The New York herald., 1871-12-24
LITERARY CEIIT-CHAT.

THE GBRMAN LITERARY PAPERS are taxing gr0un0
against the claims Of the British publishers put
forth in the late renewed agitation for International
copyright. They say that the German English treaty
for protection Of literary property has enabled Lon
don publishers to control the German book market
for English publications. without being OF much
benefit either to German or to British autfiora
The QUESTION OF PAPAL AVAILABILITY has
educed over one thousand books and pamphleta
from the German press And yet II isn't settled
Mr.. JAMES GRANT, in his Newspaper Press"
makes the novel revelation that 'as rule, thd
editors Of morning papers do not get 10 bed till
nearly three O'Clock on the following morning.m
Whereupon the Spectator inqures:-"Does this
mean tnat the editor Of y morning paper does NOT
60 to bed at all the first night or ms tenure Of ofce
ana that IN consequence or that he u always ond
night In ,prrearf or does he 90 to bed on Tuesday,
morning for Monday night, and square his sleeping
accounts at the end OF the week." I
ONE HUNDRED and seventy volumes Of novels AND
travels said to have been produced by the fertile
pen OF tho German novelist Frederick GersraecKers
up to the present time. Less than dozen OF these
nave been translated into English.
AMERICAN FINANCE has been written about by tho
present Austrian Finance Minister, Holzgethanst
and four editions Of his book have been sold.
The Speco ADDS itself to the long list OF dame
natory critics OF Mr. GRANTS Newspaper Press,"
and says:-"Mr. Grants style s slipshod, his gramS
mar Is dubious, the information he gives is scantJ
and untrustworthy, and his mistakes are portenS
tous. He Ii 30 often hopelessly and ludicrOuslH
wrong that whenever we meet with new fact IN
his pages we may safely treat It as bunder. We
are told that Lord chatham. who died In 177Ss
brought an action against the IuottQ Advertiser M
1885, Shirley, the dramatst who died In 1866, ID
called one of the dramatists OF the eighteenth cen<
tury, and is ranked with WoOte. GOldsmith'S
familiar line, To party gave up what was meant
for MANKIND ID attributed W Pope. DR.. Hawkes.
worth is mentioned as the editor, or. indeed, 1
might almost say. the author OF the Rambler, foE
he wrote nearly the whole OF its papers, ~ II waA
always supposed that DR.. Johnson himself wrote
the whole OF the Rambler. with the exception oi
four papers, this Ia rather startling statement"
THE LIBRARY OF THE HISTORIAN, Jared sparKsi
is advertised to be sold by Leonard Co., OF Boston,
In February next There are said to be some rara
Americana In the collection, though It IL MOST
largely composed Of standard and common oooks.5
Those who expect to fnd choice editions and
scarce books when the libraries Of scholars ana
authors are sold should be reminded Of the pre-
ponderance OF trash in the auction catalogues oN
the libraries Of Thackeray, Dickens. Halleck and
Prescott.
"MucH BRurr AND LITTLE FRuIT,n might be thd
motto OF Jules Favres recent book OF political cons
iessions under the title or "Rome ct Ia REpublqud
Francaise.n 1t IL q book Of trivial revelationa
which reveal nOthing-at least nothing not KNOWN
before-concerning the policy OF the present Frenc
government toward the Papacy.
THE OLDEST ALMANAC In America 10 .sWebster'9
CALENDAR" commenced in 1854, tho eighty nlntu
issue OF which Is just published by Joel AunselI,.
Albany.
LONDON MUST be place fan Of unemploysd
talent The other day rradesman advertised for Q
clerk OF eighteen shinings week Qess than 5000 .
Year,. He received three hundred applications for
the place, ana among them were two Masters OF
Arts over twenty graduates OF COLLEGES and about
the same number who had familiarity with sevs
eral foreign languages.
THE Saturday Reufe,o praises Professor Maury'd
"Manual Of Geography" published BY the Univer-
sity Publishing Company OF New York, as Q boon
''ntted the delight OF any school room Ia wcR
the teacher II not utterly and hopelessly unit tC
teach.n
+. B. FELT 4 Co. publish 'Snort Poems for Short
People," BY Edgar Fawcett
MANY of the authors of England have united In q
memorial 10 Lord Granville, Secretary for Foreign
Anairs asking him TO promote tho negotiation or
an international copyright with the United Sratcs
The PUBLIsHER OF BradshaD's Continental Rdtt-
toav Guide, Mr.. Henry Blackjack, died recently,
leaving fortune OF E2oo 00O o00 900. Most Of
the money was made on the monthly Braasha,o-a
striking instance OF the profitable nature OF any
publication that meets universal want. Every
Engllshman In good circumstances sooner or later
makes trip to the Continent and many English.
men 90 continually. Bradshato's Ratl,cay Guider
having established . reputation as the best and
cheapest, reached an enormous monthly sale.