, 1874-04-12

it will open up somo such new fell in ac.ion -
Wagner has opened in music. Auerhach him al,
says that ut lB tho best work he haa dona ~
can do, and that he =ha1 write no more s'40' "
Mr.. Hja|mar Hjocth Boyesen, in tha AMI,
Gdldry tells us, by authority Of the or+h.' rR.n
graphic sufferer. loT to spell tho uaue Tonr
gueneR; now il some one, say Bio-ost;a,uuta
Bornson, would kindly tell us how to ~
Hjalmar Hjortl Boyesen's nemo, no shonld Taa'
less tired when va saw It, Wo have !. kind,,
teolnS toward the old darEeJ who got over HI
difficulty with patriarchal names IN his Rihis'
reading. " I call them all Moses and let than
-Mr. Wexford notices, as cusious bih;o
graphical fact that little work, one-third h,
Lamb and the remainder by his sister, "Poatr7
1909. 2 vols, 12mo., has elulad tho strictess ~
search, and Is supposed to have utterly dissn
peared. portion Of its contents Was insads3
IN later collection Of similar aim, WHENCE on,,
is it known. @'
"A correspondent, who lives at Rochester
edition Of Dickens Works should bo brou,b
out in classical English Tho words USED in h.
authors works are extremely disagreeable -
read. think that the language of the Ioxa,
orders ought never to appear in print."- London
The half-dozen editors and halt-huud-ed
contributors having concluded their proof.
scratching tho rapport Of the Eyanselical All.
ance is at last ready ut the Harpers', Tba
proofs had to go all over the world, and one Of
the delegates, q few thousand milos OF. uDGer.
took to reconstruct bis paper eutizely ip Tia
proof. But the book Is born, and contains 773
magazine pages.
a botanist who has gothic position Of mani
script-reader on q literary paper replies to An
ambitious poet in this heartlessy scientific etyleI
~ don't know scenery in your region rery well:
but ~ I doubt somewhat If the tirs,' willows
.aspens,' oaks and dogwood' grow together.
(o) doubt those daisies in summer on tht
1slope.' But it is possible 80 There is n.
heather in the United States, except Yery lit
tie IN Tewksbury, Mass "a 4 there Eers
and it would be brake, and not fern (5|
DaGodils do not grow on side-his or anywhertf
else e1cept in gardens. (O OF all gGeea, tema,.
aid is tho very last to describe wiI1ows,' which
a7s very Light, whitish grsen. ~ 'Dogvooi'
blooms in snowy bowers nerer in 'sumner;'
only carly spring."
in the London Times it is announced that
the Harness prize of the University of Can
bridge, open to al undergraduates, and grsdu.
ates OF not more than three years. standing. 70,
the best English essay on @ subject connected
with Shakespearean literature, has been ad
judged by the Vice-Chancollor, the Master o
Collage, and two PerHo1s appointed by grace ot
the Senate, to George Lockhart Riyes, Of Ne.
York, 3. A., scholar Of Trinity College, Tuit
prize, awarded once in three years, consists d
TUG dCCuH1tll3l!ou Oh Interest," on tho f0un1AG0Q
in 1870, OF E500, given for memorial of Dyroni
friend, the lato Rev. William Harness, Preben.
dairy of St. Pau1's, and an editor OF Shakespeare.
Ono OF the conditions OF the prize is that tho ea.
say OF the successful competitor be published.
The particular subject given out for this yeA
was the authenticity of the first, second, and
third parts Of the play OF 81 Horny I'll"
Il correspondent Of the academy ssys:"
further installment Of Prosper Merimes's col.
respondeuce is about to DO published aud will
undoubtedly be welcome TO all who oulsiyata lie
almost obsolete art OF letter writing. The lat&
academician vas nearly as uatiring 4 correspond
ent as u. Thiers or D1rthelemi St.-Hilairo Ths
promised letters are addressed to literary col.
league, and exhibit, rather moro plainly than the
epistles to the Inconnuo' tho bard, cynical, acd
somewhat coarse sido Of tho writer's character.
1t is no longer tho courtly eatirist playing an
academical St.-Proux to very modern and
mateEialistic Julie; but frank skoptic recount
ing without reserve or equiyoca.ion his Impress
ions Of men and things. The correspondence
opens in 1919, and. in tho vcry first lines. it Ia
evident that Merimee had already adopted the
passive role OF the philosopbic spectator which
neither Senate nor Academy could after"ard
make him abandon. In the latter years OF his
life the author Of sColomba' became moro and
mora frank ana confirmed in bus eplcureanIs1n-
He deyotcs many Of his Inst letters to the dls-
,ussiou Of different qualities OF Wlnes- He
preferred Chateau Ia Rose, and dl1od page after
page with praises OF his fayorite Gin"