Literature.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2194, 31 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Literature.

— Professor Sayck has been elected president of the London Philological Society for the current year, in succession to Professor Skeat. —It. is said that Mr Tom Hughes is half-way through his biography of the late Bishop of Manchester, Dr. Fraser. j — General Chesney, who wrote "The Battle of Dorking," "The Dilemma." and other well-known M'orks, is said to be the author of " Newry Bridge ; or, Ireland in 1887." — Dr. Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, has been elected by the heads of houses at Oxford as Bimpton Lecturer for the ensuing year. The appointment is of the value of £200. — It is said that 144,000 copies of " Don't" have been «old. The writing of the book was suggested to its author, Mr O. B. Bunce, by reading an article on 11 Books and Deportment " in a New York paper while on a railway journey. —Dr. Whitley Stokes will edit for the "Anecdota Oxoniensia" Series, with translations, notes, &c, the lives of nine saints — Patrick, Brigit, Colombeille, Senan, Finnen, Fitiuchn, Brenainn, Mochua, and Ciaran— from the Duke of Devonshire's MS., the "Book of Lismore.' written about 1460 a.d. — In a paper on " The Sporting Literature of Greece and Rome," read by Dr. W. Knighton at a meeting of the Royal Society of Literature/ 1 it was stated that " correct cards of the races, with names and colours," were sold at the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games, as they are now at Epsom and New* market. —Some beautiful MS Bibles, finely illuminated on vellum by artists of the 13th century, were sold by Messrs Sotheby in the library of the late Mr Samuel Addington, One of these, by an Italian artist of Cremona, about 1275, sold for £200. Another, said to have belonged to Sc. Louis, King of France, and by a French scribe, fetched £140. — At a recent meeting;of the American Historical Association, a letter was read from Professor yon Ranke, accepting- the honorary membership of the Association which had been conferred on him alone some time previously. The Professor said hehadgre.it satisfaction in belonging to a society pursuing 1 the same aims beyond the ocean that he was himself striving to achieve. Such unity of studies, he added, bound together people widely separated. Mr Justin Winsor succeeds Mr George Bancroft in the Presidentship of the Association. — Tjikßov. George Thomas Dowling — Dr Behrend'.s Cleveland successor — is .said t» be the author of a novel just ls-ued by Messrs J. B. Lippincott and Co , of Philadelphia, under the title of ''The Wreckers," which is meeting with a rapid sale in this city, where its scene is laid. It deal» with the vexed relations of capital nnd labour. The Cleveland preacher and writer is a son of the late John Dowling, D.D.. long thn p.istor of tho Korean Baptist Chinch in New York, .md himself a well known author. —As show hi ir Mr Ru«.kin\s idea of suitihle lifonituiv for youuir people, it is inti;reotiiu r to note that, aiming- thirty-six volumes on histoiy, botmy, .md geneial literature, which he has prosontcl to Whitel.mdi College ;ire "Realm.ih," Montalembert'.s " Sainte Elizabeth, " Loredan LaroWrf " Ili->toire do B.iy.ird," Paul L.icroix.'* " Louis XII." and illustrated editions oF "Mis., Kilmuisegg" and "The Pilgiitn's Projrp.ss " — To write for twenty-si v hours consecutively is a fe.it which probably few authors can boast of h ivinjr performed. Jt his heeu done, however, h}- Mr Juli;m Hawthorne, siocording 1 to hisV, ltomont in lipphimft's Mitt/azihi . During his residence in London, shortly after entf-riny upon <i literary career, hr> put oft' writing* a promised story until the eleventh hour. Realising thnt lip must woi k hard or lose his money, lie started one, morning at nine o'clock and kept on till he lud finished the task a little bvjfoic noon next day. By tins time his brain was "strangely confused,'" so lie went for a long walk, returned at dusk to oat a light supper and drink two bottles of ale, and then slept comfortably for ti^'i ttvn houts.