, 1873-12-14


american Eooksclt"rs' Guide for DooombcE
American NewB Company, Now York.
Literary Notcs.
Ireland Is "Urof Tho Chaldeoea, 40 Mrs. An.
m Wilkis aayH, mud takes whole book to say
Prof. George 1sawlinaon is about completing
hs great historical work by d volume entitled
1.-The II; Seventh oroat ofentnl Monarchy, or
Aistory OF tho SassanlanH."
-1blarohard 1eirold is travelling about the
continent nt work on llis Forthcoming Lifo Of
Napooon ILL.,, Of which tho first volume In to ap-
pear in January.
Mr. Join tisse, Of Harvard College, is now
~ London. work Of hs entitled +" Outlines OF
Gosnllo pliiloBophy, based OH tho Doutrine OF
Tho first edition Of Mills "Autobiography,"
consisting Of 5000 volnnus, was nod III six
1t WAS not becauso thoy had rcat1 Mark Twain
that tho \. NJ. q. A.. OF Colchester, England.
placed His books OIL Tho index oxpurgatoriuB, but
because Of the horrible comic illustrations Oh Tia
cover.
---stanforth, of London, IL to publish Ashanti
and What Wo Know Of II" by Vico-Admiral
Hay.
-nojeotcd contributors form 30 large c1asa
in England that thoy support two magazines,
WhOse pngcB contain nothing that has not boon
declined ly tho editors Of otllor periodicals.
--ltus!fin's Latest lcetlron nro aoriog of six
on wood and 1notal engraving, under tho cur-
acteriBticaly 'porspic,i0us titlo Of AriaCne
florontina." 11o Is issuing Them ono by ono,
with profuso explanations and apologies.
1t ta told or tho lato Mrs. Juuot Hamilton,
the Scotch poetoHs aud casaytst, that size could
not read and TINT sle dictated ali her cnmpos,-
tions to her liltaband, who WIS shoemaker.
"A largo part Of tho second volume Of Boecll.
or'a Life Of jesus the Christ y is in typo, and
10 is harl at work upon its completion, although
=" Malcolm" IL tito title Of George Afacdon-
alds now story, which will 10 commenced in tha
"A book that lius venerable claims to attoa~
tion IL announced among tho English '!new
books: 't'rllo Noma,tlc History of sakyt
Duldlla; translated from tho Hapscrit into CHI,
uoao, by Djnanakuta "a. y. G0O), and from ths
Chinese into Englisll."
The most noticeable production Of tho yea,
in France In The !" "Boos OF Poetic La,,re!s strewn
Upon tho Grave Of Theophle Gautior," by sune
15o living wrltors--Frel.ch, English, and Ger
nlan. A]r. Swlnburue contributors Xix poems, two
When tho manuscript Of Car1ylo's "sarto,
ReHartus" was put into Mr.. Mills han1s, la
thought slightly of it. Ho aays: II did not
however, deem myself q competent Judge oi
was not; tlut llo was 1natl Of intuition, which
was not, mud that as such ho not only saw
many things long before MIC which, could only,
when they were pointed out to mo. hobblo after
and prove, but that it was highly probable La
could Hee many things which wnro not visible to
me even after they woro poiutel out.'
--Iile "a first series - oi George Horny Lowos'
work. on !" Problems Of Life and Mind Il IL just
rTealy il England, under the title Of !" Tho
deavors to establish tho creed of philosophy
founded on tho Knowabo, to tho uttor exclusion
Of what he considers the Unknowablc:
-. Tho 1nforior Sex " Ii tho subject and tho
subtitle OF 4 new novel by Cincinnati lawyor,
to he published by Leo Il Shepard. II It's fair
question, to which Sex doos the man Of law TO.
fer7 The tirst tito OF the book is q Mrs. ar.