The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-08
LITERARY ITEMS.

Two new daily newspapers are to be started in
Chicago.
The author Of !" The Story Of Elizabeth" Miss
Thsckeray, has new book in press.
School.books are cheaper in China than in this
| country. FTa Et<t l.-...9ur
Littell's Living Age will enter its one hundredth
volume in January. -,.T
The German book publishers complain bitterly
Of the dulIness of their trade.
The manager Of the Independence Beige re-
ceives salary of fifty thousand francs.
| The journal Of Education, published at St.
Louis, is an editorial and literary success.
Mr.. Tennyson has g long poem ready for publ
cation. ,......
| The Appletons have thirty-six new books in
| press. rtT Ihe
There were eleven births and two sudden deaths
among the newspapers in September.
Two valuable private libraries. owned by South
ern gentlemen, sold in New York last week.
Mr.. j. @. SAKE 10 at work upon translation Of
| the comedies of Aristophanes.
The weekly issue of the Independent makes
| pile 50 by 80 inches, Is feet high.
The Perfect Diurnal dated 1860, was the first
daily paper issued in England.
A volume Of Artemus Wards unpublished
jokes is preparing for the press.
Chambers Encyclopedia. just issued in ten vol
umes contains q. 900 separate articles over 1000
wood epgravings and 40 maps.
1t Ia said the public may expect new story
before long from the pen of Edmund Kirke. call
ed "The Diary Of Merchant" eA
An Australian edition Of the works Of Edgar
Allen Poe has Just been Published in Mel
bourne. e-sf.T BIO t,s-
william Cullen Bryant was, on the sOth ult.,
chosen president Of the National Copyright Con.
vention in New York.
An index of the names in the first twenty vol.
umes of the New England Historical and Geo.
graphical Register is soon to be issued.
Messrs. Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati, have
issued the history Of Bouquets expedition against
the Ohio Indians, in 1764.
Prince Oscar, of Sweden, has appeared as
translator, having done The Gid into Swedish
verse, whose poetical merit is highly spoken of. q
The total number of persons attending the pub
lie schools of New York city is 23l 500, the aver
age regular attendance being 100, 223.
Miss Rose Hawthorne, the eldest daughter of
the novelist, gives promise, it is said, of becoming
distinguished as an artist.
The author of New America" has volume in
the press with the title of "a Book of Studies:
fret collected"
The Paris Academy of Sciences has conferred
the degree Of bacheliere es-sciences on q young
Russian Msdemoiselle Goutchakoh.
Mrs. N. A. Kidder, of New York. has received
an order from a Cincinnati publishing house for
4" fifty Sunday school hymns"
A monk, being charged with making a cats-
logue of library, meeting a Hebrew book, put,
Item book which begins at the very end"
Ticknor & Fields new edition Of Longfellow's
Hyperion, is limited u ESQ copies, which sell at
s25 each. l4
Old Mr.. Decker, the kings printer at Berlin,
recently celebrated the fifteth anniversary of his
career as printer.
Mrs. Southworth accuses Charles Read and
Bouoicsult of helping themselves to a part of
the plot" of one of her stories.
1t is reported in journalistic circles in Paris that
Girardin has made arrangements to sell the Liberte
to stock company.
Louisa Muhlbach, whose books have enabled
two German publishers to make large fortune,
is poor.
Mr.. Longfellow is ransackiDg the Libraries an
book stores of Paris for rare works to enrich his
library at home.
A writer in the France Littersire charges Mrs.
Anu .. Otcpucnss VIC AuctiOau ouehViOoSt WIN
gross plagiarism.
There is a bitter quarrel going on in some of the
German literary papers about the question
whether Charles Dickens is familiar with the Ger
man language or not.
The firm of Ticknor & Fields is dissolved by
mutual consent, Mr.. Howard NJ. Ticknor retiring.
The publishing business will be continued under
the names of Fields, Osgood Co.
Albert 8. Bickmore, of Cambridge, Mass, has
been elected to the professorship of natural his.
tory in the college department Of Madison Uni.
versity, New York.
The managers of the Gaulois assert that they
cleared one hundred thousand francs during
the first two months Of the existence of their
paper.
According to the Chicago Evening Journal these
three books are the sum total Of great libraries
The Bible, Shakespeare and Webster's Royal
Quarto. -..-. ..---..-
The Earl of Salisbury (Lord Cranbourne) is
said to have purchased the Saturday Review with
view of making it the organ of new Conserva-
tive party.
France has ordered the publication OF a new
map of the country, in two hundred and eighty
six sheets. Only two hundred copies are to be
printed.
The Cretans, struggling for independence against
the Turk, maintain small weekly newspaper in
Paris under the name Of Independence HELEN
ique.
James Brooks was one of the earliest newspa-
per correspondents at Washington. This was
some thirty years ago, when he represented the
Portland Advertiser. or-.I.tJ
Louis Elzevir, who printed at Leyden and Am
sterdam. from 1892 to l6l7, was the first printer
who distinguished in the editions of his works the
form of the vowel from the consonantv.
George Smith claims to have discovered in the
British museum some Assyrian tables fixing the
date of Chedor-Laomer's conquest of Babylon,
and, therefore, agreeable to Genesis XIV-the
date of Abraham also, at about 1890 Il. c.
William B. Sweet, of Henniker. N. H., deaf
mute, proposes to begin the publication. on the
first of January next. of a thirty.two page month
", to be called The Deaf MITES Friend, to be de-
voted TO the interests of the deaf and dumb.
The Queen of Sweden,a Dutch princess, Incl
ted, perhaps. by Queen Victoria's example, has
translated from the English and published The
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