The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-20
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.


'THE CRETAN INSTRUCTION OF 1866" by W. T,
| Stirman. is to appear on the 18th OF September.
| MISS G. RossETTI has In press new nursery
rhyme book, under the title OF "Sing Song" which
will be published simultaneously both in England
| and America.
Mr.. LAWRENCE OIIPHANr DENIES that he is the
| author Of that remarkable book. sThe Coming
Race" IN any way responsible for the very pecu-
| liar views which 1t contains.
| THE ArHEN RUM, IN REVIEWING vol. OF Masson's
"Iife OF Miton,n which covers five years only OF the
poets lie, says that az this rate may expect
| about Six volumes more before the whole Is com.
plete.
11CKNoE's "HIsToRY OF SPANISH LITERATURE
| is shortly TO be reprinted in edition the
| third. with considerable additions and revisons
made by the author and completed before his death
| in January last.
Mr.. HENRY ONEILS GAGE OF SrUCCo," just out
in London is a poetical diatrIbe against the impos.
lures OF the age. Politics, political economy, ora
tory, the stage journalism, &C., all IN
for denunciatlon.
RALPH WALDO EMEEsON's new volume Of essays
viii perhaps be ready for publication this fall. His
carefully wnnowed "Poetical handbook for Scholars
and Students" labor Of love, in the ediorshIp Of
which Mr.. Emerson Is understood 10 have oeen long
engaged, win appear from the press OF Osgood L Co.
In O few weeks.
SOME LITERARY JENKINS, who has visited the
home OF Mrs. Mary Holmes. the novel writer. in
Brockport N. Y, tells OF "a delightful residence,
surrounded by trees and snra bs. beds and mounds,
rustic seats and great quantity or flowers" We
are further Informed that the lady herself is the
chief attraction OF the place." that "every move
ment is case and grace" that she is 'fne looking
and not far past thirty" and that her library soon
tains choice collection OF books, together with her
Ovv,l vnr ia In a HoU
wonderful
WHEN A. BRONSON ALCoTT kept o Yankee school,
almost forty years ago, he had sundry metaphysical
ways OF extracting what was best and brightest in
his pupils praIns These methods with their daily
results were detailed In little volume called 'The
Record or School," long since among the ''out OF
print" curiosries OF educational literature. This
book is ABOUT TO appear In a new edition, with .
preface by the daughter OF the Concord seer. Miss
Louisa N. Alcott. she used this schoo the model
OF that at Pumaeid. attended by "Jo's boys" In
her LATEST story OF ''Little Men,"
WILLIAM NJ. CARLTON, THE NEW WESTERN POET
whose 'Betsey and / Are Out" and other matte
productions have been much admired, lives at Hills
dale, Mich, OF which State he Is native. He is
twenty-our years OF age, graduated two years since
at Hlsdale College and edits the Bilsdalc Standard
The Harpers have engaged him to write a series OF
"Farm Balieds,n 10 be illustrated and printed in
Harpe's' Weekly. The charges so widely published
that Carlton Is Q myth or o humbug, and did not
write the poems published under his name, appear
TO be without basis OF TACT Nasty has denied that
he is himself the author OF the ones published in the
Toledo Blade, and gives them authoritatively to
Carlton.
HAWTHORNE AND HIS WIFE WERE BOTH over
thirty years old when married. She was sister OF
Miss Elizabeth Peabody ana Mrs. Horace Mann,
both OF whom survive her. When Hawthorne was
turned out OF his first place in the Custom House his
WIFE lighted fire In the study and told him she was
very glad he would now have time TO finish his
nance, as she had saved enough from his salary TO
Keep them In bread for a few weeks. He went TO
| work Oh his book. and she fell to painting lamp
| screens, decorated with lovely forms from Flax
| mans sculpture until the money brought In by
| the copyright OF his first successful novel, ssThe
Scarlet Letter" enabled them once moro to live ut
| comparative ease.
| HE FRENCH PUBLISHER CARPENTER, lately
deceased, was egregiously vain, very rich, pro-
| Iounuy ignorant and laughing stock to the lite
rary world. lie devised the reprints OF old authors
In duodecimo, known az the Jor7nat- CyldrDeu,feru
| which sold at three and a half francs a volume
ana almost drove The stately out OF the mar.
| ket- He made much money, as everybody rushed
| 10 buy his MoatesqIieu, Mocre, Rousseau &C. in
good prlnt anu at a price less than seventy.1ye
cents each. But as he grew rich bought villas and
built houses, his pride and vanity grew ntoneraple
He fancled himself superior to the whole guild OF
authors whose WORKS he published, and was cor.
dLally despised in consequence
MI. FRIEDRICH kAiP. VINO was honored with both
anu fortune IN the United States has recently
repaid me deJt he owes our country by publishing
in Germany. whittier he has gone 10 reside perma-
nenuy. work IN which he v'IIhes the Americans as
the most selfish money-worsbipplng, dishones,