Middletown transcript., 1882-03-03
Literary Gossip.

PETERSON Bros announce MRS. Maybu1n's
Twins" by John Habberton.
A NEW edition of Bret Harte's poetry ana
prose is to be issued in five volumes.
BILL NYEs new book, entitled 1.-THE Forty
Liars and Other Lies" will be illustrated by
Hopkins 1t is now in press. Everybody
who is troubled with billiousness or liver
complaint will want a copy.
IN the March Century, Mrs. Mary Hallock
Foote's third paper on Mexican life, entitled
From Morelia to Mexico City on Horse
hack is a charming descriptive article, ana
is illustrated by the author. Mrs. Foote sees
and describes Mexico as only an artist can.
Mr.. TENNYsoN's new poem, 1.-The Charge of
the Heavy Brigade has appeared on this
side of the Atlantic 1t celebrates a feat of
arms as brilliant as THE Charge of the Six
Hundred" but will hardly become so popu-
lar as his poem commemorating the latter
event
THE Editors Drawer in Hdrper's Mdgd-
zine now sparkles with fresh wit and humor,
a change that readers of that popular period
ical will appreciate. The heavy theologlcai
Jokes that used to appear in that department,
and some of which seemed to weigh ton'
will hereafter be worked over by their au-
thors into funeral orations.
LIPPINcoTT's for March is bright and enter
tanning son the Gulf Coast" Mr.. Barton D..
Jones' second illustrated paper on that topic,
is full of interesting information about the
Gulf Coast of Florida. The number is more
than usually good in its fiction, and in
poetry there are two short poems, by William
H. HowelIs, and Henrietta R. Eliot.
THE Century magazine has secured the
right to bring out in serial form an unpub-
lished diary of the late Mr.. Carlyle. 1t is
full account of tour i'll Ireland in lS49, writ
ten in the authors raciest style and contain
ing frank observations on such points OF
national character as are of the highest in
terest at the present political juncture.
THE frontispiece portrait of Mr.. Cable, in
the February Century, is followed in the March
number by halflength of Mr.. w. d. How
ellis, painted by Mr.. F. P. YintOn, and en-
graved by Mr. W. B. Closson. 1t will doubt
less be an acceptable feature to the thousands
in England and America who, in the Century,
are reading Mr.. Howells's work for the first
time.
THE circus is ever a fascinating subject to
Young people, and the second part of Mr..
Stoddard's article, " Men-and- Animal Shows,
in which he gives a vivid account of one OF
these amusement-towns on its travels, is,
with its many elegant illustrations by Jas. 9.
Beard. Share, Birch, and others, one of the
most prominent and entertaining features of
the March ST. Nicholas.
HARPER's for March opens with "Old New
York Coffee Houses" ~ by John Austin Stevens.
The article is profusely and beautifully illus
trated. Other prominent papers are 4 A Ca
madam Pilgrimage" Washington's Accept
ance of the First Presidency "A Small
Telescope and what to See with it." An
American King, and "Typical Journeys and
Country Life in Mexico" by W. H. Bishop,
with seventeen illustrations. The number is
brilliant in all its departments,
Mr.. HENRY JAMES, JR., remains in Boston.
The three " leaders of the Boston school, of
novel writers-Aldrich, Howells, and James
did not receive college education. James,
the Youngest is thirty-nine years old. He
first contributed to the Atlantic Monthly in
1866. He was then student under the care
of his father He lives in bachelors lodgings
and uses his mornings for writing, in which
he is. as Poe was and Harte is painfully
slow. He has habit of not remaining long
enough in good company to have it become
stale, but vanishes when he is most enjoying
himself. His American friends call him
Harry James, He has lived abroad mainly
for the sake of his health. While stout in ap-
pearance he is much of an invalid.