Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-24
LITERARY ITEMS.

Bessie Turner's initial volume is en-
titled A Woman IN the Case
William Morris's translation Of the
lzneid will soon be published.
tScri6neT's for December has thirty-twC
extra pages and about seventy illustra'
tons.
Mv Young ALcideS, Miss Yonge's
Christmas novel, by Macmillan d Co.,
publishers.
C.M. Ingleby's Shakespeare HeTme-
ne1ttics is another commentary on the
great dramatist.
The twelfth revised edition of Brock.
haus's Conversations ericon is in course
of publication at Leipzig.
Bayard Taylor has published a new
volume of poems, entitled Home RIsto-
rails, Ballads and Lyrics.
Baron Daviller's book on Spain, illus
trated by Gustave Dore and other ar
fists, is just out in London.
J.B. Iippincott & Co. will soon issue
an elegant volume, for holiday presents,
to be called CotempOrdTy. art.
Charles Francis Adams, jr., in his
second Atlantic article, tells rawhide-
and-bloody-bones stories about railroad
travels.
DIR. John SimonsI Filth Diseases and
their Prevention, is being republished by
the Massachusetts State board Of
health.
Victor Hugo remains in possession OF
HauteVille house, and will soon publish
a poem entitled Les QudtTe Vents de
Esprit.
Mr.. Gladstone contributed an article
on Italy and Her Church, in the first
number of the London Church quar-
terIy Review.
Macmillan & Co., will soon issue Il
History of Dramatic English LiterG-
ture, by Professor A. w. Ward, of Man.
chester, England.
Robert Clark & Co., of Cincinnati,
have in press George D. Prenttce's COL
Lected Poems, with 3 biographical pre-
face by John J. Piatt.
The first of the four volumes of the
new History OF the United States, under
the supervision Of William Cullen Bry.
ant, will be issued early in 1875.
The last publication OF the Camden
society is Annie Lady Hackett's autobi-
ogTaphy, containing the life OF a young
GDRllbn Sill AZ SAC III 81 u OHSNAA~D Il
Victor Hugo has received one hun
bred and fifty thousand dollars for his
plays alone. His literary earnings
amounted to seven hundred thousand
dollars.
Drs. M'CIintock and StroDg's CycJo-
p9did of Biblical and Theological
knowledge, by Harper, has reached the
letter n. 1t will be complete in ten
volumes.
A new psychological and philOsophi-
cal quarterly, termed Mind, appears in
London next January. Among its con.
tributors will be Herberi Spencer and G
81. Lewis.
The second volume Of the ancient
French language, historical dictionary,
published from the pOsthumOus manu-
scripts of L8CdTDe de Sginte- Paiaye, has
been issued.
While in Rome Joaquin Miller, for
getting "Minnie Myrtle" fell in love
with a Maury county, Tennessee, lady
and made her the heroine of his new
story, entitled The One Fair Woman.
G. Washington Octave is the title Of
an Italian poem published at Turin, by
Luccs Eavsrese, who so admired the
character and Virtues OF Tue great
American that he had to express his en-
thusiasm in this work.
The December number of the Atlantic
closes the volume Of II. James, jr.'s
serial story, Roderick Hudson, and also
a patiently written article upon the Ger
man Of NouGLes Of the Romantic School,
by Prof. n. d. BOyesen.
In their finely illustrated book en-
titled The Shepherd Lady, which the
Messrs. Roberts are soon to publish,
there is a sonnet entitled Failure which
Miss Jean Ingelow thinks one of the
best poems she has ever written.
SpiTttudLis7l and Other Allied Causes
Of Nervous DeTGngenlert, is the title Of
DR.. William A. HammOnd's book,
which is now in the press OF g. P. Put
MANS Sons, who are also printing Pro- !