Literature.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2140, 27 March 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Literature.

—The diary kept by Ganeral Grant daring bis tour round the world is to be published in Tlic North Americanizenew. . v — Profcss'or Huxley has written a further leply to Mr Gladstone, in the February number of The 2iinetc;ijji Ci'iilin)/. — Kint; Kal.ikana, of the Sandwich | Inlands, has, it is said, a book of travels vi preparation,^, thus adding himself to_ the Hat of royal authors. —Sir Charles Warren lias placed at the disposal of Mr John Maokrcizie, whp is ] willing a nan. itivo of the Buohuanaland Expedition, military and other valuable information connected vrith the subject. — Mr Ralph Disraeli in preparing for publication another volume of the letters which his brother, the late Earl of BeAconsfield, addressed to his aiqter duiing the earlier years of his tooial and political career. — Three new fortnightly reviews were started in Prance at the beginning of the year. They are the JRevtto Illuttree, edited by M. F. G. Dumas ; the Revue Mondainc, edited by M. M. Guillemot ; and ths Sevue dA rt Dramatique, edited by At. E. Stoullig. — Charles Scribner's Sons, of New York, have decided to bring out The Book-Buyer as an illustrated monthly. This will, it is believed, be the first illustrated journal of a purely literary character published in either hemisphere. — Lord Salisbury has informed Mr Daldy, hon. secretary of the Copyright Association, that the Government have decided to propose to Parliament legislation with a view to amend the existing law of copyright and to enable Great Britain to become a party to the proposed International Copyright Union. —Amongst the novelties of the year may be mentioned the appearance of • new three-penny periodical, under the title of TVte Old Neutciedcr Magazine, of the Society of Old Neuwieders and of the pupils of other Moravian Sundaysphools. It will make its appearance half-yearly. - , —"The Charge of Death" is the title of a contribution' which the author of "Lorna ; Doone. 1 . made to , the first number (for February) of Mr Franoia George Heath's new . threepenny review, Illustration's, published by Messrs Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co. — We read in, the New York Christian Union that the John Hopkins University, wbijch is doing co much, for the /higher educational interests of the United States, not only in the way of instruction, bat of publication, is shortly to witness the l&unohiag of a new 1 mouthly journal, devoted to the Boademic study of the English, (German, and Romanoe languages. > . It will be called Modern Language Notds t and will bo under the, general editorial management, of Professor A, M; EUioit. „, '„ . —The name of Christopher Smart appears in t the life just published of a f'Bopkseller of the last Century." , It may interest our readers to learn that to this unfortunate we owe some of the finest verses, as the Pqet Montgomery declared them to be, in the English language : Tell them r am, Jehovah said To Moses, while earth heard in dread ; And smitten to the heart, i At once— abov^-beneath, around, All nature, without voice or sound, Replied, O Lord I Thou abt. — The'Rigfet' Hon. W. & Gladstone, in acknowledging* the of the first volume of Cassell's Natural Library, writes:— "l have received with pleasure your attractive reprint of Lord Mao&ulay'n article on Warren Hastings. This reprint at the low price of threepence, affords a new and gratifying indication of the place which the enterprise and capital of this country may hope prospeotively to occupy in the great book- trade of the world."