The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-22
LITERARY ChIT.CHAH.


"EvERY SATURDAY. for this week contains Bres
Harle's "Heathen Chlnee" illustrated.
PUTNAM Sons, of this city, have In press WORK
py Professor j. II. Cameron entitled ''FOod and Diee
to Health ana Diseaso.n
PROFESSOR H. s. NAMES "vfllaCe Communities
IN the East and West" recently published In Lon
don, Is highly praised by the English critics.
HENRY CAREY BAIRD. OF Philadelphia, has ID
preparation "A Complete Treatise on the Dstillation
and Preparation Of Alcoholic and other Liquorsp :,
ANOTHER LIFE OF Prince Bismarck has lust been
published OF Brussels. 1t Is written by M. Alfred
Michles, from French point OF view. and Is very
severe on the German statesman.
SCRIBNHR Co. emphatically deny that they ma
tilated George Longs translation OF the Thoughts
Of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoniusn BY tearing
out the dedication to the late General Rob ert q.
Lee.
PUBLICATION OF the Erckmann.Chatraln series
will be Immediately resumed by Scribner & Co., OF
this CITY, vino will shortly issue the " Blockade Of
Phasbourg; ON Episode Of the Fall OF the FirEr
French Emp'ren
ENGLIsHhEN never will appreciate American
humor, and consequently we are not surprised TO
IND In the London Examiner o criticism Of Bret
Harte's poems, In which the critic says they are
"neither humorous nor at oil poetical"
DARwINS descent OF Man. and Selection in Relar
ton to Sex" is to be published 1n German this
month at Stuttgart Herr j. B. Carus Is the trans
lator. Darwlns theories have obtained q greater
hold IN Germany than In any other country.
EDWARD LEAR, the well known artist, has written
and published an interesting journal OF O Land
scape Painter In Corsica" MIR. Lear's impressions
OF the Corscans far more favorable than those OF
majority OF travellers who have written about
them. He seems TO have been treated with the
utmost pollteness and hospitality,
WILLIAM FoRsYTH's 'Novels and Novelists Of the
Eighteenth Century" Is sharply criticised by the
London SATURDAY Reute,o which says that the
motive Of the work Is on enigma. at is difficult to
see says the Critic show the Of virtue Ia to be
furthered by exhumng scores OF wretched forgotten
novels with vicious plots showing an equal ignorance
OF nature and manners and recommended neither
by wit, skill OF construction nor grace OF stye.n
The LIFE OF WHITFIELD, tho great leader OF
Methodism. written by James Paterson Gladstone
and published in London, Is said TO be full OF
interest. The author has brought together q mass
OF facts, anecdotes and Incidents which throw q
considerable light upon the history Of the period
and bring 1t wildly before One OF the principal
merits OF the book Is It's Impartial treatment Of
Whitlelds career.
HERR II. PETERMANN, late Prussan Consul In
Jerusalem, has published In the ZetschrUt der
De,ttScnea M0rgealandtSc7sen GeSescear an accouns
OF the manner IN which the Moabite stone was lost
which was discovered in the neighborhood OF Diban
the ancient Dibon). Bedouln cupidity and super
stlon combined TO effect the destruction OF this
valuable stone, the Inscriptions on which might
have thrown much light upon the history Of the
ancIenrs. few letters copied from the inscription
were Immediately recognized by Herr Petermann az
Phi pnician.