, 1873-12-20

Illinois Schootmaster for Dccembcr. Aaron
Cove and Edwin 9. Howett Chicago and Nor
NAL, Illinois.
Literary Items.
Guizot, WHO is quito we'll, will publish another
book in January.
Mrs. Mary Glommcr Amos is about to con-
nasens sa seuf of s te XSesiesa Eega
ton at st. Petersburg, is writing work gu
Contral ASIA, which will appear in England in
May.
will be doalt with.
hIesara. Macmillan will issue, early in tho
spring, Mr. Samuel Bakers account Of hiB recent
expedition, In two largo volumes.
Sir Arthur Hnlps has Il now story in proBB.
which doals IN Russian conspiraces md Siberian
oxtle tue characters beiug al transported to t1Rt
hyporborcan clmo.
Tlo putnanlu will issue, carly next year, n
the most important two Western states in this
kind Of mineral wcalth, by Prof. pumpel1y, r.
3. Brooke. and Adolf Schmidt, who hayo been
connected with State surveys.
John Flsko'g new work, Of which chapters
wcro puhlisllod in tho North A,,,erican Ifeuieo.
will be published simultaneously III London mud
Boston, u1dor the tito OF Outlines OF Cosnlie
Philosophy, Bnscil Oh tho Doctrine Of Evolution"
Ho Ia now abroad.
Tho following il tho curious announcement Of
london Sociey's Christmas number "Ta!cH
Of Toys, and oil tho fun OF tho Christmas far
Florence Marryat bogs to announce tint her
stall in london Soc,efy's Christmas fair will bo
opened curly In Decombor. well stocked with
gil the latest novelties from the domain Of
dolls"
The memoir Of the great Edinburgh publish
or, Archibald Constable, tho publisher OF tho
for all timo with that OF Walter Scott, is one Of
tho most interesting OF late English books. It IL
written by his Aon.
A. History OF Japan" hns been compiled,
chiefly from native aud official sources, BY A1r.
Z. o, Albums, formerly Acting Minister of drcnt
britain at 4eddo The first volume brings tue
history down to 1864, and tho w K will. it is
said, bo tho most complete that has go, issued.
Mlss Charlotte n. Yongo, snys London corr
respondent. must DO tho most Industrious Of
women. In hor fertility she almost rivals the
great Dumas himself. Sho Inns only Just fin
ished fonr-yolunae novel, and to-day there
como two hugo vounaos OF sosno nix hundred
pagoB each, Of a monloir Of tho good missionary
Bishop. John Coolidge Patterson, WHO was
killed in 1871 by some polyncHian Islanders.
Mr. james T. Fields, in hia now lecture OIL
Friction anu lts Authors, says thAt Dickens
Chuzzlewit,' Mrs. Camp kept him in such
paro1ysmB Of laughter by whispering to him in
tho most inopportnnc places, sometimes even in
churc'l-thnt ho WIS compoltod to fight aer off
by nain force when he did not want her COM
pany, aud threaten to hnyo nothing more to do
with ler unless ahe could behave better aud
come only whon she was called.
The discussion between Mr.. Richard Grant
White and DR.. Fitzcdwara Hall is lifted out of
its dreary pungency by that wager. II DR.. Hull
can find in twonty leading authors named by
MIR. White 1,0U0 distinct now words, not names
OF now things, that woro not used by contompo-
rarios OF shakstearo md King Jamoa' tcalblat-
ors, then Mr.. White pledges his publishers to
pay 81, GOO to my charitable Institution deBigs
natod-an nsylum for punished puudits, per-
hans
Tho rumor to which ol1r Boston correspondent
gavo currency shat tho At!antlc was about to be-
como q Methodist organ hus not tho ioast foun-
datiou in fact we are aathoritatiyey Informed.
II Ia truo that one of the firm Of Hurd Il Hougll
ton is q Methodist, but ono il n. Episcopniia1l,
ono is q Congregntionalist, and ono is Il Uni-
inrian. Tho fact il, thnt tho Atlantic will not
lgun, literature, politics. s.-Iid,if0rd C0urant.
epfohhc ffehch noYollst iaa!ned tonson I'LL Icr.