The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-04
LITERARY cHIT-cHAT.

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THE STORY is told OF sainte- Beuve, the late bril-
liant French critic, that one day before fame and
fortune came to m ne had just two francs left TO
buy meal. On his way TO restaurant MS eyes
lit copy of Homers Odyssey" at bookstali, for
which the owner demanded two francs. Sainte-
Beuve seized rhe book, paid his last SOU and that
night went hungry to bed. -l l.-
AN AMERICAN Popular Edition of Dickens Is TO
be issued by the Loughlin Bros, New York, at o
rate even cheaper than the London penny edition,
Of which 1t Will be facsimile Sixty-four pages
Of letter press, with nine illustrations VII! form
part, and Will be sold for ten cents SOLVER Twisr'
win form the first issue In January.
PROFESSOR GUBERNArIs, Of Florence. will soon
publish book 10 London entitled "Mythical
Z0ology.n ,..-r........ .- ~
THE LATEST SHAKEsPEAREANA are 1.-THE Or litho-
logy Of Shakespeare" By James E. Harding. F. T..
s., and "Shakespearian Fly Leaves and Jotttngs,"
by H. Halle.
THE PARIS Journal des Deoats says that OF the
thirty-our daily journals Of Paris 1t Is doubtful II
there is one which has circulation as large that
OF the New YORK Courier des Eats Unfs.
PROFESSOR MENDBLssoHN Is about 10 print
book concerning Goethe, in which some unpublished
poems Of the great poet will appear. (.
THE COURT OF QUEENS BENCH. by majority Of
two judges against one has decided that 1t may be
acti0nable at law to write OF publ cation that IL Is
'snly'' or 'sangy." Probably the American Court
which should render such decision would have
the former eplthet applied TO 1t by the general voice
Of press and public.
DICKENS adopted the name OF the Jew in "oliver
TWIST from Bob Fagn, fellow apprentice OF his
az Twelve years or age. whom he worked In black.
ing warehouse at a salary OF six shillngs week.
1.-THE REsETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA" forms promi-
nent topic of discussion In recent London jour.
mails. Mr.. Sewers new book on s'The South Since
the War" has this passage:-"The land question Is
the absorbing question IN Virginia. was not three
minutes In Richmond before was offered nice bit
OF land on economical terms. There are advertising
land agents without end; there are tooters' for
estates; there is respectable Emigration Board'
70 look afer new arrivals, as If this territory,
for three centuries English, was freshly opened
island In the South Seas"
In THR OLD COACHING DAYS of 1894 Charles
Dickens was reporter for the Morning Chronicle,
and used to make expeditions to and from the coun-
try at numbering pace to take down the speeches
-of Parliament men. "Tnere never was, ne wrote,
anybody connected with newspapers VINO in the
same space Of time had 80 much express and post
chaise experience as l. have had to charge for
half dozen breakdowns in half dozen times as
many miles. have had 10 charge for the damage
OF great coat from the drippings Of blazing wax
candle In writing through the smallest hours Of the
ulRnt ID D swirl uyln8 carriage ana pair Sucn
being the ordinary results Of the pace to which
went at I nave had to charge for broken hats
broken luggage, broken cnaises, broken harness,
everything but broken head, which is the only
thing they would haye grumbled TO pay for"
JOHN PARTRIDGE's ALMANAC, 9 compound Of
astrOlogy, fortunetelling and vulgarity, has been
discontinued, after continuous existence of two
centuries. Says the London BOOKSELLER In writing
Its Obtuary:-"we possess many volumes OF him,
side by side with the obscene and profane Poor
Robin. who received his coup de grace from the
British Almanac Now Partridge follows, and the
days of Thomas Moore are numbered. But Zadkiel
nOurishes." sssrs rts.
JOHN J. PIATT. the Ohio poet, has new volume Of
poems entitled Landmarks" in the press Of Hurd
b houghton.
IT APPEARS from Forster's ."Life of Charles Dick.
ems" that his father furnished the original for the
1nimitable character OF Mr. MIcawber. Micawber
Dickens never knew how to get on in the world
and being Carried from q spongrng house to the
debtor's prison, the Marsnasea, he told Charles TO
remember that '1f man had EGO year, and spent
s19 19s. 3d., he would be happy but that shilling
spent the other way would make him wretched.''
UPWARDS Of 200 letters OF Bernardo Tasso, father
OF the great Italian poet, have been found IN the
State archives Of Mantua, ana viii shortly DO pub
lished as the work OF a man Of letters and poet
OF no mean reputation.
IT rs SAID that the Pope besides his fondness for
billiards. Is great reader OF French novels OF
which the Sultan OF Turkey Is also extremely fond.