LITERARY NOTES. (From Our London Correspondent. ) London, June 21.

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LITERARY NOTES. (From Our London Correspondent. ) London, June 21.

'Lady Cak," the sequel to "Th« Ladies Lindores," which has been running through "Longman's,'' and which I have more than once mentioned to you as being in Mrs OH- 1 phant's happiest and most sympathetic vein, is now published complete in one volume. Sequels are seldom successes, and some of the critics thought Airs Oliphant's resuscitation of the chief characters in '''The Greatest Heiress in England" in "Sir Tom" a mistake. This time I don't think they can carp. A more pathetic story than that of poor Lady Car, who finds even married life with the man of her heart, made up of nothing but disillusions, ! has seldom been told. There is no character here perhaps equal to the wonderful old Scotch butler in " The Ladies Lindores," but the narrative is emphatically interesting and the book one to be read. Mr Richard Hutton, for many years editor of the "Spectator," has thrown up his post, and is about to become a Catholic recluse. Till comparatively recently he was an advanced Unitaiian. An intense love of music led to his associating a good ' deal with some " enthused " Anglioau clergymen, who converted him. He has now proved ialse to them, and crossed the rubicon to Rome. The cost of the step is his biUet— L'2,oooa year. In all probability, however, Mr Hu^ton'sreligious vagaries are by no means over. Meanwhile,' the loss to the "Spectator" will be considerable. He is an exceptionally able journalist and editor. The Tennyson manuscripts sold at Sotheby's lastSatuiday realised fair, but by no means phenomenal piioe=s. The MS. of "Maud"' fetched £111 : "The Daisy," .£24 10s; "The Brook," £51; and "The Letter^," £13 10s. At the same sale a first draft of Edger Alan Foe's "The Bells" realised £16. Mr George (Pagan) Moore, who was described by the " Evening News '' on Monday as "a weed3 r man with red hair and moustache, and a livid complexion," has been getting up a petition for the release ot his (as he considers) unjustly imprisoned publisher Henry Vizetelly. The talented author of " A Mummer's Wife," and that tasty piece of pornography " A Mere Accident," naturally holds Zola in profound veneration, and considers that in spreading "LaTerre"aud kindred works broadcast the veneiable Vizetelly only did his duty. Mr Robert Louis Stevenson's new story, "In the Wrong Box," wiitten in conjunction with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, is a quaint fantastical tale of corp&e-hunting, very similar in style to "The New Arabian Nights." _ Though young, Osbourne's name figures so prominently on the title page, be is not believed to have had much to do with composing the story. According to report, indeed, he simply suggested the central idea. One of the most remarkable of the many books of poetry that have appeared recently is Miss Mathilde Blind's " The Ascent of Man," >a poetic exposition of the Darwinian theory. One finds it on almost every drawing-room table nowadays.