The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-29
LITERARY GOSSIP.

Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, editor of the London Star,
ls about to pay visit to the United States.
An American gentleman of high literary genius
mas written tragedy on Bonaparte.
An Index Book I" to the London Times will
soon be published in London.
Book publishers in Europe complain of dull
trade. -
The first Blue Book of the United States was
Issued about half century ago.
Arthur sketchley's real name is Rose, and he is
a renegade curate.
Calcutta publishes musical Journal the Choral
| Handbook.
or the $50, 900 teachers in the United States it
is asserted that liz 500 are females.
An American University for the Blind" is to
be founded at Washington.
John Russell Young, of the New York Tribune,
| is writing book.
firm of proof boston called
the House Of Correction.
The Revue des Deux Mondes pays two hundred
| francs for sixteen pages.
TenDyson, from the proceeds of Enoch Arden,
has ADDED field to his estate.
All the Year Round is hereafter TO be edited by
Mr.. Charles Dickens Jr., who succeeds Mr.. Willis.
Daniel Pratt's new journal will bear the alarm
| ing title of Pratt Hercules Gridiron. '''-''.
Cheese u is the subject of Josh Billngs's last
lecture.
A life Of Chief Justice fancy is being written by
Samuel Tyler, ESQ.,, of Frederick, Md.
A life of Henry Ward Beecher by Junius Henri
| Brown is announced.
There have been 225 900 copies of Greeley's
"Great Conflict sold, bringing 81 ,225 900.
The Princeton Review has completed its fortieth
| year.
The New York Albion was sold last week to Mr..
Kinahan CORVALLIS for something over $40 900.
Whittier's new volume is to take the title
"Among the Hills " from the longest poem.
Grace Church Brown is scrbbling a book on
society.
Dartmouth has ten agricultural and three hun.
| dred and sixty other students.
The Massachusetts Medical Society offers fifty
| dollars for the best dissertation on ventiatng
sick rooms. -rra
Judah P. Benjamin has published treatise on
| the Law of Personal Property"
Routledge's Christmas annual this year is en-
| titled First Class-Fare Fifty Cents" A
| Louis Ulbach has the largest income Of any
journalist in Paris. His pen brings him an income
| of nearly $4,000 francs year.
Professor Newcomb has secured at the Sand
witch Islands very fine collection of shells for
| Cornell, and is on bis way home.
The Earl of Derby has executed a number of
TRANSACTIONS from ancient and modern poets, which
| will shortly be published in volume.
Junius Henri Browne has in press and viii
shortly publish " The Great Metropolis; a Mirror
| of New York."
A musical and artstical journal has just been
started 10 Barcelona, under the title of Core We
y di tie.
Junius Henri Brown, of New York, is about to
| publish book descriptive of New York, entitled
1.-THE Great Metropolis"
One of the finest private Libraries in the State of
| New fork is that of Mr.. Theo. Irwin, of Oswego.
| IT contains one book whose binding cost $500.
| Henry Hill, book publisher in wich, Conn.,,
shipped one day last week over one and half
tons of the History of the Bible"
Alpheus Carey, of Boston, has published
| book of epitaphs for q cheerful winter evenings
reading.
One hundred and twenty candidates were ex.
amined for the ten vacancies in the female vocal
class at the Paris Conservation.
Penny readings are getting into disrepute in
| England. The audiences are said to be rude and
unmanageable. I
Charles Dickens has not received so much as
ESQ for the numerous German editions of his David
| Copperfeld.
Mr.. Edmund Yates will contribute the leading
novel to the new series of All the Year Round.
| The story will be called Wrecked in Port"
| Some valuable essays of Humboldt have just
been discovered, and are being prepared for the
press.
Doesticks, the original of that name, is police
court reporter for Brick Pomeroy's New York
Democrat.
Middleton has reprinted Mrs. Cowe's entertain
| ing book of ghost stories, " The Night Side of
Nature, )" which first appeared In 1900.
Gerritt Smith has just given Alfred Academy, in
Allegheny county, New York, his third donation
| of $50, 900.
Ten thousand first and second readers for the
schools of Utah, printed in the new Mormon al
phabet, have arrived at Salt Lake City.
Gotta, the great Stuttgart publisher, paid Hum
bodt $40 600 for the privilege of publishing his
Cosmos " for twenty-five years.
Prof. Siman, of Yale College, who lectures on
"the Philosophy of the Tes-kette," can clothe his
ideas in greater number of words than any other
man in the United States.
The Pail Mall Gazette, one Of the very best of
the London daes, cost its proprietors 10000
cay ACCOMPLISHMENTS IL DcBdu pd1s lts lOuN
cent paper.
At a late book auction in New York John Cot
toms " Bloody Tenet and Reply to Roger vii.
lisms, printed in London in lS47, brought about
the highest price.
The city of Boston has 553 female to g. male
teachers; New York city 22O6 females to l76
males; the State Of Ohio l3, 22O females to s3i
males.
l-Rrof, Robert Won schlavintweif, of the Uni
verslty OF Oiesscr5 -0v~--S-all- aslahrated ex.
plorers of India, Is to to this country 70 nee
| ture.
Theophie Gautier has been appointed librarian
Of Princess Msthilde Demidoh the cousin of Louis
Napoleon. The only ridiculous idea about it is
| that the princess does not possess library.
GREAT EXCITEMENT AT THE ST. CHARLES Ho
rEL.-Ihe great influx Of strangers to our city
makes the old rotunds Of the st. Charles the cen.
ter of attraction, and reminds US of the days of
"suld lang syne, and brings back the many joys
we've tasted when our people were happy. pros
| porous and contented. We are truly glad to see
this, and it is, think the harbinger of q return
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