The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-07
LITERARY NOTES.
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tender tribute to Mr.. Alcott: "There lives
no man who ever found in Mr.. Alcott an en-
envy; there exists no man who ever went to
him for counsel and found him unsympa
thetic or impatient; while there are many
men who, at the forming period of their in
tellectual existence, have derived from him
life long impetus toward noble aims"
Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, the we'll known tenn
perance orator, who may be the temperance
candidate for President this year, writes as
follows of "Jack the Fisherman al wish
that Jack the Fisherman could find place
in every home in this land, that it could be
read at every Preside, by every father. The
curse of poor Jacks heredity is repeated in
million homes from Fairharbor westward,
northward and southwark. 1 hope this book
will go forth pleading with success for right
eousness and temperance, for the Judgment
to come is fastening on.'
Roberts Bros. will add to their editions of
Imaginary Conversations" and "Pericles
and Aspasia' volume of other prose writ
ings of Lander, including the Pentameron
and Pentalogia" and the "Citation and Ex-
animation of William Shakespeare" Two
of Landor's sons are still living, one in Italy
and one in Switzerland.
recent number of the London Athen@um
reviews at length the thirteenth edition of
Mr.. Stedman's Victorian Poets, concluding
as follows: Mr.. Stedman, by bringing down
his study of the Victorian Poets to the close
of the Jubilee year, has given a rounded
MI OF 10 xub foh hoo
passed into thirteen editions. The book is SO
thorough, 30 penetrating, and so judicial in
its temper, that to the poetical student it is
quite indispensable. In recent criticism
there has been nothing SO acute as his analy-
sis of the co-relations of Theocritus and Ten
nyson. That England should have to turn
to America for the only history of Victorian
poetry is singular, and yet it is gratifying
gratifying as another evidence that the bonds
of sympathy between the two countries are
tightening every day."
The life of Hon. Amos A. Lawrence, one
of the merchant princes of Boston, and held
in honored remembrance for his generous
activity in securing the freedom of Kansas
and for his benefcence to educational insti-
tutions has been written by his son, Rev.
William Lawrence, and will soon be issued
from the Riverside Press.
The next issue in the series of American
Statesmen will be Mr.. Roosevelt's volume
on Governor Morris.
DIR. Henry Van Dykes recent forcible SER
mon on "The National Sin of Literary Pr
racy," pronounced to be one of the most Wig
orous expositions of the moral aspects of In
ternational copyright, is now published by
the Scribners in paper form. 1t is sold for
for 5 cents, and is intended for wide, pop
ular circulation.
Mr.. Froude's preferences for American
institutions were, perhaps, never so marked
or forcibly shown as in his last work, "The
English in the West Indies," just issued by
the Scribners. All through his book he takes
occasion to contrast the tendencies at work
in this country with those that are shaping
the destinies of his own countrymen, and in
variaby with complimentary reference to
the good sense and sound Judgment of the
Americans.
Readers of French history will be deeply
interested in Captain Bingham's new book
on "The Bastile," just issued in this country
by Messrs. Scribner g. Wexford. This book
gathers up vast deal of information, much
of it new, and much heretofore inaccessible,
or scattered in widely separated sources.
And it is the only book giving anything like
a complete history of that mysterious for
tress and prison, the anniversary of whose
fall is now the great French national holiday.
Among the most important articles now
appearing in the magazines are the papers
on the American Revolution contributed to
the Atlantic Monthly by John Fiske.
HoughtoD, Miffiin & Co., will publish soon
a book entitled "Irish Wonders" contain
ing peasant stories gathered from the people
by Prof. ID. r. McAnally, and relating to
ghosts, fairies, poOkas, leprechawns, ban
shoes, witches, widows, old maids, and other
marvels of the Emerald Isle. 1t is excellent
ly illustrated with designs made on the spot,
but while representing Irish character and
incidents very effectively, they are entirely
free from caricature.
Col. Charles O. Jones. Jr., the histori an of
Georgia, has collected large number of
stories which have long been current on the
plantations, and which will soon be pub
lished in book entitled Negro Myths from
the Georgia Coast,' The animals in these
legends are called Buh instead of Bre'r as
Mr.. Harris calls them in his admirable Uncle
Remus stories.
An interesting volume will soon be pub
lished by Houghton Mifflin q Co., entitled
F." Metrical TRANSACTIONS and Poems," con-
sisting of poems translated from the Ger
man by DIR. f. II. Hedge and Mrs. A. L.Wis-
ter, both widely known as translators of the
greatest skill and scholarly appreciation.
This volume will contain. in addition to the
some original poems by DIR.
Hedge.
The fifth part of Professor Ohild's une-
qualed edition of English and Scottish Bal
lads will soon be published by Houghton,
Mifiin g. Co.
new edition of Broken Lights" by
Frances Power Cobbe, is to be published by
Lee d Shepard, Boston. The authoress of
this excellent volume wrote, also, "Intuitive
Morals;' etc. Broken Lights" is an earnest
enquiry "into the present condition and fu-
ture prospects of religious faith" AS the
books sub title indicates, the most momen-
toms ouestions of theology are discussed Tha