The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-23
LITERARY NOTES.

Irish adventure in publishing, as in every
thing else, is amusing and amazing. An
humble publisher in Cork announces ''The
Works of Alexander Pope, viewed as an ex-
position of ultramontanism."
The "Talks on Temperance" given by Mr..
Moody IN Boston will be printed in vol
ume by the National Temperance Society.
with some interesting incidents of the work
at the Tabernacle compiled by the Rev. J.
b. Dunn '
Mr.. Jenkins's new pamphlet Janus; or
The Double Faced Ministry" is described as
a coarse and vulgar attack upon the British
Ministry Jenkins has done no good work
since the publication of "Ginx's Baby" he
is the Artemus Ward of England.
In Turkey the government has promulga-
gated new press law Nobody is permitted
to establish printing press without permis-
sion OF the government, and any journal
issued without permission incurs penalty
OF from 4l0 to els for each month of its con-
tnuance.
During the period that Miss Kate Field
wrote London letters for the New York
Herald she received $50 column. and in
one year earned $4,000. Miss Fields first
essays IN journalism were made in the Bos-
ton Courier-in the form of letters from
Florence.
The highest Canadian court has decided
against the Canadian publishers who under
took to republish English books in disregard
of the imperial copyright law. Mr.. Smiles's
Thrift the book in question, and
Messrs. Belford Brothers appeal was dis
missed with cost.
1t is curious fact that Edgar Poe's poems
have had to look to France for their best
illustration. Three years ago folio edition
a.. s.L -,
Paris, and now we have LES Cloches,"
poems Edgar Poe, production libre Emile
Blemond, with fine steel engravings by
Guerard. a. -rfnF
Thomas Carlyle follows the example of
Harriet Martineau by making arrangements
| to have his life written while he is yet on
| hand to attend to il and answer any ques-
| tions which Frederick Martin, the compiler
| of the "Statesman's Year Book, F" formerly
his private secretary, and now his chosen
biographer, may desire to ask. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Martin is paying special at
/ tention to the description of parents and en-.
vironments, and that many stories will be
1 told of Carlyle's father, from whom the son
| inherited his grim humor.
NJ. Philarette Chasles left behind him q
work on Shakespeare's Sonnets, which his
| widow has translated and for which she
hopes to ind an English publisher. M. Chas
les holds that the persons addressed in the
Sonnets are five: l. Henry Wriothesley,
Earl of Southampton, to whom Shakespeare
dedicated his Venus and his Lucrece. 2 A
first beauty, whose splendcrs the poet com.
pares to those of summer. 3. A second
lady, younger than the poet, who acknowl-
edges himself as in the autumn of his days
f. A third lady, whose age is not mentioned
but whose eyes are black, complexion dark
and musical talent great-the dark mis-
tress'' who alone is recognized by most crit
les s. William Herbert. Earl of Penn
broke, the first begetter of the Sonnets.
The Library Table begins its third volume
with new plans and new aspirations. Por
ter C. Bliss has become its editor and James
Wood Davidson its associate editor, anC
henceforth the periodical will appear as q
weekly newspaper and review" instead o
monthly, change which has been made
the publishers assure u.s. only after the sue
cess of the undertaking has been secured. Ii
its new form the Library Table will discus
general topics briefly, but its attention viii
be given chiefly to literary matters, and it
editors have secured the cooperation of
, large number of literary men, who will con
tribute reviews of important new books
The index to periodical literature and tn
lists of American and foreign books will b
continued.