The Portland daily press., 1875-11-18
Literary Notes.


'1nfelce" bids fair to rival ''St. Elmo" 10 adj
vance orders. Carleton g. Co., the publishers
are negotiating with large dealer for the enor-
nous number of 80, 900 copies. including "the
market"
A superb Imitation of Christ is to be brought
out under the superintendence of Louis Veuil.
lot, with illustrations and comments, by J. i.
Laurers, one of the finest of French artists.
I. b Peterson s; Co. will pabsh Immediate
ly new novel BY Miss Eliza A. Dupry-"A
New Way to Win Fortune"
Mrs. Marie Darlington Deslonde, WE'LL
known New Orleans society belle, is about to
publish, with Carleton e Co., novel, entitled,
The Miller of Silcoit-Mill.
The mania for old china and modern porce-
lain calls out a considerable literature. The
latest announce ment is of handbook of Mod
ern English Pottery and Porcelain; Hints for
Collectors, by Mr.. A. w. Tuer
The forthcoming ScribneI's will contain
curiosity of literature, the Phi-Beta-Kappa
poem at Harvard this year, written by Walter
Mitchell. 1t is called The Mockipg Bird, and
occupies five pages of the Monthly.
The forthcoming papers in the valuable
series now appearing in Harper's Magazine,
under the gene eral title of The First Century of
the Republic, will embrace Scientific Progress,
by Pres dent Barnard and Prof Theodore Gill;
American Literature, by L. 2 Whipple; Prog.
ress in the Fine Arts, by S. S. Conant; Ameri-
can Jurisprudence, by B V. Abbott; Medical
and Sanitary Progress, by Austin Flint, NJ. D.;
HumanitarIap Progress, by Charles L. Brace;
Socialistic Development, by Charles Nordhoff;
Manners of the Gentry, G. w. Curtis; and
Religious Development, by President Hurst.
A chronicle Of the ''Prayer-Gusee Debate
is to be issued by the Congregational Publish
ing House, Boston. 1t is to include the argu-
ments of Prof. Tyndall Gallon and others ON
one side, and of DR.. McCosh, Cannon Liddop,
the Duke of Argyll and others on the other.
fhe Life of John Locke, by Mr.. H r. Fox
Bourne, is completed and will be published
early next year. The editor has discovered the
original manuscripts of several short treatises
written by the philosopher hut never pub.
lished, among them,% An Essay Concerning
federation, penred fourteen years before the
first of Lockes famous Letters on Toleratiou.
West India Pickles is the spicy title given by
w. p. Talboys TO a humorous book. in the
press of Carleton & Co., being the Diary of a
Yacht Cruise last winter among the West
India Islands.
Hepworth Dixon's last book, The White
Conquest, is called the best of his books, while
at the same time it is Roughly handled by the
English journals. lie has much to say of the
"rythmic prose" of our native population.
Last wiuter the dramatic critic of La France,
NJ. do Llpommeraye, developed the idea of
'feaiRetonS parles," an institution which drew
select company every Monday to the Confer
ences of the Bouvelard des Capucines TO listen
to a riCa roce review, lasting an hour, by one
of the principal critics of the day, of pieces
seen the night before, or to be Seen the same
evening. The literary critic of lie Temps, NJ
Sarcey, is to introduce the idea into literature,
presenting at his conferences review, by word
of mouth, of the notable books of the week
This is an adaptation of Mr. Alcott's "Conyer.
sations."
G p. Putnam's Sons have in press literary
curiosity in the shape of a japanese romance,
entitled "Chinshingura or the Loyal League
translated by Frederick V. Dickens, with notes
and an appendix containing metrical version
of "The Ballad of Fakasago" and specimens
of the original text 10 the Japane.e characters,
lhuStIdteu ny EuueIOu5 Iuii-pI2e tlntcu platcS,
drawn and engraved by japanese artists and
printed on japanese paper This romance,
which is founded on historical episode, is said
to be interesting and valuable for the light that
it throws upon the manner Of thought and life
in Japan, and upon the degree to which deyc-
tion to the clan and the chieftain absorbs all
other Interests.
Miss Ellen Clayton is preparing book on
British female artists, which will include
sketches of Mrs. Murray. Miss Thompson,
Helen Paterson, (wife of William Allingham,
the pcet,) Mrs. William RossettI, Mrs. Hueffer,
Fox and Others, among them the author, her.
self an artist.
Mr.. John Habberton, literary critic of the
the Christian Uni,n, is TO edit for G. P. Put
MANS Sons series Of selections from the
British essayists; aiming TO represent their
spirit, though not their quantity. Thus the
cream of the Spectator, Tattler, Guardian,
Freeholder, World, Mirror, and Lounger will
given, each IN one volume, with no change
whatever in the text included.