The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-25 00:00:00

LITERARY.

The London correspondent of the Round Table,
who gives a mass of literary information, alluding in his

letter of May 11th to the neNir papers started in the metro-

polis, thus writes of the Echoes from the Clubs :—" This is the
title of a new journal of politics and society to be started
under the management of Dr. Charles Mackay. If well

conducted and written with spirit, it will probably prove
a formidable rival to The Owl, which is fast losing
what little prestige it used formerly to possess, and becoming
hopelessly amateurish and stupid. It argues well for Echoes

from the Clubs that the services of so practised and accom-
plished a writer as Mr. John Hollingsbead have been
secured to contribute papers on the amusements of the

metropolis." The journal is beautifully got up, more in
the form of a magazine than of a newspaper. In the last
issue, No. 6, Wednesday, 19th Juue, they write of them-
selves as follows:

" Our echoes roll from pole to pole,
And grow more clever and more clever.
Blow, let us blow our trumpet in replying
To those that think our trumpeter is dying."

The New Pork Nation says :—" Business among
the publishers is getting dull, and will be duller before it
is livelier. Messrs. Hurd and Houghton are going to pub-
lish very soon a volume of poems, the title of which is not
yet decided upon, by Miss Phoebe Cary, a pleasant singer,
with some natural notes. " Conversations on Ritualism,"
a book of Hurd and Houghton's which wo have before an-
nounced, will soon be for sale, and except these two it is quite
probable that this house will put forth nothing new till the
fall. The firm is quite busy with its improvements at
the "Riverside" establishment at Cambridge. D. Appleton
and Co. add to former announcements but one now publi-
cation, a book entitled " The Human Element in the In-
spiration of the Sacred Scriptures," by J. F. Curtis, D.D.
By the mention of "Conversations on Ritualism," we are
reminded that Messrs. Pott and Amory, of this city, and
the Rev. Orby Shipley, who edited the essays which,
as a book, are known by the title of " The Church
and the World," have entered into an arrangement
under which an edition of that series of essays,
a presentation of the ritualistic case, will be put upon
the market at a reasonably low rate. Mr. Shipley
is now editing a series of semi-monthly papers, entitled
" Tracts for the Day," which those interested in the new
movement may get from Pott and Amory. Messrs.
Roberts, Brothers, of Boston, announce a volume of poems
which will be very gladly welcomed by all lovers of
poetry, its author being Jean Ingelow. As we guess, the
new volume will not be different in any important respect
from the old. But it is not saying anything damaging
or deprecatory to say this of Miss Ingelow, in whom
there is not, as in most late minor poets, much of
trick or mannerism soon tiring and' disgusting the
the reader, but everything is honest, simple, and
sweet. The ballad of " Winstanley," which some years
ago was published in the Boston Transcript, if we remem-
ber right, is a part of the new volume, but by far the
larger part has never yet been printed. "A Story of
Doom" is the name of the book.—Messrs. Ticknor and
Fields announce "The Life of Colonel Ulrich Dahlgren,"
by his father, the Rear-Admiral ; "A Lover's Diary," a peon
by Miss Alice Cary ; and Hawthorne's "Note Bookin Ame-
rica," of which we have had probably a good half in the At-
lantic Monthly. It will be followed by his " N ote-Book in Eng-
land" and his "Note Book in Italy," which, so far as we know,
the public has seen nothing. The volume of Thackeray's
"Early and Late Papers" is not to be immediately suc-
ceeded, we believe, by the other volumes which the editor's
preface seems to half promise us. "Is it I?"is a little
book by Dr. H. B. Storer, which Lee and Shepard will
publish. It is a companion for the "Why Not?" of the
same author, a book to be recommended. "Ohio during
the War," which citizens of that State willread with great
satisfaction, is a forthcoming book, by Mr. Whitela-w
Reid, which will be published immediately by Messrs.
Moore, Wilstach, and Baldwin, of Cincinnati.