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not known in this country.
2 The Carlyle controversies have been re-
: vived by Froude's biography, the effect of
t which, on the whole, is to confirm the i'm
preston, created by the Remiscences. of the
essential untrustworthiness OF Carlyle's
judgment of Contemporaries. The new vol
umes present new instances OF melancholy
t jsalousies and inconsistencies.
La Fatislin, by Edmond de Goncourt,
shortly TO be issued by T. B. Peterson &
Brothers, Philadelphia. is destined to create
profound sensation. 1t is an episode in the
life OF great Parisien actress, said by the
author to be Rachel, and is full of scenes,
incidents and excitement peculiar to the
social and theatrical circles of the French
capital.
After Longfellow's visit to Windsor Cas-
sic, in 1857. the queen said to Sir Theodore
Martin: 81 noticed an unusual interest
among the attendants and servants. / could
scarcely credit that they so generally under
stood who he was. When he took his leave
they concealed themselves in places from
which they could get good look at him
he passed.
Thomas Hughes is so far from we'll that
his physicians have forbidden him to under
take his proposed visit to Rugby, Tenn. He
has written letter expressing his sympathy
with the settlers in their troubles and sor-
rows, and thanking them for their intention
to give hinr kind welcome Notwithstanding
the disappointment under which they are
suffering SO keenly."
Mr.. Ernest Longfellow, son of the de-
| ceased poet, states in card printed in the
Boston papers of Thursday last, that in due
time memoir OF his father will be pub
lisbed, the compiling of which all the
family will assist. He adds that they will
| be thankful to all of Mr.. LongfeIlow's
friends for the use OF any correspondence or
| other suitable data.
| The Austrian sculptor Zumbush ia finish
ing his colossal bronze monument to Marie
| Theresa, which will be erected at Vienna
near the. Museum of Fine Arts The en-
press is represented seated and ten times life
size. Figures of Wisdom, Force, Justice and
| Clemency surround her. There are also
statues of the celebrated men of her reign,
and several bas-reliefs.
One of The most readable books of the sea-
son will soon be published by the Hsrpers.
This is Alfred Barbou's Victor Hugo and HIS
Time translated by Ellen E. Brewer. The
volume is illustrated not only by a great
number of drawings made by NJ Hugo him
self, but also by 120 sketches by the clever
est French artists. A mass OF picturesque
anecdote eniivens the book.
Mr.. G. A, Sala speaks of the late Mr..
Lonefellow as impressing him with his great
facial beauty, and he says that it was truly
liberal education to hear the poet talk.
Mr.. Sala advises English ladies to sing SIN
dymion," which fits delightfully."- to "Di Pes |
catore Ignobile" in Donizstti's Luc1'ezi1 Bor- |
gia, and he thinks that the accompanying |
instrument should be harp.
The death of Rossetti, the poet, removes |
from society a chief figure in the aesthetic |
movement of which Oscar Wilde is the |
eccentric flower. Rossetti, however, wrote |
some exquisitely dainty poems, but there |
was very little in them that appealed to the
hearts OF the people. He may be remembered |
by scholars bat the affection of the masses
never went out to him as it did to Longfellow
Mr. james Russell Lowell is quoted by
the Boston Courier as saying in a converse
ton about Irish poetry: II have gone over
all L could lay my hands on, and you will
be surprised if / should tell you-whom |
consider 10 be the greatest of the Irish poets"
PausiDg moment, he said: 1.-The greatest of
Irish poets, aud one OF the greatest, and
sometimes i think the greatest of all poets, |
is Edmund Burke"
The Ahen9um says: ave are not sure that
Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman and Burns
should not be allowed, for the present, at all |
events, to rest with Hannibal, the character |
of Queen Ell zlbeth and the authorship of
Junius, in the honorable retirement of de-
batting clubs and essay societies. Something |
fresh will turn up some day to say about
them or people viii forget what has been |
said; but for little while they may be left
alone"
Mr.. Whittier has written poem oommem-
orative OF LOngfellow and the love which all
children who knew him felt for him. 1t Is
described as "tender and exquisite" and
appears in the last number of Vide Aiuoke
Mrs. Julia Wrrd Howe's "reminiscences Of
the poet, covering a period of forty-ive
years, will be published in two numbers of
The Critic beginning in this weeks issue.
l.. e
tains a striking portrait OF Mr.. LoDgfellow,
drawn by ]. w. Alexander.
