The New York herald., 1871-11-02

\ LITERARY CHIT.CHAT.
n. IA. II. SccSsS;s S;s,srno; !; SsSaHaa
AisceilAnics and other works arc promised by ~
London publisher before the sIess oeths year.
THs REV. JOHN sxLBY wArsoN now ON triai
near LONDON for the brutal murder or his wtfo.
Wa Known ~ feraeQSa q He translaeod Tor Rnhnsns
Classical Library Lucretius, xsnophon ana SSfjusSa
and wrote . life Of 0eolUe 1ox aAa q Bishop war
burton.
JAMES DENIS on. Tor forty-one years reporter fos
the London Times died. st the age OF seventy three
. few days ago. Before RAILWAYS and telerrau -.
were known hea managed the news Expresses fss
the Times in the west OF England and many
struggles took place between him and Mr.. Chariaa
Dickens. who then represented the Morning CnrorS-
Cse, TO secure priority Of Information for tlers
spective j0urnals. uEgNH mawA
JOHN RUsKiN styles himself 20 violent tory or tn
old scho0l-water Scotrs school, that Ia 70 say and
Homer's. name these two out OF the great toEy
writers because they were my own two masterS.'
TIE C0NNEcTIoN BETWEEN English and American
publishers appears TO be extending and growing
closer every year. This fall and summer nearly
every book Importing house in the United states hes
been personally reIr resented IN London. s'.'.a y
DIR. D0LLrSGER's ssFables Respecting tne Popes
OF the Middle Agesn Will be translated into EngHsh
by Mr.. Plumner OF Trinity College, OXFORD.
Mr.. JUSTIN DoOLTTTLBs new "Chinese and Eng.
llsh vocabularyh Is nearly completed in two largo
volumes. The Chinese words are given in Roman
Characters NJ. Doolitte has been aided I'm the pro-
paraton Of thus great dictionary (which win, per
haps supersede for the present all others of
English ana Chinese BY more than dozen nattve
Chinese scholars. .2'A @aeAns1 5s'
THR Saturday Rerie,c thus succinctiy sums up n.
Benedettis 500 page defence, publtshed under the
title. 'Ma Mission en- Prusse ;"Put In simple Ian.
guage what NJ Benedetti says Is shis: France asked
for Maycnce; Prussia refused. and 0nered Bolgtum
instead; France declined to annex Belgium, bux
asked for Luxemburg, and to this Prussia would
not aQreen -Nl stsggat " essqeJ
THE CARLEroNs are getting out some very pretty
little holiday books particularly suitable for chill
dren Among tile most notable Of these pubiioa-
tions 'sMosher Goose Set TO Musiop and "HouseG
Not Made with Sand.n Mother Goose ts splendidiy
gotten up, with attractive Illustrations or sucA
ancient infantilc yarns .Oock Robinn "Lattie Be
Peep,'n slack and Jil." and ssTaay Was Welsh-s
man, 1t Is beautifully bound and gllt with rare
skill and taste. agGaat ainn- aGr ason aoS
..SuccEssruL BooKsELLnRs,n BY Horny Curwen,
Is book OF sketches of notable English ana Sect
rish publishers ana book Dealers 10 be brought
out in London. ,s
EwALD's .HIs TORY OF IsRAHLn Is soon TO be COM
pleted BY the issue Of the third and fourth volumes
In English. ,,, t.s 81 y .s 49, n,
NEW GERMAN MONTHLY, for commeroe aAd
navigation has begun to appear at Rostock. - 4,
THR TITLE OF MADAME DUDEyANTs new book o.
the French warts ..Journai dun voyageur Pendant
Ia Guerre, par George Sand.n This veteran repuul9
can writer has little sympathy with the Theirs gov
ernment. $50 oal ~ tnEiisie 0G1 slrisn =
THE PENNY DICKENS Ia an enormous succsnin
England. More than 10000 copies OF ''Oliveg
Twlstn have been sold. Tho p:tcs IL two cents
number or sheet. @ XIV so.A % a
DIR. Gsoaan HARrwra. the German scientific,
writer Of popular books in English BIDS fair -
exhaust the universe n he keeps at It, "The Sub
terranean World" % his last sss Jsdgo kAioas sft
o. W. HsCKnrHoRNR win soon bring out In Lon.
don manual entitled 'sThe secret Soclcties Of Al
Ages and Countries" The Ku.Klux win form -
interesting su pplement should the book 10 repuS-
1ished In this country. sr. ss..sFal lf.s tls ~
NEW SPIBrrUALTSTIC magazine viii shortly b
started In London under the title Of Fre6f0ht e.
N GUrzor reached his eighty fourth year on the
4th Of October, and is stili ct lt-wrting. sg
TIE AthenGum commends Mr.. @. A. Washburnes
''History Of Paraguay as generally accurate An1
TRUTHFUL and says it should be read By all who wish
to study South American character. -tteef hsfscep
A NEW woRK upon "Sun Dials, y by Mr.. A3frs1
Gatby, who has already made an interesting moAo-
graph on ssThe Bell Will shortly appear in London.
Mr.. Fosters 'IAfe or Charles Diokens'' will soon
appear IN sAmerica,l under the auspices 81 sthe
Messs. Lippincott. Mr.. kosger's long and intimAoo
friendship With Mr. Dickens emlnenty qpalt1es aim
fos ths taak Of writas she biography e - sreas
novelsk Thts WORK will doubtless ~ 60 Of greas
inssress and standard autnorty. ia sEdsalS@D xl<as
ThefoNeSing on ~ hes oroDDad. .ssp relative -
che now fAmoos sRrok mann 0hnfFan tales lt = =
raSely thar JOINT anthorship naa succeeded 90 wen
g 1t has In this case. Ercknann, the philosopher,
given to muoh dreaming snd veverie overvhis pipe
and poite oi beer, and Chssrain the soldierly man
OF action. make up 70 ether perfect man. Taeir
power of, working aeogether IL equaile0 ~
their wonderful conscienuousness They win
never publish a work which they think NOR.
ally or artIstcauy incorrect Two years ago
they nad written tale for the Journal des De0dts,
and for which they we're to receive large pay.
ment IL subject was, 'The Workingman from
1910 TO 1s1Nn Before sending the story to its dest
nation fhey read it through together. the perusAl
was unsatisfactory. They considered 1t poor. and.
though they might touch It up, they felt that u
would never be what they wished. Suddenly
Chatrain said, 'srnis Is q failure we nave worked
hard, but we have decelved ourselves. Tnts book
represents large sum OF money, but when we have
received 1t we shall not be much richer, ana We
shall have published poor book. AS We are both
in bad hunor to-day you snail 90 to Alsace to-
morrow and dream and take the air there. shall
reIndu ueTcs but UotOIC yOu W W0 VIII JUL WI
manuscript, lest we should be tempted to use H."
.sQuite right y said Erckmann; tive Will burn Il"
Accordingly on the morrow they met and silently
tore up the manuscript leaf By leaf, threw Il into
the fire and saw the hard work or SIX months dis.
appear In smoke and namss. To how many modcrn
authors might not be appropriately said, 'Go and
do likewise; nay, even before re-reading your manr
uscrptud sGt aG450 Z1s aa@t FL ~t
'srhe New Gospel OF Peace, /" published by Carrie
ton Co., is the newest and most amusing con.
tributlon to what may be termed King Ltera-
ture.u f s ttel .-f I4l af.s1
Paul de Kock has written his life under the title
OF q Memories Intlmes,n IN two volumes, which
will bo published by mis- son, Henri de Kock, one
year after the death OF the former. ~ ,...a r,.t \.