The New York herald., 1871-12-01
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.


THE LIBRARY OF the Penn family In England will
be sold In January next. There are many works ON
America, voyages aud travel ana general literature,
some or which nave The book.plate and autograph
OF civilian Penn. Proprietor OF Pennsylvania"
THE GREAT Paris publishing houses. Michel Levy
and Others are going to raise the prices Of their
publications about twenty-five per cent. Cause
war taxes. which press heavily on manufacturing
industry.
The AfhenRum Ia not pleased with Mr.. John
Burroughs awake Robin" and complains that no
talks lar more about himself and his adventures
than about the birds. Egoism IN books upon nat
urd history evil which has increased. Is In
crelsing and ought TO he diminished says the
Auiengurn.
NEW "Coin Book" Is in the press OF J. b. Lip
piEcott Co.. 10 contain a complete history OF
coinage In all countries statistics OF mint coinage
In the United States from 1892 to 1870. list OF gold
and silver coins or all nations, with their custom
house values the god and silver product up to 1870
and the daily price OF gold In the United States
from 1862 10 1871. The compiler Is l. s. Homans, Jr.
OF New York.
CHARLES @. LELANDs new volume OF original
poems, IN the press OF j. Il. Osgood Co., IL en-
titled sThe Music Lesson Of Confucus and other
Poems."
PAUL KoNEwKo'5 new volume OF illustrations In
Silhouette IN the press Of Roberts Brothers, Is en-
ttleu 'Fal3taH uuu uAS CVmp0uiOuos Shu Wui NC
very very funny. r-..tTr
ALRERr woLFF. a German. naturalized In France.
tells M, adopted countrYmen some wholesome
truths In the Paris Figaro about the recent bad
development OF French character and manners-
"YOu, who live IN turmoil Of political passions,
have no idea Of the painful impression produced at
O distance by your hand-t0-hand fights, by the
poisoned arrows you send whistling through the
columns or your newspapers. Nowadays Pdrisan
Journalists are redskins, who are not content with
knocking down their aniagonlstts they must tear
OF ms scalp; they are not thought to have served
their party unless tney present q string OF ears
cut or from the heads OF their political enemies.
this sort OF thing lasts you Will wear rings In
your noses and yet iattooed."
NEW BIBlIoGRAPHY of Dante. to include all
works relating In any manner to the great poet, Is
promised by Dr. julius Petzholdt, In December.
Jupp's novel OF Margaret" which many people
think the best story OF New England life ever
written was illustrated by an extensive series OF
outlines by DaIey These sketches long out OF
print, viii be relssued by Middleton tns season.
THAT ISvEr rERArE book maker, Charles Mackay,
has published new volume of rural essays, under
the Affected title "Under the Blue Sky"
TIE AttenUun, after suffering itself aud Its
readers TO be bored by several weeas' communities
tlons ana counter-commun'cations abont the London
Dalec,ical Societys rep"-.. on Spiritualism, has
shut down on me vexatlous anu inierminable
theD" ana declares 1t Will print no more letters
about IL. -
J. r.. OsGooD 4 Co. Will shortly bring out "Gau-
deamus,r humorous poems translated from the
German 0 Joseph Victor schenel and others. By
q. G.. Leland.
Mrs. JOAQUIN MILLER has expressed Willingness
to condone her husbands domestic coldness and
desertion for the sake OF poetic yenlus But II
every man VINO thinks himself wooed by the muses.
were TO take It upon him to desert wife and weans
we fancy that the world would lose moro In manly
virtue than 1t would gain In poetry.
Mr.. KINGLAKE's completion Of his history Of the
Or rimean war Is again deferred until the absorbing
interest in the Franco. Frussian war dies away. Bus
when the next great European war or revolution
Freaks out, win 1t not DC still poorer market for
Mr. Kinglakep
M. puILARErE CuAsLEs, the French critic, writes
TO the AtaenRum Of the present tone OF Parislan
society In this buoyant traln:"Frenchmen are de-
termined to prove tnat they less wounded, less
! ruined than one could think. When pleasure calls
| they hasten to cry out, present They boldly
answer with the same eagerness the appeals made
| 10 their cashb0xes. Come, how much do you
wants You, government, provisional, unsteady as
think you, You ask for TWO milliards; here are
our ru
THE EDITOR OF the notorious P3re Ducnene, MOn-
seur vermersch, has become principal editor OF the
new Communist journal In London, calling itself
Qm Viw
the LIFE OF Count Monralembert is to be written
by Mrs. Oliphant, the novelist.
SIR GEORGE MIvART's book on Darwin's 'Urigin
ana species' has me. with a caustic review from
the pen OF Professor Huxley.
LORD hoUGHToN Will write life OF Thomas Pea
cock, Sheleys friend. who wrote "Headlong Halr'
ana nightmare Abbey"
SWITZERLAND has twenty five public libraries. the
largest OF which (at Zurich) contains 100000 vol
umes
DEAN RAMsAy's book OF Scottish Anecdoes'' has
reached It's twentieth edition. 80
IIoSN munLEY, the English critical writer. has
monograph on votalre on the eve OF publication.
MR. BUCHAN has o new book In the press on that
fruitful theme "The Proverbs or Scotland"
Mrs LAURA d. FAIR has dramatized owen Mere.
diths LUCILLE" by way Of relieving the iedlum OF
confinement under the death sentence.
RoBnRT BUcnASAN'5 new book OF poems, "The
| Drama OF Kings" opens with Napoleon L.; then
comes ''Napoleoh the Fallen" ana the third ana
| closing drama is devoted to the Emperor william
and Bismarck.