Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-03
LITERARY NOTES.

Henry Morley, well known for his
"Sketch of English Literature" was
originally doctor, then Dickens's assistant
on Household Words from 1851 to 1857,
afterward editor Of the Examiner, and
since 1859 mas been Professor OF English
Literature, first in Kings College, and
afterward in University College, London.
It is proposed to start Browning So
ciety for the study and discussion of the
works of the poet Browning, and the pub
LEGATION of essays on them and extracts
from works illustrating them. The open
ing meeting will probably be at the end of
October, and MIR. Furnivall, No. B. st.
Georges square, Primrose Hill, North
west London, has the matter in charge.
DIR. Schliemann, now in Berlin superin-
tending his collections, has received the
very unusual title of Honorary Citizen
ship" Prince Bismarck aud General Won
Moltke being the only other living person
ages on WHOM. it has been conferred. DR..
| Schliemann has recently returned from a
| Journey through the Troad, and especially
the Ida Mountains, where he claims to
have discovered the altar of Zeus
The work of raising fund for the
printing of books in raised letters for the
blind is steadily progressing in Boston,
says the Literary World, and about S25, 600
has been already secured, which is one
third of the amount needed. With S75, 900
dozen books can be added to the list
yearly. The price of Bible printed in
this way is $50. About 100 volumes in
raised letters are now accessible to the
blind.
The late Dr. Rudolf Hermann Lutze &C.
cepted in 1914 call to become the Pro.
fessor of Philosophy at Gottingen, where
he produced his best known works. His
contributions to medicine and medical
psychology are numerous. Starting from
medicine, he developed metaphysical
system of his own. His classically written
"Logik" asa contains a fairly good
sketch or outline of his system. He had
the gift of lucid exposition, and was
man of noble character.
One thousand pounds has been collected
for Carlyle's monument on the Thames
Embankment. William Allingham pro-
tests in the name of Carlyle's friends against
placing his bust in Westminster Abbey, on
the ground that Mr.. Carlyle had no respect
| for the building, not even as architecture,
never willingly came within its doors, and
was far from regarding tomb or monu-
ment there as desideratum. On the other
hand, he greatly admired st. Pauls Cathe-
dral as an edi6ce, and visited it several
times in the last months of his life.
| The course of lectures on Scottish Church
history, twelve in number, and called the
est. Giles Lectures" recently delivered
in Edinburgh and Glasgow by eminent
clergymen of the Established Church, has
stirred up the Bishop of st. Andrews, DR..
Charles Wordsworth, to somewhat spir.
tied reply, in which he discusses Scottish
Church history from the Reformation to
to the present time in quite different
style from that of his Presbyterian breth-
rem. Both series of lectures are worth
preserving.
John Morris, of the Society of Jesus, is
one of the few living English writers who
has succeeded in greatly modifying certain
views of English history during the reign
of Queen Mary which have been held to be
the only tenable ones. His series of
"Troubles of Our Catholic Forefathers,"
begun ten years ago. shows how the Eng
lish Churchmen in the sixteenth century
hacked and butchered and robbed the
Roman Catholics of those days in order to
| convert them to the reformed faith, which
form of religious persecution, according to
Mr.. Morris, was not found to be over per-
| suasive.