, 1873-04-27

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LITERARY NOTES.
1t is said that Miss Braddon receives $4,000
for her current novel, in the London Home Jour
nal.
:-"Lady Ann. is the title Of Anthony Troll
Santa Anna has been writing book this
winter on Mexican Affairs, which Boston "hfn
The Lord Chief Justice of England prcpo-
ses to produce 81 summing up" OF the ovldenra
! on both sides, In writing. upon tho Junius COLI
| tro7ersY.
1t is stated TINT AJAX Arnl1er, Froudo, ant
Charles Kingsley are all brotherB-in-lar, having
| married the three daughters OF rich -ondos
| merchant
| Ernest Feydau's latest production bears the
title, ''The Art Of Pleasing Stndies OF Hygiene,
Taste, and Toilette dedicated to the pretty
| women Of all countries Of tho world"
Owing to Alr. Curtis severe llness, the
"Easy Chair" of. Harper's Monthly ia being
Temporarily filled BY Dr. Samuel osgood.
Tho >"Pionses Boy" a Lie Gf Abraham
Lincon published by E 3; fGies 1as has recently
-Tauchnitz is to publish the comrlete dra'
matte works Of the Princess Ama1ie, OF ssxonyt
by order of KING John.
I Dr. George ac1We1nluf1n> toe Colen1htec
traveller, will 1hortly bring ont his new work.
the result OF three years travel and adventure IN
Central Africa. The work will be Issued stimuli
tsneoualy in Epgliah, French, Russian, German,
and italian.
Mr.. Drownings poem is in tppe, and cou-
aists OF $500 lines. 1t is q poetic version Of
great tragedy which came before the 1aW courts
Of q department in the North Of France last
year, end We hear that the poet has, in tho out
lines OF the story, kept closely to the facts wish
fha vapr NJ Y,raenutirr to thA ra1dHr'a mind khS
key to them in human passion.
| The forthcoming number OF tho Edinburgh
| ReUieto will contain a memoir Of the lato Gen.
Lee, the Confederate Commander-in- Chief from
original and other materials, collected by wrlteE
already known from his studies OF the CALI
I paigna in Virginia.
Henry Ward Beecher has nearly completed
| the second volume Of the 't Lite OF Christ" He
is said to hare become heartily tired OF hia work
having found it much mora Of task than be
/ had anticipated Cynics intimate that he lacks
! sympathy with his subject
There ia to be BOON sold in London . peeu-
| liar Oriental trophy. poem entitled the t'Ten
| Complete Records, or Song Of Triumph, writ
| ten by the Chinese Emperor, Kienlung, On the
| subjugation OF GhoorkhAs- The poem Is IN the
Chinese Language onbf1lderea ] u M reg sa,k ceaa
leaves or sides. 1t is said to havo been wrought
! by the Empress and ladies' Of the harem. 1tTaz
! captured at the sack Of the palace at Pekin.
|. -Moncure D. Conway hsa dipped into TIE "a. ID.
| yet out, called "Monographs, Personal and So
/ cia1." Lord Houghton ID supposed to have hsd,
from the time when he appeared before tha
world as the poet Richard Monckton aiilnes C
| the preaent moment q wider acquaintance with
| the intellectual celebrities Of Europe than any
! other man living. Mr. Conway says that the
sketches are seven in number. entitled, solei-
man Paaha Harriet, Lady Ashbn5ton; walter s
i,oldt at Berlin; The Ber1ys; and the Last
| Years Of Heinrich Hene.
The New York Tribune says: - Beaumont
and Fletcher may now retire a. lnatanees OF
and Charles Dndley Warner have written novel
lin partnership! It will be published about the
end Of the summer, and will be octsvo III
form, and protusely illustrated The book deals
with the salient features OF our American life OF
to-day and, AZ might easily be divanad, ID Il,
the nature Of satire. 1t is known to contain al
the profound philosophy, the sound losrning,
| geological truth which are found in lnnecenss
Abroad and noughing It, and even more Of
practical wisdom and Agricultural suggestion
than in My Summer in Il Garden It is no
holiday work. It deals with every aspect OF
modern society, and We are authorized to an
uounce that the paper it ia written on cost 311-
Lord Lytton was good hand at CONNER
cial arrangement. He drore auccessfM bargains
with hispubhshers. His agreement with Messts.
Rout1edge for cheap issues Of his novels was q
power OF bringing ont the works in two forms,
and in return we're to pay him sum annually.
In nineteen yea1s they hare paid him as much az
$4,000 "kenelm chdngly" y Baa ga, not the & 7ast
others, written at a later date remain. One ia
novel and the other play. These will he pub
lished after the Last page Of THE Parisians," :"
which will make four large volumes, has ap-
in 1 5|as'o9es Aoganne ~ rras.nt
sa'fss e Nsw q forE E0': aas rS:es
Lewes is the ugliest man in London,
and the most brilliant. Mercur1a1 rs French
man, thoroughly Continental IN thought and e1.
preston, he makes you forget his face in fifteen
minutes, and, at the end OF an hour, you pro
| nounce him one OF the most interesting men yoC
| ever mot When he and his wife, George Elliott
| lead conyeraation, their drawing room becomes
! tbs most attractive in London. Mr. and Mrs.
| Lewes have pretty house near Regents Park,
and receiving every Sunday, collect around them
i the c1eYereat OF men and women Nothing can
exceed the retiring manner of George Eliot :
any reference to her own writings, and, though
her friends long TO express their gratitude, they
| never dare outWardly to hint at inward emotion:
Composition Is no easy task to George Eliot
| She fabora unceasingly to produce her results-"
Henry Ward Beecher is after Sunday school
| literature. He says: nBut now it is with chill
| dren that the Sunday school library has opened
Be compared to little else than tho locuats, tbs
| lice and the frogs, often, Of Egypt. An nimmsnsa
| amount Of Hishy-Waahy stun, and Tcs wrought
together with certain sort OF fictitious and un-
| wholesome interest, as think, and children ara
reading all sorts Of religious books. Aunt
| Nancy writes them, and Paul writes :themt
and everybody is writing sunday-echool books.
The most difficult book IN tha world to writo il
book for child, get it il book eYerybook thinks
| he can begin on; and some are IN danger Of BE-
| ing carried avsy BY what might bo called ths
| .sWi1l OF the house Of Cod"
"A letter from London to the New York 1rib.
tine says Mr. John E1derkin, who has Bpent
some time in London to arrange 1ectures Tor tha
| American Literary Bure=a, goes home next
Mr. Wilkie Collins, and Mr.. Collins will sail fo1
| America in August, under engagement for . long
eeriea Of lectures. Mr. Elderkin has como ID
| terms with cs1ebrity Of very different kind,
| Reformer and lecturer On religious and polit-
| ical subjects.
IA conditional arrangement Was made by III.
/ Elderlfin, also with Mr. Charles Rsade, who haa