The Hickman courier., 1872-03-30

Mr.. Disraeli is reported TO be once
more about TO try his fate as dramatic
/ A copy Of Shakespeare, printed 1864,
was sold last week at a London auction
for about seven hundred dollars,
Mr.. Froude, the historian, will deliver
. course Of lectures ia Boston and Ne"
York this fall.
Frank Leslie's New York-Past and
Present, is considerably advanced; and
will appear the present year.
Run,or has it that the story OF Charles
Dickens life viii be told again ia his
son 5 periodical, All The Year konnd'
his family being not all SATISFIED Win
Mr.. Forster's version.
Carleton has in press a ne" mover Dy
Mansfield Tracy Wulmor'h 1t IS cali
ej :. .Beverlv." and is found upon some
nac,Iiorities in the criminal laws OF New
York state
4 prominent and very gratityRg iea-
ture Of the book trade is the 9ra9ldly
GROWING demand for works of science
and art NoSela are perhaps IS much
used as ever, but scientific books are very
much more read.
In the late Ottoman administrator
nearly every leading man was an author
In that of Mahommed sha there also
many; but one high functi3nary was late
!y removed because he devoted too much
time to newspaper writing.
The original manuscript Of Home,
Sweet Home. as written 10y John Howard
Payne, was given BY the author to the
late George NJ. Klein.
Tits just l70 years since the first dai
ly paper in England was started. This
was the Daily Couraut, begun in Febru
airy, 1872 Its publisher was Elizabeth
Mallet, aud it began with an apology for
its httleness, promising by way Of otise'
that it would spare the public at least
half the impertiuence which the ordina
ry papers contain.
The Turkish government recently or
dered all improper illustrated works to
be confscated. but left the local authorI
ties to determine what Is impropeg The
local authorities therefore lost nS time
in conf ,catiug school books, with prints
illustrative OF natural history, dissemina-
ted by the American missionaries, aud
other works similarly inoccuous.
Mr.. Emerson new volume OF essays,
long ago aunouuced, is now promised
definitely on the 25th Of May It's tit e
will be Poetry and Criticism, unless II
IS changed before publication.
Matt Morgan, the successful rival OF
Mast as an American caricaturist, Is even
less an American than Mast, having late
ly come over here from England where
he worked awhile on the London Toma
hawk. His picture Of Roscoe Conking
as q pouter pigeon, gave the greatest sale
ever enjoyed at Washington by an illus
trated paper He Is engaged by Leslie.
The newspapers begin to talk about a
new volume Of verse by Bayard Tay yior,
entitled The Masque OF the Gods, TO
be published in April by Osgood q CO.
Il is dramatic in form. The extracts
given are not very inviting; poetry and
metaphysics need 70 be mixed by poets
- great as Shelley and Lucretius to pre-
lasa beverage lis form aud subsistence
seems greatly ID have bees Influenced by
Mr. Taylor study OF Goethe; bC. even
Goetue's mixtures taste too much Of the
laboratory.
The most celebrated musical critic oil
England. who died q month ago, was the
author OF d large number of Muslca!
works. lie learned 60 play the piano
forte by goiu. to tie house OF au ac
quaintance with the worlds people"
The London Times reports discussion
in the upper house Of bishops. presided
over by the primate Of all England, on
the Authanasiau creed. The archbishop
of canterbury said, As to the damuato
ry clauses there Is no person in this room
who believes ia them The bishop OF
Peterborough replied, THAT Is why l
want to get rid Of them. The bishops
did net conclude to eliminate from the
PRAYER book the following: Which Is
/ faith, except every one do keep whole aud
undefiled, without doubt he shall perish
everlastingly," although they agreed that
they did not believe it,
! J B. LipPincott & Co, it is said, have
offered ten thousand dollars for BuIwer :
new novel, shortly to be published abroad
! The price paid by them for Forster.
/ Life Of Dickens" was SIS, 600, which
secured them only the advanced sheets
( of the work, as any one can reprint it il
the absence of international copy right
Besides Froude, the historian who j,
coming to the United States to lecture
this fall, we are also to have Charles Mae
Donald, the Scotch English novelist, and
author of Robert Fa,coner," and other
popular works He has been engaged tC
lecture at St Louis
Mr. Wilkie Collins writes to his friend.
in this country that his visit to the Uni
ted States will be determined by the con
dtion of his health, which has been yer,
seriousa affected Of late. He closes tht
letter with an expression of tit kind
est feeling towards the people Of thi
/ country