The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-27
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81 MIS-. Lydia MARIA CnllQ Is 0ngdSeu
ON novel; name and nature are not
yet announced. - 1900
William Gilmore Simms is writing
"a histoGzofSouth Carolipas forsuseiR {
schools.
T.. B. Read has painted a fairy
scene from the ~ Midsummer Night s
Dream
Lee &Shepard areab6nt to issue a
juvenile magazine called, Our Boys |
and Girls edited by Oliver Optic.
- John Stuart Mil is at his seat in
9Ayignon. engaged in. editing the pos
thnmous works of Henry Thomas
Buckle. -
Miss Evans, the novelist is ffty7six
years old, and speaks three languages
besides English. She has written six
novels in ten years. 81 a5ots sl4moe y
1t is likely that Boston will have
larger show of splendid holiday books
for Christmas than ON any previous
year.
Mrs. James Hannay and Miss Eliza
beth Thackeray are said to be writing
a memoir Of the late William Make
peace Thackeray.i,lI4 4 .t
Messrs. Moore, Wilstach & Bald
win are preparing history of the re-
bellion so far as the State of Ohio par
tieipated in it, and they appeal to the
different military societies to aid them
in their great undertaking.
Ticknor & Fields have in press a
volume by Prof. Stowees On the ORR
gin and History of the Books of the
Bible; what the Bible is not, what it
is; and how, it is it," It will be a
large, thick limo. is1D 351lA1k1U19
,ky Jean Ingelow's Poems, published
] BY Roberts Brothers, have sold in the
4 limited States alone $1,000 copies of
the s4nieficah Acditiea. "A 4 laAEafshlg
4 ILLUSTRATED and richly bound edition
| of her poems, is nearly ready for the
market.
The life of Josiah Quincy by his
son Edmund Quincy will not be pub
lished until Spring, oman ers = s9l.li,s
The second and concluding volume
4 of the life. of John Winthrop by
| Robert c. Winthrop, will be. pub
lished next month. nis1sa-t4 H-av
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves
r. Chimney Corner Papers will be
gathered, into volume and published
| soon She is now occupied on a
novel for The Atlantic which will
probably take up all her time next
lEyear.
4 WIRE Collins, Ii the author Of Wo.
man in White" No Name, etc., is
lin Paris negotiating about the
g mounting,o as Parisians say, of one
! Of his plots at French theatre.
No less than seventy songs of VIC
tory hymns and cantatas were COM
kposed for the entry of the Pfuksiah
, troops into Berlin.
George Alfred Townsend, now alb
'EEsentsin Europa as Ahe specialcorress
kpondent of the New York World, will
( return to America by the 1st of De-
cember next. He has preparedE lect
A ture entitled" Europe Armed"
4 Longfellow is still Y engaged ON
.iHDante. He has not only translated
< the whale, poem,nbutd has nearlyyall
81 the notes done and stereoytyped !. So
!; that the work will certainly appear
+ during 1866. ldr 10 '9ao'e won slii 10
81 James Russell Lowell is writing .
series of articles, in prose and verse
: | for the Atlantic sof next year. The
4 Istatement that he is engaged on
novel is incorrect, } - 1Roa
Oliver Wendell Holmes is writing ;
4 novel for the Ahdnttc. The first par
I. of itlMiin be published in the .Janu
: airy number. Tits called 1.-The Guard
9 ian Angel It is "a novel Of New
!, England life of thespresent year.
John G. Whittier is engaged in pre-
7 pairing for publication a new yolum
of poems, to be called "The Tent OIL
IS the Beach, 1t has not left his hand
0 yet, but it will probably be issued il
e the Spring sae1aa.
i James Parton Isl travelling log9
n5 West in order to collect material TO
IS a series ofarticfes for the all-dcvour
Id LII: 4hn rraat cities of th