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two additional volumes would be needed, comprising
the letter. Of Jonathan Odstyle," his first works
already collected in a small volume without the authors
consent, in 1921 salmsgund" entire, or the Por-
ton furnished by Mr.. Irving to that work-and some
stray contributions to magazines and reviews Wash
ington Irvings constantly spreading popularity as an
author is of home growth spontaneous and I'M
prompted recognition Of his place in the World Of Let
ters Abroad be il chiefly known by the three early
works. " Knickerbocker," The Sketch Book" and
" Braoebrdge Hail. The Life Of Columbus
brought out extensively in VOLS Svo., by Murray is
understood to have barely paid the heavy copyright
given for it, and more recently the copyright of the
Alhambra" was little regarded by Mr.. Bentley,
that il was thrown in for a nominal sum in trade
transaction. The Life Of Washington circulates in
cheap edition only-to the extent of 5000 or 1000
copies. There was a chance that the yexed question
of Foreign Copyright would come to adjudication on
Mr.. HvDg's writings, as preparations for Chancery
suit on an extensive scale were commenced, costing
many thousand dollars, between Mr.. Murray-in
whom, by the courtesy of the trade the right was
vested-and Mr.. Bonn the infringer of it, but before
mach progress was made, the matter compromised
BY Mr.. BOhns purchase of Mr.. Murrays claim, and
he is now the sole English publisher of the works.
-Mr John Wiley has nearly ready from advance
sheets a new book by Mr.. Ruskin, on Perspective Ii
is of practical character, with diagrams,
and is intended by the author to be simpfcation of
the subject, adapted for tuition and in schools
-Messrs Bel & Daddy are continuing their repro
duction of Pickerings Adine Poets, judciousy COM
hitting each work to some editor who has made spe
ca study of the author The next in the SERIES Popes
Poetcal Works. is edited by Mr.. VIM. Thorn, the con-
ducor of Notes and Queries, in which periodical most
of the new matter, calculating the poets life and wri
tDgs, has appeared There is another edition of Popes
Complete Works preparing for publication, by Mr..
Murray, on which the late Mr.. Croker was many
years employed. This will comprise much new corre-
spondence &c. from original MSS, and be published
Uniform with Murrays British Classics, in Svo., where
Swift may be expected TO follow under the supervision
of Mr. John Forster.
Mr. Carlyle is reported to be still busy on his Life
of Frederic the Great. Volumes and 4 will be
published about May next. The continuation Of Lord
Macaulay's History cannot be looked for with any
certainty at present. though it is said he has add
tional volumes ready for the press
Mrs. Grove, true to her mission, announces a new
work, "Spirilualism and the Age We Live In" Her
last volume Ghost Stories, has been overlooked by
our cheap reprnters, though the taste which people
generally have for being hsrrifed, would render it
safe speculation.
The African Travels and Explorations of the
Missionary, DIR. Krapf, are in press by Messrs.
Scribner & Co.. in an English version. They ex-
peced scarcely to yield in interest to those of DIR.
Livingstone, as the field over which they extend
the eastern coast of the Continent in the neigh
borhood ofhe equator-is equally unexplored and more
nearly allied to scientific interests by its connection
with the source of the Nile and the much-disputed
question of the existence of snowy mountains in that
latitude The work will form one volume large Svo.,
with illustrations and map.
The new edition of the Pilgrims Progress"
edited by the Rev. C.. Kingsley, published in London
by Longmans, and in America by Messrs. Appleton is
novelty in illustrated literature. II proceeds the
principle that Bunyan's impersonations only be
properly presented to the eye he himself conceived
them; and that all former Observation-Disclosures in an
unreal form and garbs unsatisfactory and incorrect.
Accordingly, the artist Mr.. Charles Bennett, has
allied the authors creations, and presents most spen-
did collection of his characters, full of the old Cavalier
and Roundbead feeling and strictly conormed to the
costumes of the time the very models Bunyan had pre-
sent TO his mind.
The great work of M. Theirs, the " History of
the Consulate and Empire" which has come to ap-
parent stand for last two years is to Be finished
this Winter, by the appearance at short intervals of
the four concluding volumes-announced now to be
in press.
One of the most laborious works of modern times
is about being finished after fifteen years unnter-
rupted labor. We aude to the work of the Brothers
Hadg, La France Protestante or " Lives of French
Professionals who have made themselves Name in His
tory" Nine large volumes already out, to be fol-
lowed by tenth of additions, recfcations, indexes,
&c. Though scarcely known, even by name, in this
country it is the great from which all informa
ton about the Huguenot families of settlersn the New
World and their descendants in future be drawn
Judge Halliburton Sam Slick finds in England
ready market for his writings though in this country
he was regarded as working an exhausted vein He
is simultaneously carrying on two series of papers
% The Season Ticket" in the Dublin University Mag
a.ine, and Misdirected Letters" in The Constitu-
tiOaoi Press.
MIR Lawrence ELEPHANTS Narratives Of Lord
Egin's Mission TO japan and China will be brought
in very handsome STYLE with profusOn of illus
trstons, fac SMILES of native drawings &C. in chrome
and wood, forming > vols, Svo. Mr.
0hphant acting Secretary to the Mission, and
filed the office for Lord Elgn during his Gov
ernorship in Canada, at which time his " Minnesota
and the Far West" one of the Evehest pictures of
Western life, was written.
The two most successful books Of the late London
season are declared to be always after Adam Bede1
+" Our Farm of -Four Acres" a two-shiing book by
Miss Couon, sister of the editor OF The Press, weekly
newspaper, lady who in her miniature farm at Wal
thamstown near London, reduces her preceps prac
tieo: and Anime Peaks. Passes. and Glacers.n a