LITERARY NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5953, 25 March 1880, Page 6

LITERARY NOTES.

[SlaciwoocPs Magazniemll he edited inthe r futufeky. two'ScQichrdiymes, Df K. M.,Phin •new? paper is. aßnoun’ced, fo Paris frith, jtKo iitlp of, Oil Blas. Tti ie, to he fo the style,, jotjlthe- MJfdro,.,: with I slightly Eepublicah ftfoge. .' Tho-Figaro is just now poneervative. ] A correspondent of a .Manchester paper declares thatmost of the original furniture of the,cottage fo,which Burns, was horn;(snow .stowed away in the garrets of a ; house in [Chester:road, Manchester; , 1 ■. -,; ' : I .;Mp,payiee,.|fiithqr ,of|| “ Efole English,” is • tp .be yelladyanced with his collection of words omitted or negligently treated by. our ( istandard. diotionariea. Though not attemptfog fo. deal,yith etymologies,' it will contain [quotations ;of, special, yaljfo for; iliusjbratfog a world’shistpry, , i: ui w.irvu:,-{ •>:*! j In tfie essayentitled,‘‘Dipkens ,as a .ffoui’: |naUaj!«’>F%h- Mr Chiles Kent has fo prepa-, . .ratiorntfiere will bo /printed thb first piece of > descriptive >j?epoitfog 1 penned, ,by ..Charles j Cjfapftififo fong ■ before, • ono : , woyd -, of his, i Was written. ~*. .; | . An fogempqs coUeaguo . fo Journalism has, idiatoTetedithftfel thete ate; foiPfoWPr'. fo Ifoteys, and, 2150 England. ;Two thirds, ofdhgse,writete wre horn in the., jPrpyfopee, Normandy* Erittany,py thedouth,' I while twortbuds of, khpj artists i sfo9s,- i -,6dtof.ihq j!SQ; write 1 for pedagogue Out of are petdptora) fiQ2 oil painters, i 193 ,minmteyiete J , i .7sA:«eramfot», ( ,494 wajterj colour. lAadian'Safoterao OP pastel and .crayon, drawers, ,? 1 1 (••:., : -icq •.->!rio >•: j oiThe, tfusteesiolhthe British Museum have, | just added,to thei? classical treasures,a cpsbof |theiiVenus,of Milo,-,now foithe mqspum of the [Louvre, .jiTheyjfoave.MfO'aoquimd »,bput a • thousand more i tablets, #n d Irogmpnten of/fo* ! scribed fcerra-cottft document* teom-Bfoylpn. Among!:them is ,a,tablet pf.Jamsnrlrba, a j probably lived; about the, time of -Bardoi,- and ■ war one. ofisthe intermediate rulers-hetween iOamhyscßjand fragment has?a roptetentatfofobf one, pf-the, gates i of Babylon,v ■;! v i ' -irMr .Charles iLewis ’Gfoneiten died on ; the, , letiNovember, at his, residence, Surrey street,, Strand,;fo-his,73rd year.,; The deceased, gen r : tleman was: connected' with, London journalism as/farhaok as 1032,; and fo ,1888,* whifo acting iiafti 1 the - war correspondent of: the Motning ,Wwt ifoißpafo-durfog the, Oarlist war,was. .taken prisoner by the Ohristinos, and had,a narrow escape.of befog shot. -After enduring groat 1 sufferings , at Logofio, he was released, through, the Influence-of. Lord Palmerston, and Count. Mo&; the French itemier, Mr, Gruaeisen was the Paris correspondent of, 1 the, Morning -Post from 1,839 to, 1845}; ml .organised an express system ; to to the London papers HetWaS- musical oritio of tho Morning Post, iho Moriiing Chronicle , and latterly of the Athenaum ;Ho took a loading part in. the fdnndfoibQ-i. tM-; ''.tha Bajfo Italian Opera, Covent Garden, in 1847, and was one of the founders of the .Conservative Land Society, bf which he was secretary from: 1853 to 1872.' Mr GrunoiSen, was a 1 Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and; had published one or two books on musical subjects. n ) ' .'Gao fwoifld . think that jni-i writing about literary men < and matters thore.would bo no difflonltyin fludfogAtitleifor; bnels essay,-or that S anjn embarrassment;: that might anse would- be from, i excess, of; materim. T. find this; however, far from befoglhe case. l“ Men | of Letters,” j foe, example, is a: heading tpb i blasrical -Jaudi prou.tentioufl.j: I doji fodecdj ’ remember its being used in these modern days by the sub-editor of ft country paper,

I who,' haring ‘quarrelled with his proprietor j and reduced him to silence by a violent kick jin the abdotnen, thus addressed him, “I leave (you and your dirty work for ever, and start to-nighb toie iLotidon, to take up my'proper position os a Man of Letters." But this gentlemen’* cate (and I hbpb’that of bis proprietor)'wba an exceptional one; The term in 'general is too ambitious and suggestive of the author of I Cato for my humble' purpose. literature as a Profession,” again, is open |to objection on tho question of fact. The Ipofessions do not allow literature into their brotherhood. " Literature, Science, and Art” .are all spoken of in the lump, and rattier oontempnonsly "(like 1 ’’'reading, writing, and arithmetic "), and having no settled position Whatever. ‘ In a book of precedence, however —a charming dosoription of literature, and 1 much bore full of huinour than the peerage '—l recehtly found indicated for the flrat time it* relative place: in the'social scale. After a iorg list of eminent personages and notables, 'the mere perusal of which was calculated to bring the fluth of pride into my British cheek, 1 found at the very bottom these remarkable iwordsh-** BurgesSeS, ‘Literary Persons, and others.’ 1 '; lest'haughtiness should still have ahy place mlthe'breasts of these 1 penultimates :o£ the human race, the ofoer was repeated in the same delightful'volume in still plainer fashion; 1 ~B urgasSbs,, ,K toraiyPersons; &o,” -—lt is something, of course, to take precedence—in going dOwh to dinner, for example —even of an-et but who are burgesses P I have a dreadful susploion they are ’nob gShtleihen.’ ‘ ! Are' ! tNey wdieS? ' Did I ever foeet a burgess, I wonder, coming through the rye ? l At all events, after so authorativo a statement Of; its sooial positibh,'l feel that to Speak of literature as a ptofe’ssion would be a JiypSrhoK-t-James 'Payn, in Nineteenth Century. , •