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Literary Notes.

- Wlkle Colllns, even III MS Oiu aye, lOVes
gay necties and striped clothes.
Angela Grassi, the author of stories and
plays that have been widely read and ad-
mired, is dead in Spain.
Mr.. Robert Grants new story, "An Aver
age Man, which is to begin in an early
number of the Century. is said to present in
a fresh and typical way some Of the most
characteristic phases of New York $50
ciety."
During the next year the Century expects
to print at least three stories of varying
length by Henry James. The first one Sim
pressions of Cousin" is entirely American
in subject, the scene being laid in New York
or the country near it. The second is lon
ger, and will be called "Lady Barberina."
Cassell & Co. will shortly issue book Of
original etchings by American artists. The
volume win contain twenty etchings. Three
editions will be issued-the parchment edi-
ton and the edition de luxe for subscribers
only. The price for the parchment edition
will be 5000, of the edition de luxe Sl25.
A new Russian version of "Hamlet' has
recently been published at ST. Petersburg.
The translator, A. A. Sokolevsky, says in
his preface that he has made IL ''the busl-
ness of his life'' to render Shakspere into
Russian, and he has already translated
twelve of his plays.
Mr.. Cable will contribute to an early num-
Der of the Century the address on "The
Lease System in Southern Prisons, which
he delivered at the recent Conference OF
of Charities at Louisville Ky. Mr.. Cable
has made study of the prison systems in
all the Southern States, and the exposition
he makes is likely to be of interest to the
public of the whole country.
''Dio Lewis's Monthly has achieved so
much success that the November issue win
be of larger size and will contain an extra
number of papers. Rev. DIR. Hopkins, Pres .
ident of the old Theological Seminary at Au-
burn, discourses ON "The Wrongs and
Rights of Doubling" Helen M. Loder crit
iczes sharply DR.. Howard Crosby's paper in
the October issue upon "Our Young Wom-
en-" The phenomena of Modem Spiritual
ism are discussed, and there are twenty 9th
er attractive articles.
A rather remarkable addition will (the
London correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian says) probably be made before long
to the already abundant literature which has
the late Mr.. Carlyle for its cause and center.
A literary acquaintance was in the habit of
sending him new books and magazines con-
LdluluS dTbiClco WHICH Nc lnOuSlL mlgQL IN
terest him. Mr.. Carlyle invariably returned
them with Characteristic annotations. 1t is
proposed to publish a selection from these
brief but pointed criticisms.
Mr.. Mathew Arnold says the subjects of
his lectures in this country will be politico-
social, literary and educational, and will in
clude one on Emerson, whose works he
greatly admires, and to reporter he said:
while here l shall make as critical an ex-
animation as possible of your school system,
which understand varies greatly in the
different states, to see if you have here, in
my view of the matter, anything like sys-
tenn of universal education such as is shown
IN the classical schools of France and Ger
many, and which, regret to say, we still
lack in England"
Mr.. George Makepeace Towle has prepared
a new lecture on "Swedenborg as a Man
and as Philosopher" This lecture is in
tended to meet the increasing demand for
information about the famous Swede. Mr..
Towle confines himself in the lecture to a
review of Swedenborg's life, traits of charac-
ter, and career as man of science, and
shows that Swedenborg deserved the high
praise accorded to him by great minds like
Kant, Emerson, Carlyle, Coleridge, Dumaz -
and Whittier. Engagements have been
made for Mr.. Towle to deliver his lecture In
Charlestown, Chelsea, Newton and Boston
during the present season.
At Spasskoe, the favorite residence of
Turgeneff whom he visited Russia, the novel;
ist maintained home for old women, an
infant school, and a free dispensary for the
peasants of the neighboring villages. Tur-
-gsaeff besides maintaining these institu-
tions, paid for the instruction of a peasant
boy of Spasskoe at the Moscow Agricultural
School, and distributed annually about $40
in small pensions to the poor of the village.
The estate of Spasskoe comprises several
buildings of stone and wood. Near the chief
building there is the small cottage in which
Turgeneff lived when he wrote "The Tales
of Sportsman"
Some interesting biographical notes on
Alexandra Dumas, pere, are being published
by M. Blaze de Bury in Paris. One story,
showing the facile fecundity of the great
novelist, is interesting. He was out shoot
ing one day with party at Compiegne. He
had killed twenty-nine head of game. 81
shall kill my thirtieth and then return to the
chateau, for am tired and have had enough
of it," said he to his neighbor. Dumas
brought down one more partridge and de-
parted. 1t was noon. The resi- of the party
returned at five o'clock, and found Dumas
seated in front of the fire rubbing his hands.
"Ah! so you have had good snooze, ehr'
exclaimed his son. mo such luck,,' was
the reply; "those confounded eeeks-and
hens in the farmyard have kept me awake
all the time" ''Then what on earth have
you done with yourself all the afternoon
alone?" "Why, / have written piece for
the Ffancais." The piece was entitled
"Romulus," and was great success.