Literature.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2233, 30 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

Literature.

Dr. Andrkw Wiisom will shortly pub lish two new works: "Studies iv Life and Sense," with Messrs Chatto and Windus, and "Health for the People," with Sampson Low and Co. — Anew edition of Professor FerrieTs uoik on "The Functions of the Brain" will shortly be published. It has been almost entirely re-written for the purpose. — Messrs G. P. Putnam Sons are about to issue a selection of Schiller's Letters, edited, with an introduction and notes, by Mrs Pauline Buckheim. — A new' book f oy children by Mr Walter Crane, is .-uinoiuioed by Mwssrs Marcus Ward and Co. The title will be "A Romance of Threo R.s," the first R being "Little Queen Anne and Her Majesty's Letters (Patent)," the second, " Pothooks and Perseverance ; or, the ABC Serpent, 1 ' and the third, " Slate and Fencilvania." Both letterpress and illubtratiou will be the work of the artist. — A Christmas story, which will form the supplement to :i large number of C}louia papers, isj" Phaiaoh's Daughter," from the pen of Edgar Lee, author of "The Great White Spot," last year's St. Stephen's Review Yuletide Number. Messrs Gordon andGotch have purchased the colonial rights, and it will be published in England by Mr Arrowsmith, of Bristol, early in 1887, as one of a shilling series. —The Rev. J. R. Burton, author of "A History of Bewdley,' is collecting materials for a history of Kidderminster. — We regret to hear Dr. 0. VV. Holmes was ill when he arrived in New York by the Aurania. He landed on his 71st birthday. — The publishing firm of Hurst and Blackett has been converted into a limited liability company, of which Mr A. H. Blackett, Mr H. VV. Blackett, and Mr W. W. Powell will be the leading directors. — A new serial story, by Mrß. L. Farjeon, entitled "A Secret Inheritance," will be commenced in the October number of The English Illustrated Magazine, which will form the first part of a new volume. — An English translation of the late Professor Yon Ranke's "Origin of the Seven Years' War," undertaken by a lady at the request of the author a few months before his death, will be ready at the beginning of next year. — Among literary visitors from America to England this summer is Mis Frank Leslie, better known in the States than in this country perhaps, as having been left by her late husband to manage a newspaper business at a time when it seemed hopelessly entangled in difficulties, and as having developed it to an enormous extent. She is, we believe, a singular instance of a woman being the successful proprietor, editor, and publisher of ten periodicals. — Mr Ignatius Donnelly, of Hastings, Minnesota, in a private note to a frieni, states that the MS. of his work on the Bacon-Shakespeare cypher will be placed in the printer' 3 hands in a month. He claims to have discovered a cypher-key to the plays of Shakespeare, which reveals a whole world of mysterious meaning underlying the plain text. His key shows, among other things, that the plays contain a secret history of their authorship and of the chief events of the reign of Elizebeth. — Some small but interesting fragments of Sallust have lately been discovered. Professor Brandt, of Heidelberg, while examining, in 18S4, a manuscript codex in the National Library of Paris, noticed that pieces of it were palimpsests. Recently another German scholar received permission to continue the examination, and, after several months' scrutiny, deciphered a number of hitherto unknown fragments of the Roman historian, hidden under texts of Jerome. Most of them refer to Pompey the Great's warfare in Spain, including parts of a very characteristic bulletin to the Senate in Rome, and part of the debates on it in that assembly. — Professor Cavin Ellis Stowe, husband of Mrs Beecher Stowe, and himselt a writer of repute, has just died, at the age of 84. Educated at Bowdin College, and Andover Theologic Seminary, he became Professor of Languages in Dartmouth College in 1830, and in 1833 of Biblical Literature iv Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati. In 1830 he visited Europe, and on his return to America published "Elementary Education in Europe," a ■work which was distributed in every district of Ohio by the legislature. In 1850 he became Divinity Professor at Bowdoin College, and in 1852 Professor of Sacred Literature in Andover Theological Seminary. In 1864 he resigDed iv Hartford, Connecticut. His literary woiks include a translation of Jahn's " History of the Hebrew Commonwealth," "Lectures ou the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews," "Introduction to the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible,"&c. — Mr Angus Mackay, a well-known Australian journalist and politician, died a few weeks ago. In 1847, Mr Robert Lowe (now Lo:d Sherbrooke) and Mr Mackay launched The Atlas, a weekly journal of which the latter was editor. Next we heai' of him as associated in business with Sir Henry Parkes, at Geelong, but afterwards he assumed the control of The Empire newspaper. He was chief proprietor of The Bendigo Advertiser at the time of his death. Part proprietor of the Riverina Herald, and largely interested in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, which paper he assisted very materially at the commencement of its career, some 8 year 3 ago.

A German Colonel, who has been travelling throughout France under the name of Saxo, and who was recently arrested on suspicion of being a spy, has been released, the authorities not being able to obtain sufficient evidence to warrant hi 3 farther detention. The young King of Spain recently reviewed his troops for the first time. All soldiers were in gala uniform, and Alfonso XIII, who appeared in the arms of his mother, the Queen Regent, was serenaded by the bands of his three regiments of Body Guards. All the dignitaries present preserved a serious countenance, and the King was overcome with emotion, crj ing lustily. On sth September a magazine, situated in the outskirts of Chicago, containing 100,0001bs of dynamite, powder, and other similar substances was exploded by lightning. The shock was felt over the whole city, and win- lowa were broken in all parts, but as far as at all present know only two persons were killed and several injured. A Statue of Pharaoh, which had lain buried in the Egvutinu df-^eit over 300 Q ye trt*, has just been u-w irthei. It represented tlu Pharaoh who wa-, ieppon.sible for nil tlv* Egyptian plasmas, nnd on oik. -id<> of it is a etiituo or .1 little baby, said 10 l-e that of thy Pharaoh who perished in th<- IL-d Sea. Despite th > enormous American and Indian co-npe ition, tho gieat European granary of S'>ulh Kiis-iri contnues to maintain its leputati-m by steadily increasing it* exports For the year just closed they would have loacehd one bundled million p >o6h but for 'h<. failure of tho crops in Chcison, Ebiteritioslaw, and Tanrida. Nino bundled and roity-fivo English j.'rain-lid(,'ii voxels doated trom OJys-aiu 18-5. Gekm\SV fcny-i Jin JOn^li-h cx-Lan^f) get-< Ihe Mii'vi»;'j of liii iron CnsiucelW remarkably ch>ap. The esfcim.itos just sanctioned by tho Reichstag show that Prince Bismarck revives, besides liis otticiiil resWetico, a. salary of 51,000 maivs, together with 18,000 marks to meet tho exponao of official receptions and simibu contingencien. To^-ther the two allowances make about £3600. Considering' that English Cabinet Ministers go in for £0000 apiece, while tho German Chancellor unites in office tho woik of half a dozen men, we are bound to say that the taxpayers of tho Father kind aro to be envied.