LITERARY NOTES.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 949, 25 October 1882, Page 3

LITERARY NOTES.

A manuscript novel by Hawthorne has been discovered by his son, and will shortly be published. It is entitled “Dr Grimshawe’s Secret.” The Athenfeum regrets to hear that the publication of Thackeray’s suppressed preface to his “Irish Sketch Book” is indefinitely postponedi The Century Company and the Cambridge University Press, England, will publish simultaneously Dr Charles Waldstein’s work on Pheidias. Mr William Sharp is writing a book on Dante Gabriel Eossetti and his influence on art and literature. Macmillian and Co. are the publishers. The number of books and magazines published in Germany during 1881 is 15,191. Mr R. N. Cast’s book, “ The Religions and Languages of India,” has been translated into Italian.

George J. HaNoke, English author, and promoter of co-oparative societies, is on a visit to the United States.

A letter of Queen Anne at a recent sale in London sold for £3O, One from Queen Henrietta Marie to Cardinal Mazarin went for £2l. Another of Henri 11, Prince de Conde sold for £BO.

An English writer of a genealogical work claims to have gained from the spirits, through the medium of a good clairvoyant, imformation that settled many a hard problem in family history. A new daily paper entitled Lb Nairn has been added to the seventy or eighty other organs which manage to grind a living out of the easy-going Parisians. Its politics will be independent and republican.

The second edition of “ The Revolt of Men, ” which appeared anonymously in the “ Leisure Hour Series,” will bear the author’s name, Walter Besant. The next volumes in Harper’s “ English Men of Letters Series ” will be “ Sterne.” by H. D. Traill ; “ Swift,” by Lestie Stephen ; and “ Macanlay,” by J. Cotter Morrison.

The influence of Herder and other German authors on the poet Coleridge is the theme of a work by Dr Alois Brandi, tbe German writer, Xtis almost ready for press.

A French translation of the Japanese tale of “ The Forty Ronins ” has been brought out by M. Quantin, the French publisher. It is illustrated by Eci-Sai Yei-Len, of Yedo.

“ Ouida ” is in particularly bad odour, it appears, in Florence at present. The other day she was asked whether she would like a certain well-known American writer to be introduced to her. “ Let me see,” said the amiable and polished author of “ Moths ” thoughtfully. “Ithink I have read something of his. No, I don’t want to be introduced to him. He wouldn’t be any use to me, and I never let myself be introduced to people I can’t make any use of.” Poetic creature I Richard Wagner having finished Parsifal," has already set to work upon another opera, founded upon an Indian legend. Immediately after the production of “ Parsifal ” all. the Wagner committees formed in the days of the Bayreuth prophet’s ill fortune in Germany and Austria will probably be dissolved, as it is held that nothing more is needed for the triump of the “ music of the future.” Henceforward Wagner far ade se.