The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-20
LITERARY cH1r-CHAr.

LoSCPBLLOw AND HOLMES have oaon 4 nav book
on inc anvil 70 appear some time next year.
II THE REVOLUTION has done nothing else for
Spain, 1t has given wonderful Impulse 10 the book
trade. A few years since two or three booksellers
were enough for Madrid; now there are half dozen
In almost every street. The national mind appears
to have walked up to art science and philosophy.
For the nrst time Plato has been completely trans
lated into spanish. There are mutitudes Of transla
lions OF French works printed and absorbed at sur
prisingy cheap prices. Vira pEspdnGi
BLACKwOOD Will publish 10 December new novel
BY George Eliot, author Of adam Bede.n "Fenx
Holt, the RADICAL" &c.
The BROCHURE or PRINCE NAPOLEON. entitled
'La verte mes Calomnlateurs.p Is being repub-
lished In the Paris journal La Pvesse.
THE Athep64ns SAYS OF J0HN HAYS "Pike
County Ballads:"-swe have had enough OF dialect
poems, and, n our transatlantic friends require
more. Mr.. Hay should CONNIE himself 10 their pro-
ducuon: for, with tho exception Of the pages occu-
pied BY the Pike ballads, there u nothing 10 the
volume to call for notice."
The SANE JOURNAL praises the "Admetus anu
Other Poemsv OF Miss Emma Lazarus 10 new Ameri-
can poet OF whom none have heard), - 'iull Of
good things, we'll conceived and written with
artistic skill.n ''There Is, however, soueshng-and
not underwriting to complete her success and
place her alongside Of the masters"
M. THEIRS finds his own curses OF press suspen.
sions and seizures come home 10 roost. This spec
men OF mis- opml0ns Is published apropos OF the
seizure OF the Gre0t by the Theirs government for
Its audaclty In printing caricature OF Theirs as
lackey kneeling down before Q monster called 1.-THE
Constituent and which Is cleverly compounded OF
Napoleon ILL.,, the Count de Chambord and the Count
de Paris. rhe liberty Of the press" ears n. THEIRS,
"afYords channel through which the Injured may
challenge his oppressor at the bar OF the naton 1t
Is the means by which public men may IN case OF
misconduct be arraigned before their own and sue
ceedIng ages; 1t is the only mode which bold and
undisgulsed truth press Its way into the cabl-
nets OF mvnarchs. The cruelty which would deafen
the ear and extinguish the sight or an individual
resembles In some similar degree his guilt who, by
restricting the freedom OF the press, would reduce
nation 10 the deafness OF prejudice and the blind
ness Of ignorance. The downfall Of ths species OF
freedom, 1t Is the first symptom or the decay OF
national liberty, has been in a ages followed by It's
total destruction, ana 1t may be justly pronounced
that they cannot exist separately" ra
Tue MOST EXTENSIVE life OF Abraham Lincoln
ever prepared is soon to appear In two volumes
from the press OF J. r. Osg00d Co., OF Boston. IL
is by Ward II. Lam0n, formerly Lncolns law
partner in Springfield and later the Marshal OF tho
District OF Columbia. It will embody besides
full biography, such OF the State papers, speeches
and letters OF Its lllusri0us subject as are deemed
most worthy OF preservation. tt III
In AUBREY's LIVES. written by contemporary
and friend, Sir Philip Sidney Is described as being
not only OF an excellenG w.t. but extremely beaut1-
full. Gle much resembled his sister," says our
author "but his hare was not red but o little In.
cning-viz. q da-ke amber colour. II were to find
fault In 1t, methinks twas not masculine enough
My great uncle Browne remembered him, and sayd
n hat q W. "a wOu n
pocket and write down his notions as they came
into his head when he was writing his Arcadia as
he was hunting on our pleasant plains lin witt
shlre.'D = d rn8e 90 .H l
THE SAME GRAPHIC and quaint writer OF the Eliza
bethan age says OF Shakospeare:-"He was nand-
some, well shap't man, very good company and Of
o very reddie and pleasant smooth wit. The hum0ur
OF the constable in the Midsummer Nights Dreame'
he happened to take at Bucks, which is the road
rrom London to Stratford, and that constable was
living there about 1912, when frat came TO Oxon.
Ben. Jensen and he did gather humours OF men
daily, wherever they come" H
MEssRs CAssELL, PETER GALPIN are about to
publish new periodical In London, entitled the
World or wit aud HunsOr.
THE WILL OF Mr.. Robert Chambers has been pro-
bated the personal estate being estimated at Ei3 l07
Mr.. SAMUEL SMILES new book In the press Is
entitled "Character."
ANOTHER COMIC WEEKLY (so-caled). entitled
Back and WhRe, has given up the ghost In
London.
MACMILLAN g Co. have In press book ION the
Origin, Nature ana Uses OF Wine" by two compe-
tent scientific writers-Drs. Thualchum and Dupre-
which Will give us oil that Is worth knowing OF
processes, statistics OF production, |
chemical analysis OF different varieties &C 1t |
will probably supplant that widely-read book,
BREEDING on Modern Wines" as being much more
modern.
The South Is THE TITLE OF new weekly paper
published IN New York.
BROWN, JONES AND ROBINSON, 1t Is reported,
have lately made OF the United States, Canada
and Cuba and an artist has delineated the adven-
lures or the trio for speedy publication.
MISS LOUISA NJ. ALCorT, lately returned from Eu- |
rope il again very busy with the pen though Sc
we're sufferer from neuralgia.
SOME REPUBLIsHRD ESSAYS OF that eloquent |
Jew Spinoza, have been discovered In tie library OF
Louyain, aud viii be printed IN the Baavlan Ga
xette.
THE Saturday Repier, cRfrIcIsINa THE vulgar
rush OF all English travellers 10 spend their holidays
abroad, without ever troubling themselves TO view
the beauties OF the English lakes and noun
talns, sadly concludes:-"England may yet TO
thought worth Knowing by q remnant OF her sons,
and ner scenery may no. become a sealed book to
ubiquitous Yankee"
MISS MIsrAM COLE, author OF "Rutledge.r 1.-THE
Sutherlands'' and other novels, has become Mrs.
Sidney s. Harris, OF New York, and Will shortly ap
pear in print with new story, entitled Orchard
yandermarck." ScriDner q Co. are the publishers
MISS FRANCES POWER COBBE, it Is SAID (but we
take leave TO doubt it, is the only woman journalist
In London. Mrs. Harriet Martineau, who used to
write so much in the Daily Ne,os mas become OLD
and almost blind, she has long been very deaf.
FOREIGN Personal GOSSIP.