LITERARY NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6506, 3 January 1882, Page 5

LITERARY NOTES.

The Marquis of Salisbury furnishes the wanting funds for the new London publication, The Anchor. It ie rumoured that Mr Gladstone is to offer the honour of, knighthood to Mr Alexander Macmillan; the publisher. The late librarian of the British Museum, Mr Winter Jones, was the son of John Jones, the author of ‘‘Little Goody Two-Shoes,”and was prond of his descent. Victor Hugo dedicated the “ Toilers of the Sea” to Guernsey, and the inhabitants of the island are to erect a monument to him. Such is Mr James Barton’s admiration of the great poet, patriot, and novelist that he has named his only son for him. When Cardinal Newman was a poor young man at Oxford, the directors of The Times were so much impressed by some letters of his on education, contributed to that paper, that they offered him a salary of £IBOO a year to go on their staff; but finding he would not be free to say what he thought, he declined. M. Emile Zola’s forthcoming volume, to bo entitled “Documents Litteraires,” will comprise chapters on Chateaubriand, Victor' Hugo, Alfred de Musset, ThSophile Gautier, contemporary poets, George Sand, Dutnas./Ws, Sainte-Beuve, contemporary criticism and morality in literature. According to a correspondent of that quaint little publication, " Notes and Queries,” no fewer than 198,000 copies were sold of “Dame Europe’s School,” a squib written in 1870 by a minor canon of Sarum ; 187,000 wore sold between Oct. 22 (when a modest edition of 1000 copies, half published at Salisbury and the other half in London, started the brochure) and Feb. 24,1871. It was translated in every country in Europe, and large editions were sold in America; and it was the parent of an enormous breed of sirpilar publications. King Kalakaua has conferred on Mrs Bishop (formerly Miss Bird), authoress of “Six Months in the Hawaiian Archipelago,’’ the Literary Order of Kapiolani, with the jewel and decoration, including a miniature of Queen Kapiolani. The Order is one which the king himself instituted, and its latest recipient is one who by her writings has done much to interest the inhabitants, especially of Groat Britain and America, not only in the Hawaiian Islands, but also in Japan and other foreign countries. A fourth edition of “Six Months in the Hawaiian Archipelago” has just been issued. Mr John Morley’s long-expected “Life of Biohard Oobdon ” will be in the hands of the public immediately. It consists of two volumes with a portrait. Mr Swinburne’s now tragedy "Queen Mary” the third part of the trilogy on the life and death of the Scottish queen, is in the press, and will be published in about a month. Mosers M’Millan and Uo.’s scientific announcements include Science and Culture, and other essays, by Professor Huxley; “A Text-Book of Geology,” by Professor Archibald Geikie, &o. Messrs Marcus Ward and Co., announce for publication a “ Constitutional History of England, 17601860,” by Professor 0. D. Yonge. Mark Twain’s new volume, “The Prince and the Pauper,” will appear, with illustrations, in the same shape as the “Tramp Abroad.” For tho purpose of securing the English copyright it will be published in England in advance of its appearance in America. Miss Gordon Gumming, author of “At Homo in Fiji,” has just completed an account of a voyage among the islands of Oceania, which Messrs Blackwood and Sons will shortly publish under the title of “ A Lady’s Cruise in a French Man-of-War.” Miss Gumming enjoyed exceptional facilities for making herself acquainted with tho isles of the Pacific, and she brought home many sketches, a selection from which will illustrate her book.