Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-26
LITERARY

Mr.. Longfellow's dram attic poem "Michael
Angelo" /" will first appear in the Atlantic 1t will
be printed in three installments, beginning with
the January number.
Miss Louisa Alcott has been forbidden TO
write by her physicians: Her last volume is made
up OF stories collected from the magazines, only
one, The Bdron's Gtoues, being new.
The Rev. II. 3. HaweIs, who. as a writer,
is more industrious than brilliant, will shortly
publish in London a volume on American Humor-
Mr.. Lowell, Artemus Ward and Bret Harte.
The divorce scene of A Modern Instance is
said to have been laid in Charlottesville, Ind and
was taken from on actual study OF the town, which
color. He is reported to have spent several weeks
there in studying the city, the court, and the In
diana divorce system.
Let nobody be repelled by the unattractive
typography and common paper-cover from read
ing the Songs Of Semitic, by Miss Emma Lazarus.
The Dance to Death, which gives subtitle to the
collection, is a hye-act semi-historicsl tragedy,
in s9inew9a6 1dla ou1 vigorous IN me snerter
the Hebrew poets OF madiaeyal Spain, Miss Lazarus
aginstion strong feeling and literary taste, and
the new songs which she brings US have flavor
quite new TO our age and race.
When Mr.. Booth was recently playing an
engagement at the Adelpht, in London, the Prince
and Princess of Wales one evening occupied a box
At the close OF the performance the prince sent
Vite Mr.. Booth to the box. Mr.. Booth naturally
supposed that the prince had sent for him to COM
pll1neQL MIN on MS PERFORMANCES, DQL as ne en-
tered his discontinue may be imagined when the
prince, coming forward aud greeting him cordial
ly, said: "Mr. Booth, have sent for You TO ask
you how do you think Mrs. Langtry VIII succeed
in American"
Oliver Wendell Holmes recently wrote to q lady
correspondent in England: 1--WE are all burned
u with the drouth in this part of New England,
but we think more OF your country and its trou,
harvests. We count every drop of English blood
that sinks into the sands of Egypt almost as if it
were from the veins of our own eountrymen
UNDERSTANDING educated
of the two countries, ana their sympathy with
each other, grow with every year. 1 have had
myself so many kindly tokens of regard from
England that almost feel as If had my home
there"
NJ. TourgueniePs admirers, says the Lon
don AGtel&aal will be delighted to hear that de
cided improvement has taken place in his health
One of his friends who paid him visit recently at
Bougival, near Paris, where he owns a charming
summer residence on the slope of hill crowned
by shady woods, found him able TO move about
little, and to converse as brilliantly as ever. He
is for the present restricted to milk diet but he
looks forward to a return to an ordinary life, and
even to possible vlsit to Russia next year. The
novel which he was to have finished this summer
has been laid aside for the present but bis visitor
found him engaged upon shorter story, which
will probably appear In the VestnfE EVropy OF st.
Petersburg.
The traveller Ernst Won Hesse- Wartegg
bitterly complains in his Letters From the SouhtDest
Of the United States of the quality of the refresh
ments'' served ct Western railway restaurants, He
says he has for days subsisted raw chocolate in
preference to the food obtsfnable on the road Al
together, he asserts that In spite OF all the ngeni
Gus modern Improvements which American raff-
ways boast OF, he has nowhere found travelling
uncomfortable as in America, the railway between
from his censure. This seems rather sweeping
assertion in view of the fact that other German
travellers, notably Gerhard Rohfs, have been very
emphatic in their praise of the comforts of Amen
can railWay travelling.