The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-10
LITERARY NOTES.

EMMA MARSHALL, who counts her
readers by the hundred thousand, has
a new novel in press OF Oassell 4 Co
1t is called No. NH; The Story Of hc
Lost Ves'Gl. Ancient Rome is the scene
of the story and the ancient Re mans
are the dramatis persona.
"MRs. PnxADA," the new novel by
Sidney Luska, is announced for early
publication by Cassell q Co. II ia an
advance upon the authors first novel,
As II Was Written, aud will please an
even larger audience. The story be-
gins with the very first page and there
is no let up until the end is reached.
Mr.. Luska has the happy faculty OF
holding his readera' attention through
every page of his books. Ms. PeiGddd
is a sensational story, the plot Of which
is most ingeniously worked out and
the end is as great surprise to the
reader as 1t was TO those who were
searching for the murderer Of Mr..
Peixada.
Mr.. JAMES PARTON, in an essay
which appears in the Forum, says OF
the newspaper:
The daily press is the people university
Half Of the readers Of Christendom read lit
tie else. five had TO choose which should
he destroyed, all our colleges or all our daily
papers, We should be obliged TO decide that
our colleges are Of Unreasonable value, but
that the daily press is indispensable.
In his ettimate OF the value the
Sunday paper very large majority OF
the community will heartily concur;
The family appetite for the newspaper Is Mt
no time so keen or so universal rs on Sunday
morning, when all the household mas time
10 bestOw upon its pcrusal, and whom the
plans for the coming week both for business
and for pleasure ara determined by the CON
tents OF the newspaper, The paper. being
in half dozen separate pieces, can be
handed abound the room, and no member Of
the household is obliged 70 wait for his turn.
The father may be battered and put Off
he will submit TO it-with the sheet contain
ING the markets, while the mother loses her
self In the multitudinous and bewildering
expanses Of the dry goods advertisements.
The young lady seizes the portion containing
boys fly with fury to the piece exhib biting the
base ball and polo intelligence. And when
these are all distributed there will still be u
fragment for pious Aunt Mary, who Is athirst
for the religious news Of the week.
In the March number OF the Dial
Judge James o. Pierce OF this city has
an Article entitled Gan English View
OF Democracy" that is carefully pre-.
pared review OF Popular Govern
ment," being four essays by Sir Henry
Sumner Maine, author OF Anciem Lar.
These essays Judge Pierce rightly re-
CARDS as a complete answer 10 the su-
perfcial impertinences Of Sir
Lepel Griffin, an Englishman
long q resident OF India as a
civil service employe. They are in
their order in the book printed in the
excellent style for which Henry Holt
q Co. are no,ed. "rhe Prospects OF
Popular Government" THE Nature
OF Democracy, +" 1.-THE Age OF Progress"
and "The Constitution Of the United
States" As to the value Of thete es-
says we refer our readers TO the book
itself. With it and this critical paper
OF Judge Pierce 10 guide, there Is sure
to be but one verdict, acc ompanied by
very keen satisfaction, that at last En-
glishmen OF the very highest type have
learned to prize our political institu-
lions and appreciate the devotion Of the
people to government for and by the
people.
WHITAKKR's ALMANAC is an annual
that every one anxious to be well in
formed az to the organization OF the
and the affairs Of Eng
land ought to possess. II contains a
complete list { I members Of the new
Parliament and OF the unsuccessful
candidates, together with all official
changes throughout the empire, cor
Teoted to the time Of going to press; a
list Of fairs In England and Wales,
newly corrected and revised for the |
present year; very full astronomical
tables and meteorological record com
plete lists OF persons in every branch |
Of the public service upon whom hon
orable distinctions have been con- !