The Portland daily press., 1875-09-25
Literary Notes.

lne new Oay. Inefe VIII De DeSlucS Two
new ''Bric a.br,c" volumes namely, Persona,
"Reminiscences of Constable and Gllies" and
Personal Recollectons of Lamb, Haztt and
Others" "India and its Native Priuces,''
translated fIon the French of Louis Ro1sslet,
and rev illustrated edition Of Mrs. Dodge's
"Hans Brinker." We are to have also new
and final volume of Max Muler's .'Chips from
German Work Shop containing essays
chiefly on the science OF language; "Tales Out
of School, by Frank r. Stockton, and a new
edition of his Roundabout Ramhes'' new
volume of Lange's Bible Commentary, ''Eze
kiel and Daniel" and two historical works by
J. I. Headley, washington and his Genet
ais and 'Chap plaius AMI Clergy of the R vo-
lution.'
DIR. A. y. Hamlia who wrote 'rhe Fou:-
malne"-but is not candidate for "Saxe
Holm" honors, since her "Tourm aline'' was of
a different shade has prepared another
little volume on "The Diamond which d
Appleton & Co. will publish. 1t treats of the
natural history of the stoue, the theories Of is
origin, its places, properties. the methods of
/ testing, etc. with some accounts of fimous
diamonds
Mr.. Darwin's new voum9 on 'Uimbiog
Plants and their Habits, which follows the
line of investig alton entered upon 10 "Inseciv-
orous Plants" is in press at Messrs D. Apple
ton & Cos.
Messrs. Roberts Brothers are preparing an
agreeable sensation for hosts of readers iu the
shape of a new book by Miss Alcott. eight
Cousins will be the first book in the Little
Women" Series issued since "Little Men," and
Y which was published in June 1871, four years
ago, thirty-eight thousand copies having been
called for in that month. The series consists
of ''Little Women" Little Men, "Od Fash
ioned Girl" three works without doubt the
most popular Of the time, their combined sale
in the United States exceeding two hundred
\ thousand, and Eogland, France, Germany and
Holland swelling the number with their re
l spective editions eight Cousins adds to
these felicitous domestic histories which have
made their author so famous, and in which
girls, boys, and their parents take equal de-
light, and its perusa will convince all that she
has lost none of her powers of fascination.
Emerson's name leads the essayists who will
publish this season, but with the usual ''if"
American criticism will make brilliant dis
play with Mr.. Stedman's ''Victorian Poets''
and the second series of Mr.. Lowelfs "Among
Ny Books" Among literary miscellany may
be roted DR.. Allibone's promised Dictionary of
Prose Quotations and that curiousy-titled sam
ple-trunk of good reading "The Might and
Mirth OF Literature, by Mr.. Macbeth, which
Harper & Brothers are to publish. OF art
books, Mr. Fell's long promised work ON the
kabollah is the most important, and next to
it is Mr. Jarvs's little volume on japanese Art. i.
The new revision of Mr.. Hamerton's "Etch
'ng and Etchers" is assured, an i his American
publishers promise other books by him. Thero
will be several new guides to the works of the
great painters.
NJ. Feullet is an aristocrat in literature, and
eschews the m ,n in blouse, who appears as lit
tie as possible in his novels aud plays. In the
'Histoire de Sibylle" the work is aristocratc
and plous. 10 the Roman d'ua Jeuae Homme
| Pauvre" it is arstocratc and moral. He has
always basket in the genial rays of aristocratic
! favor; he stood near the throne under the sec
1 ond empire. He was the favorite author of the
| Empress Eugeuie, who is supposed to have in
spired him with the idea of the ''Sibylle"; that
| is, asked him to write novel from the Roman
! Catholic point of view. The slender intellectu
| Al gifts of this amiabe and fervent Christian
l could no. have more than made the vague sug-
L gestion; and when the novel was finished the
/ anne mental deficiencies led her to believe tlat
it was the chef d'ouvre of the age. She has
her qualities, but the critical faculty in litera-
ture is not one of them. 1t may be observed
1 10 this connection, as an incident attesting
1 thereto, that when the Tulferies was invaded
l by the red Democracy, an unfinished novel was
found at which the empress aud her husband
had been trying their hands, and which hardly
rose to the level of mediocrity.-ABert Rhode,
in the Galaxy for October
The London Spectator is fascinated with
Sherman's memoirs" 1t says: Nothing
but perusal of this excellent book will bring
home to the reader the thoroughly original
l character of the man of genius by whom it was
written. We see him develop month by month
into the masterful soldier he became, and we
are forced to conclude-that, whatever may be
the merits of Others, his give him place in
the front rank as really great captain, while
as man he is certainly second to none.'
The sister of Elizabeth Thompson, the PAIN
ter, has published in London volume of po
ems entitled '.Preludes,'' wi tn Illustrations, by
her sister, the artist, which are said to show
"ease and womaulike Skill" but not TO partc.
ularly assist the verses The Atheneum says
1t woald require another Blake ftly to illus
trate verse like that of Miss A. q. Thompson.
Miss E. Thompson is not another Blake. but
something quite different" The poems are
"full of hazy, indefinite and nameless SORROW
and so it depreciates them.
The monastery OF GrottoferEaa, near Fras-
| cat so celebrated for the rich stores of Greek
MSS. which it has preserved to the present day
from the eleventh century, when the confrater-
nifty migrated from Sicily to the Italian house
assigned to them by the Emperor Otho III
has again rewarded the zeal of Italian scholars
| by an interesting literary discovery. Accord
ing to the Roman correspondent of the Allge.
mene Zeitung, Father Giuseppe Cozza, while
| engaged in following out the course of exami-
nation begun by Cardinal Angelo Mai, and con,
tinued by himself, of the biblical codices of the
monastery, discovered several palimpsests, in
which the original text-a rescript of Strabo
written in three columns with uncial letters
without any separation of the words-the So
called screptao continud-had been concealed
under an Old Testament text of the eley enth
century. Father Cozza is of opinion that
this text OF Strabo may be referred to the sixth
century, and it is understood that it supplies
mary OF the deficiencies observable in the ear
lier known copies.
The November Atlantic will contain the first
of the papers on Railroads by Charles Francis
Adams, Jr.; the beginning of Mr.. Howells $
story the last of Colonel Warnings papers on
Drainage; the fourth installment of Mrs.
Kemble's memoirs; an article on Hans Chris
tan Andersen, by III. E. Scudder; study Of
Oriental life, by Charles Dudley Warner, and
other a tractive contributions.
j. r. Osgood & Co. have in preparation an
entirely new edition of Hawthorne's works
| Il will be virtually "Little Classicn edition