The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-17 00:00:00

LITERARY.

Don D. F. Sarmiento, Minister of the Argentine
Republic, proposes issuing at intervals a pamphlet
entitled " Ambas Americanas." The object of the
publication, which will be printed in Spanish, is to
increase our knowledge of South America, and espe-
cially of the valley of the La Plata. If successful,
the pamphlet will, it is presumed, become a regu-
larly published magazine.

The Round Table remarks that the notable cir-
cumstance escaped observation in New York that
on the 29th or 30th of April just two hundred
years had passed from the day on which Milton
gave his receipt for the £5 that bought the copy-
right of " Paradise Lost."

From the same paper we extract the following
notice of The American Educational Monthly :
Without the rampant self-assertion, characteristic of
most educational enthusiasts, it discusses with ear-
nest common sense the short-comings of our public
schools, revealing a condition of things that ought
to be known beyond the limits of the profession it
addresses. There are no parents who might
not derive large benefit from a monthly peru-
sal of this little magazine, and few teachers of
the old regime that would not be put to con-
fusion at the distance they have been left behind
by the advance of educational science. Particu-
larly desirable, we should think, for teachers are the
resume of events in the department of Educational
Intelligence, and the clear and candid statements
of the unusually well-done reviews of text-books
and other works which come within the peculiar
province of the teacher.

Another publication deserving more unmingled
praise than can often be awarded to so new an at-
tempt in a fresh field, is the American Naturalist,
the admirable monthly of the Essex Institute.
Adapted both to scientific and ordinary readers, it
is neither below the level of the one nor above that
of the other, and while the former may read it with
instruction, the layman, if a lover of nature, will
do so understandingly and with delight. For the
rest, the typography is beautiful and the illustra-
tions abundant and faultless.

A new publication, to be entitled the Canoe Club
Magazine, is talked of. The Canoe Club was
formed July, 1866, and has already above 100
members and claims—H.R.H. the Prince of Wales
commodore. The first sailing match of the season
took place on Saturday last at Erith. Many mem-
bers of the club, after the race, dined at the Pier
Hotel, the captain presiding, and the mate in the
vice chair, when, after a very pleasant evening,
they parted, all promising accounts of their trips and
journeys in various countries when the club meets
again in the autumn, for publication in the Canoe
Club Magazine, which it is hoped will be issued
about Christmas, and contain all that may be in-
teresting on the subject of canoes.
The Round Table says that Mr. Arthur Rose—
better known as tile Mrs. Brown of Fun and the
Arthur Sketchley of various English periodicals—
has under consideration the expediency of visiting
America next winter on a tour somewhat similar to
the projected one which in poor Artemus 'Ward's
case came to so melancholy a termination. Mrs.
Brown is as yet scarcely as well known here as
Artemus was in England, but we have little doubt
the entertainment—which, we are told, carries Mrs.
Brown to Paris—would be vastly popular.
Mr.'R. Barnwell Rhett is collecting materials,
according to the prevalent custom, for a history of
the war.

Colonel T. W. Higginson, it now seems, does not
intend publishing a novel, as was rumoured.
Mr. Thomas Dunn English is understood to be
writing a poem on the battle of Monmouth.

Miss Adelaide Wood, of New Orleans, is spoken
of by the Southern papers as a new writer of great
talent, whose literary efforts have, as yet, taken
only the form of contributions to magazines, but
from whom we may soon expect something more
ambitious.