Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-12-03
LITERARY NOTES.

Miss MARY ANDERSON will contribute
to an early number of Lippincoa's Monthly
Magazine paper of "reminiscences of her
recent trip to England, giving her i'm
pressiUns of London audiences and of Lon
don society.
S. A. KKAN & Co., bankers, of Chicago,
have issued very valuable digest of laws
governing the issue of municipal bonds in
the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota Terri
tory. 1t will be found invaluable by in
vestors.
A PERSONAL interest attaches to several
of the pictures and articles in the Decem-
Der Century. The frontspiece is a striking
portrait of the late Helen jackson l''H.
II. }, with which is given an appreciative
account of her lite and writings, by New
England writer, followed by seven new
poems, her last work in verse.
A NOTABLE article in the January Lip
pincoH will consist of series of criticisms
by George Eliot upon Dickens, Tennyson,
Carlyle, Kingsley, Browning, and others
of her noted contemporaries, resuscitated
from the pages of the Westminster ReUieW.
AS these criticisms have not been included
in any edition OF her miscellaneous works,
they constitute an important literary find,
and will De looked for with great interest.
NUMBER ONE of the Household Library,
published by D. Lothrop Il Co. of Boston,
entitled The Pehibone Name, and is from
the pen of Margaret Sidney, the author of
So as by Fire. 1t is a New England story,
simple of plot and construction, that gives
some faithful and charming views of the
life of an unconventional people. Its in
tent and purpose is good, and it leaves an
impression c. sweetness and light"
TIE fourth series OF the Johns Hopkins
University studies in historical and po-
litical science beginning in Januer,v,
lSS6), will be chiefly devoted to American
city government, State constitutional MIS-
tory and sgrsrian topics. This new series
of monographs, comprising about 800
pages, will be furnished in twelve monthly
parts, upon receipt OF subscription price.
So; or, the bound volume, fully indexed,
;=iil be sent ct the end of the year 1885
for So so.
TEE full gilt Household Edition Of the
Poets, published by Heughton, Miff1i in &
Co., is intended to be more attractive thsn
the ordinary "Household" style, not only
in the binding, which has been specially
designed for it, but also in the insertion of
artistic illus rations, which but two of the
OTulHdfS hOuSclOlu NOluu66 cOQIdIu.
The volumes, each of which contains
portrait of the author TO whose poems it 10
devoted, are printed on excellent paper,
are of crown octave size, full gilt, and are
most attractively bount.
In the December Century Mark Twain
contributes a chapter of autobiography,
entitled "The Private History of a Cam
paisn that Failed" which is humorously
illustrated by Kemble. 1t describes the
writer's short service SIS a Confederate
volunteer, and is the perfect type of q
sstirical war paper. The sketch has his
torical value as showing the fluctuations
of opinion at that time, and the unmilitsiy
character of some Of the esrlier campaigns.
The writer's well-known map of Paris IL
not funnier than the maps he has sketchsd
for his contributions to The Century War
Series.
TEE war papers in the December Gen.
fury are of unusual interest. Capt. Erics-
son furnishes the serious war paper OF the
number, which is both important as q con-
tributioh to history and interesting to the
general reader, since it describes the prin-
ciples of construction of the original Mon
itor, and the performances of "rhe Moni-
tors" as class all from the point of view
of the inventor. The pictures illustrate
fully the battle incidents, as well as the
mechanical side Of the paper. "The Loss
of the Monitor" is briefly and most graph
icslly described by survivor, Francis B.
Butts.
LINCOLN AND Texas is the title of an
historical study shortly to be published.
1t relates curious and most striking
piece of secret history. 1t details the
course of affairs in Texas during the war
which led to the conception, by President
Lincoln, of remarkable plan for detsch-
ing this State from the Confederacy the
steps taken by him to carry it out; the
secret meeting of eminent generals of both
Union and Confederate armies, and the
complete success of the negotiations up to
the point when word came that Gen.
Sherman's progress made it desirable to
suspend them. Several distinguished gen.
erals on both sides, now living, were con.
cerned. These facts are historical and
authentic. and are here narrated for the
first time. Their publication will create q
great sensation, both North and South.
"SwRKT CIcKLKY" is the title OF new
novel BY the author Of Jossoh Aliens Hsfs,