, 1873-01-19
LITERARY NOTES.

J Bret Hartes !" Outcasts Of Poker Flat" "Ths
Idyl OF Red Gu1el,, ~" nigglcs," THE Luck o1
| Roaring Camp" and his last Christmas story,
| havo been republishcd in French by the Reru*
! BrittaniQue-. His ''proBe and Poetry" tor1n'
volumes ], ,2C3 and 1,2Gl Of the Tauchintz edi'
| tioa.
| Tho Rov. n. R. Mgcr, OF Boston, is said to
| have in preparation memoir Of Edwin Forrest
| NJ. D. Conway is writing book called u Ro'
| publican Institutions"
| -Mr. Hcpworth Dixon is Off hunting up ma
I terials for another book, this time to Spain.
| After spending . short time in Switzerland
! Mr. Emerson and Ills daughtor have gono tc
Egypt for the Wintor.
DR. Holmes, 80 THINKS Mr. Crockcr, OF the Lit:
| erdry 1Tortd, ought to write one more heries o1
i" Breakfast Table" pnpers, under the title o1
s'trho Clergyman at the Breakfast Tnble."
| The Rev. Snnuel johnson has the second
| yolume Of lis q oriental Religions" on the 70,
| ligions Of peraia and China well under way.
1t ia said that tho wifo OF Pero Hyacinthe
had al her fortune in the ban1s OF Bowles Broth
| ora, and that both are Low pennllesa.
Hams Christian Andersen has recovered from
! Ills scrious illness. His new volume Of fairy
tales "Nye Eventyr og Historler," il having m
| extraordinary success in Denmark.
Nine henys authorized 4 translation OF Mis. siif
Asotts Little W9so nnaos the e4e,t s'fe fe
yorite With the French demoise1l9s.
| --Hottcn, tito London pirato-publisher, who
| will DO remembered for "Afark TEain's nfss11-
| ing attack upon him for printing nutllated
| edition Of tfIhe Innecents Abroad, !" las adyer-
| tised sn edition OF the early roems Of Joaquin
Miller without the sanction OF the author, and
quite contrary to 1is wishes. He ia also busy
! attempting to prove that Starloy "was Welsh
| u" the rost Of tho quotation might DO ap-
| piled in different direction.
|. Tho 4Gletgunl proposes that fresh move in
the direction Of International copyright and OF
! Uniform international postage be made next
aunuaer whom the foreign delegates to tho Fres
| Trade Leaeue-mauy Of whon will bo literary
| ,uu anspices o. Of tic Cobdon Club.
MIR. Here, the loading English advocate Of
minority representation, le at Work on 8 new
edition Of his book, which will have large addi-
tion8. Tho new parts will adapt MIR. Hare g
! scheme to the provisions OF the English Ballot
bill, aud will discuss tho cumulative vote at
longth.
! -Guillaumin j. Co., OF Paris, announce =" Los
Etata-Upis do l'Anesigue Soptentrlona}o, Leurs
Orisines, Leur Emancipation, ct Lour5 Progress
by Adj Trout do Fontpertuist IN one volume.
remark r. - We like to Talk United States, but
70 talk without knowing enough OF tholr insti-
tutioas, aud particularly Of their history"
"A forthcoming memoir OF Miss Susan Ferrier
Burns. It is said that the work viii present 4
lively picture OF literary lie IN Edinburgh. Miss
FerrieT's best known novel, Marriage" was
published IN 1918, and WAS praieod BY Sir Walter
Scott as containing some OF the happiest lllus-.
ttBtiona of Scottish character.
AT recent Civil SarTico examination, one
of the candidates passed remarkably well. He
turned out to be fale man, and told the Com
misgionerB that he did not want any Office but
merely passed the examination to soc what it
tf4 A.. IL 42>n 1<-r ~
enough Of that sort Of fun at homo, but tastes
are p3cyerbially different.
a comrnnnlczitiio;;:: h.s been received by Sfr.
Smith, OF the British Museum, tha translator
and trnnscGiber Of the records discovered on the
Assyrian stones, from the rropriotors Of QUE OF
to proceed to the East for the purpose OF prose-
cutting search in those localities in which it ia
probable other stones containing ancient Assy-
rian records may DO disco7ered-
Whom Laplace met the late Mrs. Bonneville
tor the fret time, he said, in his lofty way,
q Madame, there have been only three women
who have understood ne-yourse}f, Caroline
Herschel, and 3 Mrs. Greig, OF whom I have
mover been able to learn anything" I was
HRS. Greig," said the modest little women. So,
then, there are only two Of you!'' exclaimed tho
philosopher.
-Lemerre has undertaken the publication Of
the principnl authors OF the sixteenth century.
Tho volumes arc restorstions and fac sin.iles Of
cartan 1 1s' srcbnoloeicsl Character Which, diatin
pn;ahes them from Hachette's excellent collec-
e;n,s e;;te3 ~ Rern;or T7,a orthoaTsnl1v aud
osa,' ~ ,,,,ns,sf;on ~ each art}or Vii Ia re-
.,ro5,,ca5 s Vol,n'a + Of Montaign5a Ess.isn
Pooru .s 9,,st haan ;asuod.
1"o @1gnao,,in 1f;I3er hns re.cbed london. v}ere
In rsaa ~ n.r1alv Welcomed tThen frat thore.
tr ~, "ss ~ nro a1 nrohnbv viii rsoain thcre
tmo 5eHis H.; 1,s,y noer soon t. h. nnh1;ahad
~ ioi ,n1,,,,o seeo,a kat H. lar ra.da much in
~ ~, ,osd3rs m eithar aida Of te Atia-
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u nsef1i 1,rrienlc works. las gtartod wcskly in
~ LII a5r,eJata ~ h;e n1essnp and enferts{n-
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ng s.sls saa ~" ~ taa co1d hata hecon,o adj
usanaln o.sa ~ao ~ ol,or 1rast nan wills
tyfs ,rbo rarol IL orarx snd nlnn1-
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ruens sa1,t saenndar 1oarS, to cnT1 tIeir hsir
M weah , eh1ep' rato;i ~ f,oods c1arIs' N''''
aRo ~ rasoI.a odo athcn1,m for Don % con,a;ns
aa ~ - Lo a-*;n,oa ~ Tia 1itorat,,re JnT;no
aon sst'es u oz;a.,a continenta1 ncon1es ATnone
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