West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-06-15
Literary Notes.

new English edition OF LonCfellow in
pocket volume, is announced.
Mrs. Stowe saws $4,000 will cover all her
profits from Uncle Toms Cabin"
The veteran John Brougham will shortly
publish a volume of his recollections Of the
stage.
Christian EschatoloVy, that is, the doc.
trine ot the future lifeis discussed in the
NlnoocRh Cc"utrV, by pr. Davidson.
Miss Anna Eichberg, daughter of the Ros.
ton composer, makesa first appearance as a
story writer in S,'ibscr for June with "1 he
Story of Lesken."
discussion of Religious Strife in
British History by the Hon. A. :. G. Can.
ming, author OF "The Political Progress of
Chrisuanity,' etc, is in the press in London
Mr.. John Ruskin's restoration 10 health
~ So complete that he is again at work re.
vising and adding to the notes by which he
has lustrated the exhibition OF his Turner
drawings
Capt. Richard f.. Burton's volume ON
&C Id Mines of INDIAN, and the Ruined
Midianite Cities" describing n fortnights
tour IN Northwestern Arabia, is just pub.
lished abroad.
The promised volume on "The Russians
OF To-Day" 10y the author of French
Pictures in English Chalk" "The Member
Tor Paris" etc, is just added to English
." war literature"
American publishers keep well ahead of
their English brethren in regard To transla
ton: The latter are just preparing English
versions of TurguenetHs Nor and
Daudet's "Nabob."
Mr.. Birket Foster is to publish n record of
arecent tour under the title " Brittany: A
Series of Thirty-Gve Sketches" The draw.
ings will be published in one volume, and
printed on Indiapaper.
The Fire Woman aud other queer people
aud scenes in Hollow-land, or Holland, are
described and illustrated in n short story,
called "The Little Red Canal-boat," which
appears in ~. Nicholas for June
Herbert Spencer's fifth paper on "Cere-
monial Government" in the POpuidr Science
Monfhiy for June, with great erudition treats
OF obeisance >" and gestures OF Difference,
which are shown To have their oigin in the
submission of a vanquished foe to his con.
queror.
"a Modern Minister" the frst of "The
Cheveley Novels" heralded with so much
ccidt, is just completed in England by the
issue of the second volume, which will
shortly be published by Harper & Bros
The second novel of the series will be
" Saul Weir"
The new edition Of the Dictionary Of the
French Academy contains twenty-five hun
dred words and twenty.eight hundred lines
more than the edition of 1885. The ncad-
emy found itself compelled to admit such
Innovations as telegram" "steamer,"
tunnel" and the like.
The Golden Shore is the name of the
latest song-book for Sabbath. schools, bv J
+ Kinsey. +. w. Helmick, 1876 West
Fourth-street, is the publisher There is
little in the work taken from other books
Many Of the airs are brilliant and the songs
are chaste and enlvening.
MI Alcott threatens to bequeath to his
LITERARY executors six hundred volumes of
commonplace books in which he has placed
everything he has SEEN heard, read, or
thought which he counted worthy OF pres
aFN tpn Of lI... ,,I
many as thousand pages OF manuscript.
Rev. stephen T. Allen, the esteemed
Episcopal clergyman of Aurora, H., who
recently died, was formerly the "Robert
Merry" OF MerrYS Museum, the popular
Amer can magazine for young people, which
was originated by s G.. Goodrich, the still
more popular Peter Farley" of some
thirty years ago.
SardOu, the author Of DIPLOMACY" !"
thinks that in England the novel has killed
the drama. We receive our impressions
in society" he says 10 an Englishman, " in
that high yam mated semblance of il which
~ seen on the stage; you yours in three vol
ume reports which are brought to you at
your own firesdes"
AT recent sale of autographs i'm London,
JOhnson's signature To receipt went for
only three guineas, though such docu-
ment must have been rare indeed, for the
Doctor was, according to Boswell in the
-
scribers to his books, AM spending the
money, 30 that is it not likely he was very
fond OF giving receipts for it,
Thomas Carlyle, in a letter lately published
for the first time, and written to Thomas
Arid, thus refers TO his French Revolu.
ton" " The unspeakabe hook is fairly to
press, thank Heaven. In six weeks more
my share Of business with H. will be over
for ever and a day. IL will be worth little
to mosumen, to all men; except 70 me the
incalculable worth Of troubling me no
more"
Prof. Ticle. author Of "The History of
Religions" has put forth remarkable
paper on The Contributions of Assyrian
Research to the Scienceo Of Religion" tits
an important and lucid account OF the re.
suits actually obtained by Assyrian research,
more especially as regards the comparative
history Of religion IL has been translated
from Dutch into German, and probably will
soon be put into English