Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-16
LITERARY NOTES,

LIFE is the name OF a very bri ght weekly
that has now issued its sixth number. It's
chief merit is its originality OF form and
feature. Its principal charm is the entirely
new vein Of its humor, and its supereminent
claim to general appreciation is the delicacy,
freshness and artistic excellence OF its insti-
tutions.
Books, AND How TO USE Them, is the title
of a little manual intended chiefly for the
practical guidance OF students and readers
as to books in general, and also more par
ticularly IS TO the best way Of utilizing the
public library. 1t is by Mr.. John c. Van
Dyke, and is the outgrowth of his experience
in observing the need of such a guide among
the frequenters Of libraries. 1t will be
brought out toward the close OF the present
month, by Fords, Howard & Hubert
JULIAN HAwTHoRNEs Eoglish novel,
Dust, is announced by Fords, Howard & Hui.
bert for an early day in February. The
publication of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Anglo.
American DR.. Grimshaices Secret ard The
Ancestral Footstep is still so fresh in the pub
lie mind that much interest will be felt in
comparing the styles of father and son-each
being strongly individual and unlike the
other; both picturesque, vivid, full of ro-
nance, but one poetical and imaginative,
and the other vigorous, direct, essentially
modern.
THE demand for copies of the official
records of the war of the rebellion, which ia
compiled from official reports, both Union
and Confederate, comes from all sections oil
the country. The supply of the two first
volumes is exhausted. Copies OF volumes g.
| 4 and can be obtained from the public
| printer for seventy-five cents for volume 8
| and ST each for volumes and 5. Volume
| numbered has been issued, but is sold only
| by the War Department at eighty cents per
volume. As the exact cost of succeeding
volumes is unknown, subscriptions are re-
ceived only as the volumes are issued.
In his History of Lain Literature from En-
Mus to Boethius, which Messrs. Harper
| Brothers will publish next week, Mr.. George
Augustus Simcox has done for the Literature
| of Rome the service which Prof. Mahaffy
| performed for Greek litersture in his worn
on that subject issued by the same house {
few years ago, Mr.. Simcox's aim being, al
declared by himself, "to do something TOWARD
making Latin literature Ineligible and in
teresting as whole to the cultivated laity
| who might like TO realize its literary worth
whether they read Lstin or no." The anthol
has executed his tack in q very thorough arc
Satisfactory manner.
| MAJ. GEO F. WILL1AMs's new war book
Bullet and Shell; or, War as the Soldier Sac II
in the hands of Fords, Howard & Hubert
has already gone to its fifth thousand, hav
ing been out less than month. This sue
cess is due to the fact that it Is the FIRST genu
inc attempt to tell the story of the privat,
soldier, and tells it well; it contains much
hitherto unpublished matter OF exceeding
interest, and it is, as Gen. Grant has writer
to the author, accurate history besides be
ing alive with the dash and spirit of tn
war-times, which so many thousands o
soldier.ci,izens now look back 10 with MARTA
delight 1t is at once memory and an in
SEPARATION,