Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-12
LITERATURE AND ART.

Miss Winnie R IN is in Richmond
with a model Of her statue Of Gen. Lee.
Traps Baited Nth Orphans; or, What
IS the Matter with Life Insurance2" bv
Elizur Wright, ex-insurance commits.
sioner of Massachusetts has been pub
lished.
a portrait marble bust of Thucydides
has just been identified in the collection
of the Earl of Leicester in England bv
Prof.. Michaells, of Strasburg. That is
to say, the professor supposes that he
has made the Identification.
Berthold Auerbsch dictates his stories
to a short hand writer, and never allows
the first draft of his manuscript to 60 to
press. He weeds out nearly one.half of
the original dictation, and the fnal copy
delivered to the printer is entirely in his
own handwriting.
A number of critics bewail the an /.
sence OF dignity from the new North
American Review, The Review is ce,
tsinly less digni6ed than under the old
management, but il is far more interest.
ing; and as between dignity and vitality
the American people seem to choose the
latter.
Paul Il. Hayne, the Southern poet.
publishes in the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
and Constitutionslist, a eulogy of DR..
Frank o. Ticknor, a lyric poet, best
known at the North by his Little Gift.
fen" and urges the collection and pre-.
servatlon of his fugitive pieces, like
Oar Left lat he first battle of Man.
sssas), aud The Old Riaeman," ere
they are lost.
Mr.. D. G. Rosetti is now painting
what is pronounced to be a most beauti-
iul and poetic picture suggested by the
following passage in Buttons "Anat.
my of Melancholy" when Leander
was drowned the inhabitants of Sostos
consecrated Hero's lantern to Anteros;
and be that had good success in his love
should light the candle; but never anv
man was found to light it."
The Literary World informs a 20 a.
spondent that the three "wittiest Boston
sayings" referred to by DR.. 0. W.
Holmes in his recent memorial speeeb
on Motley, the historian, whom he Grad.
tied as the author of one Of these. are az
follows; First-Mr. Motley's. Give MS
tue Injuries Of life, and we will dispense
with its %necessaries." Veltaire has said
somewhere that the Injuries Of life are
Its necessaries; a philosophical remark
which may possibly have suggested the
witty paradox of Nj. Motley. Second
I. 6. A%ppleton's: Good Bostonians
when they die, 60 to Paris" Third
IS; After all, the feeling that she
is well dressed brings a peace of mind
to a woman which religion cannot give"
The Literary World is unable to give the
authorship of the third witty saying.
1t has often been remarked that good
books will sell we'll in the dullest times.
and this trade saying, using the word
good" in f'e publishing rather than in
the literary sense, has never been more
applicable than within the past ye,
Beginning with the remarkable run of
Helen's Babies" and continuing
through Mr.. Hsbberton's later books and
some others, the gre It sales of the suonv-
mus books, which has been the feature of
the year, eliminate in the unprecedented
sale OF 100000 copies within three weeks
OF the last tihe, THAT Husband of
Mine" Meanwhile good ADVERTISING
backing good books has secured the lie
of over so 1000 volumns Of the No Name
series, and the works of such popular
writer's as DR.. Holland and E. P. Roe
still hold good for sales reaching towq I'd