The New York herald., 1871-10-21
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

ccptlOnalIy DrHlant. A poem py Joaquin Miller AMI
story by The authoress Of Gates Ajar'' will be
among ITS contents The British Premier, Mr.. Glad
stone will shortly Degin series OF articles in this
magazine
THE GALAXY FOR NEXT MONTH Will contain an
article by Gideon Welles, In which Buffers claim Of
having captured New Orleans is satisfactorily dis
posed Of.
p. O'SHEA announces the speedy publication OF
'srhe Lives OF the Deceased Bishops OF the CahoIic
Church III the United States" Two volumes viii be
ready by December l. In these Will be given the
biographies OF ArchbishOps Carroll and Hughes and
Bishops England and Brute.
Ar THE GATHERING or GENTLEMEN interested In
literature and science which recently met In Devon
shire under the presidency Of Canon Kingsley Sir
George COrnewal Lewis' Astronomy Of the Ar !
cien,s'' was denounced By one OF the speakers rs
the most absurd book that ever was written.
IN HIS PREpAcE to tho Aliredian Anglo Saxon !
version OF "tiregory's Pastorar' Mr. Henry Sweet |
will give . short sketch Of Anglo.Saxon lexi- !
geography, showing that Junius the only original !
worker at the subject, and that succeeding English |
compllers have done little more than plumber him.
JOSEPH SKIPsEY, = HEAVIER of coal genuine pit |
man. Of thirty seven, who has been ~ work In the
n,s since ne was nve yesrs old. and who taught
himself to read. has ust published small volume
Of pssms st BIysb, printed by william Alder which
contaans sfew touching pieces ON the accidents tna
-
nr. GsORGx SMITH, Of the Department OF Oriental
Antiquities Of the British Museum. 30 well known
10 scholars for his faculty for decipherfng the As
syrian writing, IN about 10 publish history OF As
surh2nipol frOm Assyrian sources. The book con-
slsts entirely Of internear translations with the
| text from Assyrlan Inscriptions, with a complete
| synap9ry OF the Assyrlan characters and win be
or great service to the historian and 70 Assyrlan
scholars
WA ICAu Nuu
| George Eliot has been for some rime engaged-a
story OF English provincial life will be published
December by Messrs. BlackwoOd Sons.
| CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS has been made with the
second volume Of The catalogue OF English Satrl-
cal Prints and Drawings. prepared in the PRINT work
| for the trustees Of the British Museum.
/ GILBERT BANEsTER's verse legend Of siamond,
| who Is added to Chaucers "Legende or Good
| Women" In the additional MS. 1884 IN the
British Museum, has been copied BY Mr. Brock for
| the Chaucer Society.
/ NEW TRANSLATION into German or the 'Lady
OF the Lake' has been published tn Udenburg, to
celebrate the Walter Scott centenary.
! PROFESSOR EwALD, OF Gottingen, has IN the prees
I the first volume OF the Biblical Theology OF the
| Old and New Testamcnts." Ihe work is to be in
| three volumes O,tavo.
! In SIR I. DUrfUs HARDY's first appendix to his
| Public Records Report OF this year many In
terestiDg illustrations OF Old English customs ana
laws. Thus In 1891, the escncator OF the Duchy OF
Lancaster Is ordered restore to Widow Emma lie
/ NoIreys her lands winch she had forfeited t0 the
Duke because sne had married one Of his villains or
nativl; she had afterwards obtained legal divorce
In 1855 the Sheriff Is ordered TO pay the Knights
members OF Parliament elected for the commonaty
| OF the Duchy ga for their expenses in coming to
the Parliament at Westminster. In 1882 q csrac or
small ship is wrecked on the coast, anu because the
crew escaped alive proclamation Is made thai the
goods OF the ship not to be seized. In 1888 the
Sheriff Is ordered not TO put Adam dc Prestll, OF
Salfordshire jures because he Is So dear thai he
can scarcely hear sound.
| The LATEST ACCESSION to the ranks OF royal AMI
noble authors Is the ex-Enpress Eugenlc who has
been for some time engaged q life OF Mary Queen
OF Scots, which VIII shortly be published
Book PUBLISHER IN PEsTH, Hungary was re.
Gently sentenced 10 nine months imprisonm mcnt for
forging letter In the name OF charles Dickens ad-
dressed TO himself and containing praises OF Hun
garian Translation OF his works.
ANDREW JAGSenS Days says the G0ldea AGe)
proposes book to tell tho world what he knows
about insanity, which, according TO the general
opinion, l. good deal. 49, -. $50.
LOUISA MuHLsAcH, whose latest novel, "Herr
Thomas WIFE," was begun IN the last number OF
ApptetonS Journal, has sued German press
writer for libel In charging her with deceivlng the
| public by pretending to have been Invited to Egypt
| by the Khcdive. Damages laid at 1000 thacrs.
GEORGE SASD has been in erdcted from writing
by ner physicians, although recovered from her
recent long luess.
ONLY ONE BOOK out OF twenty-five, or four per
cent OF the publications OF the German book trade
proves remunerative 60 the publishers
wonEs EpT FIVE daily ami fourteen weekly
paners In Germany.
THE KuEBIvE OF E6yrr has great passion for
collecting Illustrated books, old mIssais oth
/ specimens of the biDomaniac.
Dear to the heart and purssl
/ N SHAKsrbAEE's TINE the drama paid authors
poorly tnat Thomas Haywood received only CO
| for "A woman Killed with Kindness In 1000
"ratient Grissil," a famous play, by Thomas Dek-
ker, brought It's author only 80 l0s Dion Boac.
! CAN'T has more than once made $50, 600 out OF a
single play.
THE DELAWARE HISTORICAL SOCIETY has sent
Mr. ]. Mickey to Sweden to explore Libraries ana
archives Tor documents relating TO the first Swedish
settlement In America, which on the banks OF
| the Delaware, near Wilmington.
/ JoHs j.. HoLBRooK the naturalist, whose great
work on American reptiles Is In I've qnarto volumes,
died recently at Charleston, at the aye of seventy.
seven.
| GLAs6ow-the second commercial cjry IN Great
! Britain artcr London--hss just been thoroughly
written in fOar volume history, entitled elias.
Cow, Ancient and Modcrn.r
AN IMPORTANT and little cultivated field or urIs-
prudence has peen illustrated by Brightly's Lead
Ing Cases the Law OF Elections work full OF
the contested election cases OF the United States
fully reported, aud illustrated with notes. This
work VIII he highly interesting both TO lawyers ana
TO politicians.
THE american Booksellers GUide in a review
OF ''rhe New YORK Fa Trade Saie,n takes the
ground tnat nobody Is benefited by the trade sales
except the auotioneers.
REV. II. j. c. PRIME, one or The editors OF the
New York obSei'cer, has new book or travel in the
press OF Harper 4 Brothers entitled Around the
worid.'