The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-15
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

JunftGs Is the name OF new London paper,
which has many characteristics OF the Tom0hatok.
HACHETTE Co. announce q descriptive, His
torical and Archaeological Guide to the orient,r
by Emile lsambert.
THE FORENSIC SPEECHES OF David Paul Brown, OF
old one OF the leading lights OF the Philadelphia
Bar, have been edited by his son. Robert E.
Brown, and will be published by subscription.
In BOOK entitled "Adamanta,n Just out in
London, Captain Lindley has shown how the Brit
ish government has robbed the South African Re-
public OF Orange OF its diamond fields. This Is one
OF the most atrocious land steals OF John Bull who
is always grabbing the richest patches OF the
earths surface for his own benefit.
MR.. THOMAS WRIGHT, the London antiquary has
completed second volume OF vocabularies, Illus
trating the manners of our forefathers. as well as
the history OF the forms OF elementary education
and of the languages spoken In England from the
tenth century to the fifteenth.
OLIVE LoGAN's Summer romance will be issued
by Adams, Victor Co., in July. "They Met by
Chancen is its title
THE TwENTY-sixrH VOLUME Of the great ellis
toire Ltteraire de Francen just published by Ditot
Is devoted to the fourteenth century.
A NEW BOOK by Miss Harriet w. Preston, who
writes as cleverly in her own language as from
others, promises to be OF novel form as well as OF
novel title, 'The Nineteenth Century in Love-"
The hero is newspaper correspondent, the heroine
cultivated New England girl.
A LIFE of the late James Hannay the versatile
writer and critic, who died while Consul at BARGE
Iona, Is to appear from the pen OF Mrs. Annie
Thomas Cudlip
THE DIARY AND LETTERS Of the musical COM
poser Moscheles, with lie by his widow, will ap-
pear In London in two volumes.
DIR. H0wsON. Dean OF chester, rosy divine who
is freshly remembered by many Americans, is writ
ing series OF articles for the Art Journal the
River Dee. They are prettily illustrated.
B. q. TEUBNER. Leipsic, announces "Modern
Literature OF Poetry" by Adoph Stern, to be pub
lished in two volumes.
Mr.. HEPwoRTn DIXON will leave shortly for the
United States to deliver course OF lectures upon
the Spanish Republic and the new German Empire.
THE MOST CURIOUS correspondence, perhaps, in
which John Stuart Mill was ever engaged was a
discussion which he carried on for some months in
French "a language which he talked and wrote lll-
emily and admirably with Auguste Comte, respect
ing women. The exalted opinion which Mill held
Of the sex is well known. ana Comte controverted
1t by maintaining that "the intelligence of women
amounted at best to only small instantaneous
sagacity."
ONE OF THE shrewd sayings OF Lady Ashburton
recorded in Lord Houghton's monographs, Social
and Personal is this:-
In ones youth one doubts whether one has q
body, and when one gets old whether one has Il
soul; but the body asserts itself so much the
stronger OF the two.
THE AUTHOR Of "Red as Rose is She,n Miss
Rhoda Broughton has q new novel in press at the
Appletons-"Miss Nancy"
LEVY announces new work by A. de Gasparin,
under the title, Luther ct la Reforme au KYLE
Steele" and Rome ct lie yrai,n by Felix Bunge-
nor