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Evening Star, Issue 6762, 29 November 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

LITERARY LINES.

The newspaper correspondents with the Khartoum relief expedition are Mr Cameron (' Standard'), Mr Burleigh (' Daily Telegraph'), Mr Henry Pearce (' Daily News'), Mr Charles Williams, who did good work for American papers in the Russo-Turco war ('Central News ). Colonel Colbourne aIBO represents the 'Dally News' on the Nile. The ' Times' again commissions young Mr Scudamore, who served it so well in the recent campaign in the Eastern Soudan. Lady Colin Campbell, burning to emulate the adventurous exploits of Lady Florence Dixie, made Btrenuouß efforts to procure an engagement as a war correspondent with the expedition, but in vain, She was well advised to abandon the thought of such an enterprise, The 'PairMall Gazette' scored heavily when it published its article entitled " The Truth about the Navy," It was the topic of conversation at all the London clubs, and was generally commented on by the principal Press. But such is the jealousy the ereat London papers entertain one of the other that none of them but the ' Morning Post' took any notice of the matter until Mr W. H. Smith's letter to the 'Times.' " An amateur maniac," at the bidding of the editor of the ' Pall Mall Gazette,' duped certain doctors into signing the required certificates, and got himself locked up in a county asylum, in order that he might expose defects in the lunacy laws, which he did in a series of artideß entitled "My Experiences in a Madhouse." In "afew words about blindness" in the 'Argosy' Alice King states her belief that the "beautiful and wonderful American machine, called the type-writer, which year by year is being brought to greater perfection, is likely to open a new gate in the world's vast workshop for the blind to enter in,"

The Copyright Congresß which sat at Brussels passed resolutions that the publication and reproduction of musical works should have the same protection as literary and artistic works, and that art ought not to be impeded in its progress by custom's formalities. The Congress also passed a rebolution declaring that a proprietor of works of art should not be allowed to publicly exhibit them without tke consent of the artist

A new weekly, journal, to be called the 'Democrat,' is about to be established in London. Its politics will be of the advanced Radical school, and its editors will be Mrs Henry Taylor, who was for many years the intimate friend of the late John Stuart Mill, and Mr William Saunders, a prominent London journalist and proprietor of the Hull 'Morning News.' Among the contributors will be Henry George and Michael Davitt.

Foreign newspaper correspondents or contributors who prove troublesome to the German Government are being quietly expelled from Berlin on the simple plea of causing unwelcome revelations, no fewer than two such persons having already fallen victims to the Draconic decrees of the Berlin police, , Different reflections are suggested by the controversy over the candidature of M. Jules Lacroix for the vacant chair in the French Academy. The non- decorous author of "Poetical Versions of Shakspeare" is accused of having written, in poverty-stricken youth, novels whose realism left Zola nowhere. He is also charged with not following the immemorial practice of canvassing the Academicians for their votes. His friends say that his early novels were wildly improbable and fantastically melodramatic, but in no way immoral, and that he will not canvass for the Academy because with the loss of his sight years ago came the loss of all further ambition. A London journal appends the commentary that most Academicians aro driven by their poverty to the sixth floor, and that a man both old and blind may be well excused from the labors of mounting the 200 steps to their garrets.