Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-02-05
Literary Chit Chnt.

Mr.. Charles Isnnsn Is preparing a mass
OF fresh matter for a new clifton OF his fas-
cinating "reminiscences OF Daniel Webster.
Mrs Burnstt has recovered her health SUI
hcfently TO I've hard at work again. Like Wal.
ter Scott, she nnds the morning the most favor.
able season for composition. ana nj that time
OF the day she does most ot her pen.woTS:
making an upstairs snuggery her WORKSHOP.
Notwithstanding its bitter fiiyor aud
perhaps because OF 1t. MIR. Murrsys sub
Rosa" Is working its way TO nth edition.
Its new issue Is 10 be illustrated.
Another Washington novel, capt. yanee's
Princes Favors," is also having good sale.
Altogether these two young men promise to be
important accessions to the Washington corps
OF noyelists who already through Mrs Bur
nett Mrs. Southworth and Mrs. Uanison have a
larger parish OF readers than the fiction writer's
OF any other CITY In the world. Ii may be re-
membered, too, that Mrs. stoves ~ ncle Tom =
Cabin" the most widely read novel ever writ
ten, made Its first appearance in Washington.
The History Of the Christian Religion 10
the Year Two Hundred, by Charles Il. Waite,
A. NJ, has just been issued by c. Y. Waite s
Co, Chicago This volume is the result OF an
Investigation extending through several years.
and Instituted for the satisfaction OF thu,
author. Two years OF the time were spent ia
the library II congress. which Is particularly
ricn In the department or Biblical iteramre
The result Is what seems to be an important
contribution 10 religious history. The author
expresses his obligations 10 the Hon. Wm
Birney, or Washington. formerly Professor ia
the University OF France, for valuable aid ia
his researches.
- Lee & shepard Boston. have Just issued In
dainty form the poems of Many Years and
Many Places. by Walter Gibson. Comm,nier
I. ). n, author of "A Vision OF Fairy Land aud
Other Poems" The poems ia the present vol
ume are OF unequal merit, but as whole they
anord abundant ground for the faith Mr. Go
sons pretty large and growing circle OF admir-.
ers have in him.
- The midwInter number OF S4jb3.er,s Aaqa-
z'ne Is superb all the way through. ard is espe-
cially In demand hereabouts on account OF ifs
charming illustrated paper on our picturesque
OLD nelghboring City or Alexandra, and its
chapters OF Mrs. Burnetts absorbing " Fair
Barbarian" In Illustrations this number OF
S17b'ef Is wonderfully rich, as IS the fellow
number or 81. NtchOldS These two magazines
we see are the subjects NJ uustinted praise in
the London Times In regard TO the perfection TO
which they have brought the art OF wood en-.
craving. The Times says these illustrations
possess qualities which are not only rare ia
WoodcuttiDg, but which. so far as it knows
. nave never been previously obtained They
manage Dy the extreme delicacy and skill OF
their execution to preserve the clearness and
VlVacify which are Characteristic OF wood en-
craving, and yet 70 combine with this a painters
quality or softnesS and delicately gradu atai
light and shade. The Times concludes column
OF eulogiSt1c notice of the S7ibjeT ILLUSTRATIONS
by advising English artists to go and do like
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