The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-03-01
Literary Notes.

The literature of dramatic belles-lettres
saws the Spectator. contains few volumes that
can compare in attractiveness with the delight
ful autobiography of Joseph jefferson. Most
actors. when they come TO WELD the pen. find
il hard to avoid occasional lapses into the
stilted style of the hero Of melodrama. But.
happily, there is hardly trace of that in
these memoirs"
n. ID. c. Hodges will publish directly THE
Labrador Coast: journal of Two Summer
Cruises to that Region" by Professor Alpheus
S. Packard. The work will contain notes Oh
the early discovery of Labrador. its Eskimo
inhabitants, physical features. fauna. etc .anda
photography of works and charts pertaining to
the civil aud natural history Of the peninsula.
1t will be illustrated.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer is about to publish an
entirely new edition. in three octave volumes
of his Essays. Political. Scientific and
Speculative" II will contain many new
essays not included in the previous editions.
On the list of books soon to appear from the
press OF ID. Appleton a. Co. is "a Plea for
Liberty" an English work comprising ESSAYS
by various writers. edited by Thomas Mackay,
with an Introduction by Mr.. Spencer.
The course of lectures which Mr.. Edmund
G. Stednan will give at Johns Hopkins in
March deals with The Nature and Elements
of Poetry" The subject divisions include
"Oracles Old and New" What is Poetry"
creative IOtlly ana the IOetry OF Self-EN-
preston" Beauty" Truth" "Imagina-
ton Passion" and The Faculty Divine"
Those who cannot listen TO these lectures will
doubtless anticipate eagerly their appearance
in book form.
just at the moment General Sherman died
Charles l.. Webster x Co. We're ready 10 pub
llsh the new edition of his memoirs 1t is the
third edition, revised and corrected by the
General himself, and appears, as before. in
o..
Sherman's photograph in Vol. |. ID contains
the two appendices with criticisms from other
officers, and the letters brought out by the
first edition from host of native and foreign
authorities. Portraits of Generals Thomas.
SchOtield and Mcpherson ombellish Vol. III.
The work appeared first in 1875.
Macmillan 4 Co. make the very interesting
announcement that they Will shortly publish
the Oxford Movement: Twelve Years.
1898 -ls45." by the late Dean Church. This is a
volume based upon Dean Church's personal
recollections, and will follow the course Of
the movement from its first public beginning
To the secession OF DIR. Newman. The char
acter sketches Of Newman Keble. Hurrell
Froude, Ward, and others that are promised
VIII be eagerly looked for by many. Material
for a history of the Oxford movement is now
rapidly accumulating. and none is likely 10 be
more valuable than Dean Churchs book will
be-
In these times less than ten in hundred of
the novels written by women are everprinted
according to a publisher. who added: I'VE
send back every month 10 authoresses piles Of
manuscript Of novels that have been mailed
TO us" In looking over a catalogue Of recent
publications | notice that women are now CIV
ing US very many books that are not novels. saws
the New York sun. Here among them in this
catalogue are works of erudition and research.
works in history and biography. in the physi
cal sciences and the fine arts. in speculation,
and in pure letters. Let us rejoice over these
promises of the intellectual development Of
our race.