The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-15
Literary Notes.

Mrs. Terhune ('Marion Harlando )bas 4 new
novel, My Little Love, in press with G. w.
Carleton & Co.
Itis reported that Professor W. G. Summer
is actively engaged in writing political histo-
ry of the United States. a
! Mr.. John Forster, il is now known, had only
finished the first volume of the Life of Swift,
and the work will consequently remain frag-
ment. 't"
The Cat and the Countess, a serial story
translated from the French by Mr. T. B. AID
rich and illustrated in silhouette, will be begun
In the May number of ST. Nicholas
Osgood & Co. will soon publish '.Private
Theatricals," by w. ID. Howells. Also new
and thorough "Guide Book to the White
Mountains, by M. F. Sweetser. n' o'1 q ?
Edward jenkins new political satire on The
Royal Titles bill, "The Blot on the Queen's
Head the London Examiner says, was writ
en- and printed in eleven hours, and fifteen
thousand copies were sold within twenty.four
hours after its publication.
Miss Braddon is no longer editor of the Bel
gravia Magazine, and it is understood that she
intends 10 come to this coantry and give pub
lie readings from her own works-an inteilec-
tual treat of which many Americas would pre-
fer not to rob their British cousins.
T. b. Peterson & Brothers of Philadelphia,
| on account Of the time necessary to engrave
the portrait of Mrs. Southworth, have been
compelled to postpone the publication Of Ish-
maeli or In the Depths, now in press by them,
| until April %. "o.-'b 'L4s'
A manuscript copy of the Koran, copied BY
the Caliph Osmap, the third after the prophet
Mohammed, is in the Imperial Library at Sc
Petersburg It formed part of the library of
Samarcand, is 200 years old, and bears traces
OF the blood that spurted on its pages when
Osman was stabbed while reading it.
The May number of Scribner's Monthly will
have, among its notable articles, an extract
from Mr.. Bryants forthcoming history of the
United States, entitled The True Pocahontas
The college paper will have to do with Bow
doin College, and very interesting article on
The Portraiture of William Penn will be IL
lustrated By woodcuts of all the portraits in ex-
isterce of the founder of Pennsylvania.
Although Mr.. George Ticknor was one of the
most scholarly men this country has ever pro-
duced, his letters ard journals describe SO
many noted men and women whom
everybody wishes to hear about, that
his Life" is remarkably popular. The 6fth
edition is already on the press, and the apre.
tite OF the reading public shows no signs of
having had enough.
Prof George Stephens of Copenhagen hopes
to publish in May pamphlet on the interest
ing ruined monolth lately exbumed in Sweden.
which was raised in memory of men, one of
whom fell fighting under Earl Siward against
Macbeth. This monument is, says the Profess
sor, the very Oldest document left us connected
with the obscure history of Shakespeares hero.
A chromotype of the monolith will accompany
the pamphlet.
j. B. Ford & Co., New York, will very
shortly publish handbook of instructions for
the organization of rifle associations, with
practical hints to members and to marksmen
generally. 1t will include, besides forms for
incorporation, by laws, ETC., rules for practice
and competition matches, detailed directions
as to the construction of ranges and targets,
forms for score tickets, and all such data, with
many illustrative diagrams maps, sketches,
etc.
"The History of the City of New York upon
which Mrs. Martha j. Lamb has been engaged
for ten years is nearly ready for publication.
Mrs. Lamb is the only woman member Of the
New York Historical Society. and has had free
access to the rich store of materials in the ar
chives of that association, as well as to private
papers OF no little value belonging to represen-
tatives of our oldest families. The work will
be Published in parts, and will be sold only by
subscription. A. S. Barnes & Co. are the pub
| fishers. - r-,.-
Hurd & Houghton will publish the present
season four different Riverside Centennial
Guides. They will include New York and
How to See 1t, Philadelphia and the Centen-
nial-How to See Them. Washington, and
and How to See 1t, and Boston to Washing
ton, containing complete information regard
ing the cities of Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore and Washington. These
guides will appear in four laDguages-English,
French, German and Spanish-to suit Euro
pean travellers.
The whole series of translatons from the sa-
cred books of the world, says the London Aca-
denny, which are to be edited by Prof Max
Muller, will be divided into six sections: 1.
Books illustrative of the religion of the Brah-
minis (SanscritJ; .. Books illustrative of the
religion of the Buddhists (Pali, Sanscrit); 8.
ers of Zoroaster (Zend); Books illustrative of
the religion of Confusius (Chinese); 5. Books
illustrative of the religion of Lao-tse
(Chinese); 6. Books illustrative OF the
followers of Mohammed (Arabic). The Co
operation of some of the most distinguished
Oriental scholars in England has been secured
10 this work including DR.. Legge for Chinese,
Prof. Cowell for Sanscrit, and Prof. Childers
for Pail.
A writer in Blackwood's Magazine says of
Lamartines poems, "The fugitive poems, those
meditations and harmonies which, if never
reaching the highest level of poetry, are still
expressive Of many of the gentler feelings of
the heart, its lADgours and sadness, its tender
recollections, and that vague melancholy
which, there can be little doubt gives SO much
| of its charm to bature. In this point of view,
| of a reflective and descriptive poet, giving
| harmonious medium of expression to many a
| gentle, voiceless son, Lamartine win probably
| long retain bis place in the estimation of his
| countrymen. His longer poems are, we trust,
| as dead by this time as they deserve to be, and
We feel personal necessity to remove the
| sickly odor which they leave behind them by
one more return to the native soil which gave
| him strength, and filled him with an inspira-
| ton more Wholesome and sweet than senti-
ment."
Scribner, Armstrong & Co. announce the
publication of the initial volume of the Sans
Souci Series, uniform with the: Bric-a-Brac
Series, to be edited by Richard Henry Stoddard.
Mention of the editor and publisher is sufficient
guarantee in advance of the quality of the work.
The prospectus assures the reading public that
| the new series will be wider in its scope, more
curious in its details and of much greater varie-
| ty than even was the Bric-a-Brac. at does
not" says Mr. Stoddard, separate itself from
| literature and art, which naturally attach them.
selves to it, but it busies itself with historical
| and biographical ana, particularly those which
illustrate several important epochs in the civil
ization of modern Europe. One of these epochs
| in the civilization of modern Europe is the
graCd siecel of Louis Quatorze and Quinze;
another is the philosophic period of the
eighteenth century, as interpreted by Vol
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