The New York herald., 1872-11-18
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

C. C. COFFIN, "Carleton,n has just completed a
picturesque story of the Boston fire, which will be
| published in a few days by Shepard h gill; The
work will be issued in a low-priced popular form.
| A CORRESPONDENT or The At,enOun1 writes :-"At
last the question Of Mr.. Stanleys nationality is to
be settled The Story Of HIS Life and Early Adven-
tures' Is promised at once. 1t will give views OF
his birthplace and school, with portraits OF his
mother and grandfather. 1t is understood that
Mr. Stanley's friends and relatives have contributed
much of the material.'
THE WORK ON BILLIARDS, by Joseph Bennett,
edited by 'Cavendish," on which the author and
editor have been at work for three years, will ap
pear the present Winter. "Cavendish" has in
preparation a work on piquet.
DIR. CARUTHERs, OF Inverness, Is preparing q
thoroughly revised edition OF the encyclopaedia Of
English Literature which he wrote in conjunction
with the late DR.. Robert Chambers
"THE AMAzoNs," by Mr.. Joaquin Miller, which
lately appeared in magazine, will be followed by
another poem, entitled 'Crispus" The open In
lines are in memory OF John Keats.
THE LONDON Public opinion reviews Mr.. Edward
Eggleston's "End of the Woold," which it says ex-
hibits descriptive power Of no ordinary character
1t also notes the fact that Messrs Routledgc h Co.
have been eccentric enough to pay the American
author copyright on this book
Mr.. CARLYLE is making some additions to his
"Lifc Of Schiller" the publication OF which in the
"Peope's Edltion OF his collected WORKS is accord
ingy postponed till after the third volume Of his
Life of Frederick the Great" has appeared.
NEW PUBLICATION, to be called the Working
mans Magazine will be published in London next
year. and will be devoted expressly to the interests
OF the working classes
MIR. JAMES GRANTS new work, in one large vol
ume, entitled ''The Metropolitan Weekly and Pro-
vincial Press" forming the third and concluding
volume OF his "IIistory of the Newspaper Press,n
will be published Immediately. Out OF the 500
pages to which the volume extends the greater part
is devoted to the British country press.
M. REvILLE, in the Recue des Dexs Nondes, has
an article on Rabeais in which he declares pure
inventions those oftrepeated stories about the
great sattrist having died with bon not in his
mouth-"Drop the curtain, the farce is played
out''- and that other myth about his calling for
domino on his deathbed, in order to perpctuate a
sacrilegious pun about dying Ia Domino
THE NEW three volume "Lile OF Humboldt"
just published in Germany, by nine distinguished
scientific writer's, under the editorshp OF Karl
Bruins, is admirably done, and is in itself
"CosmOs.n
THE London bookseller calls attention to the
falling of in the accuracy with which the Times
used to be printed in the days when as the tradi-
tion ran, "there was q well-paid official in Printing
House square who forfeited guinea for every
typographical error detected after the publica-
tion." "Not day now passes" says the Book.
seller, 'without in every page OF the Times.
Nor are these mere clerical errors They are
blunders implying not careessness, but igno-
rance; not rapidity, but stupidity" 1t cites such
instances as these :-"Infallibe and impeachable
are not synonymous" where impeccable is evil
IDENTITY used by the writer (Sir George Bowyer) I;
'Honnonian school OF geology for Huttonian. "For
years the name Of the American Secretary OF
State was constantly printed as Fisk The same
paper has sadly mudded the name Of the new
| German Envoy at Constantinople, and even the
eyTatue had to be corrected" "In the review Of
Robert Chambers life, William, the biographer is
put to DEATH and has to protest that he but his
brother succumbed to overwork In preparing the
Book of Days'D