The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-06-01
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 1.

T. Il. Aldrchs Atlantic story, ''The Still
water Tragedy" is announced by Houghton,
Miffiin & Co. for publication in book form.
Mr.. Ritter of Vassar College is preparing an
edition of Schubert's Musical Dictionary, in
which all the principal American musicians
will be mentioned.
1t is said that $4,000 copies of John Russell
Young's "Around the World with General
Grant" have already been sold, and that his
royalty is 81 a copy.
The late Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey, of Beauvoir
Miss, left a novel, entitled "Agnes Graham
1t will be remembered that she also left her
large fortune to Jefferson Davis
John Bartlett, the author of Familiar Quo
tations," has sent to the press an index to
SHAKESPEARE which will do a concordance's
work at a saving of time and space.
Future classes in English literature are 60
ing to have hard time of it in remembering
that Marian Evans, Mrs. Lewes, Mrs Cross
and George Eliot are the same person.
Miss Rhoda Broughton has written new
story with the strange title, "Second
Thoughts" 1t is to be published in England
soon. 1t is said to be full of wit and humor.
Carlyle is said to be rapidly failing. He can
not now hold cup without. splitting its con-
tents. He is resigned at the prospect of death,
fearing to survive his intellectual faculties.
The queen of England has been "graciously"
pleased to allow Mrs. Hepworth Dixon grant
of $500 a year from the civil list on account of
her late husbands contributions to literature
The Boston Advertiser thinks the only thing
definite in Tennyson' latest poem sis the baby
around it is mass of frantic delight, moving
within the indefinite world of abstract time
and Space
Nothing better has been said about Zola's
works than by the Saturday Review, which
expresses the opinion that neither art nor i'm
agination is required for their production, but
simply ''the patience of a mudlark."
No less than 4 900 copies of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" were sold last year by the publishing
house of Houghton, Osgood & Co. 1t is doubt
full if any book ever maintained such a. re-
markable sale during the lifetime of the au-
thor.
Dumas now cares little for society, but is
agreeable and talks brilliantly in company
with few congenial people. He thinks long
upon his work before he puts it on paper,
and when he begins his MS. he regards his
chief labor as finished.
Mrs. John Lille, who has contributed such
entertaining papers on emusic and Musicians
in England" to recent numbers of Harper's
Monthly, is the wife of Mr.. John Lille, who
is one of the translators of the Memoirs of
Madame de Remusat.
Walt Whitman's voice is full and strong,
and he talks with some hesitancy, after the
manner of a man accustomed to express him
self with the pen. He was born in 1919 on the
western edge of Suffolk county, Long Island,
within sound of the sea.
M. Tame is nearly 81 years old and one Of
the hardest students of the day. He wrote in
an autograph book of correspondent of the
Newark Advertiser the other day: Gone can
never write anything when he has not an idea
and that is always my condition when before
an album!''
The scene of the new novel Missy by the
author of "Rutledge," is said to be laid in a
well known and pretty village on the north
shore OF Long Island, and inhabitants and fire.
quenters of the place are understood to be EN-.
gagged in picking out, with somewhat mingled
emotions, the shoes that fit.
Not long before his death a friend sent the
poet Bryant picture of apple blossoms. In
acknowledging it he wrote: ''They do not ex-
actly suit the last days of life's December but
they agree charmingly with that new spring
time Of existence, my entrance to which can.
not be far off, and where hope to find the or
chards of Paradise in full blossom"
One of the rarest of all the early specimens
of English printing is book from the press OF
the monastery of st Adams. These works are
believed 70 number in all only half-dozen
A copy of one of them, the "Chronicle of St.
Alban" Q4S3), was sold in London recently to
bookseller as Caxton, but the purchaser
found, after he had bought it, that the book
was much rarer than specimen of Caxton s
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