Literature.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2161, 15 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Literature.

— Mr Justin H. McCarthy is engaged on a new romance. It will bear the ' title " Doom : An Atlautic Episode." — Mr William Morris hnn nearly finished a translntion of the " Odyssey '* in the same metre as hit) version of the ".Eneid." — The statement that the house at Chcyno row, Chelsea, formerly by Thomas Carlyle is in Chancery it contradicted. — Mr John Cuthberfcson is compiling "A Complete Glossary to the Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns." — Mr William Roberta is writing a series ot chapters on ' • Celebrated Coruishmen " for the Cornish Magazine, published at Penzauce. — A new history of German literature is being prepared for the Press by Dr. F. H. Hedge. It is the result, it is said, of fifty years of careful thought and stncly. —The Rev. Dr. E. Moore, Principal of S. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, has been elected to the Barlow Lectureship on Dante, at University College, London. — Mr Percy Russell, the Editor of Food, has in the Press a volume entitled " The Literary Manual," which will form a guide to all branches of, the literary profession on a new plan — A dictionary of the language of the Hungarian gipsies has just been completed by Franz Sztojka, and will be printed at the cost of the Archduke Joseph, together with a volume of Sztojka's dialect poems. — Mr W. Anderson Smith is about to write a hibtory of penmanship from the earliest times. The work will contain twenty illustrated examples from " Penna Volans" and.other old works on the subject. — It is proposed to place a portrait of Charles Kinsley in the hull of Magdalene College, Cambridge, of which he was a member. The pictnro will be piintcd by Mr Lowca Dickieson, who knew Kingsley intimately. — Under the title, " Haphazard Personalities," Mr Charles Liuman is preparing hi* personal reminiscences of Henry W. Longfellow, Washington Irving, W. C. Bryant, Horace Greeley, John Howard Payne, G. B. McClellan, and other noted Americans. — The New York correspondent of the Boston Literary World wnte> : — " James Whistler will arrive in New York within n few days, wearing the farthing which the English Coarfc allowed him for damages in the suit brought against Raskin for making public his private opinion that tho said Whistler threw a paiut pot at the head of the British publi;, and charged two hundred guineas for it. Mr Ruskin has said some very cro«s, cranky, conceited things, but this was not one of them The Title Club will have a jollification in honour of Mr Whistler, who by the way, is the nephew of the Ross Winang, the Baltimore millionaire. Mr Whistler will no doubt hold forth in great stylo at the club's supper, modesty not being his strong point."