The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-14
LITERARY CHIT.CHAT.

Mr.. J. q. BOWMAN, of Pittsburg, has prepared
for speedy publication "A History OF Petroleum
and Its Development, with Biographical Sketches
Of Pioneer and Prominent Operators In the on
Regions Of Pennsylvania"
CENTENNIAL LITERATURE begins to blossom out
vigorously. Rev. william +. P. Noble will publish
Centennial Biography Men Of Mark in the Great
Republic, 1776-1S76."
M. PHILARETE CHAsLBs now occupies on the
Paris Montteur the position formerly filed by
Sainte-Beuve.
TIE Independence Beige states that Japanese
Prince, Macao, may DO found daily In the state
printing once at The Hague, working at case. He
Is sent to Europe by the japanese government to
learn the art OF printing.
The BISHOP OF EXETER publicly stated recently
that he considered the whole tendency Of legisla-
ton was toward secularism, and 1t was possible
the DAY might come when the government would
compel them to adhere strictly to the teaching In
their day schools Of reading. writing and arithme.
tic, without mparting any religious instruction
at all.
To ILLUSTRATE tho much-vexed question OF city
administration Appleton's Journal IL publishing q
series OF articles BY an Englishman named Pascoe,
entitled ..How London is Governed" The writer
terms she present complicated government OF Lon
don "a chaos Of municipal disorder"
IT HAS BEKN DISCOVERED recently that the or.
gan Of rational language lies in the third convou-
ton OF the left anterior lobe Of the brain.
THE REV. w. r. ALGER, author OF the Doctrine
of the Future Life," and other books, has clored
his correction with the Boston Music Hall Society
(once Theodore Parker's) and will devote himse1
to literature.
REV. z. f. BURR whose 'sPater Mundp is the
third book with fantasticsl Latin title he has put
forth, deals largely in such rhetorical exaggera-
tions as apostrophe and hyperbole. witness
this:-
Surely, inadequate Law Hypotbesisl Full surely.
o intoxicate Law-Scheme, bouleversng tbyself and
then surprising the universe to stand on its apex,
instead OF It's base
THE LONDON JOURNAL Pubic Opinion has pub
lished . series OF discussions on reform in SER
MONS" the burden OF all which is the extreme dull.
ness, amounting almost to imbecility, OF modern
preaching in London. One writer insists that the
real reason why the clergy are not good speakers
Is that they have never been taught to speak.
Another points out q droll remedy IN an announce
ment that Willard IS st. Paul's churchyard, Lon.
Ion, sells valuable manuscript sermons"
THE LONDON LADY whom Joaquin Miller IL to
marry Is Miss Hardy, the novelist, and daughter OF
sir Thomas D. Hardy, long employed In the once OF
he Master Of the Rolls, and himself learned HIS
Photographer.
M. TEcHENER, the French bookseller, who died
asst month at an advanced age, was q scholar and
\ critic, as well as publisher. He edited the
bulletin du Btoliophtle established In 1884, and re-
printed a great many curious old books, which
would otherwise have been lost or forgotten.
Mr. FARJEoN's latest novel, ,"Londons Heart"
deals In severe criticisms on the heartessness
towards the poor OF railway companies Justices Of
the peace and strange to say) clergymen
WHEN ROUSSEAU printed his discourse on the
inequality OF Men," which was an eloquent eulogy
Of primitive and savage life as contrasted with
civilization, he sent copy to votare. The mock.
ing Philosopher OF Ferney thus acknowledged it,
I have received your new book against the hu-
man race and thank you for It, Never was such
cleyerness used with the design OF making rs all
stupid One longs, In reading your book, to get
down on Ali fours. But | have lost that habk
for more than sixty years, feel, nnhappiy, the
respo inability OF resurn!ng It. Nor can l. embark
In SEARCH OF the savages OF Canada, because tina
nalades to which am condemned render Eu-
rOpean surgeon necessary to me- because war Is
roinr on IN those regions and because the example
II our actions has made the savages nearly as bad
Is ourselves; SO content myself with being &
peaceful sage IN the solitude have chosen near
'our native place.