The Portland daily press., 1878-01-12
Notes and Announcements.

Notes and Announcements.
Mrs Southworta's forty-fOurth volume Is an
nounced by T. B. Peterson g. Brothers-The
Phantom Wedding.
A new volume in the Epochs of History se-
ries, The Beginning of the Middle Ages, by
Dean Church, is in press By Seribnsr, Arm
strong & Co.
The new novels In the Harper brown-paper
series will be Young MusgrAvs, by Mrs. OIL
phant, and A Jewel Of a Girl, by the author OF
Qaeenie.
A sequel to Daniel Deronda is anuouuoed by
VIM. 7. Gill 8 Co., under the title OF Gwendo-
len; or Reclaimed 1t Is not announced wheth-
er it ia by the author of the coutuu alton Of Ed
win brood.
Harper & Brothers will shortly add to their
Half-hour series, short stories, by Wiike Col
Inns, My Lady's Money; and f. w. Robinson,
Poor zeph; and four essays by Macaul4y, on
the Earl of Chatham, William Pitt, Samuel
JohnsOn and Hampden and Burleigh.
A volume by Charles Francis Adams, Jr,
on Railroads and Railroad Questions, is 10
press by G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1t comprises
discussions of The Genesis of the System.
Railroad Accidents, and The Railroad Prob
lem"
LttelPs Living Age shows its right to the
second part of it's title by announcing new
volume with fresh attractions for the new year,
and the thiri By the fact that this volume is
the 18Th. William BISck's story will be the
serial attraction of this favorably known eclec-
tic
The Rev. Joseph Cook says the six greatest
works of fiction of this century are Richtet's
Titan, Goethes Wilhelm Meister, Hugo's Les
Miserables, Scott's Ivanhoe. ThackerAy's New
comes, and Mrs. Stoves U Uncle Toms Cabin,
in the order named; with "a great gap" be-
tween the first three and the last.
volume of sermons by Charles Kingsley,
AlI-Saints Day, and other sermons, including
that preached in Westminster Abbey on Ad-
vent Sunday just before his death, which is
particularly referred to in his memoirs, will
shortly be published by Scrbner, Armstrong
& Co.
The London Noncomformiss of Dec. "a has q
very favorable review of Mr. Sted mans latest
volume of poems OF the leading piece it SAYS,
Altogether elevated and ideal, quick in COM
preheusion and graceful in form, we regard
this poem on Hawthorne as oae of the finest
pieces of art that have yet como to US from
America" 1t quotes the stirring war ballad
Kearney at Seven Pines and psonounces it
worthy to be set beside Brownipg's How they
brought the good news from Ghent to AK"
Mother Goose was not born yesterday. Sing
Song OF Sixpencs, was sung in the sixteenth
century. The Frog and the Mouse was licensed
in 1880, and Three Blind Mice belongs to the
same period. Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where
have you beenP was a nursery rhyme iu Queen
Elizabeths day. Gifls and Boys Come out to
Play, was written In the reign of Charles II;
The Old Woman Tossed In . Blanket was pop.
ular in the days Of James II; and Little Jack
Horner Is older than the Seventeenth Century.
No change will be made at present in the
size or shape of the Atlantic Monthly in conse-
quence Of its absorption Of the Galaxy. The
only present effect of the consolidation will be-
an increase in the list Of Atlantic contributors
and the addition to its subscription list Of the
entire constituency of the Galaxy. In the
March number will be articles by Hon. Gideon
Welles and Mr.. Richard Grant White, which
were prepared originally for the February Gal
axy.
Scribner's Monthly has hit upon another
new idea. The February issue will be "Mid-
winter number" its co7sr splashed with snow,
and the table of contents pushed out of sight to
make way for blazing fire on the hearth,
upon which peep in pretty rank OF snow
birds. The number will contain . full-page
frontispiece, portrait of Abraham Lincoln, by
Wyatt Eaton, engraved 10 remarkable repro
duction Of Mr. E,ton's style By Cole. The pic
ture is faced by sonnet on Lincoln by Mr..
Stoddard; seeing the picture, he offered to
write poem to accompany 1t, aud on Christ
mas day, taking refuge ct the Century Club,
fulfilled his promise in a sonnet remarkably
strong for occasional verse. Among other
features of the number will be q paper on A
California Mining Camp, in which the article,
as well as the illustrations. is by Mrs. Halock
Foote, who takes up the pen as easily as the
pencil In describing her Far West home; an
illustrated article on Recent Church Decora-
ton, by Clarence Cook; discussion of The
College Rank of Distinguished Men, by Chss.
f. Thwiug; more of Mr.. Stockton's Rudder
Grange absurdities; a paper by John Bur-
roughs; and poems by DR.. Holland, Mr.. Glider,
Professor Boyessn, Charles De Kay, Mr.. Stod-
dard, and others. Dr.. Holland writes of
church debts, uohOlding the Kimball move
ment, OF this "Midwinter nume," hundred
thousand copies will be printed.