The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-10
LITERARY CHIT.CHAT.

THE AUGSBURG Augemetne Zettun1, one OF the
Oldest and abest Independent cnroniclers OF news
in the world havng been founded In l7os), raises
Q warning voice against the "ringn tendencies.
which are rapidly making the press OF the Cont.
nent corrupt and degenerate. 1t says the power OF
the daily press Is being transferred bankers ana
| landowners In Berlin only three or four inde-
pendent papers are left; IN the other cities OF
Prussia the 'beral" journals have passed into the
hands OF joint stock companies; In Vienna the
daily press is corrupt ana servile and the few
really Independent German newspapers are curbed
by the severe administration Of the press laws.
THE PRINCIPAL NEWSPAPER OF LORRAINE the
Zeitung Jur Lothrin0en published in Metz, has
peculiar and chameleon-like life. In the morning
IL comes cut as q half sheet, In French; in the
evening as o null Sheet in German. The former IS
entitled Premiere Edition, the latter ZDefte
A,lsgdbe.
AN ASSOCIATION OF MASTER BARRIERS in Berlin
have decided to publish organ in the interest OF
their craft and to call IL Der Blute0el THE Leec.
"GULLIvER's TRAVELS" has been translated into
Gujerati. At Surat new dictionary OF this lam
guage has been published, containing % 900 words
Gujerati is used by the Parsees.
MRS. FRANCES ELLIoT's "Old Court Life In
France" is bitter, bad book, IN two volumes,
crammed with bad grammar, bad history and bad
taste In about equal proportions. The scenes and
descriptions OF the book are neither true as history
nor entertaining az romance.
NEW TRANSLATION OF the Constitutes" OF Justin.
ian, by Thomas Erskine HaDow, has appeared in
London. 1t is translated and edited with care and
skill.
ROBERTS Bros will begin their series OF the works
ofCamille Fammarion with the authors last werk,
just issued in Paris, "Rects de rInhnr' ("Stories
of the Infinitely The author Is q firm believer in
the plurality OF inhabited worlds, and Is Spiritu.
alist of the highest type.
THE woRLD-RENowNED series Of 'Murray's Hand
books" has received an important addition in
'srhe CicerOne; or, Art Guide to Painting In Italy,
for the use OF Travellers by Dr. Jacob Burckhardt
edited by DR.. A. Won Zahn and translated from the
German by Mrs. A. II. Cough, widow OF the poet
and scholar, so well remembered in New England
circles. The author bears the highest reputation
in Germany as an authority on the history OF art.
W0MANs RIGHTS PAPER (Ln Don'sd) is pub
lished at Venice and is edited by Mile Beccari in
late number 1t is stated that an application to
the Italian government TO admit women to the
great universities OF Turin and Rome was met with
this reply There Is no need or law TO permit
women to enter the colleges, since there Is no law
which prohibits their doing 3d." Upon this hint
the Italian girls have acted and four OF them are
now attending course Of philosophy in Rome.
AN ENGLISH REVIEWER points out the fact that
at the present time 1t Is the novel, and not the bal
lad, that forms the nation and that the school OF
sensational writer's, who almost m0nopolize the
popular reading Of two countries, are doing the
English language mischief that can hardly be
J cured. The still worse erect upon the public taste
and morals of such novels as are poured forth from
the pens OF the Braddons the Broughtons, the De
La Rames t"Ouida'), the Woods, and many more,
cannot be measured.
HENRY JAMES, Jr., has laudatory review OF
Theophie Gautier in the April North american, in
which that writer's incompatible gift Of express
sion Is eulogized.