Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-18
LITERATURE AND ART.

LITERATURE AND ARI.
The memoirs of Prince Won Meter
mich, " edited by his son, will soon APP
pear.
The English revisers of the Author.
| lied Version Of the New Testament are
at work on the Epistle TO the Romans
Paris is becoming so sooty a city that
the group by n. Carpeaux, La Danse
in front Of the new Opera House, is
already injured.
Mr.. Edward King, now in Paris, has
nearly completed his studies of French
Leaders" for the Brief Biographies
Of G. P. Putnam's Sons.
The Commonplace book of John
Milton was discovered only last year in
an English private library, and Is to be
published by the Camden Society.
That most important law treatise,
''Austin's Jurisprudence" has been
abridged for students, the three vol
umes being put into zone, by Robert
Campbell. ...E E
We shall soon have standard book
on tunnels, bringing the science of
boring through mountains up to date,
including the Mount Gems, the Hoosac,
the St. Gothard, etc.
Victor Hugo is said to drive very
hard bargains with tue publishers. The
estimated aggregate amount Of his
earnings is 100000. He has received
nearly $50, eco for his plays alone.
A great-niece Of the poet Goldsmith
is living in extreme poverty IN Dublin.
She is eighty five years of age, and a
fund is being raised in her behalf by
admirers of the great Oliver.
Annie Thomas, the novelist, is the
wife Of the Rev. Fender Cudlip, a High
Church clergyman, and the mother of
four children. She resides IN Mazda
Vale, one Of the pleasantest suburbs Of
London.
Chill, for her International Exhi-
bition, offers a first class medal aud
$50 pesos for the best oil painting by
foreigner, and a similar medal and 500
pesos for the best piece of statuary by
a foreigner.
Augusta J. Evans, the author of
"Beulah, 3" "Macaria, " and ''St Elmo"
has finished a new novel, which, it is
stated, viii probably be her last con-
tribution 10 literature. Her husband
is said to be averse to her writing more.
Prof. James De Mule has an ambi-
ton to be known as the American
Verne. He has written "The Sunless
Land: a New World at the South
Pole, which is spoken Of as ''scien-
tifc romance that fairly rivals Yerne's
best"
The Prix de Salon has again been the
cause Of disturbance. French artists
almost UNANIMOUSLY believe it to have
been deserved by NJ. Georges Becker
for his Rizpah driving the birds Of
prey away from the dead bodies Of her
husband and son.
The School Of Art Needlework has
now the patronage of Queen Victoria,
and Is consequently known as royal.
The Princess Christian is the PresI-
dent, and recently read an address in
inauguratiDg the opening Of the new
rooms III Albert Hall.
Il is whispered that. in spite Of as
to Tie contrary, Sir Arthur
Helps has left behind him a diary
which, though not official" contains
many singular political revelations,
and that it VIII De published about the
of the next winter.
The book entitled Supernatural
Religion has reached a sixth edition
IN England, the preface to which an
swers the attacks made upon the work. !
The London academy says that the |
tables are successfully turned upon its
leading critic, Dr. LightfOOt.
Just as the "Memoirsof John Quincy |
Adams have reached the sixth volume |
it is announced that the first volume Is
already out OF print. This is unforJu.
nate for future buyers who want the /
whole set, as the edition was very small !
and the book not steTeOtyped.
The sale Of La LanteTne has dimin-
isbed TO such a point that the writer of |
it is forced to try something else, and
the walls Of Geneva are now covered
with immense placards announcing
the appearance of Les Deprayes,' a
novel of contemporary manners, ny
Henri ROchefOrt.
Florence Marryat Mrs. Ross. Church,
is said to be not far from forty years
old. and the mother Of a married
daughter, but she is generally spoken
of as a young lady. She is a blonde Of
tue pure English type, and does not
look more than twenty years old. She
is said TO have given up her idea Of
coming to this country to read.
The Spanish. are taking measures to
do tardy Justice to the memory Of the
famous author Of Don QuiXote. a new
literary periodical is soon TO be started
in Madrid, called Ceramics, the profits
of which will be devoted to the erection
of q. monument at Alcala de Henares,
in honor Of the man whose name the
magazine bears.
brakes statue # Humboldt has been
exhibited recently at the artist s studio
in Berlin, previous to being sent to
this country to be cast in bronze and
set ND for exhibition at the Centennial
in Philadelphia next year. The statue
represents Humboldt at about 90 years
of ace. dressed IN the costume of the
time. but with a cloak falling in large
folds thrown across his shoulders. He
Is standing. holding IN one hand a roll
Of paper against his breast, and resting
the other lightly on a large globe. The
figure il more than three meters in
hight.