, 1870-06-05

William Houitsia writing volume OF Quaker
his'o5E a md s biography, H!,;; A.,
Europe lbs month to obtain material fsa for his il
second eeries Of Young America Abroad"
The Rev. Dr.. B. H. NAdA h.s undertaken
the prepaIatfon Of the life Of the late Or.
M'C1intock, his fellow professor 1t the Drew
Theological Seminary, and soljcits the use Of
letters or other documents that may add to
the completeness Of his work.
Tho Rev. James Kant Stone, D. D.. lste
President Of Hobart College EpiscopaD has
written book entitled "The Invitation
Needed: Ee4spns for I Return to Catholic
Unity" which Will be issusd by the Catholic
Publication Society.
The Appletons have published something
Like 81, 1000 copies Of Lothair," Of which
third, to the puhlishers' surprise, werc called
for in the expensive cloth edition. It was
thought at The start that about 9, 500 would
eatlsfy tho immediate demand for clotl, copies.
in his late novel. Disraeli says there is no
resl business in the Fenians, and that their
treason is a fairy tale, their sedition child
talking in lis sleep"
--s.As ueual," writes French critic Of Lo-
thsi1," 81 1tr. Disr1ei allows no one to figure
in his novel who haa less than ESQ, 900 year"
Tho British Anaual Register fos 1869 il
the issue OF the longest-1ived Of D1itiAl Pc
nothing but a narne). II? years haring passed
since the earliest volumes were illustrated by
the genius of Burke
An inte1prising firm in London announces
new monthly publication, the pages Of which
are to be devoted to salectious from various
American magazines, whereby it is hoped that
English readers may "enjoy the best Of tho
articles, tales aud poems contained in all the
cousins." 1mericau publishers lave been do
ing this sort Of thing for many C. long year,
but WAS hardly expected reprisals quite 30
soon.
-The English "Histo1ical Manuscripts
Commission" appointed to make sealch
among the archives OF old English families for
archaeological purposes, have discovered,
among other things, the original Mss. Of the
English Book OF Common Prayer. We may
also note as fgenerai interest the original lot:
ter Of Charles +, addressed to tie House Of
Lords IN Mny, 1G41, recommending that STRAIT
ford be imprisoned rather than executed, and
containing the postscript, "H he must die it
we're charity to reprieEs him until Saturday, -
and an original petition from Laud, while i'm
prisoned III the Tower.
In his last letter to the Book BuyeT, Mr..
welford writes "The immediate demand
for Edwin Drpod' has exceeded that Of any
previous work By tho same author. Forty
thousand copics Of No, were printed in I'd
vance but Wero absorbed at once, and ten
for. 1t is supposed, and probably with good
reason, that The limitation Of tho story to
twelve monthly i.suea instead OF twenty has
had the effect Of largely increasing the num-
her Of purchasers. Dlsrael's novel, being
published in % ths Old 1 s1peppsii;e pi; three 1Glu@o
such sale, and must reach the general public
| through the circulating lihraf7ca- The pub
lishers 80 to press With i've thousand copies
An slbum Of autograph verses, beautifully
Illustrated. waa to be sold in New York June
4. The gems Of the album arc buchanan
| Reads Bheridan's Ride" with Darley's illus
trations; Haleck's ''Marco Bozza1is,n with
| sketches By Nthlig and HowB; Robert Brown
| ing'a famous q Rstisbon,- with drawing. BY
E6ningez; John rsrpont's any Child illus
| Wave" Epea Sargent (foz which 80 many
| hundred seasick passengers on the voyage Ia
Europe have desired To punch the head Of the
author), with q marine sketch By ". A. Gay
JuliA Ward Howe's Battle Hymn Of the BE.
public Illuminated by Jenckes, and William
and interpreted BY Jenckes, Hart, De1lows,
shattuck, and sIisa Mcvickar. The album was
designed by Mrs. Rutherford, Of New York.
Mr.. Jebb, IN English scholar, has publish
cd = new trAnsl2tion Of the famous Charac
te1s, .ec1ibed to Mr. Ty1ta,nus E. Theoph1as
plAto and Aristotle at Athens, about 20
years ego, and, after the resignation OF Aris
totle, becama the head master OF his school
the Peripatetic Academy-vith 1000 pupils
He began life in Lesbos Is plain Tyrtamua
Just az Bul~es, the novelist, started with thu
Saxon name; but a. the Eng1ishmsn becam
drst Sir Bulwe1 Lytton, and Afterward m
Lord Lytton, even so did Mr.. Lcsbiua Tyzta
mus become frat Euphzsstus and Aftezwar
Thsophralsus, by which name be is known il
literature. He died 2s6 3. c., md Left severs
undoubted works On natural history; but a
hs clzius in his "ChatacterB " to have writtel
that elegant satire at the active age Of 80, i
has been doubted whether be actually wrote il
sny more than King Solomon wrote the Can
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