, 1874-08-02
LITERARY NOTES.



''Why Hannibal Did Not Masch on Rome )" 4.The
Peri Is Of Modern Quakerism;" .'Hocore do
Bolzac;" *'parton's Life Of Jefrerson.''
Black roods Magazine for July Leonard Scott
Publishing Company, New York; has contents as
follows: .'The Story OF Valentine. and His
Brother Part VII Family Jewels ~ ''A1ice
Lorraine Part T.; 1.-TWO Cities-Two Books :
"Quod Sit Orandum !" Blackcnborg's Narrative
Of the Ashanti War;
Strahan's Saturday Journal part
for August A. 3trahan London; alilner j.
Koge rs News Company. New York;.
Illinois schoolna.ter for August (Aaron Gove
and Edwin C. He wett, Normal, ILL.,.
iSdnitarian for August a. N. Bell, New York;.
Phrenoiogicdl Journal for August (Samuel r.
Wells, New iorK).
Medical Investigator for July (Cb1cago).
Current numbers of LileNs Lifting Age, Er5y
Saturday, and Appleton's journal.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
William Blacks now story. to appear in the
Cor.4hM Magazine, illustrated By Du Maurier, is
entitled ''Tbose Feathers"
"a now volume by William Cullen BRYANT,
entitled ''Among tho Trces," is announced for
publication.
Tie latest book of fairy-tales is Mr. John T.
Naake's " S!avonic Fairy Tales, Translated from
the Russian, Polish, Seryian, uud Bohemian
Victor Hugo's paper, lie Rappet, has q larger
circulation than any o.hcr in France. Its regu-
lar issue ia stated at 200 copies.
Scottish Anecdotes" by way Of proving that,
however much Of surgical operation it may be
to get joke into the head of Scotclnlan,
thousands of excellent jokes have been gotten
out without any al all.
An enterprising American publisher some
time ago announced IN edition Of the Bible,
with Photographic portraits Of Abraham, Moses.
David Jesus Christ, and the Apostlcp." Ap-
parentIy there is no difficulty in procuring them,
for the London Spirtualist Of June 10 furnishes
4 portrait Of the medium ind tho spirit. taken
from an instantaneous photograph.
Gen. Francis 4. Walker recently Commits
sioner Of Indian Affairs, has nearly ready for
publication, through Aessls. James L. Osgood
l. CO., q book entitled "Tle Indian Question"
giving tho results Of his experience and OBJ
scrvation.
Somebody has been finding fault with the
natural philosophy in Poe's 81 Raven" He asks :
s'How could the raven, sitting lonely on that
placid bust. Of Pallas,-not only on the door.
wau,-by any law OF Illumination, throw bis
shadow on tho floor for the poets soul to float
in and be lifted never more?''
-Mr. Leslie Stephens F." Hours IN Library
are sketches of half dozen English aud Ameti-
can authors. Hawthorne. he tells ls, was j
kind OF Edgar Poe, without the delirium tre-
mems. If our cousins raise moro Hawthornes
re may possibly feel more grateful than for
some Of their other productions"
Prof. J. E Calrncs is to write reply IN
Mdcmi4dn's Magazine to 1lr. Goodwin Smiths
article on * Wonen's Suffrage" which recently
appeared in that periodical.
a Paris correspondent Wrlto8 OF Jules Janin,
who, it seems, died OF fatty degeneration
Of tho heart, and THAT he had grown enor-
mou.ly large in his Inter years, and some
enemy onco described linn ''haying his
chm falling upon bis cravat, his cravat upon his
waiAt-coat, his waiss-coat upon his stomach, his
stomach upon his writings, and his writings
upon everybody"
Madame Schwarz. who is known BY her
novel. ''The Alan of Birth mud the Woman Of
the People," has written 3 new book, Elvra
Lady Cnsterton," !" in which the union of IN Eng
lish Lord with Swedish lady forms the ground
work Of the story hish brings Into play the
-" Dogography" is the title Of one book
among others written by the late Mr. Francis
Butler, who died of hydrophobia. It records
the life and adventures OF IN English bul1-ter-
ricr which slr. Butler had owned for more than
sixteen years, and il written in humorous
vein, protesting to tell the dogs story In his
own caniBe language.
Il had supposed that ". Harrison Answorth
was dead long ago, but here he turns up as
US in three volumes story almost rs good, and
quite as true, rs 'sThc Tower Of London y aud
..OlI St. Paul's." The theme OF the story is
Wat Tylcr's rebellion; his dauShter-who is not
his daughter, but the Child OF nobleman-ls
the herolue.-london Letter.
-1Iarn1ion Herbert, in Disraeli's avenetia,"
has been supposed to mean Shelley. But the
late Countess Guiccioli, in her "Recollections,"
thinks otherwise She says: I" He {Diszaeli) has
given Byron two indiyiduahtios. Lord Cadurcls
represents Byron fiom his infancy to the time
of his marriage, and Mr.. Herbert equally repro
sents LORD Byron from TINT fatal epoch till his
death. Tho selection Of two persons to repre-
sent the sano character. and to allow OF Byron's
simple yet complex nature being better under
stood, was very happy philosophical notion"
its an i'll wind, e:c. This social tragedy
now IN its fifth act at BROOKLYN, with the whole
English-speaking world for audience, will prob
ably create d new and brisk demand on both
sides OF the water for n very remarkable but
hitherto not very ea]able poem. we refer to
1.-The Ring aud the Boof,'' BY Robert Browning.
Here too, We have tho same complication OF
husbAnd, wife. and clergyman. Only the Italian
husband Of 1888, ins. cad of giving bis runaway
wife i free dead OF the homo finished with
thrust OF two with his poniard which illustrates
the difference between then and noW.-Spru2g-
field (iuass.) Republican.
a paragrnph has been in circulation to the
effect that Miss Anna F.. Dickinson has given up
her plan Of going to Europe meaning to sPcud
the summer ut Swampscott; that she il writing
history OF her life aul experiences for publlca-
ton. We hare authority for the statement that
Miss Dickinson has not gwen up her intention
of going abroad, but is delayed BY tho necessity
Of finishing book for which she Is under con-
tract. THIS hook is 10 no sense =" story OF her
lfe." but chronicle Of certain experiences and
adventures in her lect,tring tours, amusing and
otherwise with q record of one summer spent in
California and another in Colorado.-A'e,o York
Herald.
My late old and intimate friend Lewis Gay
lord Clark many years ago related 70 NC the fol-
lowing anecdo,e OF his b1o.her, Willis G., who,
when visiting an old acquaintance, farmer, ct
time when albums wero all the rage, was hand
ed b; the daughter superannuated account
book. ruled for pounds. shlllings, and pence. in
which he was requested to write something pretty
for her, with which request ho complied i'll the
following manner:
This worlds = sccnc ns dark as Sty1,
Where hope Il ecarce worth y
Onr Joys are borne SO dcetlng hence
That they dear at il8
And yet to stay here many are willing
Although they may not have ~
HARPER for -1u9nat.
A Kioyva Belle.
A correspondent Of the Springfield CLASSY Re
y,,t5Iicdn has this to say about Nova belle, the