, 1874-07-12
LITERARY NOTES.

PERIODICALS RECEIVED.
| american Builder for July (Sev Yor1).
| Current numbers Of LiHefs Ltcing Age Glitch
& Gay, Boston); Ersry Saturday II. o. HouGh-
| ten l. Co., Boston,; and ARpletons' Journal ID.
Appleton Il Co., New York
| M1sCELI-ASEous ITEMS.
It is stated thst kaba.i pasha, tho Turkish
Ambassador ct Vienna, Is writing history Of
| Rome in Turkish.
Gen. B. c. 1IcC21Ium, during the War thu
Superintendent of Military Railroads, has pri.
| Tately printed volume Of verse, 'Tho Water
! Mill and Other Poems"
--3lr. J. Z. Lumby has wilton "History OF
| the Crceds," which Is 4 succinct account OF the
! ancient Christian creels, and the controversies
| respecting them
! Tho London Figaro. learning thEt "Tup-
| per's Psoyerbial Philosophy" has been dza1n.-
tized for the stage, suggests that "JohnAon's
! Dictionary" should next undergo similar trest-
ment.
The literature of the Gvpses is receiving
great attention of late. Three ar four Eusii4t
and two German books upon the subject were
| published in 1873.
The Rev Alfred Tayler has written a book
giving some '' Peeps q. Our Sunday -Scloois.'
! Jules Verne's latest book has been seclrcj
by William F. Gill i Co., Boston 1t is i'll i!s.
parts, comprising stories Of adventures bJ ar,
laud, and water, and is entitled From the
| Clouds to the Mountains"
| The interchangeable DR.. Colenso has at last
| finished his battery against the Speakers Con-
| mansary By the issuo OF the Sixth Part OF his
Critical Examination Of that work, 1aa;ins
volume as large in dimens1ons Is those OF :le
| Eork it attacks.
| -Liszt is engaged on III Theoretical and
Practical School Of Music" in threa volumes.
Mrs. Ross Church (Elorepce AarryatJ, the
novelist, ia coming to this country to lecture,
and writer qualities his statement that she ia
very charming woman BY adding, ' But I don.
think she has lectured before"
| AN italian gondolier is among tho moel
noted Of the later commentators on DAME.
| Mr.. Abbott's Concordance to Pope,'' now
| ready for the PRESS brings ont tho curious fac:
thst he never used the words !" a!ao" aud $50
/ ward" His tIznsations and limitations are NOS
included.
| Air. Ruskin, being his own publisher, finds
that bis books don't pay Therefore, With LIS
usual supreme disregard OF political economy,
nil be total loas- OF luis reissue Of the carry
volume OF "Modern Painters" Scribner. VOL
ford & Armstrong, New York, took more than
the whole London trade.
Ere7y Saturday has remark to make con.
corning numerical literature" 1t suggests
thai, al From -Four to Fourteen has just been
issued, and that, al there is 8 novel entitled
"From Fourteen to Fourscore," aud that. Al
| Victor Hugo has written "Ninety Three" thera
l45,yesa gap OF thirteen years Tor s0ms10d, t"
| The poet TennyEon, who has been sunertna
from suycre 1heunstio atsack thls summer,
! has just sent choering letter to Walt Whtmanf
tho first letter written by him for severa:
| weeks, as his right arm Was 2dectod- Ihd
| laureate mentious in it the case OF friend OF
his prostrazed with cerebral anmmin, Whitman'f
malady, but who recovered At last and is EoT in
sound health.
"TalEs with Girls " for tho fall, through Nelson
| Phillips.
The poet sheuey's Refutatioa Of Desrn,'
Of which onr two copies are known, IS now ex-
citing comment in England Its doctrine is that
the being OF God, oeinS only probable fron
revelation, cannot, therefore, be proved It all
atheism being the t1ue alternative to Christian
| ity.
