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Pere Hyacinthe has just republished his SER
mons at Geneva They contain the explana-
tion so long asked of his real creed He takes
as text OF his faith four maxims-one from st.
Augustine, in things necessary we must have
unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all things,
charity" One from Montalembert, 1.-THE Jes-
uits are hateful sect, which in these times
tyrannizes and makes profit out of Catholic
ism." One from NJ Renan, II can say of the
Catholic Church what Job said of God, Even
though He kill lime, in Him will hope" And
last, passage from Pere Gratry's treatises on
the latest council, They flushed with coup
d'etat what they began with an ambuscade."
Rocheforts new novel, "Les Depraves," Is
directed against the police under the empire of
Napoleon Ill,
Mr.. Justin Winsor is to be the editor of 0
new quarterly folio to be named the "Fsc-simi-
list" 1t will be published by j. r. Osgood &
Co., and each number Will contain from twelve
to sixteen heliotype reproductions of rare en-
cravings, MSS, title pages, etc., accompanied
by twenty pages of letter-press.
Arrangements have been made for the pub
LEGATION of Mr.. Mills correspondence with
Comte, but owing to objections which have
been raised by persons who are mentioned in
the correspondence, it will not be published
for the present.
An attempt to familiarze Oriental litera-
ture is undertaken by NJ. Paul Regnaud in
series of translations called 'Les Classiques
de PInde Ancienne"-the first volume on the
'Erotic, Moral and Religious Poems Of Bhar-
trihari.''
d. Appleton & Co. are publishing uniform
social science series. Mills Political Economy,
and Buckles Civilization are already out in
two vol umes each. Herbert Spencer's works
are TO follow. The volumes are sold at two
dollars each.
curious monograph is promised in Eng
land, on Ecclesiastical and Academical
Colors." The first part will give an explana-
tion of the various colors Used in the service
of the Church, with tables of colors; and, pal
second "a list of hoods worn by:.graduateso
British and colonial universities and member
of theological colleges, with a short accoun
Of those universities and colleges which gran
hoods nd.confer degrees"
Mr.. w. f. Gill of Boston possesses the origi
nal MS. of Poe's poem of "The Bells" The
handwriting is very handsome, and as clear as
print.
A manuscript said to be in John Locke's
handwriting is in st. Marks Library in Venice.
1t consists of notes on medical subjects, and
affords an additional proof of what was already
| believed, that Locke at one time intended to
| practice medicine
This is the regimen that Balzae prescribed
| to the young writers who were associated
with him, and in whose litera ry career he in
T.;
an example, he preached to US strange lit
erary hygiene. He wanted US to shut our
selves out of all society for three or fsur years,
drink only water, eat very simple vegetable
food, 60 to bed at six o'clock in the afternoon,
rise at midnight and work till morning. Then
employ the day in revising, amplifying, prun-
| ing, polishing our labor of the night, in cor
recting proof, taking notes and making studies
| of the subject in hand"
The poem of the ''Song of the Shirt" is one
of the most remarkable in English literature,
| and has probably been more widely read than
| anv other of the present century. Yet this
| poem, as we learn from Mr.. Joseph Hatton's
history of the origin of Punch, had been re-
| jected by three editors, to whom it had been
| offered. Hood then sent it 10 the editor of
Punch, requesting him to throw it in his waste.
basket if he should not want to publish it, as
the author was sick of it. The majority of
the Punch men decided that it was not fit to
be printed. Mark Lemon. the editor-in-chief,
had better judgment, and decided to print the
poem, and the result was an increase in the
sale of Punch to three times its previous circu-
lation.
1 Antoinette Stirling relates that, having been
invited by Charles Kingsley to sing at Eversle'
| Rectory, she sang the ballad of The Thrt.
| Fishers" She says: "He had never seen me
| before, and when came to the part Of the
song which expresses the suspense of the weep
| ing women on the shore, heard him say: Go
| on, that's rightr But when the suspense was
| over and the bodies were lying on the sands,
missing his previous exclamatons, I looked up,
and saw him sitting with his face in his hands,
crying at his own pathetic story"
| Increase Mather, who died in 1923, LETT
eighty-eight separate works behind him. Cot
| ton Mather who survived his father five years,
| far surpassed him in book-making He was
the most prolific writer the United States has
ever seen. The Headleys and the Abbotts try
iu vain to equal him. He wrote and published
3S7 books, or about one a month during his
ministry. AS late as 1923, DR.. Noah Webster,
in order to get out the first edition of his die
tionary. mortgaged all his real estate and nsed
the money thus borrowed to buy the paper and
| pay the compostors.
The London Saturday Review gives the fol.
lowing hints to critics: 1.-THE true aim of the
man doomed to be critic is to retain his acute
ness of sensibility. He should be able to feel
pain as we'll as pleasure, to know Ia very diff
cult task what his real feelings are, and to ex-
press them frankly. To stimulate artifcially
his faculty for admiration is just as absurd as
it would be to pursue the reverse process. Prob
ably the most healthy plan is different one.
The critic who feels that his eye is growing
dim, should, if we may speak irreverently,
turn himself out to grass. He should give him
self holiday, and try to regain the natural
elasticity of the organ. To read nothing is i'm
possible; but he should repose himself upon
some of those writers who lie outside the sphere
of refined crititism. Mr.. Browning gives the
receipt in one Of his poems, where he forgets
the pedant by throwing himself on the grass
with bottle of Chablis. and having laugh
over jolly chapter in ''Rabelais." The Cha
blis is only necessary when you are forced to
rhyme, and to some tastes Rabelais.is not very
entertaining reading. We should prefer, we
confess, some writer in whom the comic ele-
ment has not been tarnished by the lapse of