The New York herald., 1872-11-24
LITERARY CHIT.CHAT.

LEE & SHEPARD have in press .srhe subilco
Singers and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand
Dollars,n by G. D. Pike. Remarkable developments
are expected.
THE PAIL MALL GAZETTE reviews Rev. Dr.
Primes around the World, - and says the reverend
author has, like 80 many Of his countrymen,
great passion for travel. It pronounces the book
to be readable and worth readng,n and, while 1t
does not add much to our knowledge IL Is 'brightly
written"
Mr.. DARwN's new book, .'The Expression OF the
Emotions in Man and Animals" Is carefully re-
viewed in the Atnen1una. 1t has been the authors
purpose to studies OF the facial expression
from among tribes "untainted by civilizations
Hence he has refused to have anything
to do with the colOred citizens OF the
United States, and he ignores the Yankees
altogether, while he gances in . kindly fashion
at our native American Tetons, Grosventres,
Moudons and Assiniboines. The book is COM
pared with Sir G. Bells Anatomy OF Expression
to which admirable book 1t Is inferior in clearness
and coherency, and to Lavater's celebrated "Phy-
sognomy,' which combines more blunders with
more knowledge than any other work OF the kind.
THE PRINTERS OF EDINBURGH have struck for ffty-
one hours work per week instead Of four and
for an advance OF wages to the extent Of half
penny thousand.
English language. 1t is called the Datsv Ners and
is conducted by an American, Mr.. Daniels, brother
Of former Minister Resident OF the United States
at Turin.
The LITERARY REMAINS, with q memoir Of the
late Miss Susan Ferrier, author Of Marriage"
DESTINY" &C., are being prepared for publication.
Miss Ferrier died in 854. Her correspondence en-
braces letters from Sir Walter Scott John g. Lock
hart and many other distinguished contempora-
ries, while the Commonplace Bookn contains un-
printed compositions OF Scott Ca Campbell, Leyden,
M. G. Lewis and other eminent poets.
THE AtsenGuna pronounces Mr.. W. Harrison Aims
worth's last novel, "Boscopeln to be .moral loyal
and most intolerably dul.''
The BoOK-MAKERs are already after the Boston
IRE sharply. "The Great Connagration" is to form
the subject ofseveral books in press In Phila-
dephia, New York and Boston itself.
WHEN THE POET SHELLEY resided in Dublin, in
1872, he was an intensely active politician. TWO
pamphlets from his pen--an address to the Irish
Peoplen and proposals for an Association Of
Neutrality-suspicious. printed and copionsly cir
cuated. h shows practical knowledge OF human
nature that he sent large supply to no less than
sixty public houses. They are chieny remarkable
for q passionate glow and force Of expression,
which, indeed, characterized all Shelley's writings
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK AND MR.. GRANT DUFF have
left Constantnople to visit the Troad and proceed
overland to smyrna. As the region includes many
remains which are not Greek but prehistoric, we
may look forward to some new views on the. sub
ject.
JOHN E. POTTER Co., OF Philadelphia, have In
press and Will seon publish "Complete Bible En-.
cyclopedia" edited by the Rev. william Blackwood,
d. D. 1t is to be q dictionary Of biblical ecciesi.
astcsl and historical information from the earliest
times, to the present day.
NEW NOVEL, called ''The Artists Love,n by
MIS- scuthworth, is soon to be published by the
Petersons, of Philadelphia.
A TRANSLATION OF Wagners beethoven has
been published by Benham Brothers, OF Indianapo-
lis. The translator In Mr.. Albert 8. Parsons.
Young American graduate of q German university