Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18
LITERARY GOSSIP.

LITERARY GOSSIP.
Walter Besant has prepared a volume oI
Readings from Rabelais."
Captain E. Dyne Fenton, author of sew.
eral successful novels, is dead.
Eugene Hucher announces an elaborate
work on glass painting.
! 1t is said of Hawthorne that he was
never known to speak i'll of any one.
Mr.. Alexander's new novel is called
"The Freres."
a narrative of events in Macedonia dur
ing the last few months is to be published
A volume has been written by Alexander
| Hetsch on "The Danube from its Source
to its Mouth. +"
Max Muller will publish Professor Pal
mer's new translation of the Koran in his
''Sacred Books of the East"
! The Atheneunl compliments the United
| States upon its astonishing progress III
photographed studies.
Americans do not take kindly to guide
books. They look upon them as an asper.
sion upon their knowledge.
Stephen Tucker has been appointed
Somerset Herald, succeeding to the place
occupied by the late Mr.. blanche.
Krascewski, the Russian exiled poet,
who has been living at Dresden for the
past ten years, has written new historical
novel.
The most important of recent contribu-
lions to the free trade controversy is from
the pen of Congressman S. S. Cox. The
title is =" Free Land and Free Trade, and
the text is the British Corn Laws.
NJ. Maspero has been sent on mission
to Italy, for the purpose of collecting in
the museums of Naples, Rome, Florence,
Bologna and Turin the documents neces-
cary for the publication of history OF
Egypt.
The memoirs of Johann Georg Rist, a
Danish diplomatist at the beginning of the
present century, furnish some piquant de.
tails of the daily life of Charles ". of
Spain. The first part, just published by
Perthes of Gotha, leaves Rist in London
at the time of the bombardment of Copen-
hagen.
Richard Henry Stoddard used to be a
newspaper reporter; before that he was an
iron-molder, and could sling sledge-
hammer as easily as he now yields pen
Mr. Stoddard was born fifty. five years ago
at bingham, Mass, of race of seafarlng
men. His first volume of poems, called
Footprints" was published in lS4S, and
was fortunate enough to please that slash
ing, Staying critic, Griswold, who subse-
quently embalmed its author among his
Poets and Poetry of America. /"
Franz Hueffer has published volume of
Musical Studies" in which he attempts
to prove that most of the modern COM
posers are Influenced by Wagner. In
speaking of ''Carmen Mr. Hueffer re-
marks "Bizet is considerably influenced
by the German masters styles" in speak.
ing of Polyeucte" he says: "Gounod
borrows Wagner's device of the repre-
sentative theme, which by this time has
become the common property OF dramatic
composers )" and again of Massenet's
"Roi de Lahore" he writes SIN more
than one number of the score the influence
Of Wagnerian neloS is distinctly discerni-
ble." In Verdi's "Aida" one certainly
traces the Wagnerian influence.
In his volume Campaigning in South
Africa Captain W. E. Montague describes
visit he paid to the donga in which Prince
Louis Napoleon was killed. He says that
although it was originally supposed that
forty to fifty Kaffirs took part in the at
tack, the number was eight. The authori-
tative statement recently published by Sir
Evelyn Wood, however. shows that the
Zulus numbered about forty, but that only
seven or eight were actually concerned in
killing the Prince. The first stab proved
fatal; and an old woman whom the Zulus
had left behind at the kraal near the donga
boosted that it was her sons who had killed
the great Inkoss.
At the celebration of the Camoens ter
centenary at Rio Janeiro the Emperor Of
Brazil laid the foundation of the new build.
ing for the Portuguese Library in the Rua
da Lampadosa, which is now to be styled
Rua de LUZ de Camoens, and opened a
Camoens exhibition at the National Lii
brary. The Librarian had arranged 1855
works in more than GOO volumes, among
them 90 editions of the Lusiads, 81 Of which
were English TRANSACTIONS The city was
Illuminated, and a grand performance took
place at the theater. The Rerista Brazil
era published volume of so compositions
ny pOStS. uC CONe
tributed some lines to the preface.
The AhenGuns publishes hitherto un-
printed incident of the trial of Charles l.
1t is in a letter dated 1865, from one 10.
Levet to Archbishop Sancroft, then Dean
of St. Paul's. Lady Delisle, a royalist,
whose husband was killed on the Kings
side during the civil war, had been four
years in prison for a debt of ten pounds,
when the letter was written. Says the
letter She hath two brands upon her !;
that of her shoulder have scene Ia hand
full broadl she received them from Colonel
Huson at the first tryall OF our late King
in open court, for saying upon their read
ing of his accusation) that it was not his
subjects, but traytors and REBELS that made
it /: His Majesty then seeing her flesh
smoake and her haire all of fire for him
by their hot irons, much commiserated her,
and wished that he had beene able to have
requited her.