The Portland daily press., 1878-04-06
Note. aud Announcements. a


Up to January, 1873, the house of Harper &
Brothers had published 3.293 works, in more
than 4 600 vols.
The Wisdom Series, of Roberts Brothers, will
be extended by Selections from the Life and
Sermons of Tauler, the German mystic
The new volumes in Mr.. Sweetser's Artist
Biographies will be on Michael Angelo, Sir
Joshua Reynolds, and our country man, Wash
ngton Allston.
A Primer of Design, by Mr.. Charles A.
Barry, author of How to Draw, and one of the
Supervisors of drawing in the Boston schools,
will shortly be published.
Scribner, Armstrong s. Co. have about ready
for issue a new Volume of stories BY Saxs
Holm. The book will include The Four-Leaf
Clover aud other stories originally published
in Scrlbner's Monthly.
The interesting and deliberately illustrated
papers by Mr.. FL Hudson Holly on domestic
architecture and interiors, which have been
pablished in Harpsr's Magazine, will make
the basis of a book on Modern Dwellings, to
be Issued this spring.
The Family Library of British Poets, on
which Mr.. James 7. Fields has been at work
Whipple, is 10 advanced preparation at Hough-
too, Osgood & Co.'s, making volume of
thousand pages.
Mr.. j.lmar Hior.h Boyeseu, says th, Lit
erary World, is now engaged on series of
critical aud biographical essays upon Schiller
and Goethe, with the design, chiefly, to fur
nish textbook for colleges. His novel of
Falconb,rg will be published this year in Scrib-
ner's Magazine.
M. Rsnan, it is said has just finished a
drama calltd lie Fin de la Temp6te. 1t con-
tinues Shakspeare's Tempest, showing Pros
pero retired to Italy, the object of persecution
by the Inquis.tion, aud saved BY Caiiban, rep
resenting strength. In that struggle Ariel has
succumbed-that is to say, that poesy has been
Vanquished, and that only forcs and science
remain masters of the world.
Jules Claretie tells us Of the author of the
brilliant novel, Jacques de Trevannes, who is
at work on another story for the Revue des
Denx Mondes. Nine. Augele Dqssaud, this
successful debutante, Is only twenty-five a
woman of very good family. Like
George Sand, she was educated at the Convent
des Anglaises. She is deeply read, studies hard,
writes gracefully and is passionstely fond of her
profession. She lives among her books aud
papers-part of the time at Paris, part of the
time in her charming little villa at Geneva
and NJ. Clarete says that she will be the
French George Eliot If she lives.
Henry Greville, whose novel Of Russian life,
Dosia, has just been published 10 this country,
is already writer of repute in Europe, though
receiving tardy recognition of merit The
name Is merely of the pen; the person is
Mme. Durand, Of whom we have some accouat
in the April Literary World. Alice Flsury
was born 10 Paris in 1912; she received close
intellectual training 10 her girihood from her
father, who was a teacher by profession, and
who took her to Russia when she was 15 There
she became q governess, and in 1869 began to
write novelettes. She married nile Durand
in ST. Petersburg. She could get no publisher
in France until some two years ago, despite
high reputation in Russia, and the aid of
Tourgueneff, but sincs then she has obtained
place 10 the Reuue des Dsu1 Mondec, and
French fans quite equal to her Russian. The
Literary World correspo ,dent says that her
best stories, "sold with passion, an intensity,
a dramatic effectiveness, and a self-control in
language, equalled, so far as know, only by
Tourguensf him.elf, and withal of the great
est purity and refinement both in intention and
execution, are not tales which coald be placed
before the American public"
The Washington correspondent Of the St.
Louis Globe Democrat writes regarding that
Husband of Mine" and "That Wife of Mine"
Mrs. Dennison is the wife of Methodist cler-
gy man and the sister of the Episcopal CHI haplaia
at the Navy Yard, and both of these men of
the cloth have been drawn from for the char
acters of the last two books. She had written
Sunday-scbool books and magazine stories for
several years before this summer, when the
impulse seized her to try some thing little
different. But few weeks were occupied in
writing the first one, and with almost no re.
vision it was sent to the press The manuscript
was finished in July, and within few weeks
the book, with its odd name was in every book
store, news stand, aud on every train. Its
success was Instantaneous and its rapid sale
called for one edition after another uotil the
profits were considerable. Thsn came it's CON-
paniou, "rhat Wife of Mine," written as soon
as the success of the first was assured,
and which the author considers the better of
two. With her share of the profits Mrs.
Deuison bought herself house in the northern
part of the city, and has comfortably established
herself in it. The lady herself is rosy, piumo
matron of possibly thirty odd years, of large
build and good height. Her hair is brown and
her eyes graysh blue, with kindly fun in
their look; but the creamy complexion aud red
cheeks make her appearance very prepossess-
ing. She is still at work, writing almost in
as has been her custom for SO long.
and will bring out another book in the spring.
Mr.. Dsnlson, ''thst husband" is a tall, pecu-
liar-l ,okiog individual, who Goes a kind of
iaai xuor in ha cir nd
when invited rc some pulpit, having no special
church under his care
Books Received.