When,.once on a time, d. mn Piatt applied
to one Hazard of the New York Tribune for
work, Hazard told him the Tribune wanted
somebody ito select from the rural ex-
changes accounts of the biggest pumpkins,
squashes, aud vegetable products; where
upon Dom Piatt replied that there would be
no consulting the exchanges, as the edito-
rial room presented as large a collection of
pumpkins and squashes the rural editor
would need. Hazard blushed and Dom
Piatt didn't get any situation.
The curiosities in the library of General
l.. p. di Cesnola are in some respects as in
teresting as those in the Metropolitan Mu-
scum Of Art of which he is director. One
cabinet contains the numerous medals re-
ceived by him from King Victor Emmanuel,
King Humbert and others. Here also hang
the generals commission from x-Governor
Morgan and the sword which he carried in
the late civil war. Certifc Gates Of the degree
OF Ii ID. from two colleges are framed on
the walls, and there are a collection OF busts
and good number OF books.
Carl Sondershausen, one OF the last survi-
vors Of the classical days of Weimar, is dead
in his ninety first year. At Weimar he was
bern. and at Weimar he has passed away
When boy he often took part in the
choIuses on the stage during the performance
of Goethe's plays. He afterward engaged
in literary work, and was thus brought some
what in contact with Goethe, Chancellor Won
Muller, Duke Karl August and foreign
writer's who visited Weimar. Under the
title The Last # the Old Weimarians he pub
lished in 1859 some interesting "reminiscences.
Mr.. O'Donovan, correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News, recently described in pub
lie lecture his strange experience at Merv.
Instead of finding the domes, spires and tow
cred walls which might have been expected
at celebrated Eastern place, he found some
wretched novels sheepskin-clothed people,
and half-starved cattle feeding in bog
There was, he said, no such city as Merv at
present; Merv was mere geographical ex-
preston. There were certain traces of a
former city, and there were half a million
Tekke Turkomans, but there was no central
point that could justly be called Merv.
A nephew OF John Gibson Lockhart, the
son-ln-iaw oil scott, and writer Cf stories
which have been greatly liked in England,
is dead in Colonel Lawrence w. NJ. Lock- ,
hart, who passed away last month at Men
tone. His military career began in the .
Crimea and ended not long sfter~ard in In
dia, when he turned to literature. As an
artistic writer of fiction he outdid his more
famous uncle. Among his works are Double
~ Outs, Fair 10 SEE, and Nine Is Thine Dur
ing the Franco-German war he was for a
lime newspaper correspondent, and wrote !
Tor the London Times an account of the bat ,
lie OF Forbach.
The authorship and sctual words of the
lines, "And shall Trelawny die?" !
have at length been settled by the reproduc- {
ion of the entire ballad-ons of the finest of I
is kind in the English langusge-and an q
noe by the author, the Rev. c
Robert Stephen Hauker. late vicar of Nor D
yeps.on Cornwall. who was before his death,
eceived into the Roman Catholic Church. 1t
ppears that the Rev. Mr.. Hauker gained
he Newdegate prize for poetry at Oxford,
md that he was at one time regarded as the
ival of the laureate. 1. is certainly well
hat his memory has been revived, for I'M
loubtedly many students of English itera-
ure never heard Of him before.
Stednan, who is fairly clever poet, is a
cry effective prose writer, and has written
n article on the "POets of London" which
ppears in the current number of Harper's
bal is a valuable addition to the history of