Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
LITERARY NOTES.

The libraries in Edinburgh contain to-
gether 7G0, coo volumes.
Tho collection of John Ruskin's scattered
| letters. shortly TO appear. will bear the ex
/ tremely characteristic title of arrows of
the Chase"
The Golden Club stands sponsor for
George c. Brodrick's 6 English Lands and
English landlords" an inquiry into the
origin, character and reform of the English
land system.
Mr. Pitkin's invalid Cooking" has re
ceived the practically unanimous indorse-
mens of the medical profession. One of its
virtues is that it can be readily understood
and easily put in use.
| The number of copies of the Bible in
circulation at the beginning of the present
century is estimated at 5000, 600. 1t Is
| believed that the circulation has since in-
creased to AS. 600 000 copies.
Judge Tourgee's new novel, "Bricks
without Straw" is rapidly oveats5ss:asg the
still active Fools Errand." ss& ap-
peared seven weeks ago, and ISIS Y in its
forty-ffth thousand.
IL is SAID that the professional English
novelists of name and fame are being In
iured in the emoluments Of literature
DS UlS ldEpG VI dHldOCuI NAlSSAS
who are springing up, and who desire no
pay for their writings.
Barthelemy Saint Hilaire, the French
Minister of Foreign Affairs, is the happy
possessor of the library left by the cele-
brated Cousion. 1t was his reward for
several years of faithful service as private
secretary.
Sir Richard Temples new book on :" In
dia in 1850 covers nearly every subject
connected with the English occupation OF
the country. The final chapter will be de
voted to the discussion OF the effects and
/ prospects of British rule.
is proposed to rule out large class
| that cumbers the reading-room of the Brit
ish Museum, to the inconvenience of stu
dents, by cutting off the supply of new
fiction. The suggestion is to withhold
works of fiction until three years after
publication.
The London Standard makes the curious
statement that g the London press has an
immense influence abroad" but does not
represent the opinions of the people at
home; certain limited class is influenced,
this paper thinks, but the working classes
remain absolutely untouched by it.
To reeur again to Edwards's so-caled
! observations on the Trinity" says the
Boston Transcript, eve seriously regard
that essay as of doubtful authenticity. It
| is confessedly not an autograph. And the
internal evidences of its having been either
drawn up or worked over by some other
person than Jonathan Edwards Seems to us
considera lie. 1t sounds much more like
Samuel Hopkins than like Edwards"
a melancholy interest is given to the
last novel OF Elsa Linbordt, the distin-
| guished German authoress, by the state
| ment of her sister that it contains the key
to her domestic troubles, which drove her
to cast herself into the sea Civita Vec-
CHA about three years ago. The title of
the novel is "Zweimal Vermalt" twice
married).
Prince Napoleon is preparing to place an
extra thorn In the side of the hostile
Bonapartists who believe the tradition of
Empire reposes on the head of his son,
Prince Victor. He intends to publish a
newspaper, the title of which some reports
give as lie Napoleon. 1t will represent his
policy, and ought to be well edited, for
friends and foes alike give the Prince full
credit for brains and the talents of prsc-
tical publicist.
The title of Gustave Flaubert's novel
which will be published posthumously in
January, is g Bouvard ct Pecuchet." The
painstaking author is said to have given
ten years of thought to his Madame
Bovary" This last work, which is philo-
sophical in tone, was as many years on his
writing table, and death alone stayed the
hand of revision. The Paris publisher
who obtained the manuscript from Fiau-
bert's niece and literary executor had to
agree to publish complete edition of the
authors works within two years.
General James A. Brisbin, who welded
felicitous pen in his "reminiscences OF
sturdy Ben Wade, has chosen an economic
subject for anew hook. Il is called "The
Beet Bonanza or, How to Get Rich on the
Piains" He is believer in the " Ameri.
/ can Desert" that, in the Biographies of
! twenty years ago, occupied the region be-
tween the Missouri river and the Rocky
mountains Some pains have since been
taken to prove it myth. But General
Brisbin claims that this region can never
be used for any better purpose than the
raising of vast herds of cattle, which GER
tainiy makes it ont desert Of much value
and fertility.