The Portland daily press., 1878-04-20
Literary Notes.

The next number of Appleton's collection Of
foreign authors will be The Go ison Of a Mar
quis, by Andre Theuriet.
Professor Josiah p. Cooke of Cambridge
will have an article in the May Popular Science
Monthly on the Radiometer considered as a
fresh evidence of a molecular universe.
The title of Dr.. Nehemiah Adamss new
book on endless punishment is Scriptual Ar
gument for and the Reasonableness of Future
Endless Punishment"
The American Architect suffers no phase of
its original design to deprecate; rather it
holds its own and adds new features constantly.
Its heliotype illustrations are always a delight
Boston
Mr.. B. P. Shillaber has wrttea book for
boys, in which Mrs. Partington ana Ike are in
troduced in the old familiar style Of happen
ings. 1t will be published by Lee & Shepard
in the fall.
Mrs. Boucicault (Agnes Robertsou) has a
boy eight years old who has conceived the plot
OF play wherein the catastrophe is that of
the laundering of ship pierced full of holes
by swordish hired to perform this deed by a
friend OF the family who was not invited to tea
The life of Hank Monk has been written.
He was California pioneer stage driver, and
attained to fame by taking Horace Greeley
over the mountains at rate which disturbed
the bodily and mental equanimity of the phil
osopher, Greatness is easily acquired some
times.
This is the way one of the ladies who belong
to the Atlantic's Contributors Club remembers
things: General Forest was buried the day
hat
rated the spring I made over my old silk.
Dickens died when Jennie was q baby. Lin
coin was killed when Mary was creeping.
the Civil War broke out when Sallie was cut
ting fer teeth. The king of Spain vas bora
the year was married."
The atlantic Monthly for May will contain
chapter on May-Days, from the journal Of
Thoreau; one of Mr. Aldrich's charming
travel-sketches, Ponkapog to Pesth; timely
article on the Silver Question, By Prof. N S.
Shaler: character study by Mr.. @. d. War
mar; an entertaining essay on Maguanimous-
Incident Literature, by Mark Twain; another
paper on Amercanisms, by Richard Grant
White; Recent Florence, by Henry James, Jr.;
paper on the Tariff; and poems by Mr.. Boye-
sen, H. H., Mr.. Trowbridge aud Benz. f. Tay-
lor.
In the matter of illustrations, Scribner's
Monthly shows disposition to avail itself, TO
an increasing extent. OF the services of we'll.
known painters. The May numbsr will con-
tain pictorial contributions from the following
men, new to magazine illustrations, and repre-
senting both the older and the younger schools:
F. E. Church, S. r. Clifford, Fl. w. Robbins
l.. DeForest, Walter Francis Brown, Will II.
Low, Frederick Delman and j. Alden Weir.
The variety is still further enhanced by draw
ings from Walter Shirlaw, Kelley, Reinhart,
Vanderhoof, BOlles, Schell, Woolfe, Hopkins
and Others
The literary equanimity Of the fine old town
of Edinburgh, the seat Of so much learning
and hard philosophy, has recently been dis
turbed aad moved over a questionable piece Of
sharp practice on the part of printer in the
employment of Messrs. Adam and Charles
Black, the well-known publishers of the En-
cyclopedia Britannica. 1t would appear that
the almost simultaneous appearance of the
printed American reprint of the ninth edition
of the Encyclopedia now going on in Philadel-
phia had occasloned the Scotch publishers some