The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-13
Literary Nofas

The September Contemporary has a nanar bv
John Macdonnell, on 1.-THE American Bsncb y
Mr. s. B. Ruggles, the Nation states. ia writ.
ing 'History of Gold and Silver in Civilized
Countries" down to July 4, 1876
Mr.. W. E. FL. Lecky, the historian of Euro.
pean morals, is writing study Of social life in
the eighteenth century.
Prof. j. P. Mshaffy, whose book on social
life in Greece gave him considerable reputa-
ton, has in press an account of recent travels
in that country.
Mr.. Wm. Morris is understood to have COM
pieted ior the press an epic poem, whose SUBJ
lect Is the same as that of Wagner's great work.
Mr' Morris follows the Eddaic version of the
Nibelungen legend.
The managers of the new Shakespeare so-
ciety' have arranged with the proprietors of
the LONDON Graphic for the printing in that
Journal of their map of "Shakespeare's Lon.
don" Q593), four times enlarged. The Atbe
n@um suggests series of historical mans of
London.
The life of Gen. George A. Custer will bs
published by Sheldon & Co. within the month
in an octave volume of about 500 pages. fully
illustrated. 1t is written by Mr. Frederick
Whitaker. who wrote the sketch of the Gen.
eral in the last Galaxy. The October issue of
that magazine will contain Gen. Clusters last
paper.
Prof. Henry Morley, having completed for
"Casselrs Library of English Literature" his
Shorter English Poems," is now editing
second volume, illustrating "The Religious life
OF England" The first part, just ready, in
cludes the opening of Codman's Paraphrase, in
modern English. The work will be illustrated
by original drawings and fac-similes of original
manuscripts.
The English translation by Capt +. @. II.
Clark, r. A, of "Ninth Section of the Ger
man History of the Franco-German War, of
1870 H." has Just been completed. The vol
ume includes the proceedings on the German
coast and before the fortresses in Alsace-Lor-
raine, the battle of Noisseville, and a general
review of the war up to the commencement of
September.
An interesting discovery has been made by
Professor Carl Hirsche of the University of
Heidelberg. 1t is that of an original MS. of
the "De Imitatione Christi" in the Royal Ii
brary of Brussels. The discovery was made
some little time ago, and the professor has re-
Gently published at Berlin new edition
this ancient manual of devotion in the original
language, following the stichometrical ar
rangement of the sentences, as plainly indi-
Gated in the MS. No account of Hirsche's
work has yet appeared in English.
A new and extensive work by DR.. Robert
Brown, whose Race Of Mankind" has bat
just been completed. is announced by Cassell,
Potter & Galpin. 1t treats of 1.-THE Countries
of the World" and proposes to give graphic
sketches of the appearance, productions, in.
dustries, society, politics, and wonders of the
various portions of the globe. according to the
latest discoveries. Maps will be supplied
wherever necessary to the calculation of the
text while the whole will be profusely Illus
trated throughout by engravings of scenery,
cities, plants, animals and other features Of
geographical interest, by the best artists"