LITERARY NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1925, 8 January 1891, Page 31

LITERARY NOTES.

The first edition of the " London Street Arabs," by Mrs H. M. Stanley (Dorothy Tennant), has been already exhausted, and a second edition is now being issued.

Miss Anne Mozley, sister of his brother-in-law, is the editor chosen by Cardinal' Newman for his correspondence while in the Church of England; The incomes from the daily papers are fthus put down: Daily Telegraph, £130,000; Times, £120,000 ; Standard, £70,000 ; Morning Post, £45,000; Daily Chronicle, £40,000; and Daily News, £30,000.

The Athenaeum regrets to hear that Mr Rudyard Kipling has broken down from overwork. He has been ordered to take a sea voyage. His illness will probably delay the publication of " The Book of the Forty-five Mornings."

Mr John Murray has in the press a memoir of the early art life and dramatic career of Jenny Lind from 1820 to 1851, written from .original documents, letters, diaries, &c, by Canon Scott Holland and Mr W. S. Rockstro. It will be in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations.

Some religious papers in America have peculiar titles. There is the Poor Soul's Advocate, "the Ironclad Age, the Battle Ground Repository, the Holy Family, the Religious Telescope, and the Church Telephone. A story by Rudyard Kipling will shortly appear in Lippincott called " The Light that Failed." The scene is laid partly in the Soudan and partly in London. This will be of the length of a one-volume novel, and the longest story that Mr Kipling has yet published.

Beading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly. — Bulwer Lytton.

Miss Mary O. Rowsell's historical story, " Traitor or Patriot " (Blackie and Son) has been adopted in the schools in France as a text-book of English composition for the older classes. It is also on the list of " recommended" volumes for similar purposes in the Clarendon Press new guide books.

The number of newspapers published in all countries is estimated at 41,000—24,000 appearing in Europe. Germany heads the list with 5500; then comes France with 4100 and England with 4000. The United States, says this English authority, has 12,500.

The Literary World of October 10 says :— "Mr Lloyd Osbourne, Mr R. L. Stevenson's st.epboia, anived iv J£tigla:_d on Monday. .']<■: }ia> 5 como ho Svdaej, where ha leit Mj ciLeveason in good health, fur the expieSa puipooe of arranging the latter's business affairs iv this country, of procuring all necessaries for the island home in Samoa, and of taking out Mrs Stevenson, senior, who is to live with her son.

" Tis love that makes the world go round," but SAPOLIG that brightens it. Sapolto is a solid cake of Scouting Soap. Try it. Sold by grocers, druggists, and ironmongers.