The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-02
LITERARY NOTES.

The New Orleans Picayune claims that Mr..
Paul Hayne was the only American poet to
memorabilia in verse the death Of Charles Reade.
A Critical and General Dictionary to the Di
ylna Commedia Of Dante is in preparation by
Mr. Paget Toynbee, and will be published in
Bohns Library
Materials are wanted by the family of the late
Sir Bartle frere for proposed memoir of him,
and the Prince of Wales has accepted the presi-
dency of the Bartle Frere Memorial Fund.
The Duke of Devonshire is going to publish, at
his own expense, the cartularies of Furness Alb
hey, now beautiful ruin on the Dukes grounds.
Cartularies were the official records of monas-
teries.
To Mr.. w. H Mallock General Gordon in
trusted the task of giving to the world definite
account &C; Of his theological and moral opinions.
Inc result of the commission will be found in
the July number of the Fortnightly Review
To the British Museum has recently been add
ed copy of Cations CHRONICLES of England y
ct which only four perfect copies are known,
and the Leipsic reprint of Luther's Bible,
rab.
Florence Marryat MRS. Ross Church, who is
coming to this country this fall to give us series
OF entertainments is daughter OF Captain Mar
rryat whose Life and Correspondence she ed
tied IN 1872, and is herself novelist, singer,
actress and reader.
The late Rev j. s. Watson. sentenced four
teen years ago to penalseryitude for the murder
OF his wife, and whose death was recently an
nounced, executed number of the translations
IN Bohns classical Library" He was the au-
thor of a life of Person, a lite of Wilkes. and a
life of Cobbett.
The Publishers Circular (England), prints an
engraving OF book-worm. Although his ravages
are large, he is an insignificant little fellow,
about three-sixteenths of an inch long, closely
resembling cheese maggot Hence it appears
doubtful compliment to dub the human de-
Yourer OF books a book worm
A new volume by Samuel Smiles is in prepa-
ration by John Murray 1t consists of brief BIZ
ographies, and bears the title: MEN of Inyen-
ton and Industry The same publisher an
nounces Passages in the Military Life of Gen.
Sir George Napier, narrated by himself for his
children, and edited by his son, Gen. W. O. E.
Napier.
In August the Longmans will issue new vol
ume OF stories, by Bret Harte to be called son
the Frontier, and to include three STORIES cat
the Mission of St. CARMEL "A Blue Grass PEN
elope, and Left Out in Lone Star Mountain.
The volume will be published in a paper cover,
and will be sold at the reasonable price of one
shilling.
It was to the late Prof Packard, Of Bowdoin
College, that Longfellow addressed the following
lines IN his anniversary poem, 'Morituri Salu-
tamus:"
They are all gone into the land of shadowsan save
one.
H Honor = and reverence and the good repute
That follow faithful service as its fruit
BE unto him whom, living. salute
General Wallace declares that his great desire
in writing his new book on 1.-THE Conquest Of
Constantinople by the Moslems" is to show the
world the true facts in this history, and these,
he says, have never been appreciated. He thinks
it remarkable that so thrilling story has never
been made the subject Of any considerable book,
except Sir Walter SCOTS "Count Robert Of
Paris
Publicity is given to the following ingenious
answer written by a young lad who had been
asked by an inspector Of schools in England
Who was MosesF He was an Egyptian He
lived in a bark made Of bullrushes, and he kept
q golden cart, and worshipt braizen snakes, and
he het nothing but quaes and manner for forty
years. He was kort by the air of his ed while
riding under bow Of a tree and he was killed
by his son Abslon as he was hanging from the
bow. His end was piece