The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-27
LITERARY cHIT-cHAT.

PROFESSOR GIUSEPPE PITRE, OF Palermo, the
learned editor OF the 'iCanti popolarl sicani,n OF
which two volumes have already appeared, will
publish next month third volume, under the title
OF ''Studj di P0esla Pop0lare."
TUE DEATH Is ANNOUNCED OF HERR PRUTz, the
well-known German novelist dramatst, and lyric
poet. He had long been In bad health.
xErRIcAL TRANSLATE OF Goldsmith's "De-
serted Village" into Armenian has been published
ct Venice. "ac ail2as.i ,. +.
Gurzor's CoRnsspoNDENon win be published
shortly, In six or more Volumes sFf 400
Mr.. ROBERT HEWITT. Jr., 10 preparing COM
prehensive work ON 'Oonee; Ito Cultivation and
Uses" s0. sfi tua ach alaqv aa1 49, Xxx.
A LUXURIOUS EDITION Of Curran's speeches has
just been brought out BY Messrs. Callaghan b Co.,
OF Chicago. iT.rf Ngt Ua 79.,n
Nh. RAIsror's "songs Of tho Russian People" 10
much praised by the Russian critical Journals.
THE CREDULfTY Of sightseers is illustrated in the
fact that about four thousand quin pens with
which Lamartine is declared to have written
"Jocclyn" have been sold to travellers ct Macon,
the former residence Of the poet. US al 81
TIE saturday Rerteao says Of Charles Lanman's
Japanese In American that "the essays Of tho
Japanese students are curious though chiefly a.
illustrating the Japanese talent for mimicry; but
the rest OF the book, though not exactly worthless
is certainly not worth reading by any English
inquirer into the Japanese mind" DO efaf NGoI
MR.. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, that prolific book.
maker, has not scrupled to infict upon US In the
midst Of these blazing dogdays book entitled
'Under the SUM-" It is q sort Of glorincation or
apotheosls Of heat, which Mr.. Sala declares makes
the Nubians and the Malays the hardest and most
enduring races in the world. he celebrates the
courage Of the Caribs under the Equator and the
chivalry Of the planters Of the South, bred among
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plains that "the negro transplanted out Of the
tropics distinctly loses nerve" ntH no
THE Revue des Deur Aorsdes Ii the only literary
review which has been able to live and prosper in
France. Started in $780, It was not until 1S4S that
1t was able to get along without an annual dencit.
Then csme the golden days OF Alfred de Musset,
George Sand, Prosper Marimee and other contribu.
tors, and the circulation ran up to 10000 copies.
A NEW History Of Indiana Methodismn has been
written by Rev. F. @. Holiday D. D., and will soon
be brought out by J. a. v. Smith, Of Indianapolis.
A MONOGRAPH on 1.-THE Magnetic and Mineral
Springs Of Michigan" with an essay on the climate
Of that State, viii shortly be published by James t.
Webb, Of Wilmington, Del, from the pen Of Stiles
KENNEDY, H. b. '%.-N 49,.
CAPTAIN CHARLES NJ scAAxoN, Of San Francisco,
will soon publish his Natural History Of the Ceta
ceans ana other Marine Mammals Of the West Coas
Of North America" The book WIN also contain q
full account of the American Whale Fishery. els
Whale go Il e :a!s aps5y SsRssls ss.nnen
AMONG forthcoming local histories Of interest is
Mr.. Alex. Harris Biographical History Of Lancas.
ter County, Pennsylvania" 10 be published by e.
Barr d Co., Of Lancaster. $3.50
"a RANK TORY" writes to the London Standard,
under the head Liberal Civil Service Economy":-
am first class clerk in one of Her Majesty's gov
eminent oflices, and my allowance for stationary
for the current quarter is as follows viz, twelve
romade quill pens, one box steel ditto, six sheets
plotting paper, half qure note ditto. this is not
the last straw" of economy know not what is.