New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-02
AMONG THE BOOKSELLERS.

Oueen Of Spain, who is said 20 be writing heI ""V"
biography IN the disguise of 2 novel. II Sie Keeps
to the truth 10 Will be very edlIylhg DOOR,
A book entitled Ecce Femina," in opposition to
the Woman's Rights movement, will be published
about Ire middle of this month; The author Is MI
Carlos White Of Hanover. New-liampsHno'
Garibaldi's long-cxpected work Rome IN tlie
XIXth Century" has been turned INTO EnsliSl, oy
Mrs Col Chambers and the translation anu oiisiH"'
will soon appear simultaneously
In the January number of Hours az nome VII, nv, DO |
commenced a new serial story by MIS- Cralk miss
NuIocb, entitled Hero" It is written expressly
Cor ,lis magazine and will appear i'll no other peri
Odical oven in England
Mossrs A. s. c. Black, the Edinburgh publishers
purpose celebrating the one hundredth anniversary
of the birth of Walter Scott CS7ll, by issuing CEN
tenary edition" of the WaveTley Novels, containing
notes by Scott which have never before been printed
"Clemence DOrville, Novel of Russian High
Life" has been translated for LitePS Lining Age'
from the German of Carl Detef and the first INSTALL
ment appears in the issue for December 4. The same
number of The Lirng Age contains the postscript 10
The Qaagterlys Byron article.
Louisa Muhlbach. having exhausted the historical
characters of the Old World is said to have projected
series ofnovels in which the successive Presidents
of the United States shall be the heroes. The bold
est reader may well tremble at the desert Oh prose
winch threatens TO be opened by such series; but
maybe after all nobody will translate them.
The first number of old and Ne,r, to be published
Dec Is, will contain articles by Harriet Beeeher
Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, Hannah L. Lunt Henry
W. Bellows. w. T. Brigham, Robert CollyeT, NSlGne9y
Andrews &" Dixon ~ X. W. Emerson, the KeH'C Il,
Hale, j. b. Torricelli, James Walker, and other
authors of distinction who reserve their names.
1t has already been announced that Mr.. Laurence
Ophant (who after visit to England has Just re-
turned to the retirement of the Brocon colony mas
in press a book entitled "Piccadily: Fragment OF
TnFng
two or three Years AGO i'm BlacIirOodS Magazine The
reprint will be illustrated by Richard Doyle.
j. b. Lippinc0tt & Co. control in The Sunday Mage
riRe and Good lords for the Young, the American edl
tions of two magazines which are almost unrYaled
among their kind in either England America. The
wOOd-cuts in beth are elaborate ABUNDANT and
often very artistic, and the letter-press by popular
writers is well adapted to the wants 3spec3 "a 81
the religious classes The December numbers OF DOlh
periodicals have just been received
The ProofS1eet a type-foundcrs' trade periodical
published in Philadelphia. contains laughable
Map of Boston and Adjacent Country" 1t repre-
sents the hemisphere viewed from such q point in
space that Boston appears the geographical CEN
ter of the globe. The Hub Is represented TO be ABOUT
the size of Lake Ontario, and New-HOrk IS too small
10 figure ut all The great lakes are the Boston
water-works Mexico. Iceland, and South America
contain the Pas-w0rks; the South PacihG IS Dotted
with Boston lighthouses: Madeira is the Yankee
vinegar-facory; and in the center OF Africa Is the
TimbuctOO Office of The Atlantic Monthly
Somebody has investigated the genealogy of Gen.
Sherman and succeeded in establishing his descent
in direct line from Samuel Sherman, one of the
founders of Connecticut and first settlers of Wealth
erseld The record will appear ia the January num-
Der of The Genealogical Register published III Boston
II curious coincidence that the ancestors of Grant
and Sherman were among the founders OF the TWO
most ancient towns III Connecticut hattheW uIaht
having been among the original settlers ol MlnuIOr
about the same time that Samuel SHERMAN was heIp-
ipg 20 bu2d Wcathersield
To Queen Victoria's affectionate memorials of the
Prince COnsort must add series of photo
graphic views illustrating Our Life in the High
lands" which has Just been published by Bell az
Daddy in London There are sixteen of them taken
from landscape paintings executed expressly for this
work by JOsepl Adam, and for clearness and deli
cacV have never seen them surpassed by any pho
togT2phic copy a. painting Bound III large follo
VOluuae, with polished mape-wOod covers, and pre-
faced Eith an essay 10y Norman Macleod they form
very handsome book, TO which the title Mountain.
Loeb. and Glen has been appropriately given
Charles Scribuer q Coz
1t is curious fact that the Life of Albert Durer
should have been written in English until the
year 1862 when two lt7es simultaneously appear in
London both of them works of considerable merit.
The cheaper and smaller of the two. Mr. w. Is:
ScOtts have not seen but 1t IS praised Tor critical
acuteneSs aud literary polish. The other Is by Mrs.
Charles lleatOn. who, despite n womansh tendency
TO extravaganza of admiration, seems 10 have done
her work with Industry and intelligenee Ii Is Illus
tratcd with the excellent aNtotype illustrations of
DuTeTs works and about twenty tlne woodcuts, and,
like Mir. SCOTS includes translation of the artists
journal and letters it is beautifully printed and
richly bound. Tile London publisher IS Macmillan,
and the book can be had in New-Yerk az Scribners
4 superb work on the Tree and Serpent Worship"
Of India has been published nnder the direction of
tie British Secretary of State for India and Of
the hundred copies TO which the edition is limited
may be seen M ScIbners. lt consists of magniii-
cent series Of Photographic Illustrations of the sculp
lures the Buddhist IOpes at Sanchi and AHfavati,
illustrating tho HindOO mythology and art Of the
first and fourth centuries after Christ with intro
and da pfinpn f fla MIA he
James FERGUSON, esq. the wcknOwn historian Of
architecture. The photographs not copied from
drawings, bat taken the spot by the carbon pro-
which is supposed 10 insure them against fading
The book il published at the India Museum in Lon
GOD.
Dorfs Illustrations of Hood. of which we have al |
ready told onr readers something, arc now to be had
at Sclibners The poems chosen for illustration ale
The Bridge Of Signs, The Dream OF Eugene Aran |
Queen Nab and the Ode 20 Melancholy. They are |
printed IN large thin tOljo-a true tire &c lgLe
with some very characteristic head and tail-peces.
The engTaVings are steel, "a material which does |
not readily take the impress of DOr6's peculiar |
gcHus bUt az least one Of them, horribly grOtesque
picture of Eugene AIam visiting the scene of his |
crime M the wood, with the rOttlng corpse grinnDg
CHASTITY grin Of rage in his terrified face menacng
shapes lifting their ont Of the tbickpt, and rep
tiles crawling ~ the foreground, Is enough to haunt
one for 4 week.
The Spectator deyOtes a long article TO monograph
by Mr. E. Ncl, United States Consul at Dublin.
written todpTOye the romantic story of POcahontas.
Mr. Nell believes that he has discovered the famous
account of POcahOntas saving the life Of Capt. John
Smith TO be an invention, and all the choice incidents
of her career her pTincely rank, her TQpapue MAR
rage and her death of a broken heart through love
Of a man, other than her husband, whom she
believed dead but found alive, to be falScb0OdS