, 1879-02-15

Ma''s., st.sa, T,a.s, Mc1g,Iyt n!oenInG, Neptune,
PORTFOLIO, 81.
LITERARY NOTES,
Dir. Furncss hooes TO finish hts new Varlor1m
edition Of Hing Lsar in Mnrch next.
10 great is the demand for Fanny Kcmblc's
"Recorls of a Gtrihuod II That on tho day of i,a
publication tho publiahors wore obliged to order
the plates 10 prcsa for new edition.
ecnor Emilio CASTELAR, has accepted the tnyt.
tnt'on Of Tire Curators Of the Taylor Institution
to give course OF lectures Oil spunlsn literature
before the University OF Oxford during the next
summer term.
RHODES h Mcclure, Chicago, have IN press
Ellison and Ills Inventions" handsomely II.
lustrated. and Giving The Interesting points In
the inventors Iile, with full explanation OF his
principal discoveries. ]. i. Mcclure Is thu com.
pi,cr.
Richard Watsou Glider, assistant editor of
Serib,sr's .Hotthy, mud crite and poet o! choice
order, has broken down In health fru,n toe
ass!1uous devotion to bis work, urd will eaIt
for Europe shortly to spend four or five mouths,
principally In Venice.
most generous hospitality he mrt Will In tie
United States, nnl u meet The wishes Of 1iil-
mcrotis friends, Dean Stanley bus collected Into
volume Ills various addresses aid sermons,
which MACMILLAN d 70. will publish IN u few
days. Still further to increasc tile interest Of
ti,e volume, the pnbslIers. BY the kind pcstnis-
s!ou OF thu Dean, hare been able to add pho
togsapt portrait.
Mr.. Murray has made arrangements for new
lIfc Of swift: BY the death Of Mr.. Forster the
was artcsted after the 'rat tnstallntut u,iiy had
been written. The mang problems, therefore,
that nrtsc to 6wlft'a character md Ills rcln-
tions TO Ills contemporaries. On which MIR, For
stcr has but eltghtly touched, still, awni, more
careful as,l dlspasstouate treatment than they
haye fouud.-AthenfEuna
The London 1rorld says: "sipcc Dean Btnn-
icy cainc bark from America bis frIeuds say lie
Is gwen to transatlat,sfcjsne in his uttcrauces,
only know that read IN bis little discourse to
tic Worktngmen's Club last week, apropus ol the
Jerusalem Chamber mn! the old story Of Mad
CAP Hal, that lhe, King canc 10 himself, mud,
hearing who had taken the crown, he thought 1t
was Wild freak Of llts sou; accordingly he
tet'.t for him aud administered warnings which
had an effect upon The young ma..'"
:, Mr. +. u. Wtlkic, Of tie Times, anuounccs
the carly publication In book form Of a ecrIcs
Of letters which he wrote last year from En-
gtand ard the European Continent. 1t is au-
Mounced TINT the Douk will contain sketches Of
English life md character, pcnpurtraits OF ,,otcd
articles on French, Belgian, Holluud, German,
anl Swlss life mid Character; it VII, also be
Illustrated with character skctchcs hy AIr. C. D,
Weldon, OF New York.
a Yokohama contemporary statcf that the
Japanese Government have autherizel the Issue
by Japanese publisher ot an euitfou Of tic
Hook Of Genesis In Chinese, prepared for The
Japanese BY the insertion Of thu ku,,-ten, The
work OF the American Bible Society. This Is Inc
first portion Of tile Scriptures the publication OF
wllieh II, Japan has been authorized Uy ncas's Of
{3nNHrnHfNNf t1N,.is,,r
the great dtstastc Whch tue authorities have 60
long entertained to tho Introduction Of foreign
religions, tho fact ia Significant and worthy Of
notwithstanding.
1t appears Tom Taylor is quito savage about
the report In circulation, to The eirtst that Dur
tand IL to 8upplant hm as editor Of Punch.
The veteran Tunntalcr ''gyes IN indlgnant
denial. l,nrnand 10 O vailed contributor to
lN'sch, nEd it 10 IN that periodical that alt his
most amusing prodnctions-hs tlnupY Thoughts
nppca1cd: but, oddly enough, for purely corltc
publication, which one might tlltlIk would nut
n,cdd'c with such l,attcrs, Punch las always
bcGh very mt. .Catholia itt Its tone. Burnand IL
editor Ut Punch, untcss the l,umpbackel, hU-
n'o:ous rogue Changed his fato-or tie new ed
itor DID.
The international Congress Of Aleu Of Let
ters held ut Paris lust Jntlr. Is to bc repeated in
London In J4ne Of the present year. Tue IN
+elu4kt0AAl Lltclatf ltbSDt1hLlO0, IOEInGI al Tue
first Congress- tas Us headquarters III laris, IL
presided over BY Victor Hugo, anil includes
amung it's mcmoers Edmund About, Ncrthol
Aucrhach, George Bancroft. Emilio Cnstelar,
Emmanuel Gonzales, Johannes Nortlmaun
(t'rcsideut Of La Concordia, the Austrian liter
ary society," Jules 9,nlor, Ivan TourguenciF, Dc
LavefcYc, Louis Figuicr, @. Ilachcttc, n,d many
oilers. The Association is III coursu OF conso!i.
datfon under the caru Of q jealous Executive,
md is preparing to present. to the Congress hi
June ucxt wcl1-cousfdured scheme ot interna-
tional literary lnuchtueEy, devised to protect
the rights Ut autllors all oTcr the world, md to
create general esprit d. corps. blanchard der.
rpid, corresponding number for England, No i
CarltnD Chambers, Regent street, Londou, is
now engaged In enitsttng tic great boly OF BRIT
ish authors aild journalists to take purt in tho
coming meeting.
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