Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-12-09
LITERARY NOTES.

Mrs. Oiphaut has written another
story. TIL, Greatest Ilcirc>, in England.
which her English publishers Wi. shortly
issue IN the traditional three-yOlumc form.
1t is announced that Mr. K. 4. Horne.
author OF "OriOu," etc, has a new tragedy
in the press, the scenes OF which are laid
in Italy, during the time Of the Ncapol!tau
prison atrocities in lsjO-jl.
Mr.. Darlcy's Competitions in Outline
from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter will be-
published next week by MeSSrs. Houghtou.
Osgood Co. There are twelve drawings,
which are strong, striking and sympathetic
in very marked degree.
This is how the destruction OF the
great Alexandrian Library came about
Said Omar-"Either these books are in
conformity with the Koran, or they are
not. If they arc they are useless and il
not they are evil in either event, there
fore, let them be destroyed" Such was
the logic that led to the destruction Of
700, 200 manuscript volumes
Gen. Gordon's history of the cam
paisns Of the Army OF Virginia will be is
sued from the press OF Messrs. Houghton,
0sgood s Co. in a week or two. II will
make an octave volume, illustrated with
i've maps. II is written In pungent and
interesting way, and the passages that re
late 10 the career of Stonewall Jackson
and TO the case OF Fitz-John Porter will
attract especial attention.
A publisher at Barcelona has under
taken the issue or photographed and pho
biographical copies of one hundred selected
Illustrations which have appeared in sixty
editions OF Don QuiSote" which have
been published during the last 257 years at
Barcelona, Brussels, Copenhagen. the
Hague. Leipzig, London. Madrid. Paris.
Prague, Tours and Venice. Ninety ex-
amples have been already published.
There are eight newspapers in the
United States which claim 10 be over one
hundred years old. Below are the uame>
OF the papers and the dates when they are
laid to have been established Annapolis
SD. Maryland Gdse'te, l745: Portsmouth
u. H. Gd-cGe, 1856; Newport lE. L.
Mercury, l7js; New London Conn Ga-
=eue. 1868; Hartford Conn Co'W0at
1864; New Haven Comm Journal. 1867 /;
Salem Mass GG-tre, l16S; Worcester
Mass Spy, 100.
Mr.. Edmund W. Gosse and Mr.. Arthur
OShaughpes>y. two young English poets
of the Rossctti-SwiEburne school. have
broken their long silence; the first BY a
volume Of New Poems, which the
AthGacvm praises cordially and the ex-
tracts from which show it 10 possess many
exquisite qualities, and the second by a
long poem, not yet published, entitled
Christ viii Return" which deals with
the abuses OF power and prieSt-craft that
have crept into the church.
-TennySon has just written poem OF
five stauzas rs an Introduction to tse new
edition or his late brother ChaIles's som
nets, which will contain sixty new som
nets. 50. Nicholas has been fortunate
enough 10 obtain two child songs from
Tennyson, which will probably appear in
the January number. We do not remem-
Der that the Laureate ever before consented
TO write for an American periodical. Ten
nyson is strong and healthy and his hair Is
still black-so one who has lately seen him
reports.
The Atlantis Monthly is to contain
more good things than ever, and in more
inviting sorn. ps3puipg wsA We JspusH