Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-01-11
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

We copy from the New York Herald the follow
ing items Of literary intelligence:
''Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is busy with the
proof sheets of her journal in Europe y free
soil and progress in general magazine was to have
been commenced by her publishers on the beginning
of the new year; but there tiarc-up of some
sort, we believe, and the scheme has been abandon
ed. 1t is doubtful whether partizan magazine of
the description proposed could be successful, not
withstanding the fact that 400, 900 copies of "Un-
Gle Tom" have been sold in this country
Mr.. Bcntons "'rhirty Years in the Senate is rap
idly passing through the press and will make two
very large octave volumes, printed with small type
in double columns There is prospect that this
work will have larger sale than any historical COM
position ever printed. Already more than fifty thou
sand copies, at $5 per copy, have been subscribed
for and it is anticipated that in the first year after
its appearance it will attain to circulation of not
not less than one hundred thousand copies-a sue
cess, for so expensive publication without parallel
in all the world
The North American Review has gone into the
hands of Crosby & Nichols, of Boston, who have
cashcrcd Professor Bowen who had nearly run the
work into the ground, and engaged DIR. Peabody to
be its editor. The Southern Quarterly Review has
also changed proprietors but it will still be edited by
DIR. Smms. Dr. Huntington, author of "Ahcc,"
The Forest" &C., has gone to Baltimore to edit the
Roman Catholic magazine published there; and a
new review-The Episcopal Quarterly-is to appear
in this city in a few days
William Gilmore Smms is the most prolific of ~
merican novelists. He has written under various
Names nearly as many novels and romanccs as Mr.
James, and he keeps pace with that industrious gen.
teman in every years production. A new and very
mcnced and will be completed in forty fifty vol
umcs, of which the series of Revolutionary tales
1hc Partisan" ''The Yemasee," &c. will make five.
His 'Poems,' in two volumes, will be out next week.
son of the late Richard Henry Wilde has in pre-
paratioil the Life Letters and Literary Remains of
thof she'd
Mr. Wilde is known to have left nearly completed a
| critical memoir of Dantc-Tasso; and, besides his
graceful and original poems collection of Italian
songs which he had translated while residing in Tus-
| cany. 5.Sg. z. s. - 5-gs.s-ss
| Mr.. Bancroft's sixth volume, concluding the ellis
tory of the American Revolution" is about halfprn-
ted, and will probably be in the market by the be-
ginning of February The author will doubtless pro-
coed Immediately with the additional three volumes,
to close with Mr.. Madison's administration and the
second war with Great Britain. 49, ssss ~
! Bohn, the great glish publisher whose boo
have the correctness of the Aldine editions every
advantage of intelligent and learned annexation, and
the most convenient FORMS to commence with the
new year Historical Lbrary,nto comprise the best
/ English historians Iumc; Gibbon Robertson, de-,
with tho best histories from other languages No
popular libraries have been selected ndicious-
" as those of Bohn and their unparalleled cheapness
insures for them circulation wherever the English
i tongue is understood 8
Shiel the Irish orator, contributed, several years
4ago, to Canipbells new monthly zine, series
of ssSketchcs Of the Irish Dar, which DR.. Shelton
Mackenzie who has for some resided in this city,
will repnblish ina few days, with numerous addi-
tons The work will be one Of the most entertain
ing in the whole range Of anecdotal biography:
y. ty The new Episcopa Church IN this City was
consecrated on Thursday last by the Rt Rev. Bsh-
op Atknson. Several Ministers from a distance
j were IN attendance Ssss sfss-ssFss =