The Lady Dal1ing and Bulwer, widow Of sh
| Henry Bulwer, who was crested Lord Dallana
shortly before his death, has placed all his pri'
! yate documents and papers, left Ii 1er posses
sion, in the hands Of the members Of his family.
and doubtless they will BOON appear in hla
biography, which Is preparing for the press
| DR. James Russell Lovells resignation Of
his Profeeso.ship OF Bellies Letsres at Harvard
TWO years ago, has never, We ara glad to hear.
! been accepted by the authorities OF The Collage
Dr.. Lowell will therefore resume his old poss ct
the beginning Of the October term though under
| somoHhat altered conditions, which will IelleTe
him from the strain Of continuous c!ass-t -teacninE.
4! and leave him free for higher voEk.-dcdden1y
| Lovers of Enstern literature will oe glad 70
| learn tha: u. Alfred yon kremer, the author of
! :.Die Herrschenden 1deen des Islau1," will
|rshortly publish book on ''The History Of
Civilization During tue Times Of tha hhai1ts,
in two volumes The first will contain 3 picture
| Of the political and statistical condition OF tue
! Khalifate during the Ommeyades and the frat
! Ahhassidcs. whilst tho second will give US
| skatch Of tho social and domestic life OF tho
Arubs of that PERIOD Herr Won Krener has
| lived for a long time in Asia, where he collected
mort valuable manuscripts to serve his 1nTesfi,
| eatlons His work will probably be translated
into English.
-31r. gorge Henry Felts work On ''Ths
EabaIlah OF the Egyptian aud the Crock C41o::
| Of Proportion" il LOW to be published by J.
". Borson, No. 70G Broad7ay, in imperial quari<
size, with 900 illustsetions. in ten s25o partd
| Of nixty-four pages each. II Hr. Felts clai1as
| bs yeriied-and they have already been strongly
| and widely indorsed-he will have made tn
mos. important discovery in the history Of
modern art, Que may almost say Of archaeology
-Ne,c York Matt
whittier writes to the Albany Euening jour.
nal Of the lines in his Sulaner poem:
| so t.umpe. sounded in his ear
He Saw hot Sinats cloud and dszus:
II am not unused to the mlscLievous tricks oi
the type-metal, which 30 STRONGLY iliustrate tla
innate deprarlty Of things. wrote mot il the
verso referred to. / saw tas blnnder. but did
not deem it Of Bufficient.conseq:euco Tor cor.ec-
ton. think the journal rnalo ons 7css talf
case for the types in their nav 1oad1ng; buE, On
the whole. I prefer my own Voralo1
The drst part OF the curious library OF the
late IL. Luclen de Rosny, father OF the eminent
| 5aD4ub60 GCAOlnI, U1a pteu HbIu Ii aIlb. ~ H&a
rich in fine, and above ell, eccentric bindings. such
as n skins of cat, garnet-colorad and buff, c1oco~
die. mole, seal, fur ct the Canadian black vol,
roya1 tiger, otter white bear, sole, and .rzt.lc-
suaxe. The Legendary human skin binding :s
sloue wanting in the Est- Wa have mover hsard
OF any literary man vino left his cuticle for such
an object, though John Zlzka, We believe. de-
sired to bavs his skin used as the head Of a drun
to beat against his enemies.
The Christian Register sayH: u Tu:hmav not
be STRANGER than hcsion,' but it is soaetitaos
iast shout as strange. Last week, III our police
Of Aldrichs Prudence Palfrey.' We ssid that : IN
the whole ecclesiastical history OF America tasre
has probably never been an incident approaching
this Of the Montana desperate turned r,lplseet
Of highIg-respectablea and conservative oongte'
ca,,onal church. And this is shat haa slnce ~
Sosrsd il the daily journals: THE ReT. Marion
l Fhulpg, who has been 1lliug Methodist pulpit
at Bridgeton, Mo. has bean s2ken to hontue55
to be rriod for killing and robbing ped4lsr'
The reverend gentleman il spoken OF ~ " we'll
/ known desna1ado"' We are noe 60 much sur
nr;.o1 "a we should have been il q distinguished
gr1ier Lad not assured MS that the most 'un-
nsti,rai aud improbable incident in one Of nar
stories was the only one that wzs literally tEus !"
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