The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-09
LITERARY CaIT-ChAT.

IT WAS HAwTuoRsE's HABIT not to read his
novels even Co mis- wife untu they were completed,
ana then to read them quite through before he was
willing to have them criticised. While he was writ
ing the scarlet letter. he appears 10 have been
unusually depressed and anxious. One evening he
came to his wife and said THAT he had written
something which no wished 10 read aloud; IL was
worth very little but rs 10 was finished he might as
well read it." rne reading continued through that
evening, and was resumed on the next. She had
made no comments, and NJ last hcr cxcltement
grew uncomfortable. In tho midst OF the scene,
near the end OF tho book, where Arthur Dimmesdalc
meets Hester ana her child In The forest Mrs. law
thornc fell from her low stool upon the noor,
pressed her hands upon her cars aud said
she could bear no more Hawthorne put down tho
manuscript and looked at her In perfect amaze
ment. "Do you really feel 1t 30 much ~ he said;
"then there must be something in It."
NEW FRENCH NOVEL, "Chrlsnc,n by Louis
Einaulf, IL IN the press ~ s. RcdHcld, New York.
NEW NOOK on pensions. government lands,
bounties ana soldiers claims generally. IL In the
pross OF Miller, Locke d Co, Toledo II Is entitled
'.rhe Comrade," and IL profaced by Captain H. X.
Seig, OF ONO.
THE Pau Nal Gazette QUorEs GOOD AUTHORITY
for the statement--very damaging to current lite
rary rcputalions--'hat ''the common run OF books
OF which ordinary house Libraries consist, such as
novels, magazines, poetry, travels divinity, his
tory and educational works, are worth but little
more than their value as waste paper in the mar
ket.n price current Of such books Is quoted
mus: Octavos IN general, cghtpence to one shilling
per volumes duodecimos ana smaller Sizes two
pence to eightpence per volume
IN 7Ylbney's American AMI Orienta, Literary
Record WE the following queer reason assigned
why the United States absorb SO much greater num-
hers OF cmigrants from Great Britain than the
British Colonies do-
In the frat place, the United states government
issue valuable documents referrlng to our Land
once ana agricultural reportsl, consisting OF over
1000 RACES with valuable maps; while the inf0rmi
ton Afforded by the Brush Commissioners IS con-
tanned In two pamphlets, with a single map Vi the
world.
This Is the FIRST time we have heard the immensely
OF our Immigration attributed to the bigness OF
agricultural reports.
DR. PErGRHANN, Of Gotha, the great gcographer Is
engaged In drawing an entirely new map OF the
United States I'm ten Sheets which Is made up
from tho very latest official sources In charto.
graphy The superior elegance and clcarness OF the
maps emanatng from the Gotha map publishers are
well known.
TaE LONDON Publishers Circ,ldr has these SEN
sibe remarks about popular edueaton---
What are we to teach the boyS II ne learn words,
et hum at least know that Wgrds are ,nnss There
not have TOO high a standard OF education We arc
not all wise. In fact, Carlyle reuai Ks OF our popu
| lation, I'VE are twenty eight millions mostly
| foos.n DO not let 10 cram our boys In cram full
ROOM sitting packed closely Us behring's ana rest
less AS jurymen. Thc old Roman way was to teacn
| boy nothing that he could not learn standing;
| ana Roger Aschan made fields his study In the
I summer and IN the winter his house. Alter all, the
use OF education Is not TO RAISE mp crop OF little
pe IInts learned In Greek aOrsiB or Hebrew points,
but to make men ready, willing and ahle to become
| valuable citizens. We demand 'education,n but
4 most OF US mean 'culture.u
| TIE ADMIRABLE HISTORY OF NAPOLEON. by r.
| Lnnfrey has reached It's fourth volume just rs ia
author Is nominated Minister to Switzerland by tho
| Theirs government The English translation OF tho
| work Is In the second volume only yet IL ought
60 be reprinted In America as the best life or It's
great subject by u Frenchman, aud free ffom hero
worship.