The Portland daily press., 1875-09-11
TitArary Notes,

AitCAdIy NVooS'
Rev. Edward Everett Hale's new story will
be begun in Scribners Magazine for January,
on;the conclusion of DR.. Hollands Seven
oaks.n-The title is "Phlip Nolan's Friends;
or Show Your Passports" Philip Nolan will
be remembered as the famous MAN Without
a Country" The new story will be illustrated
by sketches by Mr.. Hale's daughter.
Mr.. E. G. Stedman says that whatever Bull
wer did was the result of deliberate intellect
and culture. The fire was not in him, and his
measures do not give out heat and light. His
shorter lyrics never have the true ring; his
translations are somewhat rough and pedantic;
his satires often in poor taste and brought him
no great profit. His dramas contain passages
which are wise, eloquent and effective, though
rarely giving out the subtitle aroma which
comes from the essential poetic principle. Yet
Bulwer had an honest love for the beautiful
and sublime, and his futile effort to express it
was almost'pathetic.
The most important short poem Jean Inge-
low has written for some time will appear in
the October Harper's.
Bret Harte's new novel will be begun as a
serial in the November number of Scribner's
Magazine. The story ia kes its title, "Gabrel
Conroy," from its hero, a simple, good-hearted
honest old miner, of type somewhat different
from that of illustrious predecessors in Mr..
Harte's writings. Several familiar friends,
nevertheless, renew old acquaintance, among
them Colonel Starbottle, and the story is
wholly in Mr.. Harte's original field, and is
said to fulfill as novel the promise of his very
best tales.
The reign of shoddy in the ook-publishing
world is illustrated in the increasing use of
"feltine," superficial imitation of book cloth
made of colored paper, and of ''leatherette''
also paper imitation of embossed leather
Both materials are pronounced worthless in
the London Bookseller, books bound in them
soon cracking in the joints and entirely want
ing the suppleness and elasticity of leather.
Mrs. Fanny Hodgson Burnetrs pathetic
tales of Lancashire Life" in Scrbner's and
Harper's Monthlies, won Cor her three years
ago recognition as promising writer. The Sc
rial, "The Lass O. Lowrie's" which is to appear
in Scribner's, is her first novel, and follows
the style of those early dialect stories. She
was born in Lancashire, but she came to this
country when very young, and now lives In
Tennessee.
Mr.. Howell's new novel, the first installment
which will appearin November, is to be called
"Private Theatricals."
Mr.. George P. Lathrop, now assistant editor
of the Atlantic, will occupy the place of honor
in the October Scribner's with his poem of
"Jessamine," which Mr.. La Fargo illustrates
The other poems in that number of Scribner's
will be by 81. e., "''Susan Coolidge" R. W.
Glider, Mary L. Ritter and Mary E. Bradley.
Mr.. Stedman will print his second paper on the
"Minor Victorian Poets," concluding his crit.
ical series. Mr.. Francis Gerry Fairfield has a
psychological discussion of Poe as GA Man
of Letters"
Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale, will discuss
in Harper's for October, The American Exper-
iment and the Preparation for 1t.
The Academy hears that Mr.. Tennyson is to
write some new scenes for the acting version of
his Queen Mary at the Lyceum.
Mr. s.. s. Cox will give specimens:of 'Legis-
lative Humor" in the forthcoming Harper's.
A strong piece of satirical writing in the Oc-
tober Atlantic Monthly is entitled "The Curl
GUS Republic of Gondour," and describes suf-
AIaSo syStcm Wy WHICH, Well-eQuc3CeQ men have
more votes than even well-moneyed men-a
reform which was successful because it was
called "enlarging" inscead of "restrcting' the
right Of the ballot. Mr.. Z. S. Perry contrib
utes to the next number of the Atlantic
Monthly criticism of Arthur Hugh Clough's
works, very delicately followed out to some in
teresting conclusions. He ranks Clough high
above the mock-pagan poets of our century, and
predicts for him and for Emerson enduring
fame as representatives of the real life of the
time.
In Mr.. Longfellow's new volume will be in
cluded the poem recited by him at the recent
commencement at Bowdoin College; the
Hanging of the Crane; a new composition
entitled 1.-THE Masque of Pandora and a
"Book of Sonnets." making in all book of
some $50 pages. One of these sonnets, the
"Old Bridge at Florence" has an immediate
interest in connection with the centenary of
Michael Angelo, which is to be celebrated dur
ing the present month with SO much artistic
pomp and Circumstance in the beautiful old
Tuscan capital Mr.. Longfellow, whose mas
terry of the Italian tongue is not less admirable
than Vincent Bourne's command of Latin YER
si6cation, has written this sonnet in Italian.