Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-25
LITERATURE AND ART.

Augusta j. Evans new book is to
be called "Infelicia.
Wilkie Collins next novel will be
entitled the Confessions of a Clergy.
man." The scene is laid in England
however.
Ouida lives in elegant style in Flor.
ence. She has a handsome carriage
and, of course, she Is barbaric enough
to keep a tiger.
Mrs. c. A. Mayfeld, author of the
Household of BOuverie," appears IN
print once more as the author Of ga
Double Wedding; or, How She Was
Won"
Herbert Spencer, in a paper lately
read before the British Anthropologi-
cal Society, on Comparative Psy-
chology, took the ground that women
are more conservative than men.
Henry Ward Beecher, as done in
wax at Nine. Tussaud's, London, is
said to be the living image of Theodore
TiltOn. "Such," says a writer, ''are
the pranks of aVenging fate as evinced
in inanimate Objects
Mrs. Anna Chambers Ketchum, the
Southern author, has taken up her res
idence in England for five years. She
is to publish a book of verses called
Dolores, and other Rhymes Of the
South, and is said to be engaged in
completing a new novel.
An Ecclesiastical History of Ire
land" from the earliest times to the
pI esent, has been put into the hands of
Messrs. Macmillan for publication by
the Rev. w. D. Killen, d. D., Presi-
dent of the general assembly, Theolog-
zeal College, Belfast, who has Just COM
pletel the work.
A rare old book has Just come into
possession Of the John Carter Brown
library, at Providence, r. l. 1t is a
Dutch translation of the letters of
Americas Vespucin upon the islands
discovered by him IN his four voyages.
The book was procured at Amsterdam,
and cost S433 IN gold.
Over two thousand of the fresh in
scriptions discovered on the site of
ancient Carthage at the instance of the
Academic des Inscriptions, have al
ready been received IN Paris. A
greater number of inscriptions have
been discovered through this recent
search than those In the museum at
Constantine ami the British Museum
taken together.
n. Penell, the famous restorer of
objects of antiquity to the Louvre
Museum, has undertaken the task of
restoring the statue Of Napoleon for
the Column Vendome. He has also
been charged to reproduce the small
statuette Of Victory, which Napoleon
held IN his hand and which disappeared
when the column was thrown down.
The whole is to be completed In six
Many of the best English artists
have lattarly devoted much of their
time to work on tie illustrated maya
zines and newspapers, and nowit seems
as if the nOvelists also are about to be-
come regular workers On the journals,
as so many in France are. Charles
Reade nas gained as much notoriety
by his letters to the newspapers, and
now Mr.. B. L, Farjeon, the author of
Bread and Butter and Kisses" has
been engaged to write weekly letters
for the ArcqdidR.
a farmer in the outskirts of New
buryport, Mass, was moving his hay
field a day or two since, when a
stranger with auburn hair and beard, a
gold-headed cane and several rings on
his fingers, leaped the fence and asked
the farmer to let him take his scythe
for awhile. The farmer gave it up, and
the stranger moved vigorously for an
hour or two, meanwhile cohversing with
the farmer. The volunteer assistant
was joaquin Miller, the poet of the
now staying in that city.