Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-10-02
LITERARY NOTES.

PROHIBITION IN PoLITICs is the title of a
symposium from the Homiletic Review, in
which the question, "Ought Prohibition
Be Made Political Question? If So with
What Limitations ?" Is discussed, the mega
tive by Samuel I. Spear, DID,, of the New
York Independent, and the affirmative by
L. K. Funk, d D., of the Homiletic Review.
Published by Funk & Wagnslls of New
York.
DIo LEwIs's NUGGETS are, as they
should be, taking we'll. They are full of
wisdom that everybody ought to have and
to know. They are the best results of
lifelong experience in the practice of
medicine and study of human nature.
They tell the reader what TO eat ard drink,
what to wear and how to avoid, and in
some instances how to cure, disease. They
are nuggets Of gold. Buy them at Mans
ford's on Main street.
The FIRST THREE YEARS OF CHILDHOOD,
by Bernard Perez, edited and translated
by Alice M. Christie, with an introduction
by James lily, N. A, is work that every
young mother would do well to study. 1t
is full of the experience OF an observant
and scientific man, who traces the life of
the child from foetal life to the end of the
third year, Offering invaluable suggestions
for physical and mental training and the
strengthening OF the childhood morally,
laying the foundations of life of health
and happiness. A. N. Marquis & Co.,
Chicsgo, publishers.
THE beautiful poem, "The Daughter of
Mendoza" appeared in the New York Sun
of Sunday, credited to Mr.. Secretary L. @.
@. Lamar. His uncle, Mirabeau B. Lamar,
ones president OF the republic Of Texas,
was the writer of these admirable verses.
The Secretary never wrote poetry, unless
we find it in his grand and most generous
tribute to Charles Sumner, the rhetorician
| and scholar. The Washington Critic, re-
| ferriDg to these facts, says that Mirabeau
B. Lamar fought in the Alamo. The
Critic forgets: "Thermopyle had its mes
senger of death the Alamo had none."
A report comes from the retreat sought
| by Edgar l.. WakemaD, late of the Chicago
| Current, that he has suffered two paralytic
strokes, and that a third and fatal one is
| anticipated. Without rega,d d to Mr.. Wake
mans literary venture, this is a sad ram
noUncement. He was man OF remarkable
vim and push, and won fi1e reputation
as an energetic newspaper cor espondent.
The anxiety attendant upon his ambitious
| experiment in setting up library weekly
in Chicago, and the inevitable heavy ex-
pense attendant upon it, seems to have
| been too much of strain.
! BESIDES Mr.. Hittel's and DIR. LIE Conte's g
| papers, and those upon Mrs. John Brown
and the Rancheria massacres, the October
| Ouerland contains lively description OF
1.-The Great Lama Temple OF Peking," by
the distinguished traveller and author, G.
| F. Gordon Cumming; two Californian
studies, ga Transportation Aristocrat''
and "My First Wedding;" southern Cali
fornia character sketch, "Brindle and
Others" from the wellknown and
sprightly pen OF D. S. Richardson; a Gig
nificant paper on "The San Francisco
Free Library" and, somewhat less locel
in subject, but by wellknown San Fran
ciscans, paper on "Rev.sion Of the Fed
efal Constitution" by @. t. Hopkins, s:id
one on The Youth of NAPOLEON" y
Warren Olney. The poems oil the nu:n-
ber are only two-one melancholy and
the other sprightly, and both exquisite,
far beyond the wont of magazine verse
nowadays. There are, besides, reviews oi
recent books of sociology, Recent Poetry
etc., and the usual departments.
BEGINNING with the current number oi
The Book -Buyer-a monthly summary oi
American and foreign literature, published
by Charles ScIibner's Sons-there will be
printed each month portrait of famous
writer whose picture has not been 80 often
reproduced as to become hsckneyed. The
October number, now ready, contains 6
portrait of R. H. Stoddard. In the Novem,
ber issue portrait of Mr.. George W
Cable, engraved by Mr.. Tietz from a pho
tograph, will be given. The engraving
will be printed on fiue plate paper, anC
promise to make a most interesting snC
valuable series. In the sketches OF how
authors work, there will be accounts OF tn.
workshops of MIR. Cable and Mr.. Stoddsrd
| in the November number. Messrs Serb
ner will take pleasure in sending copy o
the current Book-Buyer as a specimen t.
any who make application.
0NK evidence of the continued proc
perity of The american Antiquarian il
given in the fact that it is absorbing vari
GUS amateur journals and surviving al