Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-01-07
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

We copy from the New York Herald the follow
ing items of literary intelligence:
''Mrs Harriet Bcechcr Stowe is busy with the
proof sheets of her journal in Europe" A free
soil and progress i'll general magazine was to have
been commenced by her publishers on the beginning
of the year; but there hare-up of some
sort, we believe and the scheme has been abandon
cd. 1t is doubtful whether partiZan. magazine of
the description proposed could be successful, not
withstanding the fact that 100, 900 copies of "Un
Gle Tom have been sold in this country
Mr.. Bentons Thirty 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 a prospect that this
work will have larger sale than any historical COM
position ever printed. Already more than fifty thou
sand copies, at IS per copy, have been subscribed
for and it is anticipated that in the first year afe:
its appearance it will attain to circulation of not
not less than one hundred thousand copics-a sue
cess, for expensive publication without parallel
in all the world.
hands of Crosby & Nichols, of Boston, who have
cashiercd 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 propretors but will still be edited by
DIR. Silnnls. DIR. Huntington, author of Alice,
"The Forest" &C., has gone to Baltimore to edit the
Roman Catholic magazine, published there; and
new review-Thc Episcopal Quarterly-s to appear
in this city in few days.
William Gilmore Simms is the most prolific of A
merican novelists. He has written under various
Names nearly as many novels ana fo1nanceS as MI
James, and he keeps pace with that industrious gen
tlcman in every years production. a new and very
handsome edition of all his works has just been conf
mcnccd, and will be completed in forty or fifty vol
umcs of which the series of Revolutionary tales,
''The Partisan 1.-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-
paraton the Life, Letters and Literary Remains of
that accomplished gentleman and elegant scholar
Mr.. Wilde is known to have left nearly completed
critical memoir of Dante-Tasso; and, besides his
graceful and original poems collection of Italian
songs which he had translated while residing in Tus-
cany.'
Mr. Bancroft's sixth volume, concluding the ellis
tory of the American Revolution, about half prin-
ted and will probably be iii the market by the be-
ginning of February The author will doubtless pro-
coed Immediately with the additional three volumes,
to close with Mr.. Madisons administration and the
second war with Great Britain.
Bohn, the great En- ylish pub!isher-whose books
have the correctness of the Aldine editions, every
advantage of intelligent and learned annexation, and
the most convenient form-is to commence with the
new year Historical Library, to comprise the best
English observation-disclosures, Gibbon, Robertson, &C.,
with the best histories from other languages. No
popular libraries have been selected udicious-
y as those of Bohn and their unparalleled cheapness
nsurcs for them circulation wherever the English
tongue is understood.
Shiel, the Irish orator. contributed several years
ago. to Campbells new monthly magazine, series
of sketches of the Irish Bar" which Dr.. Shelton
Mackenzie, who has for some resided in this city,
will repubsh in a few days, with numerous addi-
TONS The work will be one of the most entertain
ing in the whole range of anecdotal biography"