, 1874-04-25
LITERARY NOTES.

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LITERARY NOTES.
The Popular Science Mon0uy for May %. Ap-
p!eton i Co., Now York; has articles on 1.-The
Grape Phylloxcra,'' by Charles 7. Riley; "The
Limits Of Our knowledge Of Nature" by Prof.
Emil Du Dois-Reymond; "Universities, Actual
and IDEAL" by Prof T. Il. Huxley; "L.w and
Insanity" by DR., Henry Maudaley; "Evolution
and the Doctrine Of Design" by n. Stanley
Jeyons ETC., ETC.
in Scribner's Monthly for May (scribner &
Co., New York;, 1.-THE Mysterious Island" by
Jules Verne, and" Katherine Earle" by Adeline
Trafton. are contlnued and the first parts are
given of "Adins," by Henry james, Jr., and
'.The Victorian Poets [Alfred Tennyson)," by
Edmund Clarence Stedman. Edward King has
chapter On - Mouutaln-Aamb!es in Tennessee,
Georgia, and South Carolina" There is & story
by Harriet Prescott Spofford, and poems By Ben
janin f. Taylor, Mary E. c. 1Vyoth, and otbers.
The 81. Nicholas for May (Scribner l. Co.,
Now York; numbers among its contributors J.
T. T1owbridge, Mrs. 4. Il. Diaz, Frank K. Stock
ton, Olive Thorne, aud Mrs. Lizzie Champney;
and there is paper by the lato y. S. Dodge.
The illustrations are numerous and excellent.
Other periodicals received: chronological
Journal for May Samuel 4. Wells, New York;;
EGHftQT1UH 1tI 1AA9 "a L. Dell. NON AoIhJ
Medical Investigator for April {Chicsso); NORTH
,reste77. Rtrie,o for April (R. r. Dearden, Chi
cago); National Sunday-School Teacher, and
Little Fohs, for May adams, Backmer l. Lyon
Publishing Company, Chicago; Scientific
pany, Chicago d j1ricaa Repository for Aprtl
lAmerican Colonization Society, Waanngton).
The New York Times paid Bret uarte 5000
for his story, The Rose of Tnolumne," which
was published in The TRIBUNE OF yesterday.
u1;c11r tt,yo
pairing new biography Of Lord Byron, bringing
fresh and authentic evidence to bear on the sub
iect Of Mrs. Beecher's scandal.
MIR. Julian Hawthorne will soon publish
novel entitled '' Idolatry."
&C. P. Marsh says that only 200 Of the 5000
words OF the Bible are now in any sense OBJ
solete.
1t is runored that Bret Harte is in danger Of
loss ct sight.
The lucmoirs of the late Paul de Rock haye
appeared in Paris 1t Is an amusing book and
full OF anecdote, but, unfortunately, the author
Lad completed only the first volume at his de-
cease.
Tho "Society OF Gentlemen OF London
has privately printed volume OF the sayings
aud conversation of President Lincoln, which
has been so eagerly taken up that copies sold 1t
fifteen guineas each week after its publication.
The last edition Of the London Slang Die
tionary, under the head Of - Bum1ner," says:
In California men who profess TO be journal
called literary bummeEs.'
Robert Dale Oven when mere boy, went
to sec Jeremy Bentham, then nearly 80. God
bless you'll" said the venerable thinker. there
be such being and, at all events, my young
friend, taKe caro- OF yourself"
The late riots at Bombay we're owing to the
publication By Parsee OF u Guzerate version OF
Washington Irvings 'Life Of Maholnet," in
which there il reference to the PROPHETS de-
mestic relations. The author attempted to stop
the eale, bnt did not succeed III a1laylns the re-
sentiment of the 5fus6ulmans.
Some unecrupu1ous tritlcr lately copied Walt
Thitman'a "Prayer OF Columbus, and I'd sent II
declined it, with the remark IL the author
will leave whisky alone, he may get rise to be tue
cLief dccA-haud OF q canal-boa,. "-Brooklys
-drgus.
the well-known "Tales OF the O'Hara Family"
is now IS years old. aua has retlIod
from the charge of the Kilkenny Post -0aico III
Ireland. on pension OF S2l2 a year. A sub
-cr1ption has Leeu started for his relief.
n. n. Beeoner Threatens to write another
Tho Count do Paris has been for some time
engaged in writing III account of our civil war.
Tho London dutentEum is severe upon Miss
Dickens' novel, " The Mill Wheel" aud recon-
u,epds to the author course OF grammar and
English reading. It says the book abouuds III
Slang. rhapsody, and vulgarity.
Mir Sumner has becn buried only lew days
and already two lives OF him are being written
one by C. Edwards Letter and one ~ George
Alfred Townsend It is also believed IN Boston
that 1lr. Edward L. Pelrco, one OF Summers
three literary executors, will edit memoirs OF
him.
-Honcure D. Conway says OF the late Dr.
Strauss, that StrnuEs told linn l!s motives in
publishing his ''Lifo Of Jesus " were chiefly
political he believing it necessary to destroy the
popular notion of super1>atural authority before
ths oppressive institutions OF society could bo
Frederick Seward, who has been spending
the winter With Thurlow Weed, is writing q biog-
rapny Of his father, the late William H. Seward,
and Is receiving material assistance IN his tasE
from the venerable statesman. a1r. Weed has
ncarly completed the autobiography upon which
lie has for some time been engaged
Tho Christian Union calls ha1e Field "That
vigorous young disturber of the peace. who runs
down some six or seven dozen Of organized i'm
beclIitiea before breakfast, washes her hands.
and says, like Hotspur, Fie upon quiet life
The special Epgliah. fashion Of pirating the
books Of other nations with Anglican "improye-
raents," both omission and commission has nc
tlmized, it seems, one Dr.. ). e. Holland, and ne