, 1873-09-14
LITER ATUR,E

L1TERATURE.
William Morrin has paid second viait to leo.
land in search Of fresh literary MATERIAL
1t ta stated that Mr. Anthony Trollopo is to
receive fl 200 for his new tn1o, "Phinons Re-
dux, In tho London Graphic.
Ion thouBand two hundred and fifty hooks
have h boon copyrighted in this country alnco Now
- Fronohmsn, A1phonsc Doudet, Inns writ
ton Now Don Quixoto." which Il. b. Fuller
OF Bosson. will Issue In tranalation.
IMr. Thomas Wright Inns edited and tho
Of "The AuRlo-Lntin and La.inica1 Pocta aud
Epierammatiats OF tho Twelfth Century,
"A collection Of Old English ballada and
,songs; With tl - fashioned woodcnt pictures,
the late sir =: hIaddons library.
s-Mtlliam Il. sowarls hors hare received
Sa, ,AGa for copyright Of tho first Elk months OF
hfs .'Travols Round tho World"-a prolt
probably unparalleled in this country.
II Is statod in recent German work that
Goethoa Marguerite, In "Fsust," was a1llo. do
hlotso1nborg, whom Goethe know when, lilo his
hero /, 10 was studyinng alchemy:
The admirers Of Charles Dickens will DO in
runlorod that Mr. James Parton il contemplating
life Of tho great novelist
"A little work on John the BAPTIST, which
social state Of bis day, has been written by Rov.
Prophet of tho Highest"
"Slakspsarc's Conturo Of Prayas," by DR..
laud, during tho CAriatnlas holidays. t viii 6a
mn abstract Of tho litoraturo illustrating tho
career OF tho poets famo during tho first con-
tlry after his rfgo.
books Of science, and sermons printed in Eng
land during tho aoaHon Of 1873-1 than ovor
previously. Everybody ia coming to tho United
Staten to lecture: Our English cousins thus
bring down two birds with ono lltc1arv stouo
They como here to lecture to ua, and 10 back to
lecture about uB.
Upwards Of million copies of tho ponny
edition Of the "pilgrim'a Progress arc aaid to
4 new novel by Mrs. Ann s. Stephens is to
be added to tho uniform edition of lor works,
which now e1tends to-a thousand and ono
volumes, is IT not7 It is to flaunt thu euphoni-
Bondage"
"A work that will excite interest among 1overa
Of R1itlcs is Pre- promised for next Novomber. It is
count Of tho opnosition in the lattor part Of tho
last century Tho author, ". F. nao, haa COL
lectod particulars re1atiug to tho Government
prosoouton, ro ct "ilkoa that havo not hithorto
The Frcnoh resdonta Of Now York PROPOSE
to present one OF the frat copiea OF Irvinc'a
- Life Of Washington" to N, Thers. II 10 in
q the p poAaeas'ou Of tho family Of tho late George
300 euEravings eooctod by Mr.. Putnam It il
rendered moro precious By sevoral autograph
lottors Of Washington.
r,1 --"Thg EiEIow Papers" writton BY 5a1noa
containing complete solection Of tho New Eng
land dialect nhraBos az used by tho country poo
pie Of that region. writor In Notes and Queries
who is native Of Weat Cornwall, England, eays
that tho Blglow Papers appeared 10 him,
Cornish"
Among the papera found in tho Bast1e, and
which will appear shortly in tho aixt volume Of
tho remains oditod by N. RavaiBson, ia start
ling document going to show that Racine, the
French dramatint, waa summoned boforo Louis
XIV. on tho charge Of having poisoned hia lnis-
tross, La Duparo, famous nctrcss, for whom Ao
wrote tho part of Antromaque. and who died in
1858. Tho accusation waa a falRo ono. and IVES
not ovon entertained BY tho Kng but it worlod
on Racino's gonstiyo nature till lo died, In 1G33,
broken-hearted.
The London Standard makes this comment
on Miss Kate Fold'a Flap -IIazard": ''T!lers
IL some sharpness in hor comments on the do
inga OF her oountryinen aud couutrywonon
abrond but there IL . great deal of aloer sill.
noas neai ~ ~ her sossp about England aud Erens
Uahcr Of the Black Rod u daily bows tic
Speaker into the House Of Commons; when atc
actually tells Americans tllat the Queen forbalo
glvon to odger or Bradlsugh, and when sle hollis
up poor Sir Charles Dixie to American ad,nira-
tion rs tue most popular man in tllia country"
-Dulwer bogau tho Nitth Dock Of tho Part
publish anonymously With TIE following oc.
CONTRIB rofesenco to himself: "Thcre il somc-
where in Lord I.ytton's writings, writings so
humorous that nsay DO pardonsd II ! ca.
lie difference bstweot, dramatic and narrative
art OF story Probably tho principal reason for
the ronsark was to miscad critics rs to lilo
authorship Of tho noyel. Defining the differ
fayorite paatime with many OF Lord Lytto!s'i
characters; and tho distinction betweon tlss-
matte nnd lyric poetry, 40 chrnninEy given by
Lily Morlannt in "kcnclm G!lingly," ia QUO
Of tho prettGBt md most memorable passuGes in
tho book.
Tho International Revic1o. wlloso t1rnt him.
Dor will be issued jan. l, 1871, will DO Wlblinhod
by A.s; Barnes 4 Co., Now York md Chicago,
lies, addroaa merely scholars, bus furnish guid.
ance aud information tn pleasing anil popular
forms to practical mon in business aud Tho pro-
fossiona.- uniting to sho solidty Of tho quarter
extremes Of loaviness anal anperaca1ity." Tho
following wrltors lRyo boon aocnrod:
IN Annertca-I'l,o l1ou. Charles Francis Adams,
g., prof' Joseph n Henry tho Rev. 1eeaora 4
Ray Palmer, tic Roy. Philip sclafr,
tho Rov. William I. Morgan, tie Roy. Alexander
II. Elnton, Prof. Theodore w. Dwight, tho lsoy.
Noah Porter, tho Hon. Charles Theodore Run-
soil, tho llov A. T. Peabody, Prof. ]. j. llil:ard,
Con. Q. o. Howard, tho nov. prtl. Edwards A.
Park, tho Hoy. Mark Hopkins, tho 10y. Howard
Oroshy, Prof. ]. ". Drapar. tho loy. Prof.
A. Washbnru, tho Iloy. L. G. Wlnoa, tho Ilev. I,
Wharton, Prof. Arnold Guyot, Con. F.A Waikor,
tho Hon Anlasa Walker, tho Roy Z. lIarwoud.
In Europe-Tho Very noy: Henry penrhyn
tor. Thomas Hughes, Prof. Max Muller rsof.
J. 3, Lightfoot, Ed. A. Freeman. Prof. W. Il.
Jeyons prol. L. II. Palmer, J. q. Laurie, Wal.
tor Dasant Justin MCCARTHY, Prof. Edward
I4aboulayo, tho lsey. e, Do prosaonso, tho noy.
Eugcuo 1orrler, II. Quilllaums 0uizot, tic nov,
lIyaclntho Loyson. NJ. Ernest Nayi!le prof. r.
Donghi, the Hon. George P. Marsh tho Roy. N.
q. Burt. Angelo Dc dubernatis tho Hon. JolsE
Jay, tho Rov. Prof, Ignatiua Dolllneor the nov.
H...,, j. T. Dorper, DR.. Frauz Won uoltzeudorD,
tho Rcv. Joseph P. THOMPSON.