, 1870-06-12
LITERATURE.

Rentaf1es or tnaaf into English. g..
The anthor Of "stono Edge" and Let.
nouslY. is a sister Of Siss Florence Nightin-
gale, and the wife Of an English nobIeman.
-Flo1ence Mnrryatt Church has begun q Sc
nal novel, entitled :" Captain Norton'a Diary,
story OF English life, in Be'rauia.
- "A - SERIAL by the late James K. Paulding.
shortly be begun in Pusnam's Magazine. It
ia thrown into semi-3tnmatic form.
Mr.. Longfel1ow will have poem Of con-
siderable length, and Miss Elisabeth Stuart
Phelps story, in the July Atlantic.
-Madame Rdtazzi is unablo to find pub
lisher Gs for her history Of 1.-The Women Of the
-Disrael published hia novel in England on
commiaaion, nftcr refusing 916, 900 for the
copyright He chose Mr.. Longman, the great
Wing publisher, instead Of III. Murray, and
the recent articles in the Quarterly on tho
e1-!'femier arc supposed to account for this
"A very important literary discovery was
made lew weeks ngo in the library belonging
to church in Liegnitz, in 6lesis- It consists
OF q Cede1 Of Lyy, the existence OF which
had been noticed IN catalogue OF that library,
dated 1903, but only now his the search aftar
1t teen successfnl. It contains nearly tho
whole OF the Fourth Decade.
Tho late N. Yilemain, Of tho French
Academy, incurred the dispieasure OF the F inst
Napoleon, because he Indignantly refused to
prepare revised edition Of the classics from
which should be omitted all naxims which
were opposed to imperialism.
or Charles Heade's new novel, "Put Your
self IN His Place,' We shall Eoon hnve compet-
ting editions from Harper & Brothers, shell
don Co., and Fields, Ossood l. Co.
The Rerle dettr 4Moneaes publishes q series
of articles on Berlin society in the days of
Schiller and Goethe, from Which it appears
that Madame de stael was regarded as a bore
hy the German litterateurs.
The Springfield Republican copies Miss
Grace Appleton's poem, "Tho Beautiful
liver" from Appleto'.'s journal, and with 10.
cal enthnsiasm gives it the title Off, Tho Con
necticut River"
"A premium for "best Sunday School
book offered by Boston publishing firm,
brought together pile Of book manuscripts,
about Eve feet long and two feet deep and
high, from nearly every State in the Union,
and from the Cana,las. There were in this
pile 800 distinct manuscripts, which had been
sent within four months, each OF which would
mike 800 pages, 1amo., small plea, and the
whole total OF sc, 600 printed pages.
Miss Milford, writing Of certain author-
ess, says; "she is ugly. Of course all literary
ladies arc so. mover met one in my life Tex
cept Miss Jane Porter. and she il rather
rdsze), that might not have served for a
scarecrow to keep tho birds from the berries.
IT'S prodigiously strange and disagrecable
Mr., Algernon Swinburnes Prose is some
times al remarkable rs hiB poetry. In his
recent crifieiem OF tile works Of Daute Ros-
setti he falls upon IN unlucly gentleman who
yentnTed to nay that writer might have m
excellent style unaccompanied by noticeable
iless. "This flattering Junction." writes Mr..
will hardly in this ease he able to lay upon the
corrosive soro which he calls his soul: the
nicer Of ill-will must rot unreleYed by tho ran
cid ointment OF such fiction"
in Difference to the increase Of positiyism
in Euglanaa, The London publisher, Trubner,
ANNOUNCES a translation Of Aug,lste Comtes
, rolitiquo Positivo"-not the "Philosophie
Positive" hut the later work which gave the
final view Of his doctrine and which ia called
Some Of the most eminent disciplea OF the
Positiyist school in England havo undo rtakeu
tlis task, including Frederic Harrison, Proles-
scr Decsley, Mr.. Dix Hutton. and Mr.. Con
grove.
Tie first number OF new journal, the
MaksT.are MUSEUM, has just been published
by Max Mcltke, in Leipsic, devoted entirely tc
Eoltke il well known as & translator Of Shak-
epearc into German, and aa a superior scholar.
The Shakespeare iMi;;:setn. Is to nppear at if,
regular intervals, at The will Of the editor; bui
the day Of publication will Arrays be tho ami
yersar; OF some important epoch in shag.
spearo's own life, OF Of the bfrtn Or death oi
some ono Of his famous students or disciples
The second number appeared on May 9, the
day Of sclillcIs death; tho third on May IL
that Of Tieck's birth.
Matthew A1nold's 'sSt. Paul snt1 rrotout
antisn, " curious attenps to e.aov FRAT liz
APOSTLE Paul has hitherto bot1 Tho nnost mis-
represented Of men; tint lis syBtam OF bejie
has ueye1 been properly cxnoupded t1,at r.
him "the resurrectiU." meant morn
change; and that medern theoloeians vic
claim Paul AZ master commonly ascriLo TO Iim
ideas which are tls product OF = later arc. >N@
Tho Erooklyn Cntoncontributes this rotuin.
iscenee to the general stock Of anecdotes
ghout e.-.sa.es Fuller; "a it,: who visited
80 city Informed MS tss.s t.s she lived In i,as
under the eame roof with Margaret Fuller
during and after the exciting days of the
1tAlian revolution: that Margaret VIA at that
timo writing, and had nearly completed an
elaborate history Of that movement for lib
erty; that, previous to setting out for Am.
erica, Margaret once proposed to commit he,
manuscript to this 1ady"s keeping, from =
aupcratitioua fear she had that It might possi-
bly, be lost ut sea; that tho apprehension wae
laughed AWAY by her friend, who said: Sc
you do not shrink from tr11eting yoursclf, yon,
husband, and your child, but only yor,r mann.
script on board Captain Hasty's Ehip;' and
that this manuscript periehed with its author
IN the storm which destroyed that Inflated
-. cs...n."