The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-09
Literary Notes.

MISS braddons thirtleth novel Will be called
Joshua Haggart's Daughter"
A fac-simile Of the first issue of walton's
Complete Angler is to be published in Eng
land.
The London Academy" says that Mr.. Will
liam Black is engaged in writing a a new novel,
to appear in Macmillan's Magazine.
Miss Mary E. Vandyne is the name of the
authoress of the poem entitled ''The Lost Ba-
bies;" so says Harper's Weekly.
Messrs. Hurd & Houghton will become the
publishers of the American Naturalist with
the beginning of the new year.
The additions to Harvard College library
have made it necessary to enlarge Gore Hall so
that it may hold 10000 volumes. The plan of
delivery used at the Boston library will be
adopted
Lord Lorne's new poem is very kindly treated
by the English newspapers, but there seems to
be no doubt that 1t is mediocre performance.
unworthy of much attention. A London cor
respondent of the New York Times says 1t il
"a mere jingle" and "a schoolboy perform.
ance"
Mr.. Allan Magruder of Baltimore will con-
tribute to the January Atlantic an account Of
President Lincoln's interview with Judge
Campbell just after the fall of Richmond, In
which evidence is given of the breadth and gen.
erosty of Mr.. Lincoln's views about the resto-
ration of the Union.
The translation or the "Eneid' by Mr.. Nor
is, author of "The Earthly Paradise" is warm
ly commended by the London Athensum,
which pronounces it, whether for elegance of
verse or accuracy of translation, the most salts
factory attempt that has yet been made to
present the creates. of Roman poets to English
readers
The Atlantic Monthly for January will offer
an interesting account of the mqfasi of Sicily,
who until recently have supplied that, island
with curious substitute for brigandage. The
n,qfnsi are an association of the people for
purposes of blaekmail and the defrauding of
the revenue, and are so powerful that nothing
has yet availed to break them down. The
Italian Government however, is now .manag-
ing the matter by education.
writer in an English magazine directs at
tention to the diminuton of force which the
word harness has undergone since Shakes
peare's time. Harness then meant the trap
pings in which man and steed went to battle,
we'll die with harness on our backs" says
Macbeth. The old word stood for the widest
energy, the new one for the tamest:submission.
A letter from the poet Swinburne, received
too late for use at the dedication of the Poe
monument has since been published. The
writer expresses the opinion that the fame Of
Poe is growing wider and striking deeper as
time advances; the surest presage that time,
the eternal enemy Of small and shallow repu-
tations, will prove in this case also the con-
slant and trusty friend and keeper of true
poets full-grown fame"
Clarence Cooks papers on "House Decor,
alton and Furniture will be resumed in
the January number of Scrbner's and the ser
les will be continued with as much regularity
as possible, Great pains are taken in the
preparation of the illustrations for these papers,
and they cannot well be hurried. 1t is the inten-
ton of the author not to give definite rules, or
precise patterns, but to suggest principles, and,
in the cuts, to indicate his own general taste
in furnishing home, and what seems to him
to be pleasing to many people besides himself.
Mr.. John Burroughs will have paper in the
same number on "Honse Building"
The January International Review will have
a review of the political situation with refer
ence to Turkey and the Herzegovinian ques-
tion, from high authority in Berlin; next, q
criticism upon DR.. Diapers "History of the
Conflict between Science and Religion" by
DR.. E. A. Washburn of Calvary church, New
York; paper by Philip Gilbert Hamerton ON
Ungers Etchings, said to be the most noted
etchngs at present in Europe; paper by DR..
Francis Wharton of Boston, on Retrospective
Legislation and Grangerism; an article on the
Psychology of Murder, by Baron Franz von
Holtzendorf, the university professor of inter-
national and criminal law at Munich, who is
opposed to capital punishment; and discus
sion by Prof. R. A. Proctor of the history of
astronomical discoveries from Sir w. Herschefs
time in regard to the structure of the universe.
This is good show for the first of new vol
| ume 1t is intended to make more of noticing
| foreign books than heretofore, and editorial
arrangements have been made in London, Paris,
Berlin and Florence, that insure criticisms of
| value. A short paper on art in Europe in each
number is promised by Hamerton, and scien-
| tifc paper recording international progress of
science is expected from Prof. Arthur w.
Wright of Yale college.