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Show LITER Alt Y ROTES. The laureate's brother, Frederick Tennyson, contributes a poem entitled "Love and War" to tho October number num-ber of au English magazine. Mr. J. C. Jefferson's new work on the hiBtory and romance of the marriage mar-riage ceremony in England is to bo entitled en-titled "Brides and Bridals." Olive Logan, who is translating anew George Sand's "Tivcrino," proposes to improve on her author by rcchns terming term-ing it "A Magnificent Vagabond." Tennyson's new idyl came over in the pocket of Osgood, the Boston publisher, the other day. It is entitled "Gareth, and completes tho Idyls of King Arthur. M. Ernest Feydoau has just written a new work entitled "L'Allcmagno in 1871," which is a'satiro on Gorman manners not a very wise kind of book to publish now. Prof. Tyler, of Michigan university, is lecturing on English literature to the convicts of tho prison in that State Is it strictly legal or constitutional to add punishment in that way? A Hebrew schollar contends that Ollam Fola, the ancient Irish reformer, was no other than the prophet Jeremiah, Jere-miah, who had migrated thither with the remnant of tho tribe of Judah. V C. Burnand has produced a bur-Icc-quo on the classical "History of the AdvrntureN of San ford and Morton," which is said to be very huruaroun in its text and comic in illustration. A number of wealthy Hebrews in Now York intend to start a daily newspaper news-paper there, and say they aro willing to risk half a million of dollars in such an enterprise, or mora it it bo required. re-quired. A writer in tho Springfield Republican Republi-can says of Geo. Eliot, tho novelist: "She is a feminino -Bacon of the present age, and many of her aphorisms aphor-isms are as good as Bacon's in their wny." Coopcr'fl "Leather Stocking Talca" aro exceedingly popular in Russia. Four or five rival translations of them have been published in that country during the past two years, and all have sold well- Alexandre Dumas, sen., never liked to write in broad daylight. His boo is a very early riser, and devotes the hours of six o.m. to eleven a.m. to composition. After that hour ho never touches a pen. Edmund About is burying his brains and pen about a new auti German novel, of peculiarly acrid sentimont, which will bo sure to hell well enough to pay him handsomely for his temporary tem-porary irupribODUJonL Henry Kinxstey'n last novel, "Valentin." is pronounced !liy no Ichb an authority than the AthcDjeum to bo "000 of the worst novels ever published, pub-lished, utterly void of sense, tasto or coheroooo," |