, 1874-02-07

CHlCAdOs Eeh T. lbt4. L. L. QH LANo.
LITERARY ITEMS.
Quccn Victoria il snid to bo writing book,
tho scene bong laid in Germany.
III. Prosper Morrimno loft work on ssDon
Quixoto,' which Is to bo published with Lucon
Diartt's now translation Of Cervantes' romance.
"A now writer upon Lord Byron Bays that
Madame do staol attempted to effect reconcile
iation l}otwoon tho poet and his wifo.
Two Journals ontitled tho Irish Echo wero
recently started In Dublin on tho same day. Ono
Of tlom established itB prior claim to tho tito,
and tic other went through tho process Of evo-
luton and bocamo tho udEtpenny Express.
Somebody has boon celebrating TRANSLATION
Of Mother Gooao in Latin, and Shepard i
G ars intending t9 publish b tho volume under
An English critic said Of recent Fronch
novol that ut 10 aa we'll written and immoral aB
hiB novels usually arc, and that tho most i'm
moral parts OF ita many immoralitios are Tho
authors moral reflections on tho actions Of his
own chnrncters.'
--Tennyaon writes to ono who had tampored
with bis verse: II object to varorum readings.
When tho carpenter has mado his table. why
should we treasure the chips and, whom poems
have been rcjected, why not lot them bc reject
seems to me these had battor wait till my
DEATH"
The maximum of.cheapness In literature has
been reached BY q London edition. Of the
each. For about q co,lts ono NAV hayo any ono
Of Scotta noyols complato. in fair print' and
illustrated by John 0i]bart.
IA Western editor, A1r. Jonathan peria1n, is
to record the History Of the Origin, Aims. and
enoftntton Onoetion. ato.. In n hool, ANN tn ho
published in Cincinnati " 0.' 0o~'' ~ ~
-Al,orhnct,'a forthcornIne novo1 IL ia bo ca1led
- Waltrioa: I'd 4 German Family History OF tho
Gen. Mcclellan Ia writing a Horica of nrt,c,oa
m nr,nv ornnu;at;ons thronGho,t lin syor1d az
H1rner', Iiynibly ~
-pnvrrd froyiHy ,..;no rnn+or;o1. r. Cav
mnnv fnr ;oint F n;'nie,Sni'1 np;ieSiS nf Gaotha s,,3
gchi]cr, osA' - A' "no
"A lnnr nro,n firm, Walt Whitman NIL, mr.
paox tho panlorr of the Mnrc], Harncr.s SSTr
Etnfliord hra 1vrtta, r,oo.n for In III, nne
op ant1 stndrn, u +o ,ova his ul eno arl %
~ V;cfnr Hurn vhnaa Inn,1,o3rs 80
Fncsh II nnra,1 tbonr.t;es1 !. nttnnonttt,, - -
1oylss Tho English proofs Of h{s n new nove f1is ia
ch;nf chaTooters ~ tho vav nra Sfarat m.rtnn re
Robeanerre g. a,,st ""s, sn T Thoroann "a'oa H.
Observation-Disclosures boinc etudiod IL IN
stated, from Nj. Lowos' biography.
-"Gsnetis Disclosed" 4 volume vrittoa by
mr. Tlomas i, Dnviea, is IN effort to SHOW that
nil commentators lnyo bcen mistaken in SUM-
posing that the Dblo toaches tho unity OF tlo
Genesis Of two distinct steps in tho creation Of
man. "Atlam," Which moa,,s tho huu1an raco in
general, wnB first cronted; and subsequently
:" The Adam, an individual from whom the He-
brews wero descended, was made.
Miss ThoroBa Longworth, an Irlsh lady rho
ton to prove that she had lived with him as luis
wife and not as Ills MISTRESS but failed In tho
English Courts, though sho got verdict in Ire
land, Inns turned up again with book called
"Iofoslna Porogrina o.. Elity Thousand blilcs
OF Travel Hound the World Maj. Yolyerton's
1nEnGrt LQEu AFQuWDT4, t8 NOW uDnH, 4l1Q u8 has