, 1879-03-15

scssed Of ,1nquesttonabIs la1cnts; sho ia a wife
md mother, and In all SOCIAL nnl donIesltc rela-
tlons 'rreproachablc. gnt .he has never
mo1ed before tic Paris Courts for "outrag.
Ing public tlcccncv.u She has again and again
been iIncd and Imprisoned, though sl'c does not
mend her literary snorats whit. TheY teetn 70
ufatea ecos.nss ss ss'i liz y .t sS s.osS pse
Ducroi.y," 10 decidedly her worst. II has rust
hcr t110 francs rno mud four months tmlprison'
n'ent; her publisher has been similarly pun
slscd, md ordered to DESTROY the Whole edition.
Even suc1l journals as tile Gaulots and Til.
"Alme. Ducrotsyn Ia unspnrlng tertns, and
otl,tr papers denounco It q thoroughly coarse
atnl deliberately obscene. Mime: Qnlvoane must
her excuse IL t1at sa Is m artist, and that art
must deal with lifo and nature as they oxlst.-
4ftw lvrk Times.
A correspondent OF Notes and Qner:<s writes
rs to1fows: "iu the Life Of the Kes. r. I1odR'
t n,sv pno,ed sy Mac1n 9Va cH s
l.nrtt Byrnns or the fi5c:
Within this awfn, voInmn lies
The tnystery Of mysteries.
Oh! lappicsi they of human race.
To whom our God has given grace
To hear. to- fcatt. to fear. to prny.
70 isft the latch anil forcs the war;
hut better lad thry ne'et bern burn.
Who read 10 duntt, OF reah tD seorH.
But the SAME lines with one or two ttiding va
rt1tions) ars put Into the mouth pf the White
Lady of Avtie1 IN the Monastery and applied
to the mysterious volume lying In thc SUPER
verses ars not thc composition Of t,r author Of
the story. !. It certaiIi that byron wrote tlicma
Iliey are not {ns sir. 1lodEsnn, Jr, altn!ts) pub
lissled with lis works. Byron died in 1874.
Wl'at Is the date Of the Monastery ~
Atr. Anthony Trollnoc has consented 10 con-
i.siters' y serlrs which Mr. John Morley il edit.
Ing for Meesrs. MACMILLAN. Thu omission OF
ThacEeras's uatnu fro,n the list Of atnounce.
nicnts lus been unmarked. but WAS mystery to
Lobody who knew tie reluctance Which his
il!e. -, Dickens has been tutrusleu to
afr. Thomas Hughes, who has been Gor somo
time nt work OIL subject which he 10 snEularIy
eompo;snt co ; to .reat; outh % is literary u,hl
he doubted " i'eiler hfs pare IN literary history
will hot be largely Influenced hereafter by the
View posterty shall takc Of his opinions touch
Ing social abuscs un the tneons he employed to
remedy tEeln. No nun cin 10 l,tn Iustlce wlt0
deals only With bis literary merits, But Sr.
Hughes has all equally distinguished place IN
litesaturc, anil In cnss of economical questions
which hold the closest relation tu sumo ut the
most vital social problems Of the day.-London
Correspondence 4ttu }Urk 1rtbnHt.
Mr.. smalley writes from London to The New
York Tribune ts,ut The sale Of stnnley's
"'rhrougll the Dark Continent" WAS cxsraor-
dlnary. The book It is true, is still lii its tTrat
edition, but Hs,at ali editionl 1t consisted nj
5000 copies. The wh0le uf the U,0lJ copies
have bccn sold by the publishers, Mcssrs. Sainp
son, Low & Co., and second cdltIon Of 1,0V0is
now buing 'subscrlbed.' The book was issued
at two guuras tslU), price at Which fsw pub
llslcrs would venture on printing G.000
son, Low Il Co. showed bv,h enterprise and
good Judgment in this ease. as they did in Mr,
Eugene Sehuylcr'a 'TuEkeslan'; also a two
ruiuca book, and now in It's nth edition. 1
hcar that they paid Mr. Stanley $4,000. The
600 which Mcssrs. Macmillan tE Co. handed oyer
to Sir Samuel Baker for his slsnallin,' which
proved, fear, less successful speculation.
SIr Samuel Bakers popularity was then OH the
wanc; Mr.. Stauley's was ut It's blight when ho
ca,ne back from, his Inst African journey. A,,d
for months lie was one OF tllc lions OF London,
the guest Of tho Geographical Society, aud tho
hero OF countlcsB controversies