The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-22
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.


trated quarto volume entitled picturesque Amer.
ica; or, the Land we Live In; description, BY pen
and pencil, OF the mountains rivers, lakes cities.
waterfalls and other picturesque features OF our
country" The book VIII be profusely illustrated
with the freshest and most graphic wood engrav.
ings Of scenery yet produced In this country
TIE AtaenGum says of Brownlng's new poem
thai It Ia worthy of "Prince HoheLsteinswangan -
the poet, and mot moro obscure tnan thoughtful"
Mr. ARTHUR HELPS has published a little work on
government, which Is the work OF acute and
shrewd observer. He avows himself an improver,
as opposed to reformer and Ia conservative enough
to defend paternal government and bureaucracy,
while ne denounces democracy.
THE Manchester Friend has been established as
the organ Of the new school OF English Quakers.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY recently declared that nothing
could induce him TO enter Parliament The PUB.
lication Of the life OF the late Charles Dick ems
makes public the same declaration more than once
repeated as to himself by the great novelist to
whom, as to Bulwer, Disrae. Thackeray and
many other British authors opportunities for he.
coming an NJ p. were not wanting
In A BOOK ENTITLED "GlImpses of Brighter
Land" purporting to contain communications
from the departed, spirit called .Flora" reports
herself as having found room IN Heaven) ''coi-
ored rich dark crimson, shaded from dark up to
shell pink
The Spectator praises Higgnson's atlantic Es-
says" to the extent OF q column and half. 1t
says his ''style Is charming. and has o dash ana
freedom never losing command over ITSELF which
con scarcely be found In the writings OF the Auto
crat Of the Breakfast Table.'n
THE Riverside Bulletin says that the only book nc
to give away Is book that is TT to Keep
MADAME RATTAZN has been endowed with a III.
erary pension OF 5000 lire per annum by Victor Enl.
manuel's government
REPORT which went the rounds OF the press In
Germany and England that Feuerbach. the phlloso-
pher, was In starving circumstances. is natly con.
tradicted by the authors family. He Is sixty seven
years OF age and his principal work, 1.-THE Nature
Of Christianity" is still widely read.
TIE AthenGum says L0ngfellow's "Divine Ira.
gedy" IL drama without being dramatic, aud that
there Is no unity in the work. "The incidents are
badly described and all the poetry has vanishedr
from the story Of the Evangelist Except as sun
day school exercises, we cannot imagine under
what circumstances the work was comp0sed.n
"WHo," SAYS THE Saturday Reoe,o, ''can enjoy q
chat with man who always talks OF women "a
females, and OF o man Us an individual; with whom
things are never like, but similar; who never pe.
gins thing, but always commences IT.; who does
not choose, but elects; who does not help, but IA.
ciitates who does not supply, but caters; nor buy
but always purchases; who calls beggar mendl.
cant; with whom servant Is always domestic.
where he Is not menia; WHO does not say any.
thing, but states It, and does not end, but ter
inmates 1t; VINO calls o house q residence in
which he does not live, but resides; with whom
place is locality. ana things do not happen, but
transpirer' And, the Repie,o might have added
who Cever begins reform, but always inaurur.
attsit.
AT THE SALE OF Baron Kirkup's library In Lon.
don last month the highest price brought by any
one book was f400, or 81. 0O0 Tor O manuscrlp, OF
"Lancclot du Lac,' in four volumes, with forty.
seven miniatures A manuscript Of Dante sold for
f225.
"A WoAAN's EXPERIENCES IN EUROPE, including
England, France, Germany and Itaiy," Is the title
OF fresh book Of travels In the press OF d. Apple.
ton Co., written by Mrs. E. D. Wallace, author OF
"England's Last Queen" &C.
THE AutenRum regrets to notice. In the interest
OF Arctic discovery, that the controversy as to the
best method OF reaching "the open Polar Seav has
recommended in British journals, ana will probably
defeat any serious effort by English government
aid to regain the lost aurels OF English navigators
and solve the Arctic problem.
DR.. BERTHOLD SEEMOUN, who recently died In
was one OF the most valuable scientific
observers and writers Of the day. lie wrote vau-
able book on "viti or the Fiji islands, and another
on panama.
Ire T"" M"" u"<etee idinehtS the rapld grown
Of Hansarj, whose parliamentary DEBATES" grow
In more than arthmetlcal progression. Up to 1880
less tnan two and half volumes were required for
a session, while now live volume sessions'' are
the rule, and the stream Of talk flows wl.h annually
augmentng volume. From the Conquest down to
1887 only 14o volumes hold all the reported Para-
mentary talk, while from victora's accession In
1897 TO 1871, no less thsn ITO volumes have been
added Sheridan's equlvocal compliment 10 Gibbon,
correcting the ephithet "Lurnnous,n by saying
"Oh meant vo-dmnous," may be applied with |
added force TO the eoquence OF Parlament-and |
congress-