The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-03-15
LITERARY NEWS.

Victor hugo VIII soon Pooasn new volume of poetry.
 The author of j" Ginx S.Baby is com ple,ing another novel
 A life of Chinese Gorden, lasi issued in London, sells at one penny.
 Rvre,'s for March contains an ex. oellent por,rai, of Will Carleton.
 Charles Dickens grandson IS writing a story for Al s4f lea, Rossd
 Susan E Anthony is writing book on the condition of her sex m Europe
 Mir Eugene schuyler has entirely re- written his Life of Peter the Great.
 Over x coo copies have been sold cf Crawfords recent novel, "To leeward.
 Robert Ruchanan's poems will be lssued in a one-volume edition in the spring
 Matthew Arnold writes 10 his friends ln England that he IS disappointed in America.
 The empress of Austria IS engaged m printing herself the sonnets she has been writing.
 Mile Judith Gautier. daug h,er of rheo- phiie Gautier. has written an eastern TO- manee.
 Mss Louise Chandler Moulion will soon gise the pubic her "reminiscences oi spatn.
 Mrs. T Fields has prepared paper for EppF, replete with anecdotes of Emerson.
 Dennte \. Sullivan. of Lowell. Mass., has m preparation complete history of Amateur journalism.
 Biornsuerne Blornson IS writing dra- mi n three parts. only the nrst of which has been published.
 Mf. ttoude IS writing the preface to new work en the massacre of ffo,estants in Ireland Tn le.I.
 iian Hawthorne IS busily Il work upon new novel, to De published in ,he Boston .NHg4s.ig Gd75c
 Anthony Trellopc's las; completed nc, e. An O,d Mans Love" will soon be published hy the Blas kwoods.
 Mi ohnston. the explorer has com pleted hls work on the rrvef Congo. which he has dedicated to Henry Nj stanley.
 Mark Twain : new book s announced m England as The Adventures of Huck- lebefry inn \ sequel 10 Tom Saw ger.
 \ foreign authority says that wo-t thirds ot the literary men and ali of the literary women of the nited States write poetry
 The hrs, volume of NIT Blane's " Twenty lears Tn Cong.esss K nearly completed. and will probably be issued in ie~ weeks
 Prof Whitney, of Yale college. will contribute the article on philology to the forthcoming volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
 l; IS q, last known who wrote that bril- liant novel of last year, " Mir I.orimer" \ daughter of Charles k,ngs'ey IS the author
 II 1Gghton. Miitln Go, have just ls the works of William II Seward. edited by c.co r.. Baker
 The leading british reViews and quar- ,erlies are all to be regularly reprinted in this 1oantry by the Leonard scott Fub- lIshng company.
 9nly about twenty sets of the limited ei.0on of . The Letters and Poems of ahn keats. lately published by Dodd t> Mead, nov femain unsold.
 The lie and Poems of Theodore Winthrop edited by his sister and accompanied by portrait, will soon be b4ough, oui by Henry Holt X Co.
 l. Appleton & Co have nearly ready for publication the fourth volume of the newly revtsed edition of k incrott's His tory of the nted States"
 baron Tauehn,,4 IS abou, 10 add ,o his Collection ei British Authors two volumes Of Edgar A poe's works, edited by lohn H. Ingram.
 Mrs Lvetmore new work. Wha, Shall We Do With Our Daughters" :" lately published by Lee and Shepard, IS meeting wi,h marked success
 Tennyson' line, The grand old gardener and his wife was originally " The gardener Adam and his wife" and the poet has reverted to the frs, reading
 Mir. George I. Curtis has prepared for publication in the ManAaffan .nIeaxin< a seres Of articles on the very interesting subject Creation and Evolution"
 NIT Waltar Besan,, novelist whose work grows constantly more attractive, IS writing a new story called ulia II vii appear In Th< Eaqhfh HisJfraisd .Haga=in<.
 4 little book has lately been published II Belgium gising an aoeoun, of the varous visits paid by the duke of We'll ington to Brussels. before and after the battle of Waterloo,
 The English poe,ess, Mss Robinson, IS about 10 DrIng out 4 new volume of poems-mos,ly tragic stories of country life to which she gives the name of |" The New Arcadia
 Tft Caryenk inc new Chicago weekly. has made h, la Joaquin Miiler's new story The Wonderful Guy which |, is TOW publishing. The theme of ,he narrative IS ncw one.
 a.es Verne has ordered the cons,rue-