Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-27
LITERATURE AND ART.

LLLLhALUhE AND AhI.
Dio Lewis has written book emit
tied Prohibition a Failure"
During a recent visit to Italy. Mrs
ShOddy had a "bust Of her foot made.
The Rev. o. B. rockingham is en-
gagged upon a History Of Transcenden
talism in New England.
The authors and dramatic composers
belonging to the Partisan Society re
ceived l0,5l6,0 68 francs last year.
Rhoda Broughton, the authoress, is
said not to be admired by the gentle.
men. She has too sharp a tongue, and
dares to be peculiar.
Thomas D. Jones, the sculptor, has
finished a second bust Of the late Judge
Chase. 1t will be placed on exhibition
in the old House of Representatives at
Washington.
CheriUqri is about to publish an al
bum of sixty caricatures by Cham, of
the Salon of 1875, to be called lie
Salon Pour Rire." 1t consists of the
caricatures lately published in Chart
ears aprOpOs of the pictures IN the Ex-
position.
Miss Clarke, an American artist, has
for many years past been engaged on a
series Of sketches OF all the places
visited By Dante. The series is now
nearly finished. Miss Clarke has
Travelled about for several years, even
IN the least frequented parts of Italy,
and her sketches are the result Of much
research.
Mrs. Clara Hanson Mohun, of Wash
ington City. lady of rare literary at
tainments, has prepared for publica-
ton a work entitled 'Our Revolution,
as Seen by Horace Walpole," being a
selection from the letters Of that cele.
brated author, bearing upon our war
of Independence, with preface, life,
cOpious notes, and elegant illustrations
DR.. Currie, N his Life of Burns, 3"
says: There is IN Gilbert's hands a
little Manual of Religious Belief, in
the form of a dialogue between a father
and his son, composed by the poets
father for the use Of his children. :"
This MS. has been preserved, and is in
the possession Of Mr. Gilbert Burns,
Of Dublin,
a French dramatic author was re.
markable for selfshness. Calling upon
a friend, whose opinion he wished to
have on a new comedy, he found him
in his last moments, but, notwIthstand-
ing, proposed to him to hear it read.
Consider" said the dying man, 81
have but about an hour to live" "Ah, ."
replied the author, "but this viii occu-
Ply only half the time"
Miss Julia G. Andrews some years
ago published a book called "Break-
fast, Dinner and Tea" and new ed1-
ton has Just been issued by the Apple
tons. But very recently Marion Har-
land has issued a volume with the
strikingly similar title of Breakfast,
Luncheon and Tea" and this change
of meals naturally causes dissatisfac-
ton.
The tenth volumeof Bancroft's "His-
tory Of the United States" published
by Little. Brown & Co., brings the
work down to the end Of the Revolu-
ton, embraces the campaigns Of 1778,
20, 80 and 81, and includes the re-
treat of the British from Philadelphia
TO New York, the campaigns of Wash
ington In Virginia, and of Greene and
Gates in the South.
The London Publishers Circular
compliments Lord CarnarTOn on his
following an American custom by APP
pointing an eminent man of letters to
a post in which he may do the State
some service. 1t is no secret tcat Mr..
J. a. Froude, the historian, left Lon
don on the 23d of May. for the Cape of
Good Hope, nor that his mission is con-
nected with the political future of that
colony.
GABRIEL Max, a German artist, is said
to have produced a painting with a
most extraordinary characteristic. 1t
Is representation of the face Of the
Saviour. At distance the eyes appear
to be closed, but as one advances they
seem to open gradually until they
bend upon the spectator a mournful
and pathetic gaze. This remains until
the visitor gets quite close to the paint
ing, when they are again closed.
The correspondence of John Stuart
Mill, soon to be published, will, it is
stated, contain many letters theolOgi-
cal rather than philosophical in tone.
The Athen0sUm hints that the book will
contain passages, especially on religious
topics. which are far more mcOmpro-
missing than the boldest in the "Auti-
biography" and that they will in any
case throw considerable light on various
developments of the beliefs entertained
at successive periods by Mr.. Mill.