Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
BOOKS AND BOOKMEN.

n 1 New 1Ork, January j.
BOOKS AND BOOKMEN.
The Paris Ecole des Bedu1 Arts has 10:
plaster casts valued at 500 ,000f, by the care
lessness which allowed them to remain store
e in damp cellar.
Mr.. Dorman B. Eaton's Cfrl-.Serriee IN Gre
Britain, with an introduction by Mr.. Georg
William Curtis, has been added to the HdI
r per's Franklia Square Library.
Mr.. ]. r. Green's new work, The Moking {
England, and the new volume of essays b,
1, Prof. Huxley, will be published by Messr;
! Macmillan & Co, early in January.
.. NJ. Henri Caillcux, a Belgian professor
, has published a voluminous work in which
he proves to his own satisfaction that Home
, was born at Brussels of respectable Belgian
: parents.
The seventh volume of Mr.. Kinglake'
History q the CIinieaa War is now preparin.
for the press. The fifth volume of the Met
te1nich Memoirs has just made its appearance,
in England.
NJ. lola receives larger sums for his work;
than almost any other author in France. He
has Just finished a novel called POt-B otuLle
for which he was paid $4,000 merely for the
right of first publication as serial.
The Life Of the Hon. Henry Erskine is in
course of preparation by Lieutenant Colonel
Ferguson 1t will take the shape of a memoir
of the champion of "the independence of the
Scottish bar" with notices of his kinsfolk
and of his times.
Mr.. Bentley, the English publisher, has
brought out a cheap edition of The hgoidsbg
Legends, and sixty thousand five hundred and
thirteen copies were subscribed for on the
day of publications. fact which ought to
convince the reluctant Briton that cheap
books Will "pay."
The Bi6Hosrapher, journal of book lore a
new monthly published in London by Eliot
Stock, shows promise an Its first number. 1t
is devoted to new books as well as old, though
ills distinctive merit lies in its handling OF
vexed questions concerning the oldest pub
locations.
| An interesting contribution to American
history will be the forthcoming work of the
Hon. William Henry Smith on the life and
public services of Major General Arthur st.
| Clair, once president of the Continental
| congress and governor of the Northwestern
Territory.
Among the books which are to be brought
! out soon by G. p. Putnam's Sons is volume
| by Prof. F. Guthrie called The First Book of
Knowledge, and planned to present to chill
| dren in a simple manner the information
| they need concerning the common objects
| about them.
Mr.. Denis Florence Mccarthy, of Dublin,
has had the honor of receiving from the
| Spanish Royal Academy medal struck in
commemoration of Calderon's bi-eentenary,
in appreciation of his translations of the
poet. Mr.. Mccarthy had been elected last
year corresponding member OF the academy.
Speaking of severe muscular exercise
Halls Journal of Health says that every
gymnasium in the country should be
abolished. Not but that there are some
good features about them, but the evil re-
sulting from gymnastic exercises as ordi-
narily practiced does more harm than good.
The Friends Book Association, of Phila-
delphla, are arranging to issue new and
cheap edition of Samuel NJ. Janney's Life Of
William Penn, early in the coming year.
They anticipate revival of interest in the
career Of the great Quaker, in connection
with the bi-centennial anniversary of his
settling Pennsylvania.
The editor of Texas exchange SAYS he
does not like turkey; that if he can't have
'possum to celebrate with he don't want any
at all but his neighbors still continue to lock
up their turkeys after dark. Some people
don't believe everything they read in news
paper. The editor can't play 'possum" on
them that way.-Iepas SyttRgs.
Superstition is still alive in Eugland A
woman in Lower Gornal recently went TO the
vicar of the locality and asked to be allowed
to cut bit of turf from certain grave, TO
be placed under the communion table for
four days, that she might lay the ghost of
the man buried in the grave. The ghost, she
averred, continually haunted her.
