Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-23
LITERARY NOTES.

forms the frOntispiece OF the January
Harper" just out.
Mr.. Cables stories are gaining recog-
quelin," one of the Old Creole Days
series, has been translated and printed
in the "Revue deX Deux MondeS."
The success that has already attended
"L.atine" has induced the editor to ar
range for its publication hereafter in an
enlarged and improved form. 1t is said
to have found its way thus far into
three continents and nine countries.
Tupper's supremacy in England has
been seriously threatened of late years,
and the announcement now comes that
=, 800 copies OF his "Proverbial Philoso-
ply" will be sold at auction at an early
day by we'll known firm in London.
Miss Fothergill, the author of 1.-THE
First NiOlin," a novel that probably has
had rs large sale in this country rs in
England, has just completed new
story which she entities Peril" 1t will
first appear as a serial in an English
magazine.
Two new volumes in the "English
Men Of Letters" series have now gone
to press in London. One is Mr.. Court
hopes Addison" which will be pub
lished early in January, aud the other
is Dean Cnurch's Bacon" which will
make its appearance later.
The price which Mr.. John r. Bart
lett paid for the Washington letters at
the Cook library sale in New York,
few days ago, was an advance of $3.50
on the sum which Mr.. Cook paid for
them seven years ago, the price in one
ease icing $1,000 and in the other
- 225O.
Several new letters o. sUc'"av, Scott,
Wordsworth, Lamb, aud otue.s will
come 10 light in biography of Alaric
Watts which Mr.. Watts son, Mr.. A. A.
Watts, has undertaken. Alaric Watts,
~hO died 20 years ago, was well known
English journalist and the author of u
book of verse.
One of the chief attractions of the
Janusry number Of the Century" due
he coming week, will be an account of
iEe french Academy by the same hand
that prepared the exceedingly interest
Dg paper on Gambetta that was pub.
ished soon after the statesman'S death.
Portraits of famous "immOrvalS' will
be given with the sketch.
At Berlin has just been published by
Dr. EDWARD Engtl Il vigorous pamphlet
on the venerable QUESTION, "Did
Fran c's Bacon write the plays of Will
liam Shakespeare" He severely ridi.
u'ts the WI tingS of Miss Belle Bacon
and Miss Pott aud classes them with
the recent discovery that Hamlet was
woman in disguise.
The announcement is finally made
that Mr.. John Morley has completed
his monograph on Emerson, aud that
it has actually got into the printers
hands. The volume of Emerson's
works for which it will serve as q pre-
face-add which, though the first vol
ume is a series, has been waiting for
this article many months-will accord
ingly be published at once.
Indications that Col. John Hay is the
real author of" The Bread Winners" are
still coming TO light. Some one, writ
ing in the Critic" has discovered that
all persons interested in this question
you'd derive profit from perusal, in
"Lippincott" of 10 or 10 years ago, of a
story called 1.-THE Blood Seedliug,"
which is signed "John Hay"
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy is preparing a
collection of "Irish Lyrics" on q
plan similar to the one adopted in the
volume of "English Lyrics" in the
Parchment Lib airy Series, a fact which
explains the omission from the latter
volume of lyrics written by Irishmen.
Mr.. Mccarthy has drsmstized his new
novel, 1.-THE Maid of Athen" and ar
engagements for its representation are
abeut completed.
Some doubt Is thrown in England on
the question whether the Vatican
Library at Rome, so far as printed
books are concerned, has any existence.
Mr.. Carmichael, of the Royal Society Of
Literature, was personally conducted
through the so-called library not long
ago and he failed to see "a vestige of q
printed book" And Mr.. Winter Jones,
Of the British Museum, admits that
there is u great deal to be said for Mr..
Carmichael's conclusion.
Mr.. Formap, the editor of "Keats,n
has made the interesting discovery that
Keats was born, not on the 10Th Of 0c-
tober, 1875, but on the Slst, the Goth be-
ing the date hitherto accepted as the
true one. He learned this fact on MAX
ing an examination of the register of
ST. Rotolph's, Bishopgate. This mis-
take has been due to a mention by the
poet at the end Of a letter headed Oct.
% of his birthday as occurring on that
day, the fact being that he was three
days IN writing the letter in question.
An important sale OF autographs has
f.tet oh l.. -.
Paris. Among the lot originally were
81 By Victor Hugo, but at the last mo-
ment these were withdrawn at the
roet's request. He wishes to verify the
means by which such a large number of
his private letters had found their wsy
'osn suction.rUom. An important let.
Ter from George Sand to critic was
sold for S4; 81 piece of verse by Schiller
'"r ssu; letter from Rachel TO NJ.