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tion to the work done by Prof. Baird, some
eminent specialists have been employed on the
different departments.
The memoirs which Nine. Bonaparte left of
her life, if they are published at all, will not
be for long time yet to come. Eugene l..
Didier, with the intention of writing sketch
of her history has long been engaged in collect
ing material bearing upon her life, chief of
which is the letters that recently came into his
possession. Since Nine. Bonaparte's death he
has completed his sketch of her, and Charles
Scribners Sons expect to publish it soon. The
publishers have consulted Charles Bonaparte
of Baltimore in regard to the volume, in order
to learn his wishes in the matter 1t is under
stood that while in no sense responsible for any
portion of the book, he has given the publish
ers very valuable suggestions and criticisms.
The book will contain copy of Gilbert Stuart's
portrait of Nine. Bonaparte, made at the time
of her MARI ge, and giving on the same can
vas three different views of her face.
Mr.. Swinburne is giving much of his atten-
ton to studies of the Elizabethan drama and
the Shakespearian literature. They will ap-
pear probably in the proposed dramatic die
tionary, which has been already spoken Of
Edmund Kirke" has turned up again, and
is writing articles on the resources of West
Virginia, for the Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The Albany Journal tells of one of James
Russell Lowell's admirers who told the waiter
at the restaurant that he liked his steak rare
as day in june
Mr.. Charles Reade says that the character Of
Mr.. Eden, in Never Too Late to Mend. is orig
inal-not founded upon any one known to him
in life or literature.
Justin McCarthy's History of Our Own
Times is already in its seventh edition. Since
the days of Macaulay no historical work has so
quickly reached large circulation.
The Marquis of Lorne's new book is to be
called Travels in the Dominion, and will be
published this season in London. 1t will be
illustrated by the Princess Louise, with whom
the Misses Montalba are now soiourning; in or
der that the art studies of those ladies and Her
Royal Highness may be renewed
Notes about the July Scribner's indicate an
interesting number. J. B. Matthews contrib
utes paper concerning stage representations
of the American character, beginning with
Wignell's Jonathan in Royal Tylers play of
the Contrast-the first stage Yankee and the
first American play-and treating of Yankee
Hill, Hackett, Dan Marble Chanfrau, Frank
Mayo, Raymond, Florence, Owens and Jeffer-
son. The paper will be illustrated by nine
sketches by as many artists. The third paper
of the Brazil series will describe with pen and
picture the Indian village of Erere on the Am
azons. The second and concluding picture of
Madame Paterson-Bonaparte's letters, which
is said to be more interesting than the other,
will be accompanied by the Stuart portraits of
the lady and Jerome Bonaparte, republished
from former number. r. H. Stoddard's
poem ON Tom Moore and poem by T. w.
Parsons are chief among the verses of July.
DR.. Holland will talk of Engraving on Wood,
doubtless in retort to Mr.. Linton's severe critl-
cisms of the Scribner processes in the June
Atlantic. In this and the August numbers
there will be reprinted selection from Marsh's
engravings for Harris's Insects Injurious to
Vegetation, to illustrate papers by e. A. Sam
uels ON Summer Entomology. The metric re-
form, the flooding of the Sahara the delusions
of clairvoyance, Edison's inventions, military
education at West Point, are few among the
other subjects treated in one way or another in
this issue of the magazine.