1t is no secret that Mr.. Tennyson in his
own person is far from possessing an ideal
tidiness and poetic elegance OF taste and
mien. As he walks on summer afternoons
through Hyde park, wondering are the
glances which are cast by strangers upon the
disheyeled figure. The London World
presents a specialized and Withholding carl |
cature of the poet, with this verse:
1t is said that five thousand Babylonian |
tablets (many of them in an excellent state |
of preservation, discovered by Mr.. Rass am
in the mounds of Abu-Habba, are on their |
way to the British Museum. Abu-Habba is |
the site of SiIpara, the Sepharvaim OF the |
Old Testament. 1t is not impossible that |
this find represents the library of Sargon /, |
whose date is commonly given as 1000 BIC
The January-February number of Educa-
ton comes freighted with an unusually
strong class of papers. President Hinsdale's
Garfield and Education" "The Machine in
"Have We Science in E1uca-
ton" are all good and suggestive; but par
ticularly valuable is Mrs. A. F. Hathaway's
lucid an idea of the great pessimist's phil
osophy.
The London Spec 'dtor tells aspiring novel
ists that Irish people never drop their he,
and, outside of Mr.. Boucicaults plays, they
never say "slape," "kape," or "belave." The
vowel combinations which they do mispro-
nounce are ca and Ell, as in "leave" and ode
ceive;" these they make 'lave" and "desave;;"
but &c and ie-as, for instance, in weep" and
English writer who thoroughly masters and
never forgets these distinctions is Mr.. Thack-
cray.
For the first time penny evening paper,
entitled the Epening Express, is published in
New York 1t will be independent in poll
tics, although backed by such men as Hubert
D. Thompson, commissioner of public works.
and Mayor Grace. John b. Peck will be
editors, and Thomas B. Kingsland, formerly
Of the Express, business manager. Contrary
10 the general supposition, james F. Coates,
managing editor Of Cyrus Fields Jfai and
Express, will not accept position on the new
paper
In her ear he whispers grufiy,
Pork for lunch, for dinner tripe;
see that neither's done too toughly-
Bring match and light my pipei''
she replies 30, hated bird's-eye,
Curse and honor of my life,"
He is famed Poet Laureate.
Though the park and gardens going,
P.ccadilly and the Strand.
All the time his "bscca" blowing,
All agsPe the people stand.
Wants 5 air cut. Kun old buffer
Haged century at least -
Says ths Laureate, This suffer
From the may -headed beast 80
The December number of that admirable
LiAn de Ia Mods, received
through J. w. Bouton, contains, besides the
Lwo coIored fashion illustrations, a repsodue-
ton of water color by Ricardo de Msdrazn, 1
which is only inferentiaIly fashion-plats IN
It's presentation Of a charming young lady, |
in iseylie morning costume, seated in a rock
ing chair, in a conservatory, yawninC over a /
book Noticeable in the text Is a sketch Of l
Mime. lie Msrquise d'OsmoDd, nee Maleiseye, |
illustrated by a pen-and-ink portrait by st. |
Elme Gautier-
The Aztigtary, for December, contains a |
very interesting article on the identity OF |
william Shakespeare and Anne Halfway |
with the William Fenton and Anne Psge of |
the Merry Wires Of Wiadsor. The most Gu |
rious point in the paper is concerning wart |
over the eve described in the play. Mr.. /!
Henty, the writer, has discovered that the /
Hunt picture of Shakespeare exhibits the !
wart, thus he claims, confirming the fact that |
Fenton and Anne Page were autobiography |
cal sketches, and establishing the authenticity |
of the picture az painted from lie.
Some Hittite sculptures dating probably |
from the seventh century p. c. have recently !
been donated to the British museum They
include inscribed stones and slabs and large
with figures in high relief. 1t |
is hoped that the profusion Of hieroglyphs, !
which cover not only the slabs but the backs |
of the efhgiez, may give material aid in the !
work of deciphering the Hitiite scriPt-a |
work that has long, but thus far unsneeesz-
fully. engaged the attention OF English ex-
perts. The manner of writing il said TO re-
.emble that Of the Egyptians as well as that /
Of the Aszyrians, while showing strong traces
of affinity with the letters aud syllabies Of
the Cyprian alphabet.