Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-06
LITERARY LORE.

| book begins with VIllon.
| THE North American Re0isw has paid
| George Z. Waripg, it,, $1,000 for one of his
| sanitary houseboid specialiie7, which is
spoken Of az ne highest price ever paid by
any such periodical for single article.
The latest of the fctions issued from
| the press OF the Putnsms is X. Y. u,
a novelette, by Miss A. K. Green, the author
OF he successful novel, The LeaUsnvOrth Gaze.
Miss Green's forthcoming book, Hand and
Ring is announced Tor September.
CUPPLEs, UPHAM & Co, of Boston, are con-
tempt tiDg the publication of an engraving
presenting group Of American women su-
hors. Mrs Spodord, Mrs. Stowe, Miss
Perry, Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke, Mise Field
| and Miss Alcott are to be membgrs Of this
group.
Mrs MARC Cook, the widow Of the poet,
journalist and therGteur, Mare Cook, of New
York, is now passing some weeks in her old
home in Boston. Mr.. Cook died last October.
He was, perhaps, better known as "Vandyke
Brown" and wac a journalist Of eninence in
New York, being connected with the Brook
Iyn Argus, the New York Sun, and other
journals.
Mr.. CABLE, the novelist, finds himself in
hot water, because, in a recent historical
rkelch, he tried 10 prove that Gen. James
Wilkinson was first a traitor to his country
and then a traitor to a traitor. Gen. WiIkin-
con figured prominently 10 Louisiana affairs,
and has many staunch defenders, among
them descendant snd namesske, who are
consuming column after column in the New
Orleans papers.
CHARLES SCRIBNER's Sons will publish
early this month Gen. Hum phrey's new
book entitled Gettysburg to he Rapidon. The
Army of The Potomac From july, 1868, 10
March, 1864 They will publish at the same
time Rear Admiral mmsn's Atlantic Coast,
snd Commander Mahan's Gulf and Inland
Waters, these being the concluding volumes
of their naval series. Underground Russia,
Mrs. Schayer's tales, and Mrs. Moody's
Land and Labor IN The United States. which
have heretofore been announced, have just
| appeared.
IT was ouly the other day that young Mr..
Palmer, of Yale, one of the editors of the
! Yale Literary Magazine, was caught at
| plagiarism, snd now comes news of an
| pose in the University OF California. The
Berkeleyan Society Of that institution pub
lished a volume of verses by the students.
| jas. before the hoax went 70 the biudery an
astute proof reader discovered that one of
the sounets, by an undergraduate damsel,
was stolen bodily from Coleridge. Later,
when the sheets Of 800 copies had been
| struck of, another sonnet, from we'll
| known English poet, was found. The sheets
were DESTROYED and the disguised printer
was forced a third time 10 make up the book.
That time it went TO press, when editor
cruelty tore the mask from another young
Berkeleyan.
OF the late william Chambers the 81.
Jaraes Gazstie says: The great Edin bnIgh
publisher lived, like Nester, through three
generations OF men, and kept his yigor % the
last. Like many literary men, Mr.. Cham
| bers began 10 write very esry'in life, aud
| Kept on writin, al most 10 his last hour. His
| frs. tract was published when he was only
one-sDd twenty; hls last series OF esssys APP
peared when nerves in his eighty-third year.
It zcfrfOrT-- 10 reflect that there has iust
passed away from among ua one who was
writing when Byron was alive, and was a
| well known and active M.erdteur before Scott
| had written his last novels IL was, how
ever, not as an author, but ss the twin pio-
neer with Chailss Knight OF cheap sound
literature that William Chsmters will be
| remembered"
IF Mrs. Carlyle were now living abe would
have little cause 10 suiS aud fret, as she used
TO, because her husband received 80 much
| attention, while she was so continually ne
elected. The book OF her Letters and Memo.
iiab is attracting more notice and more
readers than any volume Of Carlyle's ever
secured. 1t is work of questionable taste
in many respects, and one is hardly willing
TO believe that she desired or loresaw the
publication of much tbs it contains, though
Mr.. Ffoude, TO whore friendly care and pru-
depce the material was confded, does not
' setm to have bsen troubled with any sCruples
| in that direction. There are things in it
| tn at should have bean suppressed, undoubt-
| edly-that should never have been written.
| in fact; but in spite of all such bemisbes 10
is richly and uniquely interesting and in-
| structive. !
