The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-04
MISCELLlNBOUS ITEMS.

-Messrs. Soribner & Co. have nearly ready |
for publication the following works-Tmothy |
Iitcombs new poem, whose title is "Kathrina:
Her Life and Mine;" ]. G. Pauldings "Bulls
and Jonathans," uniform with Pauldings
Literary Life'' ''The Art of Composition"
by Professor II. N. Day, Yale College and
''The Art OF Discourse" textbook onlrheto-
ric, by Professor H. N. Day, Yale College.
They announce as preparing for publication
in October:-"Henry Ward Beecher's PRAYERS:
Pulpit Occasional, and Social; !" Language
and the Study OF Language" by Professor W.
d. Whitney, Yale College "The Queens of
American Society" with twelve or thirteen
fine steel engravings), by Mrs. 4. +. Ellet
| Froude's Short Studies on Great Subjects -
''The Old Roman World: Grandeur and Fail
ure of its Civilization" by John Lord, LID:
and j. X. Paulding's "Tales of the Good
Woman" In November they will publish
g EXtemporary Preaching" =" by f. B. Zincke
two volumes of Lange's Commentaries (Gene-
sls-Corinthians), and J. X. Paulding's "Booll
OF Vagaries" and they have also in prepara-
ton ). K. Paulding's ''Dutchman's Fireside"
AVID another volume of Lange (ThessalOnians
Timothy, Titus, and Hebrews).
Mr. Henry Blackburn, author of several
! books of travel upon the continent, has been
| drawing Dor6 into service as an illustrator of
his last work, "The Pyrenees; description of
| summer life at French watering places.n The
| volume, which is a handsome octave, con-
! tains upwards of one hundred illustrations by
! the great French artist. Whether the designs
/ may have done service in France before or
| not, they are new to Americans and exhibit
! DOle's peculiar powers in very pleasant and
attractive manner. The work is included in
| Messrs. Scribner, Wexford Il Co.'s latest con-
! signment of English publications. together
with Sophia Jex Blake's account of her "Visit
to some American Schools and Colleges" a
| walking tour around Ireland in 1865; a volume
of the marvellously cheap and exceedingly
handsome editions of Waverly now issuing by
Hotten; Colonel Churchell's biography of Add
el-Kader, the Arab chief; the domestic and
religious life of the Penns and Penningtons of
the seventeenth century, etc. etc.
-Messrs. Wilmington & wilkins, of Lon
don, are about to publish a collection of
seventy-nine old black-letter ballads and broad
sides, printed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
between the years 1853 and 1897, and reprinted
from the celebrated folio volume formerly in
the library of the late George Daniel Esq, all
OF the highest interest and curiosity, pre-
sumed to be unique, and hitherto unknown.
The volume will be accompanied with an in
PRODUCTION and illustrative notes, and will range
with the collections of Percy Ritson, Evans,
and Ellis, and the publications of the Percy
Society. A limited number of copies have
been secured in advance by Messrs. Scribner
Wexford & Co., who will receive subscriptions
-hT' W. Onappeu mas IOunu Jn6 original
words to the old tune of 'Thomas, you can
not, " which he has long searched for in vain,
in Bishop Percys Folio Manuscript. The
words are not such as we are accustomed to
hear sung in public now, and, what is worse
to the photographer, parts of the fifth and
sixth verses have been torn off in the manu-
Script.
-Messrs. Charles Reade and Dion Bouci-
cault are writing, in conjunction, new serial
story for the atlantic Monthly, for which they
are to receive larger sum than has yet been
paid by an American periodical to an English
author, with the exception, perhaps, of Mr..
Dickens.
William Elliott is about to publish in
J England, "Carolina Spirits by Land and Water
including Incidents of Devil Fishing, Wild Cat
Deer, and Bear-Hunting."
- The new printing club, the Spensel
Society, is nearly complete, lacking, at the
last accounts, only ten of its limited numbe
of two hundred members.
f Mrs. Austin, well known as translate
Y from the German, died recently at Weybridge
o of heart disease in the seventy-fourth yea
of her age.
: Lord Brougham, who is within a mont
Il of his ninetieth year, is about to return iron
8, his estate at Cannes to his seat at BrOughan
u Hall.
Miss Sarah Tytler has just published
1t charming little novelette,, entitled "The Dia
mOnd Rose"
3 Lady Blake has new novel in press, en-
. titled "Ihe Sisters of Saint Hill"