, 1873-02-02
LITERARY NOTES.

/ There gro ruuoIs OF another new poem Uy
| Tennyson.
| j. DIR. Johnaon told Beattie that he never read
Milton through till he was obliged to do it IN
order to gather words for his dictionary.
| -Froudo has done good work for himself IN
America. ArcLeon the Middletown bookseller,
has sold $50 sets OF Froude's England to Wes~
leyan students.
| Mr.. Swinburne will shortly publish separately
the first part of his poem, "Iristram,' the pre-
lude to which appeared about year ago.
The College Conrnnt, New Ha1en, has bo-
] come tho property OF Professor Horny n. Day,
who is from this time forward to edit it, with the
! assistance Of Mr.. c. B. Dudley, T. Yale graduate
Of the Class Of IT,
Tho Christian InteU;ge7,cer {Roformed
Church has engaged Mr. Froude 70 discuss in
it's columns topic of living interest, to which
the distinguished historian las given long at
tention.
Mr. Gladstone contradicts the report that he
is in the habit Of reading portion of Homer
every morning before breakfast.
A manuscript Of the !" Divine Comedy " was
the constant companion Of Michael Angelo, who
WIS the first Illustrator OF Dante. It lay on his
easel By day, and was thrust under his bolster BY
night.
George Sands translation Of the Psalms is
pronounced by the critics, to whom she has read
specimens Of it, the noblest work 'she has over
written.
Mr.. Cornell formerly of Cornell University,
has collected over 800 papers containing eulos'es
Of Horace Greeley.
Victor Hugo's only surviving son has life
Of George Washington in press.
Strauss, the King Of the Waltz, will shortly
give the world his "Reminiscences OF America,
through publisher in Prague. :
- A new work by II. Guizot is expected shortly
to appear, divided into four parts:. 7" Empire"
'tMonarchie Hereditaire," "Mona1chie Consti-
tutionelIe," ;" " "RepubHque."
Washington Irving never had more latter
ing, though silent, tribute than was paid to his
It Knickerbocker's New York " by Coleridge, who
cot hold Of the book late at night and finished it
at sitting about dawn.
--Coleridge was man Of infinite title-pages.
He projected hundred works, without ever
completing one. History, philosophy, poetry:
criticism, biography-his fertile brain was for
ever teeming with new volumes, which mover got
beyond the announcement. The titles Of the
works he ineditated, but never executed, would
fill large volume.
When Nocker, in 1871, published his celebrat-
ed q Ccmpte Reudu," g. report Oh french IMAM
ces the eagerness to obtain it was unparalleled.
G00O copies we're sold the first day, andtwo press
es we're kept at work to supply the demand.
Madame De Stael Necker's daughter) says that
$1,000 copies were sold Think OF one Of Mr.
Boutweus finance reports being III such 1aTenous
demand!
M. Capefgue, the French historian, died
a few daFs ago at Paris, at the age OF IA Tho
death is also announced from Paris OF DR.. Archl-
nede Pouchet, q naturalist, aged ", tho father
of II. Georges Pouchet, the well-known writer
on the subject Of spontaneous generation.
The Is Histsire de rlnternatlonhe 1862
1872 J., par IN Bourgeois Republican," printed
abroad on account Of the Paris publishing firm.
Andre Sagnier, has not been permitted to enter
France The publieher states that he has not
n single copy Of the book, and cannot explain
the cause Of this government interference.
According to letter in the Vienna Presse,
Guizot said recently that, in his whole life, he
never read moro interesting and suggestive
book than Buckles ''History of Civilization"
although nearly every page OF the book contained
things from which ho had to dissent.
in the library which Napoleon I. carried
With him there VAS 8 perpetua! presence Of
"Ossian," !" "Werther," the New Heloiso - and
the old Testament, which Chateaubriand regards
A indicative Of the chnos in the Emperor brain,
where natter-of-factid ideas mingled with romantic
sentiments, serious studies with the caprlces of
fancy. ......
A curious book is now passing through the
press, the author OF which seriously processes to
give, from actual experience, matter~of-tact
account Of the laws, manuors, and customs Of
kingdom situated in one OF the planets Of our
solar system. The title OF the bookis ''Another
World"