The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-10-28
Literary Notes.

a volume of Tsble Talk, by A. Bronso Al
colt. is announced by Roberts Brothers.
Half Hours among English Antiquities, BY
Llewellyn Jewtt. is forthcoming English
book.
Mr.. Green's Short History OF the English
People is passing to its fortieth thousand in
England
A new novel by May Agnes Flsmming
called Kate Danton. will be published at
once by g. W. Carleton & Co.
The October number of the British Quarter
ly has papers on The American Centenbia and
American Ecclesiastical Law.
Harpers Magazine for December will con.
tain communication from William E. Glad
stone respecting his attitude toward the United
Slater during the war of the rebellion.
There is to be a biography Of Rowland Hill;
His Life, Anecdotes and Pulpit Sayings, by
Mr.. V. j. Charlesworth, with an Introduction
by Mr.. Spurgeon.
A volume of Songs and Hymns of the Greek
Christian Poets, translated into English verse.
by the Rev. A. W. Chatfield, is announced BY
R'vingtons, London.
Centennial books have not vet ceased.
Messrs Hubbard Brothers, Philadelph an
OoQk6uHl4l
Exhibition, illustrated, Of 600 pages. at $780,
Mr.. John Weiss has made translation of
Goethe's West-Easterly Digan, which will be
published by Roberts Brothers in December,
with introduction and notes from his pen.
Among the recent English announcements
is The Real and the Ideal, the Beautiful and
the True; or Art in the Nineteenth Century:
plain treatise for plain people, containing .
new and startling revelation for the Pre-
Rsphaelites. By rustic Ruskin.
The Literary World is discouraged as to the
current knowledge of literature. 1t notes, ap-
propos of recent school examinations, that
young ladies who have graduated at high and
normal schools, and have been teachers, public
ly rank Tennyson as among the chief American
poets, name Shakespeare as a cortemprary Of
Gray, and credit Whitter's poems to Longfel.
low"
This is the tender and amiable close Of re-
view of Daniel Deronda in the London Stan
dard: "Daniel Deronda in our eyes appears
to be very dull novel, written by q very
clever woman who has outlived her sympa,hies
for most human beings, and for the beliefs and
hopes which most human beings clngs to
whose wit has lost all its spontaneousness
whose pedautry has become intolerable, and
whose philosophy contemns all faith and for
bids all bopefulness
The Literary World, in giving an extrac
from the second volume of Messrs. Robert
Brothers No Name Series, speaks 10 this rap
turous fashion,; 1--WE are happy to max, the
announcement OF one Of the finest poems shat
ever issued from the American press; indeed,
we may add, from the English. No nobler, no
loveller verses have ever flowed from the pen Of
Tennyson. The title of the poem is Dsrdre,
aud it's author is, we believe, an Irishmou.'
writer in the Galaxy calls r. ID. Black
more's Lora Doone the most consistent aud
complete historical novel of the times. Well
Heury Esmond may belong to bygone literary
period, bat Romols does not, and to compare
the narrow limits of Lora's story with the
world-importance of Romoia's theater is Just
absurd. Speaking of Blsckmore, the Nation
says of his latest, Cripps the Carrier, that its
author has acquired certain amount of repu-
tation by his stories, but that he has shown
contempt for it that would honor an eastern
sage in writing this melodramatic tale"
The Revue des Deux Mondes is not pleased
with Bret Hsrte's novel 1t says of its end
and lesson: SIT is bad enough to sbsolve the
rascals, but to sacrifice honest people to the N
IS too much. 1 paint what 1 see, Mr.. Hsrte
will say This right to be nothing else but
mirror seems to us one that might be disputed.
Till now we have left him free to fell
everything, proving nothing; his sketches
we're but the rapid presentation rudel, drawn
and wildly colored OF a fact. a character. a
scene. Between such work and the book he
has just published there is the same difference
that exists between study from nature and
picture. 1t is enough that the first is faith
ful copy of nature; the secoad must have
divine ray of the ideal