The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-10-26
Literary and Art Gossip.

ton poet, Will be elghty-one years olt
in October.
MIR. SrANLEY's book GLOW | Found
Livingstone, will be ready at the be-
ginning of November.
Mr. DARwIN's new and important
work on the Facial Expression In
Animals is now completed and ready
for publication.
CoUNT MoLTKE's official account of
the war is in great demand, and the
day to fill orders.
RUDOLPH GoTrsHALL, the eminent
German critic, says that Germany, with
all her extraordinary facilities for
books, has no such work as AppletoD's
Cyclopaedia, or the Encyclopedias
Britannica.
Mss ELLEN ISABELLE UPPER, daugh
ter of him of the Proverblal Platltudes,
is out with a volume of poems, part of
which are original. and shows that she
inherits some of her fathers remarka-
bic Deficiencies.
MILE. Rosa BoNHEUR IS about to
leave France for several months.
After spending some time at the
Chateau of Baron Sina, in Hungary,
she will proceed to Scotland.
THE concluding portion of Mr., Ten
nyson's Arthurian Legends will be
shortly published by Messrs. Strahan.
& Co., in a new volume of poetry.
RupENs, it is estimated, left to the
world no less than thirteen hundred
pictures.
A YOUNG Sicilian poetess, Carmelina
Manganaro, 16 years of age, has pub
lished, in Messina, volume of "Saggi
Poetici, edited by Prof. Letterio Lizio
Bruno.
REV. DIR. TAFT did not speak any too
soon about the "heathen in England,
as there is actually subscription on.
foot in Bombay to build a pagoda in
London for the worship of Vishnu and
silva"
Mrs. LILLE DEvEREUX BLAKE S forth
coming story is entitled "Lord and
Master" aud will show up the petty
tyranny to which some wives and
daughters are subjected.
Mn B. L. FARIEoN, author of
q Grif, Joshua Mervel," etc, will
write Messrs. Tinsley Brothers Christ
y
and Cheese and Kisses
THE Russian Government is said to
be preparing to publish complete col,
lection of all autograph letters, orders,
memoranda, etc, of the Gear Peter the
Great, including those of private as
well as of a public character.
A PROF. PAsoUALIGo is translating
the complete works of Shakespeare into
Italian prose. He has just published
a second part, with the conclusion of
"Much Ado About Nothing" ("Gran
chiasso per nulla'O, and the beginning
of 1.-The Tempest"
GoLDsMITH's deserted Village has
Just been translated into Armenian, and
Disraeh's Lothair," which had al
ready appeared in Dutch and French,
can now be enjoyed by the Italian enc
mics of the Pope.
Ir is curious fact that the morning
and evening journals in London which
are understood to have the largest cir
culation-the Daily Telegraph and the
Echo-are at present conducted by two
brothers, Messrs. Edwin and Arthur
Arnold
ABOVE $25, 900 have been expended
by the Paris publisher, Rothschild, on
Alphand's great illustrated work on
1.-The Parks and Promenades of
Paris" 1t was suspended by the war,
but the remaining numbers will be is
sued by the close of the year
THE literary remains of the poet
Burger, which have hitherto been with
I.,tl IL, I
ters and poems of considerable inter
est and value, have now, it is stated,
passed into hands which give hopes of
their soon being made accessible to the
public.
Tue article, in the current number of
Fraser's Magazine, entitled g Premier
and President" is, we understand,
from the pen of Prof. Nathan Shep-
pard, the author CT "Shut up in Paris"
Prof. Sheppard is on the point of re-
turning to the United States, after q
three years stay in Europe.
MIR. JUSTIN McCARTHY's brilliant BIZ
ographical sketches, which have been
notable feature of the Galaxy for
many months, will be published, with
other fresh ones, by Sheldon & Co.,
under the title of g Modern Leaders"
There will be above a score altogether.
The title of Mrs. Ames Edwards new
novel is to be The Ordeal of Wives"
The same firm have also in an advanced
stage Mr.. Lossing's biography of Cen
eral Phillip Schuyler.
Fl. G. L. DORSEY, the eccentric
prisoners friend of Pawtucket, r
l., visited Fall River on Thursday
evening, and was entertained by nun.
Der OF citizens at the Columbia Hotel.
Dorsey presented to the proprietor of
the hotel Bible and a hotel sign
board, on which is a "riddle," for the
solution of which, Fall River paper
saws, 81, 300 III gold, including So, 200
gold chain, will be paid. But who
would wear $4,000 gold chain? 1t
would weigh about fifteen pounds.
FROM Athol we hear of a Methodist
parson, somewhat eccentric, and an en-
cellent singer. Sunday after Sunday
his rich voice came from the pupil
with the spirit and the understand
ing. = Not so at the other end of the
church, where, with abundance of
spirit, there was lamented lack of the
other virtue. In fact, the singing was
execrable. The good brother could
hnally endure it no longer, and ex-
claimed: Brothers and sisters, l
wish those of you who can't sing would
wait till you get up to the celestial re-
l.