Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-03
LITERARY AND ART NOTES.

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line edition Of Saxes poems.
The death of the Belgian painter, Ed
moud ]. B. Tschaggeny, is announced.
The first volume of Thurlow Weed S
autobiography is said tobe ready tor the
press.
A writer in Notes aud Queries pro-
nources Lowel's "Biglow Papers near
ly pure West Cornish.
An English tragedisn now playing in
Paris looks like Don Qn!xote giving
away tracts.
Sir Frederick Ousely, the eminent
English composer, has written an ora
torio called "Hagar.
All the books of the Indiana Histori-
cal Society gary have been stolen.
There we're once 5000 of them.
1t isa noteworthy fact that every
opera produced at the Grand Opera
House in New York last week was by
Donizetti.
Madame SAKE is to receive 10000
francs a month for singing at the Italian
Opera, Paris, where Briguoli is also en-
gagged.
Lecocq's operetta La6lle do Nine
Angot has been performed two hun
bred times at Paris, realizing total OF
100000 francs.
The fact that the old Greeks used to
laugh over the same good jokes that we
do leads DR.. Hopkins to remark that
Irish bulls we're once calves in Greece.
The United States exported, during
1872, $7lO, $50 worth of books and other
publications, and imported from Eng
land 81 100000 worth.
"a Hand Book of Weather Folk
Lore" collection of proverbial sayings
in many languages, by Rev. c. Swain
son, is an interesting English announce
ment.
The exact title Of Harte's new Christ
mas stery for Scribner's Monthly is "A
Monte Flat Pastoral: How Old Man
Plunkett Went Home" The entire sto-
ry is in type.
The Philadelphia Telegraph thinks
that Miss Nelson understands legiti-
mate stage effect better than almost any
artist now before the public except Mr..
Fechter."
Gonoud scarcely ever alters the notes
Of his manuscript composition. The
waltz in Faust" for instance was print
ed from the original copy without sim
gle change.
We hear that the poems Of that sweet
and beautiful writer, the late John K.
Thompson, at his death the literary cdr
tor Of the Evening Post, are being edit
ed by R. Fl. Stoddsrd.
A book is to be made Of ex-senator
q. S. Foote's "Reminiscences Of the
Past, which have been running at in
terminable length in the Washington
Chronicle for some months past.
The new Life of Ca7our." by Mas
sari, formerly editor Of the Piedmontese
Gazette is a faithful memorial of the
great Italian statesman by one who was
his intimate friend.
1t was recently stated in England that
Mr.. Disraeli's new novel, showing the
developments of Socialism, was nearly
finished. The London Times is sorry to
learn that it is not even begun.
Rubenstein spent the summer at Pc
tershof, near st. Petersburg, and is now
on his way to Italy, where he will remain
during the winter, after which he will
visit Vienna, Leipsic, Dresden and Ber-
lin.
An auctioneer, at late sale Of an-
tiquities, put up helmet, with the fol-
lowing candid observation: This, ladies
and gentlemen, is the helmet of Romu
lus, the Roman founder; but whether be
was brass, iron, or type founder, l
cannot tel"
Agfull report Of the proceedings Of
the Evangelical Alliance, with speeches
and addresses complete, under the edi-
torship of DR.. Philip Schaff, will be
published by Harper & Bros. 1t will
probably make on octave of at least a
thousand pages.
Miss Charlotte Cushman, in reply to
Mr.. Forney's remark, You are now
alone in your great art; your fame has
no competitor. Where shall we find an
equal to succeed your" No, my good
friend, nobody is indispensable. Nine
Janauscheck is my equal, aud besides
she is so handsome.
The late Paul de Kocke had such
horror Of quitting Paris that be refused
10 move even when the Commune had
invaded the Boulevard ST. Martin, where
he lived, aud burned the Porte ST. Mar.
tin Theater, next door. In bis long life
he never saw the sea, aud never visited
Holland, the country Of his father and
mother. One Of the novelist's most
assiduous readers was the late Pope,
who always used to ask French visitors
for Mo Caro- Psoli di Kocko."