The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-13
LITERARY NOTES.

THE wife OF the revolutionist, Kra
potkine. is writing an auto Photographic
cal romance.
A COPY Of the first book on arithme
tic published in English was sold il
London recently for 1900.
THERE are only about forty literary
men among the $40 members Of thu
British House OF Commons.
NATURAL CAUSES AND SupERNAT
uRAD sEEMlNGs," is the title of DR.
Henry Maudsley's new book.
JANsEN, MCCLURE & 90. announce
for immediate publication a new edi
ton of George p. Upton's Women u
Music.
IT is said that Pere Didon, the we'll
known Dominican priest, is writing
an elaborate reply to M. Renan, to be
called Liquidation dc Ia We de Jesus.
AIcHRAP edition at 81 cents of Bay.
ard Taylor's translation OF Faust, IL
coming out in London. 1t is not stated
what copyright Is paid to Mr.. Taylor't
family,
TlcKNoR & Co. announce for publ
cation in the spring the long promised
Life Of Henry HddsOorth LonafelloU, by
his brother the Rev. Samuel Longfel-
low.
THE academy reports tina. Wilson &
Mccormack, the Glasgow publishers,
will bring out in cheap form selec.
ti0ne from the prose and verse Of
Walt Whitman.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON will soon pub
fish novel under the Bunthornian
title of All But; Chronicle of Luren-
ford Life. Sir Henry has himself made
twenty-one little illustrations for the
book.
BosToN ia to have new monthly
magazine, The Citizen, the first mum.
Der appearing this month. 1t is to be
devoted to tho discussion OF questions
of popular interest relating 10 citizen
ship and government, and will be
edited by members Of the American
Institute of Civios.
Mr.. RusKIN in his autobiography
rays Of Byron's letters that they econ
tain the utmost number that will come
together into the space of absolutely
Just, wise and kind thoughts" and
which are "perfeCt because the guam
tity they hold is not altifically or in
trlcately concentrated, but with the
serene swiitness of smiths hammer
strikes on hot iron.
IT is claimed by q writer for the
Ala California that the real author OF
1.-THE Dodge Club" the american
Baron" and "Au Open Question" was
not James de Mile but rich Caliior-
Man named John NJ. Creighton, who
engaged De Mile to edit the stories
and find market for them. The evil
dence is not especially conclusive.
THERE will be few readers who will
not sympathizs with Frederic Harri-
sons protest against the needless ped
antry of the writers who disturb the
language with new oitbogIaphy-the
people who substitute Livorno for
Leghorn, Napoli for Naples, and Nizza
for Nice; Wien for Vienna, or it may
be, Kobenhavn for Copenhagen.
THE first volume of Henry Morley's
edition of Cassell's National Library
have Just been Issued in this country.
No. 1 is Roscoe's translation. of Silvio
PellicoslTm Years imprisonment; !" No.
is Byron's Childe Harold. The little
books are neatly printed in reasonably
large type, and are bound in paper.
The Pellico has an introduction by
Prof. Morley, which gives in small
space the necessary details of the Ital-
ian's career.
The autograph or dictated letters
which passed between Goethe and
Schiller will before long be added to
the Goethe archives. They are now
in the possession of Baron Carl Won
Gotta Of Stuttgart, who purchased
them in 1875, but he has agreed to
sell his treasures to the Grand Duchess
Of Saxe-Weimar, the owner of the
for the price originally given.
There is one condition, however, at.
tached to the Transaction, and it is
thai Baron Won Gotta shall retain the
MSS. during his lifetime, and use
them without restraint for literary
purposes,