The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-12-28

LITERARY ITEMS.

Madame George Sand has lately published = new
comedy, De Lis du Japon.
Miss Craik, the author of John Halifax, is re-
ported to be engaged on new novel.
Messrs. Hilton & Co. have in the press q new
work, entitled Homeless.
Messrs Harper & Bros. have in preparation The
Land Of Thor, by J Ross Browne, with illustrations
by the author n
oe,cc IT, to art gift book Of the Daniel Broth
crs for 1867.
vo Mr. GG0rgG Augpfte e Sta s3 has paper il the No
titled Table Talk in q Whisper.
Tho entire series of Flaxman:s 8 illustrations of
Dante, ono hundred and eight in number, arc an
nounced for publication in London from the origi-
mol plates.
NJ Paul Feval has finished the conc1ndno
volume OF bis novel, La Cavaliere, which is about
to De dramatzod. It is considered his most sue
cessful work
Miss Annie Thomas contributes a tale to the rival
or original, Be!Sravia tue second number of which
is out. The title is Eaglesbourne, or the Friends
Of o Summer.
Mr.: Anthony Tronopes new serial story is enti-
tied The Last Chronicle Of Barset. It will be pub
lished in weekly numbers, with illustrations BY Mr.
George e. Thomas, the first number to be issued
on the list December.
Mr.. D. Van Nostrand has in preparation A
Treatise on Entertainments, by Francis I. I4ppett
5rlgadier-f General of Volunteers; Luces Scarlan-
snip third revised edition; and Cofins Navigation
and Nautical Astronomy, third revised edition
Of Frederick the Great and his Relations the MGR
chant cf Berlin, Louisa of Prussia, Napoleon in
Germany, and Frederick the Great in Bohemia,
fnc historical romances by Miss L. Muhlbach, tho
German novelist.
Messrs. Hurd & Houghton have nearly ready
The Arabian Nights = New Translation revised,
with notes. by the Rev. George Tyler Townsend
M. A, with sixteen full-page illustrations by
Houghton, Dalzicl. etc. and The Kings Ring by
Theodore Tlton, Illustrated by Frank Jones.
Colonel J. G. Wilson has finished his work enti-
tied The Poets and Poetry Of Scotland from the
Earliest to the Present lime, on which lie has
been engaged since leaving the army. It will
make large 9vo volume, and viii be illustrated
with numerous portraits. He also has in press to
be published shortly by Richardson & Co., of this
city, volume Of Sketches of Illustrous Soldiers
Of the Past Four and Present Centuries The VOL
ume will be illustrated with engraved portraits on
steel.
The Christmas number Of London Society which
will be ready about the 18th of December will con
tain sketches and stories by Mark Lemon, Tom
Hood, Horace Mayhem, James Greenwood, An
drew Halliday, Mary Howitt, Annie Thomas, and
Eleanora u. Hervey, and twenty illustrations by
George Cruikshank Charles Keene George Du
Maurier, Paul Gray, M. Ellen Edwards, J. D. Wat
son, A. B. Houghton, John Leighton, and other
noted draughtsmen.
s. Oxon or in full, Samuel Lord Bishop Of Ok
ford, has recently written Introduction to
volume Of selections, entitled s Literary Pearls
Strung at Random, . which contains among others
the following sspearl:"
''Where, where are the visions OF morning,
Fresh as the dews of cur prime?
Gone, like tenants that quit without warning,
Down the back entry Of tine''