Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-19
LITERARY.

The title of Mr.. Lewes' new philOso-
phical work is Problems Of Life and
Mind.
Mrs. Macquoid, the author of Putty,
has in press a new novel, called Il StItdy
of Girls Heart.
A new work from Darwin, on The
Er2 Effects of h1terbreediag in the Feg-
etG6le Kingdom is forthcoming.
Turf and T0aUers is the less puzzlesOme
sub. title of Robert BrOwning's new
poem, The Red Cotton MgHtcup Country.
A portait and sketch OF Bret Harte
will apDear in Scr56neT's Monthly for
June in a series of younger American
writers.
Prof. Huxley's new volume, CritiqlteS
and addresses, soon 60 be issued by
Macmillan, contains papers on great
variety of subjects.
The two American poets laureate,
Iongfellow and Bryant, have been
elected honorary members of the acad-
envy of st. Petersburg.
"Turf and Towers" is the less puzzle
some subtitle of Robert BrOwning's new
poem, 1.-THE Red Cotton Nightcap
Country"
The Mineral Springs Of the United
States, by George E. Walton, NJ. D., of
! Cincinnati, will be published soon by
d. Appleton IL Co.
/ Il is said that a st. Louis editor used
| to write poetry when boy, and had
reputation extending over an area OF
! country three miles long, four miles
wide and mile thick.
Some Easy Lessons ia irish, by
Very Rev. Father Burke, are to be is
sued Immediately by P. M. Havefty.
This will be the first book in the Irish
language printed in America.
Captain w. H. Bell, who announces
himself as both Confederate States and
United States army, has done up the
O,iddities of an Alaskan Trip in a series
of Illustrations burlesquing a trip to
Alaska. The LippincOtts are to issue it.
Messrs. Routledge & Sons are said to
have purchased the copyright of all the
works, published and unpublished, ol
Lord LvttOn. Among the unpublished
. works is a novel, entitled PguSdnids
and play, the title of which is The
CdptiUe.
The April number of the IVestniIliStel
ReUietU. in American republication, ha!
inst reached us. 1t contains severa
/ papers of importance. The leader-oI
, the National Importance of Scientific
Research us full of suggestive
: Thought. The writer, in concluding
I contrasts the salaries of scientific labor
: ers with those of men in other depart
ments of public life, showing that Fara
day received only two or three hundre'
I pounds year from government, whil'
! a field marshal receives four thousant
) four hundred pounds; bishop of Lon
I don has ten thousand pounds, and al
! archbishop of Canterbury gets tifteel
, Thousand pounds.
' Somebody threatens to write a bool
' entitled The Troubles ofG Famous Can
I fntrice. founded on incidents in the lif
: of Mile. Nilsson. On the arrival of tn
e celebrated lady at Paris, whittier she ha,
: gone after her victorious season at 81
n Petersburg, with the hope of getting
much needed rest, she was accosted
. the station by a stranger, who ntroduc
: ed himself as pianist; 81 give a con
! cert next week. said he, land II yo
= = would only listen to two or three pieces
: she graei0usly promised 10 attend
But the annoyance has only begun
:, Her bell is rung two hundred and nit
3 times daily, on an average. All sun
day concert in the conservatory she II
j: ceived, during the intermission, eleve
g demands for professional aid at affail
p of various sorts. 1t being announce
s. that she had decided not to visit Be
le gium, ten kilograms are daily sent
r her asking her to reconsider her decisio
7, and deputation comes to consult wit
lie her. One manager offers five thousan
francs night at the opera; another o
'e fer of thirty thousand francs for fiN
le performances at the Italians.