, 1870-03-16
LITERATURE,

George Ausuutua salA has book 1bout
France in preparation -
The London Saturday Rer1e1o Of Febru-
1ry 25 hsd Eotices and criticisms Of twenty
three american books-
=" What do you think when 10 mAuy peo-
p9e come to SEQ yuu 2" Mits Brsunar Was
ahked. ~ wish that I was hanesomer,' wn1
the honest and womanly reply Of the charm
ing 9wsdIan novelist.
The WllEans, College Rsrtetg styles Haw-
account for The change IN his narne. which
WAS Hsthorne, On tho theory that he w1s dis
poaed to shirE his ancestor, tuntice Hathurne,
WHO VISA : prominent Mag1strate in tbs witch
prosecutions in 1692
-; ,: Psterson 4 Bros; hare 1ust Issued
novel" Cruel ~ the Grave"
,--A Leipzig publisher intends to; issue Il
wen-pnnted edition Of schiIIer's compfote
Eo.zs tor g cents, md Ct Goethe's complete
The New York Tribune ssys:. "Longfel-
lows 'Enaymion' vas eold to : weekly Jour.
nal in this city, 20 years ago, for sis, md
there frat sa* the light. 1twould now bring
.-Miss Peabody became acquainted with her
tnture husband, Nathaniel Hawthorne, BY her
clever ,ilfuatrations-pencl skstehea-of hts
eas1y atory, "Tha Gentle Boy" This circum-
stsr CO led to their attachment snd aub.equant
marriage
"A Sandwich Ialsrds missionary has trsns-
lAted Poe's ARaTeu" into the Hawaiian
4ngqsEe, greatly to tho surprise Of those Who
as No languages, but mere gtbberisr-
NO, book Of ,fablea has perhaps eyer had
such ssle As Kty1on q famous Russian work.
His publishers 1t Anacow 1ud St. Petersburg
hare eold over four hundred Thousand copies
OF II
tho Coruhiu Aagazine will be hereafter
edited BY hr. Leslie Stephens, who married
daughter Of Ttacka7ay, (not the aushorees,
who is unmauisd). Mr- Stephens was Fell
low It Cambridge, but rasl5ued the position
beeauas Of his disbelief OF. the Thi1ty-uiue
Articles. :.
Miss Dr. Mary Putnam, daushter OF tho
New York publisher, Is to R1ite history OF
the eiefe Of Px1ia for the next Atlantic
1t Is reported that the Hatpers haya 6uf-
fered to the extsnt OF ~, 900 for -N2st's car
features ofthe Pope-alI the schoo1books they
publish hsvtnY beer txaen on the LIST used III
the New York public eoboolS.
King John, OF Ss1ony, is engaged in
1anafstug Sponsors - FaIie Qasene" INTO
German verea. d.,
The Emperor Of Ge1many h.s congratu1a-
ted the poet GrNIpalzsr At the celebration OF
his efghtieth birthday.
= Frirce Hermsnn, Of Puckler- Muakau. the
welt-nown author md traveller, died on Feb
ruAry 4, in his caatle of Bran1tz. aged 85- His
celebrity dates from his book, "BTiafa eineH
Vtrstorbenen," which mlde great sensation
forty yeara ago. Under the name Of ''sem-
ilsso, he describes his travels in Adia and
Africa, and sppears IN the satiticAl psrt OF
lmmermaun's classical romance, Mum
ch2ussn." In hfa character Of a1istocrAtlc bldse
he WIS also seTesely handled BY Heine and By
William c. Bryant, writing to tdend in
always riAes It o'clock, and, after taking
bath aud light breakfast, goes down to his
Office, spending, perhAps, three hours there
the rest uf. the time ia employed In coz
respondenca, &C., md in the TRANSLATION Of
16a 1f a.'3s S'2s}assy" He AW'ys retrs' - soon IS
- Robert Cbambers, tho celebrated pub
]iehef, who has jnst died IN Edinburgh, worth,
1t is said. some f6oo 600, began life a poor
boy, entirely dependent on his own exertious,
laying tho foundahons Of his fortune by open
ing Esnall circulating library with little
boIoHed moray.
Thomas Oaflyle enjoys the reputation Of
being the only eminent literary man in Lon
don who r1tes early In the morning He not
only gets up, but usually walks several uiles
Ing the 1abors Of composition
"A correspondence 1t Rome h4a had 40 IL
terVieW With the Pope. who mfsto0k him for
An zrt.Et In colors or marble. instead Of words.
The Journalist mentioned his calling, when
sae sas Mss1 EEL Rs s1d pante1 Bn as
aeculptoF, but ShkspeaEe, the most won-
derfal Of al geniusee, WAS both painter and
sculptor At the saue time-the sovereign ar
tist Of the vosld-"
.-Alexander -Dumas' lk.t WORK, It Creation
and Redemption" La praised BY the French !
cxihc4 Is une OF the best he ever wrote.
Mr.. WlGe Collins IL engaged upou naw
noTel, which he will produce ~ PtAg befors
PooPss1 PoP4snf|cs =, Mufora, Bret H.rts successor
- I,x -.
OF Sag Hsrbor, L. L, znd, tho Express Of that
bnrRh ta7g, "has, aicee his arrival on the
golden shores Of the PaciIc. more fully desa1-
oped his native geniuA-v1t,-.ud has been
clatsed among the first Of tho hum1roGs writ
erB On that side Of cur broad domain: 49,
Fritz Reuter-, the famous Low German
novelist, hss fstety losta good deal Of bis pop
Jews IN some Of his puh}io addresses.
The fact Il mentioned that while Msjor
Jack Downing, Artenus Ward, Doestiekn,"
shflaher (@ra- Partington), Fanny Fem,
Otpbeus @ Ken, Lowell, and others Of our
Eastern staies, and in most cases from New
England, the funny man Of the present gem
eratiou are alnost al from the West Nasby |
halls from Ohio, while Bret HArte, Ax1k
Twain, and Phoenix Webb (John PaoI, though |
oped their humorous talent IN Galifo1uis-
Joah Billings is Nsw Yorker, and alone rep-
resepts the elder civilization among the Wits
d Frederick GszHtecker, tbs German tz1y-
eller and novelist, is in trouble. -Tho English
publishers Of Ch41las Rowcrofts' Australian
noge's, rome Of which Gtrstncter has puh-
Ii he'd in German under his oEn naoe> have
threatened to prosecute him for piagiazisu-
About tventy-hvs yeals sgo Ge1stEcker pub
lsI ea It Leipsig German translAtion Of LIP
nard's "Quaker City" III bis oun production
"A lawsuit between Batthold Anerbach and
Ernst Esis, Of the Leipzig Gdyfsn81n6e, which
Vii ehor,ly come on 6ofore the tribunals Of
that City, il t1peetad to give the public N in
uicbt into the Compensation which the leading |
Ge1man noYslists, not few Of whom hare
been subreused ii Witnesses, have obtained
from their puhliaherz In tbs COURSE Of the
Last ten yesrn- -
The CasaA publishing house at Stuttgart
d1spot ed, up TO tbs close OF 1870, OF 49,D00
copies al Alexander yo1 Hnmhosdt's =" Koe-
roa,n eix thousand Of which went to tbs
United St1tsa+' -: ~ - t'':' H'' J.: