The New York herald., 1871-12-19

THE Riverside Bulletin Ii In favor OF an inter-
national copyright ON the publishers basis. It
says:-"Make treaty, but require English authors
to publish In America through American publishers;
American authors to publish in England through
English publishers"
u TIE saturday ReUteaU complains or II 'EetranRe's
Literary Life OF the Rev. w. Harness, Just pub
lished In London as a very imperfect ana unau-
tnorized work, full OF Of date and of fact OF
names and OF Places written without consultation
with MI. Harness. FANNY, from very Imperfect
materials and entirely beneath the subject.
TWO FREN0HMEN OF scientific atainments have
written books to prove tnat the excesses OF the Com
munists In our day and OF the French revoutionsts
the close OF the last century were the fruit OF
mental madness or monomania. One Of these books
Is enrlted "Le Deiire des Prosecutions" and the
other by De Lab0rde, "Les Hommes ct les Actes dc
rInsurrection de Paris devans Ia Psychologist Nor
bide." they attempt to show that feverish state
or political and social excitement produces mania.
GEORGE SAND. VINO wrote "Illle eI Lui" In severe
Characterization OF Alfred de Musset,. her former
lover has recently been regretfuly endeavoring TO
suppress the book by buying up ana destroying all
the copies that could be found In France.
sLAB0R PARTIES AND LABOR Il FORMn Is the title
Of new work In press, on one or the largest ques
lions OF the day, by Samuel Johnson, o thoughtful
and liberal writer, Of Lynn, Mass
e DIR. DIO LEWIS whose sour Grlsn stirred up the
New Englanders 30 much with lis radical physio.
logical reform doctrines. promises several other
books IN the same view, under the titles "Our
Wives" .'Our Babyn .tOur Boys" "Our Homes''
and .sOur St0machs and Livers.n
The BEST EDITION OF the great Roman historian,
Livy, Is that now publishing in London, edited by
J. r. seeley, the Cambridge Professor Of History.
1t is thorough IN every respect utilizing all the
finished results Of German and English scholarship
FREExAs0NRY crops out IN abundant literature
nowadays France has seventeen Masonic perlOdl-
Gals and Germany has no less than thlrty-nine.
SOMEBODY EVIDENTLY not possessed Of encyclo-
padic information asserts that there only four
copies OF the Encyclopaedia Britannica" In all
France. -
COUNT BBNEDETTI has Withdrawn the libel suit
ne had Instituted against Louisa MGhlbach the
German novelist. She proved to aim that the por-
trait sne had drawn Of Madame BeneGstt land
which formed the graUamen OF the oGcnce) was done
In good faith, and without malice.
TIE Athen9un says OF Hawthorne's "French
and Italian Note Book," that .'he generally nnds
something to say which hes not been said before,
and MS remarks are eminenty characteristic"
THB AthellHuln is loud In Its praise OF George
Eltos's new novel, ''Middlemarch," now being
issued In numbers. It says "the English Is George
Eli0t's own, and never nags. 1t Is written with
care and polished like steel. To say OF George
Eliot that she ID by far the first English novelist s
a. English n0vellsts 60, scant and inadequate
PRAISE"
THE HAWTHORNE FAMILY are all scattered.
julian Hawthorne, the novelists eldest son, whose
Contributions 10 the magazines have recently been
received with favor Is resident vt New Orleans, in
the profession Of civil engineer. The two remain
Ing daughters have loft Concord, the scene Of
'sMosses from an Old House." and Miss Rose Haw-
tnorne the younger. has recently been married.
ARTHUR HELPS will shortly publish his ''rhoughts
Upon Government"
THE TOPICS OF TIE TIMES, as treated IN books,
appear to be more and more Of an other worldly
type. We have had all sorts OF books like 'Tne
Gates Ajar," ''The Gates Wide Open" &C., "Tne
Debatable Land Between Tnls World ana the Next
&c. and now we are to have from the Philadelphia
press Of Lippincots "A New View OF He'll, showing
its Nature, Whereabouts, Duration, and How to
Escape It," by B. F. Barrett. The author Is
clergyman OF the Swedenborgah faith.
A. 8. BARNES b 90. have In press ssScho0ls and
Schoolmasters; from the writings of Charles DICK.
ens;' edited by 7. J. Chapman Now let some
ingenious person make book out OF "Canters and
Clergymen. as depleted by Charles Dickens, with
Illustrations OF the Reverend Sliggns and the Reve-
rend Chadband." a