The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-02
Literary Notes,

DR.. James Guthrie, in bis autobiography
gives the following advice to young ministers:
sob erve either to draw your pen entirely
through or alter any passage which you find
it very difficult to commit to mtmory. A thing
is easily remembered which is striking, and
retained which is sticking; and what does no.
therefore 10 committed with difficulty, yoL
may be sure wont tell on the minds of your
hearers. Mind the three P's In every DIS
course the preacher should aim at proving,
painting and persuading; in other words, I'D
dressing the reason, the fancy and the heart"
A London correspondent writing of we'll
known novelist, says, SIN person, Annie
Thomas is not now and never could have been
handsome, but she has bright, animated face,
elegant manners, in which there is not shade
of affectation, is very witty and vivacious, has
q pleasant, musical voice and is very good
conversationist, qualities which serve her in
beauty's stead. In her younger days she was
much fiattered and courted in society, and her
friends predicted that che would make what
the world calls brilliant match. They were
not little surprised, however, when, during
summer visit to the beautiful shire of Devon,
she married young curate with a small
salary. Her marriage was happy one, but
she had become SO welded to the gay world
of London. that the tame dull and even tenor
OF life at country parsonage soon became I'M
endurable to her, and the people she was
thrown among differed from her widely in
thought, feeling and habits of life; at length,
as she sometimes laughingly remarks, to save
herself from insanity, she took to horseback
nf ho foy
used to follow the hounds over moor and noun
tain for miles. The staid sober people in the
neighborhood were very much shocked at the
thought of parsons wife riding at fox hunts
and took but little pains to conceal their indig-
nation. 1t was under these circumstances that
one of her most popular novels, The Old Love
Again'-wbich appeared in Harpers Monthly
few years since-was written
The London Academy says, "Victor Hugo's
new volume will be called LArt d'etre Grand
PEREZ No poet has ever written so charmipgly
about children as he has The We
deaths OF his two sons. Charles and Francois
made his two grandchildren, Jeanne and
Georges especially dear to him. He had al
ready made them the subject of his verse in
'LADnee Terrible And in this new volume
they are alluded to almost in every gage; now
directly with reference to their childish games
and sayings; now indirectly, as when they are
made pretext for his philosophical specua-
tons."
London correspondent of the Chicago In
ter-Ocean writes, Mrs. Lynn-Linton is one of
the most acute and original thinkers of the
day, and writes not only fearlessy but with
remarkable freshness and vigor She is one
of the few English women who have been
independent enough to leave the narrow
grooves and HOMOGENEOUS walks of society, and
lend her aid toward the advancement Of free
dom and humanity. She has accomplished an
immense amount of literary work, and for
years has been regular correspondent to the
Cornhill, Temple Bar and the Saturday Re