St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-12-03
Ghe Gatedunian.
LITERARY NOTES.

of "Money Makers" has in press new
story entitled ''The Aliens"
Ticknor & Co. have in preparation a
biography of Longfellow.
Prof DOwden is preparing a new BIZ
ography of Shelley.
Prof. Chas. F. Richardson of Dart
mouth college is engaged upon three
volume History of American Litera-
ture.
No. 81 of Harper's Handy Series is
''The Royal Mail" 1t is full of inter
esting matter concerning the postal
system of England, with many curious
instances of losses, rObberies and the
recovery of letters. The daily delivery
of letters in London involves travel
amounting to twice the circumference
of the earth.
Nos 1913 and 494 of Franklin Square
Library are choice stories by Mrs.
Craik and Cecil Powers.
Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Re-
mus') says, "If you know why the
uncle Remus' trash is successful you
know more than | do"
''Tell Your Wife" is a bright new
anonymous story. The new story ell
titled "The Singular Case" by Mr.. Sam
uel SprOolin and is illustrated by
Rheinhart. "The Captain of the Heather
Bell" by the late Helen Hunt Jackson
appeared in the November Harper.
Clara Louise Kellogg contributes for
the Youths Companion upon the sub
ject of musical education.
j. S. Winter, the author of very sue
cessful military stories, is woman,
and the wonder is how she has acquir
ed the familiarity with military life
which her books evince. An English
review says many women have taken
mems names, but few have worn dOub-
let and hose so skilfully as j. S. Win
ter. The Harpers publish the Ameri-
can edition.
Randolph & Co. publish the letters
of Frances Ridley Havergal.
George Parsons Lathrop has written
a magazine article upon New York as
literary center, and one for the
Brooklyn Magazine upon the question ::
elias Boston lost it's literary suprem-
acy ?"
The Scribners are about to issue a
new volume by DR.. Schlieman on his
excavations upon the plains of Argos.
Howell's new story for the Century
is entitled, "The ministers's charge, or
the labors of Lemuel Barton" Some
of the characters of Silas Lapham will
reappear in this story.
Three thousand copies of the new
edition of Frank StocktOn's "Rudder
Grange" have been sold to English
publishers, and 5000 copies in all are
sold.
The complete diary of General Grant
in his tour round the world is to be
published in the North American Re-
view.
The Harpers have sold 1000 copies
of Will Cartoons new volume, getty
Ballads" They find the largest sale
in the West. The average sale of the
authors works is about 1000 volumes
per month.
Three hundred thousand copies of
the Grant Memoirs will be ready for
delivery by the first of December.
Henry Greville is in this country.
Ticknor g. Co. are to be hereafter her
American publishers.
George Edmundson has collected tes-
timOny which he gives to the public
under the title of "Milton and Won
DEL" showing Millions Indebtedness to
VOndel, his famous Dutch cOntempOra
ry, for portions of paradise Lost" and
paradise Regained," also for "SamsOn
AgOnistes."
An English edition of DR.. Herman
Grimm's literary essays is announced
by Cupples, Upham & Co.
DR.. Holmes new novel will be call
ed ga Mortal Antipathy."
Mrs. Whitney's new story is "Bonny-
borough"
A book of Roumanian fairy tales
which is highly praised is about to is
sue from the press of Henry Holt &
Co.
Lippincott's Magazine is to have a
new dress and will drop it's dOuble-cOl-
umn page.
The title of Miss Braddon's new nov
ell is "MOhawk."
H. H. BOyesen is the only American
whose works have been translated and
published in EnglehOrn's "Bibliothek,"
series regarded as particularly ex-
elusive.
Bj0rnson has written a play with
the remarkable title GEOGRAPHY and
Love-"
w. G.. Howells' new novel for st.
Nicholas is illustrated by his little
daughter. His new Century novel,
soon to begin, will treat of a simple
minded, pure hearted youth, who went
to Boston with his trashy poem as his
only means of support.
The fifth volume of the series of
Grigg's philosophical classics will be
"Hegel's Logic" by w. It. Harris, L.
L. ID. 1t will be critical analysis
and exposition of Hegel's treatise from
the American standpoint.
A protest against the apothesizing
Poe, appears in the last weeks Critic.
1t offers new testimony against Prof.
Minto's eulogy of the poet in the new
volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica. |