The Portland daily press., 1877-05-19

to three cuts of the statue of oIibertv Eplipbt-
ening the World,' there will be illustrations of
'ne lafayette statue in Union square, and
anoener important work by the same hand,
Inc Lion of Belfort" 1t is said that some
pieces by Bartholdi are to be seen on a church
in Boston.
Mr. Alcotts Table Talk, to be published soon
oy Robert Brothers, is compound of talk
about authors especially the authors who are
but rarely read) shrewd observations of nature,
and reflections on topics that everybody is In
terested in, and not a few that lie outside of
everyday life.
Thomas Carlyle follows the example of Har-
riet Martineau by making arrangements to
have his life written while he is yet on hand to
attend to it and answer any questions which
Frederick Martin, the compiler of the States
mans Year Book, formerly his private Secre-
tary and now his chosen biographer, may de-
sire to ask. 1t is understood that Mr.. Martin is
paying special attention to the description of
parents and environments, and that many sto-
ries will be told Of Carlyle's father, from whom
the son inherited his grim humor.
Admirers of little "Pattikin," about whose
family Joy Allison has go naively written in St.
Nicholas of late, will regret to hear that the
present account of the 'Little Gypsy Girls
pranks is to be brought to a close in the June
issue of that magazine.
The Moody literature increases rapidly His
Boston sermons will be published in a few
days, verbatim from the Globe reports and will
be entitled To All People. The volume will
contain his sermons, prayer-meeting talks
tom oIJ
introduction giving Rev. Joseph Cooks graphic
sketch of the revival, and comparison with
Whtefelds revival work in Old Boston, and
will make book of 500 pages. The work is to
be brought out by the Globe Publishing Com
pany, No. 23S Washington Street, Boston.
M. Philarete Chasles left behind him work
on Stakespeare's sonnets, which his widow has
translated, and for which she hopes to find an
English publisher. M. Chasles 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 splendors
the poet compares to those of summer 3. A
second lady, younger than the poet, who &C
knowledges himself as in the autumn of his
days. 4. A third lady, whose age is not men
toned, but whose eyes are black, complexion
dark, and musical talent great-the clark mis-
tress' who alone is recognized by most critics.
5. William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, the
first begettsr of the Sonnets.
A person of literary prominence will be fit
tingly commemorated in the June Scrbner by
Charles Dudley Warner-the hero of My Sum-
mer in Garden, Calvin, the cat, recently de.
ceased. Mr.. Warner says of him: "He dis.
liked cats, evidently regarding them as feline
and treacherous In regard to diet, ''his idea
was that of the scholars about dictionares-to
get the best" Writing always interested
him, and until he understood it he wanted to
hold the pen himself" "He had mortal and
reasonable terror of plumbers, and would never
stay in the house with them His owners es-
innate of his value was greatly moderated by
the plumbers, who were overheard to say:
They say that she says, that he says that he
wouldn't take hundred dollars for him.