Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-19
LITERARY NOTES.

In Kent whence Dickens took many odd
Dames for his novels, is man who, being
arrested, gave his name as Judas Maccabeus
Alive.
Mr.. Longfellow always bore the inf lotion
| OF countless visitors with genial patience.
81 consider" he used to say, "that l have
entertained great many angels unawares."
Lady Hardy, wife of the late Sir Thomas
Hardy, keeper of the public record office,
! London, England, is in Richmond, Va. She
is gathering materials for book on the
South.
Among the books in the press OF g. P
Punam's Sons is a His'ory Of English Fiction,
from the time Of Sir Edwsrd Mallory TO that
of George Elliot. Its author is Mr.. Bayard
Tuckerman.
r w. Criswell's "Shakespearean Traves-
ties" which we're popular when originally
printed in the Oil City Derrick, will soon be
issued in book form by the American News
Company of New York.
James W. DeFoe, the great-grandson of
Daniel DeFoe, lives at Shirley, England. He
is said to be in want, and has applied to the
English government for small pension, but
as yet it has not been granted.
A Boston journal says that the younger
school of poets does not properly link femi-
niue beauty with rural pleasures. True.
Let some one begin poem with-"She was
picking pekeberries in a pokebonnet."
So far as Mr.. Longfellow had any distinct
religious creed, he was, like his brother,
Samuel Longfellow, liberal Unitarian. He
was not a church goer, but his family have
usually attended College Chapel at Cam:
bridge.
An enterprising Milwaukee newspaper
prints wood cut of Ek Postmaster-General
James under the caption of "The Dead Out
l., II, - al
rate likeness OF the late Mr.. Jesse james that
has been printed.
The late Nathan Clifford, justice of the
Supreme Court, spent many hours in relat-
ing to his son incidents of his Lille. These
incidents, with other material, the younger
Clifford is now using in the preparation of
biography OF his father.
The Saturday ReritU agrees with Victor
Hugo in the opinion that Paris is the mother
of all great ideas, but it insists that all
Partisan ideas have a remarkable tendency
to refer themselves as beginning and as end
TO the Stock Exchange.
Longfellow's last poem will be published
in the May Aaanfie. The ''reyise" was re-
ceived from MIN only few days before his
death, and will be cherished one of the
choicest of the many literary treasures be-
longing to the magazine.
Longfellow was once asked whether Paul
Fleming in "Hyperion," was a character
drawn from life. He paused full half min
ute, then answered: "He was what thought
might have been; but never. .
He shaded his face with one hand, and did
not complete the sentence.
John Richard Green, the historian, has
somewhat improved in health during his
winter residence in Mentone, though he is
still seriously i'll. The statement that he
had heen obliged to relinquish all literary
work is incorrect. In spite of his physical
weakness his pan continues busy.
The Rev T. Dewitt Talmage is on lecture
tour through Virginia and North Carolina.
Lvnchburg tried to get him, bat he tele-
graphed that every night was engaged.
Talmsge receives $500 a night, which il
better than editing newspaper, and almost
as good as being Readjuster lobbyist.
Victor Hugo's modesty shone out when
told Of the death of Emile de Girardin. He
said: "All the men of that strong genera
ton of 1880 are passing away, one after
another. My turn will perhaps come soon. |
am ready. We must make room for |
others. 1t is time for me 10 cease TO I'LL The !
world"
Millais, the artist, Is rem arkably hand !
some man, of lofty stature-he measures six |
feet two inches-aud keen, refined face. He |
is married 10 a Scotch lady and has nine |
chllurtn. he pam all MS ldnUecapte out /
OF doors in the shelter of three sided hut,
smoking away industriously at his pipe the
while.
The clever French critic, NJ. Theodore |
Bentson, has Just published a thoughtful
book entitled LifteTattrs et Jfoeurs Grange Is,
in which he takes Walt Whitman merciless-
ly 10 task for what he considers his bad taste
and coarseness OF poetic ideal. He says that
Whitman seems to be a man in state OF
nature.
The Ame7ieoa Hebre0 announces the death,
in his seventeen year, Of DR.. Goudsmit, pro-
fessor OF Roman law in the University OF
Leyden, and whose treatise on his specialty
has been translated BY Mr.. De Tracy Gould.
Nine years ago Prof. Goudsmit visited the
United States for the purpose Of studying it,
higher educational systems, and on his re-