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LITERARY NOTES.

Tennyson's " Idylls of the King " have just been translated into Swedish. The Wordsworth' family is to be paid a copyright of 50.0 guineas for the forthcoming edition of the late poet's prose works. Miss Emily Faithfull is giving a series of readings from the poets, at her house in Norfolk square, London. ~. ' There has been a rema'rkable fertility of late in the production of new books on architecture and the fine arts. The Saturday .Review finds Mr. Nordnofi s account of the Sandwich Islands and the Pacific Coast lively and readable. Sheldon and Co. are about to publish a new volume of sermons by Spurgeon, called "Types and Emblems." . The first volume of a new translation of the Testament, by Mr. John Brown McClellan, is published by Macmillan and Co. More writings of tho late Sir Henry Holland have been gathered, under the title of " Fragmentary Papers on Science." M. A. Challamel has put forth a beautifully illustrated book' on the toilet, entitled " Histoire de la Mode en France." The humorous poems and parodies of the late Mr. Shirley Brooks, editor of Punch, are to be collected and published. The French war of 1870 is to bo again written up by tho Grand Duke of Mechlen-berg-Schwerin, who bore a part therein. Another of Octave Feuillet's brilliant novels, entitled "Un Marriage a la Mode" will be published as a serial in the Eivue des Deux A young lady living in Newark owns the first pair of shoes ever worn by Lord Byron. They were given to the lady's father by a daughter of Byron's nurse, who lived in Elizabeth, N. J., some forty years ago. Macmillan and Co. will publish a work under the title of " The Unseen Universe ; or, Physical Speculations on Immortality. It is said to be the joint work of two well known P to'his work on " Christ and Other Masters" the Venerable Archdeacon Hardwick has made a careful examination of the religions of Egypt, Medo-Persia, India and China, and even America and Oceanica. ~„„ "The Roman Catholic Directory for 187o < shows the steady growth of that faith in England. The Romanish clergy have increased during the year from 16G2 to 1728 ; and they have now 1941 churches, being an increase of sixteen. , . .• , A valuable and interesting work, entitled "Monumental Christianity; or, Tho Art and Symbolism of the Primitive Church as Witnesses and Teachers of the one Catholic Faith and Practice," by John P. Lundy, Presbyter, will be published before long by J. W. Bouton. The book will be profusely illustrated with designs collected from all parts of the world.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4443, 16 June 1875, Page 3

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LITERARY NOTES. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4443, 16 June 1875, Page 3

LITERARY NOTES. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4443, 16 June 1875, Page 3

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