Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-21
LITERARY NOTES.

Mark Twain has two new books in hand,
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is summer.
ing at SAGE, Me.
John Todhunter is the next writer after
Stopford A. Brooke to give us a Study
of Shelley"
John Habberton proves to be the author
of Just One Day." a very clever little
book of last season.
The tragedy of "Sappho, by Stella,
has been translated into Greek, and is to
be acted shortly at Athens.
W. Swan Sonnenschein is now engaged
upon two Danish stories which he is adapt
ing to English readers,
Cardinal Newman is said to be writing
a reply to DIR. Littledale's Plain Reasons
Against Joining the Church OF Rome"
Sir Thomas G. Knox, lately English
Consul General at Bangkok, is stated to be
engaged in preparing a History of Siam. "
Hon. George W. Williams, of Ohio, will
soon publish History of the Colored
Race In America from 1922 to 1850"
Who will give the American public re-
print OF g A Letter on The Exact Cod by
an English Mechanist," Just published.
F. G. Heath is collecting for publication
at an early date facts concerning the pres
ent social and educational status of the
peasantry Of the western counties OF En-
gland.
The new No Name" novel bears the
title of Salvage 1t is a marine story,
the turning point being not the shipwreek,
but the question of salvage afterward.
The "E. II. Arr" author of New En-
gland By.gones is L. H. Rollins, of Phi
adelphia, who fifteen or twenty years ago
wrote letters to the Springfield Republican
over the same signature.
The Gloucester Journal (Englsndl re-
Gently published as a supplement a repro
duction of the number for November 9,
1888, containing the first public notice of
Sunday schools written by Robt, Raikes,
If titles ever sell books the title {" and
my King Quill-sallies, by Charles j. Dun
phie and Albert King" to be stamped on
forthcoming book from London, ought at
least to awaken curiosity.
''The Lyf of Gret Alexander, Conquer
our of ALE the Worlde, in Northern Eng
fish prose, is being copied from Robert
Thornton's manuscripts of about 1909
A. d. for the Early. English Text Society's
Extr. Series.
A little book, Deaconesses in the
Church of England, which is Just ready
for publication, is heartily commended by
the Archbishop of Canterbury to the con-
sideration of the clergy and laity of the
English Church.
General Lawrence Shadwell has had full
command of all the materials left by Colin
Campbell, Lord Clyde, for the writing Of
his life. and the volumes now in prepare
ton are expected to prove very complete
biography.
George P. Lathrop, though still con-
tributor to the Boston Courier, has with
drawn from his responsible position as edi-
tor, and is devotng his time very largely
to the writing of novels, two Of which he
now has in hand.
1t is announced that NJ. Thomas, a pu.
Pill of the School Of Rome hes discovered
in one of the libraries OF that city some
important fragments of a Latin historian OF
the classical period The manuscript is of
the twelfth century.
The Rev George r. Entler. of Franklin,
N. Y, is translating from the Dstch,
Scholten's . History of Religion and Phil
osophy," 1ork already translated into
German and French. DR. Enters book is
expected during the coming season.