New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-15
Literary.

An aucton sale of the private library Of Mr.. T.
H. Morrell will soon take place in New York. The
library consists of books on the history and an
tiquities of America including earyp printed tracts,
revolutionary histories and biographies, local his
tories, works bearing the imprint Of Franklin,
euloges on Washington, autographs, engravings,
illustrated works, privately printed, and large
paper editions, etc., etc. Catalogues of the col
lection will be ready about the 18th Of October,
the sale itself taking place about month later.
Edmund Kirke " is to be the corresponding
editor of the new magazine announced some days
ago. The publication will be edited in Boston,
but issued in New York.
Mr.. r. II, Caii4ass:ia Ela cadet Of the Virginia
Military Institute during portion Of the war, de-
signs compiling, from authentic materials, the
story of the part borne by the students and alumni
of that institution in the late war.
Mr.. L. F. Tasistro, for many years the chief
translator in the state department IN Washington,
has lately supervised manuscript from the pen
of the late Edgar A Poe, which will be published.
Carleton has in press new novel by A. S. Roe,
entitled "Woman our Ange;" also, new comic
book by Frank BELOW, containing one hundred
and fifty drawings.
Oliver Wendell Holmes will commence in the
January number of the Atlantic Monthly a novel
of New England life, under the title Of "The
Guardian Angel"
| Prof Agassiz was to give the first lecture be-
fore the Boston Young Mems Christian Associa
ton on Tuesday evening, Oct. 8, in fremont TEN
pie, and the second on the l6th.y
Rev. j. Earle, editor of the Saxon Chronicle
and late professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, il
the author of English Philology," shortly to ssut
from the Oxford University of Press
| Prof. Edward L. Youmans is still in London, en-
gagged upon his new work, companion book tt
the "Correaticn of Forces" 1t will be entitled
''The Educational Demands Of the Present Age
1t is to be published by Macmillan, in London, ant
issued simultaneously by the Appletqns in New
| York. The professor expects to return to thi
country the last of this month.
NJ. Guizot is at his estate of Val Richer, occu
pied in writing the eighth and last book of hi
memoirs. This volume is said to open with
curious chapter on the personal relations Of tn
writer with Louis Philippe.
Two new volumes Of Froude's History Z
England are to appear early this month. The
will be entitled tf The Reign of Elizabeth" vo
umes III. and w., being the ninth and tent
volumes of g The History Of England from tn
Fall of Wolsey to the Death Of Elizabeth"
Cassell, Peter & Galpin, (Walter Low, Ne
York y announce The Chiyalric History of Cr
quemltaine and the Times of Charemagne,' p illu
trated throughout by Gustave DoT6, freely rel
dered from the French of Tom Hood, and I'll
Legend of the Wandering jew" with twelN
large designs by Dore.
Shakspeare's "Coriolanus' is about to |
translated into French by NJ. CarIhaut, who hi
oil rnadp a version of TnIi1a
The publication of the new volume Of Ba
crofts History of the United states,'' so lor
expected, and recently announced for Octoberl Il
has been unavodably deferred by tile publisher
Mcssrs. Little, Brown q Co., until the 1Othinst.