Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-28

ne CaruiIal Archbishop, . ne" STORY
in verse, by Col. Colomb, is IN the press.
A campaign life of Gen. Hancock by J.
W. Forney will be one OF the literary Gu
riosities Of the season.
The next volume in the "Euglish Men
of Letters is to be a sketch OF Byron, from
the pen Of Prof. Nichol.
Tennyson is worth nearly million dol
lars-a big fortune for a poet; but why
shouldn't he get rich on $50 line?
The newly -discovered memoirs of st.
Simon will be published in Paris at an early
day They are already in the hands of an
editor.
"The Story of Great Singer is the
title OF a new book, written by Emma Alb
bott, to be issued early in August.
A German writer, Herr G. Hermann,
wants to prove that "a Midsummer
Nights Dream is in some degree liter
airy satire, directed against Marlowe, Greene
and Nash.
Horace Cox will shortly publish work
entitled An Anecdotal History of the
British Parliament, from the Earliest Pc
riods to the Present Time. "
Edwin Arnott, author of The Light of
Asia, p" is As years old. He graduated at
Oxford with high classical honors, and soon
after went to India as Principal of Deccan
College, Poona.
The change in the editorship of the Pail
/ MoU Gazette has accidentally brought out
for MIR. MaiE's 80 Treasury of English Son
nets two long reviews but, fortunately
/ for the paper, whose entire staff Is under
stood to have changed, beth notices practi-
cally agreed respecting the merits of the
work.
George Eliot, when she returns from
Italy with MIR. Cross, viii make her home
at No. Cheyne Walk, in Chelsea, the
house in which Maciise lived and painted
many years. Turner's last dwelling place
is onlya short distance away, and Carlyle's
well known house also is not far distant.
| Delano a. Goddard, editor of the Boston
| AdUertiser, has turned his leisure to ac-
count IN furnishing to the New England
Historic Genealogical Society paper,
which has just been published in pamphlet
form. on newspapers and Newspaper
Writers in New England, l7S7-lSl5."
| The At5enauna states that the Merimee
| letters addressed to Sir Anthony Panizzi
will be issued very shortly in two octave
| volumes. L. Fagan has withdrawn GER
| tain portions, but considerable light is
thrown by the letters or the political his
tory of the late Empire, and still more on
the life of the late Prince Imperial and the
private life OF St. Cloud
| An important scientific work by the
| Chief OF the Bureau of Steam Engineer
| ing, United States Navy, Commodore w.
! H. Shock, will be published in the fall. It
! is entitled Steam Boilers-TheT Design,
Construction and Management. Commo-
| dore Shock has been engaged for four years
in preparing this work. It viii be quarto
size and profusely illustrated.
Copenhagen has 81 printing -offices which
| in 1879 published % political and $50
| scientific journals and $50 volumes. In
/ the provinces Il2 offices issued l20 politi-
cal and 90 journals devoted to various in
| terests, and $50 volumes. OF the l, 1926
books published, 263 were novels and
poems, of which l04 were translatIons
! 30 from the English and p from the Ger
man and French.
! Spellhagen's last novelette, is said to be
mnch too elaborate for the materials The
chief originality consists in the ingenious
method OF suicide adopted b. the hero,
who, having been Tilted by the heroine,
willfully contracts an incurable heart
disease by sleeping on his lett side, in de-
fiance of the family doctor. Before dying
he composss a congratulatory telegram to
the young lady, who is staying at the
Hotel Quisisana at Capri-hence the title
of the book, ''Quisisana.
Mr.. Gladstone has conferred Civil
List pension OF ESQ a year on the author
of the elaborate Concordance to the
Odyssey and Hymns of Homer" DR.. Dun
bar, of Garelochead. charlottesville. The
preparation of theyoluminous Ms. in minute
Greek characters, which occupied DR.;
Dunbar for several wears, seriously effected
his eyesight The Prime Minister has also
granted pension from the Civll-Llst to
Miss G. F. jackson, the authoress of 1.-The
Shropshire Word Book.