Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-05-05
Literary and Personal Gossip.

\ New Zealand playwright has introduced On
the stage fight for life in balloon.
The London Saturday Rerisr refers to the
" legislature Of 81. Louis and the '' State Of
St Louis "
The sixpenuy edition Of Sir Walter Scott's
works, published in Eiiaburg has been the most
successful Of all ths; have ever been issued.
Emile de Girarlin, now iu his seventieth year.
intends, when he Is a, leisure. to revise and pub
lish in collected form his political pamphlets
which will make dozen good-szei volumes.
The letter in which Goethe offered bis charm
ing poem " Hermann aud DorJthea ~ TO a pub
Usher for FIVE hundred gold pieces was recently
sold a, Leipzig for seven thAlers.
No book Of fab'es has, perhaps, ever had such
a sac as Krylof's famous Russian work. His
publishers At Moscow and s.. Petersburg have
soii over four hundred thousand copies Of IT,
The japanese have but one newspaper, which
comes out once month, iin the shape Of stitch
Ell pamphlet Of about 100 pages. 1t has been
established little more than year.
Rllf Henson is the uame Of young Norwe-
giln author, whose novels are pronounced supe-
rioc to any romauces which have appeared for
many yetrs pas. in the land Of the flris.
The Gsl1ry has completed the ffh year Of
i,s existence, and its publishers nov claim to
have made net gain in circulation Of ten thou
sand copies in the past four months.
The .Maucg- Sciatifa1s, the editor Of
Enich IS DR.. Quesueyil.e, is the only paper on
science which wss continued uuinterruptedly
during the siege Of Paris.
A Sauis Islands missionary has TRANSLATED
Poe's Rirsa into the Hawaiian language, great
ly 90 the surprise Of those VINO have been ac-
customei TO regard tha; tongue as no language
but Eere gitberish.
Tie announcement recently made that the
wife Of DR.. r. Shelton Mackenzie has written
book entitled, " Black Sheep" which treated Of
Philaiepbis society, was only partially accur
ate The title Of Mrs. Mtcseuz.e's book, now in
the press, is " Aurela, or the Black sheep
aui the characters snd scenes are exclusively
German.
4 lineuist at Warsaw. in Polsai, namei Pre-
scensky has Just completed a p0lyglot dictiou-
sry in tWeufy-three language, upon which be
has tetn 81 work fer over seventeen years. lt
Il. believed thst the Imperial Academy Of ST.
Petersburg will publish the work At its expense
Tie london Sun, after q Pickering existence
iu "a. Ter years. hiss ceasel 10 sppear. Il wss
started in 1872, and Pitt occasionally showed
hls hand in its columns The .W0rHiny Post
dating from l772. and the Times, from l1ss,
ami the Pu5lic Lc4gsr are now the oaly daily
newspapers in LONDON whose careers began before
the current century.
Theophile Gsutier. the renowned literary ami
nal fancier, had at the beginning Of the siege Of
Paris ] 50 cats, and at the clpituation dlsc0v-
erei that his feline stock hal been reduced 20
nine owing TO the rowing habits which made
them prey TO the hungry population. Even
Of the nine. four bal their tails shot away.
Gautier is rely troubled over his losses, as his
love of cats, he ssys, passes the love Of woman
Frederick Gerstsecker, the German traveller
and novelist, is in trouble. The English pub
fishers of Charles Rlwcrolt's Australian novels.
some of which GerstBcser has published in Ger
man under his own nnme, have threatened to
prosecute him for plagiarism. About twenty
five yesrs ago Gerst.e,ker published at Leipsig a
German translation Of Lipari's " Quaker City -
ss bis own production.
\ curious story is told in London Of Brown
ing's poem Of the " Ring snd the Book" The
little volume which he picked up in Italy con-
tained only the first part Of the story, sud years
aftsrwari, happening to mentil to some lady at
an evening party in London the circumstances
attending the finding Of the book, the told him
that she knew where the second volume was,
aud directed hin to the very book-sta,l where a
short time before she hsd happened to notice the
little book. Fortunately Mr. Browning found it
all safe and sound, snd was enabled to complete
his story from the original authority.
Moucure Conway thinks the poet William
Alllnghan the "most unrecoguizsd man Of equal
gifts ia the world lie Is still under forty,
and until lately has been q cust1m-house officer
at Lymington Of all the friends Of Tennyson,
Alinghsm is the most intimate, sud he is es-
teemed by Carlyle and Froude, the latter of
whom has lately Induced him to leave Lymington
and help him on Fraser. Mr.. Frouie himself is
really coming to the United States to lecture on
the history OF Ireland, if he can make a sufHcieat
number of engagements, ss he probably can.
/ He has never visited this country.
I German schoolmssters are examined in music
as follows: Theory, origin, composition and def
nit Of chords ; correct Transcription Of a
/ choral statement Of the principles Of difficult
consecutive chords knowledge of common and
simple transitions from one key to smother, and
| some knowledge Of the construction Of organs
1 in singing, they must be able to give the note
/ either in the msjor or minor key must sing a
| choral from notes and be able to lead in part
singing in organ playing, they must be able to
/ play az easy choral and voluntary correctly.
For many years James Freeman Clarke has
| been studying and writing the religions of the
/ world, and he has published some Of the results
/ in the atlantic. Now the whole work is TO sp-
( pear in 8 volume called "Ten Great Religions, -
| from the press Of Osgood & Co. In it the classic
mythology, the teachings Of Confucius, o.
roaster and Mohammed, the characteristic fea
lures Of Brshmansm and Buddhism, the
/ Mosaic doctrine and ceremonial-these and other
religious systems are described, and their rela-
tions to one another and to Christianity are indi-
Gated, with the learning and cstholicity for which
/ Mr.. Clarke is distinguished.
Some excitement has been created in literary
/ circles in Spain by the announcement, that a
learned biblophile, Don Fabian Herpandez, Of
| Ssntsnder, proposes to publish new clifton Of
"Don Quixote.'' Senior Hernandez states that
she has discovered the original Of this immortal
work, and avsils himself of such discovery to
reproduce il as Cervsntes penned it, freed from
the corruptions of copyists, commentators and
printers OF the first edition Of Cervantes'
4 s'Quijote,'' only two copies exist in Madrd-one
in the library Of the Spanish academy, the other
| in that Of the National. An Association has
been formed for the production of a photograph
| fac-simile.
Is THE STREET.-French gentleman, taking
| leave of English lsdy-Well, Madame, adeu
| As to the conduct Of England towards us, fear
we shall retain-psrdon me-the belief We
have long hal, that ycu are a nation Of shop
keepers. English lsdy-very well. Mistake,
| will ALWAYS be made We long hsd n belief thai