Now in press, and to be Issued shortly,
series of Examples for Elementary Practice in
| DelineatiOn, by Charles H. Moore, instructor
in drawing and principles OF design in II ar
ward University. The work is intended for
the Use of schools aud isolated beginners in
| drawing, and will consist of twenty examples
in outline-ten Of them from nsture, and ten
| from historic works OF art-dssgned at once
| 10 train the eye and hand to accuracy and
precision, and 10. illustrate those character
istics of line upon which all expression of
| living character and beauty depends They
| will show, also, that such characteristics are
inv arisbly exhibited in nature and in good
art. The plates from works of art are &C.
lected from some OF the very finest examples
| OF linear design in the sncit mt and medieval
schools. Moses King publisher, Cambridge,
| Mass.
Woodworking women and newspapers
have done much TO corrupt the vulgar
| tongue, says the st James Gazette. Both
have their excuses: Women are often igno-
rant and newspapers are always hurried. II
the news writer errs in haste, be does some
times repent at leisure; but women rarely
recognize their mistakes, or, having learned
! them, forget 10 go and sin no more. For
| want Of knowledge OF the originals, Vast
number of English words convey no distinct
meaning 10 them. T0ey are mere labels and
have no "connotstion," TO use MilPs word.
| When a lady novelist writes, "rhey b. gan
life under very humble auspices" no doubt
she takes her foe word from the newsp apers,
| where writers DO occasionally use some other
word than Iavorablu" or "uniavcrsble" in
connection with the word auspices. Bal, of
| course, humble auspices" is ridiculous
Then there is embrace" which women and
| newspapers abuse terribly. With the first,
| embrace is often sort of modest ciIcumlo-
cution, but it does not mean kiss. The
newspapers use the word otherwise, az in the
well-knoSn announcement that a memorial
was going to embrace statue.
A VERY stupid and yet malignant article
sppes red In the June humber of the PoDts.
lar Science MOathty which specially advocates
miscegenation aud the repeal OF all laws for
bidding the iuermarriage of whites and
blacks, The writer argues that marriage is
one OF the contracts the obligation OF which
the constitution of the United States forbids
the States 10 pass laws impairing; that tie
section giving Congress the power to pass
bankruptcy laws might be construed to ap-
| ply TO marital bankruptcy, and the Supreme
Court of the United States decided wrong
fully that laws forbiddiug the interim arriage
OF whites and blacks are not yiolative of
the fourteenth amendment. This is such
silly iwaddle that we sre surprised that Prof.
Youmans set his seal upon it as the editsr Of
the Monthly. As TO the plain snimus of the
srticle-to reflect upon and insult the white
people of the SOuth-we agree with the
Richmond Dispatch and Montgomery AdUeT.
tissr, that Messrs ID. Appleton & Co., the pub
fishers, owe it to the public TO make some
explanation as to how this article got into
the Popular Science MOnthiy-not to the South
era people only, but to all white people
every where.
! THE Magazine of American History for Tune
will interest all readers in every part of the
country. 1t is profusely illustrated. Mrs.
Lambs second paper in the series "Wall
Street in History" covers the excited period
OF the Revolution, together with the six
memorable years while Wall street was The
seat of the national government. Theodore
| +. Dwight, Librarian of State Department,
Washington, contributes an able and author
itaiive article of dozen or more pages,
describing the recently purchased franklin
| papers. George Carey Eggleston discusses
the Historical Status of the Indian Terri
tory" in a charmiugly readable essay. Dr..
David Murray, Secretary of the Board Of
| Regents, contributes timely and important
| paper on the university of the State of
| New York" The Hon. George Bancroft, in
letter 10 the editor, settles some notably in