The Portland daily press., 1875-10-29

pect poem from him on the 10Th. He has
been going about for some time 10 that peculi-
ar way whicn is promise of something and on
the 18th Lowell was on the ground with his DO
em-and grand one it was. LopQfelIow pre-
pares his poems to be read on any great coca
sion, as a minister who lives near Boston pre-
pares his sermons, nearly year ahead. He
wroth the poem read at Bowdon College last
Summer early 10 the Fall of the preceding year
and well u was he di so, for the mouths inter-
Vening have been fruitess az far as literary la
Dor is 'ncerned, owing to pbysica, prostration
He is happily, better now"
M. Octave Fsuillet has lust begun in the
ReUue des Deux Mondes new move entitled "A
Fashionable Marriage" VIII ch promises 10 he
lively without being incorrect. One of the
characters az estimabie spinster somewhat ad.
vanced in years, gets married out of pure wesri
ness and enn,ti, but discovering, after only five
months OF connubial life, "the nothngness of
that sort of amusement" puts ber views Of bu.
man nature to a niece in this condensed aud
cheerful form: Remember, my dear child,
that woman is made to endure, and man to be
enduredr'
Sheldon & Go. will shortly publish second
series of "Our Poetical Favorites," by Profess
sor A G. Kendrick, of Rochester University.
Mr. George Grove. the editor OF Macmillan's
Magazine, is at work on Dictionary of Mu-
sic"
IN FL. B." the New York correspondent of
the st. Louis Republican, has been engaged
upon the London Hornet.
"Templeton," the Boston correspondent of
the Hartford Courant, expresses the opinion
OF hosts OF good readers when be says, spro-
pos OF Bret Hartes 'Tales of the Argonauts."
II believe it may without exaggeration be
said that any author of this century might be
proud to have written them know of 10
author of any age who has written the short
story so well as has Bret Harte HIS pieces
are wonderful productions, alike in the orig
inality of their conception, the flashes of their
wit, their strong dramatic situations and the
felicity of their descriptive STYLE"
Max Mdllers's new volume of "Chips" will
be composed Of lectures, articles and notes,
divided into nine heads. The first four are
on Comparative Philology and Mythology,
and the Ounce OF Religion" His Life Of
Colebrook, Address before the Aryan Section
of the last Oriental Congress. Reply to Mr.
Darwin and piquant essay In Self Defence,
will also be sncluded.
The Academy praises Miss Braddon's last
Hostages to Fortune-as containing most
studied and care writing. with characters
skillfully handled.
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons have in press =
set of books which consists of selections ftom
such writer's as Addison, Steele johnson,
Abercrombie, Chesterfield, Macker zie, Stan
hope, Wapole, Edward Moore. Cumberland
and others, whose collective works are known
as the british Esssyists." The editors aim
will be to represent faithfully in spirit (though
not in quantity) the Spec stor, Tattler. Guar
dian, Adventurer Rambler, Loupger, Mirror,
&c No attempt at adaptation will be- made,
nor will word Of The original text be changed.
Most OF the contents will consist of entire
papers, selected for their unusual brightness,
humor Or strength, although DO essiys upon
obsolete subjects will be used. The series will
consist of five or six volumes arranged as
follows: The Spectator, one volume; Tsttler,
Guardian and Frseholder, one volume; World,
Mirror and Lounger, one volume; the last
vo ume will contain the Observer, LOCKER o.
aud general index to the entire series. 1t
will be known y some such title as The
Select British Essayists, and will be edited by
Mr. John Habberton. The publishers propose
to issue the volumes in neat cabiuet size, some
what in the style of their series of German
Classics