Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-05-17

Beecher has started his novel in the New
York Ledger, under the title, :. Norwood, or
Village Life in New England" Another
new Ledger feature, is series Of articles
from twelve College Presidents.
With the close OF the present year, ex-
pire ell German copyrights whose term has
been extended by special privilege. This
will set free the writings of Goethe, Schiller,
Wieland, Herder, Korner, Burger, Jean
Paul Richter, and others; and cheap re-
prints Of many are already announced At
Berlin.
Uncle Toms Cabin is still selling 1000
copies per year. The original publishers
have sold $4,000 copies of it in all, and
counting foreign editions, it is probable nea r
. million copies of this famous book have
been printed.
The American pictures 10 the Paris Ex-
hibition, do not make very fattering i'm
preston on art circles in Europe. Bier
stadt, they say, is only Dusseldorf little
glori6ed and extended. Palmer, the Al.
bany sculptor. who never went abroad, is
promised . 100000 for . female figure in
bronze or marble, Is feet high. Bierstadt's s
last and largest painting, the Domes Of the
Great Yo Semete, is Just finished, and on
exhibition in New York.
"The Women of the War;" by Frank
Moore was issued in October last. Over
1900 copies have already been sold, and
the publishers lacked 1900 copies more TO
fill their orders last week. This, for an oc-
tavo costing $3.50, is liberal sale.
Senator Sumner is engaged in preparing
for the rress, his speech on Russian Ameri-
Five volumes have now appeared of the
issue of the famous literary history of
France, began by tho Benedictines Of St.
Maur, ana continued in these days BY q l,t-
erary committee, that in the 14th volume,
has only worked its way into the fourteenth
century.
The oldest English newspaper that has
been discovered, is Q quarto phamplet Of q
few leaves, entitled "The Diurnal Occur
rences, or Daily Proceedings of Both
Houses, in this great and happy Parliament,
from the Sd November, 1910, to the Sd No
vember, l64l. London: Printed for VIII
liam Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop, at
Furnivars Inn Gate, in Holborn, l64l."
The Appletons are going to build in New
York, the largest and finest publishing
house in the world.
OF the three hundred contributors to the
National Academy of Design, fifty belong to
the slender gender"
"Little Cordelia Howard, the original of
"Little Eva" in ''Uncle Toms Cabin q
part played by her upwards OF 500 times,
is preparing to re-appear upon the stage in
leading character.
The publishers of Harpe's Magazine, an
nounce that the circulation of that maya
zine is fully three times that Of the Cornhiil,
four times that Of the London Society, ten
times that Of either B,dcksrood, Temple Bar,
or Macmillan, and exceeds that of Frazer,
Col6urn, Bentley, or the Loadoa University,
in much greater ratio. 1t is larger than
the combined circulation Of these nine Brit,
ish periodicals..
A lively book has just been published in
London entitled, "Some Habits and Gus.
toms of the Working Classes" by . Jour
neyman Engineer, who describes himself as
." unit Of the great snwashed."
The Lyceum of Natural History of vii.
liams College, has matured plans for an ex-
peditioa to South America. The party will
SOueASt VI tWSAvo releSb neu VI Tue bOciety,
under charge Of Professor James Orton, Of
Rochester, . graduate Of Williams College.
A careful exploration Of the western coast
Of South America is proposed, and from
thence the party intend to cross the Andes,
and pass down the Amazon.
The retiring editor of lions Herald, Dr..
Cobleigh, gained clear idea Of the profession.
!" IT, he says, "the editor takes time to
read, think, study and investigate. in order
to thoroughness, variety and the proper FIN.
ish to editorials, be will have no time to do
the necessary drudgery of ofice>work-all
the spare time after that will be needed for
recreation, in order to give health to the
body and elasticity and vigor to the mind.
If be does the ofice-work Of proof,reading,
correcting ard selecting for publication the
ove, ,ss e..
and noticing books, With al the ct ceteras q
calls and Interruptions, he viii have neither
time, nor heart, nor strength for writing ed