The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-04-01
Literary Notes.


We are to have history of collegiate base
ball by Walter O. Camp.
Henry Irving is correcting the proof sheets
of his book on America.
81 th-th-th-ink,' interrupted Nicholas, "y-
y-you W-w-wont find him. He w-w-was coco.
cruci6ed a-b-bout 1900 y-years a-g-go."
The Letter books of the Popes from Innocent
III to Plus v, contained in the Vatican
archives, are added to the Vatican guide books.
General Logan's "reminiscences of the lats
war form the ground work for book he is
about to commence.
The Nineteenth Century has received an
article from the pen of the Duke of Argyll OIL
Henry George, 1.-THE San francisco Prophet
A "Scrbber's Monthly" published in Lon
don takes for its aim the encouragement OF
amateur authors and is pecuniarily successful.
The Youths Companion is to publish two
ssries of poems, entitled Childhood" and
"Maidenhood," b. Lord Lytton.
eloquent Nonsense" is the scientists COM
ment on MIR. Ruskin's lecture on "Storm
clouds
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett will occupy
cottage at Deer Cove, Lynn, through the
summer.
The Queens book has been severely criti
cised Notwithstanding the Rev. Laird Collyer's
assertion that it is las wholesome as DroWb
bread and milk"
st. Nicholas has received more than 900
pictures in response to its offer of prizes for
the best original illustration by artists under
seventeen years OF age.
A Woman's Educational and Industrial Un-
ion has been dedicated during the past week,
at Buffalo. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe made the
address.
The industrial school at Cooperstown, which
accommodates 100 orphans is conducted b.
Miss Susan Fenimore Cooper, maiden lady
and daughter of the novelist.
The two men passing the best entrance ex-
animation at Yale have been offered two
przss one of $3.50 and one of 500, by the
| Yale alumni resident in California.
Whatever else may be said of M. de Les
seps be certainly possesses marked ability as q
sleeper, having recently Bpent lO7 hours In
| sleep during vossge from Marseilles to
Alexandria, which lasted $50 hours.
A friend and correspondent of Wagner's,
Herr August Lesimple, conductor of the Wag-
ner Association in Cologne has published a
book of personal recollections OF the Dresden
Master.
One of the most promising pupils in the
Grass Valley, California, public schools is the
daughter OF Tin-Lan, the local Chinese inter
dresses like her American schoolmates.
The Congressional Library in Washington
contains $4,000 volumes, of books, 10000
pamphlets, 100000 musical publications, 1900
maps and 100000 engravings. About 5000
volumes of law books are added yearly.
The Misses Longfellow, now in Paris, we're
recently rendered a reception by Mrs. John
Mackay. The American colony was repre-
sented by its most prominent members aud
many noted Parisians we're present.
Mrs. Mary. E. Blake, the wife of DR.. j. G.
Blake of Boston, is preparing by request, a
poem to read on the occasion OF the eulogy OF
Wendell Phillips, by George W. Curtis, on the
18th of April.
The Museum of Comparative Zoology in
Cambridge, is to be improved by Professor
Alexander Agass'z, of Harvard, who has made
a study of the Aquarium at Naples, to aid
him in his home work. He has also selected
several aquatic specimens to bring home.
Janet Hamilton, peasant ScotcA woman,
is said to have proficiency in verse and Eng
lish prose which many classical scholars nigh,
envy, and yet this notable soDgstress never at
tended school, was taught to read by he's moth
fifty years OF age.
At the Reserve, Nice, France, Mr.. and Mrs.
Girard Turner of Philadelphia recently gave
dinner party 10 honor of some American
friends. Covers were laid for 60 persons, and
during dinner selections we're played by must
clans stationed in decorated boat anchored in
the Bay, opposite the Reserve.
Baron Tennyson is said to have made his
debut in the House of Lords in nervous CON
dition, his ludicrous robes detracting from
postic and baronial dignity. Judging from the
awkward manner in which these were man
aged, he was not altog, Their pleased to repre-
sent "petticoat government"
The total number of journals published in
Great Britain is 2O15, and the total number of
magazines 1850. or the journals, London
has 40l, the provinces LIT, Wales 80. Scot
land 1871, Ireland 1856, and the Channel Islands
and Man 20. According TO another classifca-
ton, 179 of them are dailes. OF the maya
zues, 1872 have a religious character.
George Alfred Townsend, by the aid OF
stenographers, averages writing over twenty
columns OF reading matter week. and is re-
ported to receive for the same SIS 90 a column,
| and secures an income OF al least $4,000 a
| year. Townsend can elaborate the least sub
1eet matter into more extensive and pic
turesque fabric than any other writer for the
| press.
Congressman Bedford of Colorado has re-
ceived from Mrs. LAngtry a medallion portrait
OF herself iDclosed in a jewel-studded case,
with request for q lock of his hair, to be-
placed amcpg her mementoes of notable
friends. This honor was in recognition Of Mr.
Belford's compliment that she was the hand
soonest woman who trod the American CONT
ntnt. Belford's hair is of bright auburn
color.
Managing Editor Nicholas of the Washing
ton National Republican, whose letters ara oc-
casionally read In Boston, shutters badly. 1t is
| said of him that when he was city editor of
| the Indianapolis News, one OF the State House
| Commissioners explained to him what kind of
| q superintendent they wanted. HE must be, -
said he "honest industrious, good, pure-mind-
ed, frugal, sef-sacrticing-"
The late Emerson Andrews, bequeathed 80
shares of American Screen Company stock to
| three trustees, the dividends during the pext
ten years TO DO used in making, publishing
and distributing" gratnitously his songs, ser
mons, travels in BRIEF all his literary works, to
| institutions of learning aud religion, foreign
and domestic. When be has beeDldeeessed ten
years he directs that three shares shall be sold
| yearly for ten years, the amount aecruing TO
| be added to the dividends and expended as be-
fore. All his library. furniture and deposits
| in certain savings banks are to be used by his
| trustees in circulating his books IN the Boston
| Baptist Bethel Society.
The Chambersburg editor. who after much
research concluded that there were only four
words in the English language ending with
"dous," namely tremendous" 'stupendous, -
| Hazardous and "amphipodous" didn't have
| very good spectscles. An Alexandria cores
| spondent If the Star sends the following addi-
| tional words, found in Webster's Unabridged
in searching only as far as V; Apodous, cen.
tfldous, cephalopodous, dscordous, decapo-
doas frondous, gasteropodous. gasropodous
heteropodous horrendous. hybridous, infan-
dous, iodous, isopodous, ieopardons, lemuri.
| dous, ligniperdous, molybdous, multifidous,
multinodous, nefandous, niggardous. nodous'
odidous, pteropodous. solipedous, surquedous,
tardigradous, timidons, trachelipodous, vsna'
dQue.-WilmingtOn Star