The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-26

The July Atlantic will contain the first in.
stallment of Mr., Aldrich's new story, ''The
Queen of Sheba," which is said to be by far
MS most exquisite and characteristic work, and
astory OF European travel by w. d. Howells.
The first volume of Professor Moses Colt
Tylers History of American Literature is
promised Tor 1873, and will appear therefore, it
Is reported, not long before a History of Ger
man Literature by Bayard Taylor.
1t is announced that the English reyisors of
the Authorized Version of the New Testament.
who have now held SO sessions, extending over
more than six years, have completed their first
revision, and have also flushed their second
revision of the Gospels
James Freeman Clarke, referring 10 Harriet
Martineau's belief in annihilation, says wittily
In the last number of the North American
Review, "We cannot but think what disap-
pointment it must be to Harriet Martineau to
find herself her alive again in the other
world
In the volume of Beaumont and Fletcher
which formerly belonged to Charles Lamb and
which contains his and his sisters markings
Tor his Specimens of Early English Dramatic
Poets, there are many notes BY Coleridge. one
OF which runs thus: IN B.-I shall not bs
long here, Charles! gone, you will not mind
my having spoiled book in order to leave
reic.-S. I. c., October, 1911" The work has
recently been bought for the British Museum.
Lee & Shepard will publish in few days
crossing the Qucksands, the second volume of
the Young Trail Hunters Series, by Samuel
Woodworth Cozzsns, author OF The Marvellous
country; Flake Frizzle and DR.. Papa, the sec
ond volume of Sophie Mays very bright and
entertaining Flake Frizzle Series; and new
and enlarged edition of Farrar's Illustrated
Guidebook to Rangeley, Richardson, Ksnnsba-
go, Umbagog and Parmachenee Lakes, Dix
Vile Notch, Andover, Maine, and vicinity.
Miss Jewetts Deephaven strikes the public
very favorably. The Cincinnati Gazette, men,
tioning the fact that it had reached second
edition within the first fortnight after publica.
tion, adds, sits charming and life-lke descrip.
tions of seaside life give to the volume an at.
traction to which few readers can prove insensi.
BILE. The dialect, prejudices and superstitious
OF the amphibious people who support them
selves partly by farming and partly by fishing
are reproduced with Photographic accuracy"
The current number OF the North American
review contains an apparent error, which has
misled many. The very entertaining 'Politi-
cal Reflections" by "a Japanese Traveller"
| closes with the word 'Sonara' which the edit
ors seem to have taxed naturally enough, for
the signature of the writer. As a matter of
fact. sionara is the Japanese ''good bys'-or.
more exactly, formal word of devastating.
| corresponding somewhat closely to the Vien-
| ness enlptehle mich. One hears it a hundred
times day in Japan from obsequious trades
men, coolies and tea-house proprietors; and to
one who has been familiar with it in thi, way.
1t cuts strange figure in its position of dignity
in the North American. 1t was doubtless ap.
pended to the article merely by way Of conclu-
sion in due FORM
Joaquin Miller remarks: "T4e great Ameri-
can novel IS in the far future. 1t cannot be
written until the railroads are all laid. When
the house is built, then you can furnish 1t.
Dickens found character ready for his hand.
| He did not create it. In America there are no
| fixed characters. The people are constantly
changing To-day you ses grand man in the
field, his hair blown back by the wind and his
breast barred to the sun. Tomorrow he has
sold his farm, his family and fortunes are in a
covered wagon, and he is climbing the Rocky
Mountains The next year you find him a
Congressman-or tilibuster He will not sit
| still long enough to be photographed. There
| are therefore, no American novels of charac-
ter. Only the Indians never change. They
| have fixed cussedness'"