The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-24
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

"PoLITI0AL WOMEN" Is the taking and season
able title OF a forthcoming book, in two volumes,
by Sutherland Menzies, the author OF ''R0yal
Favorites"
MRS. SOMERvILLE's posthumous work will be
personal Recollections from Early Life to Old
Age"
MIR. !. O. HALLIwELL, who has absurdly taken the
name Of his late father-in-law and Is now J. 0.
Phillips will in few weeks put to press the first
volume of the "Life and Times OF Shakespeare"
upon which he has been many years engaged. 1t
will be printed IN folio to range with the poets
works, and will probably run into several volumes.
EUGENE O'CURRY's posthumous "Manuscript
Materials OF Ancient Irish History" will be shortly
given to the public.
The COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION SYSTEM is being
utilized by the landlords OF Continental hotels, who
insist upon candidates for walters passing Compel
tive examinations in the English language. The
results are highly curious.
Mr.. WILLIAM ARTHUR has In press, under the
singular title Of 1.-THE Modern Jove," review Of
the collected speeches OF Pho Mono.
WALTER BAGEHoT will bring out his description
OF the money market Of LONDON. under the title of
Lombard Street.n
Mr.. J. G. HoTTEN proposes to produce shortly
new edition Of Charles Knights "L0ndon," with
additional information up to the present date.
which, published originally in 1926, for years
brought the author q royalty Of more than $500
$4,000 per annum, has just expired, and numer-
rival editions are already In the market ct re-
duced prices.
Mr.. SIDNEY LAMAN BLANCHARD, barrister-at-
law, Is about to start for Bombay, to edit the
Times Of India.
ACCORDING to the EpoCa more than twelve thou
sand letters from place hunters have been lately
received in the department Of the Spanish Minister
OF Finance. We call these chaps efice-seekers in
America.
MR.. J. DE LEIFDE an admirable and graphic
chronicler OF Dutch achievements, has published
''The Great Dutch Admiras," in which the lives Of
Van TrOmp, De Witt, Heemskerk, De Ruyter, &C.,
are we'll told.
Mr.. ADAM BLACK, the veteran publisher of Edin-
burgh whose "Guides" to Scotland. England, Ire
land and Wales are the best In existence, has
Withdrawn from business at the ripe age of ninety,
leaving three sons to carry on the publishing
trade.
SAYS the London Publishers Circular -
Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Artemus Ward. Josh
Billings and the other American humOrists owe
much to Mr.. Hotten 1.-THE London pubisher), for ne
1t was who first introduced them to our English
public and gave them European regulations.
Now 1t strikes US that Mr. Hotten owes much
more to Mark Twain and the rest OF the american
nuLHoTlstS Inau thcy can possibly owe 10 nln, iOr
he has printed their best things without their
leave and pocketed all the money made thereby,
besides slashing and altering their productions
whenever 1t suited his sovereign pleasure and at.
tributlng to some OF them things that they never
wrote.
THE LATE MR.. GEORGE CATLIN had q favorite
hobby, which was not Indian, although derived
from the Aborigines. His idea was that breathing
through the open mouth, in sleep or otherwise Is
highly injurious and even destructive to the vital
powers His little book in support Of this theory
has had great vogue, and the fifth edition Of 1t IS
just announced in London, entitled, ''Shut Your
Mouth and Save Your Life" by George Catlin.
THE din1culties consequent on the death OF Sir
Henry Bulwer, Lord Dalling which retarded the
completion OF the Life Of Lord Palmerston" have
been overcome through the energies OF Mr.. Bent
ley; and the third volume, bringing this life down
to 1857. viii appear next september. Lord Dali
ings sketches of Peel, Melbourne and Lafayette"
will also appear at the same time.