The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-24
LITERARY NOTES.

THE entire edition of Roberts Broth
ers' translation of Cesar Birotteau was
sold out within two days OF its publ
cation.
''THE DEVILS DANCE" "a play for the
times, is among the brochures in aid
of prohibition that has recently been
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Mansford.
RAND, McNALLY 4 Co. of Chicago
have just published The Mdtipan Affair,
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TIME du Boisgobey. 1t is story that
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and sensational in every line. is
well told, and here is not line in it
that the purest maiden may not read.
WAR AND PEACE, the historical novel
by Count Leon Tolstoi, translated into
French by Russian lady, and from
French into English by Clara Bell,
forms two handsome volumes of the Sc
ries of valuable translations published
by William S. Gottsberger, II Murray
st Get, New York. The period to which
this work is confined is before Tilsit,
1S05--07. 1t is of engrossing interest,
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Sheridan, comprise number six of this
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Mr.. HERBERT SPENCER has con-
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The Popular Science Monthly for April
on the limits and Interpretation of the
doctrine of natural selection, and the
position of Mr. Charles Darwin in re-
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