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

LITERARY GOSSIP.
Henry Koenig, the veteran German nov
elist, died the other day at Wiesbaden, at an
advanced age.
Madame Rattaz1 is in Paris, surer intend
ing the publication Of the complete edition Of
her novel, and Of a new work, In which she
again ridicules the foibles of the Empress Eu-
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 oi
garments for Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and her
enthusiastic admirer and biographer, com.
plains that she has received nothing nom the
sale of her book, though she agreed to share
the profits with her publisher. She has brought
a suit against the delinquent
Anthony Trollope received from bis Eng
lish publishers $4,000 for his "He Knew He
Was Right" 1t was published In thirty-six
parts, at sixpence each. The sale was poor,
and it is said in London that If the publishers
had given Nr. Trollope $4,000, and then de-
stroyed the MSS, they would have been better
of.
1.-THE Bastard, the new play which is now
performed every night at the Paris Odeon The
atre, is pronounced by competent critics the
best sensation drama that has ever been writ
ten, and it is predicted that it will become q
very popular play on the stages Of all civilized
countries. The author Is NJ Tauroude, a young
man of twenty-four.
The Pail Mall Gazette contains synopsis
of curious article recently published by the
well-known literateur, Herman Grimm, in the
Preuisslsche Jahrbucher. tits 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 Wlllemer, with
whose name the readers Of Goethe's life are
tolerably familiar.
"A correspondent Of the Spectator thinks
the Dean of Carlisle very unfit man to start
a crusade against science, because he is so ex.
ceptionally 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 said that late scien-
tiac investigations had shown that human
blood differed in the shape Of Its globules from
the blood of any beasts or 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-
mously increasing the circulation Of the more
enterprising Paris journals. Thus, the Figaro
now prints eighty-Ave thousand copies more
than 1t did two months ago, the Gaulois forty
eight thousand copies, and the Petit Journal
two hundred thousand copies 70 that that spicy
little sheet has now daily circulation of fouI
hundred and twenty-five thousand copies.
Frederic Gailardet, the Paris correspond
ent of the Courier des Etats- Unis, takes the
following view Of the position Of Pere Hya-
clnthe: "He will be lost, fear, in the desert
of public indifference. We are no longer In
the times Of John Huss and OF Luther. T.
believers he has gone too far; for the increa9
lous not far enough; for he has remained 6
Catholic and priest. The Reveil and the
Ayenir National see in this matter only 6
family quarrel. One has faith or he has 1t not
there is no middle ground possible. Every at
tempt at independence is revolt and an apos
tacy. 1t is necessary, then, for Pere Hya'
cinthe to humiliate himself or go further. Let
him 90 as far as Lamennais in the road where
on he has entered"
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 deal
son." replied Plus TX, ~ have seen your me
mortal, and thank you for it; but do you moi
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 magnihcence O
its ruins. To restore them would. 1t seems Il
me, be an artistic sacrilege, and would ami
shilate the work Of ages, only to produce {
poor and colorless counterfeit. Think no more
of 1t, caro- n,io." And the Baron thought M
more Of it.
GnorinI Mnf,ree