National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-10-30
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LITERARY MOTIFS.

Queen Victoria, it is said, is engaged on .
rev work, which viii appear early next year.
FH ongfellow's Hanging of the Crane " Is to
be published in England BY Messrs. Routledgs
& Sons.
Horace 5Talpole's letters have been trans
lated into Trench by the Comte de Baillon. and
published by Dldier, of Paris.
It Is reported In Ireland that an answer viii
be published, on the authority of the Roman
Catholic priesthood, to the arguments Of Tvu-
dxfI and Huxley.
Bsvard Tsylor's SanslatiO1 Of Faust y
seHs IN England to the extent Of three or four
huadred copies year, sadis accepted there a.
the ssaaiard translation.
DIFF. Auefer is engagediOn translation Of
schopsahsuer's Eell-knoWaI book, "Dls Welt
ais Wfne urad Vorstellung, !" which Is TIE meta
physical basis Of Wagner's masical system.
shaksusasefs " OtheIlo " hasibeen translated
into Heb5sw By ]. E. s., WITH q critical in
trfucfion By Peter Smolensky.. The book,
which is o literary curiosity, Is Published At
Vienna.
Hr: E. B. THOR is engaged upon q manual
of snEhropolsgy, which win be eopisusIy iIlas.
trared with ersgraHIngs taken from photographs
Of actual persons B elonging to each Division q
mankind.
Two new political novels by Gregor Sauna
row, whose "Um'szepker und Kronen" created
such farore in Germany when first published
two yeazs ago, have justqeft the press In Seutt-
CART. The irst, uanaed "Der TOdesgruss der
Legione9,O treats ne period of the Frauco-
German war; and the second, entitled s' DIE
RomerfaATt der EpigJneU," is a narrative Of
-.f1
knows that "Gregor SsmaSOE" is a pseudo
nym; but she author'Freal E1me is mystery
The General Assoclas5sro German Musicians
at Leipzig Instituted I'M january, 1873, com
petition for study on the text Of the tetraloeY
Of Richard Wagner, S'Ders Ring des Nlbelun-
gen, which should trace the sources Of the
German legeBd, and review the literature Of
the story, finishing with aza aualysis of Wag-
ner's drama. The prize was to- be q sum Of
300 thalers antboHe patrOn's ticket for the per
formsnees at Baireuth. The. jury have now
awarded the prize to Professor E. Koch, Of
Grimma.
In ''The Mistress of the Massey" poem, 50
to speak, of about. thirty-fvsr RuDdred lines,
DR.. Holland means to contrast the patient,
self Sacrificing spirit of loving woman Of or
binary intellect, or of intellect q little above
the ordinary, with the restless ambition of the
clerical man Of genius who is hsr husband.
She believes that the sphere, OF her duty Is
home and the circle Immediately around it, and
she leaves to him the monopoly OF his pulpit,
his eloquence, and the parishiOners.
Messrs. Chatto & Windds have n prepare
ton William Blake's works. Reproduced in fee
siHlils from the extremely rare and, in some
eases, unique originals, drawn, printed and
eolored by Blake's own hand. TheJde SiBlies
comprise "Songs of Innocence and Expert
snce, 17S9-'94; "Book Of Thel, - 1882 SAmer-
lea: a Prophecy" 1873; ''Fision of the Daugh-
tiers Of Albion, 1793; Europe: Prophecy"
1874; "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
1900; Jerusalem, the Emanation of'the Giant
Albion" "Milton: q Poem,p 1S01S 'sFirst
Book of Urizen," 1874; "The songsOf Los"
1T95.