The Portland daily press., 1878-09-28
Literary Gossip.
AuhorH Books and Excerpts.

So"s' auu L. D. marst0n.
Attention Is now called to the success of
American writer's in England. Bret Harts has
one or his dialect stories 10 Belgravia; Mark
Iwaas articles are regularly reprinted in LON
don; w. w. Story is a regular contributor to
niackwood; Henry James, Jr., E.. s. Nadal,
Mrs. Lecise Chandler Moultou, Raw. Leonard
w. bacon and Mrs. Burnett are on the staff of
Inc writers in Macmillan's; Bayard TAYLOR and
nagar Fawcett ara writing poetry for the En-
giish magazines, and the new Encyclopedia
britsnnlca depends to some extent upon
American writers.
Juggernaut is in bad way since ths English
Government imprisoned for life for murder the
hereditary protector of the god, man of high
rank, to whom the Hindoos paw divine bonors
The late Car Festival was failure, and il Is in
contemplation to hand over the gods affairs to
to the management of-the Court of Wards.
A receiver for religion-an insolyent god
What next?
canadian Highlander was reading the
other day Charles Dudley Warmers remarks ON
the camel, wherein he makes the ancient beast
exclaim: "There are three Of us; the date palm,
the pyramid aud myself. Everything else is
modern. Go tor "Hoot, monr' said the Celt,
"Joost as If nobody didn's know that afore.
The Cawmels were a clan long afore the pyra-
mids and that other thing were heard Of"
Mime Alice Fleury Durand, the novelist,
takes her pseudonyms of "Henri Greyille"
from hamlet in Normandy, the province from
which the Fleurys originally came. Her
father, NJ Jean Fleury, has been for many
years professor of French in the University Of
81. Petersborg, and is the author OF q success
ful work on RAbslais. He educated his daugh-
ter Alice so thoroughly that at fifteen she was
well educated with Latin, Eoglish and Italian.
AT that age she went with her father to Ras-
sia, where she acquired the knowledge of
northern life and manusrs which makes her
novels works of real interest and value
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has centred
all her early love for pets in devotion to dogs.
Curious stories mil sht be told of her fondness
for lost dog, named Hahnemaun, and of his
for her, did the limits OF this article allow; but
sketch OF her homes would be incomplete did
not Dan" take his place as prominent figure
Dan is not much larger than a medium-sizsd
cat, and is altogether, as some one remarked.
so homelY that he is almost handsome" In.
deed, he seems to affect people facetiously
and to occasion sort of humor which would
alone give him right to live. "That dor9,"
SAID an Irlshnan, pointing 10 him with q broad
smile on his red face ''came Just near being no
aorg at ALL" But, little as he is, hs has for his
mistress one OF the biggest of hearts. His bark
OF delight when he finds her after short separ-
alton is touching to hear, and his generous and
chivalric care of her is ludicrous in the az
treme. Sitting on his small launches, he
boldly deies the world to molest her. and has
been known to attack dog ten times his size.
when he thought the NewfoundlaRd's approach
meant evil. Noble little bit Of q DIM! IL is
not too much to say that he could teach Lessons
OF reverence, fidelity and love, for the earoing
of which the whole human race would be- hat
ter.- Wide-A,oake.
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner, declining his
appointment as poet of the alumni of Hamil-
ton College at the next g Jm msncement, writes:
so universal suffrage has come to this!
knew you made judges by it, but I did not
think you could make poet. Elected? don's
carry my doctrine of election so far. 1 was pre-
destined not to be poet. That matter was
settled before the ballot was invented I am
very grateful to my fellow alumni for their
good opinion. could make any sort of ex-
hibition almost to please them-stand on my
head or, do the parallel bars, but am not q
poet, and can't fill the role. 1t is as much as
can do to keep my prose from running Wild"
The London World says: "The life OF the
sisters Bronte ought to be written in tears and
perhaps it Is in accordance with the fitness Of
things that one of them should md resting
place in adismal plot of ground by no means sug-
gestive OF Gods acre, overhanging the German
ocean. Still, one hardly likes to discover, close
by the dusty roadside, neglected grave, marked
by worn and sinking stone, with an almost
obliterated epitaph-'Here lies the remains of
Anne Bronte, daughter of the Rev. p Bronte,
incumbent of Haworth, in Yorkshire. She
died aged %, May %, 184S' Aud this brief
and melancholy record is all that tells Of the
tomb Of Acton Bell
He came in with an undecided step and q
roll of manuscript Knew he was poet, one
that could be crushed, and determined to do it.
Trausfxing him with our glarest glare, we
asked, "Young man, have you license to
write poetry?" Took him all aback; knew 1t
would. Said he didn't know you had to have
license. Didn't know that? Didat knoo
hat9" we yelled, and pointed to book notice
in paper oa the table. The wretch read,
Poetic license, OF course, permits Mr.. Sweet
thought to use such tsrms-"Hs read no far.
ther. 1t would almost break your heart to see
the look that was ON his face as he turned
around to pull the door after him. But one
must be firm, sir, must be frm.-Boston Tran
script.
curious East Indian "legend," treating of
the future of the Mogul empire, and based
upon the prediction of priest, made many
years ago, has been put in verse in Dresden,
and is now in circulation in that city. IL
describes how the great Mogul monarch, Arung-
zsbe, when following his resolution to extir-
pate the English from Hindostap, was stopped
In bis work BY holy Brahmin, who held be-
fore his face magic mirror, in which he saw
the continued growth OF the British power until
only shadow remained of his own. At
length the shadow itself was swept away and
another imperial throne was set up with lady
seated in its chair. The priest had given as
sarance that 200 years of expiation and seryi-
tude were necessary in order to free Hindostan
from the evil powers that controlled her des-
TIMES, and for that reason all prisoners had
been set free by Arupgzebe. The legend goes
on to say that when the lady becomes seated
on the throne, the scene suddenly dissolves in
a thunder clap. and India resumes her sway.
The priests prediction is well known, says the
legend, to the natives of India. The first part
OF the prophecy, it continues, has been full
filled already-a woman sits on the Mogul
throne, and the fabric of British empire in the
east is now cracking and ready to fall to pieces
II one may judge from the list of churches
now building in this country and Canada, that
appears in the American Architect and Building
News for September IA, the building interests
of the country are far from dormant. Churches
-bnuo ~
country Westinghouse to $780, 900 and $780,
600 for the more stately metropolitan church,
are buildisg in all parts of the country by all
denominations, and Judging by the fact that in
almost every case the name of the architect
who is the author of the design is given, 1t
seems as If the church architecture of the
country must be changing for the better. To
be sure one cannot judge of the merits of the
design from mere printed statement, bat il IL
evident that those days are past when the ac-