The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-10-05
Notes and Auuou nc e me uts.

The new edition of Mother Goose which
Houghton, Osgood & Co. ave iu press will bs
| out sometime in November.
Edward Eggleston's "Roxy" has gone 10 a
second edition at Charles Scribner's Sons. and
has been published in two volumes, library
style, abroad.
Another work by Henri Greville, marrying
on Daughter" has been translated into En-
glisb, and will come out in few days at 7. b.
Peterson & Brothers in Philadelphia.
MIR. Gladstone will have In the October Con-
temporary Review a reply to the Able Martins
paper, "What flinders Ritualists from becom-
ing Roman Catholico?' and Professor Goodwin
Smith will contribute an article "On the Great
ness of England"
Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, known from her
association with Edgar Allan Poe, made provi-
sions before her death for the publication of her
poems, and the volume is already under way at
Houghton, Osgood s. Co.'s.
Tennyson has written, or at least Is writing
new idyl, "Ths Daughter Of Dervars hal"
founded on romantic passage in Irish history,
and having its scenery and incidents wholly in
Ireland. 1t was to study the ground that the
laureate recently visited ths Green Island.
The leading article in the November Atlantic
Monthly will be upon the original aims of the
national or woikingmen's party, by the author
of the important leading article In the October
number. Mr.. Brooks Adams will have a paper
upon financial subject; Professor Charles
Il lot Norton one upon Florence and her
cathedral. and Mr.. w. d. Howells will begin a
story, "The Lady Of the Aroostook," which
will run through three numbers
Professor w. G. Summers article In ths
October Scrbnei's is attracting wide attention
and praise In an early number Of the mags-
zine he will have another paper upon Green
backs" and it will be strange If the curreut
fa'lacies OF the day are not clearly exposed in
the points where they are most likely to de-
ceve unframed thinkers. An article 10 the
September number, which has attracted notice,
Is Mr.. Stephen d. Dillaye's upoa the transpor-
tation question, and one on the other side OF
the subject will appear socn. This September
number has reached third edition,-ssyeuty
ninth thousand.
In that new Eoglish book, Sporting Sketches,
it snoweth of meat aud drink, especially Of
drink. For instance, 'after properly fortifying
the inner man." the author sets out upon a
pheasant-shooting expedition. He had fine
sport-"real jam"-killing not only phsasants,
but "a goodish many RABBITS" They had "a
jovial, i)lly lunch-a cold round Of beef, half q
Stilton and some jars and bottles" Then they
went out to fish for pike, IAN early repast Of
sausages, ham, toast, coffee and marmalade"
having put them Sin fettle," and their "outfit
consisting of large luncheon-baskes duly
stuffed with varieties aud another basket with
undries''-namely, old East India sherry,
bottle OF whiskey and one Of old brandy. The
acme of bliss, the author says, is life at a small
hotel. where you can be ''jolly independents"
and where. "as for dressing for dinner, so you
can, in slippers and shrt-sleeves IL the fancy so
takes yoa." After having 'eaten to repletion''
"you can put on your pipe" Though hotel
wines are sometimes "bottled bile," there is
nothing like "the snug hotel" and to prove
that this is the case the author proceeds to drip
into verse "to the tune of rotten old song" as
follows:
Obi il you ask me whereabouts
My soul delights to DWELL
When am on my fishing bouts,
Ills at my snug hotel.
1t cannot be that the Literary material"-to
use the phrase of the Professionalism the his
tory and the still existing society aud institu-
tlons of Canada abundantly afford, viii elnde
adequate artistic expression. Oar own West
has been too busy with other matters to do
much in the way of ae e3tbetics; and the south
ern states, cut of By the Institution of slavery
from sympathy with the intellectual life of the
Moth, have produced orators, political leaders,
soldiers, but only lately poets aud story writers.
1t is within few years that California has
found voice in the writings of Bret Harte and
Creole New Orleans in those of George w.
Cable. What Gable has done for the French,
10 New Orleans some com petent romancer Is
sure to do for the French in the proud aud pic
turesque old town OF QIebec The Old Cab
inat'. Sprihner for OCLODsr