The Portland daily press., 1878-05-04
Notes and Announcements.

Mr.. Swinb1rne's Later Poems and Ballads,
long announced, is nearly ready for pub ication
by Roberts Brothers.
f. W, Bourdilion the author of "Light'' il
about to publish his first volume of poems, and
Aubrey de We're has a new volume in the
press.
Professor Boysen's new novel of Falconberg
will be commenced in the August number of
Scribner's Monthly. It's scene is laid in one of
the Scandinavian settlements of the West and
so deals still with the Scandinavian character
though on American SOIL
In the June number of the Atlantic Monthly
will be an article by Thomas Sergeant Perry
upon Ximen's Doudan, whose object Is to no.
tce man who has claims upon the attention
because OF the enthusiastic admiration of his
friends Mr.. W. H. Bishop will finish his
novel Dstmold, and Mr.. Jot Trowbridge will
contribute dialogue on decorative art. in
which the speakers are Socrates, Decalcoma-
MAS and Criticus. A half page poem upon
Border Lands will appear from the pen of 81.
H., and Henry d. Thoreau's journal is the
source of pleasant sketches of Days in June.
The extracts will be longer and less numerous
than in preceding numbers. A poem upon
Decoration day will be contributed by Amelia
Daley Alden.
The Berlin Gegenagdrt for April 13 has a
highly complimentary article on Bayard Tay-
lor, occasioued by the distinguished authors
appointment as minister to Germany, an
appointment which has been received through
out the country with hearty satisfaction. In
speaking Of his place in English literature the
Gegenacart says: "The next large work which
Bayard Taylor proposes to give the English
speaking world is life of his poetic ideal
Goethe-to be carried out on an extensive SCALE
And, therefore, it will be no indiscretion on our
part if we remark in conclusion that not the
least joyful hopes which accompany the new
American ambassador to his post at Berlin are
that beside his official duties he will find leisure
to complete the collection and assortment Of
his material, a task that must essentially be
done on German ground to produce satisfac-
torily work which Is destined to be an enrich
ing gift to two of the greatest nations of kin
dred race"
Moncure ID. Conway is lecturing in London
on Emerson, of whom he is an enthusiastic
admirer, and with whose intellectual life he Is
intimately acquainted. Since he went to Eur-
land he has been constant visitor to and close
friend of Thomas Carlyle. who has very act
i've liking for the ritualistic and clever Ameri-
can. For years Conway has been getting ma
terials for and preparing the biography of the
sturdy Scotch iconoclast who has no suspicion
of the fact, and would be very indignant If he
knew 1t, having declared again and again that
he wants no windy word-mill biographies of
him; that his active life. IL there has been any
value in it, will be the best thing he can leave
to posterity. Conway holds different idea,
and is already well advanced In his work,
which ought to be very interesting, as he has
ample facilities, and because hardly anything
is known of Carlyle's private life. As the
sturdy Briton is eighty-fve and the American
about forty-fve, the biographer is likely to
have chance to complete and publish the
biography he has been actively engaged on for
ten years.-N. Y Times.