The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-06
LITERARY ITEMS.

daily paper issued In England.
Lord Lytton's translation of " The Odes and
Epodes OF Horace is about being published.
Professor Veitchs Life of Sir William Hamil.
ton is on the eve OF publication in England.
The Harpers pay from FIVE to fifteen dollars per
| page for prose articles.
| During the month of September III American
| books were issued.
| Agricultural papers are springing up all over
the country.
literary club has been organized in Lynch
burg. Va.
| 0Eer 10000 copies of Headley's History of the
| Rebellion have been sold.
Tennyson's bust in Parian sells largely in Eng.
| lard.
book has just been made in Hartford, which
weighs seventy.ive pounds. 1t has 1856 pages.
"Blindpits," novel recently published in Eng.
| land, is producing great sensation there.
The Amherst college professors do not print
| their titles in the catalogue.
Boston is to have an illustrated weekly news
| paper.
| Waupun, Iowa, has circulating library con-
tanning 1900 volumes of well selected books.
Seventy-two women have graduated from the
| New England Female Medical College 10 Boston.
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largest paper in the world.
The emperor of Russia intends to publish
newspaper as his official organ.
Fred Hudson, formerly of the New York Her.
aid, is writing history of American journalism.
The Christmas number of Once Week is to
be called Once Year.
There ia Hebrew Sunday school in Philadel.
phia with one hundred and ninety. four pupils.
The first and second books of " The Eneid of
Virgil" have been translated into Spenserian
verse by Edward Fairfax Taylor.
A Paris publisher has reprinted an English edi-
ton of Longfellow's complete works, which is
sold at the low price of one franc.
George w. Curtis still edits the Easy Chair"
Mr.. Curtis receives seven thousand dollars per an
mum from the Hsrpers.
A firm in Boston publishes twenty-five directo-
ries of cities and large towns, nineteen of which
are in New England.
musical and artistical journal has just been
started at Barcelona, under the title of Core,
vey dite.
The Manufacturer and Builder is the title of an
illustrated monthly magazine, which is to appear
in New York on the lst of January.
There will be 225 900 copies of the Agricultural
Report distributed this year. 1t is volume of
1900 pages.
1t is said the public may expect new story be-
fore long from the pen of Edmund Kirke, called
1.-The Diary of Merchant"
The late Dean Milman, of London, left a posthu-
nous work, 'The Annals of st. Paul's Cathedral
which will be published Immediately.
The Charlestoner Zietung is now edited by Prof.
Hermann Meier, an accomplished scholar and elo.
quent writer.
In the future all the contributors to Lippin-
colts Magazine will have their names printed at
the foot of their articles.
Mr.. J. LothIop Motley will deliver the annual
sddress before the New York Historical Society,
December l6.
"New Uncommercial Samples" from the pen
of Charles Dickens, will soon appear in Every
Saturday.
The veteran novelist, Paul de Kock, now in his
10Th year, is writing new story in the Petit
Presse of Paris.
Mr. A. Lafargue, late of the Msrksville vilIager,
will establish boys high school in that place,
with limited number of pupils.
Philadelphia has started Philharmonic Society,
which will give its first concert on the 10th Of
January, 1859.
Upwards of fifty thousand copies of Alexander
Fl. Stepheps's History of the War have already
been sold.
During the last eight years the subscription
book publishers Of Hartford have sold !, ,426, 900
volumes, valued at S., ,4O2, 900.
A new monthly called the Wonisn's Advocate,
and devoted to reform, is to be issued in New
York.
Franz Abt, the composer of "When the Swal.
lows Homeward Fly" and other popular songs,
will visit the United States next year.
Auber's first work, written in 1872, was an ope-
retta called " lie Sejour Mltsiren His last, writ.
ten in 1867, is the Jour de Bonheur.n
The Weekly Mirror is the title of a new literary
paper just started in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, by
Messrs. Wright & Telford. Mrs. Jane G. Swiss.
helm is the associate editor.
The Rev. W. E. Bennett, vicar of the English
Church, is to be tried before the Court of Arches
for promulgatiDg "idolstrous and illegal doc
trines," in book lately written by him.
Herman Grimm's novel, Unconquerable Pow
ers," illustrating life in America and Germany,
has been translated into French, Dutch, Swedish
and Italian.
The Independent Monthly. new periodical,
edited by DR.. L. L. Pinkerton and Elder John
Shackleford, will be issued at MsysvIle, KY, on
the first day of January next.
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, editor of the Morning
Star Qondon daily paper,) has written a serial
novel, entitled "My Enemy's Daughter" for
"Belgravia.'
The Oldest existing British periodical, the Gen.
tleman's Magazine. established in 1871, still pros.
pers, and the price has recently been reduced
from half crown to one shilling.
The philosophy of Domestic Life" ia a volume
of advice 10 married people, setting forth the
sanctity Of married life and discoursng Of its
duties.
Professor John LeConte, of South Carolina, has
accepted the Office of professor of physics in the
State University of California, located in San
Nr 1exandre Barce died at Moresuvirle in
Avoyelles parish, on the 18th inst. Mr.. Bards was
said to have been the best French poet in the
State, and was much admired By large circle of
friends.
The school officers OF Philadelphia have resolved
to substitute newspapers for the reading books so
inno in uae in the nnhlic achoola the taanhara