Literature.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2107, 9 January 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Literature.

— The publication of Eastward Ho ! a monthly magazine dealing 1 with Ea»t-end subject I',1 ', which has just completed its third volume, has passed into the hands of Messrs Swan Sonnensoheii and Co. — The success of Dr. Martineau's "Types of Ethical Theory" has been ro great in America that the author has prepared a special edition for that country, after carefully revising tho work. — The Pall Mall Gazette hears, on good authority, that the proof sheets containing many of the doubtful passages of the Grevillo Memoirs, just issued, were scanned by the Queen previously to being finally handed to the printer. Further examination of the Archduke Rainer's papy> i has led to the discovery of a fragment of Homer's Odyssey, d iting from the second century, and a strip of Arabian paper of th© ninth ceDtury, containing a wood-cut with ornaments and initials. — Mr Russell Lowell, according to the London correspondent of The Northern Echo, has just writcen to a private friend saying that he has finally severed his connection with official life, and will, henceforth, derote himself to literature. — Mr F. A. Leylands forthcoming work on the Bronte family, which will be published by Messrs Hurst and Blackett, will include a good deal of unknown poetry by Patrick Bronte, written under a characteristic pseudonym for the perusal of his friends. — On the question, " Has America need of a Westminster Abbey r" recently discussed in The Brooklyn Magazine, the practical objection, from a sanitary point of view, that " the proposed abbey might become a grand focus of disease," is given the first place among the com. — The lending out of newspapers for reading appears to be illogal in Paris. Recently the Minister of the Interior issued instructions that any newavendor lending out uewspapers in future should forfeit his trading license. — In 1860, only 5,253 newspapers were publishod in the United States, or one for every 6000 inhabitants. Now 13,491 newspapers are published, or one for every 3,716 inhabitants ; certainly a remarkable growth in twenty-five years. In 1885 about 2400 fra-h newspipers have been started in the United States, of which, it is said, 1,5 55 have already yielded up the ghost. — Lord Justice Fry, in addressing the students of the Birkbeuk Literary and Scientific Institution at the opening of the sixty-third se^ion siid that whether study was pursued for its own sake or for an ulterior purpose, one passion only should occupy the mind of the student, tliB pas:-ion for truth. The true student must love truth ; he must pursue it whorever it led him, even though it destroyed mauy of his mo'-t cherished illusions. He must cultivate self-discipline, patience, and a willingness to take paina, aud above all he must remember that if his study cf things seen were pursued to the neglect to things unseen, knowledge would bo purchased at a ruinous price, for while study was gosd and know ledge better, faith was best of all. — Messrs Hodder and Stoughton announce a new book by the venerable Dr Stoughton : the title is ' Golden Legends of the Olden Times." This enterprising firm have many new books in preparation, and among the number one entitled " The Anglican Pulpit of To-day." This volume will contain forty biographies, and forty sermons of the leading preachers of the clay. — The London Religions Tract Society has just published a small volume truns lateel flora the German, entitled, " Hymn.n of ihe Present Century." The hymns are by various writers, including Spitta, Julius Sturm, and Yon Gerott. The translator, the Rev. John Kelly, has done his work well, the selection and tho translations being- both excellent. The neat and wonderfully cheap little volume is beautifully printed, and (will delight and cheer many readers. — The October number of the Atlantic Monthly contains instalments of the serial stories " The Princess Ciesassima," " A Country Gentleman," and three additional chapters of " Tho new Portfolio," by Dr O. W. Holmes. Mr Horace B. Scudder contributes a second article on "Childhood in English Literature and Art," an delightful a bit of reading as the first on the same subjcot in a previous number. Mr Scudder refers specially to the writings of Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Charlr s Dickens. Many of iht quotati ais given are very beautiful, and not less so are the writer's own remarks. Among other things he says : — The stream which ran with so broken a course down to Words, worth, has spread now into a broad and full river. Childhood is part nnd parcel of every poet's material ; children play in and out of fiction, and readers aro accustomed to meeting them in books and to finding them often as finely discriminated by the novelist as are their eldors " Mr Charles Dudley Warner contributes another of his articles called " On Horseback," and Olive Thorne Miller supplies a pleasant article entitied " On the Tree Top." Some long and able reviews of new book*, and good poetry, complete an excellent number of this valuable American monthly. —The October number of The Nineteenth Century oontains a great number of excellent and instructive articles, among which may be named as specially worthy of notice, "The Uniformity of Nature, 1 ' by tfce Bjflhop of Caj&le j

" The Novel of Manners," by Mr H. D. Traili ; and " The Lesson of Jupiter," by Professor Max Muller. The last mimed is an article the perusal of which will be a deliarht to clu--sic.il scholars and all interested in the Niihjeot of oorapnratire philology. Mr W. O. Bortase, M.P , contributes n lonjr article on " P.trliameut and the Church," which will be found worthy of consideration. Mr Borld»c ( rpferiitJif to the Hubjeet of the disestablishment, writes :—": — " To mo it appears that, in the real interest of all partita the initiative which should brin«r about this end should proceed from within the Church rather thin from without : that the ultimate severance should be tho result not of violent, nor what ia wi>rs(>, of veiled external oppa^ition, but of a high-minded desire on the part of Churchmen themselves ' Tobur^t the bonds that bind them, Rejoicinp to be free.' to teach what they have to teach, and to manage their own affuirg as other ChrUt'an communities around them can and do."