The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-16
MONDAY MORNING. DECEMBER l6.
Literature and Art,

AL uistUTlCdl dCCOuUt VI ouAto AoA hoosiSo
in Maine will be given by DR.. E. f. Sanger this
mouth in the Medical and Surgical Journal
(Beston.)
The Bankers Magazine office will reprint
Economics for Beginners, by Henry ID. Mac
ieod, author of what is reputed to be- the best
book on banking.
Boston has a Bew weekly journal, The Satur-
day Magazine, an octave of thrty-two pages,
double columns. It's matter is mainly selected
from the best material of foreign publications
The Popular Science Monthly for January.
1879 will have an article by Prof. Carl Vogt on
the Darwinian fight between the "Medical
Pope" virchow, and the geological Pope"
Haeckel, now raging in Germany.
10 January will appear from Messrs. Rob-
erts Brothers the next volume in tie No Name
Series, Signor Monadni's Niece The Masque
of Poets has reached its third edition. From
one source were received thirtJ-fse guesses as
to the authorship of the poems, and six
were right.
Professor Edward S. Morse is gathering ma
terisls for general work on the land and fresh
water mollusks Of Japan, to be published by
the University of Toxic, where Mr.. Morse is
professor Of natural history. The literature of
Japanese terrestrial conchology is small, and
embraced mainly in three or four papers pub
lished by European societies.
r. Worthington of New York announces
volume of Famous Stories, by we'll known and
celebrated authors. Among them are The
Avenger, by De Quincy; Peter Goldthwaite's
Treasure, by Hawthorne; Love and Skates, by
Theodore Winthrop; The Defaulters, by Thorn
as Hood; Coldstream, by Herbert Vaughan;
The Scotman' Tale, by Harriet Lee; and other
tales quite as excellent and entertaining.
Leo XIII. is gradually removing the restric-
tons to study in the art galleries Of the Vatican
which were imposed at the end of 1870. From
the begin ming of December the Staze and Log
gle of Raphael, in the SistiGe Chapel, will be
open to visitors and students from nine in the
morning till three in The afternoon except on
fete days and Saturdays.
The extra holiday number of the Literary
World, Boston, is out, and gives its readers
tas'e of the good things they may expect at its
fortnightly appearance. Its mention of holi-
day books is of special interest at this time.
The present numb-r contains the index for the
ninth volume. The first number Of the new Sc
ries will bs issued January 4, and the paper
Will thcuCclOTtu Oc puUileutu every OtucE OAtuis
day.
"Given certain degree of intelligence"
said DephIne Gay" and oae can easily tran g.
form a long and embarrassing parlor into
series Of small artistic rooms, full of sentiment
Gather there easy chairs, foot stools, lounges
strewn with pillows, workstands, writing
tables, j.rdioier-s, hits of Bull furniture
screens indipenSGbly screens, and you will be
al a A ntnn nat YAnI q M hon-
dOir, but sort of society bazaar, where deli
cious mysteries may be corfdentially dis
cussed."
At a social gathering 10 Chicago recently, q
gentleman was introduced to young lady of
whom the hostess spoke as "a very brilliant and
entertaining conversationalist''. The two chat
ted together for some minutes, and at length
got to literary topics, Henry James and his
short stories coming up for discussion. 81 have
read it', said the lady, adding with emphasis,
"and tell you James has no heart" "But his
stories are certainly entertainlDg," suggested
the gentleman Eyes, that may BE-" said the
the brilliant couversationalist," but surely
be cannot be compared with Shakespeare"
Causerie of Boston Transcript
Mrs. Clara Erskine Clements Artists Of tire
Nineteenth Century will be issued by Houghton
Osgood & Co., some time in February. In the
volume will be q list of the authorities con-
suited, an index of the names Of about 203o
artists of all nations, of whom biographical
notices are given, brief but com prehensive
sketch of the academies and art schools; of all
countries, showing their systems of s;u1y, re-
wards and medals, accounts of the artists and
several indexes including one of the critics,
authors and publications quoted in the critical
notices. The work will appear in two VOL
umes.
The Saunterer of the Springfield Republican
Is of the opinion that "Ghe verse; writer's of the
new order are bound to reverse the old rule that
poets are born 10y proving that they can be
made. Give Mr.. Fawcett, for instatc', a bota-
ny, a prosody, a few lexicons (includisg
rhymed vocabulary. and he will supply some.
what fantastic, furtive miasmatic, from the
depths of his nature, and turn you out some-
thing that will sound SO mysteriously wealthy
that you desperately assent to the authors as
suraDce that it il "a poem Of Nature'-what
else can it b.? Rhymes, rhythm, accurate to
q hair, to mai; wurds,- the pick of the lam
guages; why dispute the man, who certainly
ought to know better than you do? But Ma
ture, the inscrutably beautiful smiles disdaip;
she has not breathed into that unhealthy
mechanism. and it is no more poem than
Frankenstein's monster was man."
Thomas Moran, the artist of the Yello wstone
valley, has found treasure in one of jerseys
out-of-.he-way places-an original Turner, the
largest ever seen in America, three feet eight
inches bv four feet eigh', and called Conway
Castle, Nor Wales" There is quite q TO-
nance about the art treasure Moran saw it
in Philadelphia. when youngster, in the pos
session of John Butterton, a young English
painter, who finally took himself and his paint
ing from public gaze Moran could find no
trace of the Turner for years, bat recently it
was quietly advertised in Scr bners Monthly,
and his attention was called to it. j. B., HAN
mouton, N. j., was the owner, and searching
out that retired spot, Moran found Bntterton
there, now nurseryman; bought the picture
of him, and is now cleaning it up in his New
ark IN. ~ home With all an artists relish.
The painting is in the self same wooden frame
In which Turaer sent it out, and was painted
between 1910 aud 1915 for Banker Thomas
Goodall Of Arlington, Eogland, at whose death
1t passed into the hands of Mr. BotteIton's
father.