Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-03-29
TERMS: 5000 PER YEAR.
LITERARY NEWS.
Collected by Clemens Literary Life.


Charles Reade has just completed 4
new novel.
Justin Mccarthy is hard at work on
political novel. ...
Victor Hugo will soon publish a new
volume of poetry.
The author of "Ginx's Baby" is COM
pleting another novel;
A life of Chinese Gordon, Just issued
in London, sells at Que penny. ...
Charles Dickens grandson is writinga
story for All the Year Round.
Susan B. Anthony is writing a book
on the condition of her sex in Europe.
Mr.. Eugene SCHUYLER has entirely re-
written his "Life Of Peter the Great"
The empress of Austria is engaged III
printing herself the sounets she has been
writing.
Mile. Judith Geutier, daughter OF Theo-
phile Gautier, has written an eastern rO-
nance.
Miss Louise Chandler Moulton will
soon give the public her "reminiscences
| of Spain. .'E7r~ Il -
Mrs. j. L. Fields has prepared paper
| for Harper replete with anecdotes of
| Emerson. ".. '. o.. 7i~ a''s
Dennie A. Sullivan, of Lowell, Mass,
has in preparation a complete history ct
Amateur journalism. ..-..
Biornstjerne Bicrnson is writing dra-
ma in three parts, only the first of which
has been published ryN ~ DY1
Mr.. Froude is writing the preface to-
new work on the massacre of Protestants
in Ireland in 1641. -...,....
Mr.. Johnston, tue explorer has COM
pleted his work on the river Congo,
which he has dedicated to Henry NJ,
Stanley.
A foreign authority says that two
thirds of the literary men and all OF the
literary women of the United. States
write poetry.
The irst volume of Mr.. Blaint'g'S v
'Twenty Years in Congress" is nearly
completed, and VIII probably BE issued
in few weeks.
Prof. Whitney, of Yale college, will,
contribute the article on philology to the
forthcoming volume of the Encyclopedias
Britannica. 49, Il = T.
1t is at last known who wrote that
brilliant novel of last year, "A[r. EefiunerR@f @f
A daughter of Charles Kingsley is the
author. d.. ~ 'i .
Houghton, Mifflu & Co., have Just is
sued the fifth and concluding volume of
the works of William III. Seward, edited
by Geo. f. Baker.
The leading British reviews and quar-
terlies are all to be regularly reprinted
in this country by the Leonard Scott
Publishing company.
Only about twenty sets of the limited
D edition Of "The Letters and Poems OF
e John Keats" lately published by Dodd
D & Mead, now remain unsold.
: "The Life and Poems of Theodore
Winthrop" edited by his sister and ac-
7 companied by a portrait, will soon he
y brought out by Henry Holt d Co.
D. Appleton & Co., have nearly ready
for publication the fourth volume of the
newly revised edition ofBancrofts His
tory of the United States" TCT r 2,
Baron Tauchnitz is about to add to his
!, collection of British Authors" two vol
4 umes of Edgar A. Poe's works, edited by
: John III. Ingram. ~Ht.' 'i'A'
D Mrs. Liyermore's new work, "What
e Shall We Do With Our Daughters" late
Iy published by Lee and Shepard, is
meeting with marked success. ...'pUD"u
Tennyson's line, "The grand old gar
dene- and bis wife," was originally THE
: gardener Adam and his wife," and the ,
poet has reverted to the first readingI
: Mr.. George T. Curtis has prepared for
4 a. III
g n series of articles on the very interest
!. ing subject Creation and Evolution !"
Mr.. Walter Besant, novelist whose
=, work grows constantly more atiractiye,
= is writing a new story called Julia" IL
!! will appear in Tho English Illustrator
Magazine. 'T 'ii .'Ei"Ili
e A little book has lately been published
e i'm Belgium giving an account OF the
various visits paid by the duke OF Well
ington 10 Brussels, before and after the
battle Of Waterloo. ,.J,44l .s.-'B
- The English poetess, Miss Robinson,
= is about to bring out new volpme OF
poems-mostIy tragic stories Off eountrya
4 tife--to which she gives qthei psJQlq
|. "The New Arcadia" -
l. The Current, the new Chicago weekly,
ia has made hit Ia Joaqdn hiller's new
story. THE Wonderful City, which IL
is now publishing. The theme ofiitne
VI narrative is new one. ,,.. ..t.i FHpQ
Is Jules Verne has ordered the. construc-
le ton, by a firm at Nantes, OF large sall-
he ing vessel, in which he intends TO MAKE
a a cruise in the Antartic Sea TO coilectl
al materials for future romances. -.
The librarian Of the Mercantile Libra
in rv of New York says that Teackerays
IS popularity seems to be outlasting g;a.S that o.
Dickens that Reado, Collins, Ouioa,.
no Mrs. Southworth, Mrs. Stephens. anu
- Mrs Wood are not called for as mucn y
Is, formerly, and that there mas DeeH af H Trol.
It. creased demand for the movers =" '
NJ lone and Hawthorne's works. y. aha
Young wives and Servants
es NO TimesDemocrat. -'gi}
al rIo Ia one thing about which thf