The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-14
Literary Notes.

Scribner's Magazine ''counts ten," as DR..
Holland puts it, with its forthcoming mum ber.
entering upon its Xth volume. Several
changes will be made in its editorial features
in the May issue. The department of Etch-
ipgs will hereafter be known as Bric-a-
Brac, and that of Nature and Science, into
which the Rev. John G. Draper has condensed
a surprising amount of information, will be
superseded by review of The Worlds
Work. The editorial pages will again be
loaded, as has been urged by many readers.
The May contributions will include illustrated
Iapers on The Elder Myths, by the Rev. VIM.
Hayes Ward of The Independent; on the new
Grand Opera House of Paris, by Fred A.
Sehwab; and on the Baltimore Bonapartes.
There will be more of the old letters, which,
ir may comfort some doubling readers to know,
are genuine antiquities. Among the stories
will be one by Geo. w. Cable, the writer of the
remarkable Creole Sketches, and the poets
will number among them Celia Thaxter and
Mrs Hunt.
The very vexed question of the authorship of
the SAKE Holm Stories has at last been settled,
1t is said that SAKE Holm is lady, accom-
plished, unmarried, and on the sunny side of
"forty year." Her name is quaint and Qua
ker lIke-Ruth Ellis-and her home in small
village in Central New York.
A new volume of essays by George III. Cal
vert is soon to be published by Lee & Shep-
ard, who have also in charge The Morals OF
Abou Ben Adhem, satire by Nasty on
American society and customs.
A new and cheaper edition of LIE Diction.
naire des Sciences Philosophiques is about
to be published in monthly parts. The first
edition, published twenty years ago, spread
over six volumes, while it is hoped to con-
dense this into one.
Alexander Dumas, it is said, never sketches
a scheme for any of his pieces He takes for
four act piece seventy-seven big sheets OF
blue paper. He devotes twenty pages each to
the first, second and third acts, and seventeen
to the last.
The May issue of Harper's Monthly will be
its three hundredth number, and will conclude
its fiftieth volume. This gives the Easy Chair
opportunity for pleasant comparison of the new
number with the first one. for graceful trib-
ute to the original occupant of the Chair, Don
aid G. Mitchell, and for an exchange of COM
chief attraction of the number will be Mr..
Frederick Hudson's paper on the Concord
Fight, circumstantial account of every incl
dent of the battle, covering % pages and in
cuding % illustrations, with fac sinailies from
Emerson's and Longfellow's poems A more
peaceful centennial subject is found for the
First Century Series. Professor William Henry
Brewer writing of Agricultural Progress.
Among the poems will be Religion and Doc.
trine, bv John Hay, and Psyche, by Miss Kate
Hillard. Mr.. Partop's paper on Caricature
will deal with the Puritan period. With it
will be published Mr.. Cox's second paper on
American Humor. Among the illustrations
will be buresques of Artemas Ward and Bet
sey Jane, Mark Twain at the grave of Adam
and the Heather Chinee showing his sleeve to
Bret Harte, in which the faces are from por
traits of the authors.
The Great South will be republished in Eng.
land under the title of The Southern States of
North America.
Mrs. e. Lynne Linton's new novel is to be
called The Atonement of Lean Dundas.
The Westminster Review seems to know a
philosopher when itlsees one. The editor has
been reading Mr.. John Fisk's Cosmic Phiioso'
ply, and is impressed by his "unquestionable
intellectual capacity, undoubted talent for ex-
position, philosophical grasp, laborious study,
scholarly requirement, solid attainment and
Independent research
A grammar OF the Greek language, writer
in Hindi, is curious indication of the progress
| of European civilization in India. 1t is calle;
ssVavan hhashaka Vvakarana q orammar n
the Yavan language, Yavan being the name b.
which the Greeks-the Ionian Greeks of Asi;
| Mnor-become known at very early time al
| over the East.
Roberts Bros, of Boston purpose to celebrat
the Lexington Centennial by publishing OIL
April 10, a Paragraph History of the Unite
States." by the Rev. Edward Abbott of Th
Congregationalst. 1t will be half-dolla
pocket manual for those who desire to "bras