Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-14
LITERARY NOTICES
THE Critic will hereafter be issued al,

THE Critic will hereafter be issued as
weekly, so couraging are its prospects.
HERBERT SPENcER's theory of education
| is the subject of an article which Prof. Sill,
of the University of California, has prepared
for the February Atlantic.
TEE Modern Age, the new eclectic. peri
| odical, contains more translstions from the
French and German than We usually End in
magazines of the kind. Otherwise it resem-
bles the Eclectic and the Lirins Age.
Mr. WHITTIER is quoted by writer in
the forthcoming Harper saying that Haw-
| thorne only once mentioned the House Of the
| Seysn Gables to him, Sand then he said the
story was about hall finished, and, 10 use his
own words" continued Whittier, with a pc
culiar smile, "'it dsrkens damnsbly."
| LONDON Saturday Hevses0: Miss AusIen's
six novels are, With Scott's and Thackeray's,
perhaps the only Euglish novels which those
| who love them read and reread perpetaally
| without the slightest loss of relish, with a
| certainty of recre alton and delight, and with
| an ever increasing admiration tor the author
| and her work.
Mr.. HowEL1s is declared by the reviewer
| of the 81. Jdmes's Gazette TO be, in A Modern
/ Instances, as pitilsss life itself; an isexor-
| able sequence rules his characters. As a
| piece of artistic work the critic thinks that
the story cannot easily be surpassed; but
/ that is not enough 10 make 1t agreeable. Re-
alism is fashion now, and American real
ism loves to deal with broken and imperfect
| lives. Better, sometimes, a realism OF noble
lives"
AMERICAN believers in Della Baron and
her friend, the 81. Louis Judge, will be & ad
to learn that the Longmans have just issued
| thick 7olume containing passages from q
manuscript of Lord Bacon. with parallel
passages from Shakespeare's plays. The
Bacon manuscript is in the Harlin collec-
ton. 1t was apparently drawn up as a sort
of commonplace book for use in the great
chancellor's meetings, but none OF the quo.
tations or phrases are to be found in his &C
knowledged books, which are in Shakespeare
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE's story of "Mr. Scar
borough's Family" now appearing serially
in Al The Year Round, was completed byfor,
his death. 1t il one of the cleverest OF hi
novels, and presents striking study Of ,
depraved and selfish man. Mr.. Trollope'
"Land- Leaguers" lie, il is now stated, practi
cally complete. Only an insignificant por
| ton remains unwritten, and that portion h
had carefully mapped out, after the fashion
which he ever adopted with his stories. LIT
has just republished in one instalment thos
chapters which it had previously given.
Tx spite Ct Mr.. Howell's remark, that W,
could not at this day endure the familiarity
of Dickens and Thackeray, il has just beef
shown in New York court that Dicken
still has influence. In the Saratoga Count,
Court last week the counsel for q prisone
charged with robbery tried to prove an alb
: whereupon District-Attorney Van Ransse
laer procured q copy Of the Pekries Papers
and read to the jury the interview between
"Sam Weller" and his father, in which tn
Il old inf his hat fbar "a al
ing like oLybi" Dickens's sketch had NOR
effect on the jury than dozen chapters o
, the penal code would have had, and the,
quickly found the prisoner guilty.
Miss LOUISA ALcoTT records in the Bosio
Saturday Evening Gazette that her first stor
brought her So and her second $40, with
I request for more OF her productions. aOn
of the memorable moments OF my life" sh
4 adds, sis that in which, as 1 trudged t
, | school on wintry day, my eyes fell upon
large yellow poster with these deliciou
words: Bertha a new tale, by the sutho
of The Rival Prima Donnas,' will appea
> in the Saturday Evening Gazette. was late
it was bitter cold; people iostled me; va
: mertally afraid should be recossizsd; bu
: there I stood feasting my eyes on the faso
. in the words of the great Vincent Crummle
d This, this is fameP That day my pupi
It had an indulgent teacher; for, while the
o struggled. with their pot-hooks, l WI
,. writing immortal works, and whe
they droned out the mulhplicstic
table I was counting up Ii
noble fortune my pen was to earn fer me
If the dim, delightful future. That afternoo
1t my sisters made pilgrimage TO behold tn
famous placsrd, and finding it torn by Il
wind, boldly stole it, and came home to wa'
"a. l.
= the excited family. The tattered paper sti
exists, folded away with other relics Of tho
7 early days, SO hard and yet 50 sweet, VIII,
~ the FIRST small victories were won, and Il
enthusiasm of youth lent romance to life
drudgery."