, 1870-07-16
LITERATURE.

| -7}rcteran.
LITERATURE.
Tie Lcipsis Garte4llaube claims circulation
I Of 3G0,U0U copies.
| -Gatbaldis novel, ne arc told, was pub
| lishcd IL six languages, hut neyor paid its ex
| pentcs III any.
title Poison Of Asps" il the title of
novelette, Ly Florence Ma1ryat iu Temple Bar
-Graco Aguilar was totally blind two yoaEs
| before her death. She dictnted her last work
which will coon be publishedin this country.
| Miss Erad1on, the novelist, Las recovered
| fectorJ.
The announcement OF q book on America
by Justin Mccarthy is made in England
y now monthly is talked of-Doiby's Cir.
cn!ar, edited By Charles Dickens, Jr.
| :" MONEYS Worth il the title Of Mr.. Tom
| Hoods last novel.
| The author Of AGcc,s Adventures in Won
l dcrland has written another book, " Through
the Looking Glass, and Whist Alice Found
| There
| The ss London Literary Agency" is the
title Of new institution organized to receive
l and examine manuscripts.
| -Four An,erican houses announce reprints
Of the English work, "Other Worlds than
| Ours"
| -Spielhagen, whose novels hayo lately
sprung into fame in America as we'll as in Ger
many. has just finished q new drama, "Hana
und Crete, or slack and Peg"
| "A female novelist ia about to publish a
book under tie startling, tit!e Of '' Naughty,
dcu6t, constitute the theais; for the naughtic1
Irritation il the nicer it is, Of con:se.
Within one year, Messrs. Roberts Broth
ezs, publishers, have paid Miss Alcott, author
OF "1ittle Women" and IAN Old-F Fashioned
Girl" over &c, 900 az authors percentage on
those two books. Niles Acott is now in Ger
many.
We arc promiaed another addition to the
famous literary puzzlo known as the "Junius
there will shortly he giyen to the world cer-
tain oSidence respecting the authorship Of the
5npinH 31 9 letters, Which tle lescendants q Sir
publication at tho instigatiou of prudential
motives.
-l1isa .hge1ow is contemplating story for
children, the scene Of which Is to be laid in
Florida.
Mr.. John Langaon siblcy, librarian OF
Harvard College, has for many years been en-
gagged InprepaIiDg biographical sketches Of tho
first z25 graduates Of the academic department
Of the university. and now proposes, il he 70
ceives sufficient support, to publish them in q
single volume: The design embraces tho
clas.cs from 1G42-1678, in tho first Of which
Cotton Mather, with many more or less nnai-
ncnt peraonaEes betTeen.
So valuable for its autographs is Il. Vim
cent Buffers list Of subscribers to Summers
works that be has already had a cash offer of
q 900 for it. Which he has rofused in order
TINT be may fulhll his original intention OF
presenting it to Mr. Sumner as pleasing evil
dence Of his friends.
1t is said that Washington Irving drew
900, 1000 from his last publisher aa his share Of
the profits q ten years' sales Of his works and
ias, L. pen eu.n s q bs safssa g. so
cleared s5o0, 600 IN tWenty-si1 years- Dickens
fla said lett an estate Of 2350, 600, and hemust
have Bpeut ut least 800 900 within tho last
twenty yeAre. No ether author ever made 60
much money BY bis pen.
Tho new Hungarian Minister Of France,
Al. herkaPoly, il we'll known in Hungary ns q
philosophical and historical Wrlter, He IL tie
altior Of translation Of Hegel into Hunga-
r1an; Philosophy Of History" a"History
OF the World, /" of which only tho first volume
has set appeared; IN able politico- -religio work
called The Constitution Of the Protestant
He has also obtaineds considerable reput tation
y n journalist and orator on tho sids OF the
DArkparty.
Professor Emil Kul, q we1l-known collec-
tor Of literary culiosities at Vienna, has Just
published two letters, addressed by Goethe to
Of State. Ono OF them is dated 1917, and in
it Goethe thinks the Austrian Government
for the "Inunifcent assistance It had given
to the restoration Of an ancient convent in
1],uringia: The other, datel 1925, is q petl-
ton (Which was at once accedcd toy asking
p:insed IN tba Austrian Empire without his
p 1niseion. Both letters are written in a
tone OF fulsomo adulation not very creditable
to Gocthe'e character.
ID. Lotlrop l. Co.. the Sunday school pub
!isEerB OF Boston, "cffcr,' to quoto from
tLe.r circular 10 authors, the uncgualled pra-
a1i.n Of 81, 900 for tho Fest rnanuscript for a
7t lume for young men and women, that shall
bc practical in its subject, instructive in its
natter. attractive in its style, evangelical in
tone without being eccLarian, full Of ritality
,Lun 5000 lines OF nine words e.cl1, and to bu
Written with proper accuracy and care.
The L'egnih zeituny made the announce
ment u few days ago that Liyius codc1, con-
tanning the fourth decade, nearly complete,
had been found hJ DR.. KEafcrt, principal Of
the Leignitz Gymnasium Of that city. Or.
very cursor1y, announced that this smann-
e-ript had 4 great role to play in the learned
world" The discovery turns out to be not 60
valuable as the finder at first supposed. \
vritcr in the lFcser Zeitan9 says very proper
y that Or. Krntfert speaks as il We know
AultAAoG AQSoL AtAS AuAtA AeCANb ApOOhs ol "
40, which Is perfectly preserved. II it were
the fifth decade, Of which We possess only
t.,e first half, and this only fra ymontars,
III single but very old Viennn manuscript Of
the sixth century. it would then be 3 very
great gain for science; then it Eerc possible
% supplement the gaps Of the Vienna one.
We haso J. number Of manuscripts Of the
fourth decade, among which the Bamberg ia
the best; better, or At least equal in value, to
the Mayence one. which has been lost, which,
h3rcyer, did not contain all the books Of tho
f'1rth decade The writer thinks Impossible
that the newly discovered LieSnitz codes mny
b the lost Mayenco one. II this should prove
to 90 the case, the discovery Will be Of great
ir1T ortante for tt1tual criticism. II it DO not
the Identical one, it will atl be OF great value;
though on this point nothing definite c1n be
SIN until u Is thoroughly examined.
-Neber, the German publisher Of Dickens,
paid INN over 81 ,S0O year for tho Last twenty
years, IN way of percentage on sales. Fields,
C5Ecod Co., hare received letter from
Elfalo, asklng Tor copy OF Tho Myate-y OF
Edwin Booth" a Paris journal, announcing
t. death Of Mr. Evans, Of the publishing firm
OF Eradbury d EVnns says that IN collaboration
with Dickens, he wrote - PlckMick." and other
w:ll-known works OF fiction. The Fhiladclphla
correspondent Of the BOOKSELLERS Guide gives
sSme interesting facts ~ to tho ISSUE e or
t+ckens' early WORKS IN thiS country The
p.skNaek isSe r Pspers were published IN Nnvem
sri 500 copies were isaued. beuud in noaEds
complete A Sketches BY BOZ vas published
oily 1880 copies were printed, the demand
";A 80 Light that several years elapsed before
AEGl6Gf GUlf1ou NNS required. Oliver TWIST