Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-10-05
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
The souvenirs for the New Year are al
ready announced, and are generally of lit
erary merit.
Charles D. George is to send from G.. P.
Putnam's press a new collection of the
works of Walpole.
Professor Holden, of the Lick Observa-
tory, is to contribute to the Century series
of astronomical articles.
Lydia Hoyt Fomer has written refu
tation of Robert Elsmere, and Ogilvie of
New York will presently give it to the
reading public.
William Henry Bishop, the novelist, has
gone to his new home, the Villa Blanoheri,
near Nice. He recently made a tour
through Spain.
Lester Wallack's "Memoirs," which
many were unable to procure early in the
year, owing to the limited edition, is now
to be issued in new and cheaper FORM
Oscar Fay Adams, the poet, is writing a
life of Jane Austen. At present he is in
England visiting her old home and baunts
to gather additional material for the bio
grapy.
Professor George P Fisher, of Yale
University, will contribute to literature
| during the coming season series of pa
pers on The Nature and Method of Rev
elation."
Miss Orelia K Bell, charming young
poetess of Atlanta, enjoys the distinction
of being thought by her neighbors the
legitimate successor of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning.
"An Experimental Study in the Do
main of Hypnotism," by r. Won Kraft
Ebing, Professor of Psychiatry and Merry
Gus Disease in the University of Graz,
Austria, is soon to appear.
Irene E. Jerome's new illustrated vol
ume, to be issued by Lee & Shepard, is to
be entitled In Fair Country" and is to
be introduced by one hundred pages from
the pen of Colonel Higginson.
Paul B. Du Chaillus great work, "The
Viking Age" the publication of which has
been several times postponed owing to the
yastness of the work, is now definitely an
nounced for issuance next month.
Joaquin Miller, who gave to the incip-
lent State of Idaho its name, saws that it
is written and spelled improperly. The
correct form is Idahho, with the accent on
the middle syllable. The name means the
light on the mountains.
Edmund Gosse declares that Herbert
Spencer's books do not cover the cost of
their publication, to say nothing of leaving
profit for the philosopher himself.
Neither does Mr.. Swinburne nor Leslie
Stephen derive any considerable profit
from their writings.
Emile de Lave'eye, the European pub
licist, says in the October Forum that a
hundred years hence, leaving China out of
the question, there will be two colossal
powers in the world, beside which Ger
many, England, France and Italy will be
as pigmies-the United States and Russia.
"The Wooing of Grandmother Grey" is
new poem by Kate Tannatt Woods. A
stanZa runs thus:
81 was thinkin', Jabez,' said Grandmother
How il all was so long ago,
When you lived with your father miles away
And the ground was covered with heaps Of
snow "
Edward Wakefield, who has written an
explanation of the Australian ballot sys-
TEN, has several times been a member of
the Australian Parliament from New Zea-
land, and has both been elected and de-
feated under the workings of the law. Mr..
Wakefield is an Englishmen by birth
who has had wide experience in politics
in Australia.
Bishop F. D. Huntington, of Syracuse,
n. Y, lives according to the common
sense requirement of plain living and
high thinking. He does not occupy the
town residence provided for him by his
diocese, preferring an unpretentious house
in the suburbs, where he is in close con-
tact with nature and suffers none of the
distractions of city residence. From this
retreat he writes of "The Frivolities of
Fashion"
"Ouida' is hard on her brother novelists
even to the extent of writing about Rider
Haggards "pasteboard inanity." She de-
clares that the English literature of TO-
tistic qualities, those qualities of style
which constitute the especial literary ex-
cellence of a literature, and for which
French literature is at all times conspicu-
Gus. Style seems by the English writer to
be considered thing with which he has
nothing to do. In nation which had
consciousness of style, the grotesque, I'M
polished and often barbarous diction of
Carlyle and Dickens would never have
been allowed to disfgure their talent, be-
cause, before they would have addressed
lettered audience they would have studied
the art of letters But it is not only de- |
fects of style which injure English litera-
ture; it is a want of knowledge of the |
world, a Puritanism, a hypocrisy, timid
ity, which lie like lead upon it, and check |
its full development, and keep it in swad-
ding clothes ill-ftting manhood"
JOYS OBJ DE FAWM HAN.
Whun de cotton piokin' time comeiroun'
no faHm hans fingas fV