The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-10-07
Literary Notes.

A "SHAKESPEARE JAHRBUCH (Annu-
alb is issued in Germany.
Mr.. SwISBURNE has gone to Scotland
for the benefit of his health.
MURRAY is to publish Mr.. Grote's
last work Aristotle" in November
A NEW edition of his poems is to be
prepared by Charles Kingley himself
NJ LTTrRE has completed msnu-
script OF his dictionary Of the Fren CHI
language.
THE English publication of Guizot's
History of France, in monthly parts,
has been renewed.
A TRANSLATION of Comics chief
work, LA Politique Positive" in four
volumes, is in preparation.
ENGLAND has a new Anti-Papal Maya
zine The OHIO is another new venture,
devoted to literature, music and fine
arts.
AGNES STRICKLAND has been added to
the literary notables on the English
pension rolls-for 600 a year.
IT seems that Gottschalk prepared
for publication over a thousand MS
pages of autobiography during the last
two years of his life.
Mr.. CHILDs, of Bungay, is preparing
very elaborate Dictionary of Dates
compiled by the late Mr. Woodward,
Librarian to the Queen, and having
particular reference to the lives of ar
fists and men of letters. 1t is to con-
tain 1000 pages closely printed III
double column.
Mr.. E. b. TREAT, for six years of the
firm of Z. B. Treat & Co., the Sub
scription book division of the Serb
her house, has opened rooms and I'M
dertaken an independent business at
sos Broadway, in the fine Methodist
building. His long experience is like
ly to give him a continuance of hispre-
vlous success.
The AGhen8um says that The
Rev. FL. r. Haweis has a volume on
music, consisting Of four books
philosophical, biographical, instru-
mental and critical-in the press, The
book is intended to give rationale of
the art of music, together with a collec
ton of short biographies of composers,
an account of bells, violins, etc., and
will treat particularly of music in Eng
land. > Such a work, as we have be-
fore suggested, ought to be very useful.
Mr.. BEEcHaR's publishers give the
following interesting statements as to
his habits of composition He writes
with inconceivable rapidity, in a large,
sprawling hand, lines wide apart, and
words so thinly scattered about that
some of his pages remind one of the
famous description of page of Napo-
Icons manuscript scratch, blot
and a spatter. Writing so hastily, he
writes with some inaccuracy, and as he
finds correction very irksOme, he hands
his manuscript over to some one fa-
miliar with his handwriting, to be pre-
pared for the press. 1t is then set up.
the rough proof corrected, and a
fair revise handed to the author.
This he reads with extreme
care, and makes SO many corrections,
erasures and additions, that it is some
times cheaper and less laborious to re-
set the whole than to correct from
his proofs. A second proof is then
prepared for him, and sometimes third
and fourth before bis critical Judgment
is satisfied and the stereotyper is al
lowed t. cast the plates. It Will be
noticed that IN the preparation of copy
Mr.. Beecher's habits are directly OPP
poslte to those of Mr. Greeley, who
prepares his copy with great care
every sentence, marking
every capital letter and paragraph, and
III short completing his work before it
leaves his hand The compositor and
proof reader have only to follow copy
to be sure of coming out right. Mr..
Beecher's impetuous temperament re-
bells against such laborious finish.