The New York herald., 1871-11-22
LITERARY cHlT-CHAT.

Mr. JOHN hAcDoNN.LI. according to che
Athen0un. has written book on political
economy AZ Interesting as novel, His remarks
on private property and co-operorion show rare
appreciation OF humor. He makes merry over Er.
loves notions OF political economy and chais Car
lyle about sphe immensitles.r the 'bigcoming e'er.
niiies" &c. Though the 0ook is fresh and lively In
style It Is q valuable contribution TO science.
WILLIAM NORRIS has written new poem OF
considerable length. eutited "Losc IS Enough" IL
will he published with piclora. Illustrations.
nEpwoRrH DIXON has sued the RAJ isai CARTE
for lhe. In charging him with being he author OF
obscene books, re.errng. II IL supposed, TO Diaon's
..Spirituai Wives, MIR. Dixon Is SAID 10 have c.t
the Imputatlon keenly, and lays his damages ut
GiUO00.
LABoULAyE has an acute article on "constiru.
uons' In the Rrcus des DeuL aod5s Tor October IS,
In winch he praises the American system o. revising
the sup. enc law by An assembly OF deputies. bat
securing to the people formal vote upon 1t AFTER
warus "ihis, perhaps. explains" says lie. "why
there is no country at once more democratic and
les revolutionary than the United STATES"
General ADAM BADEAu, whose "Mllitary II story
Of General Ulysses 5. Grant' mas remained several
years incomplete, will publish the second volume Ill
December. General Baaeau holds the position OF
American Consul In London.
.MoNUMENrs AND MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN
SCOTLAND" by Charles Rogers. LIZ D., Is new
work out IN Edinburg. winch contains store OF m
formation not to be found else where.
EDWARD LEAR, author or the laughaoa and gro
tesque "Book OF Nonsense" mas another book IN
press with 1Ss illustrations the tle Of "Moro
Nonsense"
MRS. APHRA BEHN'S novels ana plays
garded as scandalousy indecent, and have be.
come very scarce are 70 5e reprinted In London BY
Mr.. John Pearson. Her period was that OF
Charles IL.
NEW BOOK OF American travel. BY DR.. Aacau-
lay, entitled across the Ferry, IS about to appear
In London.
MACAULAY's New Zealander has been traced far
ther back yet Shelley wrote, IN 1919 thirty-one
years before MacaulaY,, ''when London shall be an
habitatton OF btterns; when st. Pauls and West
minister Abbey snail stand shapeless and nameiess
ruins In the midst OF unpeopled marsh, when the
piers OF Waterloo Bridge shalt the nuclei Of
islets OF reeds and osiers, and cast the Jagged
shadows OF their broken arches on the solitary
stream" &c.
w. D. CHRISTIE, late British Minister to Brazil,
has book In press the .'yoie by Ballot and Cor
ruptlon ana Expenditure at Elections" These are
interesting themes just now IN England to say
nothing OF the United States.
Eue1V Saturday announces that 1t will drop its
pictorial features after January next and return
Ing matter The reasons are not gwen but probably
tho half dozen or more long established pictorial
weexies OF New York. with their superior advan-
tages OF central location and wide Market have
proved too slr0ng competitors Every saturday, as
pictorial was q success In all senses except the
vital pecuniary one, having pursued an elevated
standard and given the public more than the worth
OF their money at lavish expense.
MIR. DISRAELI authOritativcly contradicts through
his solicitors the statement IN Grants recent work
on the Newspaper Pressn that he (DisraelD edited
and contributed to several journals. He says the
statement is "entirelv fictitious" and that lie
"never at any time edited any newspaper. maga- |
zine or other periodical pubiicaton.n a
GEORGE SAND says that the war has deprived her |
Of fully half her income through the depreciation OF
her copyrights. Ina M.r
WE ARE TO HAVE an American text book or
poetry. to include most OF the famous
hybrid poems Of all languages The book will be
sdited by James Appleton Morgan, and published
y Hurd Houghton.
IT Is KNOWN that nineteen copies OF the 1rst
Bible ever printed are Still In existence. the book
5 without date lthe FIRST printed book with date
oeing the Aentz Psalter, or l4S7h but Is known TO
have been printed somewhere between 146o and
1856, at Mentz (betler known - Mayenceh In Ger |
many. One OF the nineteen copies Is In New York, |
to the library Of Mr.. James Lenox, soon
TO be Dedicated 10 the puDlic The book cost $3So0
NJ JULES FERRY, the new Minister from France |
to the United States, wrote several pamphlets and
articles in favor OF the Union during the
OF the rebellion. One Of these In defence OF Presi
aent Lincoln, involved Ferry In Q duel with the
editor Of the Paris Pau'ie.
TIE PRorRACTED SALES OF the late William
Gowans' book stock az auction have reached cata
logue No. 13, containing miscellaneous books These
will be sold during the week beginning with No
vember 20,
HAwrnoRNE's PosTHUMous STORY. ''Septimius
FELTON,; or the Elixir OF Lten viii be begun in The
Atlantic Monthly Tor January. The central idea Of
the novel Is deathless man, and the scene opens
In Concord, Mass, In tue year IT'S.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, who has written very
little for year or two past, win commence series |
of papers entitled 'Tne Poet at tine Breakfast |
Table.n In the Atlantic OF 1872
GERMANY 1t is said, has not q single retail book |
house which sells as much as s25o0O worth OF books
. year.
THE EMPEROR OF BRAZIL visited Manzoni, the Ital- |
Ian novelist at Miian and when the venerable author
Of ~ Promessi Sposi" thanked him for the honor, |
he senslbly replied, ut Is myself, and not you. |
Signor ManzonL who ls honored by this interview;
for while the centuries win remember Manzoni . |
few years win cause Dom Pedro Of Brazil to be for
gotten.n
GelEie, OF Edlnburg University, has literary execu-
tor pequeath ng him al the same time 81, 900. Pro-
lessor Gelkie will write biography OF Murchison.
RUNNING NOTES-POAITICAL AND GENERAL.
The Memphis AUalanche says the Cincinnati
Enquirer Is sole patentec Of the Scott democracy
democracy Simon Cameron has failed 10 discover
Optics keen q takes, vesn,
TO SEQ what 10 not 70 be seen.