Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-05-26
LITERARY NOTICES.

Scribner e. Son have brought out
new edition of AykhHS BOnHifasfl<
and The Bay PATH by ]. G. Holland.
Longfellow's Hyperion is published
by Houghton Mifflin & Co, in paper
| covers at IS cents.
Robert Bonner, of the New York
Ledger, paid Henry w. Longfel|ow
$50 line for one OF his poems which
amounted to $4,000. Who will say
there is nothing substantial in the
muses..
E. P. Dutton 4 Co., have just issued
| W0rds Of Truth and Wisdom, by Canon
Farrar, and Tile Clasts forMe Million,
by Henry Grey. These books are Sc
lections chiefly from noted Greek and
Latin authors.
Tile Bays and Girls of the .SonA.
published at Atlanta, Georgia, has con-
solidated with the SAMMY South in the
same city. Juvenile papers do not
thrive in a southern cline, and the
Sunny .S0uM is the only literary paper,
that has done so.
The great question now agltating
the literary minds ofAmerica, is, who is
to be the leading poet, in the United
States. Longfellow is dead and upon
whose shoulders is his mantle to fall.
1t may be years before this question is
decided.
The XoutA's Companion, published
at Boston, Mass, is said to have the
largest circulation of any juvenile pa
per published. 1t is one of the purest
and best papers for boys and girls in
tie land. Parents should not allow
their children to be without this enter
tanning and instructive little weekly.
A number Of young poets and story
writer's are just beginning to elbow
Their way into notice. They have not
yet acquired popularity nor even
notoriety, yet we see them so often
they are becoming familiar. They are
all young, The most noted of these
is 'Paui Pastnor," Oames Buckham) a
young man from Burlington, Vermont
George Bancroft Griffith and Eben E.
Rexford, whose poems we see in nearly
all the second class magazines. A lit.
erary leap may be expected from some
of them soon.
NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DIcTIoNARY.-
An excellent feature of the New Edi-
ton of Webs.er's Unabridged Diction-
ary, just issued, is the New Biograph-
ical, Dictionary, in which are given the
names o! nearly ten thousand noted
persons of ancient and modern times,
with brief statement of the dates Of
their birth and death, their nationality,
profession, etc. This is designed for
purposes OF ready reference, to answer
the questions which often arise as to
when and where certain persons lived
and the character of their achieve
ments. 1t contains many names of
persons who are still living, and the
pronunciation of each name is given.
CHOICE LITERATURE is the savory
title of a new magazine, occupying
literary field somewhat similar to the
Electric Magazine and Little's Lining
Age, with important variations. sand ad-
ditions, and 1t a mere fraction of their
cost, being only ST.. at year. Among
other attractions, its early numbers
will contain, unabridged Green's larger
History of the English People," and
Ruskin's "Modern Painters" Speci-
men copies will be sent free upon ar-
plication. 1t is under the manage
ment of John B. Alden, formerly head
of the American Book Exchange, and
the Literary Revolution" now of
Useful knowledge Publishing Compa-
ny, I62 William. ST., New York City.
The YoUTH's COMPANION, of Boston
is a sprightly, entertaining paper, de-
servedly popular, and is without ex-
ception, the best of its kind published
in America. II is filed to overflowing
With the choicest original matter, of so
a character that it never fails
% interest, instruct and amuse, and is
welcomed in the household by old and |
'oung alike. Serial stories will be
to the Youths Companion
Turing the coming year, by W. D.
dowell's, William Black, Harriet
8eecher Stowe, and J. r. Trowbridge,
No other publication for the family