Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-05-30
LITERARY NOTES.
Alfred rcnnyson Is bus ily writing at
one Of his country places.

I, - ~ w SuNCl llOltlltS IL HalU "a
nave received IS liue from the Boston
Globe for his poem ON Garfeld's death. |.
The New York Commercial Advertise,
says; Literary fame Is the child Of power
", and the literary man who can not pa,
his bill should not despair" He seldom
does. In nj ne cases out OF ten it is hi:
iand-lady Who despairs
-Longfellow was once asked whether
Paul Fleming in Hyperion was a char.
acter drawn from life. He paused a full
half minute, and then answered: CHE was
what thought might have been. but
never-- He shaded his face with one
hand and did not complete the sentence
Victor Hugo is an adept of the useful
art Of dispensing taffy. When poet sends
him an autograph copy of his latest efru-
sion the great poets invsrisble form OF
acknowledge snt runs as follows; Man OF
genius Yol are far greater poet than
|. Persevera. Your Victor Hugo EN-.
braces you without envy"
Que OF otr exchanges insists that Ten
nyson must have the Charge OF Medium
Brigade tucked away somewhere We
think, however, his last poem Apr oac hes
the mediocre a. nearly as could be possi-
BILE. When poet turns crank and grinds
out the muse at ten dollars per verse, what
can We expect?-RockldRd Courier.
Samuel L. Clemens-or Mark Twain,
Z as the world knows him-met an old friend,
in the person Of Captain Horace Z. Blxby,
\ in New Orleaus the other day. Many years
ago Captain Bixby was Mississippi pilot
and he taught Mr.. Clemens the trade. He
/ i now master OF the City Of Baton Rouge
aud Mr.. Clemens is his guest during a.trip
from New Orleans to st. Louis.
Robert Browning has no appreciation
OF his own iucomprehensibilty. Several
/ years ago he informed an American pub
| Usher that he had written 4 new poem that
was very simple and clear-thst everybody
could understand. The pleased and excited
I publisher begged the poet 70 forward imme
dstely. When IL came it turned out to be
The Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
perhaps the most puzzling of all Brownings
mystic productions.
A conversation arose between two
newspaper men the other day in the pres
ence OF Mr.. John StetSon as TO the lines
commencing The mills of the gods grind
slow" They are Pope's," said one.
NO, Pope never wrote anything OF the
sort, maintained the other. I'm tell you
how you can settle It," said Stetson, II
know Pope weil-hes in 81. Louis. Tele-
graph him aud ask If he wrote 1t. I'll pay
the charge"
The June EUie-A,r axe will contain the
already famous 5000 Prize Frontispiece "A
Mayln:, drawn by Luugren, and engraved
by Closson. and among other good things,
a notable Rusk. n paper, prepared in Lou
don by Mrs. ;. h Bolton, will appear In
the June Vide. iirdke. IL Is entitled The
Ruskin May-dsy az Whitelands College"
aud is accompanied by foe pen-and-iuk
portraits of Mr.. Ruskin and Miss Osborne.
the May Queen.
The June atlantic is Longlellow me-
mortal number, aud contains a tue steel
portrait of Longfellow from the photo
graph which he preferred above all others;
n pOeiical tribute 10 Our Dead Singer,
by Dr. oliver Wendell Holmes; hitherto
unpublished poem by Longtellow on Dec
Grafton Day" written only short time
before his death; an estimate OF the char
scter aud genius or Longfellow, bY y. Is.
rockingham. The number also contains
an article on Darwin, by John Fiske, who
knew him personally, aud the continuation
OF Thomas iIardy's and Miss Phelps's Sc
rails.
Ernest LOngfellow, son OF the late
Professor I.ongfel'ow, states In card that
inaSmuch a. many persons have made haste
70 announce biographies OF his father with
claims OF authorization from his family,
he desires - diSlhuse the public OF wrong
expectations aud guard against imperfect
biographies. 10 due time memoir will
. be published, 10 which the family Will
I lend all their assistance. They now re-
serve all the material in their hands, and
will be thankful 10 those of Mr.. Longfel'
/ lows friends who will entrust 10 them for
] this use any correspondence whatever or
other helpful data that may be IN their
possession.
in the North american Rerie,r for June
7 Senator W. b. Allison has paper on The
/ Currency OF the Future In which he In
dicates the measures that will be taken oy
I Congress for insuring Il stable currency
after the national debt has been eXun-
guished. "A Memorandum al Venture,
\ by Walt Whitman, l. an explanation OF his
purpose and point OF view Ia trenching
upon topics not usually regarded u amen
able 20 literary treatment. "Andover and
\ Creed Subscription by Rev. DR.. Leonard
Woolsey Bacon, is a philosophical review
/ of the present state OF dogmatic belief In
the churches. Hon. George F. Seward,
\ late minister 10 China. in an article enti-
I tied .'Nongolisn Immigration makes an
argument against the proposed anti-Chi-
nese legislation. DR.. John W. bowling,
Dean OF the New York Homeopathic Med
\ icsl College. comes 10 the defence or the
Uabn.mspnic School OF Medicine, against
a recent attack upon its principles and
methods. o. b. rockingham has sym
/ pathetic article on Swedenborg. Not The
I least important paper is one entitled Has
Land Value Z" by Isaac l.. Rice, 1t being
a criticism OF one OF the fundamental pos
tulates OF Henry Georges political econo-
NV. Finally, Charles F. Leydecker essays
10 prove that National Militia IS a con-
/. stitutlonal impossi5illty.
The .itiqa,ic Monthly 70: May is note
worthy number. Mr.. Longfellow's poem
on :. Mad River. in the White Mountains"
nosseses peculiar interest as being the last
one from his pen, and the nnal PROOF oil II
WAS revised by him only day or two be-
fore his last brief illness. The opening
chapters OF Mr.. Thomas Hardy's new Sc
/ rial. Two on Tower, are given, ana
promise 4 story OF unusual Interest The
/ ilaRtic has secured the sole right or serl-
Al publication OF this story, both In Eng
land and America. John Fiske contributes
an article on The arrival OF Man In Eu-
rope" which supplements his popular sci
eutIac treatise on Europe before the Ar
rival of Man. in the April number. H. IL:
writes capital character sketch, entitled
.Aunty Lane, and Edward G. Mason gives
AN entertaining history of "Old Fort CHAR
tres one OF the early French forts in Ill,