The Washington times., 1894-08-26
In THE WORLD OF LITERATURE.

According to Albert CHM and others, says
the Critic. authorship and publication are in
bad state in France just now. Hardly six
noyelists, it is said, can count on receiving for
| their works q sum equal to or above 10 COO
| francs, Mr. Gin lately examined the books
OF leading publisher and found that two
thirds of the accounts opened for works of
| fiction, verse, travel, domestic economy, and
military science showed losses.
There is to be published in France an illus
| trated magazine TO cover the ground corre-
| spending to that covered by Harper's and
| the Century. 1t will be called La Monde
Moderne. 1t will be published by NJ. Guam
tin and edited by NJ. Octave Uzanne.
Mr.. Richard LIE Galliene, author of The
Religion OF Literary Man. having recently
lost his wife, sent out "A four-page circular TO
tell about il. The first page bore only the
/ words: "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"
Rev. DR.. Philip S. Moxom, of Springfield,
| Mass. author of the Aim of Life published
! by Roberts Bros. }, has among his hearers
every Sunday two persons who come regu-
larly from Boston, distance Of about 100
miles, to hear him preach.
Twelve thousand copies of the first volume
OF Miss Emily Dickenson's poems have been
issued and 1000 of the second volume A
collection OF her letters will soon appear,
edited by her friend, Mrs. David P. Todd, of
! Amherst.
Francois Coppee, the French poet, is not
| inclined to accept large sales proof of
merit, and declares that big figures often
have little significance The Able Delille's
| books, he says, once sold by thousands, and
now nobody can be induced to read them.
Plenty of similar cases can be cited in this
country and in England. Nobody, for ex
ample, now buys Tupper's WORKS.
1t is said that Gen. Lew Wallace is to intro-
| duce Coxey and his tatterdemalion army lin
| the background" of a forthcoming new book.
Miss Bette Garland, of Clerksville, Tenn,
| is the winner OF the prize in the poem contest
conducted by the Southern Magazine over
| 800 competitors.
The influence OF Robert Browning, says
| Macmilan's Magazine, like some great fog,
hangs over much OF our poetic work in the
| literature OF to-day.
Alphonse Daudet has written the following
| characteristic letter: 1T often happens that
letters from foreign countries are addressed
to me at the French Academy on the SUPPOSE
| ton that l am one OF its members. These
| letters are almost always returned TO the post
office with the remark. Unknown to the
French Academy written on the envelope.
! There is no harm in this since the post-office
| knows where to send my correspondence.
! But the formula is droll. | have often given
evidence of its authenticity"
The authenticity OF the Unknown Life OF
| Christ, which is attracting such widespread
! attention, is extremely doubtful. The out
line Of the work given on page 162 Of this
number is, however, of interest in telling
what the book contains, be the work true or
false, a valuable biography or an ingenious
literary fraud.
The following card is published in the Lon
| don papers: "A prize of 900 will be given for
ha laSt riO On ha 70 m
! be derived from the establishment of a sound
democratic republic in the United Kingdom -
| For conditions send stamped envelope TO
| Eleusis Club. London.
Albert Sorel, the newly created Immortal,
| is flfty-two years old, and is the author of
| L'EurOpe ct la Revolution Francaise, La
! Question d'Orient au dixhuiteme Steele,
Madame de Stael, and Montesquieu. In 1888
| NJ. Sorel followed Fustel de Coulanges as
professor in the Academic des Sciences,
| Morals, ct Politiques.
Norman Gale. author OF Orchard Songs,
has devoted himself to the curious task OF
making an anthology from the works OF
young, living poets. The verse of no man
over forty years old is to be admitted.
Mr. Wemyss Reid, now Sir Wemyss Reid,
the editor of the Speaker, who was for long
/ time editor of the Leeds Mercury, is one OF
the most conspicuous men in the Liberal
| Lord HoUghton are finely done and his one
novel. Gladys Fame, has had fine success.
Rather more than four years ago he founded
the Speaker.
The German Emperor has discovered Capt.
Mahan, and OF his influence of Sea Power
| on History eIclaims: Il am Just now not
reading, but deyouring Capt. Mahan's book
| and am trying TO learn il by heart. 1t is a
first-class work and classical in all points. It
is on board all my ships and find it is con-
stantly quoted by my captains and officers" :"
When asked his opinion about the New
! Women, Mr.. Kipling, with burst of laugh
ter. said they were shouting for a cause
already won. A woman" he continued, ito
day can do exactly what her body and soul let
her"
NJ. Flammarion's book on Popular As
tronomy has had in France a sale of 100000
copies. An English translation, with notes is
| just coming out in London.