The Portland daily press., 1883-12-18
Literary Notes.


Mr.. Cross's biography of his wife, George
q lot, is completed and Is now being finally re-
etssd.
The report that Hon. Carl Schurz had been
offered the editorship OF the Atlantic Monthly
Is not true.
Mr.. f. Marion Crawford has selected q
strange title for the novel which he is about to
bring out in London. 1t Is to be called "Our
FavQSite Sham"
A new literary magazine is to be started in
St. Louie, entitled The Legion Monthly. 1t is
to be edited by F. Weber Benton, and promi-
ses to take high literary standard.
Lords" is the title of the new magazine
which is to be published almost Immediately
in London. All its articles it is asserted, will
be written by members OF the upper classes,
and it will be edited by a literary man who sits
in the House Of Peers.
Mr.. e. v. Smalley's sketch of General Sher-
man in the January Century has been inspect
cd and revised by General Grant, whose sug-
gestioDs have been of great value In assisting
the writer to give an authentic and trustwor-
thy account of the important events OF Gener-
al Sberman's career A paper ON General
Sheridan will follow in the February number.
The life and Letters of Princess Alice"
reveals a close friendship between Princess Al.
ice and Strauss. The book shows that the
princess had fine literary facility, and was q
severe thinker. She assisted Strauss In the
composition OF his work ON Votaire, though
she did not fully endorse Strauss religious
views.
"Miss Thackeray," says the St. James's Ga
zette, "might have added to her personal
sketch OF the Poet Laureate the following lit
tie incident which reaches us from CopsHha.
gen, When asked to dine at the Palace, Mr..
pennVqnn va unohla IN ho in vff
from the Characteristic but sufficient reason
hat he had no dress coat with him."
The French Academy will be described in
the January Century by the author of the arti-
Gle on Gambetta, recently published In the
same magazine. This paper, entitled "The
Forty lmmortals," will include portraits Of
Dunes fills, Renan, Henri Martin, the Duo
d'Aumale, the Due d'Broglie, Jules Simon,
Emile Angler, Octave Feuillet, Sardou and
Cherbuliez.
Eugene Field, the western poet paragraph
writer and humorist is q medium-sized man,
with smooth face, blue eyes and yellow hair.
He is about 30 years old, is married, and has
four children. In Kansas City he used TO Put
a big sign, small pox," on his editorial sane
tum door TO keep out inquisitive visitors and
in hot weather would sit at his desk-a broken
legged table-arrayed in rather less clothing
than social eanons demand.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's daughter is quoted
as saying in her forthcoming biography Of her
mother that that accomplished lady has always
preserved her early taste for the German Ian
guage. well-worn volume of Kant lies up-
ON her writing-table, and is taken up by her
for half an hour every day. In the twilight,
when her grandchildren gather about her at
the piano and beg for q song, it is often one of
the German student songs learned long ago
from her brother, that she sings for them.
F. W. Robinson, the novelist, is about to at
tempt the dangerous task of starting cheap
weekly in London. 1t is to cost penny, and
will be called Home Chimes, and will have for
contributors the first writers OF the day Mr.
Swim burne has prepared poem for the frat
number, to which Mr.. Robinson contributes
the first chapter of new serial story. nov
el feature Of the management is the proposed
division OF the profits OF the paper among the
members Of the star.
Two very interesting works will shortly be
published in Berlin. The first, which might
be called ths table talk of Frederick the Great,
consists OF his comments on the books read
to him daily by bis reader, Gate, who took
regular notes, which are now being carefully
edited by Privy Councillor Won Sybel. The
second is by Herr Moritz Busch, the we'll
known editor of Bismarck und Seine I,eute"
who announces that his new book, "Our Impe-
rial Chancellor" which was expected last au-
tumn, but whose appearance was delayed, ow-
ing to the numerous and unexpected materials
tnat oHered themselves, Will De ready before
long.
In a letter Just received by Mr.. Elliott F.
Shepard, Lord Coleridge says: Tomorrow Mr..
Gladstone has asked himself to dine with rs,
and we shall have, 1 know, great deal Of
American talk together. He is very anxious
that some one should write a really good and
authentic book abont your people II only De
Tocquevilles could be had for asking, nothing
could possibly be better, But they cannot. I,
for my part, shrink from attempting anything
even so serious magazine article, aud the
only person can suggest to do it is Goldwin
Smith, who is half an American, and is a most
splendid writer of English. The fact is, my
dear Shepard you and you friends spoiled me,
as said. l saw such very nice people end-Was
SO very kindly treated that am sure my view
Of America is not complete. There cannot be
fity-hve millions Of such men and women as
saw; and people here would say that the kind
ness and generosity Of your people had turned
my head, or that had gone out Of my mind,
to which perhaps they might add, had not
far to go.