completed but a few
years ago, is the best known Of all his
works.