, 1874-05-03
LITERARY NOTES.

In Old and Neeo for May (Roberta Isos.,
Boston), ''The Way We Live Nor," by anthony
| Tro!ope !; .' Our Saetching Club" by the Ear.
R. St. John Tyrwhitt IL scrope," by Frederic B.
| Perkins; aud "The Church and It's Pretensions, :"
| by James Mar.ineau, are continued; IS The Fa-
! ta1ist," by john Turguenie1, is commenced.
| An article On - Norway" = Hungarian story BY
| a1orits Jokai; aud poem The Lifting OF tho
Kine," referring to tie Abby Smith case, aro the
| remaining features Of prominence.
! Among the articles in LitelFs Itcing dgs
(Lit,ell L Gay, Boston, Tor April Is and MAY =
| Modern n; "Saepticism and Modern Poet y" /;
"Lord S:anhope and the Histor,ane OF Queen
Anne's Reign; and combinations Of '' Far frcr1
the Madding Crowd, !" - 'CHatoaubi1and and Els
Times" and Ferdinand Hlller's..'' Mendelssohu.r
April (scribner, Armstrong i Co, New YORK;;
american Homes for May (Henry L. Shepard d
Co., Boston and Chicago American Bee jour
nal for May (American Publishing Company,
Chicago; Union Era, Book Y. Part (Sss
LaEey New York;; Voice q Masonry for N.Y.
Dailey l. Brown, Chicago; Midland Monthly
Tor April w. D. Pratt. Monmouth. LII. J current
numbers OF Eoery Saturday (H. O. Hough:oa &
Co., Boston). aud Appelons' Jot4rna! %. Apple
ton T. Co., New York;.
-11r. Svinburne bas completed his tragedy,
"Bothwen." It will exceed in length the lmlt5
Of stage pieco. ....,,
The Affection from which tho venerable poet
Whittier is suffering is one Of the bead and
eyes, which disqualidea him at present fos ase1-
a1y labor.
Ia Brief Narrative of the Hutchinson Fam
ily-sixteen Sons and Daughters OF the Tribe o.
Jesse" is the title Of b forthcoming book BY
Joshua Hutchinson, Of the New Hampshire
singing family.
podno KGat ia in rhn DrAaa. Iu8 aUb1ets u
Livingstone in Africa"
MIR. Howelrs new story will b called "A
Fo1lorn Hope" The scene Of the story ia laid
in Venice, while the characters arc mainly AMER"
-"The History Of American Currency" by
Prof. Sumner, Of Yale, just published BY Henry
Holt l. Co., has been introduced AZ textbook
at Harvard.
The Khediro Of Egypt is collecting, for L.
bra1y which he has founded st Cairo, the Vaia-
and monasteres throughout his domnlons: 10
has already secured thirty copies Of tho koraa,
one Of which is said to 10 ], l5o years old. ,~
"A London letter sayB: Mr.. Gladstone tolls
his private acquaiatances that ha regrets no az
said he the other day to an aanirer, do poh5lcs
arect the life, the moral life Of nation! oao
single good book influences people 7ass deal
more The result OF which reasoning is thss tns
right honorable gentleman proposes to de7ofg
himself more exclusively ~ AtTA"teAo - o'4e
hear that the Contemporary Reuieso iB to enjoy
the benefit OF his literary toll"
a paragraph has been floating abont Us
literary columns Of ths press to tho ELECT fhas
t. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stone, on account OF III
health, will not give to tho public anything IRON
her pen for several years to come. Ih,s =
trne to the following extent: that Mrs. s:owo
in excellent health, st her Florida hone in MAG
darn, and that early in nay she commaneesln u
tie Chyis!ian Union = new serial story, called
ave and Our Ncishbors, upon which e!lo "a
been engaged during rhe past year, aud Fh!ea
has been largely inspired BY consideration Of tao
social fo1lies and profound domestic miaeres r.
sulting in the temperance agitation Of tas
public mind at the preseEt day.
THOSE who knew them personally are a"As
that Dickens and Wilkie Collins on several oecs-
aious wro.e short story together - On ono
OCCASION" said Mr. CollinH, recently. "rs
agreed to exchange Styles 80 as to puzzls 1o3
critics Mr.. Dickens was to adopt my STYLE. ona
vas to initiate his. The plan succeeded psr.
fectIy and it Was amusing to see the 1es1e"ese
point out ! passage OF mine AZ an example os
Dickens peculiar vein, and in the next sentence
on paragraph of Dickens as 3 s1a ~
ple Of Wilkie Collins sensational style." om
rhy don't Wilke keep this little perfoil1aec"
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