Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-04
LITERARY NOTES.

"Uncle Remus"-otherwise Joel Chandler
Harris-has written a short story which is
mentioned as a work of genius equal TO the
'Tar-Baby."
Will S. Hays, the song-writer, and General
Bufor1, the converted turfman, recently APP
peared on the same platform at religious
meeting in Louisville.
Bret Harte's recollections Of Longfellow
will appear in the next number Of Good
Woods. They have already been published
in German in a Vienna Journal.
John Morley, after retiring in November
from The editorship of the Forfnightiy Reriete,
will devote all the time not given TO editing
the Fail Mall Gazette TO purely literary work.
Ernst Haeckel, Germany's grea. disciple
of Darwin, is now in Egypt, on his way
home from Ceylon. During his four month.
stay in that island his explorations were
favored by exceptionally fine weather.
slut, tut" was the reproof with which
Emerson once threw into silence and con-
fusion of mind a too loquacious admirer
who offending his sense OF modesty by
praisipg his works 10 his face at a social
gathering.
Young Darwin, who intends to prepare his
late fathers biography, is mentioned az Pc
culiarly fitted for the task both by education
and personal knowledge. He il a clever
young man and has been his fathers col
league in many of his recent scientific re-
searches.
Turgenef, the exiled Russian novelist, is
seriously i'll in Paris, and his friends fear
that he will not recover. His strength has
been failing steadily since his recent visit to
his native land, after twenty years of enforced
absence, which ne regarded as the crowning
event OF his career.
One Of the veterans of the French press is
.r5u --A. t,l
his eighty-second year. NJ CIaudon was one
of the founders of the Charioari, the chief Of
French comic newspapers, and had trans
lated into his native tongue a number of the
novels of the late Bulwer Lytton. His late
years were passed in extreme abstemious-
nesz. 1t il said that he found 81 day sufi-
Gent for all his needs.
Bzlzac once reused one Of his literary
partners at o'clock in the morning for three
successive days with the fierce dem snd: "Sir,
have you found me yet the promised idea
for the beginning Of our joint story?'
Driven to evaporation the other finally
exclaimed: "Sir, ! do not furnish IDEAS in
the small hours Of the night" Sir" thun-
dered Balzsc in return, you are an az -
and was never seen by his collaboration
again.
Shelley's house on the Bay Of Spezia, says
| Mr.. Alfred Austin in the AtheRgVm, will
| lose its chief attraction II projected road
1 from San Terepzo 10 Leric il built. The
| rozd may be made through the garden at
4 the back Of the house; it may pass between
/ it and the sea, and 20 deprive it Of it, charm
| in the eyes Of the poet; or it may be con-
structed on the site of the house itself.
| Even il the frame OF the building should be
left. the solitudes which surrounded II will
be destroyed.
VIII. Mallock is about 10 make a new
| contribution 10 the literature Of despair.
In a volume entitled Social Equality. a
Study Of a Missing Science, he mas deliv-
cred himself of a PessimistIc sermon on
democracy in EuroPe-a democracy which
he claims is something altogether unlike
thai Of America. and in the extension and
triumph OF which he sees ruin like the ruin
of old Rome q. z. Putnam's Sons will
bring out the book in few weeks simultane'
ously with its production in London.
The cable, few mornings ago, briefly an