LITERARY NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6504, 31 December 1881, Page 3

LITERARY NOTES.

* Berthold Auerbach is writing the recotW tione of his youth, Messrs Began, Paul and Oe. will lama* diately issue" the Egypt of the Past,” by Erasmus Wilson, F.Bd. Professor Masson’s notice of Thomas do Quincey in the "English men «f Letters" series will be published during the coming season. Lady Bloomfield is, it ie stated, prepariag for publication a memoir of the uipiometie career of her husband, the ssooiid and list lord Bloomfield, who died in li7‘J. Ur Fawcett has ready for the press a neir edition of hie “ Free Trade aad Proteetaon in which he has discussed the ■ftfo foCvnt development of protection hi foreign nsd* tries, and the fair trade movement in I ng* land. A new edition of Dean Stanley’s "Life of Dr Arnold," which Mr Murray will issao during the coining season, will centals bb unpublished poem by Eehle, as well as tho last corrections made by the late Dean. “ Ecce Spiritu* ” it the title of an anoaymous book which will be ready shortly, and it expected to make as great a stir in theo* logical circlet at "Sees Homo" did fifteaa years ago. The Clerical World ie a new weekly paper announced by Meters llodder and Stoughton* lb is to contain reports cf the best sermons of the day. Tho first numbsr will appear shortly. Frederick Doughs, the runaway slave, who attaired considerable eminence, cot only in the Doited States but in England, as a popular • lecturer on slavery, temperance, peace and like topics is writing the reroiniicetsce# of hie life since he became a free ma». The Bishop of ini ends t> publish bis observations on the revisec-’ alterations in the Lord’s Prayer in a pamphlet, m which ho will answer the last criticisms «f Canon Cook. The memoirs which the Empress Eugenia has been preparing at Braoenberg with tho assistance of M. Rouher, were, it was stated, to be placed in the hands of an Edinburgh publisher in tho course of November, A hitherto unknown specimen of Carton'e printing has, the Athexaum nays, lately com# to light at Cambridge, in trinity College library. It is a letter of indulgence issued m the early part of the year 1480 by John Kendale, the Torcapolier of Rhodes, in order to encourage contributions to ca-ry on tho war against tho Turks. Mr Harrison Ainsworth, the novelist—who Lad just been entertained at a banquet by his native city of Manchester—is now tereotj-mx yean old. Amongst his pa’crus 1 ancestors are Robert Ainsworth, a distinguished scholar, aad Henry Ainsworth, theß-ownist, who was one of the most learned Hebrew scholars of bit time—the commencement of the revea* teenth coat ary. The father of Mr Ainsworth was Mr Thomas Ainsworth, who was a solicitor having an extensive practice in Man* cheater. He wished that bis son should be* come a lawyer, but the young man’s tastes led him irresistibly in the direction of literature. The success of Mr Morley’s “ English Men of Letters ’’ has induced one of the chief publishing firms in the United Lutes, Messrs Houghton, Miffiin and Co., to begin » scries of " American Men of letters," which will bo edited by Mr 0. Dudley Warner. Mr Warner leads off with a monograph on Washington Irving. Mr Lowell's biography of Hawthorne will be included in the series, which is designed to contain tome fifteen volomes. The English publishers are to ta Messrs Sampson, Low and Co. Messrs Beeves and Turner an about to publish a somewhat novel work, to bo entitled “A History of the dries of London ; Ancient and Modern," by Mr f barks Bindley, author of "Th- Curiosities of Street Literature,” “The Life and Times of Old Jemmy Catnach, the Balkdmonger, late of Seven Dials,” Ac. The present work will contain over 200 woodcuts, many of which are by Thomas aad John Bewick and their pupils, and were purchased at the sale of the Hugo collection by Messrs Hotheby and Co. in 1877. Messrs Began, Paul and Co.’* list of forth* coming publication* contain the following announcements The Alphabet: a History of the Origin and Development of Graphic Symbols," by the Bev Isaac Taylor; “The Egypt of the Fast," by Erasmus Wilson, F. 8.8., with numerous illustrationsj “Sir Christopher Wren: his Family and bis Times,” with criginal letter* and a diieourae on architecture hitherto unpublished, 15851723; by Lucy Phillimorej “A Guide to Modern English History," by William Cary —B»rt 11,1831-1833; “ The Fiauess and Public Works of British India, from 1869 to 1881," by Sir John- Strachcy, G.C.8.1., and LieuC-Qenml Richard Sirathey, B.SL, FJLS.i “Thomas k Kespia, sad Ike Brothers of Gammon Life," by tho Rev 8. EetUewell; “John Widif and'his English Precursor*," by Gerhard Victor Leehler, translated from the German, with additional notes, by Peter Lorimer, DD., new and cheaper edition; "The Chief Applications of Elec* trieity,” by S. Hospitaller, translated by Julius Maier, Pb.D., with numerous illustrations; “Permanence and Evolution —an Essay," by 8. If. B. Bouverie * Posey j “ Metaphysics, Ac., Essays," by Jams* Hinton; "Evenings with a Bevtewer, or, a Free and Particular Examination of Lead Macaulay’s Essay on Lord Bacon," by James Spedding, 8 vols; “ Representative Govern* ment in England: it* Faults and Failures,” by David Syme. Doobtlece many will be gratified in perusing the appended list of pseudonyms which lift* the ma»k from many of our most enjoyable writers:—Arthur Skelohley, George Boeo 5 A. L. O. K-, (A lady of England), Mies Charlotte Tucker; Aunt Mary. Mrs Mary A. Lathbury; Bon Gaultier, Protester W. B. Aytoun and Theodore Martin, eollaioraicurt; Barry Cornwall, Bryan Waller Proctor; Cutter Bell, Charlotte Bronte; Outhbert Bede, Bov. Edward Bradley; Country Parson, Bev. A. K. H. Boyd : Dr Syntax, William Coombs; Elisabeth Wetherel, dusan Warner-, Fanny Forester, Mr* Henry Chubbuck Judson; Fknny Feru, Sarah Posoa Willie Barton; Frank Forester, Henry William Herbert; George Band, Amantine Luctie Aurore Dudevaae; Grace Greenwood, Mrs Sarah Jane Clarke Lippincott; George Eliot, Marian Evan* Lewes Cross; Holme Lee, Mrs Harriet Parr; Josh Billing*, Henry W. Shaw ; Kirk White, Henry Kirk White; Monk Lewis, Matthew Gregory Lewie; Mrs Markham, Mr* Elisabeth Penrose; Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Nimrod, Charles J. Apperley; Old Humphrey, George Mogridge; Owen Meredith, Hon Bdward E, Bulwer - Lyttou; Orpheus O. Kerr, (office seeker). R- H. Newell; Paul Creigh ton. J. T. Trowbridge; Peter Parley, Samuel Griswold Goodrich; Peter Pindar, John Westoott; Sophie May, Miss B. 8. Clark; Bam Slick, Judge Thomas 0. fialibnrton; Stonehenge, John H. Walsh; Timothy litcomb, Josiah Gilbert Holland; Trust* (anagram), Elisabeth Stuart Phelps; Zadkiel, Lieutenant Richard J. Morrison.